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I don’t want to vote for a Democrat who promises to get Trump’s voters to vote for them. I want a Democrat who wants to put Trump in prison

I'm starting to wonder how much "the male loneliness epidemic" is just straight and bisexual women identifying low-effort, mean, and incompetent men and choosing not to date, marry, and tolerate them anymore

Frank Sinatra almost got into a fist fight with Bing Crosby on the set of High Society to defend the dignity of Louis Armstrong, who was added to the production due to Sinatra’s advocacy. It’s not hard to find PSAs for tolerance that Sinatra filmed!

maybe given the current political situation, finding things about which to say “the president has a point” is not only not a good look but actively bad and fucked up? Maybe maybe resist the impulse to say “well I agree with this chump” and find something else to talk about instead?

I've been saying this for a year now: the Democrats have missed a gigantic political opportunity--and, at this point, have failed in an ethical obligation--to create a shadow-government health department that dispenses medically accurate information, guidance, and advice.

I cannot stress enough that is some rando responds to something you reposted trying to draw you into a “but have you considered” discussion of it, they are not acting in good faith, and you just block. Please, embrace the blue sky way. block. block. block.

At a dance class I complimented a woman on her grippy-bottomed socks. “I love the psych ward socks,” I said. And she goes “I call them Pilates socks.” And those, my friends, are the two types of people.

This is in fact the material point: “The essay not only fails to meet basic college requirements — such as citing its primary source, the Bible — but fundamentally missed the assignment’s objective,” Tranquill said.

this genuinely, for real, does make me feel better sometimes every time you really land a joke, just remind yourself, "wow, all that money and Elon Musk still can't do that"

I am embarrassed to have an opinion about what a director I’ve only seen I think 3 movies by said on a podcast but every time I’ve ever seen Matthew Lillard in a movie I’ve enjoyed it; giving props to work you like rules over being catty and rude, & people who think catty and rude is good are bores

Jesus healed someone he wasn't supposed to. Therefore it's okay to murder people you're not supposed to. Solid grasp of faith, literacy, and logic we've got here

Feels annoying that I have to specify that from here on out, politicians need to have adult-level emotional regulation.

All you have to do is to see how comfortable Newsom is in declaring that he is against a billionaire tax.

It turns out the “culture war” was the point all along, just like Black people said it was.

Man that is NOT gonna turn out for you the way you think

babysitting my best friend’s pup tonight and left the room for a minute. look at the state of this

Gavin Newsom is an absolute freak who is obsessed with trans girls and homeless people. If he wants normality in his life he should start by having the personal maturity of the median grocery store cashier

choo choo, motherfucker

Lynchings, he wants to see people lynched.

calling it now, the “look for the helpers” of 2k26 is “look for the anarchists”

Our ancestors did more with much less. We have no excuse.

If I were one of the wealthiest people in human history, living in a country with ever growing wealth inequality, I might think twice about advocating ritual execution

Pardon power is not the problem. More people should be freed from this vicious system. Corruption and organized crime as governance are the problem. Shady pardons are just one symptom of the much larger clusterfuck we're in. If you zoom in too much on any detail as "the problem," you lose the plot.

why some people be mad at me sometimes they ask me to remember but they want me to remember their memories and i keep on remembering mine. + Lucille Clifton

I’m fine with discussions about how to be less judgmental, but not from people who think that means trans people don’t get rights. We’re not the judgmental ones in this whole thing.

So so so many, but one that comes up more frequently than you might think is Yes YES The tiger is out

I will be continuing to uplift and celebrate Black creativity, Black study, and Black people across the world. You are welcome.

Fuck all that, Lillard is great. Tarantino can pound sand.

I ordered the new edition of the Merriam-Webster dictionary. Just to HAVE. Recklessly, with my heart. It arrived today. I have so many words!

Before Bilal got deleted this morning I saved this photo of little Fares who is just a month old

“Nurse? We’re going to need 400 ccs of blood and a crunchwrap supreme.”

Seriously I think this is the sell. When we say “this is how it’s done” it sounds prescriptive, people hate that. “You will like how it feels” is the winning message

*C+C Music Factory voice*

Lo you, my lord, The net has fall’n upon me! I shall perish Under device and practice.

