It’s kind of astonishing how many news outlets have published versions of a “Tucker Carlson apologized for telling people to support Trump” story by writers who very clearly did not listen to the podcast.
I’m more than halfway through my current Reacher book & he hasn’t even killed one person yet. It’s weird. #amreading 💙📚👀
I'm SO tired of tech companies replacing perfectly good features with AI. Everyone's implementing AI to say they're implementing AI without actually fixing any problems or even identifying the problems they want to fix. I want my features simple and useful! I want the AI bubble to burst!
(One of Us Knows by Alyssa Cole)
My pet peeve with audiobooks. They often do not include acknowledgments or author’s notes. I just listened to a book where the main character has dissociative identity disorder & I would have liked to hear about the research she did.
This Red Sox game sucks.
Thirteen U.S. troops died trying to get these people to safety — Afghan interpreters, soldiers, and the families of our service members. Veterans spent sleepless nights during the chaotic withdrawal fighting to keep them alive. Now our own government is going to abandon them.
as it becomes clear that Yes has won in VA and gerrymandering will pass, a message to Republican voters:
you brought this on yourselves
you convinced the most fairness-obsessed, That Wouldn’t Be Fair-minded voters in the country to affirmatively vote to put you in the dumpster
you earned this
I hate the Yankees so much.
Remember, Democrats have repeatedly advanced measures to ban partisan gerrymandering and Republicans have voted against them time after time.
This is the game Republicans wanted to play. OK, then.
There is a bunny that lives somewhere on our property that is taking great pleasure in tormenting our dog by hanging out in the backyard where Norah can see it but can’t do anything about it and her constant barking has given me a headache. And this Red Sox game isn’t helping.
“we are deliberately killing the immunocompromised, disabled, and chronically ill”
if you think Tucker Carlson's heel turn is an act of genuine introspection I have some sawdust and mouse poop filled wellness and vitality supplements to sell you
The top-two primary needs to be abolished. Every election cycle it leads to races where one party risks getting shut out of a general election it would likely win.
It forces parties to pick favorites in primaries just to avoid shutouts. It fails to do what its proponents intended—often the opposite
Taylor Dearden really has her dad’s eyes. That’s where you can see him the most in her genes.
Apple News+ is the only way I can access some things and I just realized when I sent a link from there to a friend that it’s not like gift links - and I was deeply irritated because some articles need to be shared and mocked.
“What I didn’t know was that measles can cause long-term complications. A child can seem fine while the virus slowly replicates in her brain… Because both Britain and the United States are confronting outbreaks, I am sharing my story. Parents should know just how dangerous this disease is.”
love bluesky because the replies to this post immediately descend into people fighting about whether the minions would have worked for stalin
Looking forward to the ominous tweets of "Omar comin"
Also teenage boys.
I for one would enjoy it if journalists stopped pretending this dinner is anything besides a chance to source up their contacts list and flatter government officials. One of the ickiest rituals in Washington, imo, and that's not a Trump-era thing.
I am so so sorry. You gave him an amazing life. And I am sure he loves you as much as you love him.
As a matter of principle, you can either have a dinner that celebrates the First Amendment or you can have a dinner that features Donald Trump. You can’t have both because the president holds the freedom of the press in contempt. www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...
This is a horror.
Going to keep sharing this, because something I heard from sources is many felt like, after SNAP paused for the first time ever over the fall when the Trump admin refused to fund benefits, lots of people were talking about it. Now, people are still struggling but it feels like attention moved on.
Your regular reminder that cops don't actually justify their existence or enormous budgets by solving much crime.
Approximately 11% of all serious crimes result in an arrest, and about 2% end in a conviction.
And then there's this...
This essay, by @timgrierson.bsky.social, on Leaving Neverland and how so many people have once again chosen to ignore the reality of Michael Jackson’s legacy is as excellent as others have said: www.avclub.com/leaving-neve...
They are still relitigating the last election instead of currently laying the groundwork for winning the next one.
And all of the candidates who need non-white supremacist, non-ableist, non-transphobic votes are very busy bashing the marginalized & disenfranchised.
That’s how you lose again.
Everyone involved in that thing should be absolutely ashamed of themselves.
Alex Jones is truly one of the most evil people alive. He's lucky he lives in an era where the punishment for behavior like his is losing your website and not thumbscrews.