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Jimmy Carter died and took the conscience of the office of the presidency with him.

It’s been a difficult road here but I would like to announce that I have decided not to have a psyche anymore as it will prevent me from suffering from any breakdowns initiated by our imploding empire.

Gabriel shrieked out to his comrades to give way with their oars, and in that manner the mutinous boat rapidly shot away

okay, fam, I'm tagging out until next Sunday! lots going on this week, still scrambling to stay abreast of all the insane federal funding changes. If any articles drop I'll pop in to post them. (I also got interviewed last week about NEA stuff and I'll share that when I have it too) SEE U NEXT WEEK

What are you looking forward to this week?

It's crazy that no matter how many versions of Star Wars or The Hunger Games or Brazil or V for Vendetta type stories we create, a huge percentage of the people enjoy them still gleefully cheer on the very fascism these stories warn us about as it's staring them right in the face.

from that pallor of the dead, we borrow the expressive hue of the shroud in which we wrap them

I'm absolutely hooked on the CBS sitcom "Ghosts" it has all the cozy familiar rhythms of a classic sitcom but the jokes are SO sharp and fresh and current

sorry to post a public YELLOWJACKETS SPOILER but i am thinking father/son

it's midnight ET; time to stop doomscrolling terrible news and go to bed (ET, CT, and soon PT) or log off for a bit. Max loves you.

Am I the only person who really likes Abbott Elementary but also gets kind of sad every time I watch it? American kids attend schools every day in even worse conditions than on the show. Our country is so wealthy and there's absolutely no reason for it but greed.

THIS TIMELINE, friends-- I. This headline. This timeline. We better find that trigger for the collective mass scale response soon (there will be one, and there will be one) because we do not have time for much more FO, kids.

wall-to-wall red hot Agatha Christie takes on the TL today

I don't know how to make it clearer how the vast majority of Canadians don't want to be Americans at all; and this kind of rhetoric has rapidly poisoned the diplomatic, political and trade relationships the two countries have had for decades.

Supporting tariffs as a means of reproducing a manufacturing economy from decades ago is like me thinking I can go back to being 18 if I starve myself to get to my weight at HS graduation

Supporting tariffs as a means of reproducing a manufacturing economy from decades ago is like me thinking I can go back to being 18 if I starve myself to get to my weight at HS graduation

if by 10 tomorrow morning the democrats are not as one voice raising holy hell about this at every level of visibility — which as we all know they won’t be — then to understate the matter, that’s real bad

Reminder that we have been in a constitutional crisis basically since the first week of Trump’s presidency, and it’s not getting better, it’s only getting more intense.

When DE was first published, I spent 20 minutes on the phone with one of his people about a possible appearance ("Bill loves that stuff"), and of course I was super-excited about being all glamorous on TV, but then I got ghosted. So: lucky break.

when your manservant is warming your ears

It’s also unique to their generation for the most part. This is an unusually old cohort for government. They make it seem like it’s normal but it’s not, and it’s warping our politics!

I am both amused and bemused to note that the phrase "MLB baseball player" is hardly unknown, including at places I'd think would know better.

Proof of dog

if white lotus hurts belinda....

he was somewhat intemperately fond of the whale

The tell of an @emilystjams.bsky.social and Libby writing project is that the characters take time to be human to each other in the middle of tense moments 💜

We apologize for the troubles omg

nothing makes sense and that is why I ate an entire ball of burrata I found in my fridge that had a best before date one month ago

One cranky, old school TV critic's screed suggesting how "reality TV" shows might help feed mistrust of all media. open.substack.com/pub/ericdegg...

Bradley Cooper was weirdly good in Righteous Gemstones

OK, let's go back to one last fun fact for now: The father of soprano Geraldine Farrar, who trained her own geese to appear in a Humperdinck opera and was so charismatic that she became a silent film star, was an MLB player. That's fun, right?

