My translation of a viral Japanese meme summarizing decades of U.S. complaints about Japan not buying enough American cars (while not making the kind of cars Japanese consumers actually want):

I fixed this over the weekend, thank god

I feel like I’m depriving my son of something by not doing an Easter basket or anything for his first Easter, but on the other hand I am taking him to Paris on Easter so who’s to say

The federal government actually owes US money this year and I’m just hoping there’s enough staff left at the IRS for it to actually arrive

Now that I have people scheduling meetings on this timeline I am confronted constantly with how annoying it is that “biweekly” has two meanings

Both of my parents use voice-to-text as if they’re leaving you a voicemail and it’s very funny to have all their messages end in “love you bye”

My official review of The Pitt is that while it’s understandable for the doctors not to have them, there are not enough yinzer accents amongst the older patients/families

What’s even worse is that Hegseth leaked that Kim and Hugo got PINNED.

This is my goal for my kid (7 months) tbh, I’m super online but I don’t think it’s doing me any good and so I don’t want him to get into it if I can avoid it

Bluesky can't simply be the platform of Resistance 2.0. It will collapse if that's all it is

I can tell I’m still dehydrated because Gatorade hasn’t gone back to tasting horrible to me yet

I’m starting to suspect the Steelers are planning to run a QB-less offense this year

anyway it seems obviously true to me both that women are not responsible for young men going far-Right and also that we as a broadly conceived Left need to do more to win more people over. that is the easy and boring true thing and fighting about it is a stupid waste of time xoxo gossip girl

Welp, guess it’ll be terrible there in about 18 months

I would love to meet whoever picks music for the JW Marriott executive lounges because they played TWO Carly Rae Jepsen songs today including a deep cut Dedicated B-Side

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Okay but for real everyone needs to stop buying shit from Amazon. I’m so deadly serious.

This is what we want.

Baby J slept 7 hours in a row last night for quite literally the first time in his entire life and I feel like a new woman This will probably not be replicated for a while but I have hope now!

Many apologies to my husband who had to listen to me scream about this for like 2 minutes nonstop

Every historians association needs to speak up. This is what your refusal to engage with politics because we are only about the science or whatever has contributed to.

Being a first time parent is bananas because you don’t feel like you know anything about Parenting but you are the world’s leading expert on your child specifically

The racket some people are trying to run on Poshmark for baby clothes is insane. No, I’m not going to pay twice the original price for cute PJs! I don’t care that they don’t make this print anymore! It’s for babies!

Agree with this, like I was just coming here to post about various mom life stuff and I was contemplating how out of place on my feed it would be. I’m going to do it anyway but still.

Who could have foreseen except literally fucking everyone

Kendrick in 45 minutes:

Hate to see the surrogacy discourse escape its X containment and end up on this app too. I always feel like that meme, “idk I think it depends” when these kinds of things come up and social media is not the place to litigate it

The regulations we have right now in the US have been so successful that people forgot that we have them for a reason and not just because we like bureaucracy. Just absolute madness.

Conservative budget wonks (Manhattan Instiutte, Tax Foundation) confirming that this is a consittutional crisis. Not liberal hysteria. Happening right now.

Lesson to Congressional Democrats: Step 1: Being a Grade-A hater Step 2: Victory

When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.

This is why I got so mad about people getting into that one right wing grifter’s Wicked review: once you get into one of his videos the algorithm will send you deeper down the rabbit hole and leftists should know better

It's been a long while since I posted my "here are the children's books I read to my children to give them a foundation based on both width and breadth of emotion, and compassion for themselves and others." But I typed this starter pack up for a new parent, so here's a 🧵 for you!

"but what can I do I don't have the skills to undermine a fascist regime" — if you are a bluesky user YES YOU CAN

In the process of moving over from Bookstagram, I’ll be reposting a few of my posts from there to give the #booksky 📚💙 folks an idea of who I am as a reader. I’m @__emilyreads First up are my favorite books from 2024! I read 71 books and these are the ones that stood out.

Kaitlin Olson is a gem

Yeah, because they’re dead

Seeing all these feckless Democrats in Congress flailing and asking "what do you want me to do" and I keep thinking: bare minimum, I want you to have the energy of a 76-year-old John Lewis staging a sit-in on the floor of Congress in opposition to the inaction on gun violence after Pulse. MINIMUM.

"where are all the protests?" read our series showing the legacy of both the Trump and Biden admins—from BLM in the 2010s, to Standing Rock, to George Floyd, to the Palestine encampments—as protest suppression and criminalization. politicians want to call blocking traffic and masking "terrorism."

Not all the news this week is bad!

Not naming these people “because of their age” is incredibly bad journalism: if they’re old enough to be put in charge of OPM specifically to cause chaos they’re old enough to deal with the repercussions of that. Be serious.

A federal judge has temporarily blocked Trump's sweeping freeze on federal grants, which sparked chaos in the hours following its introduction

Nice to see someone doing their fucking iob

Today is my last official day of maternity leave: I’m super lucky my company offers generous paid leave (my son is 5 months old), but if anything this made me even more mad that this isn’t provided by the federal government.

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service. “Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.