Ugh I just wasted 45 minutes scrolling around the internet to give my brain time to dredge up the name Camille Paglia. Now I will sleep.
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Ugh I just wasted 45 minutes scrolling around the internet to give my brain time to dredge up the name Camille Paglia. Now I will sleep.
When I see people online, even in jest, suggest that people living in Republican-controlled states should be abandoned because of their politicians, I feel a deep heartache. New York CREATED Donald Trump and none of y’all are ever talk about it the way you disparage Alabama or Mississippi.
Annie Sprinkle is a name I have not thought of since I was in college in the 1990s btw, when everyone was discussing the value of porn so earnestly and theoretically. Extremely weird to see her name pop up in the Epstein context, very much in, uh, practice.
Et tu on the Epstein pleasure barge, Annie Sprinkle?!
"sold for $25 by her father"
Truly Shaggy levels of denial.
you had me at train tracks! I think you could probably make money just running tours of it as is, if you have a suitable backstory, especially about why it went bust. Went to a great ruined hospital outside Berlin like this.
I said in a QT, but the only 10/10 hold music experiences I've ever had have been with Amtrak Guest Rewards. Sound quality is usually awful, but it's Motown classics usually, and when you do finally get someone on the line, they really know their stuff.
This is infuriating, but BTW: Amtrak Guest Rewards always has *excellent* hold music, usually old soul/R&B/Motown.
So one of the pages in the Epstein birthday book mentions he always has a camera around. 1000% obvious blackmail activity in his circle, and yet he never ran short of rich people to be his "pals." Money really does eat the brain.
YESSSSS to my home state! If I weren't past child-bearing age, I'd be right back there.
I keep trying to make this into a Mad Fold-In, but the message could barely be more explicit than it already is.
JFC. The Color of Law is an outstanding book.
I agree but also: The problem is that, as I’ve gotten older, I’ve also just gotten ever more frustrated with people not learning from past mistakes, and I’m sick of articulating all the screamingly obvious patterns.
We need some kinda cultural committee in charge of bringing back Work Drip you can be proud of. Yes of course I think I should be chief of said committee I promise a long held pet issue of mine is I truly think our generation has produced very little that one would buy in a vintage shop in 25 years
The Old Man and the Reservoir in a Landlocked State
The Epstein birthday card is somehow even worse than I imagined. The coyness. The sincerity. The placement of his psychotic signature.
"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
IT'S BEEN TIME
I mean: the executive order to combat antisemitism is EO 14188. How sadistic is that?! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executi...
My car & I are ready to waste the time of la migra.
The US is run by explicit white supremacists! It should be mentioned all the time.
^^That particular episode was good too because it talked about Jewish religious extremism, which I feel like is always glossed over.
I really appreciate the Throughline podcast/show. Historical context can be hard to come by. www.npr.org/2025/08/28/n...
Tariq ibn Ziyad landing in Iberian Peninsula from the Maghreb in 700s, orders boats burned and says to his troops, “Behind you is the sea, and the enemy is ahead.” Given the late date, I wonder if the burned boats were almost a trope by then, like automatically added to make it more legendary.
Jucika, welcome to the war on cars 😂
Why is he putting the fried things anywhere near the boiled things?!
I have one and I haven’t been sure what to do with it. I could…mail it to you?
We can only dream
I’ve always felt so bad for all the hotels that invested so heavily in ipod docks. Such a blip.
Just zoomed in and noticed the “flakes of dried bread” part ❤️
Don’t ask how my ro2a2 turned out though 🫠 out of practice and even if I’d remembered to say bismillah when I flipped it, it wouldn’t have helped.
Sometimes I think we just don’t need so much global trade but then I go to my grocery store and get this. Straight from Egypt somehow in a thin cardboard box and they’re all intact and it’s a g-d modern miracle.
they are going to replace the homophobic questions they used to ask on the blood donation form with: 1) are you or your sexual partner from florida? 2) have you recently visited florida or slept w/ someone who has? 3) let me see your teeth
This is the New York I vote for always.
