Jeremy Forbing

It's profoundly saddening to read that AP will no longer be assigning or running book reviews because readers don't engage with them enough and they take too much effort to plan and assign. People complain about critics as gatekeepers; wait until all that's left is marketing.

I just saw a kindergarten mom in tears on TikTok because her child’s classroom wasn’t filled with rugs and lamps and bins full of fun things...

It’s important to understand what a state-funded classroom looks like versus a teacher-funded classroom. Your beef is with the state, not the teacher.

"More [white] babies, y'all" white supremacy got Kristi Noem a little carried away.

jesus christ what government agency uses a Fraktur-adjacent typeface unless they are sending the most blatant dog whistle of all time

When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in all the signifiers of literal 1940s Nazi Germany because lol nothing matters

I don’t know if Newsom, Shapiro and Rahm are idiots, but this is an idiotic strategy.

Crazy how the guy on the Epstein list is also the guy making sure you never see it.

SAVE AMERICA in a fascist ass font from an ICE ad

i think if they’re just straight up using the nazi fonts and stuff we can skip the rest of the big umberto eco list

Between a "No Other Land" crew mate filming himself being killed by a settler, to a journalist being killed by airstrikes he was covering minutes earlier, I'm not sure how much more televised Israel's genocide can be

AOL will end dial-up internet service in September, 34 years after its debut — AOL Shield Browser and AOL Dialer software will be shuttered on the same day But there remain a few options to plug in your 56K (or slower) screeching modem into.

TIL that you can still get dial up into AOL. For now.

Anas al-Sharif among five Al Jazeera journalists killed by Israel in Gaza Al Jazeera staff killed in targeted Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists near al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza City.

Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19

Murdered. The word is murdered.

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

Every day in LA they are #Resisting 💪🏽💙
This is yesterday, 8/9/2025
#Resist #CorruptAdministration #ReleaseEpsteinFiles

there are people on the ai boyfriend subreddit who are comparing their relationships to queer relationships and calling themselves a marginalized community

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email to me: Our disabled son has CP and bladder spasms so urologist is recommending Botox treatments and we read your article and are concerned about the presence of mRNA in the Botox. Is mRNA in all brands? How can we know if it is in there? Is there a safe brand you recommend? He has to have this so what do we do? Thanks

my reply: personally, i'd recommend you follow the advice of your doctor. but what do i know, i'm just a random person you emailed. I have no more formal education around botox than the author Naomi Wolf, whose advice I assume you were actually seeking. but since you emailed me, my suggestion is that you listen to your kid's urologist, who is a trained medical professional, rather than seeking out medical advice from someone with an english degree and a history of making significant errors in her research. best of luck!

a specific skill I've developed over the past ~20 years is crafting responses to emails sent to me, but intended for that other Naomi Wolf

Someone forgot to take down this webpage:

www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/v...

What if AI coddled your balls and told you how brilliant you were for writing that the Earth was flat? And then you finally present this absolute garbage fire of an AI approved paper to the public.

Me, personally... I'd like to hear what a dumb ass idea that was earlier on in the process.

Trump considering deploying up to 1,000 National Guard to D.C. The number of Guard who would be assigned is still in flux, the officials say, and most of the troops would likely be pulled from the D.C. National Guard.

Trump’s move to mobilize the National Guard against Americans in DC is another telltale sign of his authoritarian ambitions. But at some point signs of authoritarianism stop being signs and become symptoms of an autocratic regime. We’re far past that point now. www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/t...

Revealed preferences theory suggests that Wall Street executives value their ability to call their subordinates gay at approximately 8 trillion dollars

-He can punish them regardless of how low his approval numbers are
-There's no cost to caving; Democrats won't punish them for it later
-There's no higher authority to appeal to. Congress and courts are gone

Other people have responded to the main points...that D&D and in particular the "D&D lifestyle brand as a consumerist hobby" is expensive, but TRPGs by and large are very much not...but I'm going to add to this that most TRPGs, for the labor involved in their production, should be charging way more

really chilling to imagine nearly 400 people being arrested for quietly unrolling banners and sitting down in a public place.

1) They were built from the biggest heist of creative work in the history of the world.
2) They are misrepresenting themselves as knowledge oracles while simultaneously exploding the already huge threat of misinformation.
3) They're accelerating the climate crisis.

The reason people keep claiming that Republicans and other types of creepy religious freaks want to take away the vote for women is because they keep saying that's what they intend to do.

In TTRPGs, doing this would also reduce the "I have invented (mechanic first seen in 1984)" stuff.

When poets, pacifists and peaceful protesters are arrested while the far- right exercise their “freedom of speech” with Nazi salutes and hate slogans…

Kelly: "I had another situation here with a kid who was on his little league trip in a baseball tournament. Border Patrol pulls over the vehicle, identifies the brown kid, he winds up in lockup for a week...this isn't what the American people wanted and I don't think it's consistent with our values"

This movement is unfortunately much bigger than Pete Hegseth. Thread. bsky.app/profile/jenn...

Also, this.

This shit is hard and often unpleasant

bsky.app/profile/ihea...

Inside Instacart's Astro-Turf Group Opposing Worker Minimum Wage - Streetsblog New York City Instacart is trying everything to pressure the mayor to veto a bill that would require the company to pay its workers minimum wage.

Instacart is trying everything to pressure the mayor to veto a bill that would require the company to pay its workers a minimum wage.