Anya Meksin

Books for adults should have a little patch of something on the cover so you can see what it feels like to touch the protagonist

“Incoming Health Czar RFK, Jr. to Suspend Early Childhood Vaccinations in Favor of ‘Putting the Lime in the Coconut, Drinking Them Both Up’”

Someone should start a salt lick craze. There should be a startup with hip branding and an app selling high-end salt licks for people to carry around and lick while waiting in line or hanging. It should be revealed later that the licks are contaminated with toxic heavy metals.

Canceled prime, haven’t used it for months

Last night was the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British troops.

I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III.

Remind you of anyone?

Can’t stress enough just how much harder than this the ethical questions will get in the days ahead

The 10% tariff alone is a $2500 per household annual tax hike!

@rappler.bsky.social
Some photos of the Hands Off Protest in LA today

Just a reminder that Grubhub is a Bezos/Amazon joint. Delete your Grubhub app and leave them behind. 🙏💙

WATCH LIVE: Sen. Cory Booker protests Trump’s agenda in marathon Senate speech YouTube video by PBS NewsHour

Hero

Excellent work by new NYT headline writer Werner Herzog

*New Yorker drinking from the River Lethe* “Fuggedaboutit…”

#NewYorkerCartoonCaptionContest

Went to a birthday party for a dog. LA achievement unlocked.

When you realize you forgot to remove Jeffrey Goldberg from the war chat

You should demand immediate resignation.

No matter how things shake out, story of these months is the complete and utter capitulation of American institutions—law firms, universities, Democratic party, etc.—to authoritarianism at a speed and willingness that far outpaces what we've seen in other countries. Puts the whole country to shame.

"The gates of hell are open night and day;
Smooth the descent, and easy is the way:
But to return, and view the cheerful skies,
In this the task and mighty labor lies."

-- Virgil, The Aeneid, Book 6, lines 126f (tr. Dryden)

2014 2025

there’s no way to exaggerate the dangerous depravity of a President & his henchmen claiming to be “fighting antisemitism” to justify a jackboot crackdown on constitutional rights & freedoms while embracing Nazism to the point that the President even claims authority to declare who is or isn’t Jewish

Just saw a guy wearing both a “Fuck You You Fucking Fuck” t-shirt *and* a “Fuck You You Fucking Fuck” hat, and I gotta say, it was a little matchy-matchy

In Soviet America, dog puts YOU down

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Ides of March is coming. Would love to see some enterprising souls make that a thing again.

I was about to breastfeed my baby and said “time for a stroll down mammary lane” and it’s my highest achievement as a writer

#teslatakedown

#Amazon boycott starts tomorrow! For this whole week (but forever is better)