If you are not in academia, you might not know this, but job interviews used to be held at conferences IN HOTEL ROOMS. Women candidates in a hotel room alone with often all-male committees. People sitting on beds! The horror stories I've heard.

"i've changed!" *2 minutes later*

Would you believe me if I told you it got so much worse from there

Antisemitism is a lot like Qanon child abuse conspiracies in that there’s this real and bad phenomenon and, parallel to that, what can only be described as a large scale mass psychosis about a mostly fictional version of the same phenomenon

Every delay is a life saved.

I can‘t believe that we‘re willingly handing over crucial parts of our workforce, data management and even education to a criminal version of Clippy

Jesus Christ

My favourite year for oppressed literary masculinity was 2023 when the number of women on the Booker shortlist was smaller than the number of men named Paul

Genuine question: did his on-going losing battle with a Chicago federal judge drive Bovino to harass another city? The Cook County prelim injunction won’t reach Charlotte. But if that’s right, also suggests hauling Bovino into court sooner than later, and points to real possible legal residence.

You do not have to clap for the transphobic, antisemitic, islamophobic racist just because pedophilia is a bridge too far for her! You can just not!

I really need everyone in power at the DNC to not get distracted by this and to just embrace Let Them Fight. You do not have to hand it to the Jewish Space Laser Lady. Ever.

NEW: Welcome to the Great AI Bubble. Yes, it’s here. And yes, it’s going to burst. It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know. open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

The difference between the sociopathic and non-sociopathic takes is really quite stark

Ok I can’t be mad on the internet on a Sunday morning when I have eight million things to write today, so I’ll just say everyone needs to follow more romance authors and more kid lit authors and learn to widen your extremely narrow view on what constitutes “good writing” and “good reading”

"But why don't progressive Christians just tell the conservative ones to do better? Surely that would work and fix everything but since everything isn't fixed, progressives must be complicit!"

Newsom is the front-runner right now in exactly the same way Jeb! was the front-runner in late 2013. He has ZERO juice, but he is catnip to the juiceless opinionators who are the only people gossiping about “who is the frontrunner right now.”

Whether it’s Barack Obama, appearing in a tan suit or Donald Trump appearing 1700 times in Jeffrey Epstein‘s emails, both presidents made some highly controversial appearances.

Please stop using language that suggests that people with criminal records are appropriate targets for this administration's violence. One in three adults has a criminal record. Stop playing sacrifice games with fascists. Stop surrendering entire categories of people in your own mind.

My advice is to ignore anyone telling you to get a road bike or anything that requires clip-on shoes or special equipment. Get something that doesn’t strain your back or shoulders and with fenders and a rack so you can get groceries. Prioritize comfort over speed.

This may not be entirely fair but a reason I don’t think mayor Pete has It is because he polled zero percent among Black voters, the demographic which - can’t say this without sounding condescending but - usually gets it right, early, when it comes to candidates

Does MTG think people don’t remember who she is

Me betting on who will be in the news today

Rudy Bridges is younger than the Sitting President of the United States and 29 sitting United States Senators

$2 billion for a name change. DOGE is CRUSHING IT!

I hope the dead kids haunt her house

if you're being pedantic about the definition of pedophilia I'm assuming you are a pedophile

made a similar point on the opinions podcast this week in response to the idea that epstein is a dead end. not only are actual voters interested in this but it divides the gop and puts pressure on the president. it would be political malpractice to treat it as a sideshow

every day I feel worse about the next 6-12 months and better about the next 2-5 years.

I am well aware that they are and will continue to do massive damage to this country but does it feel like they’re on a glide path to successful authoritarian consolidation anymore? I submit that it does not

Everyone! The reason is why I suggested impeachment of minor officials is that it is the opposite of McCarthyism. You have to prove the case and rely on building a record; you have to hold folks, publicly accountable. No purges in the dark; we have had enough that already, ok!

I will say it again; the Democrats need openly create a list of civil servants called the Dirty Dozen that will be subject to impeachment in 2026, The Constitution provides that “… all civil Officers of the United States” are subject to removal from office upon impeachment.”

She wants to run for president. In her mind, she’s not exploding her own career, she’s setting it up for a post-trump but still Trumpist / MAGAfied gop

I’m fighting on their terrain now

No justice, no peace is a fact, not a threat.

This is a straightforward Republican attack line, what the fuck is he doing

Official U.S. Government account refers to its citizens as "imbecilic morons".

Like none of this is about votes. It's that the caucus politics are breaking out into the open and the leader of the party is DISINHERITING PEOPLE.

So many vulnerable people were hurt, harassed and raped by these ghouls and now—I’m worried—it’s gonna become hehe haha lurid internet circus instead of a long overdue moral reckoning. I’m scared of who we all are becoming. That man has brought us ALL low.

I would like to state that… restaurants should not try to make their version of ketchup. Heinz got that good good. Unless you got that recipe on lock? It’s just sad tomato soup.

“Our special house made gourmet ketchup” shut up x 57

“Was it your brain?” should be the follow up question to every Trump statement.

Trump manages to look, in every way possible, like the guiltiest man who ever lived.

This man will never taste pierogi again

When I chose to study politics for a living I had no idea that politics would get this dumb.

DJT clearly has no idea how the math works in the house because cutting lose two members of your own party is literally existential

Most presidents whose approval rating is net -16 would be trying to reinforce intraparty bridges, is all I’m sayin’

Layoffs since April: Amazon: 30k Intel: 25k UPS: 20k Microsoft: 15k Meta: 3600 Target: 1800 Charter: 1200 Paramount: 1000 Rivian: 600 xAI: 500 Add Verizon to the list. They just laid off 15,000 and then their stock went up. Your reminder that the stock market isn’t the economy

Was hanging out with a friend recently who travels in Certain Circles and she offhandedly mentioned that Elon Musk goes to sex parties in Austin, which immediately summoned up the absolutely horrifying prospect of being in the same sex party as Elon Musk

I think it’s pretty obvious that the reference to “trump blowing bubba” in the epstein emails is a joke HOWEVER both of these guys have definitely been on quaaludes at the same party

I really do not understand how people don't face consequences. This isn't some esoteric norm she breeched. Don't be romantically entangled with a source is journalism 001. It's remedial journalism. That she not only did it but never came forward is maddening.