Katie

Very useful history here, delivered very efficiently:

Me, tripping balls, when my friend's mom comes home early and I'm designated "least likely to freak her out" and sent to talk to her.

SFPD know that as long as Brooke Jenkins is DA they have a blank check to do whatever they want. She drops charges against violent cops, she doesn't file them.

Before CPR there was... blowing tobacco smoke up the bum. One of the recommended procedures for resuscitating "persons apparently dead from drowning", from a 1787 booklet by the Humane Society www.tumblr.com/publicdomain...

One, this hilariously outs who all got the talking points in advance and how blatantly they parrot those. Two, Schmitt really thought today he'd launch himself to the VP nomination and with that a decent shot at the presidency down the line. Instead this is the only thing he'll be remembered for.

If you are a Californian and you are concerned about billionaires' (& big tech) stranglehold over politics and policies - voting YES on 40 should be a basic first step. Prop 40 is nowhere enough but it's least CA can do. And also vote NO on 41 and 42 - poison pills pushed by billionaires/Big Tech.

Straight white man with ivy league degrees and a tenured position thinks elections "feel" existential to people because his entitled life isn't facing existential threaths. And Sarah Isgur shouldn't be able to show her face in public.

this entire presidency in one image

No one’s calling it Lake America. “Lake America” is what you name a summer camp for soft children who say, “Don’t you know who my father is?” after a t-ball stand strikes them out

Will Gavin Newsom choose the billionaires or the people? Solano County said no to “California Forever,” a private billionaire city. The billionaires said “hold my champagne.” Now they’ve hired Newsom’s own political team to push the project through a shady deal. YouTube deleted this video!

👀 “The Powell memo outlined a strategy. Unite corporate special interests, privilege corporate perspectives in the media, appoint sympathetic judges to the court, and buy politicians in both political parties” - @jamestalarico.bsky.social This is good stuff.

I yelled "yes!" so loud at trickle down economics isn't an economic theory, it's theft, that I startled the dog.

It sometimes feels like we're living in a ridiculously exaggerated folk tale with wildly implausible villains. For example, as the president takes billions for himself and his family and *coats his things in gold,* the soldiers fighting his war can't get toothpaste, hot water, or a clean toilet.

How would I get by without AI? If I need a factually-dubious opinion expressed in a cliched manner with unearned confidence, I’ll just talk to a straight white cis man. I can get by on small-batch, locally-sourced, artisanal mansplaining, the way we always used to.

Did he first tell them he did it washing his truck? Because that would be the perfect way to celebrate Jeff Kent's induction into the Hall of Fame.

PG&E: We did the bare minimum one would expect from a business and sourced materials at the best cost. We want to increase what our customers pay anyway so we we can give that cash to our share holders. CA PUC: Of course, is there anything else we can do for you? Foot rub? Snack?

The obvious solution is for these parents, who think they get a yes/no vote on everything taught, to pull their kids out of the most prestigious public school in the city and home school them. I'm confident the slots they open up will be quickly filled by kids who can handle learning racism exists.

It's weird that an army of guys who never leave their houses deciding to boycott a movie didn't have more of an effect.

Hard pressed to decide which part of this I loved most, but learning Henry Rollins and Ian MacKaye once worked together at a Haagen-Dazs is a strong contender.

Thank god there are no gender studies classes anymore otherwise we might be able to figure out what's going on here.

Lmao www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/s...

I hope every woo woo dipishit who ever supported RFK and every person who voted for Trump gets the explosive diarrhea they deserve. bsky.app/profile/phil...

If roughing up a girlfriend and locking her in a room was a virile, authentic a rejection of “smoothgroined” “HR lady” politics, but a rape is too far, then what’s at stake is not a principled rejection of violence against women but a cynical assessment of how much violence a man can get away with.

My company makes everyone do Myers Briggs and I've found the test is laughably gameable if your goal is to have a result too vague to be meaningful. So I'm officially borderline on all of the categories except introvert because I figured that was most likely to get people to leave me alone.

Donald Trump is a very stupid fucking person who genuinely has no idea how anything works and the U.S. press should never be allowed to live down their failure in communicating this mercilessly and clearly to the U.S. public

Maybe incumbents will start worrying about earning votes and stop assuming they're entitled to a seat just because their butt's already in it.

The traditional 250th anniversary gift is fascism.

Why do i keep getting rejected by the New Yorker?

The Monterey Bay Aquarium PROUDly presents “Otter This World,” written and performed by Monét X Change with special guest Trinity the Tuck.

lol Dems: 'if you want change, you do it in the system, you do it in the party, win people's votes, be an adult' Also Dems: 'wait, no, not like that. It's wrong to do that.'

I wish we'd known sooner that all it would take to get rid of James Carville was electing a few socialists.

"It's crucial that you send us $20 so we can fight" <they do no fighting> Makes a lot more sense when you find out they're getting millions from some of the same people they supposedly want to fight.

Great thread:

I don't see myself spending another dime on Giants tickets or gear any time soon. I stuck with them through good years, bad years, and execrable years, but they can miss me with the homophobic years. Homophobia’s just something that I don’t morally support.

God, please do the funniest thing ever

these assholes didn't deserve this many words written about them

What? Not on Seersucker Suit Day!

Or even a matter of months.

Well this is a horrific account of more rape and abuse in the 70s era UFW and also indicates why rushing to rename things for Dolores Huerta might be pretty fraught. Gift link 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/u...)

Fire the writers bsky.app/profile/nyti...

Sometimes it feels like we are living through a Christopher Guest mockumentary.

I once again invite you to imagine the epistemic environment these people live in -- their group chats, the publications they read, the social media they consume, the kinds of people in their social circles.

(*me in 2027 waiting in line for my live-streamed execution in the now-permanent UFC arena in front of the White House*) “You know I actually did kinda think it would end this way”

trump thinks that AI slop rendering of him swimming in the reflecting pool was real

God forbid something on the scale of 9/11 happens on this administration's watch. God forbid.