There’s a dog in this bar and every time the Georgia fans bark, the dog barks back, and then we cheer for the dog. The dog isn’t here with a Georgia fan and her mom seems so confused

“I don’t treat fat people any differently” (Photos by the inimitable Haley Morris Cafiero: www.haleymorriscafiero.com)

The best soccer player was called George Best

jaysus... now insta appears to generate titles/ headlines via AI for stuff I post... to create click bait for google wtf do not like

The love of rich people is only surpassed by the hatred of the poor. Two sides of the same coin.

Yes, I recommend that people read Dr. Olsavsky's book: lsupress.org/978080717730... - I learned so much from it.

tapping the "please support billionaire free, worker run, reader supported news" holiday edition

The shredded cheese recall / possible metal fragments package tour is hitting over half the country. I respect the work effort

A friend saw several of these ornaments in a thrift store, still in their original packaging & texted me. I didn't see his message, and he didn't know if I already had one/would want it, so he hid it behind the display, so I could come find it if I wanted it. My partner retrieved & bought it today.

Look, it's bad that it's a cat. What if it's a kid?

Me, judging Gavin Newsom

Sadly, this appears to be AI. There are some tells throughout (hands disappearing, the people in the background staring like collective zombies, some weird configurations on the walls) but overall, this looks pretty real -- it's getting harder to tell what's real and what's not. Which ain't great.

If your mind dislike any thing, obey it.

don't worry, they'll fall off after mating season

I think all of the following things: 1) that some degree of violent conflict is inevitable because thousands of ICE combatants will not peacefully submit to judgment for their crimes; 2) that we should try to minimize violence as much as possible, because it will be horrible; and

Someone please find and interview his son about that experience.

The boards also distort politics on "safety" issues. It's rare to see people under 40 at most meetings.

in a time where corporations trying to milk everything for cash is ruining everything, we still somehow have to explain to future generations how all the best English language cartoons of the 80s existed because Mattel wanted to sell toy figurines

The trajectory of UK politics after the Labour Party’s landslide victory in 2024 is obviously not a clean analog to what might have happened had Harris squeaked by Trump, but it’s certainly evocative. Recall that Senate Dems celebrated Trump’s inauguration by passing the Laken Riley Act.

You have won a happy victory

ppl keep asking me if I miss home and why would I ever miss home, the US is basically just India now

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Lina. Lina was forced to flee South at the beginning of the war with her sons Hasan, 10 and Mahmoud, 4, leaving her husband. She found out she was pregnant with Liza she gave birth alone and when she returned her home was destroyed.

Events and activities offered at no cost to participants still cost money to produce. That money has to come from somewhere.

Frantz Fanon died on December 6, 1961, at the age of 36.

Pepsi in their social engineering era

nyc is getting ready

People love rich people and want to be rich themselves. Rich people have nothing to fear from the public and they know it.

There’s a small table of Indiana fans in our bar and they asked if we were Hoosiers too because we were cheering for them and I got to be like “no we’re Dawgs and we’re here to help”

holding out for the piece claiming that teens are having scromit parties

Maybe it won’t one day when people too young to remember the BCS are grown, but the SEC championship does absolutely still mean something on a lizard brain level, at least to me

Here’s something no politician will tell you: poo poo pee pee fart fart fart fart

As an anti-Trump voter, the only critique of the Democratic Party that I am interested in right now is that they are not doing absolutely everything possible to put themselves between this regime and the people harmed by it Take that “crossover” appeal and shove it where the sun don’t shine

Wishing people would stop writing amazing things I want to click on at the transphobic, pro-Nazi Substack platform

It’s nice to see people stick up for my husband’s brother in the wake of Quentin Tarantino’s attacks

does this guy genuinely not understand how much he looks and sounds like a villain from a Dickens story

the first time I saw “Star Trek: The Motion Picture” was the 4k directors cut on a big movie screen and it was literally a spiritual experience about how space is so big and we are so small and yet our small little lives full of friendship and love are so important

When you have definitely had a job in your life

Gently reminding you all to not put things in writing that could get you a visit from the FBI

"Smuggling"? Welcome to the new and worthless CBS News under Bari Weiss. Even the story itself says Harris was arrested with a tiny amount of the drug, which was for personal use. He's been in custody for 3 weeks now. This is horrific. www.cbsnews.com/news/jeremy-...

