yes, at least 4.

hope you feel better

please don't retweet as serious articles that are clearly satirical. the linked article is a blow to this UM alumna but for its description of what UM has already done, not something ludicrous they are not going to do. (well, i hope not, but the authors aren't proposing it)

Helpful to have a self-produced list of which Rabbis are total fucking racists

i saw that sign this afternoon :-)

Weird how time works isn’t it? In some US states a pregnant 11 year-old isn’t allowed an abortion because they need to deal with the “adult” consequences of getting pregnant, but 35 year-old neo-Nazis in the govt group chat are “boys” doing “things young boys do”

Trump calls himself "the best friend that Israel ever had." He used to be the best friend Jeffrey Epstein ever had. How did that work out?

that's what I thought (or hoped, anyway)

I would pay if you weren't on substack.

why are they/you on substack then? there are choices. will follow here but no more paid subs to substack.

i should say that i'm an occasional Jackal, well, a daily reader, occasional poster. glad to find you.

you really should attach actual sources before posting or reposting this.

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

So many of us came so very unwillingly to this place of viewing the Supreme Court as unworthy of being viewed as a judicial body. Unworthy of veneration, unworthy of respect.

So profoundly reluctantly.

But, good lord have they earned it.

It’s strangely comforting to know that as Donald Trump approaches 80 his medical advisor is RFK. 🧪 #medsky

gotta say, giving james fucking comey the opportunity to be loud and deservedly self-righteous does not strike me as the smartest move you can make if your goal is to intimidate people

many of us, even. though apparently still not enough;

Tom Homan took a bag of cash from an undercover FBI agent the right way.

by Ezra Klein

brava. (me too but the only people who listen to me are people who agree. Can I declare myself president of the boomer branch of ANTIFA?

yes but they mostly only don't show up for right-wing manifs, which don't stay quiet because ...

please do

"many liberals seem to be trying to mollify the right-wing crackpots. Maybe the worst thing I’ve seen today is Ezra Klein’s smarmy “Charlie Kirk practiced politics exactly the right way"..moral vacuuity with a heavy dose of clueless white privilege

White Americans still approve, and said pundits have collectively decided they are the only ones that count

hey. i thought hideous (which i read as hide-djus) and the word i heard as hid-ee-us were both synonyms for ugly.

moi aussi
merci

and in any case, they neither mean "deal with effectively" nor do they mean actual crimes.

none of them lining up to find out how baltimore got to record lows.

what they mean is cities are full of people and things they neither like nor understand.

could somebody please start telling him that "he" doesn't give anyone money — we pay taxes that congress is supposed to decide what to do with. he is not the god of us.

both of you have inspired me to want to read it — and my husband too. ordering it tomorrow (in Paris. from the Red Wheelbarrow).

c'est Netanyahou qui le nourrit.

@charliejane.bsky.social's book appeared in my inbox by the magic of pre-order, i'd planned in advance in spend today reading it, and ... it was even more satisfying than I expected. complex characters i cared about, lots of ideas, 18th c English women ... badasses all. strongly recommend