okay i am worried this child’s arm is going to fall off share.inquirer.com/g9180f

Pleased to report that I just took home a bronze in the Milan-Kundera Olympics for the relative bearability of my lightness.

Repost with a photo of yours that would make a good album cover

Ha I just wrote about this: americanorphan.substack.com/p/in-the-folds

One of every thousand American residents has been taken into custody by ICE in the last year.

This is The Way.

The magazines of my childhood/young adulthood:

Boy’s Life
Games
Spy
Omni
Rolling Stone
Premiere
Entertainment Weekly
Might

“But without Leon Botstein, Bard won’t exist anymore.” Oh no, then where would the protagonist teach in a Brooklyn millennial’s realist divorce novel?

It looks like they’re going to try to indict people on sloppiness with ballot handling around the Fulton County recount and risk-limiting audit, rather than allege actual election fraud, because the counts didn’t exactly match the official results.

It was a good day if you didn’t come home bleeding from your elbow or your knee or something, but also, it was a good day if you did.

Serious question: Would you join the Pluribus hive mind if invited?

1️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/tOabyd/1" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">Yes
2️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/tOabyd/2" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">No

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The Citywide Special aka the Nationwide Special aka the Worldwide Special

I hate this kind of Congressional grandstanding for the soundbites but also I am genuinely interested in how many of these administration shitbirds actually believe in hell and whether they think they're heading there.

Politics is an unclean business populated with unclean practitioners. The very nature of the system makes the people who want the job inherently suspect. I hate almost all of them. I vote in every election, because the candidates are rarely interchangeable with regard to their levels of terrible.

"Panican" is actually a charming, useful word. That coinage is probably one of the top five best things he's done as president. I have no idea what the other four are.

"I looked through the millions of documents for my name just like everybody else."

Yeah bro, I didn't do that.

"It turns out that implementing our signature policy on a national scale is actually terrible for everybody. You're welcome."

The last honest advertising slogan was: “Behold…the power of cheese.”

This is really something. The male voices work well with her resonant alto; her Maria, in the same register, is weirdly the most disconcerting part of this, but it's also pretty great. And the four-character shot compositing is beyond what I thought was possible with 1970s video tech.

As someone who is in the market for a college for my kid next year, I guess I'm always grateful for opportunities to narrow the list of schools we would even consider for her.

Carjackings and murders are down huge along with a few other crimes (but not all!) across the US. It’s a massive, underreported story. we should be aggressively trying to figure out why.

I love this sentence.

the edit button is the biggest cowards clutch and anyone wanting it here I see that your hearts are weak

“Everything this administration does is intentional and is done intentionally.”

I can’t vouch for this one yet but a grand total of 34 Letterboxd people have logged it, and the tagline on the American poster is “Loving too much is a Cardinale sin.”