nyt website currently resembles one of those mock covers people made before 2016 election: economy floundering, war in the middle east, scandal-plagued cabinet sec, brazen corruption....
If you place it in the golem tradition, then it goes back centuries and includes the connotation of aspiring to god-like creative powers.
We should reckon with the idea that Americans are so fucking dumb that we booted out the party that saved the country after Covid and created the best economic recovery in the world in favor of a con man who said he would use racism and magic to make everything cheaper and jobs plentiful.
My school district is being forced to lay off several educators and a librarian because of a $500,000 budget gap, or roughly the amount spent on the war while I was typing this post.
Always grateful for my Rep @repmcgovern.bsky.social
Talarico gives Buttigieg vibes, and I don't mean that in a good way.
The party of "states' rights"
"What are we even doing here?" is the "Dude" of the 2020s. Appropriate in almost every situation, with a shifting meaning depending on intonation. Sure, it's longer than that old standby, but on the upside, it also injects eternal themes of being and purpose and uncertainty into every convo. WAWEDH.
Fantastic photo - do you have a credit for it?
I couldn’t see the eclipse to the west but I did get a nice view of the sunrise! Great photo!
Which members of the administration actually believe the Christian nationalist schtick and which are just happy to use it strategically/cynically and does it actually matter?
So much winning
How shall integrity face oppression?
That's the question the W.E.B. Dubois Library lobby spoke into my consciousness this morning as I grabbed some coffee from the Procrastination Station.
We live in contradiction. Always.
It's the chocolate chip cookie of manhole covers
Everything old is new again!
Soylent Chex is …
One of our allies just shot nearly $300 million worth of fighter planes out of the sky and my local school district is trying to manage a $500,000 increase in health insurance premiums for its employees so it doesn’t have to lay off any teachers.
Make it make any kind of moral sense.
I learned from “In the Blink of an Eye” that bound paper user manuals and Crocs will survive centuries into the future and that is just a very bleak meh-topia.
Accent, of course. 🙄
It’s not just that he speaks the truth, but he does it with a Chicago accident.
Are you depressed or are you just an American.
A truly bipartisan approach to foreign policy: bomb them! Bomb them all!
Perhaps the most consistent phenomenon of US politics for at least the last 80 years.
The irony of including more about queer theorists in her obit than about her own groundbreaking contributions to feminist film theory — in fact, ignoring that work altogether. Technologies of Gender and Alice Doesn’t were huge influences on my own thinking, and I’ll always be grateful. RIP.
It’s tough to muster outrage when I literally can’t count the number of times in my life I’ve woken up to news that a US president has ordered the military to attack another nation. Gotta be at least once every year, on average.
The number of times Congress has “declared war” in my lifetime? Zero.
Yes. Shorter form video products, from shows to reels, have overwhelmed traditional film's role.
This is hilarious and now I’m kind of glad I screen recorded the site yesterday. I especially love that they deleted the “Will my professor know?” question.
So maybe not all men, but at least a rebuttable presumption about all men, and the burden is on them to present credible consistent ongoing evidence of not being awful to women.
Earlier, I was looking up a song by a male artist I've always enjoyed, who melds joy and inclusive politics into excellent bops, and I thought, god, I hope he hasn't engaged in shitty behavior toward women, but then I looked it up, and of course he has been credibly accused of exactly that.
I am very confused about P!nk's nomination for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, because that would mean her first song came out at least 25 years ago, whereas we all know her career debuted in the 21st century and
welp
there you go, I guess
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