the only campaign speech I want to hear from a Dem running for office

When you’re a kid, you’re thinking “the brotherhood of evil mutants is an unbelievable and silly name” and then you grow up and experience politics happening and you’re like “the brotherhood of evil mutants is the most realistic thing in the x-men”

I am picturing people using a pop tart as a pretend phone and it is getting funnier and funnier to me

The tyranny of the superego: because your subjective experience is validated by following the rules, any irruption of the Real that undermines said rules puts your ego at hazard. Better to look away, better to shield your emotions, better to abstract and rationalize.

Abjection is to liberalism what fear of difference is to conservatism. Society is designed to keep reminders of its dysfunction—poverty, illness, general suffering—safely relegated to the margins. Once those boundaries are trespassed, order must be restored by any means necessary.

hamburger help me

I'm sympathetic to the idea that art transcends politics. But it can only do so by addressing politics and going deeper. It certainly can't do it by ignoring politics.

The best acting performance I've seen in ages was in some big pharma commercial where this grandpa dude has a flowery hat on and is having a tea party with his grand daughter. The little head shake he gives after pretending to sip tea signaling it's damn fine tea is way above the call of duty.

Surely all this is not without meaning.

The best refutation to grind culture mentality is a gold medal.

How it feels whenever a show I own on a 🏴‍☠️ disc gets scrubbed from streaming:

Final Destination prequel idea

Every day Chuck Schumer says we need minor reforms to ICE, it’s a “fuck you” to the base, which is demanding abolition. Schumer thinks it’s his job to temper the demands of Democrats and keep the party moderately conservative. It’s an anti-democratic impulse and political malpractice.

“But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Bad Bunny.”

the Spectator accidentally recycled a subhed from a previous day’s article about Tehran

After the revolution, comic books will be legally required to include letters columns again.

Swear to god, ICE could just announce they're leaving a city but not leave and the media will just stop covering that city completely even though ICE never left. It's what ICE and the media did with LA and they're doing it with Minneapolis too

ICE hit my childhood elementary school today. That public school district is suing the federal government, but note we're talking about a district that is two elementary schools, one middle school, and one high school. Just terrorizing a small town.

Muppets Murder On The Orient Express

Punxsutawney Phil's life—thrust, bewildered, into a position of sudden prophetic influence by a mysterious establishment and their strange, arbitrary customs—is identical to 90% of fantasy protagonists

All I'm saying is I really don't think they will find John Berger in the Epstein files.

TENURED YALE PROFESSOR IN AN OP-ED: In our society we have too often accepted the heckler’s veto, allowing the perfect to be the enemy of the good and making the refusal to forgive our highest virtue TENURED YALE PROFESSOR IN AN EMAIL: hii jfefrey Can I come to rape party w/a plusone this weekend

At a time when Black history is being erased, places like the Louis Armstrong House matter more than ever. That’s why I’m proud to partner with the Louis Armstrong House Museum to offer free admission to all visitors on Saturday, February 7th.

kumail nanjiani would be a good hobbit #MakeKumailNanjianiAHobbit

Bridgerton is built on the 3 "b"s: ballin', ballin', and bawlin'.

Savageland

This is the standard pattern. State actors provoke, people respond peacefully, state actors escalate violently. Media reports say “protests turned violent” or “protestors clash with law enforcement“ which normalizes further escalation. State terror facilitates its own escalation by design.

solidarity forever

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

This guy went to work today, put a mask on, kidnapped a 5 year old child, and then used him as bait so both he and his father could be sent behind bars

sir, using weapons banned in war zones against civilians in our own country has not polled well with the voters

it is not customary for such venerable leviathans to be at all social

Eating the AI art in protest is ironically more Art than whatever the fuck the ai guy was doing

COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS

Another hero!

this would be so funny if it were in a movie by Paul Verhoeven

BREAKING: This dog is named Susan From Accounting

schumer's gotta go. now

I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports. And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.” Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.

I am increasingly frustrated by the abandonment of hybrid options for talks. Not just full-on conferences, but local, single room, single speaker events.

the problem with an untrained secret police squad that shoots people in their cars isn’t that they’re untrained

r.i.p. scott adams, your torso looked like the guy from the descendents

one of the biggest things i learned from 2020 is that times of great upheaval present brief moments where anything appears possible. as soon as those moment appear, opportunist centrists will immediately begin to dilute the movement’s demands to pablum. this is that moment

this year is going to be particularly tumultuous because trump's guys know they're probably going to be basically turned into lame ducks after the 2026 mid terms. possibly jailed. and animals are always more dangerous when they're cornered.

The guy who first dressed as Portland Frog, a major symbol of our protest and then other national protests, has been arrested while peacefully protesting. Prints of this painting by Simran Gleason are being sold to support his defense. www.simrangleason.com/prints/p/por... #pdx #protest

This is a really worthwhile thread if you want to navigate nostalgia in your work.

*Paul Weller voice* That's entertainment

And you know that’s a bad thing right? …you know that’s a bad thing right????

Everybody who says they hate small talk are just boring 😪