Everyone hating on the bad plastic surgery of the celebrity I can’t name because I ALWAYS get in trouble when I do….. feels good.

Annie Dillard tells you to pick up a broadax, you better listen

Jasmine Crockett is actually playing four dimensional democratic chess. See, first she established herself in opposition to Talarico. Then she sucked up to Chris Brown, and then pissed off Brown and his fans, motivating them to vote for her enemy….. James Talarico. 🤯🤯🤯

Thinking about Sheeran’s career, I don’t know if he’s gotten involved in a controversy of this scale in his whole career. Unusual for a star of his size. Speaks to a man who’s carefully avoided taking a stand for as long as he possibly could.

When Nancy Kissinger died last month, her obits glancingly mentioned a strange 1982 incident where she went on trial for choking out a Lyndon LaRouche supporter. I'd already been piecing the story together, and the results are in today's @flaminghydra.com newsletter:

Throttle diplomacy

Nancy Kissinger goes berserk in the Newark Airport: a vignette of 1982 by Sarah Weinman

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Hearing “beef tallow” and “seed oils” in any proximity to each other 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨

Jean Smart winning that many Emmys for Hacks seems a little excessive. Unless you've seen Hacks.

"on every campus there are two universities—the administration and the faculty—who are competing with one another. Indeed the two are fundamentally at odds about what a university is" from me & @vox-magica.bsky.social in @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/religion-hum...

Religion, Humanities, and the Public Good

The right wing's assault on Religion and Humanities programs is an assault on our ability to understand the world, from Hindutva abroad to Christian Nationalism at home.

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Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 3d ago

UCLA Chancellor Criticizes Law School’s Sept. 11 Symposium https://bit.ly/4dEcHft

The lesson I’m taking from this is to start saying ABORTION ABORTION ABORTION ABORTION all the time like I’m trying to get a human agent on a customer service call

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3d ago

the lesson from the right is not that their obsessions with trans volleyball, anti Haitian blood libel, or reversing the change in teen pregnancy rate are actually the well framed kitchen table issues of the volk but simply that political discourse becomes about things people say often and loudly

This is how people who are always talking about America B sound

“No, not that one - I mean the one in Pounding Mill, VA. But it does look like there might have been an axe murder or two there.”

Would one say that Fred Durst is using his head voice in his work with Limp Bizkit

Really love road trips through Appalachia but hate when I can’t stop at every place called Tammy’s Corner

Wizard of Oz reference of the day

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4d ago

🔥 @Hamilton4Kansas ends his senate debate against @RogerMarshallMD (who has poor people arrested for not affording bills after pregnancies) with a ‘WIZARD OF OZ’ analogy that sums up Republicans in Washington perfectly

I am not first and will be far from the last to say this: I have purchased so many books because I saw them recommended or publicized here on bsky. I cannot urge you all enough to KEEP TALKING ABOUT BOOKS. I know it's easier to talk up someone else's book, but this also means you, the shy author.

Nancy Jane Moore@nancyjane.bsky.social · 5d ago

I have mentioned it before, so maybe, but I know others liked it too. Hooray for word of "mouth" (or post) for getting it seen.

Probably Clinton. I love a southern accent, and he likes both chubby brunettes and know it all bitches, check and check.

olive consumer@machete.gay · 4d ago

I'd like to believe the President I'd have gotten on best with was Eisenhower or Lincoln. The correct answer is Nixon.

this piece is insane & totally misses the crucial part of this story in terms of geography/class, which is that most of these “rural” communities are actually middle to upper class suburbanites/exurbanites

@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze)@newsjennifer.bsky.social · 4d ago

I see the NYT is still platforming 'dei crushed white men' bullsh*t. Here it's buried in a 'why rural themed pop culture' is so popular in a piece written by a Princeton grad who lives in New York City. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/o...

You can tell this is stupid because the whole damn country, urban elites included, just mourned Dolly Parton pretty intensely, and yet this article doesn’t mention her once

@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze)@newsjennifer.bsky.social · 4d ago

I see the NYT is still platforming 'dei crushed white men' bullsh*t. Here it's buried in a 'why rural themed pop culture' is so popular in a piece written by a Princeton grad who lives in New York City. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/o...

Discovered an unknown enemy; working hard not to investigate further

A campaign is a conversation and part of that conversation is telling the candidates you may not vote for them because of their stated views.

Vacation dawg

This is beautiful

American Bridge 21st Century@ab21.bsky.social · 5d ago

"You don't live here! You don't live here! You don't live here!" #KSSen debate crowd calls out Roger Marshall for his out of state ties.

The thing about BlueSky is, yeah, it’s a little pedantic around here, but it’s also fairly genial. There’s an etiquette. Meanwhile Zuck extracted and imported the main character and the attendant pile-on from Twitter, making addictive vicarious yelling the primary feature of the Threads experience

Hell yeah to the crowd at the Kansas State Fair

Sherman Smith, Kansas Reflector editor in chief@journalist-sherman.bsky.social · 5d ago

Masterson claims Holscher would allow children to be subjected to transgender surgeries without your knowledge. Crowd wasn't buying it. Masterson ends up yelling at the crowd, telling them to "look it up" and "you're denying the truth" #ksleg

I have no doubt AI is going to continue to get increasingly functional in all sorts of fields but my thing is if AI is so great why do all the pro-AI posts suck so much? Why hasnt it helped with that? Like it’s going to write our novels and direct our movies but it can’t make a post? Fuck outta here

Fifty eleven trillion in AI and Google Maps can’t figure out that I never, ever, EVER want to go to the grocery store Starbucks

I do think, however, Kansas wouldn’t go as hard on the John Brown stuff if Mizzou fans hadn’t spent years posting this kind of stuff. To paraphrase Don Fambrough: It’s a damn war and they started it.

That KU-Mizzou fuck-slave-states hype video is the first time I’ve ever had positive feelings about KU football, rock chalk

"I think Black people should be able to use the same drinking fountain that white people do as long as it's safe and fair."

Found a tube of my fancy sunscreen forgotten in a luggage compartment, which is basically the equivalent of finding $40 in the pocket of a winter jacket