“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.” aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

*concerned GOP politician/Fox news bobblehead/right wing influencer voice* Democrats ruining culture with impossible promises!

“Email went into the spam folder” is also active resistance

I thought this idiot didn’t know what anyone was doing at any given moment. So how does he know what “republicans are doing”? Colonel Klink-ass moist boy

Hold on; the best 3 minutes of your day (UK, good morning!), & yes, all the way to the end for the juice

NYT opinion (most likely Ross Douchehat) headline. MAMDANI DROPS MASK, REVEALS HIS INNER NATURE

*concerned GOP politician/Fox news bobblehead/right wing influencer voice* Democrats ruining culture with impossible promises!

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

The extent to which shitty centrist journalism rests on the same thing as Trump, the never-identified "some people say, everyone says" etc. including "critics say" here is a zombie move, lifeless yet vengeful.

One takeaway from this excellent essay is that we can’t let news organizations get away with “critics say” framing anymore. Either name the critic and clearly explain their critique, or just write the biased oped you’re obviously dying to write.

sound on. I’m still laughing

bezos somehow made an editorial page worse than the one at the wall street journal

an arc where the former governor of NY loses increasingly inconsequential elections until the series finale is him trying to run for senior class president at a local high school and getting his ass kicked by some 17 year olds.

oh so these people do pay attention to who politicians follow on social media, they just don’t care that the vice president follows a bunch of actual neo-nazis

Thread. This is what a moral panic looks like.

Did you know that SNEAKERS is on peacock, just sitting there for all the world to stream? Better get on that, asap

"The two are separated by 4,300 votes." 😱

Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).

AND HE WAS LIKE, BUT NOT MY FACE, RIGHT? AND I WAS LIKE WELL IT'S A FACE, SO

And that's important, because she was a working scientist with agency of her own and she collaborated willingly with so much more of that work than is usually mentioned. Both by Watson AND his critics. Franklin was a great scientist. Don't sell her short.

Nora and I are back this week, fueled by caffeine, civic duty, and just enough hope to get through election week. Joined by Charles Douglas III of Common Power, we dig into Seattle’s slow counts, messy polls, and how to turn all that campaign chaos into real community power.

Oh wow, PLURIBUS, funny & creepy!

15 years ago, I said every social media founder should be forced to use and live with the default settings of their platforms. Now I would say that the AI founders should have their tools pointed at their families for a year before they can deploy them elsewhere.

Word of the Day is ‘catchfart’ (17th century): an obsequious individual who sucks up to the boss and always follows the political wind.

They made Jimmy Carter sell his peanut farm.

I think this take on the sandwich guy trial is correct. our system is built assuming that prosecutors will show appropriate restraint. the sandwich guy case went on for way too long and that in and if itself should be raising alarm bells www.lawfaremedia.org/article/sand...

The male executive in charge of the Miss Universe event in Thailand berated Miss Mexico in front of all the contestants. Contestants stood after he ordered them to sit, some (including the current Miss Universe) walked out, and now he's fired. Solidarity is beautiful! www.bbc.com/news/article...

You fucking people will let anyone off the hook for their violent hateful beliefs and all they have to do is say shiny words you like You’re all a bunch of Nazi tattoo forgiving, Jewish space lasers forgetting gullible marks getting played for fools As a Jew I suggest you all go fuck yourselves.

I get the aspirational aspect of this but along with other media asking stuff like this (2 days after his election)— point me to the same articles about Eric Adams when he was elected. Nobody could explain his win except his “ i was a cop, i can protect you” schtick, at the start of the pandemic

“You have a face full of botox…!” So frustrating to see this in 2025, but guess what happens in latin american families & their kid dating a Mexican? This. Colonialism keeps doing a number on all of us

Pierrot, by Jean-Antoine Watteau, 1718-19, 📸 by @andyharnik

Bizarrely, about 2,500 people just took a pass on the mayor's race. People, why are you voting in a local election if you aren't voting for MAYOR?

I had a run in with ICE snatching a man out of his car while walking my children to school this morning in NW DC I asked a neighbor to continue walking my kids to school and I turned back to document and confront the ICE agents. I am in contact with @dcmigrantmutualaid.org with the full video.

why do they keep making campaign ads for Democrats

We had fucking congressional hearings over Mortal Kombat.

Did Women Ruin The Workplace

“A recent tabletop war game involving the Australian, US and Japanese militaries highlighted Christmas Island’s role as a forward line of defence for Australia in any regional conflict, particularly its advantages for launching uncrewed weapons systems.”

If we can’t make you fear his politics or his aloof wife, we’ll make you fear his facial hair.

this is really what all those “millennials killed…” headlines were trying to say too

Was this the best use of my time today? No. Is it the most amusing way I could have spent the last 90 minutes? Absolutely. Pattern is free here: bit.ly/4nGGCGc

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Knight of Swords

Online store is up in case anyone wants to trade their digital lucre for copies of my books. 💕

I guess when you control the media and message, a permanent unalterable record of what you previously said and did is a threat.

The sitting Health & Human Services secretary pulling an immediate "exit, stage right" the moment someone has an actual health emergency in his presence sure is on-the-nose!

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“.. in a group Signal chat, .. he wrote in part: ‘I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.’” @reuters.com #Chicago www.reuters.com/world/us/bor...

In my brief time as an op-ed editor (<year), Brettbug Stephens argued Ashkenazis might be genetically superior, & Tom Cotton called for violence against George Floyd protestors. Some of us were constantly pushing back. I met with Sulzberger multiple times. Lip service was given, nothing changed.