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*youth pastor voice*

Let me tell you kids about another carpenter who wasn’t very popular with the authorities

Go to bed; tired is stupid.

It may sound radical, but if one guy has so much wealth and power that he can use the large newspaper he owns to publicly threaten to ruin a service we all rely on, presumably as a bargaining tactic to get lower rates, we probably need to tax that guy until he can't do that anymore.

Rockwell freedom of speech meme

"We're all standing. I'm just very tall."

Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨

Waiting for my winter break to watch this but damn, I’m kinda excited that people seem to like it.

Assuming there’s actually an issue here, the solution is just to slightly increase scrutiny on ieps at rich schools. This will not happen. We’re much more likely to get a crack down on poor kids with ieps and rich kids just get more benefits.

Dead children never moved the right’s view on guns and I doubt the post-Covid vaccine aversion will change much when their kids start dying of preventable diseases. Because to them politics is like choosing a football team and there is no higher loyalty when they all think they’re on God’s team.

Trump Announces 5,000% Increase In All Numbers

Trump Announces 5,000% Increase In All Numbers https://theonion.com/trump-announces-5000-increase-in-all-numbers/

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

The Conservative Grievance Business Is Always Hiring | Defector Given his age when he first came to the world’s attention and assuming continued good health in the intervening decade and change, Marine Todd would be in his late 30s today. That would be if he was a...

I wrote about the dirty, demeaning, absolutely booming business of turning something like a shitty bigoted college essay into a shitty public career as a bigot, and also estimated how old Marine Todd would be today. defector.com/the-conserva...

This is why people who insist that capitalism/profit motive will ultimately trump racism are unfortunately and demonstrably incorrect

We’ve had endless examples of how much money there is to be made, and yet they consistently do this

As I Lay Buying DARL Jewel and I come up onto Macy’s fifth floor. We cannot find a present for Pa and we are in bed and bath and lost. The beds look like shorn she...

"My step-mother is a gift card."

Every sentence here is even crazier than the last.

Famous Authors Lose Their Moms in Department Stores James Joyce: “Maaaaaam, oh, maaaaaaaaa…” Albert Camus (to a concerned Big Lots manager): “Lost maman in home goods today. Or maybe it was yesterday...

J. D. Salinger (to Kohl's employee): “If you want to hear about the last place I saw my mom, you’ll probably wanna know where I was born, about my lousy childhood, and how many of your dressing rooms have ‘fuck you’ etched into the walls.”

I named my fists Art Blakey and Philly Joe Jones because come hell or high water, they’re staying in the mf pocket.

conservatives basically want to implement the caricature of affirmative action for conservative students. acceptance without meeting qualifications, good grades and degrees without having to do the work.

I can’t overstate how deeply Backlisted has impacted who I am over the last six years. The encouragement and enthusiasm for a particular kind of book and way of reading has pushed me into some truly all-time favorites: Elizabeth Taylor, Anita Brookner, Jean Rhys, Penelope Fitzgerald. Treasures.

❤️❤️❤️

“You’ve been extra needy lately,” says the punkass who needs half a water tower just to call itself daddy.

Flannery O'Connor

*Fewer

I’m reading Garth Greenwell’s Small Rain, in which he says, “The point was to perceive reality, […] to see things that are only visible at a different speed, a different pitch of attention, the value of poems is tuning us to a different frequency of existence.”

There’s power in noticing.

As an English teacher, this is powerful in the way Winant articulates that students must believe that they deserve to take their own thinking seriously. And this, in tandem with the time and space to pay close attention, to notice, can be empowering for students.

imagine capitulating just as the disapproval rate hits 60 percent, absolutely humiliating shit

Remember: every accusation is a confession.

Produce aisle sign: SPECIAL FRESH BRAZIL WHITE NAME

when you’re trying to evade capture after WWII ends:

The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.

It's funny when you feel as if you don't want anything more in your life except to sleep, or else to lie without moving. That’s when you can hear time sliding past you, like water running.

NBC's broadcast of the Macy's parade has superimposed the word "FOREIGNER" over the balloon of Mario.

Was not expecting this blatant xenophobia on my tv first thing in the morning...