If this country had so much as a shred of balls we’d be doing a tax strike

Not a fan of giving in to terrorism but would rather that Avengers Endgame have won a damn Oscar than be subjected to this lot whinging over how they didn't get one for the last half decade nonstop

Each of these is available as a single edition you can buy from a bookstore today and each is as good at what it is doing as anything else in its little subgenre. So if you’re like “how do I get into comics?” I’d say try one or more of these and see which ones you like.

Ten Comics —Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind/Miyazaki —Maggie the Mechanic/Hernandez —The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Omnibus/Moore & O’Neill —Edena/Mœbius —The Book of Mr. Natural/Crumb —Monica/Clowes —The Hard Tomorrow/Davis —Ducks/Beaton —Weathercraft/Woodring —We3/Morrison & Quitely

It is. I have to do it too! But people *want* to buy our books. This is no small thing.

HOLD THE PHONE STOP STOP EVERYTHING RIGHT NOW A POIROT REMAKE WHERE HE'S FROM THE BELGIAN CONGO AND WE RE-INTERROGATE ALL THE GREATEST HITS FROM THAT POV WOULD SLAP and then Hastings is like, his emotional support himbo and also a white dude who opens doors that would otherwise be closed to him

USA so desperate for eggs the chocolate companies have had to step in

God forgive us. apnews.com/article/trum...

He doesn't know anything about the trade war at all

Yes— it’s St. Paddy’s Day because Patrick is the Anglicization of Pádraig

fun Patti LuPone fact that sounds made-up but isn't: She's the great grand-niece of the soprano Adelina Patti, who (a) once sang for the Lincolns, and (b) once pissed off Rossini, among (c) many other accomplishments.

THEY MADE A STREAMING MINISERIES OF "TOWARDS ZERO" WITH ANJELICA AS LADY TRESSILIAN AND APPARENTLY PEOPLE ARE ALREADY MAD BECAUSE IT'S SPICY AND I'M VERY EXCITED I think it's on like BBC1 and BritBox??

Fun Patti LuPone fact that sounds made-up bit isn’t: She’s the great grand-niece of the reasonably legendary soprano Adelina Patti.

On April 21 we’ll go over Patti LuPone’s name. Again.

"a loose meat sandwich" really made me laugh, I'm going to start calling people that

#copyediting obligatory Paddy not Patty post ☘️

thanks so much for asking i would love to get ALL THE WAY INTO THIS is something a burger because it is served on a burger bun? (is a chicken breast on a bun a chicken burger?) OR, is something a burger because it's a ground patty of meat (is a patty melt a burger despite being served on rye?)

okay with the remainder of my Sunday bluesky time, here are some fun things I would like to discuss, please reply with your takes:

That’s MY coaching tree

There’s a long history of the US using bogus “disorders” to harm and control people. The most egregious example: “drapetomania,” named by Dr. Samuel Cartwright in 1851. This was a “disorder” only enslaved people had, he claimed, a form of insanity that made them want to run away from slavery.

Have tried to explain over the years that anti-criminalization work is anti-fascist work.

I know I post this a lot but it is genuinely astonishing to me that Andy Dick didn’t end up being the worst person on News Radio

This is all just awful, a clear and enormous human rights violation. Labor camps. We sent them to labor camps in another country, in defiance of court order, without any due process.

I want FedEx representatives to be the pallbearers at my funeral so they can let me down one last time

No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be who have tried it.

Reminder that “gang databases” are racist, opaque, and, among a host of other abuses often include children.

Forrest Gump killed his mother with poisoned chocolates

Damn, Mr Worldwide is all over my DM requests 😄 Dale!

Um, @trex-noir.bsky.social signed the guest book for me and @melikhovo.bsky.social

Thinking it’s a good idea to take your brand and risk it on providing safety for air traffic across the country, where every failure is high profile and engenders anger, should be reason enough to reassess someone’s genius status and the idea of genius itself.

This is a complete repudiation of the nonconfrontational approach of Congressional Democrats by fully two-thirds of Democratic voters. I guess Schumer and Jeffries could respond, "Our voters are wrong." To me, that doesn't seem like a path to victory in 2026 or 2028. www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

“Is God A White Racist? No, you voodoo loving niggas deserve everything you get!”

