Josh

Doing art badly is good and sacred

Every single time I see you show up in replies, you're just being a jerk. If you want to help Black women, maybe listening more and talking almost never would help.

Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

We need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason

Drawing of the 5-year old captured by ICE in Minnesota with the quote: “The children are always ours, every single one of them” -James Baldwin

#Minnesota

Award shows will always suck because canonization and posterity take time.

A lot of non-white Americans love this country in a way that white Americans truly do not and cannot understand. This is, incidentally, the thing I love most about this country.

MAGA cultists are crazy but we got plenty of people on our side who really think the team we got can get it done and look they can't

"You're not ready for how much the rest of the world hates Americans" I live here man I'm extremely used to the concept of hating Americans

No offense to comrade but the same way iraqis, iranians, afghans, etc etc etc etc have for like 100 years

A jackbooted ICE pig standing on top of a protester, gas everywhere. On the ground is a crumpled ABOLISH ICE sign. Next to them is a Democrat lanyard guy. Dem: Abolish? They just need better training! pig: Yeah, Imagine how much faster and better at this we'd be!

better training

Tweet from @mmpadellan: I'm old enough to remember when President Obama deported so many people, they called him "Deporter in Chief," but he did it without his agents shooting U.S. Citizen mothers in the face 3 times. Built different.

liberals are impossible to satirize

We are told that police need to be allowed to kill when they get scared but that everyone else must comport themselves perfectly or else they deserve to get whacked.

Despair is a view about the future, a future about which we know nothing.

Today, we rage and grieve. After that, I always find it useful to reflect on the civil rights movement circa 1930. They had a lot more reason than I do to despair, and yet they kept fighting.

"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—"

You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.

The notion that only "genius" writers can write books worthy of canonization is one of the primary ways that hierarchies of domination reproduce themselves in publishing.

"Parasites." Yikes!

is trump jewish

democrats and liberals too often act like the average american is an avid politics watcher who understands all the issues and personalities. meanwhile this is one of the top trending searches for the past 24 hours

“it’s reasonable to ask questions about trans girls in sports” was always intended to mainstream transphobia.

It’s absurd that people fell for it. Democrats are constantly letting oppressors set the terms of debate instead of just saying “no, fuck you.”

Cosmopolitan, egalitarian values are better than authoritarian values and it would be cool if one of our two political parties argued as much instead of spending decades trying to avoid cultural arguments by clinging to "it's the economy stupid" or "kitchen table issues" or "affordability."

It's the best for all the schlock, but a couple of great Ozu films are on there, too!

Indeed. 3 years ago, I never listened to podcasts, and all that changed soon after listening to IBCK. Starting anywhere from the Michael Hobbes extended universe is a good bet, though.

Being a parent is such an embodied experience. You read, and you talk to people, and all that, and it's all useful, even essential, but you learn how to be a parent most of all by being physically present with, engaged with, connected to, your kid.

You, as a person. With your specific kid.

Nothing is yours. It is to use. It is to share. If you will not share it, you cannot use it.

You don’t have to like Nuzzi or approve of her conduct to understand that Lizza’s choice to publish the material that he is publishing is meant to sexually humiliate her in public in retaliation for disappointing him romantically. The term for that is revenge porn.

Homeowners are famously responsible for where fire hydrants are placed.

Adam Scott meets the Chicago Pope

'Four cones wins, but in order to get a cone you have to build a civilization. Which is where the spirit cards come in'

Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.