H.M. Stiller

Putting my faith in a party that constantly sends me text messages like a needy younger sibling. 🙃

That this is in THE WASHINGTON POST is almost too much irony to bear.

Well, damn. They're out there cancelling Theda Bara now.

I voted early (but not for laser hair removal).

We acknowledge that no one has the bandwidth for this, but if it helps: -It’s ‘sleight of hand’ -It’s ‘bated breath’ -It’s ‘lo and behold’ -It's 'buck naked' -It’s ‘brass tacks’ -It’s ‘free rein’ -It’s ‘toe the line'

This new report today with my NYT colleague Anton Troianovski follows up on our earlier reporting this month on the Lukoil deal that would bring financial benefits to business partners of the Witkoff and Trump families. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...

You can count on green beans being green! It's great.

I don't often simp for imperialist regimes, but I think if you are so physically compromised thanks to inbreeding that you're having 20 seizures a day, then yes, you do have a right to dumplings. youtube.com/shorts/nG9kF...

Jordan Peterson, for example

It is deeply interwoven into our nation's founding. teachingamericanhistory.org/document/to-...

Chotiner: Now here come two words for you:

[contest in wood shop class] guy, showing off a compartment of a bureau he made: check this out . i think i won his super-competitive classmate, showing off a sliding component in his chest: pretty sure imma win the shop teacher: let’s just call it a drawer {annnnnnnnd, SEND}

ISTG, she was the last aspirational Long Islander. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Congrats, Alberta, for making the sane choice. You are indeed not a fart in the room (to use distinctly unparliamentary language).

Cha-cha, now, y'all

Lake Michigan matching my energy today

not to take away from the thoroughly abominable job Zacharia did for all of thirty seconds, but this administration absolutely loves to prop up women so they can tear them down in short order as patriarchal proof of concept. it's really only surprising her tenure didn't last longer.

To use everyone's favorite phrase, I wrote about why the reported attempt to denaturalize Ilhan Omar is outrageous as an American and yes As A Jew for @forward.com forward.com/opinion/8561...

nice to know i'm getting the respect i deserve

Correct, nobody does this because that would obviously be fucking stupid

Hungary removes anti-LGBTQ provisions from 'child protection' law, batting back Orban legacy

At some point, you will be yelled at in a language you don't understand. Sometimes that requires activating your empathetic imagination. The yeller could be suffering, or experiencing some deep, universal frustration. At other times, of course, it means you have a hungry cat.

Nah, it's all a conspiracy by Big Finland www.npr.org/2026/10/11/n...

Bottoms for Ossoff

Does anyone else remember that point in NY in the 2010s when there were random subway ads for the Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung? Like, it wasn't even recognizably a tourist campaign? More like "Kaohsiung! It exists! We have businesses!"?

Glad to know people are taking the anniversary as an opportunity to be extremely normal. 🙃

valuing hustle unfairly privileges Indian supremacy over indigenous White ways of knowing

What is there to say on the third anniversary of October 7th, except that it did not have to be this way?

oh no i think my 73-year-old father might be getting into anime

Found the perfect screengrab to use the next time someone tries to tell me I’m missing out on important discourse by not using Elon Musk’s mircoblog site