Rachel Kambury

usually if you ask experts why an empire fell they’ll say it’s nuanced and multifaceted, so i think it’s kind of cool that with America future historians will get to just say like “oh they took the idiot train to moronsville”

Who could have foreseen

Long lines, delays at New Orleans airport amid apparent TSA sickout and government shutdown The New Orleans airport was plagued by security lines that stretched through multiple floors of the building and into the parking garage Sunday morning amid an apparent Transportation Security Adminis...

Nola newspaper is reporting a “sickout” by TSA workers who are working with no pay, though there is no official confirmation of a strike or similar action (as you would expect since strikes are illegal).
Good.

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THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie War is the force that gives Pete Hegseth meaning

if pete hegseth doesn't do war crimes he can't shoot youtu.be/EJjkdEOnC_M

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

I agree with this, but I also feel like Gaza has shown us how dehumanized our concept of “personhood” has become anyway, which means people conferring personhood on LLMs (and intelligence on artificial “intelligence”) to be, if alarming and repulsive, consistent.

Hazing or "dedovshchina (дедовщина)" is central to the Russian Army.

It produces terrible men and even worse soldiers. It is a scourge on the army, on Russian society, and on their victims.

Cruelty never makes anyone better, and few enabling environments for it that start playful stay that way.

Having some of the most thoroughly redacted thoughts of my life.

Lidia Terrazas on Instagram: "BREAKING NEWS OUT OF DILLEY 🚨" 3,097 likes, 112 comments - lidiaterrazasnews on March 7, 2026: "BREAKING NEWS OUT OF DILLEY 🚨".

This is another deaf child who has been kidnapped by ICE, along with her mother and sibling - 12 yo Anyeli Valentina Quintero. At the moment, she is believed to be in one of the ICE warehouses in Arizona.
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We are at AWP today through Saturday. Stop by to hear about new initiatives at The Rumpus, our redesign, buy amazing books from my imprint and merch and also we have candy and swag! Booth 1240.

I just had someone try the “you should be nicer to me because I follow you” response and I really think if you say that to a woman online, you are admitting you have dehumanised her enough to feel entitled to her kindness no matter how you behave with her.

If you have a union, when your boss does this you are allowed to knock him out and leave him splayed on the clean kitchen floor. Unionize your workplace today.

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Great news! This still exists. There are still <squinting at image> normal playgrounds and parks. I did this with my kid today. Does this mean we can call off the apocalyptic pedophile cabal

Pete Hegseth's murderous buffoonery, coming amid a lifetime in which he's betrayed everyone close to him and failed up from one disaster to the next, is a perfect example of how the appeal of Trumpism is that it creates a permission structure for people to openly be their worst selves

They blew up an elementary school Tom
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White Nights (1985) After his plane crashes in Siberia, a Russian dancer, who defected to the West, is held prisoner in the Soviet Union. The KGB keeps him under watch and tries to convince him to become a dancer for the...

the timothee thing is goofy but what’s important is that all of you should watch White Nights, the 20th century’s most batshit ballet movie boxd.it/1KRw

UPDATE: Sunny, a U.S. citizen, is on her way home after being shipped across state lines overnight.

How the hell did this happen?

Press conference tomorrow at Broadview, where we will hear Sunny’s side of the story. More details soon.

Zohran Mamdani was polling at 1% when he entered the NYC mayoral race. He had the NY Times telling people *not to even rank him on their ballots.* The leaders in his own party wouldn't endorse him. It is in fact a politician's job to motivate people to vote & hire people who feel the same obligation

The nicest veterans in Schenectady, I thought, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who'd really fought.

Vonnegut says a similar thing in Slaughterhouse-Five

There was a humility in the generation that fought and won World War II that is completely missing today. They knew that every victory comes at a terrible price.

Any time there is ballet-related discourse (this time, re: Timothée Chalamet's comments), I want to reshare this piece, which talked to artists fighting to make work conditions better & more equitable: “I think it’s important for [...] audiences to know that dancers are having these conversations.”

HARD. AGREE.

We have the data. My longest columns have more readers, who read longer, and who share them the most.

Every single time a new outlet feels compelled to interview an unremarkable billionaire they should pause and ask themselves if there isn't an under-represented artist, scientist, activist, engineer, or academic actually doing useful/interesting things that's more deserving of your readership's time

Prices are up 30 cents since this post and the nearby liquor store has taken down its decade-old Trump Wine display this shit is so monumentally over.

since this plainly sucks let me ask you: what's the best advice you got from an editor?

Really important to wear your chef’s coat for this sort of thing

Feels relevant that both Fetterman and Platner were/are downwardly mobile sons of the white upper-middle class. That can nurture a distinctly different bundle of resentments than are usually found in products of working or middle class households.

the cheapest and most abundant and utile political resource for the american ruling class is muslim life. this has been true my entire life. you can never go wrong slaughtering muslims