Bit rich complaining about New York being taken over by immigrants when there's a big fucking statue in the harbour that invites everyone to come live there.

the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president

I live in a hippie town that doesn’t fluoridate the drinking water, so my kid’s hippie physician, hippie dentist, and I took extra steps to make sure kid’s teeth get adequate fluoride. Not every parent can or will do this. Public health is so much easier!

All of us. Everywhere.

Abolish ICE. Protect immigrants. Stand up for trans people. "whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me." Matthew 25:40

Our cultural decline is best defined by our inability to identify and reject truly shitty people.

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Quote with a picture of the airplane you’ll accept as a bribe.

Your Pope name is the last thing you ate + the # of letters in your first name. Her Holiness Pope Teriyaki IV

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

when the pope is from chicago and woke, we know who is really in control

Delightful

the thing about the tates and trump and musk is that what they offer is the illusion of control and dominance and mastery. in truth, they are absolute slaves to their passions and their worst instincts, and they have paid for it in that they are literal degenerates

Considering there are still dupes out there going, "he just wants to prevent chronic disease!" I feel the need to point out that RFK Jr. has been working on these issues for decades and has not bothered to learn the most elementary facts about how vaccines or the government work.

April 28, 2025: Migrants are making SOS signs out of their bodies so drones can see them at our country's concentration camps.

Exactly this.

The correlation between people who actively worry about "echo chambers" and people who would be punched square in the face if they spouted their shitty ideas in public without a whole internet as a security barrier is pretty damn high

I’m amending my timeline so I don’t spread misinformation. No artifacts have been removed from the National Museum of African American History and Culture, thank goodness!

Judges, famously easy to intimidate and unsure of their own authority.

Given the unsurprising, but horrific data that Black women are dying at an even higher rate now vs white women than they were pre-Dobbs -- to 3.5 x that of WW, up from 3, here is Kara Walker's .Slaughter of the Innocents (They Might be Guilty of Something) (2016) BIG TW, click to expand.

More bad.

So many gifts, so much intelligence and beauty and love that most of us do not fucking deserve, not if we let white supremacy persist and poison us. It is monstrous that this administration would attack that; it speaks to the profound poverty of spirit in those who perpetuate white supremacy. 2/2

The National Museum of African American History and Culture is an astonishing place. So important, so beautifully executed, so powerful. Hell, it made me feel PROUD to be American, because while it shows the horrors Black people have suffered, it also shows how they have made beauty and culture. 1/2

@kellybarnhill.bsky.social I can’t thank you enough for recommending Becky Chambers’s books. 🙏🏻

This is bad.

Don’t try me. I will brook no argument.

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This is political leadership. My god.

So happy to be back in NYC for a few days and sharing the love with my kid. Seeing Audra McDonald in “Gypsy” last night was a peak experience.

This is utterly outrageous.

Thousands of protesters gathered at the Japanese American Historical Plaza on Portland’s waterfront before they started marching south down Naito Parkway onto the Morrison Bridge. #HandsOff protest live updates: www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

people being in the streets means something. never let your cynicism convince you otherwise.

The timing of these protests right after the tariffs announcement is some mysterious god work.

I live in a town of 30,000 people. #handsoff

The Egyptian pro-democracy activist Wael Ghonim said, "The power of the people is greater than the people in power." This is a checklist of things you can do, probably should do, resources, ideas, ways to move forward. “I just don’t know what to do!!” shouldn’t be something you say now. Here:

Well, once again I’ve stayed up way too late to finish reading a book. Will I ever learn?

Need a little more of this kind of cheeky feminist provocation: a frank and unapologetic assertion that the lives patriarchy prescribes for women are in many ways joyless, claustrophobic, and intellectually vacant.

Turns out they thought they were adding Jeff Goldblum to the chat.

Me, in the national security team group chat.

If you can see the difference between New York-based and New York–based, you may be a copy editor.

Reading a chapter on 19th c. French utopianism. Delighted that no matter the other features of their utopias, novelists and theorists alike insisted on an abundance of food, 5 meals a day + 2 snacks.

This is satisfying.

The stupidest people ever to live are burning the world down around you. Keep that in mind when impostor syndrome has something to say about your projects.

↪️ On that note, there’s this from @karinschall.bsky.social, who is one of my favorite follows on social media:

My younger dog, who has a wee bit of separation anxiety, tore up my notebook, which I left sitting on top of the piano (near a chair he climbed), while I was out the other day. Mostly he tore the pages from their binding, but didn't ruin too many written pages. Everyone's a critic.

Schumer's voice mail is closed to messages. He'll hear from me on Monday. I left a message on Gillibrand's voice mail saying that, although I have always voted for her in the past, I will not voice for her again. #SurrenderCaucus

I’ve been looking for confirmation of this story. Here it is.