Come for the deep-dive into Trump's history of slapping gold on everything and his "sell them a fantasy [of luxury]" strategy; stay to read about how that fantasy is fading for low income Americans

In the words of Jacques Derrida, "Today, how can we not speak of the university?"

Last night, the Swedish Tween asked me, "How does it feel to be the birthday child all grown up?" and I honestly had no idea how to answer that.

Reversing desertification is a fave, too: theconversation.com/how-shading-...

You can use the land under the panels even while they're up. Agrivoltaics is a fast-growing part of the farming industry.

One tremendous, less conspicuous advantage of building solar farms rather than data centers is that it's easy to disassemble solar farms to use the land for something else, while you're basically stuck with acres of concrete and metal should the unbelievably stupid data centers become obsolete.

I cannot believe that the existence of trillionaires is okay with the world, nor can I stomach the inevitability of Elon Musk being the first.

Our politicians did more to regulate Prince and Twisted Sister songs than glacier melting chatbots that promote suicide

BREAKING: A man who threw a sandwich at a federal agent during Trump’s law enforcement surge in Washington, D.C., is found not guilty of assault.

NEW: On the shadow docket, the Supreme Court lets Trump resume misgendering trans Americans on their passports, claiming "the government is merely attesting to a historical fact without subjecting anyone to differential treatment." All three liberals dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Despite it being my birthday, I'm in an oddly good mood.

I'm one of the four fired employees. I was a writer & producer at Bon Appétit for nearly five years, during which I helped organize our union and sat on our bargaining committee. I am, to my knowledge, the only trans woman in our union and the only trans woman on editorial who doesn't work at Them

So the subtext is Bezos is buying Condé Nast or what?

I was one of the four people who got canned. In the interim, you can subscribe to my newsletter, Straight From The Hut. No paywall, but feel free to choose the pay to support model. I'm not going anywhere — the show goes on, and I'll be back on MSNBC Saturday night. straightfromthehut.substack.com

I've lived in Sweden, which is neither socialist nor a utopia, for five years, and I'll tell you that it's pretty great to live in a country with living wages, universal healthcare, universal daycare, and an understanding that sneakers are appropriate footwear for all occasions.

Chuck Schumer should follow in Nancy Pelosi’s footsteps

you'll definitely wanna go and make sure because turns out they had engaged the nanny locks for everything on mine

Also made one small tool specifically for the NYT: fuck-nyt.vercel.app

Today in get me a cup of coffee and make it snappy, sugartits:

Also my birthday.

It's massively creepy that, aside from preternaturally caring genius @nattivogel.bsky.social, the first birthday messages I get are from Google and various Swedish stores.

Lina Fucking Khan. I'm overjoyed.

Come, then, let’s go fight with them.

I do not like Sliwa but I have tremendous respect for his fuck-that-guy energy.

Never let them say you can’t be a mensch AND a hater

And this is why the corporate class shut down Teen Vogue.

En otrolig tweet. Kan det bli tydligare att det viktigaste för etablissemanget är att bevara sina makt­nätverk? Eliten skyddar den som skyddar eliten.

fuck yes, I love my city

This person took this when they called the race

This morning, I'm enjoying a little democratic socialism with a slice of schadenfreude as a treat.

I cannot wait for Schumer and Gillibrand and Jeffries to be primaried.

Trebuchet.

[Exit Clown.]

YESSSSSSS!

They called it *already?* Jesus Christ

No, my chuck.

Yes, please.

All day, many of you have been asking for a Cheney obituary from me. Get ready:

Robert Heinecken, Iconographic Art Lunches #1, The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: Submarine Sandwich & Salad Bar..., 1984 www.artic.edu/artworks/158...

Can’t stop laughing at this

WON'T SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF THE ONIONS?!

More than a little sad that I'm not in NYC to vote for Mamdani in person, but my mail-in ballot sent from the wilds of Stockholm will have to do.

It's publication day for Read This When Things Fall Apart! So grateful to our contributors and to @akpress.org for making this book a reality. This is a strange time to be promoting a book, but I believe it's a text that has the potential to help us right now. Please get yourself a copy. ❤️

"spirit in the sky" is such an inspired needle drop lfgooo

Happy Zohran Day to all who celebrate!!

Christ, he is supernaturally good at this.

I read a Twitter screenshot of some rightwing woman who argued that overweight people should lose their SNAP benefits. I googled her. This unbelievable trash human further believes that SNAP beneficiaries should eat nutraloaf, the dish served to discipline prisoners. It's banned in five states.

Did Bezos secretly buy Vogue/Condé Nast for his blushing, Botoxed bride? Is that what precipitated Teen Vogue's sudden capitulation to MAGA's night emissions?

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.