It sucks the way the humanities are being eroded & labeled unimportant. For every rant against a “new identity,” there is an ancient poem or painting or song or or or that tells us there is nothing new under the sun

this is, at the end of the day, the thing twitter can’t compete with. the posts here are just better* *all posts still remain bad

There will be no living with me now that I know I’m popular on the nerd lib bubble app.

There’s an argument to be made that How I Met Your Mother is After Hours spread out over 9 seasons and I’m the one making it.

I will not link to it. I just want to reiterate that thousands of books have been banned by the right. And American Dirt sold millions of copies.

see how settled science suddenly gets turned into something unclear as soon as conservatives make it a political issue? this has happened on dozens of issues.

There’s an argument to be made that How I Met Your Mother is After Hours spread out over 9 seasons and I’m the one making it.

In no small part, millennials hate AI because there are way too many TikTok jokes we remember from episodes of Comedy Central Presents. We were raised among the memes you were born into.

i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.

DISNEY: "OK, we are putting Jimmy Kimmel back on the air. You can resubscribe now." ME: "I unsubscribed because you immorally bowed to fascism. I'm not going to resubscribe because you immorally bowed to finances."

Idk it feels like something is shifting. This tweet was also the language of the AP push alert, and just now the Times chimed in:

trump gave a rally yesterday saying he hates the opposition. his deputy chief of staff said he would wage war on the left. his fcc is pressuring to fire comedians. he's suing the media. he's trying to throw opposition members in prison. the two highest ranking democrats are meeting him to chat.

Tylenol was the only medication I was allowed to take for pain when I was pregnant. So they’re going to do research on other safe painkillers to take during pregnancy right? *Amidala face* They’re going to do research on other safe painkillers to take during pregnancy RIGHT?

There’s a certain type of poster that seems to think it’s helpful to stamp out anything hopeful in the name of being realistic about how bad things are. Don’t be that poster. We know how bad things are. But for most of us, hope helps a lot more than your cynicism. Rebellions are built on hope…

I would always rather be us than them, every fucking day, no matter how angry or scared I get trading our humanity for the feeble hope that proximity to power will protect us is not fucking worth it we all die as we live and their picture of what "success" looks like is truly so fucking bleak

It’s going to happen someday and people are going to celebrate and anybody who wants to scold that celebration had best be prepared to fight.

No one is making you be a writer if you can’t do it and also don’t enjoy doing it. If you’re larping a job for clout I’d probably pick surgeon or Nobel prize winning diplomat, stealing valor for from isolated weirdos at their laptops is like shoplifting from the landfill.

BREAKING: The U.K., Canada and Australia officially recognize a Palestinian state, a significant shift away from alignment with the U.S.

Damn Fetterman, I haven’t even had it 24 hours and you’re ruining it.

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Today, Canada recognises the State of Palestine.   My statement: www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/stat...

So um. This is what's been up with me for the last year. I hate hate hate asking but very much appreciate your support. www.gofundme.com/f/fund-me-if...

rewatching NETWORK for a project 👀 and it is absolutely shocking how prescient this film is. it’s like paddy chayefsky was granted a vision of america in 2025 and he furiously tried to turn what he saw into something intelligible to viewers in the 1970s

I went through a mental health crisis while also writing professionally and allowed that to inform my work in a way that wasn’t particularly healthy or beneficial to my writing, though on rare occasion it could be. I think Elizabeth Gilbert is the final boss of whatever that is.

If Conan O'Brien Is Getting Political, You Messed Up

You guys have to read the termination letter that @washingtonpost.com sent @karenattiah.bsky.social because they essentially accused her of anti-white racism because she mentioned that Charlie Kirk was a white man 😵‍💫 Then they called her a “risk.” 🤡 karenattiah.substack.com/p/why-washin...

Plague doctor + Father Guido Sarducci + (desperation for attention + desperation to not be perceived) = Melania

Plague doctor + Father Guido Sarducci + (desperation for attention + desperation to not be perceived) = Melania

I’m sure all the standup comedians who have been ranting about censorship the last few years are going to take to the streets any minute now.

None of this is going to make these weird creep losers any less lonely.

this is quite genuinely insane, and I want to believe the backlash to this will be severe

KAMLAGER-DOVE: Dylan Roof, who followed white supremacist propaganda, murdered 9 Black parishioners in 2015. Do you deny this? PATEL: I'm sorry. Dylan Roof? Can you give me more information? KAMLAGER-DOVE: You're head of the FBI

its kind of insane that we’ve been forced to watch rightwingers openly celebrate and taunt everyone over the death of people like trayvon martin for over a decade now and now they’re trying to grandstand over the one time it’s personally affected them and political project

We have far more disengaged lean D people who are erratic voters than potential swing voters, and this kind of pandering to moderate Rs around social issues is what keeps them disengaged and suppresses turnout.

if u see this quote with the energy u bring to blue sky

Sometimes the response is “we can hold room for all the big issues” and then sometimes it’s “we’re not doing this right now, coleslaw, get bigger problems.”

"I WAS the propaganda" is a level of self awareness I truly wish more people would engage with. There are some situations where speaking out is not only not enough, they're counting on you doing it to make *them* look better and more tolerant. Because you are the propaganda.

But don’t call them Nazis.

Feel like I’m going insane with the revisionist history that Charlie Kirk fostered open debate. He chilled speech and his targeting of professors for wrongthink led to threats, harassment, and being forced out of their jobs. His legacy is chilling speech right now, about him

"On the last episode of his show before he was killed," Kirk told "his audience, falsely, that “one in 22 Black men will be a murderer in their lifetime” and that “by age of 23, half of all Black males have been arrested and not enough of them have been arrested.”

Time to break out the chart

At this point they’ve retroactively sanitized Charlie Kirk into a total pussy and he would have hated that.

Political violence is abhorrent. I have not celebrated Kirk's death. But Newsom calling for his followers to "continue Charlie Kirk's work," someone who praised stoning gay people as "god's perfect law," who called for men to "take care of" trans people like they did in the 50s and 60s, is not it.

Welp it’s bedtime. Time to take my third Xanax of the day so I can sleep without the quaking horror of our everyday lives pulsing through every nerve in my body and awake ready for the next wave of performative scolding from high school friends I didn’t realize were Nazi sympathizers. Night night!

We have a bit of a natural experiment here. Compare the tone, quantity and duration of Charlie Kirk coverage with that of the two Dem lawmakers gunned down in their homes in Minnesota 6 months ago. May be revealing.

This is how all Democrats should respond

Wow. And this is the kind of study that will likely lose funding in our current moment. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...