Katie in snowpants

Great bullshit detection, country persons.

John Oliver's FIFA devotion. Or the way other people feel about my love of Broadway.

Like, I don't even like it and I accept my Massachusetts' friends devotion to Dunkin in the same way I accept

It is sort of weird for the scion of a family from Massachusetts not to know what a religion Dunkin Donuts is

Influencer's fleeing Dubai right now.

Look, Jesus looks GREAT in a co-pilot's uniform.

This shit is why I have to keep updating the piece: every day they are coming up with newer and even more obviously insane justifications to see what sticks.
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I will accept all their snacks. They can just send them over to my house. They'll go bad otherwise.

Years ago, someone had the idea that Madeline Albright, the Czech-born former US secretary of state, should run for president of Czech Republic. And she quite rightly said, "I will always be proud to be Czech, but I haven't lived there since I was 10 and I don't know what the important issues are"

What's scary about this story is the surveillance it hints at. This trans woman had changed her name, legally, but chose not to change her gender marker. She was apparently flagged in the DMV system as trans and her license was invalidated under a law that supposedly only concerned gender markers.

a thing historians will marvel about when they study this era is the extent to which the "war is a thing that happens to poorer, browner people" class went about systematically dismantling every aspect of the global political order that confined the costs of war to poorer and browner people

state department appears to be neither foreign nor a service at the moment, let alone both

I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

N.Y. Attorney General Orders Hospital to Resume Youth Transgender Care

Tish James to NYU Langone on cessation of gender affirming care: Stop obeying in advance. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/n...

yes and thank you for the excuse to share one of my all-time favorite tweets (from @longwall26.bsky.social)

As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.

No no no no gunne sax making a comeback. NO!

Anyone Else Have Those Weird Dreams Where Sobbing Future Generations Beg You To Change Course? The human subconscious is such an interesting thing. No matter how much you think you’ve got it figured out, it’ll always spit out the most random stuff. Take me, for example. After coming home from a...

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There was that Epstein text exchange with Bannon where he said "Trump doesn't respect anyone who agrees to his demands" and never has that been more apparent than every newspaper/university/law firm getting their shit double-owned by the guy they bent over for in the first place.

It makes them think their community is whatever the algorithm shows them, as opposed to the people around them. It's really sad.

There is a season 2 coming!!!

Ok but also: are they normal -acting? In my head they are wearing collared shirts and laughing wickedly all the time

I initially read that as "lead", as in the poisonous substance that used to be in pencils, and it almost fit.

The Case for War, by Someone Whose Kids Won’t Die Fighting in It “The next days will be decisive. The best course for the United States is to spell out clearly to Iran what the paths of escalation — and de-escala...

"As someone whose kids won’t die fighting in the war, it’s important that you understand the flimsy, morally bankrupt justifications for war, and why it’s vital for you to throw more of your children's lives at this one."
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This is about Reza Pahlavi, yes.

Years ago, someone had the idea that Madeline Albright, the Czech-born former US secretary of state, should run for president of Czech Republic. And she quite rightly said, "I will always be proud to be Czech, but I haven't lived there since I was 10 and I don't know what the important issues are"

Today should be your 38th birthday.. When you lose your son you lose more than a child you lose a piece of your heart and your joy. Life is forever altered, and nothing can ever fill that space. Yet in my soul, he remains, my precious boy, forever loved. His laughter, his smile, and his love are woven into who I am. My love for him will never fade. Yor are my pride and my joy - you've made a change that cannot be broken..

Alex's mom on his 38th birthday.

Do they know some of the biggest king cake makers are Vietnamese?

As an Irish American person who just went to a Purim festival, I am extremely here for this idea.