Mollie Wilson O'Reilly

D r a m a !!

I was totally blindsided by some Fox-watching relatives' complaining about Clark not being on Team USA. They didn't watch women's sports and didn't care about the Olympics, but they knew there was a white girl being denied something. That was my first whiff of this whole rancid discourse.

*White* women athletes! The conservative-media discourse around Clark is patronizing AND racist, a perfect storm of gross

‘I didn’t sign up to be exploited’: NYC Teaching Fellows await payment for summer training Teaching fellows across the city said they have struggled to pay their bills even as they worked long hours.

Nearly 1,000 NYC Teaching Fellows completed 7 weeks of full-time training — but haven’t received their promised $4,500 stipends. Some are borrowing money or using credit cards just to get by. The DOE says payments are coming, but delays continue with no clear explanation.

Melamine tray with a central image of a puffin and a border with images of fish and flowers, all very pleasingly colored and arranged.

I also bought this tray. @pigeonpost.cafe has me wishing I still lived in town!

Bought one of these today. I am SO EXCITED to hang it in my home 😍🐦🐦‍⬛🎶

A rich text, but my favorite thing is Trump doing the "Why does HE get to say it" routine with "tha God"

I LOVE this movie. Shirley MacLaine will break your freaking heart. So so good.

If you’ll recall, the “antisemitism” at UCLA involved primarily campus police allowing Zionist counter protesters to attack the pro-Palestinian camps (incl. many Jewish participants) while they did nothing, and arresting the anti-genocide students & faculty afterwards.

Oh nooooooo

If you're ruthless for the right, you get money put behind you. If you're ruthless for the left, you get money put against you.

America First Legal got >$50 million in funding. A left version of the same would get attacked by Dem orgs and donors, and everyone associated with it blacklisted forever.

anytime you make a post about how people should stop using Spotify because it fucking sucks, someone pops in from from the Discover feed about how there's no alternative and ignores that you can just buy music or use another streaming service that isn't doing this shit. Anyway, stop using Spotify

Obviously you should be impeached for firing jobs stats people for reporting jobs stats

There are a few people quote-posting this 3 month old prediction from ‪@espiers.bsky.social‬. I have fired them all.

Old enough to remember that the case against both Hillary and Kamala was that they’d start WWIII

My top 10 all came from seeing "The Minecraft Movie" shortly after it came out, in a theater full of middle-school-aged boys. I was NOT prepared.

Trump's unofficial campaign slogan was always "Make it 1987 again through executive order or Sharpie"

Submitting an op-ed pitch to the NYT demanding to know why Mamdani allowed this to happen

It's Don't Argue Inside Your Head With Other People Friday. Today, if you find yrself arguing inside yr head w/someone who's not present, gently move your mind away. Do this as many times as you need--changing your position or location, if possible, can help.

Mr. Digre's company has long manufactured speakers in Minnesota for export, including to a major customer in Canada. His firm relies on certain materials from China, the only place to get many small components needed for speakers. But Mr. Digre must now pay a 55 percent tariff on those Chinese imports. As a result, manufacturing for that customer from the United States no longer makes sense. So Mr. Digre has shifted speaker production to a factory in China, where he will export directly to Canada and bypass the United States entirely.

Read this paragraph, please.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/b...

Flashing back to "Bush kept us safe!" as a talking point in the 2004 election, because, well, AFTER 9/11 there were no other major-casualty terror attacks in the U.S., and therefore it would be dangerous to put someone else in charge...

Impact potential for Moderate Risk Area: These probabilities listed above serve as signals in ensemble guidance that highlight the potential for significant flash flooding throughout the country, let alone over a highly populated urban corridor. Given the atmospheric parameters in place, it is possible that the Mid- Atlantic I-95 corridor witnesses thunderstorms that produce rainfall rates up to 3"/hr, with perhaps the most intense storms potentially generating 2" rainfall totals in as little as 30 minutes. QPF may seem light at first glance given the hourly rainfall rate potential, but this is largely due to lingering uncertainty in the placement of the heaviest rainfall. Many individual convective models show localized totals surpassing 5" with even some localized maxima approaching 8". Residents in the Mid-Atlantic should ensure they have reliable means of receiving warnings issued by their local WFOs throughout the day and into Thursday night.

Heads up for a potentially major flash flooding event today between DC to NYC, including Baltimore, Philadelphia, and most of New Jersey.

Rain rates of 2-3"/hour and 5-8" total are possible — even likely.
www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/qpf/ero.php?...

Is it time to re-run the "Ground Zero Mosque" panic already?

Yeah, this is really heinous.

I regret to inform you that the grade-school generation has learned to do a thing where they cut off their voice mid-utterance in imitation of an abrupt cut in an online video. This is how they make their little jokes. At least, it's happening in my house. Fellow parents?

I really struggle to see any implications of the Park Avenue shooting for New York City‘s municipal policymaking.

Solidarity & Rapid Response: a 2-part training on showing up for immigrant communities · Showing Up for Racial Justice Across the country, immigrant communities are under attack and authoritarian forces are gaining ground. But there’s a growing movement of people ready to take action with clarity, courage, and discipl...

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Excited for this!!

Opinion | Democrats, This Is Our Moment to Lead. We Can’t Blow It.

The Democratic establishment confuses triangulation with leadership and treats stability as a virtue in and of itself. There’s a chasm between what we say and what we deliver. We continue asking voters to show up while we refuse to show up for them.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/o...