Aaron Kashtan

“some people abuse SNAP” your soul is rotten

The book cover on the right is amazing. I thought it was an actual padlock.

Welp

No neede for expensyve consultinge firmes. Heere ys a planne for excellent higher education:

1) Hire manye facultye
2) Small class syzes
3) Emphasyze engagemente & delighte
4) Sustayne & cultivate a varietye of fieldes and disciplines, even currentlye unfashionable ones -- thys ys ed, not retail

books of THE ANNUAL MIGRATION OF CLOUDS and WE SPEAK THROUGH THE MOUNTAIN with a red banner reading PRIX JULIA VERLANGER 2025 on a table with other books

HEY

THEY ANNOUNCED THE PRIZE BEFORE THE ACTUAL CEREMONY

LE HOLY CRAP I WON THE JULIA VERLANGER PRIZE

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and let me know if you have any questions! 🤗

Tolkien understood masculinity to a level Elon Musk and fascist tech bros can NEVER understand.

All the shit they do in Call of Duty he did for real in the mud and blood of the Western Front.

He came out of that rejecting all of the macho bullshit they claim it teaches you.

Fuck 'em.

Tolkien fought in the Battle of the Somme. He saw the horrors of war, and the moments of bravery and fear within it up close.

And after all that. ALL that. He wrote Lord of the Rings. He declared true bravery and masculinity to be love, friendship and humbleness.

Musk is everything he hated.

Let’s be real: approximately ten seconds after you told Tolkien that Catholics couldn’t go to Mass because they were afraid of being disappeared by agents of the government, he’d be out there protesting.

I'm shaking almost too hard to type. I entered SLC airport and heard screams and cries for help. I could see people gathered around, watching. I sped over to discover this woman face down on the floor, four grown men pushing her down, while she cried "HELP ME" and pled for her child.

[putting up halloween decorations]

spider who lives is my hallway: THIS IS GENTRIFICATION

Pennsylvania has an important Supreme Court race coming up on Tuesday, November 4. If you live in the Keystone State, or know someone who does, vote YES to retain three justices who will protect your fundamental rights and freedoms.

BREAKING: We're suing North Carolina over its congressional map that disenfranchises Black voters in the state.

The newly passed map shifts thousands of Black voters out of their communities of representation.

Wow this white dude really just came into a courtroom on an order of protection case (not mine) and told the judge he's going to hit his partner as much as he wants because she's his property.

The judge told him to stop, read him his rights, and then he told the judge to stop being woke. 😶

I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.

This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.

This man has never read a single book in his life and yet bases his whole public persona on being a superfan, it is the most pathetic thing

I thought kith were the villains from C.J. Cherryh's Chanur series.

"Kith" is the word to describe people who you are close to (friends, neighbors) who are not necessarily related to you genetically. Thus the phrase, "kith and kin." And yeah, a lot of them you might call "aunt(ie)" or "uncle" or "cousin."

Note: This is me — I asked this question.

You’ll hear me say “yes you have” here — because Johnson was already *directly asked* about one of these instances (when the Presbyterian minister was shot in the head with a pepper ball) in one of earlier shutdown press conferences.

Struggling to imagine the chutzpah it takes to say that someone "doesn't understand New York culture" because they're an immigrant.

A group of elected officials and journalists gathered outside a bodega for a press conference. Zohran is at the podium.

In so many ways, the vibrancy of our city can be judged by the health of our bodegas.

That’s why I’m so proud to be in the Bronx this morning to accept the endorsement of the United Bodegas of America.

He’s even worse than that, he simply has no morals or principals at all. This is a guy who would smile for a photo op at a lynching if he thought it would give him a tiny bit more power than the alternative.

Who is his wife and in-laws again? Do they not speak a different language and are of a different culture? JFC this guy is such a racist scumbag who married a nonwhite women and has nonwhite kids and this is how he thinks? Can’t make this stuff up.

i do think vance is mostly just regurgitating the half remembered ideas of dead slaveholder extremists but also this gives off the unmistakable scent of “i’ll say whatever you hogs want me to say,” which is fitting coming from america’s premier hogman

Yes, his real name was William Burnside, though this wasn't revealed until long after his introduction. And he was initially supposed to have been the same character as the original Captain America, but he was later established as a different character. It's complicated.

CNN is reporting that @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social referred to a voter he was meeting as “my man” at a campaign event today, even though the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution has made it illegal to own human beings since 1865 and remains the law in states including New York

Zohran Mandani caught lying that Captain America's real name is Steve Rogers, when everyone knows that there have been at least ten different characters who used the Captain America title, and only two of them were named Steve Rogers.

Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood the differences between が and は, yet when pressed he said they both served as topic markers while failing to see the nuance between subject and topic marker, as well as contextual clarity provided by postposition particles.

BREAKING: A federal judge says L.A.-based US attorney Bill ESSAYLI has been acting in the role unlawfully since July, declaring him disqualified from the position. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I should’ve learned this by now but DO NOT use FedEx. The diseased monkeys I ordered haven’t arrived and I can’t get a straight answer on what happened to them