Karen

The arrested state senate staffer is the chair of the Anchorage Young Republicans—or was until the news broke yesterday. alaskabeacon.com/briefs/alask...

“Rescue the dinosaurs! Use the tranquilizer gun to sedate the hostile dinosaurs.”

Gotta love this plaque over the Jurassic World game at Chuck E Cheese where you’re clearly shooting at dinosaurs trying to make it more kid friendly without altering the game. They don’t keel over when you shoot them, they explode! Or you shoot at them with ice guns, very clearly not tranquilizers!

Oh and I get to see Will Swenson in Sweeney Todd tonight! Excited for Eric, who I’ve been slowly working through the Sondheim canon. The last of the big ones he hasn’t seen I think!

YouTube video by Paramount Plus they killed that let's be real #SchoolSpirits

Case in point (really mad I can’t find the full scene of this anywhere) youtube.com/shorts/UPEkz...

Season 2 mostly pissed me off but 3 has been great so far, and it’s the only place where you get to see Milo Manheim dance with a normal skin color

I hadn’t sewed in a few weeks- the weight of the world is such that when 7pm rolls around I just want to dissolve into Great Pottery Throwdown -so I was pleasantly surprised by how much joy the first half of Helen’s Closet Cameron brought me last night. But sleeve plackets and collar still to come…

The OECD’s new Road Safety Annual Report offers a reminder that the US approach toward traffic safety is an abject failure.

Americans are >2x more likely to die on the road than those in South Korea, Israel, Australia, Spain, and other rich countries.

www.itf-oecd.org/road-safety-...

what is even the point of this

5 women, one women's team, and one mixed team have won Olympic gold medals for Team USA at these Olympics. Meanwhile, just one individual male athlete and no men's teams have won gold medals for Team USA

Makes you wonder: when will America start investing in men's sports

i hate to be the “both sides” guy about trump’s incoherency but please don’t forget that aoc said “uh”

me whenever any news story about this acquisition comes up

I never care about the Olympics and I‘ve watched it twice. The crazy thing is it isn’t the jumps, it’s everything around the jumps that to me felt leaps and bounds (sorry) ahead of the competition.

My husband is 5’6” with a 28” waist and has to wear boys L/XL (which is often too short in the sleeves). I’m sure men that are 5’2” have it even worse. This is a problem that exists.

Alysa Liu: "THAT'S WHAT I'M FUCKING TALKING ABOUT" 🗣️

we love a public transit girlie

You've heard that something is going on with colon cancer. I'm working on a thing...let me know what you think!! Is it helpful? What would you do different?

hankgreen.com/crc

His go to for black leaders

If “most” anchors you to 70 and you’re already predisposed to disagree with the premise, you’re going to be mad at 51. It’s bad persuasive communication even if it’s technically correct.

I agree with Will’s hot takes more often than not (especially on the economic issues here). However this IS very much a “vibes” issue - technically correct but emotionally incorrect is a bad way of accurately communicating and will produce the defensive responses there’s been so far.

Language changes, and I think while Will might be right about the technical definition of "most", he's digging his heels in on how "most" will be interpreted in a sentence without data. If you said "most people believe this" and asked people to define what "most" is, no one would say 51%-53%.

Normalize laughing derisively in men's faces when they deserve it.

With New Momentum, Republican States Push Broader Limits for Trans Americans

This is why "Let's give in on some of the trans stuff because it'd be a popular compromise and you have to meet people where they are" is not only immoral but politically stupid.

Republicans were never going to stop there. They stop when you stop them.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/u...

a fucking pedophile sexually abused nearly every prospective and actual Olympian gymnast for over two decades, and the political discourse is hyper-fixated on the hypothetical unfairness of trans girls competing with cis girls

Time for Mayor Mamdani to live up to his campaign promises and ensure care is kept safe for New York trans kids.

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social @mayor.nyc.gov

Mayor Mamdani Breaks His Promise to NYC Public Libraries The Struggle Against Defunding Libraries Continues...

I hope New Yorkers will challenge Mamdani about this. Too often, people feel they need to be absolutely for or against a politician — ignoring their missteps or throwing them out with the bathwater. You can like and/or believe in someone and still challenge them to deliver on their promises.

Hope @mayor.nyc.gov pushes back on this

I have dinner at 4:30 like an ADULT

Shame on NYU Langone for ending gender-affirming care & kicking trans New Yorkers to the curb. It's a violation of their promise to treat all people equally, kindly, and respectfully — and a violation of NYC's human rights law as well. Bending the knee is bad; denying people care is even worse.

for fuck's sake