Just a reminder to news outlets everywhere that this perfectly cromulent photo of Rahm Emanuel exists if you need one for a story.

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“Don’t tell me where he has been. Tell me where he will have has been next.”

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Personally I encourage President Trump to loudly call the justices who are going to decide this case stupid. Maybe he could do it to their faces or hold a press conference outside the Supreme Court while this is being argued.

It just hit me that Trump and the Republicans have made TSA agents into sympathetic figures, and I don’t know anyone who hasn’t had at least one crappy encounter with them in their lives. That’s remarkable.

Apply every trigger warning before you click. I can see murder clusters on the horizon and they're likely to start here www.cnn.com/interactive/...

Rahm Emanuel is almost 67 damn years old. The only next generation he’s in is the next one older than me.

I just have three more to grade and then I can read some poetry.

If you like knowing what’s happening on British TV, you can’t do better than these folks.

Hugo Holland, who is running for judge, once compared a mentally disabled Black teen to a dog during a death penalty case and told the jury to “get rid of it.” Attorneys later found that Holland had failed to turn over a trove of evidence. With @veritenews.org

I need someone to tell me this Temu build your own electric guitar kit isn’t worth it. Save me from myself.

Not to pat Dems on the back too hard but the difference between the response to the Chavez revelations and the Republican response to the Epstein files is significant.

it's incredible that as long as you do the right amount of bigotry you can just rob the country blind and enough people will not care, even though those same people will be filled with incandescent rage if someone uses food stamps to buy a 12 pack of diet coke

You have to pay $55,000 a year for the privilege of damaging your children’s education, maybe permanently.

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I sure am! This is exactly why I stepped up to challenge Seth Moulton. We can’t move forward without justice.

Elon Musk has had a lot of stupid ideas in his life and this is another one.

In my latest newsletter I wrote about how AI messes with the generous readers (per @emilyhughes.bsky.social) who are the lifeblood of the business. I also covered two excellent debut novels. www.themarisreview.com/the-maris-re...

“What did you do over spring break?”

Trump take MRIs

Very much enjoyed the most recent episode of Decoder where @reckless.bsky.social confronted the CEO of Grammarly (Superhuman) about their now-deleted AI agent review tool. www.theverge.com/podcast/8987...

The guys holding the traffic flags on road construction crews work harder than that.

I will never understand why some people can look at Trump, whose first act in his first term was to sign an EO banning entry for people from Muslim countries, and think he had to be fooled by Netanyahu to start this war with Iran.

I will never understand why some people can look at Trump, whose first act in his first term was to sign an EO banning entry for people from Muslim countries, and think he had to be fooled by Netanyahu to start this war with Iran.

A question for Arsenal supporters. Do you really want to see Tottenham go down given that it would mean you wouldn’t be able to play them twice a year until they came back up? Or would it be worth it to have the experience of winning the league while your nemesis gets relegated in the same year?

I am very curious to know if ICE agents who are working as TSA will still be armed, because TSA agents are not, typically. And I also wonder if the tone of those ICE agents will calm down some when their faces aren’t covered and they’re not wearing all their tactical gear.

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White leftists who support Platner really think they’re being edgy and radical when they say it with their chest, despite it being literally the oldest, whitest, most boring play in the book. But it’s their classic so 🤷🏽‍♀️

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The Bible. And I don’t mean that in a solely smartass-former-evangelical way. I mean I read a bunch of the sexual assault stories in the Old Testament before I was ten. And I knew what I was reading because I’d been molested myself by a member of my church.

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One of the reasons I started crocheting about seven years ago is because it requires both hands and so I can’t hold/scroll my phone while I do it.

Today’s email from my useless Congressional representative was all about his support for a balanced budget amendment because he says Americans know we shouldn’t spend more money than we take in. Bet he’ll vote for more money for the Iran war though.

It’s amazing how quickly Black women have been targeted by these laws and doubly so how little this factors into the analysis around the sexual and gender politics of this movement.

One of the reasons I started crocheting about seven years ago is because it requires both hands and so I can’t hold/scroll my phone while I do it.

One of the best decisions I’ve ever made along these lines is taking my work email off my personal phone. We need more friction between these aspects of our lives.

One of our new initiatives at The Rumpus is a Spanish language section, El Alboroto, where we publish original Spanish prose and poetry. If you write in Spanish or know people who do, please send them here to read our guidelines and submit their work. therumpus.submittable.com/submit/35215...

Less than two days ago we had a snowstorm and right now it’s legit shorts and tees weather, not just the Midwest March version of that. Shit is weird right now.

One of the best decisions I’ve ever made along these lines is taking my work email off my personal phone. We need more friction between these aspects of our lives.

Is this a thing? Keep the anal in analysis

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I would like public policy to be based on evidence instead of advertising slogans. With your help, we can make that a reality: bethfordemocracy.com

Or a simpler way to put it is that’s it’s the country club not the temple or mosque that holds the informal power networks in the US.

rats fleeing the ship drown, too

Netanyahu sucks, AIPAC sucks, but "we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby" is just code for "blame Jews." Trump wasn't forced to do this. Trump's supporters—like Kent—weren't forced to elect him and embolden him. They're not absolved of any responsibility.

When I saw the story about the meteor strike in Ohio, my instinctive first thought was to wonder if that was one of the signs of the Last Days, which suggests that no matter how long I’ve been out of the church, some stuff will always be in there waiting to pop up and say hi.

This is how I earned Progressive Victory's endorsement. A bunch of candidates are trying to look progressive right now. I actually am. I've never been afraid to say so. I am progressive because I want a better world. And I know the only way that happens is when we build it together.

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