That young man on the right is not old enough to know that Bama can be bad

My year-end THINGS WHAT I LIKED over yonder hill and dale to terribleminds house we go -- books, movies, TV, games.

Once when I was kid, in Maryland, some New York fam called like 'hey we're thinking about visiting soon, that cool?' Our parents said 'oh nice sure' NY fam replied 'cool, we just pulled onto the driveway' As a child, I was hype for the surprise... As an adult?? 5 surprise people in my house?? 😅

I know some of you are already revving up to say, "Well, if he didn't want to be arrested, he shouldn't have broken the law" and I would ask you, instead, to just block me and save us both some effort.

My coffee subscription arrived today, and when the USPS carrier dropped it off, he said, “What kind of coffee is this? It made my whole truck smell AMAZING.” (It’s from Trade, a service advertised on many of your favorite YouTube channels.)

A lot of people are bringing up that Frank Sinatra, a known mob artist, did not have good politics on many other things and it is the most annoying part of the internet that when I mention pancakes somebody turns up to yell at me about waffles

today’s view

Today I was reminded that Flash Gordon was a Jets QB and just to put that franchise into perspective, the guy saved the universe but even he couldnt save the Jets

Just want to say fuck Donald Trump and fuck Stephen Miller and fuck Kristi Noem :-)

Recency bias here but do consider:

mentalhellth.xyz/p/the-intern...

Heading home and feel blessed to live in NYC. We have the BEST restaurants here. Anything you want to eat, you can find a good place to eat it.

Sometimes I view the surprise or shock at how bad Trump and Republicans are or how supportive white voters are as a symptom of this ignorance. Very recently—in living memory—it was normal to publicly suggest that Black people were incapable of independent thought or self-government.

A great thing about all your friends having kids is that at Christmas you get to buy their children toys.

Yes — true in music too, probably in all the arts. Add in the pernicious concept of “relevance” (I feel about this word the way @dubdobdee.bsky.social feels about “influence”) and you have a very warped perspective on any given field

Yes I am already pre-ordering books out in 2026 even though I am not close to getting through the EXISTING books on my to-read pile [which never diminishes].

History teaches us that fair skinned men in the West often thought they had victory in their grasp and then the Great Khan rode forth to face them

the "I volunteered to host a condo holiday open house and now a horde of neighbors who skew 65+ are coming over tomorrow and everything has to be perfect" playlist has landed we're going for recognizable carols with maximum snow and minimal Jesus that are neither too mellow nor too raucous

I've known Matt DeMateo for almost 20 years and I am so glad to see the work of New Life Centers uplifted: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/o... - Matt is the real deal and he would be the first to refuse to be pedestaled. But he really is a singular human being. Chicago is lucky to have him.

twin cities getting ready

One thing I have learned from the HEATED RIVALRY discourse is that a lot of non-romance-readers have been extremely misled about how horny romance novels are. This is not a criticism—nobody is familiar with everything! It’s just an observation.

To everyone who is pointing out that some states are already doing that: yes, thank you, I am aware, and while it is certainly better than nothing, it is also off the subject. A vacuum of national leadership is what we're discussing here.

Some people still haven’t accepted that the New Deal coalition was held together by segregation and the tacit (or, in the south, explicit) promise that the benefits would accrue only to white people

subway dog

One complicated thing about Netflix/WB is that Ted Sarandos, although he is the public face of antipathy to the theatrical experience, is not especially high on the list of those who've undermined and damaged it. I'd rank him 4th, after studios, theater owners, and people who quit going to movies.

Controversially, I don't think that if social media had existed that Montgomery could have lasted as long as it did. Bad actors and human nature would have spread negativity, trafficked in gossip, and torn down the leaders in ways that they could not do in 1955/56.

I once did hold it, as our statists do, A baseness to write fair, and labor’d much How to forget that learning, but, sir, now It did me yeman’s service.