I have spent the last three weeks going "I need a haircut" to anyone who will listen, and finally tomorrow I am getting a haircut. Procrastinate? Me? Never.

Chicago baby

SOMEONE: Fuck you! BOVINO: That’s not very nice. THE MOST MOM VOICE YOU’VE EVER HEARD: Well, are you doing nice things?

Late night thought: we know that Odo struggles with the details of humans in Deep Space Nine, it’s why his hair and face are like that, but he also canonically fucks. This raises a question, when he fucked did his boner look like an uncooked hot dog?

Alice Wong, a writer and activist who was born with muscular dystrophy and who fought relentlessly for equal rights and access for people with disabilities, died on Friday. She was 51. nyti.ms/4r9WqEr

"to get her to be good probably requires more firmness than I enjoy"

A lot of education discourse is at root an inability to decide whether the purpose of our education system is to 1) teach material and measure learning 2) reward students who work hard 3) separate the smart kids (destined for smart guy jobs) from the dumb kids (destined to serve the smart guys)

Alice Wong, Presente. Thank you for everything.

WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.

From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."

(throwing open my window) you there, boy, what day is this?

I continue to disagree with this. The goal of mass detention is mass deportations. A private prison company leasing 100 beds to ICE gets paid the same if the beds are filled by 100 people for a year each or 1,000 people for a few days each. They don't earn more with long-term detention.

[Benoit Blanc voice to address student complaints] "It seems the Nazi Child feels misled by my assignment of literature by African women in a World Literature course."

inviting the neighborhood kids to check out my Baudriyard

Just checkin' the facts!

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

Every single time! Epstein will write: "porsecters h4arrsed me w/ sbuopenas al bcuase tr4ificing myners .due porcess much???no" and then there's, like, the former president of a university or white house counsel or something replying: "You're totally right, and also I love you with all my heart."

The worst thing about emailing people is that then they write you back. You tick off that item on your to-do list, and then - boom! Another one appears in your inbox.

Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.

BRB, putting "DO NOT REPEAT THIS INSIGHT" into all my groupchat texts. That outta put me in the clear.

The first time I read about this case, I cried. The second time, I was angry. The third time, I remembered that RBG and Scalia were fast friends, and it changed the way I saw the court forever.

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Good things Democrats gave up all leverage to force a vote on extending ACA subsidies. I'd like to see Republicans vote against - *puts hand to earpiece* ah! Well. Nevertheless,

Why is the "we must be united!" hectoring directed at people who are mad at the Cavers and not to the Cavers? Everyone who's mad was united, then the Cave Caucus walked across the aisle and betrayed what the public had been told was the Dem position.

Catherine my good bitch you guys are the only ones who do not know where the Republicans stand

This isn't "internal recriminations." It's voters expressing overwhelming opposition to what the people they elected to represent them are doing, and anyone--either in journalism or politics--who characterizes it as infighting is either not seeing and hearing what's right in front of them or lying.

Feeling spicy might delete but I used to work with Chuck Schumer's eldest daughter, and when she was getting ready to go to Yale Law she was dissatisfied with her financial aid package so she made them do a three way call (at the office) with her and her dad to push for a better package

the problem is that we understand perfectly well how the senate works and it just doesn't

I have an early November birthday. It's been pretty rough, "celebrating" multiple times after fascist electoral victories. This year I was really excited to bask in the glow of post-election hope for 30 seconds or so. So thanks, Senate Dems, for FUCKING MY ONE (1) GOOD BIRTHDAY UP FOR ME.

One reason I don't think it's useful to argue about the correct tactics for Democrats to win elections is winning elections isn't enough. They've won the presidency 5 out of 9 times since 1992 and where are we now. The question is how we create something better than a dead cat bounce party

What do you call a leader with no followers? Just a guy taking a walk. He's not just a senator. He's the *leader*. His job isn't his personal vote. His job is to unify and lead his caucus against the regime.

I’m sure my small girl brain is simply not big enough to understand this but it sure seems to me like “the GOP promises a vote to protect healthcare” and “the GOP promises no vote to protect healthcare” are going to net you approximately the same number of GOP senators voting to protect healthcare

this is why you gotta call your senators even if they aren’t part of the ‘cave’ group - we could still stop this if they realize they have to do this by themselves, with no cover from anyone else

Last night, the Trump Administration sent a letter suggesting Wisconsin should return our FoodShare payments. My response ⬇️

My theory about Joyce Carol Oates is that all her bad posts are her charging up like Godzilla's spines until she lets loose with a radioactive blast that leaves the world's richest Nazi a pile of ash

This piece is as good as people say it is. Read it to appreciate that writing isn't just about content, but style. AI can't do this.

You can't live your life based on hate - that way lies madness and bitterness - but allowing yourself to slip into hater mode from time to time is a lovely little treat, like a drunk cigarette or a decadent slice of cake

Guillotines

What do you mean the sun goes down before 5pm? I literally just woke up thirty minutes ago????

I can’t believe Zohran is transing the trains already www.mta.info/article/f-m-...

surveillance is not safety, example ten trillion billion million zillion

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Took the cats out for a walk with my brother and accidentally created a 90s Britpop album cover

You gotta almost hand it to the guy being like “yeah I was fully corrupt the whole time and I don’t have to pretend otherwise now. I did that shit”

Da Greatest City In Da World

My immigration court accompaniment group - six retirees and two thirty-somethings - spent the morning crowing about Mamdani's victory and Cuomo's loss. Cross-generation politics, baby!

Thirdway has a memo out about how Mamdani's politics won't work in the rest of the country but they wrote it before he won and forgot to replace "X%" with his actual margin. lol.

Zohran says you’re trans now