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Today's 🐝 felt like one of Oscar Hammerstein's scratchpads.

Happy St Patrick's Day to the Irish-American tradition that's about solidarity with oppressed peoples and opposition to imperialism, and *NOT* to the part that's about integration into American whiteness via exercises in domineering racism.

I've been trying to respond individually but want to say thank you to everyone who has emailed me an affirming note about this newsletter because it was a little bit scary to put out in the world. I am empathetic about the pressures of coming from a publicly-known family but this is bad:

BREAKING: It’s the Jews’ fault. 🙄

Volunteer Opportunity: acaciajustice.org/witness-for-... - "By joining Witness for Justice, you help expose what’s happening inside immigration courts, especially as families and children disappear into a system with little public oversight."

Thank you Mr. President

i know that if i'm a passenger and i see something like this happening, i'm going to start asking questions (and sharing with everyone involved how many followers i have on social media) this is awful

Lindsey Graham isn’t Jewish. Neither is Marco Rubio. Neither is Pete Hegseth. You see how white Christian dudes get to skate with this entire narrative heaping the power they hold onto a religious minority.

that’s right. I can’t be tamed.

Holy jones, WHAT A SITUATION THIS DUDE IS. Part one of a two-parter on (god help us) Russell Brand is out now! www.buzzsprout.com/1411126/epis...

this is true and is also annoying for those of us who are committed to an ideological political project.

The Trump administration’s oil embargo on Cuba has now shut down the nation's power grid, resulting in a humanitarian crisis for over ten million people. Utilities, hospitals, and other critical infrastructure have ceased to function, putting countless lives at risk.

Antizionist Jew here to say explicitly: they're gonna kill Jews over this. American Jews who have no ties to Israel. And some of that blood will be on the hands of Jewish zionists who allowed themselves to be used as shields by Christian Nationalist Zionists.

just saw a very neat legit bird fly by my window at first I thought it was a hawk or some shit but it seemed a lil small for that? it also went by too fast for thorough investigation, but it was definitely a real bird

Pretty much agree with everything here, and also wanted to say that the folks over at the Center for American Progress are opposed to the tax cut idea as well. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/dems-no-ta...

This behind a paywall so I can't read it. But perhaps some of you will remember that I started saying in February 2025 that the fascists were not actually having fun and that their parties sucked, lol.

"If you’ve ever wanted to understand the mysteries of the universe, theoretical physicist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein wrote just the book for you. Her infectious passion and poetic explanations in The Edge of Space-Time make concepts ranging from microscopic particles to the big bang feel accessible."

today's random theater photo: Josephine Hutchinson as Nina in The Seagull (1929)

The dog poop situation near my place is out of control and I blame Door Dash again. People think it's someone else's job to pick up their dogs' poop and it's actually not. It's their job.

Happy Brigitte Helm's birthday!

I know I’m deep in book revisions bc I dreamed a Black mayor won office and banned Black music, imposed dress codes, and pushed other wild enforcement rules. At his inauguration, I started a chant every time he laid out a policy: “respectability politics” over & over again. I need my brain back.

My favorite Arabic idiom is “bokra fil mishmish” — tomorrow when there are apricots — i.e. lol never

Actually the John Birch Society was bad

“high-ranking Israeli officials and influential members of the American media deployed a misinformation campaign that wholly undermined your America First platform and sowed pro-war sentiments” is a clause I think everyone ought to look twice at before endorsing this guy

His education was not yet completed. He was an undergraduate.

The invention of Donald the Dove is an absolute necessity for people with no interest in examining how they fell for it.

muting like an MFer and I did it to myself.

RIP to one of the spy novel greats, Len Deighton.

A true nobody-to-root-for situation.

Bernie Sanders lifted up Graham Platner in Maine almost a year ago but refuses to support a *woman of color* progressive in the New Hampshire Senate race 🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐 Sign your name urging him to support Karishma Manzur because Chris Pappas is a racist moderate docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

"Joe Kent, one of the United States’ top counterterrorism officials, announced his resignation on Tuesday, citing his opposition to the Iran war and what he said was Israel’s influence over the Trump administration’s policies." doesn't bode well www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/w...

