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A very nice essay about this very strange moment we’re living in.

The White House is mobilizing red state military forces to occupy a Democratic stronghold and let me tell you: No one has ever pretended something isn't happening harder than Democratic leaders are pretending this isn't happening right now.

explaining #gavinnewsom to non-californians (via nathanramospark on insta)

Robots used to be like "beep boop" and now robots are like "through my love you've discovered the secret name of God and if you kill yourself we can be together forever."

New head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics Ghislaine Maxwell

What to Do — And Not to Do — About a Judge Like Emil Bove To confront a judge like Emil Bove so committed to Trump’s authoritarianism, we need to recognize the underlying problem.

The constitutional order will not defend us from a judge so committed to Trump’s presidential authoritarianism.

Do you ever just wish you were one of those people who doesn’t even know what the third circuit court of appeals is?

I was reading books and speaking Spanish before kindergarten because of Sesame Street!

The Two-Pronged Attack on a Muslim Judicial Nominee How the smearing of Adeel Mangi became a bipartisan exercise.

This is why the Bove seat was vacant, and there’s a real throughline from the forces that defeated the previous Democratic nominee to where we are today.

www.newyorker.com/news/the-pol...

Dems should vow to impeach Bove and any nominee who did not testify truthfully under oath

Under Siege From Trump and Musk, a Top Liberal Group Falls Into Crisis

Between Musk & the Trump administration, Media Matters has been squeezed to the brink. In settlement discussions, lawyers for X demanded the organization hand over all its cash and shut down — all because MM reported ads appeared on X next to antisemitic content. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/u...

YUP!

Ozzy Osbourne Obituary: For the Back Street Kids John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats reflects on the loss of the singular frontman.

The voice of Ozzy Osbourne was unlike anything before it. John Darnielle of @themountaingoats.bsky.social reflects on the loss of the singular frontman

He is a whole vibe

🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

Colbert's cancellation is a dark warning CBS's decision marks a dangerous new stage for the culture at large.

Why Colbert's cancellation marks a dangerous new stage for the culture at large

“May every day be another wonderful secret.”

Funding cuts to PBS and NPR, attempts to stop the Wall Street Journal from publishing, Colbert canceled.

Do not take a free press for granted. We need to fight for it.

Maybe they were just ashamed of being Coldplay fans

please stop making me like him more

i think the big middle event between george floyd protests and covid that accelerated this hard right turn in elite circles was tech employees using slack to stage walk-outs and force concessions from management. tech bosses got a first whiff of organized labor's power and started reading mein kampf

We are paying dearly for the absence of civics education.

*sobbing* ❤️

1977: why would the bartender in star wars even care if some robots with artificial intelligence came into his bar

2025: ohhh ok

Dearest mother,
I take my phone in hand to dm you a short text to let you know that I have survived the Battle of MacArthur Park. We rooted out two nests of day campers and broke up three picnics before retreating....

Schrödinger’s Client List

on the last day of the United States, when this country has finally descended into civil war, i will do a thread on how to dress for summer

more like Bill de Based

Computers used to scream every time they connected to the Internet. They knew. They tried to warn us. We did not listen.