Talia Edmundson

music and the great migration 🤝

everything i learned about the great migration came from the warmth of other suns. not any school i ever attended or class i took but from a book i purchased. absolute madness for the great migration not to be part of school curriculum.

yes! the dr. foster / ray charles connection was quite a surprise.

The drunk uncle theory.

You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there

What’s so weird about men in power is how when they face scandal and should step down the world acts like no one else can do their jobs. Bottstein, Wasserman, these aren’t irreplaceable men! Stop with this delusion.

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

This is a rough time to be a person with situational awareness.

tom homan is a bitch

it's good to see bondi losing her shit. that's how you should behave when you know most of the country hates you for being an evil asshole.

when pop culture no longer caters to your specific demographic you can accept that the world constantly changes or you can, I dunno, enact a fascist takeover of a country in the futile hope of forcing everyone to like the things you like

Someone is going to write a dissertation about this half time show and I will read it.

Removing a post doesn’t remove the racism.

Just like redacting names doesn’t redact the truth.

that garden does not need a "rake"

no disrespect, but I'm not subscribing to your Substack for reasons that should be obvious if you google words like "substack" and "nazis"

Political News for Normal People. Your essential guide to the shock and awe in national politics. A sane, once-a-day newsletter helping normal people make sense of the news.

@marisakabas.bsky.social and the handbasket!! i've been a paid subscriber for several months now and she's wonderful. marisa is also responsible for the "tom homan is a bitch" campaign :)

also, matt's www.whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com

We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”

independent media or bust.

We didn't say body cams on ICE. Their murders are already on video. We said no more ICE.

got entirely too much shit from some internet guy who thinks i'm self-centered for "saving" a space because it's a public street

What we are seeing with ICE is the culmination of YEARS of Republicans demonizing undocumented people with little to no serious or coordinated push back from Dems.

Once the polls told Dems they are losing on immigration, instead of spending money to TEACH Americans the TRUTH about immigration,

I keep thinking again, in light of the latest Epstein files dump, about how MeToo “went too far.”

it's not that serious. i'm glad we got to spend some time together though :)

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it's not possible everywhere. like the article said, "following a local tradition is the best way to create community among your neighbors". i wouldn't attempt this in NYC.

obviously in the suburbs lol

it doesn't feel rude to park in front of someone else's house after they did all the work?

literally looking for a reason to unholster anything

a small tan dog with a graying face sits on a white sofa and looks up at you with large brown eyes. his ears stick out on either side of his head like airplane wings.

You can find ways to support families and pets in Minnesota, as well as organizations working to defend and advance the rights and opportunities of immigrants below

campsite.bio/wrdsmm

congratulations so much!

it looks like the objections are from people who never spent 2+ hours digging their parallel parked, plowed in car out the snow. my cinder block topped plastic lawn chair shall not be moved.

"following a local tradition is the best way to create community among your neighbors"