Shana Tova to everyone celebrating in Illinois and across the world. As we celebrate Rosh Hashanah, I want to wish you all a new year full of joy, good health, and prosperity.

I like the idea that comedians are load-bearing in a democracy. That makes sense to me

#LRP the trick is to maintain monocular contact with the mirror while monitoring one’s own gavotte

Your mood and mindset is going to infect others. You'll either be infecting them with fear, or gritty resilience. Choose gritty resilience, every damn day. When I walk past a mirror, I look, and ask myself, "If I was someone else, looking at me, what would I see?" Make it match what you want it to.

A fire at a synagogue in southwest Florida days before Rosh Hashanah is being investigated as a hate crime, police say.

“I told Director Kash Patel that the FBI has names of 20 men to whom Jeffrey Epstein trafficked women and girls,” Massie wrote on X. “This basic fact seemed to surprise him. Why?" trib.al/9JWhtiD

so Christian Pilate would be proud

just reminded I’m overdue for an appointment with my favorite optician time to make a spectacle of myself

Tried to get my real ID. I had my license, my SS card and my birth certificate. I was not allowed to get my real ID because my birth name is different than my married name. Now I have to go dig up a marriage certificate. You know who wouldn’t have to do this? A man. Never change your last name.

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Imagine what we could do with a labor strike if this is what we did with a subscription boycott

Remember: If we allow ourselves to fall into fatalism, or wallow in disappointment, or become resigned to what is rather than what should be, we will lose the long game. The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.

BLUESKY: Trump’s threats hit a new level Saturday with a post directing AG Bondi to prosecute political rivals. @preetbharara.bsky.social and I discuss on a new episode of @cafedotcom.bsky.social Insider: cafe.visitlink.me/TK7bgP

Trump's Executive Order on Antifa is written such that someone recording masked agents snatching people off the streets, or asking these agents what they're doing, can be deemed a "terrorist."

my mom took tylenol when she was pregnant, which made me super focused on menswear and now i have a million followers on twitter

pretty sure neither Louis Pasteur nor Jonas Salk ever envisioned a time when vaccinating oneself and one’s kids became an act of civil disobedience

if the Rapture is indeed tomorrow I know several people in very high places with gasoline underpants

We treat high fevers in the ICU with Tylenol and we don't make patients "tough it out" because that can be dangerous. Hope this helps.

controversial view: we have to rejoice in and savor these small victories whenever we can

hoping to get my Covid and shingles vaccine tomorrow waiting to find out when my favorite pharmacist is working

Red Barn at an Old Vermont Dairy Farm in Autumn. 📸 - Ken Rachlis

Alice in Silk Restraints

Nine Inch Fasteners

Moderate Funk Railroad

guess I should take it up with my physician instead of parish priest

putting on my cardigan to finish grilling dinner outdoors it’s official fall is here in New England 🍂

controversial view: Americans are not, by nature, an obedient, quiet, and compliant people

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I think they also demand an ecclesiastical response at a parish and episcopal level silence at the pulpit is increasingly appearing like complicity or tacit approval

🧵 “cruel and unusual” has a whole new meaning during an orgy of executive sadism

"Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." Looking forward to seeing Jimmy back on the air.

It's really something that the conservative justices can, with a straight face, chastise lower courts for "defying" shadow docket rulings & at the same time let the Administration literally defy centuries old unanimous Supreme Court precedent, all before bothering to overrule it.

SCOTUS is going to hear a case on whether to overturn a 1935 decision that blocked presidents from firing independent regulators based on policy (or personal) disagreements alone. This is on top of SCOTUS allowing Trump to fire the FTC commissioner, so you can see where this is going.

It’s got to be so wild trying to teach law school classes now: “Um, yea, so there’s no such thing as ‘precedent’ or ‘law’ anymore — the law is just whatever John Roberts thinks helps Donald Trump the most right now.”

🚨 BREAKING: In a 6-3 decision, SCOTUS allows Trump to dismiss the last Democratic member of the Federal Trade Commission, signaling a potential overturn of a 90-year-old ruling protecting independent agencies from executive control.

wow they’re not even pretending to follow precedent anymore

This incident is by no means an unfamiliar occurrence but it is probably the most fucked up thing you’ll see today: Black writer getting arrested for sitting “wrongly” on train. Watch the embedded clip of the arrest. It’ll probably get worse before it gets better www.lbc.co.uk/article/bear...

modernism as the absolutism of reason scientism as the absolutism of method

youngest home after what feels like forever got some swordfish on sale and going to grill it in the backyard with Brussels sprouts (her favorite) and baked potatoes because it’s a gorgeous day 👨🏻‍🍳 🐟 🔥

EXCLU: @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social will announce today he is cancelling a televised town hall with WABC News planned for Sept. 25 in the wake of the network suspending comedian Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show last week. www.amny.com/news/mamdani...

Pretty sure that claiming Tylenol causes autism, while epically stupid, is more enjoyable than defending an ongoing coverup for wealthy child rapists.

Harvard Medical School had the right to fire instructor after Mass. General fired him as a doctor for refusing Covid-19 shots, judge rules www.universalhub.com/2025/harvard... #lawsuits #Covid19 #Boston

The theoretical and clinical potency of psychoanalysis is out of sync with its flaccid public profile. We live in an era when depth therapy is under attack. Brilliance may not be enough; psychoanalysis needs to be heard and understood.

faith as the window onto a world beyond that which we can know and understand or predict and control both within and outside ourselves that’s an opener as well as an opening in that it that opens us up as well to mystery

nobody asked, but here’s my thoughts on forgiveness: • it’s a noble thing • probably more of a journey than a destination • we can’t force ourselves or anyone to forgive • naturalists: it has to happen on its own (time) • spiritual / religious folks: it may require different kinds of grace

Augustinianus verus est

Was the fall of Rome this stupid? I spoke to Revolutions and History of Rome host @mikeduncan.bsky.social about the decline of empires, and the unraveling of America. Full interview at @rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

fun fact: the Latin word disco originally meant to learn, study, and practice but took on the additional meaning of to teach during the Middle Ages eg “te discere possim sed honorarium peto” = I could teach you, but I’d have to charge

The O'Jays - Forever Mine