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Senior culture writer, Salon.com. Formerly Bitch Media. Forever fan of print magazines. Tell your dog I said hello.
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thinking again about this 2018 cover

The courts are powerless to stop the warrantless arrest and disappearance of people in our workplaces, schools, and even courthouses themselves, but are sovereign over your access to healthcare, and the decisions you make about your own body and life. Remember this when they demand your respect.

I would have been a hard no after the whole puppy-murder thing. I guess senators are just built different (extremely derogatory)

since younger people are asking how shockingly stupid things were in 2003, may I present to you this circa-03 sign that I bought from a local restaurant and their (unrelated) going out of business sale a few years later

Women are lagging behind on going bankrupt on DraftKings, drinking themselves to death, and fist-fighting anyone who looks at them funny on the subway but they can catch up.

Saw today’s miserable ruling from the nasty freaks at SCOTUS and I am once again tapping the sign

New in PN: Judge rules that anti-woke is just racism “'I’ve never seen a record where racial discrimination was so palpable,' Judge Young fumed. 'I’ve sat on this bench now for 40 years. I’ve never seen government racial discrimination like this.' *More of this, please*"

ny times reporters love adding a "bluesky is going to hate this article!" addendum on here because they both resent criticism and resent having to post their work on the only platform that doesn't throttle outbound traffic lol

When Trump finally dies there will be calls for civility and “respect for the office” from even his harshest critics and I’m telling you right now I plan on saying things so harsh they might knock the earth off its axis

I’m not ranking him in my heart

RIP to Nina, a woman who "in the 1970s repudiated the widely-held and unfounded belief that women could not and should not run such races of 26.2 miles." People literally claimed that our uteruses would fall out. The 1,500, just short of a mile, wasn’t added to the Olympics until 1972

A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend” Full emails below

HELL YES INDEPENDENT MEDIA 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Melissa Hortman and her husband were volunteers for Helping Paws, which trains potential service dogs. Please consider joining me to make a donation in their (and Gilbert’s) memory: helpingpaws.org

Before you do a damn thing anyone on here is suggesting you do, as someone who teaches an entire class in media disinformation, do one thing: look to see of they are click-grifters, or coming from a place of genuine expertise rooted in years of experience. Ask yourself who benefits: you, or them?

I just saw a dude who follows me reply to a woman columnist's (spot-on) critique of that awful liz bruenig article by saying "maybe you just don't like the philosophical mode of debate" and I blocked him so hard I may have cracked my screen

The Atlantic should be ashamed of publishing this nightmare piece from Liz Bruenig, whose callous dismissal of Adriana Smith's dignity is one of the most shocking things I've ever read.

I don't think I've ever felt more like burning it all down than I have while witnessing the elite project to turn Zohran Mamdani and Brad Lander into scary, incompetent monsters while turning an actual incompetent monster, Andrew Cuomo, into a merely complicated fellow who just made an oopsie.

I love all the handwringing about Zohran’s lack of experience when a 19 year-old called Big Balls has recently been made a permanent federal employee with the title Senior Advisor at the GS-15 pay grade in the General Services Administration.

Expect this photo and this man to be made a hero by weird little guys who will follow in his footsteps like the previous weird little guys that are a certain demographic, support a certain political party and voted for a certain candidate yet are still called lone wolves.

I think a lot about how the US trained Timothy McVeigh to be a highly efficient killing machine

i would simply invent a spiraling that is upward

oh my god take my money

This is a piece on the Substack of the CEO of FIRE written by a FIRE's special consul for college campuses. This is a "free speech" organization literally taking Trump's side in its efforts to attack free expression at a university even though they believe the university is legally right.

dad (looking out the window at the apocalypse): really comin down out there

I know a lot of folks like this account. But this is a wild, and unhelpful, exaggeration--it's a resistance version of sean spicer. It veers into #resistanceporn and trades accuracy for clout, like other "blue maga" grifters on here. Pls consider finding other sources of inspiration/news/motivation

The gunman no doubt thought of himself as a good person, as someone who was pro-life, but his ideology brought him to a place where he shot 17 bullets into a couple who got into politics to help get health insurance for his daughter, who has spina bifida.

Wild that there are so many pearl-clutching takes on why Bluesky is Bad for Discourse when Quora has been right there belching up absolute derangement for more than a decade

I just interrogated a Cuomo canvasser for 5 minutes at the 7th Ave fair and he got so embarrassed he left his post outside a polling location

People will tell you that they view property destruction as equivalent to violence against a person, but that's not true. They think property destruction is worse

This rundown of the factors leading to political violence "from all stripes" is one of the worst paragraphs I have ever read.

I'm loving all the videos of yesterday's protest but especially this wedding party that decided to join in

today we celebrate "some kings day"

Interview the squeaky tank you cowards

um actually it’s “fewer-lethal”

“But there’s no ask channeling them into more sustained organizing!” Then YOU show up. Make some flyers, talk to people, invite them to a meeting, set up coffee for a 1:1 to find out how they want to get more involved. Do the work the normie libs supposedly aren’t if you think it needs doing so bad

Underneath all of those articles is a deep fury that Bluesky punishes instead of rewarding lazy and/or hostile engagement farming. Try to build a following here with trolling and slurs and you'll find yourself in a ghost town. To them that is simply intolerable.

Ben Shapiro getting all upset at the parade coverage as though he isn't used to taking part in activities where no one comes

Genie: ok what do you want for your birthday Trump: a military parade, oh, and also millions of people on the street chanting my name Genie: okie dokie

the fact that they’re just playing instrumental versions of radio rock, rather than military bands or marching bands or whatever makes this whole thing so fucking farcical, like, van halen’s jump *is not meant to be instrumental*, ahahahahahahaha

Portland playing the classics

has that dude had his little birthday boy tank man parade yet? it’s hard to tell because the only thing the news is showing right now is how much people around the country hate him

I could find more people in the well in my backyard I've said too much

wracking my brains to think of someone who would have had access to a police uniform, a police-issue plate carrier, and a police car

To those who still somehow say you’re overreacting to say we are far past the point of historic crisis, go back to summer 2024 and say that in less than a year the president of the United States would be deploying the literal Marines on American soil to deal with and intimidate his political enemies

I feel like I have a fist pressing down on my brain 24/7

Reminder: You don't actually need to even throw a brick at cops for cops to say you threw a brick at them