Kate Harding

I just deleted two snarky skeets in a row, so Santa'd better be watching.

Our illiterate ungovernable Nazi cops will have shiny badges and new uniforms, that is the democratic promise

same, but offense

Yesterday I tried to put everything I knew about whistles—where to get them, where to get instruction sheets, how to distro—into one place so you can build off it for your own community's whistle needs: dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...

evergreen

A cropped screenshot from a Canadian government website with the prompt "What's your occupation?" The answer "Writer" has been provided, generating the red text error response "Please enter a valid occupation."

Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.

trying to start a moral panic and the stories are all like “the ADHD meds really helped but didn’t solve everything”

At some point, you have to conclude the university shares his views on women.

Possibly unpopular opinion but I think tenure should be revokable when you express bigotry toward the immutable characteristics of part of your student body. Such as saying women are naturally not as good at science and engineering. How many young women students has he harmed since saying that?

anyway; looking forward to WaPo issuing a statement retroactively firing Jamal Khashoggi for getting murdered in a way that inconvenienced President Trump.

is it subjective to call him a traitor if he keeps doing treasonous shit

Graphic from New York Times Cooking: How Joan Didion Did Thanksgiving. Features Joan Didion, a grown woman in pigtails, standing at a stove.

Perhaps no one I trust less for cooking advice.

I lost a job for calling Charlie Kirk a Nazi, but this is cool.

A pair of snowy owls on the coast of Chicago

mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one

Authoritarianism arrives with emails like this. The masked brute squad may or may not accost you later, be sure to carry your papers.

Spice up Thanksgiving by showing this to your relatives who believe those who immigrated "the right way" will be fine.

The cache of emails includes exchanges about going to dinner at Rao's, the uptown Italian restaurant where it was famously hard to get a table, and an invitation for Mr. Epstein to the 25th anniversary party for The New York Observer (it was a weekly paper, printed on salmon-colored newsprint and read by the city's elite) at the Four Seasons restaurant (where the elite once power-lunched; it's now closed) co-hosted by Michael Bloomberg (he was the mayor) and Jared Kushner (who owned The Observer). The guest list included Matt Lauer and Harvey Weinstein. You've probably heard about what happened with them.

When you write the whole piece around the idea of “MeToo” as an adequate description of what caused specific men to lose specific positions, and when you do this incredibly weird cutesy business to avoid *mentioning what happened*, you do a disservice to readers.

And all the displaced people should probably get a ton of money for their trouble.

I agree that Noem should resign and be criminally charged (I mean, I’d prefer several other things, but I would settle for that) but I think it’s important to say that there’s no number of resulting arrests that would make this raid defensible or any less of a heinous moral atrocity

The difference between the sociopathic and non-sociopathic takes is really quite stark

I know many of us are tired, scared & angry. When you can, if you can, channel that into doing what you can to help. Every day it's more clear the only ones who are going to save us ... are us.

Whenever you start to say "people should do x," it's you. You're "people." We're "people." It's just us.

If there’s one thing I wish I could pound into ppl’s heads it’s that schools known for research are not focused on undergraduate teaching.

What Happens When an Empire Falls? This Novel Has Some Ideas.

in the actual real world secret police are disappearing americans on behalf of an openly white nationalist government but george packer’s latest is a novel about a world beset by woke totalitarianism

Ideally we’d catch pedophiles before their 79th birthday and wayyyyyy before they become President.

i’d be more comfortable with the olivia nuzzi coverage if every story was headlined something like “seduced by a guy who eats roadkill: the story of an extremely stupid lady”

Sharon Camp, Mother of the ‘Plan B’ Contraceptive Pill, Dies at 81

Anyone who’s ever used emergency contraception or gains peace of mind by even having it on hand owes Dr Camp a debt of gratitude. What a force.

(Also, I just learned one reason the FDA rejected it at first was that they said the name Plan B was too glib!)

Great obit—no paywall.

In addition to the fact that it's very much the power imbalance and legal responsibility to protect them that makes them children, it's also disturbing that so many people are willingly like "listen, 15 year olds are hot, and that's a fact." They are children. They look like children.

Oh buddy, you fucking earned it.