“I’d rather eat nails than listen to platitudes about love from people who voted to destroy my marriage and the lives of people I care about.”

❤️❤️❤️ nothing I like more than pictures of babies eating

The waterboy didn't have the eye discipline to be a starting linebacker, whole league was rigged

This post confirms the reminders I've written to myself and the ones I've written here, about the importance of just focusing on one thing at a time. It might be making yourself a meal, or taking a walk, or doing a load of laundry. One thing at a time.

would be a great time for some judges to get, uh, activisty

I swear to god the things I’ve had to say on Al Gore’s internet

Absolutely incredible political maneuvering here. Just show up and keep telling the mayor they’re not the mayor, and then they have to give you their job, that’s just science nypost.com/2025/03/14/u...

best way to get warm, whitby-style...

One final reüp on this:

this is the shit that keeps me up nights i would really like to see my girlfriend this year, but since I can't exactly charter a frigate and take eight months off to sail around Cape Horn, WHAT DO I DO

Wrote this a couple years ago, think it holds up

what a wild fucking time to be in a long-distance gay relationship with someone in another country

People keep saying that the administration isn’t really ignoring court rulings yet so it’s not a full blown crisis of constitutionality yet, but how does the TikTok ruling not count here?

There are two more warning BVG strikes this week and I am willing to join the picket line for the workers now because I swear to god I cannot keep my kid home this much from school randomly

"It was okay for House Democrats to vote the right way because they knew they were gonna lose but it's different in the Senate" is not an argument that is going to win over a justifiably livid base.

Can someone please tell Google translate to stop translating account in Arabic to pregnancy in English. BECAUSE IT MAKES THINGS VERY CONFUSING

I feel like every parent knows what it feels like to listen to your kid breathe at night and I cannot imagine doing that in a tent and without proper medical equipment to help my daughter ❤️💔

new plan: distract trump from canada and greenland by selling him on getting Earth more moons

need to get trump sold on the idea of getting Earth more moons

Someone on television mentioned a mango margarita and now it’s the only thing in the world I want.

Whomas Tatterton Cilliams

This reflects a complete misunderstanding of literally all of film history, Miramax history, and Oscars history, which is incredibly impressive for such a small space. variety.com/2025/film/ne...

It’s obvious from their language, “thugs” and the like, they’re going to work to Willie Horton their way through all this.

mars legit the most boring normie space goal anyway, reclaim venus or gtfo

if you know a place where somebody undocumented can be found, no you don't

While bad tattoos are just a sign of a quirky hipster phase for some on others they’re evidence of inherent criminality. “The images included a star, a crown, a train, a rose, a long rifle, and the number "23."” www.latintimes.com/immigration-...

There is a famine again in Gaza- no aid is getting in and electricity and water are severely limited. So if Gazans on here seem more persistent than usual please remember they are desperate and treat them how you’d hope someone would treat your family.

Discussion about how US colleges and universities are overly reliant on international students and how that could quickly unravel reminds me of when I wrote about Julio Torres' PROBLEMISTA and this very issue at several major art schools: www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

Going to be curious to see how a press which has often been keen to portray Clyburn as the country’s most influential Black man plays his anger with Schumer here.

this is so true the Indian Navy once tried to court martial my great uncle for literally this* *He was CO of a carrier during Prohibition and ordered it into international waters so he could have drinks

Emad was the second account on here from Gaza and he keeps getting banned- despite giving Bluesky his passport and other information. He got a spam label today so here’s his fundraiser www.gofundme.com/f/Palestine-...

After the barring of affirmative action we are now seeing a concerted effort to push out students that were often held up as celebrated model minorities in contrast to US Black students. I wouldn’t e surprised to see an increase in state support once academia is considered satisfyingly purged.

*Pimp C voice* it’s really going down in the South

Truth hath no confines.