Benjamin Lowe

Don't go fishing near Portland, I guess.

Presumably because they are doubled over with laughter.

And I say “presumably” because I would just assume this is the answer without asking for confirmation.

shout-outs to the best bathroom heating system of all time, A Hot Tube

I feel like Jesus would be like "ok yeah time to flip some tables"

Not being in control of your own destiny suuucks

Particularly infuriating: weekends are the best time for electeds to work with the groundswell of activists trying to oppose rising authoritarianism.

Instead, Dem leadership seems committed to hiding from these grassroots movements in desperate need of support.

Imagining this being vandalized with just… direct quotations of Charlie Kirk.

A monkey bread cools in a Bundt pan on a wire rack.

A close-up of the texture of an herby, cheese-filled monkey bread.

Shana Tovah! Will be making a cardamom apple challah tomorrow, but today the masses demanded garlic-mozzarella monkey bread.

I read that with a Ringo Starr voice anyway.

Riding To the airport listening to the Hot 97 drivetime DJs explaining to their audience how media conglomeration is aligned with the rise of authoritarianism and the curtailing of free expression. What a time to be alive.

fuck off you did this

unclear if this is a comment on our national politics or an observation about undergraduate discussion sections

We should, in fact, deepen our divisions with ardent ethnonationalists.

We should not make space for them or normalize them or laud them for their dedication to *spirited debate* about whether Black people are mentally deficient or gay people should be stoned to death.

This is really shameful and pathetic, even for Kash Patel.

Maybe have qualified law enforcement people head the FBI instead of professional shit posters.

I *wish* this were the Democratic Party’s job.

Unfortunately, its primary role is to *reelect incumbent Democrats,* which is why it focuses on amassing cash and moderating rightward rather than representing the interests of its party members from whom it derives little guidance.

Beware the Centrist Dweebs Trying to Ape Zohran Mamdani All over the country, young Democratic candidates are running seemingly Mamdani-style campaigns. But check the fine print.

Rather than offering a real alternative to the status quo, this crop of candidates is repackaging the boring, moderate politics of the Democratic establishment with inauthentic videos and forced rhetoric.

They reassured us that they used general terms and didn’t use words like ”shooter” or “gun” but did acknowledge this vagueness caused some kids to be afraid whenever *anyone* knocked on the closed classroom door. Cool cool cool

At my kids’ elementary school PTO meeting.

The update on the upcoming active shooter drill, where our kids are taught to huddle silently in the dark, is between announcements about the cellphone policy and fall carnival, because preparing children for these horrors is just mundane and normal now.

huh, guess he really did love Charlie Kirk like one of his sons.

A view of the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse from across the street, where a line has formed.

By 2:15 PM today, people started lining up in front of the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse to get a seat for Luigi Mangione’s courtroom appearance tomorrow.

The blue tents are paid line-sitters who apparently make about $25/hr.

No, @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social, New Yorkers are asking why NY electeds who claim to be Democratic “leadership” are getting lapped by a Maryland Senator.

Jeffries and Schumer look weaker and less relevant every day they don’t endorse the Democratic nominee for Mayor over a sex pest and a crook.

That’s good to hear. That was always my problem with AC games, it ended up feeling like the Land of A Thousand Bland Side Dishes.

Now, to actually finish E33….

My six-year-old’s idea. She’s very happy with the result.

Three t-shirts screen-printed with “NYC Jews For Zohran” in the shape of a Z surrounded by the text, “CHILDCARE FOR ALL — FAST FREE BUSES — FREEZE THE RENT”

Got to screen print a bunch of Jews For Zohran swag ahead of their 200-person JVP/JFREJ canvass in Brooklyn!

Canary Missed Connections

It’s a start.

Ironically that’s because you argue with civility.

Bluesky user Patrick Hruby asks, “What disagreements, exactly, was he bridging via his work and words?” Sally Jenkins replies via quote post, “He argued with civility. It’s a start.”

I’m assuming it was she who blocked you. The Jenkins post you’d quoted:

he was growing, and while I disagreed with many of his political stances,

It’s a Warrior XII shirt. Explicitly conservative pro-gun apparel aimed at dads, but not a 3% shirt.