Guy on corner is selling esquites in the We Are Happy to Serve You cup. ❤️ NYC
More and more I’m thinking Islam is right to not even consider translations of the Quran legit
I love these Hello ICE posters from Chicago - we need a Boston version.
Egyptian activist and blogger Alaa Abdel Fattah resumed a full hunger strike on September 1 following unfulfilled promises made to him by national security officers that he would be released within days after his removal from the terrorist list. He is only drinking water. #FreeAlaa
Actually I would watch Lars von Trier's Snowpiercer.
My husband ordered some screws on Amazon for like $2. Apparently (he learns now) they were shipped from the UK. FedEx has now contacted him by email and phone, saying the screws are at US customs and he must identify which country was the source of the molten metal for the screws. For $2 screws.
Le Creuset quality has gotten bad I last decade. I had to return one for hot spots. One piece someone gave me had plastic handles?! I think they produce on such a scale now that quality checks are not possible and it’s functionally no different from Lodge or Martha Stewart.
Nonono, see, the FBI called *him* about Epstein. That’s totally different!
Good morning Mike Piscitelli, 2011
A vital record of Black life on the Mississippi Gulf Coast is now online. Hancock County Library System, with help from Community Webs & @InternetArchive, has digitized the Mississippi Star. Learn more ⤵️ blog.archive.org/2025/09/03/l... 🧵
Gonna put his name on the Pentagon, T-R-U-M-P, one giant gold letter on each side.
Important to remember that everyone involved in renaming the DoD to the Department of War is afraid to take the subway.
Writing is pretty lucrative, finally, you just have to get scammed in an anarchocapitalist robot prison to earn your paycheck.
I actually respect hating Andrew Cuomo so much that you call a press conference to explain how much you hate him
The Chinese governments committed crimes against humanity against Uyghurs and is trying to cover up. My father included, hundreds and thousands of Uyghurs remain unjustly imprisoned. The UN and others should press for accountability. My op-ed @thehill.com thehill.com/opinion/inte...
Would be classy if the publisher I did WFH for shared a little of what will be a verrrry big payout, just saying. And they had better be part of the suit!
Actually rats a few were work for hire so copyright not in my name. But still!
I don’t want to get my hopes up because every other class action I’ve been part of has gotten my like $3.71. I have a dozen books at least in that suit!
This seems like a clear indicator that Tesla is a deeply unwise investment. Unfortunately I do not have faith that the market will respond as such.
Oh geez, of course it’s Portuguese. Gets me every time! The shapeshifting language.
I want that Audubon app, but for human languages. Shazam but for speech. (Eavesdropping on ppl next to me. Always kind of surprised that I can’t understand what people are saying just by listening. real. hard.)
OMG, yes, it's so awful to see. Second season of the Netflix show Mo, and Mo's girlfriend, who was adorable and normal in the first season, pops up creepy-skinny, with a giant angular head. I was so sad for her! They got their hooks in her!
In terms of both government fuckery and cosmetic surgery horrors, we're a lot closer to Terry Gilliam's "Brazil" than I feel comfortable with.
We're dealing with creeping fascism, but also creeping cosmetic surgery to the point where sometimes every single person on TV looks grossly disfigured? Maybe it's just time for me to log off for the night.
Hey, it says ALTO on the big red sign, what part don't they understand 😂
going fast in intl waters is not a crime, thats the only thing that is established those people did. they were not 'criminals' at the time of their death. they wouldnt be until they tried to enter US waters w/ drugs or humans w/ no visas. everyones a terrorist i dont like& we get to murder them, smh
Ah fortunately it's in the story! Now just needs to boiled down to a summary he can grasp.
Someone needs to tell him that Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines is sitting in jail in the Hague, waiting on his ICC trial, for this same thinking.
The scumbags who forced this sweet child to spend her final hours in agony and terror while using her as bait to kill her rescuers are walking free, allowed to travel the Western world on holiday or to fly in and out of their actual countries without repercussions. I can’t say what I truly want.
