My mom and stepdad are from the same diaspora group as Zohran Mamdani’s dad (same like “my stepdad was kicked out of the same town and knows some of his classmates”) and apparently the New York Times doesn’t understand how diaspora works, so I am going to tell you a little about my mom’s people!

There appear to be at least three separately operating heel factions breaking things within the government in wholly different ways right now. There's the Miller-headed immigration one, the DOGE/Elon one, and a Project 2025 OMB one. This dynamic hasn't showed up in mainstream reporting at all.

I’m very sorry to be annoying with these job hunting reposts but I am three weeks from being destitute and things are dire here. If you need to mute me or whatever I get it. I’m just tired and ground down and I need help.

If I ever go on Jimmy Kimmel, it would be delicious to have more Bluesky followers than him. So close.

It’s weird to think that Elon Musk will end up having paid far less for the United States Government than he did for Twitter

Hey we're Taco Bell Quarterly, we're a prestigious Literary Magazine. We pay $100! We're open for another week. Submit something. This is one of our favorite poems published in our last issue, TBQ6, Staircase wit by Rhiannon McGavin.

https://tacobellquarterly.org/staircase-wit/

Did we all cede Twitter and public space? Strategic retreat to build a better public space? If latter, what prevents this from becoming worse? In 5 years or 10?