@abovoadmala.bsky.social
"Well it's not a mule but I don't hate it"
"You don't hate it? It's straight vodka with a hint of ginger. I guess I've learned something about where you're at mentally"
"You don't hate it? It's straight vodka with a hint of ginger. I guess I've learned something about where you're at mentally"
December 15, 2025 at 3:49 AM
"Well it's not a mule but I don't hate it"
"You don't hate it? It's straight vodka with a hint of ginger. I guess I've learned something about where you're at mentally"
"You don't hate it? It's straight vodka with a hint of ginger. I guess I've learned something about where you're at mentally"
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What authoritarianism looks like - directing government prosecutors to find any basis to bring charges against political targets, then seek to shake them down and cripple them
NEW! The Shakedown: Trump’s DOJ Pressured Lawyers to “Find” Evidence That UCLA Had Illegally Tolerated Antisemitism, with @chronicle.com
Trump’s DOJ Pressured Lawyers to “Find” Evidence that UCLA Had Illegally Tolerated Antisemitism
An investigation by ProPublica and The Chronicle of Higher Education reveals how the U.S. government ignored due process to gin up its attack on the University of California.
www.propublica.org
December 12, 2025 at 9:08 PM
What authoritarianism looks like - directing government prosecutors to find any basis to bring charges against political targets, then seek to shake them down and cripple them
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Striking from @brankomilan.bsky.social: Hitlerism as a continuation of the established practices of "the West" toward the rest of the humanity. I think this has some important resonance for our own time. brankomilanovic.substack.com/p/the-last-c...
December 15, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Striking from @brankomilan.bsky.social: Hitlerism as a continuation of the established practices of "the West" toward the rest of the humanity. I think this has some important resonance for our own time. brankomilanovic.substack.com/p/the-last-c...
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I genuinely 100% believe people would go fucking hog wild if the next admin legally blew up mar-a-lago with agms. pritzker should unironically do this in 2029
December 15, 2025 at 12:30 AM
I genuinely 100% believe people would go fucking hog wild if the next admin legally blew up mar-a-lago with agms. pritzker should unironically do this in 2029
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I do not want to take “Taylor Swift and Medieval Courtly Poetry” I want you to lock me in a room and make me spend 8 hours a day learning Greek participles
December 14, 2025 at 8:38 PM
I do not want to take “Taylor Swift and Medieval Courtly Poetry” I want you to lock me in a room and make me spend 8 hours a day learning Greek participles
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Nobody. I do not think you can eat chair
December 8, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Nobody. I do not think you can eat chair
YEESH
Oh you think they wouldn’t be so cynical to play around with death to manipulate lawmakers?
Well, you are mistaken.
Well, you are mistaken.
Feinstein's primary caregiver: Pelosi's daughter
A quiet caretaking arrangement has raised questions about whether Nancy Pelosi has the ailing senator's personal interests at heart.
www.politico.com
December 14, 2025 at 7:16 AM
YEESH
Honestly its very cool that merve Emre is on Instagram and not substack
December 14, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Honestly its very cool that merve Emre is on Instagram and not substack
Every time I go to NoVa I hear tame impala
December 14, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Every time I go to NoVa I hear tame impala
7 months ago it wasn't clear if I'd move to the midwest for a nonprofit job, stay in DC and work part time and study (engineering) part time or stay and study full time or work full time, move to Europe and study (engineering) full time, or move ?? for an MBA or maybe pivot to data science
December 13, 2025 at 10:00 PM
7 months ago it wasn't clear if I'd move to the midwest for a nonprofit job, stay in DC and work part time and study (engineering) part time or stay and study full time or work full time, move to Europe and study (engineering) full time, or move ?? for an MBA or maybe pivot to data science
I often tell people the hardest part of doing a bachelor's in engineering in my 30s is being surrounded by screaming children all day. I sometimes wonder if I'm being unfair to my classmates. But after a Friendsgiving where there was a toddler, I realized I'm being unfair to children
December 13, 2025 at 9:25 PM
I often tell people the hardest part of doing a bachelor's in engineering in my 30s is being surrounded by screaming children all day. I sometimes wonder if I'm being unfair to my classmates. But after a Friendsgiving where there was a toddler, I realized I'm being unfair to children
I have to remind myself I have occasionally regretted a purchase. But it's like 10:1 books I didn't buy that stick with me to books I bought and was like "I didn't really need that"
There's little that's more relatable than watching someone in a bookstore negotiate with themselves over a fat stack of books
December 13, 2025 at 8:05 PM
I have to remind myself I have occasionally regretted a purchase. But it's like 10:1 books I didn't buy that stick with me to books I bought and was like "I didn't really need that"
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“I’ve been thinking we should update the kitchen cabinets” okay that’s cool but the house is on fire
i don't want to be like "nothing matters" but the problem is really that domestic politics in the US makes discussing any kind of really serious policy issues at the moment impossible
Loomer got the NSA deputy director nom pulled
December 13, 2025 at 7:33 PM
“I’ve been thinking we should update the kitchen cabinets” okay that’s cool but the house is on fire
I am firmly DSA but boy I feel neoliberal when I see Americans who used to work in international development posting about how they deserved better or some kind of deal was broken
December 13, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I am firmly DSA but boy I feel neoliberal when I see Americans who used to work in international development posting about how they deserved better or some kind of deal was broken
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They don’t have the stomach for change, so they don’t have the stomach for this fight. I promise you renewing American institutions is gonna be a lot scarier and more complex than learning how to use those dang newfangled pronouns and stop lowkey sexually harassing your students.