7 May in UK and Europe! buythebook.online/edge-of-spac...

You do not rush billions of dollars of weapons to a country that pushed you into a war against your will. No.

I also believe that influence =/= control.

I think I missed the extremely narrow east-coast window for my absolutely favorite fruit, oroblanco, and suddenly my entire body feels like it’s been filled with cement

Excited by the delightful review from WBUR that takes up exactly this point! “Physics is a kind of poetry, a story about the cosmos that is made from metaphors,” Prescod-Weinstein writes. www.wbur.org/news/2026/03... 💙📚⚛️

“He was deceived by Israel” is going to be the story so many people are going to reach for and I think creating this stabbed in the back myth is going to have some really bad consequences down the line.

Usually I share the video of the time I was hit by a miniature car at a Saint Patrick’s Day parade today but this year the same parade managed to actually kill someone so it seems distasteful

Sometimes I tell my cat "you're welcome," and it's always funny when I do, because usually it's when she's being very fussy and annoying and I do something for her and she meows at me for taking too long.

Gold star husband what

imagining the meeting where someone was like goal number one is to find a trendier, more whimsical term for attempted murder

which is at least a little ironic because the American upper class is absolutely this pliable

possibly the funniest part of the whole story. she didn't even write the book

possibly the funniest part of this whole story

There is a trend in UI that I’m just not getting. It’s the thing where I have to click more than once to see information on something I’m interested in. Why do I need to click on a product in a lineup to bring up some kind of preview page where I then have to click “see full details” for more??

this is so embarrassing lmaaoo

Cities worldwide are suffering from a dire housing shortage—at least that’s what we’re told. But have we really built too few homes? Or is something else going on?

the video completely ignores this but it's amazing how extrapolating from aggregate data trained on consumer media reveals broad biases that women have been complaining about for a generation. the resident evil thing is like one of those anna sarkeesian supercuts in a single image.

Services will remain off “until ICE indicates how water and sewer to the facility will be served without exceeding the limited infrastructure capacity.” The facility when full would effectively triple the population of the area and ICE refuses to provide the local government with impact reports.

this, to me, is true art

every strange, half-seen, gliding, beautiful thing that eludes him; every dimly-discovered, uprising fin of some undiscernible form, seems to him the embodiment of those elusive thoughts

It’s weird how much it upsets people when I talk about how the American apparatus has had and continues to have a genocidal attitude toward Black people and its not because they’re upset about the genocidalism, it’s that they don’t want to confront their own normalization of anti-Black violence

He does in fact give off underworld character from Charmed vibes

"...yet another iteration of Trump and his supporters’ push to shape D.C. to their liking — which has extended from policing to golf courses and cultural centers." The feds blocking a new school in DC because the architecture isn't classical enough. Statehood yesterday

A happy adoptaversary to this boy, who has been taking good care of me for eight years.

“Access to phones and everything on them is terrible and we need to get kids off these dang devil phones so let’s ban ‘em!! oh also let’s make sure kids have full access to inept, deranged techbro AIs who will tell them the capital of Minnesota is Lesotho before convincing them to kill themselves.”

Andressen’s thinking here demonstrates the failure to resolve Erickson’s generativity vs stagnation phase. the profound loneliness and isolation on the other side of this failure is intense and per usual guys like this will make everybody else pay for it

Esraa lost her newborn son Ahmed during the windstorm in Gaza this week. She is still recovering from the C-Section and also needs to take care of her other three children- if you can help 💔

April 13/14: news.chanda.science/archive/the-...

One day someone will write a book about the NYT’s century long legacy of promoting genocidal messaging, from selling slave catcher ads to making Hitler seem chill to “he was no angel” to attacks on trans people Feature, not bug, often honed on Black people as well as queer people.

Wait til he finds out that people are made out of particles Anyway when you are transphobically committed to misunderstanding metaphor you write posts like this

—oh, weariness! heaviness! Guinea-coast slavery of solitary command!

New episode! On @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social, @adriandaub.bsky.social and I chart Bari Weiss’ rise from a cancel culture grifter leaving the New York Times to the pinnacle of national media. We cover the rise of The Free Press and the fall of the free press. pod.link/1696774612/e...

Y'ALL (I don't know why this has gotten a "rude" warning but evidently the 'readheads have no souls' thing is rooted in antisemitism? Y'all.)