I guess no one will ever try to cut down on the *demand* side of the US drug market, by giving people health care and decent wages? No, much more satisfying to bomb the shit out of the suppliers.
If this goes unpunished, I hate to think of the leeway other world leaders will perceive re: boats full of migrants.
“Evil” is a word that gets overused, but it applies here.
1/ I worked at DoD. I literally cannot imagine lawyers coming up with a legal basis for lethal strike of suspected Venezuelan drug boat. Hard to see how this would not be "murder" or war crime under international law that DoD considers applicable. Read expert analysis by @bcfinucane.bsky.social⤵️
So glad you’re ok!
this would have been a crime even if the boat was smuggling drugs and not people, but that it was likely carrying desperate people means it's even more urgent for opposition leaders to call for hearings on how this happened & under what authority, & to specify consequences for those who ordered it
Thanks to everyone who spread the claim that "legal immigrants are fine" when that was so obviously not the case from the beginning
He stole my standard cover letter, the rat!
He has to put his glasses on first. (I say this as a glasses-wearer who is also blind in one eye.)
it’s weird to be subject to both fascist occupation and simulacrum/image of fascist occupation at the same time
This almost makes me want to buy a car!
Chicago: this is a good time to buy a Mexican flag for your car
Blessedly the opposite of "I'm speaking"
be loud for america is probably one of the most cogent things a dem politician has said in recent years
"Be loud for America."
"They were born to be criminals." Jesus. Trump is talking about Americans this way. And let's be clear - he's talking about Black and brown people in Blue cities.
This is legitimately terrifying and sick.
Right?! BTW been meaning to say thank you for the Dutch House audiobook recommendation -- I really enjoyed! (Nice thing about audiobooks is they can't get lost in the mail!)
This is sad/funny because an account impersonating Mosab had DM’d me and asked if I’d bought his most recent book. Which I did find a little pushy but hey, we’re all out here trying to make it, so I went ahead and ordered it. We all need more poetry. But I just got mine in the form of an empty box.
I know I’ve been conspiracy-pilled but the USPS sent me an empty box, without Mosab Abu Toha’s poems in it.
why's he not wearing his usual red tie? or has he stopped doing this generally? honestly have stopped looking at him as much as possible.
Sometimes I think old-school Dems are afraid of losing corporate donors not b/c of the money but b/c of the mission. Corporate donors are specific and clear in their asks. If Dems start having to listen to what *voters* want, phew, it's soooo messy and inconsistent and hard to understand!
Some new street art spotted in DC 🤣
oh look yes, someone did! bsky.app/profile/wuta...
Hi did you move your newsletter away from substack? drop it in the replies so people can find you and subscribe! I am big on rewarding good choices
Truly expected the next thing to be a rope made of bedsheets knotted together.
It is insane to me that the richest man in the world is using his global megaphone to call for millions of British people to be rounded up and deported (including my family) and somehow this isn’t even news.
I'm primarily an oil painter, making paintings like these of steaks, fish, oysters, and fruit
Paul Delvaux - Solitude - 1955
If you say 'heteronormative' or 'unhoused person' or 'food insecurity' you're basically talking gibberish and nobody can understand you but if you say you can see inflammation in children at the airport and that vaccines lower IQ or that germs are a myth you get to fire all the scientists.
Gross that NYT has a front-page teaser and a full-page ad for Prager U. And grosser that some of the first questions in its “teacher test” are digs on trans people. Fantastic scenario for the NYT: the paper continues “just asking questions” AND gets paid for it!
Just saw I’m on a list for sharing junk/content farm skeets. List itself seems a little junky, but still it’s an occasion to say I always appreciate a heads up if an account is sketchy in some way!
Again DACA status is targeted.
This firefighter arrived in the US at age 4, has been here for 19 years, was on track to legal status, and was on a crew trying to contain a major blaze (in Washington state, vs Oregon, fwiw.) h/t @joshuajfriedman.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Tim Onion 