Evan Michael

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One thing the NYC mayoral race underscored for me is how easily the phrase "I don't feel safe" can be weaponized. It's an argument I would hesitate ever to use again, even for a good cause. I hope we can all agree that we have the right to BE safe. Maybe we should leave it at that.

Californians: don’t forget to vote YES ✅ on prop 50!

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The Obama Hope poster, but it's a frog and it says "Hop"

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

For Tolkien fans, a timely passage for No Kings Eve, from WH Auden’s review of Lord of the Rings.

Insightful review as always! Truly a boon you got to evaluate the album with the benefit of some time and distance from all the noise online. Since you don’t think this is her worst, the people (me) would like to know what are your TS album rankings?

Perhaps also a misguided way to get the approval of father or challenge him, but maybe that’s giving Freud too much credit

I’d say it’s more for approval/respect/admiration from other men. They’re desperate for male validation. It’s all just a dick swinging contest.

In DC for the first time…the vibes are cute. You can almost forget many of the most evil people in the world are here.

I promise my Swiftie brethren you don’t have to convince yourself you like the album. You can just not like it. It’s ok

I was walking down a street in New York and I thought how lovely it was, with the trees and the light. Tried to take a photo and this came out. It’s incredible how blind we become to the ugliness of cars. They really do mess things up. Yet somehow we manage to filter them out.

If you wrote a "Trump distances himself from project 2025" story in 2024 you are either a dupe or one of our enemies. They are cackling with laughter that the media they're now destroying enthusiastically helped them dupe the voters

this is just brutal and I'm old enough to know it's true

“How you die does not redeem how you lived.”

I imagine that it gave Charlie Kirk great pleasure to die as a martyr to the god of death he worshipped. I wish instead he could have died another way: of old age, peacefully, in a country where all his work had come to nothing, and he himself completely forgotten.

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) on the shooting of Charlie Kirk:

"Political violence, unfortunately, has ramped up in this country ... I think there are people who are fomenting it in this country. I think the president's rhetoric often foments it."

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"

A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.

Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere

Illinois is launching a first-of-its-kind legal hotline for LGBTQ+ individuals — Illinois Pride Connect.

As the only state in the nation that will provide free legal advice to protect the LGBTQ+ community, we'll help fight ignorance with information and cruelty with compassion.

What we lose in the gamification of music Music shouldn't be treated like a game to master — it should be treated like something that affects and potentially changes you.

Music shouldn't be treated like a game to master — it should be treated like something that affects and potentially changes you.

it’s really not hard to tell who actually cares about mass death and suffering abroad and who just likes to use the destruction of brown bodies as a political weapon against their perceived enemies

"Last year there were ten murders in the NYC subway system, with well over a billion total rides taken. During the same time period, there were 253 traffic fatalities in New York City. One person dead every day and a half. Cars? Those things are fucking dangerous."

Hulk Hogan, lying inexplicably sideways in his open coffin, being visited by a chihuahua dog, who looks distraught. The people behind the coffin do too

I'm sorry, but this may be the funniest Facebook AI slop I have ever seen. Bury me sideways in my coffin, brother. Let my dog see

The vast majority of Americans voters understand Barack Obama to be “liberal” and Bernie Sanders to be “very liberal,” this attempt to import a meaningful left-liberal distinction into American politics is an annoying affectation by people for whom politics exists entirely on their phones

2-year olds: