@laraly
plays well w/others, but runs w/scissors. feminist AF. race traitor. queer. public historian, scholar of collective memory, US social movements, puerto rico, digital humanities, & academic apologist. long covid survivor. coffee and gf cookies, please.
you know, i might totally fall for this on its nutritional merits (add high fiber and TAKE MY MONEY), were it not for the MAGA-masculinist-what-smells-like-dirty-testosterone-laced-bodies-in-here-bullshit.
time, he is a wily prankster.
just a little visual respite for the horrors that our eyes and minds take in at such a near constant rate these days. our souls deserve to take in this sweet bird so that we can go back and hold the world’s pain for another day.
thank you, roseate spoonbill, for showing us your lovely frock.
it’s an exciting time in every baby homo’s life.
valuable counterprogramming to the SotMFU.
it’s really nauseating.
oh my god. what a tool. he is a citycast bigwig. and here i was singing the praises of them as a legacy media alternative the other day. i need to wash my mouth out with soap.
i guess this IS the big one!
just when you thought he had played all of his hero cards…
as usual, dickerson and bazelon reframed him as a rescue, but it’s getting pretty old to see so much of their time going to h th at effort. you made a good choice, i’m sorry to say.
to be clear, emily bazelon and @jdickerson.bsky.social’s commentary on the swamp monsters are invaluable beyond measure. their intellectual chemistry and trenchant insight is treasured in my house. but increasingly i wish plotz would keep silent or at least seriously rein it in.
and towards the end of the episode plotz also advocated for telling US history from lens of heroicism, just including all the heroes. i fully understand you don’t police ideology of hosts, @slate.com, but the wonderful bazelon & dickerson are rescuing him on the regular. the show is declining.
is this the hill to die on in feb 2026? no, of course not. but it does surprise the heck out of me to find such a snide column here. i am not a regular reader by any means. google news fed me this one (no doubt because of GF content). but, if MM can't be kind, how low we have fallen...
just emailed miss manners about her curt response to a reader seeking help for asking friends to support her celiac diet. as a gluten intolerant person, it triggered me. but if we can't look to miss manners for compassionate responses, WHAT HAS THIS WORLD COME TO?
www.al.com/advice/2026/...
photos by morgan shields.
was so tempted to say gay-ity. held back. but just can’t keep silent forever. queers be like that sometimes.
group of people gather around champagne flutes toasting. six hands are visible, one head picturing a brown skinned woman is in the right side, and a body with a flannel shirt is centered. the rest of the hands are light skinned.
a chocolate cake with multiple cake toppers. the toppers include a turtle carrying presents on its back, a giraffe wearing a party hat, an elephant also wearing a party hat and trailing a balloon, and another animal blurred in the distance.
a black and white photo picturing a longer dinner table with tour people seated at it. the table is filled with dishes and the people are conversing and eating.
a blue merle mantle colored great dane seated in a living room looking attentively at the camera with her ears cocked. behind us a green couch and a grey chair and grey drapes.
my VD was a beautiful dinner in my home with partner & queer chosen family, slightly crazy dog, & much gaiety.
inventory: one roasted chicken, ten lobster tails, fourteen hassleback potatoes, many carrots, one pregnant woman, menagerie atop a chocolate cake, six dates, zero heteronormativity.
sweet talk, sweet talk
portrait of blanca canales in her later years, picture from the neck up, with white wavy hair, looking to the right. she is wearing a white blouse and smiling. the framed portrait is hanging on a grey wall.
in the midst of writing today, and it occurs to me that it might be a good time to start sharing images of my research, in light of benito’s glorious extravaganza. this is blanca canales, a leader of the nationalist party in jayuya, and survivor of the 1950 uprising to overthrow U.S. colonial rule.
dios mio
in a nutshell
squeeeeee
i mean the pava hats! the jibaros! when they climbed the light poles during el apagón i nearly flew of my couch in a dancing fugue…
the math maths
i am aglow from bad bunny’s halftime show. as a scholar of puerto rican collective memory, it was beyond thrilling to see a global cultural juggernaut deploy semiotics of puertorriqueñidad towards redeeming US political culture. of course, celebrating latino joy was also glorious. i’m starstuck.
same. those kids slay.
it was SO GOOD. all the voices in my slate plus feed make my annual contribution a true bargain & my most valued journalistic expenditure. BUT, you & @lizzieohreally.bsky.social are national treasures & keep me on the path to sanity these days. please screen grab &
share with @slate.com leadership.
girl that’s some sci fi shit
the most useful outcome of this comparison, to my mind, is to both look to those moments and our understandings of them to better see where “they” might be headed and also where “we”’ might be most successful in our resistance strategies. for that we need nuanced comparison, too, not reductionism.
there has been discussion, for example, about whether or not our current horrors compare better to nazi germany or american slavery.
to me, it’s productive that we engage in rich civic dialogue about the lessons of the past. not to declare a winner for the most accurate historical comparison.