Just Me

It shouldn’t be forgotten that a big piece of Mamdani’s campaign was simply “cities are cool and lots of people enjoy living in them” which in and of itself dismantles alot of rightwing talking points

800+ flights cancelled today because Elon took a chainsaw to the federal government and Trump won’t pay the remaining airport personnel.

Elon’s on his way to becoming a trillionaire.

Trump’s net worth has more than doubled inside a year.

Glad everything worked out for them.

How about you?

Don't feel pressured to do weird stuff just because it came to you in a vision. Do it because it's weird. That's reason enough

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

Fixed that for him

just want to remind everyone again that zohran is the one cis candidate i am aware of that had his platform on trans rights written by trans people. i think that matters

Good things are possible and we don't have to settle!!!!

One of our country's greatest war criminals just died, the president is arguing with himself about whether or not to let 40 million people starve, and there is an actual courtroom drama about a five dollar footlong.

How are any of us supposed to maintain emotional regulation.

Normalise giving Lego as a diplomatic gift.

This is the president of the United States taking a break from gold-and-marble interior renovations to say he’ll defy a court order to feed hungry Americans.

Nero would be proud.

A small herd of bison in the fall colors.

Virginia's govorner

Just flipped Blue

Congratulations Abigail Spanberger

We expect good news to be rolling in all evening, stay tuned.

3 rows with each NYC mayoral candidate: (blue bar) Zohran Mamdani (yellow bar) Andrew M. Cuomo (red bar) Curtis Sliwa (wearing a red had)

sorry but mamdani and cuomo should have worn blue and yellow hats, respectively

Karl-Anthony Towns is only the sixth player in NBA history to reach 15K points, 7K rebounds and 2K assists before turning 30.

The other five:

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Charles Barkley
Kevin Garnett
Giannis Antetokounmpo
Nikola Jokic

That's 13 MVP awards right there.

I'm starting to feel that if I briskly walked into the Louvre wearing a workman's jumpsuit and pulling my own hand truck, I could walk out with the Winged Victory of Samothrace for my own sculpture garden.

Another day, another reason to apologize to my 12 year old for spending two years telling her that her Louvre heist plans weren’t good enough. This is what perfectionistic parenting gets you.

Teen Vogue was one of the only outlets that took young people seriously as political actors and covered how they're organizing, voting, and being impacted by state + national legislation.

It was a launching pad for so many great young journalists

it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions

"Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"

Do we do as we do as if it is to be?
Or is it as it is so it is up to me?

(John Flynn, "Two Letters", 1997)

Carry on my way weird son

Case in point.

When you see Mamdani looking all normal doing normal person things—petting bodega cats, riding public transport—you realize just how bizarre and estranged our average candidate for public office is. Rich martians in flesh suits

A pair of silver aluminum barbecue tongs on a white background .

everyone automatically clacks these twice upon picking them up because deep down we all know we’re crabs

If this game goes past daylight savings time a portal to The Good Dimension opens and we call all walk in!

I’m enjoying the games and the drama, but I honestly believe if I was a real fan of either of these teams I’d be dead from a coronary.

Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: 'The science world is ending' A poll from the journal Nature found that 75% of researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country. That includes a man who’s been dubbed the "Mozart of Math." Stephanie Sy examines what’s b...

The US funds the bulk of biomedical research globally by far. It's not like other countries can simply take up the slack. The more likely: people leave research, new people don't become researchers. There is no happy ending. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Partially in (Halloween) Costume has to be one of the funniest states of dress. Full face of make-up, intricate jewelry, fishnets, and sweatpants.

Slide titled Recognizing and Identifying Abuse of Children (Under 18). The bullet points include kicking, biting, burning, cutting, unreasonable restraint, focefully shaking, slapping/striking, etc. Then the second to last bullet point reads "Causing a child to be present during the operation of a methamphetamine laboratory, provided that the violation is being investigated by law enforcement". Then the last bullet point goes back to the most expected, "leaving a child unsupervised..."

Every year I have to take this training and every year this one bullet point makes me pause. HOW did it end up on the list? (There must be a story here) And WHY is it okay to take a child to a meth lab that's NOT being investigated by law enforcement???

Happy November 1st! Welcome to second October. Things are dying. Night comes sooner, hungrier than in the summer. The cold is here. Things haunt the woods. Snow can trap you, Donner Party your plans. Colds and flus awake, go hunting. Yeah, it’s still spooky season. It’s always spooky season.

picture of a red fox in gale force winds. text on photo say It Fucken Wimdy - typo intentional - in all caps.

When the team has rugby practice but there's 40mph wind gusts cause there's a hurricane out there.

(This is funnier if you know the team I coach is the Red Foxes)