found out i won a jury award at a film festival while sitting in the dark watching a movie at 7am, which is right

Highly recommend spending 3 days getting the giggles at your Alma Mater with 2 of your best friends

Finishing 72 hours in Oberlin listening to Oberlin students quietly sing along to your so vain in slow train

@govpritzker.illinois.gov I want you to watch this video of me slammed to the ground- why are you allowing this to happen to people you know are on the right side of history. They tied my hands behind my back and when I asked them to be loosened because I was going numb they said, “STFU.”

So moved and enraged by the replies to this and was thinking... maybe we should collect them and send them to Chuck Schumer and the rest of the Senate cowards. Form here, won't collect emails unless you provide them. forms.gle/YnhsgtKTWD9A...

dick durbin genuinely might be one of the most damaging people to come out of illinois in the last century

In a functional party system, this kind of capitulation in the face of authoritarianism could mean the end of the Democratic Party. In our system, it could mean the end of the two party system. Neither party can represent the pro-democracy majority. It's time for something new.

Nuremburg trials is the moderate position

i know i am a broken record but this is actually a great time to revive Hair

Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school

You’re allowed to lib out with 5-10 mamdani thirst edits

everyone knows that the city doesn't know what the city is getting, but only real ones know it's the creme de la creme of the chess world

Every Dodgers almost-homer in extra innings, ranked: defector.com/every-dodger...

🚨BIG changes happening -- ICE leadership is being purged tonight. The old guard, which prioritized targeted enforcement operations aimed at people with criminal records, is being replaced with Border Patrol and Gregory Bovino's "Midway Blitz" style. Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.

best friendship is texting yr girl world series updates while she's in the air because she has texting but no wifi <3

A fun byproduct of unitary executive theory—if the president controls everyone under him, he can demand they transfer hundreds of millions in tax dollars into his bank account

Kinda wild that Mamdani and Sliwa are the guys who won their primaries and there has been open, nonstop meddling to overturn that will of the voters and install the disgraced former governor and it’s largely being covered like this is perfectly normal shit

There is no album more part of my DNA than from under the cork tree — a seminal text, a foundational part of my personality. I absolutely cannot accurately tell you the name of more than 4 songs on it.

It is impossible to have a mass movement without cringe, because the masses are cringe. You have to not think you’re better than everyone else to be a part of a mass movement. Cool is inherently exclusionary, you can’t win mass politics with cool.

literally no need for this the protesters were just standing there, not causing any problems. then here come the police, causing problems. I need @govpritzker.illinois.gov to tell these goons to go home. And if he can't or won't do so, I need to know that, too.

By the time you get to the point where the Transportation Secretary is complaining about political protests, you know the administration is truly scared of the public backlash.

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this is an explicitely nazi administration and anyone who still supports them should be viewed as such

i have been at my grandparent's house for 4 days and I would say we've watched 9 baseball games in that time

never have been / never will be a yankees fan, but watching aaron judge hit a home run IS sort of a religious experience

My husband was detained by ICE today Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away I have had zero contact or updates since #SOS @duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

Democracy, more than anything is a practice. I always think that the Civil Rights Movement succeeded because from the Civil War black Americans built institutions: universities, fraternities and sororities, churches, that engaged them in democratic practice.

a key reason they see an opening for such a blatant speech crackdown is that they already did one to Palestinian and anti-genocide activists and it got enthusiastic bipartisan approval

genuinely crazy that this is happening on behalf of charlie kirk of all people

staring straight into the camera and lying. just a despicable person and a poor excuse for a national leader.

meditating on the silent amidah as god intended: editing videos, listening to addison rae

Yes, Charlie Kirk called for Joe Biden’s execution. But he called for it in the right way.

Going through something (listening to West Side Story)

Begging and pleading for ohare to get on LaGuardia’s level

In Brooklyn for but 5 hours before I’m drinking a martini and describing the plot of the summer I turned pretty

Three sisters coming in Feb/March 2026

it is genuinely maddening to see pundits and reporters say things like “well trump has an advantage on crime” while the public consistently says “we think this guy sucks on crime”

i hate to be this girl because art cannot save us and most days it feels hellish and impossible to escape our ghoulish reality but i adapted one of my favorite plays and a group of my friends will read it out loud tonight and that's making it all bearable, for the time being

The Free Press reports Gaza's starving children have pre-existing condition of being bombed by Israel: defector.com/the-free-pre...

the thing not many people are saying about chekhov is that he was really hot

This is exactly--and I mean exactly--how Holocaust deniers have long discredited the Final Solution being a concerted effort & high-level order. "The Jews in the camps all died of typhoid outbreaks"

i have a disease where the only thing that gets me to write is listening to LCD Soundsystem really loud

really says something about the state of the world that on fanficiton.net no one has written fanfic of The Seagull but 89 sickos have written fanfic for Starlight Express.

This is kind of like being an adult talking to a person dressed as Mickey Mouse as if they’re actually Mickey Mouse but it’s also ethically and morally depraved

oh to sit and struggle and for it all to be for a screenplay

If you're using AI to write essays, eulogies, a text to your wife, I do think less of you as a person. Ceding your mental and creative abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and people should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.

everywhere in the world it’s the same: the state is a machine that produces borders, death and starvation, while the people reject it all to feed and support each other.

When Andrew Jackson sent Native Americans on the Trail of Tears, it was a policy choice. When the British diverted food away from the Irish during The Great Hunger, it was a policy choice. The starvation & death in Gaza is no different. This is a policy choice & our government is complicit in it.