i’ve always said the generally hellish experience of going through TSA would be improved by bringing in other federal agents with no understanding of airports who love to shoot people

What we’ve learned from the whole response to McDonald’s is that fast food CEOs are all white men in their 50/60s wearing quarter zips and polos.

Meanwhile the staff at the actual stores…

Bonuses for the workers.

Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs

Useless observation:

Folks who were 25 in 1975 were 75 in 2025.
And yes, I know that’s just how ages work when you’re dealing with multiples of 25 around a century change but it still is delightful.

Any other theatre and/or music kids have a show or piece you can’t escape? Like it’s picked in totally different contexts by different people in different places several times over the course of your life?

U.S. military spending is set to hit a record $1 trillion.

Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government.

Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed EIGHT straight audits.

This is the military industrial complex on steroids.

Ugh

Hey shopping sites-

Let me fill a cart and then save that whole cart as a list for later rather than individually moving things about.

K thanks

A giant Christmas ornament is rolling down whiskey row propelled by the wind like a holiday tumbleweed.

Dimon on why JPMorgan Chase is not funding WH Ballroom:
We have an issue, which is anything we do, since we do a lot of contracts with governments here and around the world, we have to be very careful how anything is perceived, and also how the next DOJ is going to deal with it.

And it’s just a good movie. The kids were all laughing in the theatres. The adults were laughing at the bits kids could never get (a Shining reference?? A Babe quote?! The puns…)

It’s very good and deserves support.

Went into Zootopia 2 wondering if it could be used in equity ed like the first.
It can.
Stories about being the token success, about being partners with different cultural norms, and most importantly about rewriting history, stealing intellectual property, and literally icing out the Latinx-coded.

the more complicated narrative of my both colonized and colonizing ancestors.

Or teasing or fetishizing.

So it still means something to me that when I traveled to Scotland last summer the first thing that was said to me by a colleague was “oh you must have roots here- you look a bit like us!”

A reminder that I, too, can define myself not by proximity to whiteness, but by

I recognize that in the context of the US I carry oh so much privilege from whiteness. But we also love to create hierarchies within whiteness.

Nearly every time I meet someone they immediately comment on my hair color and, more commonly, on how remarkably pale I am. At best. Often it’s derisive

The thing about “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” is that life comes first for a reason. You have to be alive to do these things and healthcare is what keeps us alive.
How dare we even claim our foundational documents when we have paved over them with inequity.

Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.

@kaine.senate.gov as someone who came to appreciate you very much during the 2016 election and was disappointed you would not be in the VP spot, I sense you know the deep lies and pain Trump causes. Please don’t side with ending the shut down. The illusion of relief will cause more pain. Fight.

Speculating loudly about the UPS crash without information as a passenger on a flight heading to Louisville is a remarkably inconsiderate and distressing thing.

Honestly, one of the great American poems. Arguably the great American poem.

Every reminder to stand from my watch on a long flight is a tiny battle.

Hey Delta. I would just love to see the stats of how many people start and finish Swiss Army Man as their setback entertainment.

And if airlines want to start swinging their authority in favor of people now…

When flights are canceled, remember that the inconvenience you’re experiencing is because the president’s MO is to distract you and annoy you while actively harming people.
My flight isn’t worth someone having access to a doctor (and I’m writing this on a plane)

A reminder that Democrats aren’t asking for anything new. They’re just asking that what has already been covered under the ACA continue to be covered. (Which already was a compromise with Republicans to get it to pass and is supported by 75%+ of Americans)

The distorted guitar playing Taylor Swift’s Antihero that plays on Delta flights now is honestly a disservice.

What a mensch.

I find the medications that come in the most difficult to open packages are often the ones you need for urgent relief of a situation.

Gracias a Delta por la versión de piano de Despacito en mi vuelo a San Juan. Muy apropiado.

We covered this on today's @dailybeanspod.com. Extremely dangerous and these ICE agents should be charged with felonies.