(Adam Duritz voice): Maybe this year will be better than the last.

Especially with 1990's "Heaven or Las Vegas," Cocteau Twins was that rare marriage of profound and stylish.

Y’all might not appreciate it, but it took him 87 moves and 14 hours to get here

Fisherman's Worf

My father-in-law is watching a YouTube channel where a guy looks for and sometimes finds old silver dimes; his catchphrase is "it's dime time." As far as I'm concerned my father-in-law is the only person using YouTube properly.

many such cases

You must be Arha, or you must be Tenar. You cannot be both.

No one as unserious as cynics

Because Bari Weiss is an opportunistic political maneuverer, it probably doesn't get said clearly enough that she is also an astounding clod, in wildly over her head. The fact that she seems to have spiked this story without realizing this would happen tells you all you need to know about her.

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

Call me a dreamer but I think a president should have a soul.

MISERY exists in WHEN HARRY MET SALLY. WHEN HARRY MET SALLY exists in MISERY. Welcome to the Reinerverse.

One of the great failures of contemporary political news coverage in a lot of media is the unspoken principle that no violation of norms or decency by Trump is really news, worthy of sustained attention, unless it also upsets people who love him. It isn't "not taking the bait"; it's sleepwalking.

Al’s Under The L, 2908 West Lake Street

it's not just that I find it chilling to imagine Sam Altman wearing my dead mom's face in order to sell me ads it's that the way we ACTUALLY keep our lost loved ones alive requires a myriad of human skills these assholes perpetually devalue, like storytelling and deep emotional connection

The fact that we have super wealthy and extremely stupid people trying to set themselves up as new nobles has made historical nobility, which I only know from books, far more real to me. These people were not smart, they did not rule well, and rigid hierarchies of domination are very bad.

He liked the way she began her fierce, scornful sentences so often with a weak, conciliatory 'well.' She cut the ground out from under them before they ever got going, let them hang unsupported in the void. She had courage, great courage.

"Maybe I'm illiterate" is something too many writers wonder and not enough fascists wonder.

This is about Putin’s Russia. Tell me it doesn’t ring a bell. slate.com/culture/2025...

Tech bros shocked that normal human beings enjoy thinking

The owls are not what they seem

Love getting sweaty in formal attire for my middle seat in coach.

Even AI doesn't believe this dystopian slop that is reality

Giant squid too deep for these times

You can go home again, the General Temporal Theory asserts, so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.

given how checked out he is there's a real temptation in the second term to ascribe a lot of the most extreme remigration stuff to the various ghouls propping up this administration but he really is as vile and racist as they come

I believe a better world is possible

"My dad used to say good writing ain't necessarily good reading."― Ken Kesey

Brave, brave new world

Nuzzi is like Trump in this sense: the worst thing about America is not that someone that awful exists, the worst thing is that much of the press promotes and normalizes it for clicks.

Sometimes I like to think Empire was the only Star Wars movie ever made, and it was tragedy giving the lie to the heroic swagger that makes the rest of the movies more basic.

Dude who just got the SV Bank bailout two years ago is back banging the cup. It’s a tell.

happy Jair Bolsonaro got arrested after failing to cut off his ankle monitor day

Tyranny

He's only The Doctor and Cutlip to me.

I think there's a decent chance that the Pope visits Chicago during this presidency and while there asks to see Broadview and I wonder how that plays out.

One captain who new the true distance of the Delta Quadrant.

A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi. I hired and worked with Jamal for a year. www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...

Some snaps from inside James Merrill’s apartment. It’s pretty obvious a poet lived here

When this guy finally gets his chance, we must laugh as one nation in his face.

Oh. Hell. Yeah. Far South Side of Chicago, 9:14pm

Authoritarianism can only succeed when democracy fails to deliver for working people. Authoritarian parties can only succeed when the pro-democracy parties fail to fight for working people. We need a new democracy and a new party system which can represent working people.

Every time someone’s like “put that in the louvre,” my head now goes “and then steal it from the louvre, the security password is louvre”

Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

Bring irony back from the gulag.