Megan Peglar

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She reminded me a lot of Eleanor Shellstrop this season.

Especially this part. Both Alex and I have dealt with this, and it feels absolutely terrible to feel like the administration is purposefully sending this message.

every real writer who thinks hard about what they want to say and then sits down and writes it feels like a fraud, and the people who have the computer write the book for them feel like accomplished authors

Swearing in isn’t some ceremony. You aren’t a member of Congress until it happens. He knows that.

No phones, no staff, nothing.

I had to escort her into the Capitol on Wed bc Capitol police must treat her as a public visitor until she’s sworn in. And solo visitors aren’t allowed during shutdown!

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

Semi-regular reminder that a sane country would have already impeached and removed. But then again a sane country wouldn’t have elected a maniac criminal twice in the first place.

This is so awesome

The Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled, in a series of 6-3 decisions, that Donald John Trump is Our Very Special Boy for whom none of these piddling little "laws" or even "the Constitution" can touch.

The thing about a lot of these never Trump Republicans is that, unlike a lot of institutionalist Dems who think the fever will break and we can all return to comity or whatever, these guys saw the rot up close and know the only appropriate response is to tear them out of government root and branch.

You can add up all the enjoyable pursuits of LLMs and the work productivity hacks and none of them, separately or together, will be more important than AI’s ecological costs or political disruption.

“We” is more important here.

That was one of the most batshit press conferences of Trump's public life. He brandished a photo of Putin and promised to deploy the US military to occupy Chicago, New York, and San Francisco. A sane country would be moving toward impeachment and removal right now.

It is so wild to me that we had a terrorist attack on the CDC and it just blended into the rest of the political violence.

Jailing your political opponents for campaigning is something you only pull when you’ve fully captured the government and courts and fear no real consequence - which the GOP in Texas has done

I figured. Unfortunately those autocrats Trump and Abbott have a lot in common.

I think you’re right about no news being good news!

The worst single-day crime spree in modern Washington history, of course, took place on Jan. 6, 2021. Trump issued no order to the National Guard to intervene -- Mike Pence did -- and later pardoned the perpetrators.

Well, Texas GOP politicians *do* keep trying to have the state takeover the city, citing increased crime when really violent crime is down by 20% since two years ago. (I hope your friend is okay.)

ICE is behaving as if it is an unaccountable secret police. Proving they’re accountable has to be the top priority of Democrats and states everywhere.

We've become so accustomed to lawbreaking that this probably won't ripple much, but it is important not to forget that firing the IRS Commissioner for refusing to break the law--if that's in fact what happened here--would and should prompt immediate articles of impeachment in any other presidency.

To elaborate a bit on why inviting Putin to Alaska for talks on ending the war without Zelensky (or European allies) represents, among many other things, the death of US diplomacy 🧵1/

signs of cats who are running for cat mayor of somerville, massachusetts

a sign for a cat running for cat mayor named hermes squirmies

a pink sign for a cat running for cat mayor named beatrix. her slogan is “no kings, only princesses”

a sign for a cat running for cat mayor named Luna. her slogan is “pro zoomies, chaos, and attention”

there’s an election for Cat Mayor currently happening in Somerville, Mass. and every cat deserves to win

Cold civil war. If Abbott does this, the state will essentially obliterate its own legitimacy.

When the FDA Commissioner goes on TV to elevate an unverified anecdote about a "friend's parent" dying from a COVID vaccine—while ignoring safety data from 1M+ people published 48 hours earlier—we have an institutional problem. This misleading rhetoric is deeply irresponsible. 🧵

there are so many great things about generative AI! here are some of my favorites <3

Unbelievable.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...

This destroyed me but if you can handle reading it, it’s really, really worth your time.

really interesting that the vice president cites as a key intellectual influence a guy who thinks black people are natural slaves

AOC: "On this point of tax on tips, as one of the only people in this body who has lived off of tips, I want to tell you a little bit about the scam ... the cap on that is $25,000 while you're jacking up taxes on people who make less than $50,000 across the US ... while kicking them off the ACA."