This isn’t really about Today’s Thing, but if you are a journalist you are either explicitly a leftwing activist or you are default serving the right. Neutral is rightwing we count those.

I once saw Stephen Hawking rolling around with his entourage in Cambridge, MA on a Friday night. I (unfortunately) drunkenly yelled, “HEY ARE THERE INFINITE UNIVERSES?!” He ignored me, but I like to think that was just his way of saying yes.

The same night Kamala Harris lost, a Jewish woman won a Senate seat in Michigan and a lesbian won re-election in Wisconsin. And a straight white Catholic guy named Bob Casey lost re-election in Pennsylvania when everyone (myself included) thought he was unbeatable.

All lies in jest But the itchy skin Is flaking off my chest Hm-hm-hm Hm hm hm hm

I am just a poor boy Though my story's seldom told I am scratching at my torso For a moment of relief It’s plaque psoriasis

The video is about Israel’s continued war crimes in Lebanon. This shit is going to break me.

Fighting gangs of mutants but also crippling brain zaps.

Kitchen table issues but I’m using mine to build a guillotine.

defund and abolish were, are, and will be winning messages.

Today I was reminded how many liberals can be brought left with a hard nudge and some love. If nothing else, protests are a reminder that our job, every day, is to organize the people around us. They’re ready for it. They want it. Go lead them.

I like protests. Even if non-violence is of limited efficacy at this stage, collective action and collective expression are important. Standing together is literally the least we can do. But we have got to think of better names for these things.

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1 Just passed through security at La Guardia. ICE entirely doing security! 100% of ID and identity checks done by ICE…Truly icky and dystopian. Some thoughts.

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physical copies of the washington post can be shredded, combined with bisquick and baked to make delicious and informative newsmuffins

dinner dies in darkness

gobstopper but it’s a cyanide capsule

less of that, more of this

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He was living a lie

I’m going to lie down and try very very hard to not think about things. Goodnight. ❤️

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My favorite Duolingo buddy, with whom I pretty much always have a friend quest going, hasn’t logged in for a month. I’m sure it’s nothing. He’s fine! But of course I am consumed with worry. I don’t even know this person, but he matters. I’m a ball of anxiety. Hi.

If you look at medical advice subreddits as a real-time indicator of our collective state (and I do!), America is covered in a mysterious rash and shitting blood.

[yelling over club music] I said death is the loss of future love

can’t stop laughing because earlier I imagined someone bitterly saying “you’ll rue this week!”

acab includes people who say “you do the math”

“You wanna screw with us? Well, fine. You can screw with us, but, when we catch you, we'll make you pay for it! It's the leaving the whole calling card thing." People can change. But if you genuinely believe this guy went from Blackwater in 2019 to The One True Lefism now, you’re a fucking mark.

If the funniest insult you can think of is that someone is gay, or a woman, or different, you’re just bad at comedy.

for all the media this guy does and considering he's the frontrunner it would be nice if a journalist read this back to him and asked "why is this funny to you"

Do you want a candidate who's just as offensive as Trump but also doesn't believe in anything? WELL you're in luck.

Baseball is back!

MLB’s Korean marketing slogan used to be “It’s big ball chunky time”, and I will never stop thinking about it

ice ice babies

Hey Politico, the word "skeptic" should be replaced with "conspiracy loon." I would hope that you wouldn't say that there are "flat earth skeptics." Or does Kennedy get the word "skeptic" because you need access to him and don't want to call him what he is?

Shut the fuck up

You’re going to become fixated on this eye look, and so I’ll preemptively help you out by letting you know all the makeup was by Shiseido. It’s likely that the blue shade shown was from the 2013 Lido shadow trio. Any midtone shimmery teal or cornflower should work depending on your coloring.

a perfect bluesky exchange

Turns out the 9-9-9 challenge box the Giants and five other MLB teams are selling this season is a bit of a rip-off. I know, a ballpark concession item isn't worth the price. I'm as shocked as you all are. www.sfgate.com/giants/artic...

I am very proud to say that I worked for months as an expert witness on this case. I am very pleased by the outcome.

Gang. GANG. Here's that Ghanian bootleg Cheers artwork you were looking for.

I thought it was "TV shows about books about baby wizards are exempt from moral analysis" but I could be wrong, I slept in

Willard Scott isn’t around, but thankfully Today had Al Roker wish Gene a happy 100th this morning. Truly an icon.

So today’s discourse is that there’s a level of antisemitism that’s completely acceptable as long as you’re drawing attention to serious issues. Do I have that right?