Love a Foucault reference

A scene from the new UCLA Chancellor inauguration

Five years since these 🔥 answers from @jiatolentino.bsky.social in Interview Mag.
Worth a reread. www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/ask-...

"'Constitutional crisis' does not even begin to capture the radicalism of what is unfolding in the federal bureaucracy and of what Congress’s decision not to act may liquidate in terms of constitutional meaning." —@jamellebouie.net @nytimes.com

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

Hairlessness as a standard is relatively new in American history, and as the scholar Rebecca Herzig points out (in PLUCKED, her fascinating book on body hair), it's really quite connected to problematizing women's bodies to constrain women's lives

It’s raining in Southern California!

Incredible outpouring of volunteers & donations across LA County. Folks at Anderson Munger YMCA have been tireless and their latest requests are:

▪️diapers, wipes, formula
▪️lg cardboard boxes
▪️plastic utensils, paper plates & bowls
▪️hygiene products
▪️lunch sacks
▪️ziploc bags

🛑 no more clothes

Josh Preven was an evacuee in the piece. It wasn't safe ystd to go back to his Pac Palisades hood. He just returned this morning to find what's left of his home of 25 years. It was a single story house built in 1949, by an engineer who worked for one of the aircraft companies in the area

Celebration Nation
Dropoff point in North Hollywood
10-7pm Jan 9 and Jan 10

Covenant House California
Outreachla@covca.org
323 461 3131 ext 300

In need of flashlights, bottled water, sandwiches

L.A. & Surrounding Volunteer or Donation Opportunities

Threading a list of places in and around LA currently in need of support for evacuees, animals, & affected communities.

✨ Please double-check with the location to confirm their current needs before heading over 🫶🏽

This is absurd. Awwwwwkward

A message from writer Laurel Braitman, who tragically lost her family home to a fast-moving wildfire a few years ago

Momentary thrill when I read this as Jesus RSVPing to my NYE party

A year-end roundup of the links you clicked on the most from my long-running newsletter, Hu's Letter! Plus, my childhood bestie Jes shares her fave SNL Christmas skits, because, why not open.substack.com/pub/elisehu/...

Great to be back in Asia, where the food innovation is always inspiring

Posting this since I'm new here and I think about it all the time, from Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death. Why Brave New World was more prescient than 1984: "In Huxley's vision...ppl will come to love their oppression, to adore the tech that undo their capacities to think"

How can we find common ground when we can’t agree on basic facts? @alicetiara.bsky.social is spot on on the fundamental schism in how we see the world www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/the-...

This meme 😆