Erik Gratton

reposting with a TW for graphic images of a cut finger lower in the thread

Fantastic thread of comments and quotes, I admit Speaker for the Dead was the first thought to hit my soft little head. Not much for his other books (maybe Wyrms, what a terrifying novella that is).

Zohran leads a RIDICULOUS pace for the Bus vs Pedestrian race on 34th St. God I love this town.

When you fire all the women and minorities from top jobs, and you will only hire white men who are willing to grovel to you on TV, turns out it's hard to fill out a government and you have to make your toadies take multiple jobs. A list:

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the eternal expansion of the surveillance state — now that vape detector in the bathroom can be used as a listening device

Being called a “moral absolutist” because you believe in equal rights.

There’s a common test-like reaction to hearing someone is a chef, and it’s exhausting.

I played Andrew Cuomo off-Broadway while he was being driven from public life the first time. The eleven o’ clock number was “I’ll be Back.” What a predictable moron, funded by even more predictable, dumber morons.

When I first moved to the city, my bar in Kingsbridge had a bartender that, once I became known a little and tolerated, advised me while I called for my messages on the pay phone: “hey Airick, yer not alone when yer on dat phone, awright?” Best establishment I ever darkened the door of.

The GOP members of the committee did not vote to advance the articles. We can’t pretend they were patriots.

Patient seeking care at NIH hospital detained by ICE NIH officials called immigration authorities after scrutinizing the patient’s identification presented to security at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center.

This is absolutely devastating - the NIH hospital called ICE about a patient on a patient seeking care.

Sadly, this is, yet, one of countless examples of health care settings being extensions of the carceral state.

As health care workers, it our duty to do no harm, to protect our patients.

My cancer journey taught me that there are just as many doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers who are sadists and lazy jerks as any other profession.

I grew up in KS, where public school teachers regularly preached their religion to my face as a child. This will be worse.

YouTube video by Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso David Mamet Has Left the Building | Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

Now available on Youtube, for better or worse.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Be62...

Look I'm not gonna sneeze at 200 grand, I wish I made that, but exactly zero voters are gonna buy the idea that Mamdani is living like Nero on that income in NYC.

Substack’s extremist ecosystem is flourishing The app's recent swastika push alert was just the tip of the iceberg.

NEW: Since giving NYT hacked info from a Nazi and sending a swastika push alert, Substack's extremism is in the spotlight again. An investigation finds Substack is a haven for newsletters dedicated to white supremacy—with the co-founders' blessing.

A collab between @katz.theracket.news and me:

One of my hobby horses is that we are about to see a forcible wholesale transition across the board from people invested in the status quo to people who have spent the first 40 or 50 years of their lives getting screwed by that status quo, and nobody seems aware of it.

Trump Directs Military to Target Foreign Drug Cartels

You’re about to get “Sicario” courtesy of “Wag the Dog” because Dumbfuck only learns from movies. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/u...

You don’t need a mask to make mask-work the wide base of your acting approach.

every seven years i break up with theatre

These are people who served honorably, were terminated wrongfully, and whose only crime is being trans.

“Unprovoked attacks” are kinda what bulls do. Growing up, each got his own pasture and one didn’t go in there without preparation and lots of distance. To do other is to do dumb.

Cicadas may be my favorite sound.

Now on Tubi!

CA Gov Gavin Newsom "Completely Aligns" With Charlie Kirk On Trans Issues In Podcast The California Governor, in the launch of his new podcast, announced that he completely aligned with far-right, anti-LGBTQ+ influencer Charlie Kirk on sports, and agreed on prisons and youth care.

Buttigieg and Newsom literally called to leave trans people behind

www.erininthemorning.com/p/ca-gov-gav...

This makes me furious and makes me wanna cry. Thank goodness the other ladies had her back — but more importantly, that Queen Latifah had the power to shut that bs down. #tvsky

I’ve never been able to afford tickets to the shows I perform in.

For Quayles, 'Kinder, Gentler' Rafting (Published 1989)

People are talking about how J.D. Vance had the Army Corps of Engineers reduce waterflow from a dam to make his little canoeing trip easier. He's not the first moron hayseed Vice President to do that. Dan Quayle had the Secret Service do the same thing for a whitewater rafting trip in 1989!

Low key one of the worst anbuses of power ever? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

An enormous pay raise for him these days. Fuck that guy.