HEY AUTHORS www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

TIL: Frou Frou's famously-attached-to-the-movie-Garden-State- song, Let Go, was written for another film. Phone booth. That movie where Colin Ferrell gets stuck in a phone booth with a sniper on him. I'm dead serious.

a minute black spot was dimly discerned, falling from that vast height into the sea

it's time for a new laptop which means it's time for a new sticker landscape and I'm trying to decide if I can pull off "MEAN LESBIANS ARE THE BACKBONE OF OUR SOCIETY" in hot pink letters when I have to bring this to work meetings obviously this one is mandatory

this is also my answer

oh my god I'm so excited

the thousand concurring accidents of such an audacious enterprise

sorry, WHAT???? an earthquake just hit the people who don't have any power???????? jesus christ what a nightmare

“Over time, Musk had become convinced that the real bugs in the code were people, especially the non-white illegal immigrants whom he saw as pawns in a liberal scheme to corrupt democracy and beneficiaries of what he called “suicidal empathy”.”

The biggest difference between the Earth and Tamriel isn't the magic and dragons, it's that on Earth everything eventually evolves into a crab and in Tamriel everything eventually evolves into a stealth archer

The song "Shots" came up on my Spotify. Always takes me back to dancing on a bar dressed as a bunny in Jerusalem. Yes, that Jerusalem. I have no excuse for my life pre-illness.

wait- the game was projected to earn out great so the CEO decided he wanted a bigger cut than he'd agreed to and asked the AI chatbot to help his hostile takeover and contract violation strategy?? at the bottom of every gen AI shitpile is ALWAYS one of the stupidest but also greediest mfs alive

at the point where half the film reviews are like some weird funhouse mirror experience where it isn't even clear if they watched the same film as you did but somehow appear to be reviewing one with the same title cast and premise

I think the short version is "if you believe in everything being political you should want your side to be effective at it and turning things people consume with the intention of being entertained into a lecture about Good Works is the literal opposite of being effective"

it's his own fault he's so unpopular, a better attitude would go a long way

the way they've turned the screws on modi with this the last 48 hrs has been incredible to witness

This is why Captain Kirk said we need our pain

Hi, are you doomscrolling? Have you moisturized?

screw-drivers, cork-screws, tweezers, awls, pens, rulers, nail-filers, countersinkers

I guess my issue with One Battle After Another included tonal shifts. Like, some realistic, some satire exaggerated, and not very well stirred together. Even a weird little bit of twee. Minor character like the dude Penn gave his daughter to also had little motivation for what he did.

2100: Nothin' but skulls as far as the eye can see and floating nano chatbots chattering away chattering away chattering away.

Adopt me and be my daddy or I’m going to have to shoot you in the head with a revolver

I also wonder if any of these people remembered what happened to the Kurdish people in Iraq after the first Gulf War.

I have a really outlandish theory about this: He's lying.

I really love my dog.

met a 25 year old and determined we failed them enough that we’re all going to hell

A former president of what? That’s the question.

keep hearing all this "Iranian ppl should rise up" and rise up against who exactly? the dudes they hated and wanted to rise up against you took out on Day 1, and I'm no Lenin but somehow I doubt "just go rise up against...against... look just go burn some shit" is cutting it as a call to revolution

keep hearing all this "Iranian ppl should rise up" and rise up against who exactly? the dudes they hated and wanted to rise up against you took out on Day 1, and I'm no Lenin but somehow I doubt "just go rise up against...against... look just go burn some shit" isn't a great call to revolution

Every billionaire: “I literally don’t review my own thoughts or interrogate my ideas or premises” Median voter: “We should keep letting them spend infinite money on elected officials, if not run for office themselves”

Here is a Copy of Reading Comprehension For Advanced Students so you know exactly what we don't want around here

just had to add seven new deaths to my ICE victims roster, which left off when I made the PDF with Alex Pretti. that was January 24. so that's six new deaths since then, and one from December I didn't have on my list (Keith Porter). just utterly soul-crushing

Oh god it was a ghost wasn’t it

Literally living the dream.

the guy on the radio just said "lets take a short break from all the politics" and then put on Dire Straits