December 13, 2025 at 5:47 PM
They don’t have the stomach for change, so they don’t have the stomach for this fight. I promise you renewing American institutions is gonna be a lot scarier and more complex than learning how to use those dang newfangled pronouns and stop lowkey sexually harassing your students.
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Someone needs to write an essay called “The Harper’s Letter Liberal” about how the sort of person who signed and/or supported the Harper’s letter in 2021 or whenever is precisely the kind of person collaborating / capitulating to fascism right now. They are the rot of our institutions.
December 13, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Someone needs to write an essay called “The Harper’s Letter Liberal” about how the sort of person who signed and/or supported the Harper’s letter in 2021 or whenever is precisely the kind of person collaborating / capitulating to fascism right now. They are the rot of our institutions.
Love a comic that comes with homework xkcd.com/2985/
Craters
xkcd.com
December 13, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Love a comic that comes with homework xkcd.com/2985/
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they're calling it "the greatest city in america" dc.urbanturf.com/articles/blo...
December 13, 2025 at 3:50 PM
they're calling it "the greatest city in america" dc.urbanturf.com/articles/blo...
Bulgaria's a country I need to learn about. Romania I've at least picked up one or two things. Bulgaria - I mean, the Bulgars start showing up in histories of Byzantium around the 800s. That's about all I got.
December 13, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Bulgaria's a country I need to learn about. Romania I've at least picked up one or two things. Bulgaria - I mean, the Bulgars start showing up in histories of Byzantium around the 800s. That's about all I got.
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Genuinely do cities of similar size have a sense of humor like this www.youtube.com/watch?v=smFv...
Lansing Tourism Video
YouTube video by Lansing Facts
www.youtube.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Genuinely do cities of similar size have a sense of humor like this www.youtube.com/watch?v=smFv...
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Deliverism failed, folks, you gotta take the L
This seems logical but Dems solved* the whole problem of old-age health care costs in the mid-1960s and then they lost five of the next six presidential elections because by 1968 it was a solved problem and no one cared about it.
*Yes oversimplifying here and the rest of course.
*Yes oversimplifying here and the rest of course.
i will amend my earlier tweet. whichever party solves the prices of housing *and child care* will rule america for a generation
December 13, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Deliverism failed, folks, you gotta take the L
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I like how most Amtrak stories are "Amtrak unveils wildly popular new route, ridership skyrockets and passengers are thrilled" and then in my backyard the only Amtrak story I ever hear is "Amtrak takes a stinking wet shit on the commutes of 1/3 of the tristate area because it can"
Amtrak reports Mardi Gras service among most successful ever https://mynbc15.com/news/local/amtrak-provides-boost-to-mobile-businesses
Amtrak's Mardi Gras service boosts Mobile tourism with higher than expected ridership
Amtrak says the new Mardi Gras service that connects Mobile to New Orleans is one of the most successful services ever launched and it's on track to double the
mynbc15.com
December 12, 2025 at 11:58 PM
I like how most Amtrak stories are "Amtrak unveils wildly popular new route, ridership skyrockets and passengers are thrilled" and then in my backyard the only Amtrak story I ever hear is "Amtrak takes a stinking wet shit on the commutes of 1/3 of the tristate area because it can"
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It is literally life and death if you speed
December 12, 2025 at 10:56 PM
It is literally life and death if you speed
Beau Travail at Suns (a few years ago, not when it was released). I went in thinking: a French adaptation of a Melville story moved to Africa, was this just made for me? Turns out it's incredible and accessible. Afterward I looked it up and saw "widely considered the greatest film of the 1990s"
Raising the always fun question: What are your most memorable theater-going experiences?
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
It was hands-down one of the most memorable theater-going experiences I can remember, a collective 30-minute butt-clench/armrest-grab for the final climb. And we knew he lived! Wild.
December 12, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Beau Travail at Suns (a few years ago, not when it was released). I went in thinking: a French adaptation of a Melville story moved to Africa, was this just made for me? Turns out it's incredible and accessible. Afterward I looked it up and saw "widely considered the greatest film of the 1990s"