ohhh ‘democracy dies in darkness’ was aspirational

excellent day to be a david brooks hater. color me shocked SHOCKED that the man who wrote a book on the moral life while leaving his wife of decades for his much younger research assistant, was also hanging out with sex pests. who could have possibly see this coming??

the political pundit class has no idea what actual readers want? fork found in kitchen.

FAQ: Underage Women “Many of the headlines have read that [Jeffrey Epstein] is accused of ‘sex with underage women.’ Really? Why are we whitewashing? Why are we not ca...

Q: It’s starting to sound like underage women are children. What’s the difference between underage women and children?

A: Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/faq...

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

i’ve enjoyed this person’s online work and it’s patently fucking insane that they’re suffering through multiple defamation suits because they made a thread about the wrong asshole. please join me in donating to help them out

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You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes.
#romancelandia

just discovered i was still following drake in the year of our lord 2025, so i want to apologize to everyone but especially kendrick lamar

did… did you read the article?

the life of a showgirl is actually just carefully soaking and washing your rhinestoned fishnet tights and sequined shorts

who called it a Kubernetes penetration test and not a clusterfuck

i’ve been trying to bully my husband into shorter inseams all summer

i think it’s delightful that @indiaholton.bsky.social was able to make “too many beds” a thing in The Ornithologist’s Field Guide to Love

The Social Media Trend Machine Is Spitting Out Weirder and Weirder Results Trends always have an element of randomness, but our algorithmic feeds have made them unintelligible.

this is the piece, and it’s great! and it’s pretty short: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

truly can’t believe bloomberg thinks i’d rather read their dogshit 3 bullet AI summary instead of @amandamull.bsky.social’s delightful words

we don’t have beaches, we have the bayou, and not all of us favor the oil wells

she! franziska is a very talented woman and we’re happy to have her offering glass half full here

How to Have a Hot Commie Summer “Wall Street shivers over ‘hot commie summer’ after Mamdani’s success… When Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old self-described socialist, won New York’s ...

Step 1: Move to the United States at age seven.

Step 2: Graduate from Bronx High School of Science.

Step 3: Earn a degree in Africana Studies from Bowdoin College.

Step 4: Become a popular local politician

Step 5: Seize the means of production.

dept of ed grants, by the way, that agency we famously don’t need

frozen grant money is cutting summer programs and after school care because of DEI, queer people, and the radical left wing agenda (no i am not joking)

had this convo with my husband recently. i similarly don’t understand the impulse to have more ire for establishment dems than republicans 🤷‍♀️

An Open Letter to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Who Thinks My Daughter Is a Tragedy Dear Mr. RFK Jr., (The “dear” is tradition. Don’t mistake it for affection.) You said autistic children are a burden. That they ruin families. That...

"Autism doesn’t erase potential. It reshapes it. Sometimes it’s quiet. Sometimes it’s nonlinear. Always, it’s human."

ICE arrested a 6-year-old boy with leukemia at immigration court. His family is suing. A Honduran mother and her two children — ages 6 and 9 — sued the Trump administration over their arrest at Los Angeles Immigration Court, the first lawsuit challenging the arrests of children under a ...

Monstrous:

"They were crying in fear. One of the agents at one point lifted up his shirt, which displayed the gun that he was carrying....The 6-year-old boy was terrified to see the gun. He urinated on himself and wet all his clothing. No one offered him a change of clothing for many hours."

i think you might be surprised at how many of the athletes themselves are queer. like 3 women on my college cheer team are now married to women. lots of gay male cheerleaders as well

that was the era of “freedom fries” and “freedom manicures” so i fear it was pretty stupid, yeah

this is an incredibly reductive response when millions of millions of people in these states did not vote for this admin

downloaded this tiktok just for @kristenarnett.bsky.social and other clown enthusiasts

it’s also pretty fuckin bananas that none of these writers can or will ever make money from the works you linked to, but your mean spirited article is paywalled

since this has been published most of these authors have responded by making their works private. they didn’t want this. time to take the article down

i do think ann landers is better than an ann landers bot trained on data scraped from reddit, yes