Ashley Pratt

8 hrs of sleep for everybody in the zohran for nyc font

“More than once, the name ‘Frantz Fanon’ was broached—which had the virtue of certain hand-showing clarity.” …
“‘People read Foucault,’” the redoubtable David Brooks once wrote, in an actual column…” …
“‘Critics say’ is the tell, and does it ever go on telling.” and it keeps going…

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Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 95th day out of the last 107.

12 days of work in 107 days.

With full pay and benefits.

The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.

It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.

English Lit Major voice: Akhnai is the oven, not the rabbi

I understand why Western artists and academics immediately see their own fields as the place where they can make a difference but Israeli artists and academics are often (though not always) the ones the Israeli government is, itself, trying to silence.

Anti-Arab racism and Islamophobia are very real and powerful forms of bigotry in our modern world, and deserve to be talked about on their own terms. We can do that without taking away one of the words Jews have, rooted in the very particular Jewish experience in modern Europe.

So antisemitism refers to Jews, because that was how the term was invented. It was a way of inventing the racialization of the Jews, and it therefore differs from (while still borrowing from) earlier Christian anti-Judaism.

It is nearly always clear from context that when people use "during Covid" they mean "during the emergency response to the Covid-19 pandemic" (too long to write every time!) and are not making any statement at all about the continued circulation of the virus or the effects of the disease.

This can’t be a unique problem that only I have

Have we as a society settled on what you do when you are approaching a location where you’re meeting someone and you see them but you’re kind of a long way away so it’s awkward to acknowledge them but then you’re basically looking right at them for a minute or more as you walk??

Washington, DC under military occupation in last August 2025, with banners proclaiming the absolute power of the primus inter pares

This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself.

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

To be more specific: the Trump administration has already taken many steps that will make it harder for the opposition to win. But it's not clear that they're enough, especially if the incumbent is very unpopular. We'll only know then if the consolidation has happened, can't know in advance.

Yes I’m staring down my first high holidays with a pulpit BUT I bought Tyler Childers tickets for the day after Rosh Hashanah II so I have to survive

I’m sure everyone used it that way around you when you were growing up, and you hadn’t even considered the broader implications of the phrase. You weren’t aware, but now you are. So, in the future, if you could please criticize public figures without Jews catching strays, we’d appreciate it.
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the regime is weaker than they want you to believe

Sometimes I want to message men on dating apps just to ask, “you do know this is meant to make you seem *appealing*, right?”

Too many Christians think Judaism is just Christianity with funny hats

Nobody — but NOBODY — does yearning like los hispanohablantes

Screenshot reading, “Health care workers make up 10 percent of the nation’s work force, but they experience nearly half of the nonfatal injuries incurred, according to 2023 data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.”

Astounding, appalling statistic:

After Years of Anger Directed at C.D.C., Shooting Manifests Worst Fears

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/u...

A screenshot reading, “The sound of rapid gunfire started around 4:50 p.m. on Friday. One scientist who evaluates Covid vaccines had just stepped out of her building to walk to her car. As she headed to pick up her infant daughter from day care, shots rang out over her right shoulder, she said. She turned around, ran back inside and called security to confirm what was happening. “C.D.C. SHELTER IN PLACE. GUNMAN AT EMORY POINT,” she wrote to friends and colleagues in a group chat at 4:57 p.m. (The agency did not send out its alert to employees until 5:13 p.m.) The employee and three others barricaded themselves in an office, moving two loaded bookshelves against the door. She put a sticky note over the motion sensor for the light switch and lay flat on the floor for hours, before a SWAT team arrived to clear the floor.”

Amazing work on her part but embarrassing for the CDC 😬

A screenshot reading, “In interviews, the employees conveyed sadness about the police officer who had died trying to keep them safe, and a feeling of betrayal and devastation at being demonized while working to improve Americans’ health.”

why does this read like an AI summary? (From the NYT article about the CDC shooting)

You know why CDC has blast-proof windows? A response to the Oklahoma city bombing, in 1995. That's how long the American right wing has been mass-killing federal workers.

The bombing followed the Gingrich Revolution of 1994, when hatred of government workers rushed into the political mainstream.

A terrorist targeted federal workers last week. There wasn’t much reporting on it. But I’m not finished thinking about it! 🧵

An anti-vaxxer fired more than 500 gunshots into CDC Atlanta, shattering 150 “blast-proof” windows on 6 buildings. Employees were pinned down in terror.

When I tell you my jaw literally and actually dropped…

I'm beginning to think the solution to violent crime is banning conservatives from visiting cities.

No matter your level of familiarity with contemporary art, you will recognize at least one piece or artist.

Of course the collection is spectacular. I audibly gasped multiple times.