Chelsea M. Cameron (she/they)

“I know that there are some people in this room who don’t believe that my marriage should have been legal … and that’s ok. Because we’re all Americans who want lower taxes.”

I kind of can’t believe this Bari Weiss quote is even real, and yet www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

It's super on-brand that people like Hegseth love the Spartans, who were artless, slave-keeping, murderous fascists despised by pretty much EVERYONE, but they never talk about how the Spartans were ultimately defeated by a heroic army of... let me double-check my notes... yep... gay democrats.

Travis Kelce, wearing a newsies hat and a shirt that seems to be pattered on a motels wallpaper, and Patrick Mahomes, wearing a red checkered vest made out of an Italian restaurants tablecloth

I love them both but Travis and Patrick look like they’re running a traveling medicine show in the Great Depression

That’s a name you make up when you’ve had too much NyQuil.

Fundamentally a big part of the story of Trump 2.0 is going to be “people taking jobs they’re wildly unqualified for and thinking ‘how hard can it be, I’ll have ChatGPT help me’”

It’s got everything!
Harvard, ornithology, a missing pair of glasses, gay sex, a typewritten ransom note, Nietzsche…

Why make a bunch of shit up about Ed Gein (who was honestly boring af) when you could have THIS?!

It boggles my mind that Ryan Murphy isn’t doing Leopold and Loeb.
There’s your rich toxic gay murder boyfriends! You love that shit!

Zelda Williams has asked people to stop sending her AI slop videos of her father Robin Williams:

"It’s dumb, it’s a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it’s NOT what he’d want"

"You’re not making art, you’re making disgusting [stuff] out of the lives of human beings .. [and] art and music"

We are permanently trapped at these people's mercy while forced to watch them slowly learn shit people generally figure out in 11th grade

Poll department about to get locked out of Slack.

This sounds JUST weird enough to work.

a black background with white text that says `` you have successfully wasted 10 seconds of your life '' . Alt: A white bar slowly loads with the text loading…

Legs:

“Police Chief Tobb Schmaderer said”
This is not a real person’s name. I refuse.

aw shit all my podcast merch is tied up with tariffs dang this is bad

what if I told you that taking accountability for your actions was traditionally considered a load-bearing feature of masculinity?

This really makes it sound like a Border Patrol agent tried to kill an anti-ICE activist in Chicago and DHS lied to cover for him

Weekend at Bernie’s 2 is already starting to look interesting!

where do they make these guys that look like keebler elves and then ruin politics i feel like they always look like this

Right, it’s very similar to putting anti-environmental forces at head of EPA or Pam Bondi at Justice

if you announce that you're breaking up with Nicole Kidman because she wanted too much sex you need to do it at a press conference where you're in a full body cast. just a little slit in the head area where a pair of wild, haunted eyes are staring out

This right here. I love my art friends and art community, but I'm also trying to run a business as a freelancer/selling products and I need the reach! Every time we scatter to different platforms it's a little harder to exist as a working artist whose primary visibility is only online.

THE CHICKENS ARE FINALLY COMING HOME TO ROOST

Ryan Walters is out & the investigation floodgates just opened. The Oklahoma AG launched a full audit of Walters’ entire tenure as Superintendent, and it’s about damn time.

Also the education dept website’s being scrubbed of his culture-war nonsense.
🧵

some good advice here about sunscreen and working out, so I’ll just add that having hobbies is the easiest way to make new friends

Top image: The logo for Mass Freedom To Read, in red, white, and blue, featuring a colonial-era patriot holding a flag and reading a book. Bottom image: A red book with yellow tape across it and the words "Banned Books Week"

It's Banned Books Week! It's time for the MA legislature to pass a Freedom to Read bill that protects librarians & educators from harassment, and protects authors, creators, booksellers & publishers from economic harm. I support An Act Regarding Free Expression (H.3594/S.2328). #MassFreedomToRead

My feelings about Banned Books Week are that no indeedy parents do NOT have the right to decide what their own children read, because children are human beings with the right to dignity and privacy.

Agreeing w the parents rights premise shifts the Overton window in the wrong ass direction.

The only study group I’d do was one where we were all doing our own work, but in the same room. I got SO MUCH done that way.

Yeah I wouldn’t get anything done. Alllll I want to do when I’m with other writers is talk about writing. Why would I waste limited time with other writers by writing? I can do that anytime!

After Columbia canceled my course on race and media, and Washington Poat fired me for speaking about race and violence,

I’m teaching about race and media anyway!

@resistanceschool.bsky.social fall session on Race, Media and International Affairs starts tonight!

600+ signups.

We move!! ✊🏾