Not Somali.

He was supposed to serve 10 years and pay $36 million in restitution for defrauding investors. Never served a day. Not Somali.

This is how you do it folks

Pardoned by Trump after convicted of 12 counts of bank fraud and tax evasion. Don’t have to pay back $17.8 million in restitution or serve 12 year sentence. Not Somalis.

no i am not “lost” i am consciously uncoupling from space and time

Don’t be fooled by the media. LA is, of course, a crumbling Hellscape. The despair is designer and the smog smells faintly of eucalyptus and ambition. The apocalypse comes with valet parking y’all. 

Any other creatives feeling an existential crisis and wtf is the point??

the new york sewer rats have finally elected a new rat pope

You know that thing where you’re watching a really good TV show and it hits an emotional peak and you’re on the verge of tears and simultaneously your ADHD has you on Reddit and you see that grocery store lobsters aren’t fed and starve to death in the tank and so you just lose your shit?

A linguistics professor was lecturing his class. "In English, a double negative is a positive. In some languages, like Russian, a double negative is still a negative. But, there is no language wherein a double positive can be a negative."

A voice from the back of the room piped up, "Yeah, right."

While we’re banning books…

Finland is teaching children in school how to recognize fake news and propaganda as part of critical thinking and civic responsibility. Some of this will seem very familiar.

Be. Like. Finland.

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”

-- James Baldwin, who died #OTD 1987