Phishy Nick

Reminder that if you haven’t listened to Glenn Gould play Bach recently you should. Start with this or the Goldberg Variations open.spotify.com/album/61Uszr...

Spot on!

It’s giving Madam Mim vibes.

Absolutely 👇

Absolutely. 👇

Can overhear local conservative neighbors outside talking about how insane the price of diesel is and why the hard-working truckers they know shouldn’t have to put up with it. Have to assume these conversations are happening in every neighborhood.

We should remain Johns as Donalds

This is psychosis. He is profoundly mentally ill. He is not fit to be in any position of power over anyone or anything. He should not control nuclear weapons.

Under Secretary Hegseth’s new plan, servicemen with low blood alcohol levels will be required to undergo vodka replacement therapy.

Ennui makes better coffee. I don’t make the rules.

Child's imaginary restaurant acquired, shuttered by private equity

Rahm Emmanuel is the Democratic version of Ted Cruz.

I wonder what it would be like to write the same column, over and over again, endlessly. Seems like it’d be boring. But maybe it brings one comfort, like having your parents read you the same story every night before you go to bed.

So far Trump has tried to rig the midterms by: 1. Attempted to nationalize voter registration & voting requirements. 2. Mid-decade gerrymanders. 3. Tried to use the USPS to obstruct mail-in balloting. 4. Used taxpayer money for ads. 5. Intimidation of election officials.

Went down south for a conference last week and didn’t get any good southern food. Made my own when I got back. 15 bean stew with smoked turkey legs, collard greens, Scottish ale, and a few other things. Took about 5 hours to cook since beans were dry. Doesn’t photo well but tasted 🔥. Cholula on top

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My body is asking for vegetables in the same tone a hostage negotiator asks for proof of life

At Atlantic staff meetings, I sometimes play Wordle when I'm bored, but in my hip-hop heart, I'm like what's the haps on craps. by David Brooks

So #MitchMcConnell just gets to be dead & no one cares anymore? He just keeps collecting a paycheck, taking unlimited time off & everyone shrugs? I'm a teacher fighting stage 4 #cancer & if I was even 10 minutes late to work, I'd hear about it. If I disappeared, didn't call in, I'd be unemployed.

Thou shalt not use SHOCK GLOVES and ROBOT DOGS on HUMANS who just want to live in peace.

When Amadeus first transferred from London to Broadway in 1980 the Broadway production starred Tim Curry as Mozart and Ian McKellen as Salieri and I would like to go back in time and watch that.

“My parents died so fuck yours too,” is quite the argument against reasonable healthcare

Wage theft costs US workers more than $50 billion each year which is much more than all other types of theft combined. Nice to see a politician actually focus on accountability for wage thieves.

"fdr is using these horseless carriages and we didnt need that back in '92"

You can’t talk about debt without talking about how we got into a bad predicament, and there’s only one correct answer: tax cuts enacted this century

Sitting in New Orleans airport watching lightning into which my plane will soon fly, reading Times-Picayune. Single page: record-setting floods in Indiana, record-setting fires in Belgium (“records,” like it’s the sports page), hurricane winds in Hawaii. Not one article mentions climate change.

The Pillow Guy losing sleep over election results is almost too perfect.

In honor of Ross Douthat's last day at the NYT, let's remember this particular headline tweak from just last year.

Americans won’t freak out about lettuce being toxic, because they hate salad. But just you wait till the explosive diarrhea hits burgers or pizza. Then they’ll care.

Her name is Sister Rosetta Thorpe. Known as the "Godmother of rock" that inspired Elvis.

Men die inside five to six years younger than women.

nobody is ever beating Barack Obama in a “broke the worst half of America’s brains” competition but I’m impressed that Anthony Fauci is emerging as the LeBron to his MJ

if someone is cooking something and they seem excited about it and you think it's unhealthy ... the place to stick that opinion is up your own ass, follow it with your head, and shut the fuck up.

Watching from Wistah. Big country horns tonight? Paul McCartney sit in? #phish

So the bread has glass in it, the lettuce has diarrhea-causing bacteria, the eggs have salmonella, the beef has screw worms, the produce is somehow bad all the time now, AND everything is more expensive. What the actual fck is going on?

Gender-affirming care.

victory lapping on this one

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