Roomis Igloomis

@holdenl.bsky.social

Fuck ICE. Profile photo taken at an I-20 rest stop in Coahoma.

I'm listening to yesterday's The Daily podcast, and I'm baffled. How can someone cover politics as a full-time job, yet not recognize the nature of the central conflict within the Democratic Party? It's not centrists vs progressives. It's go-alongs vs fighters. How are reporters ignorant of this?

Don't get mad, but I have a question after visiting many homes over the years, washing my hands after using the bathroom: Why do y'all want your hands to smell like lemons, or lavender, or pumpkins with maple syrup?

Caitlin Clark wants to be on the FIBA World Cup squad, and I hope Kara Lawson has told her that she won't be on the team if she doesn't control herself. FIBA refs aren't going to let her get away with her flopping and verbal abuse.

Maybe they should just practice locking the door and turning off the lights and remaining silent while hiding under their desks…or is that just appropriate for kindergartners? 

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Ashley Parker is a movement conservative who has installed herself in influential media to inflict political damage on Democrats and provide cover for Republicans. Imagine the story she would tell if a Democratic senator had told her to wash up and buy a dress. It would be a tale of harassment.

Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · 4w ago

"Best! Beat! Ever!" (proceeds to tell an anecdote about a senator telling her to go buy a dress before she's allowed to write a story about him in the wake of a racist mass shooting)

Like anyone who’s spent any time around politics, I have many Lindsey Graham stories. This is perhaps my favorite…

I was covering Congress (Best! Beat! Ever!) for the NYT when the Mother Emanuel shooting happened in Charleston. It was summer, but I was wearing pants and a sweater that day because it was always SO freezing in the Capitol. Anyhow, news of the shooting came down, and the DC Bureau chief called me with an order: Get yourself to Charleston ASAP and glue yourself to Graham’s side. She wanted a piece on the senator grappling with the unimaginable. So I headed straight to the airport, arriving in Charleston with just my backpack and what I’d be wearing to work that day, and linked up with Graham.

He had me meet him at a restaurant, where I told him I needed to shadow him for the next 48 hours. And he looked at me, with amused distaste, and said: “You are sticky. And you are icky. If you want to shadow me, go buy some nice new clothes—maybe a dress—and take a shower, and then we’ll talk.” (He was not wrong; I was sweaty and gross). 

So I drove to a local big box store, bought a dress (he seemed to have a strong preference for a dress), and spent the next few days with him, resulting in this piece (which, for reasons not worth getting into, ended up being fairly different than the original assignment):

Odyssey Sims was on a hardship contract for the Corn Mob last season. She's now a smart, experienced, steadying presence for the Wings who, today, is given the responsibility of guarding Sloot and Cloud. I'm happy that she got a contract under this CBA.