Worst thing about Mass is this fucking spotted lanternfly invasion. If youve lived through an infestation bc of a neighbor, you get it. At the same time, what funny creature. A group of them hitched a ride all the way from Asia in 2022 and decided to reproduce in a way nobody knows what to do with.

I often work on my laptop with The Voice playing in the background, and every now and again I look up to see a 20-year-old girl contestant see Niall Horan turn around and I literally squeal with teary eyes all alone in my living room. That show always gets me oh my god.

Listen, I believe that masculinity is a lot of things. But I’ve never known anybody to embody so little of it than these squids.

#Journo on deadline here! Looking to chat with anyone who's tried a high-tech spa treatment — VR headsets during a pedicure, bizarre hydrospa massages, robotic massages. DM me!

Stoked for my work to be featured in Motley Bloom’s inaugural issue. ADHD has impacted my whole life & I’ve only recently learned to harness it for good. I love to see such beautiful things born out of neurodivergence. The very fact that this exists is proof against the dumbass narratives of today.

“In exile” is a weird and dictatory way to say you were voted out in a free and fair election. Feels like that word choice should get some attention.

these people are giant fucking dorks and they should be mocked relentlessly for being giant fucking dorks

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

"SF, LA, NY have blue policies that lead to unaffordable housing. Red states are where people can actually afford to live." I thought you were "fiscally conservative." Wanted this country to be run like a business??? Alluva sudden you forget how supply & demand works??

“And the road to hell is paved with something, but I’ve never bothered to learn what it could be. I’m too busy with acting out my good intentions because you can’t be a bad guy if you don’t mean to be”

The word Edgelord has been in use since TWO THOUSAND FIFTEEN and is literally IN WEBSTER’S DICTIONARY There is absolutely no excuse for a reporter to not know what these things are, especially political, crime, and general interest.

Crazy that SPJ had to include this in their newsletter tonight. Unfortunately necessary so I’m passing along. What to do if you’ve been doxed or placed on a watchlist: docs.google.com/document/u/0...

The only mildly brainwashed Trump supporters (the ones who’d wake up if they just stopped watching Fox News) think this is crazy, right? Right????

Small talk sucks

Here are further thoughts of mine on this subject: www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-un-ad...

“We voted for this!” You👏can’t👏vote👏your👏rights👏away👏

New in PN: The Trump Murder Policy "Trump has claimed Venezuelan boats are being attacked because they’re smuggling drugs, but his evidence doesn’t amount to much more than 'trust me, bro.'"

Having ever supported a president as they told all the other world leaders that their countries are “going to hell” and drove away every single ally… is going to be an incredibly unpopular and embarrassing history for a lot of people.

I often think about how Mussolini, Stalin & Hitler all had supporters.

Ugh. I really needed this today.

Omg. “In completely unrelated news,” @pride.com you rock.

“People simply disappeared, always during the night. Your name was removed from the registers, every record of everything you had ever done was wiped out, and your one-time existence was denied and then forgotten. You were abolished, annihilated: vaporized was the usual word.“ -1984, Orwell

NEW: Here's our report on the "SIM farm" the Secret Service discovered, which hopefully helps better explain what the hell is up with all this. @agreenberg.bsky.social, @lhn.bsky.social, & @mattburgess1.bsky.social report: www.wired.com/story/sim-fa...

Gov. Gavin Newsom to appear on 'The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. www.kcra.com/article/gavi...

"For the first time in its history, WIRED is dedicating an issue to politics, citing concerns about the tech industry's alignment with President Trump. @katie-drummond.bsky.social explains what this shift means for Silicon Valley and for readers."

Since we’re probably never getting rid of the guns, and if we did, we’d probably still have gun violence, what can we learn from what’s currently (not)working?

MASS DEPORTATIONS NOW! (via rapture)

I’m just really over parents traumatizing their kids for life over their own religious delusions. www.theravennareport.com/p/christians...

Suuure Disney. Restoring Jimmy Kimmel's show just in time for the Rapture. Real subtle.

New: 404 Media is suing ICE. We have filed a lawsuit demanding ICE release its $2 million contract with Paragon, a company that makes powerful spyware to break into phones and read encrypted messages. This is expensive for a small outlet but this info is important www.404media.co/were-suing-i...

currently at record-high search interest for canceling disney plus. pulling kimmel is a bigger deal to the company's bottom line than any of the "woke" scandals of the past 5 years. i think news & entertainment corp execs need put more work into understanding their audience, & get off twitter

Genocide Historian Thomas White draws parallels between the first Nazi concentration camp and Alligator Alcatraz while sitting next to Kati Preston, who survived the Holocaust.

As a wise woman once said, “If guys don’t want me to write songs about them, they shouldn’t do bad things.” (Taylor Swift)

Trump on the TikTok deal: "A man named Lachlan is involved. Lachlan Murdoch ... Rupert is probably gonna be in the group."

Maybe Tom Homan is your nation’s treasure, but mine were Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert and you took them away from me… And funny enough, neither of them were facing FBI bribery probes — so Tom can deal with it.

Imagine how many times he was told he’ll never be able to be a professional cheerleader. An inspiration to everybody who’s wondering if it’s worth chasing their dreams!

California will be the first state to ban most law enforcement, INCLUDING FEDERAL IMMIGRATION AGENTS from covering their faces while conducting official business under a bill signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom on Saturday.

If these rules had been in place during Vietnam, the Pentagon could have effectively killed the Pentagon Papers before they ever reached the public eye — these restrictions are designed to prevent another moment where reporting changes the course of public opinion against the government. Dangerous.

Donald Trump is making people who don’t know anything about law, politics or governance *feel* smart with one phrase. And if cults throughout history tell us anything, it’s that the illusion of authority is an incredibly powerful thing. www.theravennareport.com/p/the-end-of...

Ummm… history shows us what happens when governments force statues of controversial figures into public squares. They don’t last.

I know that “transmaxxing” is a fascinating phenomenon in the Groyper world. But I feel like it’s not a relevant topic at right now, & I know it’s got much less to do with being transgender than it with Groypers, but other’s won’t, & it could do more harm to the transgender community than good.

Disney learned nothing from Andor.

i just know we're all going to have to sit through a three minute clip of joe rogan saying "i can't believe censorship is happening"

Beyond cancelling Kimmel's show are about 200 writers and crew members in LA who just lost their full time gig.

if Jimmy Kimmel's political humor is too hot for you to handle, I'm not sure "snowflake" even cuts it as a term of derision for the level of fragility you've achieved

We cannot make the headlines blunter people www.theverge.com/policy/77979...

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“America’s the richest country in the world.” Aka we’ve got the largest amount of gluttonous hoarders in the world and everybody else is choosing between healthcare and rent this month.

No fucking way ABC just dumped Jimmy Kimmel. What’s next????!! Joy??!!! LAUGHTER?!

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