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Searching Ya'akub online, there's just a handful of coverage. Thank you, @oliviamesser.bsky.social, for amplifying this piece from your pub.

We should be seeing more--TikToks, YouTube essays, live streams--about him. The alarm bell has been ringing; it's time to put a megaphone next to it.

When you’re so online that the #Jet2holidays commercial audio is playing on repeat in your brain 🫠

Quiz: What Does DOGE Know About You? The Department of Government Efficiency has unauthorized access to millions of Americans' data. Take New America's quiz to see how much of your data is at risk.

I just took a quiz on how much of my personal data DOGE has access to. The results aren’t pretty. Take it now to discover how much of your sensitive info is exposed. #HandsOffMyData
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Saving this post for Valentine’s Day next year

Immersive theater definitely.

The Group Behind Project 2025 Has a Plan to Crush the Pro-Palestinian Movement

This. Is. Batshit. “Project Esther aims to go further, equating actions such as participating in pro-Palestinian campus protests with providing ‘material support’ for terrorism, a broad legal construct that can lead to prison time, deportations, civil penalties…” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/u...

folk art style painting of Jesus being captured by the Ghostbusters

happy easter

Trump Threatens to Block Harvard From Enrolling International Students The Trump administration said Harvard must share detailed records about its foreign students, an escalation in the administration’s fight against prominent American schools.

As a Jewish person, I am DISGUSTED that my identity is being used by the Trump administration to justify extorting the personal information of students. This is abhorrent. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/u...

Would be really fun if at the end of RFK Jr.'s Autism Fact Finding Mission (he will find the cause of all autism personally in six months) he blames something very different than vaccines. JPEG files cause autism, we gotta get rid of the JPEGs.

Black and white studio portrait photo of a medium haired white cat with one dark and one light eye. It sits up on a table or something similar draped with dark cloth against a dark background, producing a nice contrast to the white fur.

Portrait of a heterochromic cat. Postcard from my collection, mailed 1908.

Beaker the Muppet in a black room looking horrified

My reaction to WAY too many things right now

the shift from “I never thought leopards would eat MY face” to “eat my face harder leopard daddy” must be studied

Two aging scarlet elf cup mushrooms grow in the crotch between two rotting branches covered in green moss on the forest floor. The cup in front is chewed and ragged like an old rat’s ear. All photos by me

Here are some nice mushrooms

photo of a red shopping basket filled with turnips, under the headline: If you’re worried about food tariffs, adopt a frugal mindset and cook smarter Learn to shop for groceries like a thrifter and work on eliminating waste By Sheryl Julian Globe Correspondent,Updated April 7, 2025, 7:21 a.m. caption: The big question is, writes Sheryl Julian, are we expected to remove all the pleasures from the table and turn the nightly dinner into a feast of locally grown turnips (above) and leafy greens?Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff

you know things are going well when they break out the turnip photos

This is high art

a man wearing sunglasses and a floral shirt has his hands folded in prayer in front of a max logo Alt: a man wearing sunglasses and a floral shirt has his hands folded in prayer in front of a max logo

Still reeling after last night’s #WhiteLotus season finale—best one yet, Mike White

And those whims can go any which way 🙃 love this for us [insert sarcastic tone here]

Just took it myself and it revealed 8/15 of my tracked personal data points exposed to the whims of #DOGE.

Incredible tool. Reveals frightening truths about DOGE and what it can pull about us with no real oversight.

Text stating: Of the 15 types of data tracked by New America’s Open Technology Institute, DOGE has likely accessed 14 of your data points.

Welp this is terrifying. Just took a #DOGE data quiz created by my colleagues at @newamerica.org, and the results aren’t pretty. Shout out to @sydneysaubestre.bsky.social for bringing this tool to life. If you’re curious to take the quiz yourself: www.newamerica.org/oti/briefs/q...

‘Cake Bandit’ opossum hospitalized after indulging in an entire Costco cake | CNN A real estate agent in Omaha, Nebraska, got an unexpected houseguest this week – a hungry opossum gorging on the Tuxedo Chocolate Mousse Cake she recently bought from Costco.

Some days, I’m the opossum. Some days, I’m the cake. Lately, I’ve been both. amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/02/...

bush 9/11 meme but it's Drake hearing about the second plane

"A second Kendrick performance has ignited social media"

What. A. Blowout. 🤣

🦅 ca CAW

As a kid, I wanted to live in my favorite books. Joke’s on me—I basically manifested a dystopia. My bad.

GRANDKID: what were the first Cybertrucks like?
ME: oh they sucked lol seeing one felt like punishment
THE ALL-SEEING PANEL ON THE WALL: twenty Patriot Points subtracted. Privileges rescinded: trousers.
ME: *donning petticoats* also they exploded

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I think I’ve got this socializing thing figured out. I say to my pet Cockroach while sipping tea.

Not-so-hot take: The U.S. has been an oligarchy for a while. It’s just way more blatantly obvious now.

My millennial is showing with this: a smol house, if you will