This isn't some tiny glitch, tried the phone, desktop, VPN. Paypal is DOWN DOWN. Internationally. As in fucking dead in the water. Venmo too:

"the reports were around 3,000. Now they're in the 5,000 to 6,000 range, which is among the highest we've seen."

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Watching all these centrist pundits stress the “civility” of Charlie Kirk’s style without addressing the ugliness of his substance is giving me a renewed appreciation of how the civil, polite White Citizens’ Councils conned the same crowd into thinking they were distinct from the cruder Klan.

We are outraged and deeply distressed that armed federal agents came onto our campus—making arrests on the very ground where, in 1942, Japanese American families were forced to board buses bound for concentration camps. It was a deliberate act of provocation and intimidation.

So the marketing geniuses at @washingtonpost.com just sent me a survey to learn more from a former subscriber, pretending that they don't know exactly why I flew away. There was an open-ended question where I was able to share the following. #washingtonpost

Can’t stop thinking about this, from @hcrichardson.bsky.social : “In the United States, racism has always gone hand in hand with the concentration of wealth among the very richest people.”

I so dearly wish all US peoples knew this. 1/2

I mean, who among us hasn't tried to get a couple more PBRs on the company tab and expense it to failing democracies?

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

Rarely am I early to a tech trend.

WSJ has fired Hong Kong-based journalist Selina Cheng after she was elected chair of a local journalism union. She was told advocating for press freedom “would be incompatible with my job.”

Cheng’s full statement (posted via twitter):

Remember that DOJ sought expedited review of this issue from the Court last year (skipping the circuit courts). They refused and punted it to the DC Circuit, which took months; then dilly dallied all this time after the DC Circuit’s decision, before finally issuing a grant. It’s pretty transparent.

I'm glad to be off the other social media hellscape but there were some channels I was missing. Now that I follow @bodegacats.bsky.social here I know I'm going to be just fine.

Multiple things can be true at once:

1. Oct 7th was the worst collective trauma Jews have experienced in our lifetimes

2. The war on Gaza is a horror

3. Antisemitism is rising

4. Islamophobia is rising

Those trying to use one of these to cancel others are making things worse

The Senate's dress code should be those Nascar driving suits where you can see everyone who gave buddy money

Remember how many people are saying vile things about the US Womens soccer team, then remember how many of them likely screamed ‘protect women’s sports’.

This is about women being used, to the satisfaction of straight, white cis men, then being tossed in the bin when they get what they want.