Heartbreaking — and consistent with much of UVA’s history. It’s def Youngkin’s board — just looked at every bio and his appointees dominate. So much damage, but hoping for a major change in board makeup if Spanberger wins in Nov

Wish I heard more people saying this. Beyond part of one summer, my work has never been contingent on any really physical labor, but for many in my family that was and is work: up before dawn, heat exhaustion, extreme cold, bad knees by 40… the people who want to cosplay this have no idea

Perfectly expressed. Yes.

Standing, literally, for Cory Booker as he approaches the moment when “good trouble” surpasses the record of an avowed racist

I keep watching Cory Booker and, when he occasionally pauses, seems to gather himself, falters a little, have three times said “hold steady, buddy” to the screen. So may people are doing versions of the same thing, I bet

So much gratitude to @booker.senate.gov for what is, at this point, surely a physically grueling effort.

Raised with center-left mid-Atlantic incrementalism, but beginning in 2001 began seeing that the right wing white Christian nationalism I associated with my hometown was everywhere. Multiple factors in my pivot: Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody, assisting refugees, paying more attention…

This is so helpful — thank you

Thanks for posting this — wouldn’t have called to urge him to vote “no” if I hadn’t seen it

It would be a rare comfort, a sense of some system working the way it is supposed to, if her visa is cancelled and she is fined into financial oblivion

You win the internet today

I’ve seen variations on this question in so many places. Do they think they and their parents, siblings, lovers, friends, and children as utterly insulated from disease? Is this part of end-stage terminal capitalism? I don’t wish the pain of such losses on anyone. They clearly wish it for us.

Doing the same rethink. Wishing you well as you try to navigate the decision. We’re trying to get ourselves in a headspace of being at peace with potentially losing the money — challenging but very necessary.

Like little sunrises. Thank you for these beauties

What is HAPPENING to this man? I am utterly confounded by the willingness to let a demonstrably corrupt and craven administration box Democrats into preemptive concessions. Warner knows good and well this is not some HR process, so why is he sea cucumbering his guts out?

The labor is the love. Thank you for this thread. I know I (and many others) will return to it as AI increasingly threatens the dignity of process, consideration, and heart thoughts

Remarkably easy to picture him beckoning to the team from a Chrysler that’s as big as a whale

If only this weren’t The Onion. Would watch the hell out of that movie

Yep — selling the future off for parts

Doge-ed and Confused, the 2025 film by Elon Musk, produced by Donald Trump

It would get the attention of some who opt out of news and penetrate the misinformation bubble around others, yes, but (and I want to be wrong) the only recent former president I can imagine doing this just died.

Or rather the NYT article makes the subject matter clear but the other article (sorry I can’t remember source) examined it as an anticipation of distress causing distress

Another article I read made it clearer that many are coming prepped to freak out at an abortion scene — many seem to faint because they think they’re supposed to.

Yes. Thank you for saying this so clearly. The headlining on this story, driving engagement, leaves out the agency of the parents. Maddening.

Reader, I married him.

The alliteration, the Trumpian capitalization of “masculine” — the message and the method show simultaneous self-satisfaction and capitulation

This needs to be a fridge magnet — perfect

Thank you. I wish this was obvious to more people. In my own world, as one of the god knows how many treated after a breast cancer diagnosis with Tamoxifen or AIs, (both responsible for so much of the positive data shown in the media) my chance at survival is inextricably linked to NIH/NCI research

A nightmarish blend of daddy issues and distorted institutional memory of the Reagan era

Katherine Rundell · Why children’s books? Children’s books, to a great extent because they are written for those who cannot participate in the market, can offer...

Yes! I read an article about children’s literature by today that reminded me that “the world will demand your bravery and endurance,” and that we practice it by reading fiction when we’re young. They must tap into their imaginations here. Jeez. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...