Kendra James

This is a sharp contrast to this headline that found its way into my box in August and whose use of “necessary” has haunted me ever since.

The Free Press is free this week to coincide with the CBS announcement. The first newsletter from them this morning was a head/dek that pretty much any reasonable person could get behind. They’re gonna be posting their most reasonable content over the next week or so as bait. Warn your parents etc.

Thinking about when she said, of a Japanese-American figure skater, “immigrants: they get the job done” and when a bunch of people pointed out that she was American she pretended she meant her parents for some reason

Raye’s Where is My Husband is like Single Ladies from the POV of someone whose serial monogamist best friend is getting on their last nerve.

My tailbone is infected again. I would complain, but I was terrified this would happen while I was pregnant. It held off by 7 months, thank God.

Love to spend Saturday morning at my colorectal surgeon’s office 🥰

I listen to every album so I can be conversational, but also so that I can be further reassured that this lady just is not for me and that, yes, talent (or lack there of) continues to be a large part of that.

I just fundamentally find nothing interesting about her voice (the kindest way I can put it tbh), and I’m fully uninterested in her personal life so there is nothing here for me, I guess?

Like always there are a few songs that I won’t skip past when they come up on a playlist (I like Opalite, Hard, Life of a Showgirl) but also I could never hear these again and I would be fine.

Idk why I do this to myself with every new album. I listen multiple times thinking, hey, maybe this time I’ll get it. Or it’ll get me. Never happens.

Shutdown for What Podcast Episode · Hysteria · 10/02/2025 · 1h 31m

This episode of Hysteria was perfect, including the discussion of WTF is wrong with Ezra Klein

And also the clear discussion about how a lot of Trump’s strategy is about attacking Black women

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It’s 6:30 in the morning and We’re both awake playing Borderlands and trying to remember one other instance when we’ve ever heard a white person talk about “brown liquor.”

🗣️ YOUR TOYOTA RAV4 IS NOT A COMPACT CAR AND DOES NOT FIT IN A COMPACT PARKING SPOT. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.

One Battle After Another: I could not make heads or tails of the layout of a single structure —from shack to house to nunnery — in this movie. Five stars.

The usual surge of inspiration and confidence I get from Beyonce being outside did not last nearly as long as it usually does. Especially strange because she and Tom Cruise were outside at the same time this spring!!! I got nothing left.

Like even better would be a gesture that acknowledges she is living in the same reality that we are? But, ultimately, that lady is not who I go to for worldly guidance. Just give me the Cowboy Carter doc.

Not to rush her or anything but given, like… [gestures broadly] … everything??? I am approaching a dire need for a new piece of media to engage with from Beyoncé.

And this shit is why the majority of you will never see his face 🥰

Pediatrician: So how many minutes is he sitting up unassisted? 5? 10?

My baby, after 30min in a grocery store: And we better still be hitting Nordstrom Rack after this, where you *will* put me in the cart again. Bet.

From the FigureSkating community on Reddit: Alysa removed her program/costume announcement post from her insta Explore this post and more from the FigureSkating community

Alysa Liu had revealed a song with D4vid for her short on insta, and has now taken it down. Seems like given the news it might be related and for the best.

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Olympic season narratives and storytelling never fail me.

Possibly having to change your program music during an Olympics season because they found a decomposing body in the singer’s Tesla!!!!

my dad, yesterday: "I can't believe they're trying to make us mourn Charlie Puth like this when he was such a misogynist and racist."

I informed him Charlie Puth was innocent.

There's nothing really profound going on here. Trump is leading a fascist takeover. Business and media are for the most part enabling it.

We can defeat Trump but we need to be operating at a much bigger scale than we currently are. And the goal has to be to remove him from power. Before 2026.

Might as well say what you mean with your whole chest and stand ten toes down in it, because no matter how palatable to their heinous beliefs you try and make yourself they're still gonna work to systematically disappear you either way.

I feel ill.

They have a *major* leaking issue over there, to the point where I guess it could be intentional. But I feel like this happens every year.

I had not considered that branching off point! They need an in-house franchise/story manager to handle this stuff!!

So actually, this is what I assumed was possibly happening when I saw the deets for this doll. Mattel had announced a movie in dev after Barbie, and next year will be the 40th of the founding of the OG Pleasant Company.

For those not following closely, the new American Girl of the Year doll is named Raquel Reyes and — BIG NEWS — she is Samantha Parkington’s great-great granddaughter.