Bethany Claus Widick

Ladies and gentlemen, the meritocracy.

Don’t look back, you can never look back.

@mcsweeneys.net, I feel seen.

Are we at all surprised that someone dating a Kardashian [-adjacent] doesn’t see the relevance of art forms like opera or ballet?

Can you spare a minute to help this campaign? STOP the Demolition of the Chicago Stock Exchange Trading Room!

Please join me in letting the Art Institute of Chicago know that demolishing Adler & Sullivan’s historic Trading Room, rescued from the Chicago Stock Exchange, to expand the museum is a terrible idea.

Consistent in that christo-fascist, patriarchy-upholding way, I guess.

Say what you will about the strikes on Iran and the resulting chaos, but Hegseth truly has captured the chivalric ethos of the original Crusaders (purposeless, unstrategic, basically slaughtering people for clout)

When you put it like this, a $75 million bribe to Melania and gutting the Washington Post seems like a small price to pay.

worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead

But didn’t they say her rights weren’t violated, she has to use the pronouns?

Sausage!
Old Sausage
Three Men and a Little Sausage

Still marking essays, mostly because I haven’t yet created macros for “Use hanging indents for the subsequent lines of each entry in your bibliography“, and “In the most recent edition of CMOS (18th), place of publication is no longer required for book citations.”

Reporter: You received a letter from AG Pam Bondi making several demands….

Walz: I would just give a pro tip to the AG. There's 2 million documents in the Epstein files we're still waiting on. Go ahead and work on those

Mary knows. We’re going to make it after all.

Klobuchar: "Somehow 50,000 peaceful protesters in 10 below weather were able to march without any problems, and then the next day half a dozen ICE and CBP agents couldn't handle a guy with a cell phone taking video of them and shot him. I think it's pretty obvious what's going on here."

a man is pulling a green bag on a trolley Alt: a man is pulling a green bag, falls down while walking and doesn’t get up.

Set a timer for each essay you mark, they said.

You shouldn’t spend more than an hour on one, they said.

Me, after grading one essay in two and a half hours:

My husband is from there, we met in law school there, we were married there — can confirm.

So proud of the (aptly named) North Star state.

What happens when the taps run dry? England is about to find out | Aditya Chakrabortty It’s not just Tunbridge Wells – a country famous around the world for its rain is in danger of self-imposed drought, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

“The right gave us privatisation of the water industry…What it’s done is entrust our most important public goods to a bunch of hedge funds and private-equity sharks in other countries, who have siphoned off whatever returns they can get while putting barely anything back.”

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Finally, some good news!

Re: Greenland (and Venezuela and whatever fresh horrors await us in 2026) — this is what happens when you acquiesce to a bully. He does not stop, until he is stopped. See Putin, V.; Hitler, A.; Bonaparte, N.

Sleeping dog wearing a Christmas sweater

Sally is Christmas-ed out, Grinch feet and all.

The government failed at actually redacting the Epstein files because DOGE cancelled the feds adobe acrobat premium subscription is the funniest shit.

There's no rule of journalism that says you have to show a president telling lie after lie – uncorrected – many times a day. That's a decision that corporate media are making for purposes other than delivering the truth to the public.

Thank goodness Lizzy is polyamorous because she and I also spend a lot of time together, and she is wonderful.

Photo of Kim Kardashian crying, with text saying “But I’m not ready to say goodbye”

Seeing a student take out her phone to snap a pic of my last slide made my day! Until next time, The Modern Interior — what a phenomenal first official Associate Lecturer gig at the Courtauld!

When they have opposable thumbs they get to have an opinion. Not a vote, mind - just an opinion.

Fancy pens are never, ever, the wrong answer.

Those are the stories I like to read, and tell! That’s the very best part of history.

So he’s pro-racism AND pro-serif? Cool, cool.