I absolutely love a cloudy day. Overcast with a swirling, three digit millibar has me feeling, momentarily, like less of an alien on my own planet.

This is why, beyond the dishonesty of it, I won’t be cajoled into performative politeness by people who don’t actually care what you think and simply want to censor what you say. To be clear, refusing performative politeness - e.g., “bless his family” is not the same as being a racist piece of shit.

Buddy…that’s just fascism. Support conditioned on a desire to eradicate conflicting ideas by any means necessary, including by relinquishing your own rights and freedoms, is literally built into the model.

Buddy…that’s just fascism. Support conditioned on a desire to eradicate conflicting ideas by any means necessary, including by relinquishing your own rights and freedoms, is literally built into the model.

A recently released study found that two thirds of Americans rated the food at my last corporate event as “2 - Below Average”

If Trump and MAGA are proud of being fascists, or Christian white nationalists, or whatever evil namesake they prefer most, why does the entire universe of American media still affirmatively choose to gaslight us?

Bait me. Make it flashy. I don’t care. Just call a thing a thing. What are we doing.

This came to mind for me as well

Trump has always been and will continue to be a useful idiot whose ineptitude serves as a bumbling shield for the calculated destruction of American public service and government institutions. When you privatize everything, those with the most money own, control, and manage access to everything.

Trump can get away with it because his base doesn’t care and liberals think he’s a bad businessman, which he objectively is, (a good reason why he of all people should not try to run the government as one). But the money backing the right wing machine is not bad at business. They know the outcome.

If you’ve ever worked for a large company (or a badly managed one of any size) and especially if your employer has been acquired by PE, this article will resonate. There is only so much you can pull out of a system before it stops functioning. 60% of parts does not run an engine at 60%.

The NWS, along with most other prime DOGE targets - government agencies designed to prevent Americans from dying and feed robust public institutional data to adjacent markets like insurance, housing, and finance - is feeling the strain of trying to run an institution using a corporate profit model.

Other than the science free nature of it all, perhaps the least surprising part of the admin’s new claim is the onus it puts on pregnant women. Dying of fever? Deal with it. In severe pain? Deal with it. Child has autism? It’s because you were weak, and if you say it wasn’t, you’re a liar. We know.

Wait is there a rapture tomorrow I haven’t even selected whose house I’m going to raid first

I say this a lot but seriously we are so fucked.

Overturning the actual malice standard = any person who speaks up about being sexually assaulted by a public figure will be sued for speaking up by very rich and powerful people.

Overturning the actual malice standard = any person who speaks up about being sexually assaulted by a public figure will be sued for speaking up by very rich and powerful people.

This lawsuit is asking to be a vehicle for overturning NYT v. Sullivan (which established the actual malice we know and love for public figures).

It is a request to overturn longstanding precedent that allows us to criticize our politicians and remove our free speech.

Shot. Chaser.

Some personal news:

I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.

Thread incoming.

substack.com/@karenattiah...

Online trads going to church for the first time and finding out it's not an IRL version of their personal Based internet club always cracks me up

Oh. Ok.

You’re entitled to be whomever you choose, but you added moral guidance to your comment (“speaking clearly can be effective without being mean”) and that’s where you’re wrong - both about what is effective and about what is mean.

Im begging you to understand that refusing to have sympathy for bad people is not actually hateful at all.

Please watch this from Cy Canterel. I’m not a tik tokker either, just watch it in your browser. Pretending this is all just obscure internet subculture is the biggest mistake we continue to make, and a few of us have been saying this for years. I’m not mad at the mistake. Just stop making it.