Screenshot of New York Times including the sentence “As one savings bank officer said, ‘we’re selling the wheel and calling it a shmerd.’”

This doesn’t have anything to do with fascism, but my choice for word of the day from the New York Times, October 16, 1975, is “schmerd.”

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Small cardboard box displaying expiration date of 20 March 2018

Would this be considered hitting rock bottom? Drinking instant coffee that expired in 2018.

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What can I do to fight this coup? If you look, there are people resisting at every level. Blockades of freeways. American Bar Association urging an end to...

I like this. It's useful. Thanks to @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

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