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submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

still working on this week's newsletter about the NEA and the ongoing moral crisis in arts fundraising, but we're kicking it off with a story about my mother you guys will love because TRY TO IMAGINE a school attempting this gambit in a post-MeToo world and thinking no one would be mad at them

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

Math is hard

submitted 5 days ago • 2027 comments

ok that Biden judge slapping down the DOJ over the trans military EO read so much like it was written by Aaron Sorkin that I in fact heard the quotes (especially the "does this count as prejudice against UVA" part) in Martin Sheen's voice, that's pretty badass

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

My Goblin Debutante regards me from her throne of choice

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I am a trans activist, and have been for 30 or so years. And not just the "this person is trans, and expects to not be treated like dogshit, so we'll call them an activist" type. I've never demanded people list their pronouns: I've only ever expected people to use mine.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

i am 100% of the belief that simply forcing take-writers to answer the question "who specifically said this and why are they significant" would result in substantially fewer bad takes circulating in the world

submitted 6 days ago • 177 comments

Door-to-door is the only way this gets broken up

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

I am begging people to stop using "degenerate" to insult people. It's a term the Nazis and eugenicist movement explicitly used to condemn those people groups they saw as inferior. It means, in that world, that one's genes are such that it is immoral for that person to reproduce.

submitted 8 days ago • 6 comments

Do you remember that time Pence tried to see Hamilton and the cast called him out. Or when McConnell was chased out of a resraurant and not allowed a peaceful meal. Or when Cruz abandoned Texas during the deep freeze and we shamed him into going home. That. Do that.

submitted 10 days ago • 510 comments

People keep talking about the Gulf of Mexico, and yes, that, but goddamn I am going to call it Denali until I die and you should, too.

submitted 10 days ago • 63 comments

we might get a bonus march situation soon enough

submitted 10 days ago • 240 comments

Proud to be one of the 350 rabbis signing this statement — an ad in the NYT today and a declaration of our values. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... For more—and to sign— go to saynotoethniccleansing.org

submitted 10 days ago • 788 comments

This is all a good reminder that, “no help, no votes until the criminal conduct stops” is neither a big ask nor a politically perilous one.

submitted 10 days ago • 315 comments

This

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

RFK JR IS NOT A VACCINE "SKEPTIC" HE IS A SCIENCE DENIER AND MURDERER

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

That’s basically all countries. This is the U.S. declaring a trade war on the entire world.

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

Sometimes when someone doesn't comment about the latest controversy it's because they've spent a month in the hospital with a family member and have to pretend everything is fine because they have a new book coming out. But feel free to send angry messages because they didn't share an opinion.

submitted 11 days ago • 134 comments

This is a dark turn; “prove yourself to the algorithm” leads nowhere good.

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

Musk killed these people.

submitted 12 days ago • 12 comments

Quick Survey If I were to say "The elevators in this building are salacious lobby elevators," would you have any clue what I might be talking about?

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Is there evidence that DOGE has obeyed this judicial order?

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

100% this, plus Milton Friedman hypnotizing the business world into believing his sociopathic Shareholder Theory, which held that a corporation's overriding responsibility was increasing shareholder value (as measured by stock price).

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

So, the rich insane billionaires don’t even think DOGE will succeed in creating Columbia, which is why they’re still trying to build Rapture

submitted 15 days ago • 5 comments

A lot of y'all out here throwing out the term "community" when you actually mean "coalition". Community implies a feeling of fellowship and trust. Someone who shares more in common than a single goal. I am not going to be in "community" with someone who just now realized that these are bad people

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

Kamala Harris was not planning an ethnic cleansing to pave the way for golf course courses… Both sides were never the same.

submitted 17 days ago • 1099 comments

pushback works, part infinity: apnews.com/article/immi...

submitted 20 days ago • 575 comments

‪ lmao sorry this is so fucked up??? I was using they/them pronouns when I started at the NYT in 2021 and when I left in 2022.

submitted 19 days ago • 125 comments

one of the defining features of the techbro dipshits now running the USA is their absolute refusal to consider that anyone, ever, has thought about problems before them time after time they come in, propose a solution that was rejected years ago because it's stupid, and call themselves geniuses

submitted 20 days ago • 198 comments

I propose that we refer to the staff at DOGE, especially the six operatives, as "The DOGE plumbers". The pattern of criminal personal loyalty is the same. I would also like to point out that the howling abyss that separates the real Elon from his self-perception reminds me of G. Gordon Liddy.

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

I'm going to say it again: Immigration is good, actually. There are no qualifications on this statement other than "don't be a comemierda" and that goes no matter what. "Legal" and "illegal" are artificial categories imposed by States with arbitrary rules, usually with suboptimal outcomes.

submitted 20 days ago • 24 comments

I know everyone has haters but today I discovered that Chappell Roan has haters who have chosen the "she can't sing" angle and look, I can't stand Tom Brady but you wouldn't catch me dead embarrassing myself by claiming in public that he's bad at football

submitted 20 days ago • 43 comments

Meanwhile Baldur’s Gate 3’s attitude is basically “your fucked up kinks are okay but don’t mix them with religion or politics”

submitted 21 days ago • 2 comments

Here's the question I'm trying to put into words tonight. With a trade warm and subsequent economic hell on earth, with nominees who still need to be fought back, and with all the fuckery Elon's gang is doing, how do we tell people that the stripping of trans rights is important to focus on?

submitted 21 days ago • 3 comments

Chappel Roan calling for a living wage for artists as basically her entire acceptance speech is one of the many reasons why she has earned my respect and adoration as a person beyond her music.

submitted 21 days ago • 2 comments

The best alt text I have ever seen

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments