i know votes are still being counted but the more i look at this michigan senate map the more it becomes clear that it kind of looks like a mitten
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Credit is where credit is due: Haley Stevens has permanently altered my regular vocabulary with "Stick it to 'em!"
She sounds like she's about to cause a moral panic around the town's new pool table to create a boys' marching band.
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breathing in air that kills you on the way to have a salad that kills you
The virgin "post-literate reading crisis" feature vs the Chad "this man has so many books his building wants to evict him" article
Me thinking about General Hospital: this show must be about a hospital Every clip of General Hospital Man in military fatigues: I’m proud to announce we’ve captured the radioactive ape
lol he signed it at VERSAILLES? the place famous for treaties that do not last???
we also have @tonyhotran.bsky.social with a lil Sad!-libs to put you inside Trump's glorious head slate.com/news-and-pol...
Experience What It Feels Like to Live Inside Trump’s Baffling Brain
We need more beautiful things in this country.
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Sam and many others (@schweather.bsky.social, @rebeccaonion.bsky.social, @c-cauterucci.bsky.social, @lukewinkie.bsky.social, @fredmkaplan.bsky.social, @calllmenadira.net, @madelineducharme.bsky.social, @scaachi.bsky.social, still more) helped me break down the cultural recesses of Trump's brain:
I wrote about Donald Trump's enduring obsession with '80s musical-theater schlock, and why he's probably not crazy about the new version of Cats.
Theater employee scanned my ticket for The Backrooms. Before he could tell me the auditorium number, I said, "Let me guess: the room in the back?" His angry silence is a sound I will never forget.
reupping for the morning slate.com/technology/2...
I Read the Pope’s 240-Page Encyclical. I’m Astounded by What He Wrote.
It’s an urgent warning—and a celebration of humanity and what we can do at our best.
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took some time this week to read and process Chicago Bob's full A.I. encyclical for myself—and took away something way more interesting, and fulsome, than either its detractors or proponents would have you believe
Announcement: My essay about my family’s return to Vietnam has been selected for The Best American Food and Travel Writing. I am so grateful to @slate.com for providing me the space to write, my editors who helped shape the piece, and @marinerbooks.bsky.social for selecting the piece.
Yesterday I signed a bill to return 3,400 acres of land to the Fon du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa - a joint effort between the Tribe, the state, and the University of Minnesota.
Really funny to me that you can rate the Pope's new encyclical on Goodreads. www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
Pope Leo XIV
Author of Dilexi Te, God Loves Everyone, and APOSTOLIC LETTER 'IN UNITATE FIDEI' ON THE 1700th ANNIVERSARY OF THE COUNCIL OF NICAEA
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Babe what’s wrong you haven’t touched your shrimp ass chips
English chip flavorings are nuts
The times that a trans student has come out to me as a part of their self-discovery are sacred to me at a time when little else is. This is an abominable and unenforceable fascist tactic.
BREAKING: The House of Representatives just voted to require teachers to forcibly out transgender youth against their will. Censoring "gender ideology" does nothing to advance the basic promise that every child deserves the same opportunity to thrive, and that includes transgender students.
There's 60g of protein in building affordable housing in walkable neighborhoods.
Is anyone else a lot more okay leaving in grammatical and spelling errors in things nowadays? Like sure, I wrote "your" when I meant "you're" but at least it shows an A.I. didn't write it.
too many stupid people have money; that's why I'm launching protein cigarettes
Morbid fact: The hantavirus has such a high mortality rate (~40%) that its chances of becoming a pandemic are relatively low. As anyone who's ever played Pandemic can tell you, a virus that kills its hosts too fast doesn't spread well.
New from me: Elon Musk Is Probably Going to Lose the OpenAI Case - But he’s not doing this to win. slate.com/technology/2...
Elon Musk Says He’s Suing OpenAI Because They Abandoned Their Mission. I Think His Real Reason Is Much More Embarrassing.
This is a master class in being petty and vindictive, and burning tons of cash.
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This is my type of humor. This is the dumb sh*t that makes me literally laugh out loud.
But what will Rob do about the NCAA stealing 4 wins from the Iowa Hawkeyes' 2023 season?
Big news! We just launched the first tv ad of the general election. And the message is simple: stealing is bad, and if you steal tax dollars, you should go to jail. Pretty basic.