Ram Rayburn

Gomna meet up with some white Tunisians tonight don’t call me

At Starbucks they call it a tall even though it’s the smallest size. They do this to demoralize you

Students imagine there is a homework burning machine that powers the school. Completed problems sets and essays must be added as fuel every day, otherwise the lights go off

We hear about how pro-immigrant side is extreme. There is literally nothing more extreme than this statement. Being willing to sacrifice the country’s foundations for an evil goal

Yay! Structuring!

Man speaks to killer from beyond the grave in Arizona courtroom through Al video

I’m seeing a lot of outrage about this story but honestly it’s preferable to the old way of doing this which was both disrespectful of the deceased and traumatising for the puppeteer

nathan fielder (narrating): in order to better understand airline captains, i have to know what it means to lead. so i spent the last year in disguise as an italian cardinal named pizzaballa with a plan to get elected pope in the next conclave. i recreated the sistine chapel in a studio warehouse,

My complaints about Spotify Discover Weekly

-Release them earlier so I can explore the playlist on Sunday evening

-The week went by too quickly, where does all the time go

Mahmoud Khalil's Wife Delivers Firstborn After ICE Denies Furlough Request The pro-Palestinian activist's wife, Dr. Noor Abdalla, said "ICE and the Trump administration have stolen these precious moments from our family."

Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University grad student + pro-Palestinian activist who Trump sent to a remote Louisiana detention center, misses son's birth after ICE official denies his request to be there www.huffpost.com/entry/mahmou...

He was a fucking kid

I do not have time to explore music on Mondays. Spotify needs to release Discover Weekly on Sundays instead

During our Red Scare lesson I heard students asking each other

“have you ever kissed a communist lesbian? Have you ever held hands with a gay communist?”

“This is like the Rice purity test”

He runs our government like a mob boss. Do not give him anything! Do not indent yourself to him even a little bit!

Sounds like respecting of the establishment of a religion to me

I had the first good Discover Weekly playlist in a long time so now I’m using Spotify very carefully and exploratively to get another week this good

Vibes panopticon

Someone should let the business community know that impeaching and removing Trump would lead to a Republican president still in power

scores of pissed off Mormon CIA agents who just got canned are ideologically cross-pollinating with platoons of fired trans FBI agents. we are on the verge of new types of politics our ancestors could only dream about

Matt Yglesias doesn’t hit the mark every time, and sometimes is a contrarian to his detriment, but I think the Slow Boring newsletter is worth a read

Andrew Tate and brother leave Romania for US after travel ban lifted Self-styled ‘misogynist influencer’ and brother Tristan had been banned from leaving Romania since December 2023

Rape and support for rapists are now key aspects of U.S federal government policy.

www.theguardian.com/news/2025/fe...

Rewatched a few clips of Shōgun and goddamn it is so good, better than I remember

The thing about American reactionaries online is that they’re like “under a true Christian monarch, the West will flourish with the enlightened guidance of a philosopher king…” and it’s meant to justify supporting a senile gameshow host and a drug-addled manchild who cheats at Diablo.

I don’t just think we’ll abandon Taiwan to the CCP. I also think we’ll deny Taiwanese refugees (even TSMC engineers) entry to the country

BUT there’s a new candidate in the mix. Saikat Chakrabarti, who was AOC’s chief of staff and wrote the green new deal, is running against Pelosi directly

Progressive candidates have done poorly against Pelosi in previous elections, but this entrance shakes everything up

My biggest district to watch for 2026 and beyond is CA-11, Nancy Pelosi’s seat

Until recently, everyone was waiting for Pelosi to step down. It looked like a potential three way race between Christine Pelosi, head of the WFP activist Jane Kim, and America’s best state legislator Scott Weiner (1/2)

Grading papers and unit exams for my civics/history hybrid class. Kids are describing Andrew Johnson as a public drunk in almost all of the short answer questions, even though that’s not necessarily the question

Feels like I’ve done my job here

I don’t think it’s constructive to complain about someone or an institution being late to the party. I’m glad the Times seems to be pushing back