A lot of discussion right now about How To Fix All This and one of my ideas is the Toddler New Deal. Policies based on stuff like "Clean up after yourself" and "You have to share with the other kids"
windows open at night season >>>
Things we’re leaving in woke 1.0:
- popular usage of “gentrifier”
- minority politicians “not owing” meaningful policy to voters
- making interpersonal conflict an organizational problem
- doing race science on group photos
- “bodies and spaces”
Thank you for your attention on this matter!
me paying $30 in gas to buy imported things that have been hit with tariffs bc joe rogan is learning about politics at age 58
motivated by offline events but maybe relevant for some: never stops boggling my mind how some are able to rationalize the toxic ways they navigate internal org disagreements - functionally punishing the urge some people have to step up to roles of responsibility in these orgs
Wide angle of an MLB pitcher. Quote reads: "No league has actively made it more difficult to watch their games than MLB has over the last 10 years. It discourages fans from tuning in." Attribution reads: Daniel O., an MLB fan, on the viewing experience.
From @theathletic.com: Baseball has been revitalized by rule changes, but according to our readers, not everything has gotten better.
The legal web of MLB's regional sports network contracts continues to subject nearly 40% of fans we polled to blackouts: nyti.ms/4bazaia
Noah Kahan doing the thing that all artists do to me, which is be touring in Boston when I’m in DC and in DC when I’m in Boston 🥲
This was AI, right? Wasn’t it like decade+ old intelligence that the site used to be of military significance? That screams someone loaded intelligence files into a software and told it to choose targets and didn’t check them.
So true bestie, no one is rolling in dough like new parents 💸
I see what they’re going for but maybe there’s a better product/revenue source than something that is overwhelmingly purchased as a necessity by parents of babies and toddlers.
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Pro-pedo party strikes again (“I can’t report my abuse because [relative] will be deported”)
Statement from SEIU on the Trump Administration’s Unconstitutional Attack Against Iran, Reckless Disregard for Working People’s Lives:
What can I say, people love socialism
Google Photos is probably the worst product from a once premium company I have ever used
i've decided not to listen to the audio of a teacher reporting a kindergartender because frankly I don't want to become the person that that event would turn me into. but one thing I hope we are collectively coming to grips with is what it meant that we have lived among such people this whole time
it is incredibly unsurprising that the average American can’t identify lesser known Nazi symbols. the average American couldn’t put Germany on a map! people interested in history/politics have a very, very poor grasp of this fact.
I refuse to accept a future where we continue to do this.
very funny that the White House defense of that video is essentially “no no, the staffer meant to post it to his personal account”
Great piece, and pleasantly surprised to realize the author also wrote one of my favorite reads from last year, “The Inland Sea.”
no surrender
heavy is the head 😞
I love that every time I check my Oura ring since baby’s been born the title of the sleep section is “It’s gonna be OK”
Good reminder from this state highway!
yes to New Jersey but no to New England is a wild choice imho
Expectant mothers were left so hungry after the U.S. cut foreign food aid that one woman ate clay and charcoal.
Her baby struggled to gain weight after being born prematurely.
By @annamaria.bsky.social, photos by @storitellah.com & illustrations by Phoebe Ouma
Mamdani is going to bring him that snowglobe that plays "Memories" from CATS and we're going to get government grocery stores nationwide
Antisemitism is a lot like Qanon child abuse conspiracies in that there’s this real and bad phenomenon and, parallel to that, what can only be described as a large scale mass psychosis about a mostly fictional version of the same phenomenon
