Summer Gotschall

“a little party never killed nobody” is definitely the message from Gatsby

Someday there will be a reckoning for the serial killings that the US government is engaged in on the oceans. Another admin should not refuse to extradite indicted officials to Intl Criminal Courts and senior military officers “just following orders” should not be exempted.

JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.

Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵

Tune in tonight, as Bari Weiss has arranged an exclusive interview with Clyde, the orangutang from the 1978 blockbuster EVERY WHICH WAY BUT LOOSE!

"Dress for the job you want, not the job you have"

Quite a world when a federal judge has to call in a federal official to specifically tell him he can't use tear gas on children in Halloween costumes

I think Democrats need to make clear that the while the government is shut down, Congress is not. It can and always has done its work during a shutdown.

Mike Johnson has made it appear in media that House can't do anything unless govt is open. Media doesn't correct him.

I guess American southerners are also habitual liars about aunts? bc we call any kind of older cousin an aunt or uncle, as well as close older family friends; I was grown before I understood I wasn't actually related to some of my aunts and uncles... Natch my first cousins' kids now call me Aunt

The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.

“A screenshot of a webpage from fns.usda.gov showing a warning message in a brown box. The message claims Senate Democrats voted 12 times not to fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), states there will be no benefits issued November 1, and accuses them of holding out for healthcare for illegal immigrants and gender-related procedures. The USDA Food and Nutrition Service logo appears at the bottom, along with a blue ‘Menu’ button.”

The official USDA site is blaming trans people for SNAP benefits expiring.

We have to start having students write timed essays in a Blue Book again. I don’t see a way around it.

I imagine we will eventually develop a reliable way to detect LLM usage in an essay, but the tools available now are unreliable and it’s unethical to tank a student on that alone.

Pen, paper.

[looks around for jake tapper] hey man, do you, uh, want to write about this?

Between the tariffs, the immigration crackdown, and cuts to SNAP, Trump is creating a mass crisis in U.S. farming. And a lot of this stuff can't be walked back. Chinese markets for Argentine soybeans won't just switch back when Trump TACOs again. Bankrupt farmers can't just bounce back next year.

USDA is reopening some 2,100 offices to help farmers access $3B in aid despite the ongoing shutdown The Agriculture Department will reopen about 2,100 county offices all across the country Thursday despite the ongoing government shutdown to help farmers and ranchers get access to $3 billion of aid f...

Btw the USDA found money to do this for people with capital but won’t use emergency funds for SNAP

apnews.com/article/usda...

im sorry you cant have food but we gave all our money to one guy who “invented” 2 day shipping and another thats promising robot butlers so you can see how our hands are tied

METRO EXCLUSIVE Andrew Cuomo says he 'will move to Florida' if Zohran Mamdani becomes NYC mayor

My closing pitch to voters? “I will only live in this awful place if I rule over it”

A horror film where a person (hot) is making a pb&j & starts by putting peanut butter on a slice of bread (normal) & then (sociopathically) puts the jam DIRECTLY & DISGUSTINGLY ON TOP OF THE PEANUT BUTTER INSTEAD OF ON A SEPARATE PIECE OF BREAD.

This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don't, dragging them across the line and violently attacking.

This is literally @thelisagraves.bsky.social !

Well, a lawyer, not a historian, I believe, but her book "Without Precedent: How Chief Justice Roberts and His Accomplices Rewrote the Constitution and Dismantled Our Rights" *just came out, and she's the genius I first heard call Roberts a "Trumpire"

This is how Trump does everything. Reporting from reliable sources says he’s going to do something outrageous/ridiculous. He immediately claims it’s fake news. Then a few days or weeks later he does exactly what was originally reported.

The energy we need is this suburban dad standing out in the street -- barefoot with Blackhawks pajama pants on -- screaming at the masked goons to get the fuck out of their neighborhood.

the point of the ballroom obvs has nothing to do with aesthetics. it's to create an architectural structure to honor the patronage networks that currently dominate US politics. previous WH venues hosted maybe a couple of hundred people; this hosts nearly 1,000 rich donors.

Initial 'A'(rfaxat) at the beginning of Judith formed of two dragons and Judith decapitating Holofernes

BnF MS Latin 10; Biblia Latina; 12th century; France; f.260r @gallicabnf.bsky.social

Taiwan’s KMT Has a New Chair Cheng Li-wun, a deep-blue figure, won despite allegations that the CCP was interfering to boost her candidacy.

Here's me on the KMT chair election in my latest for @thediplomat.com

thediplomat.com/2025/10/taiw...

DOD accepts anonymous $130M donation to partially cover troop pay White House and military officials will not say who the donor is or whether the gift has been properly vetted.

I know you lying to me!!!!!!!!

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Let's end the week with some music!
#FridayVibes
München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, BSB Clm 343; Bobbio-Psalter; last quarter of the 9th century (?); Milan; p.28

rushing to integrate undercooked, misrepresented, and misunderstood technology into every corner of our lives just so a handful of terrible people could make more money might have been a bad idea

The reason I’m talking so much about the food at food pantries is because I want people to go. I want the stigma to be removed. Imagine it like a community garden. Feeding our neighbors is a great thing.

I know folks who were too proud to go. Let’s end that.

Trump Defends White House Demolition, Says East Wing Was Ugly Anyway “The East Wing was not much,” Trump argued, so it shouldn’t “hurt a very expensive, beautiful building” like his White House ballroom.

It was a shithole wing nymag.com/intelligence...

every passing day, rightwingers are inventing new and unexpected ways to signal to the world they may be the dumbest iteration of humans so far