one thing that frustrates me most: covid is one of the most manageable problems we will face for the rest of our lives. covid is the practice round. and managing it is prerequisite to managing all the bigger things coming down the pipe

the POINT of calling people scabs is to shame them into not strikebreaking because siding with CEOs is scabby as hell

Critic and feminist Ellen Willis on Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone, 1970. *Decades* ahead of her time.

Bill Maher is a smarmy fossil and the world would be a better place if decent people didn't go on his show.

So cool to talk with Josh Riedel about his evocative and keenly insightful Please Report Your Bug Here!

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This might be the best reply we have ever received.

An update on the host of the 2023 National Book Awards.

This is a fact.

Feel sorry for the late empire subjects who have to live under the misrule of techno mechanicus, who in 2057 will murder his siblings to inherit the western half of the empire and retire to a palatial garrison off the coast threatened by marauding bands of Disney adults

Terry Teachout— not exactly a man of the Left— looked into this for the WSJ and discovered the growth in Broadway costs was largely caused by marketing budgets.

MY NAME IS DUANE KEARNS PURYEAR.

I WAS BORN ON DECEMBER 20, 1964.

I WAS DIAGNOSED WITH AIDS ON SEPTEMBER 7, 1987 AT 4:45 PM.

I WAS 22 YEARS OLD.

SOMETIMES, IT MAKES ME VERY SAD.

I MADE THIS PANEL MYSELF.

IF YOU ARE READING IT, I AM DEAD.'

Though there is a long way to go, we are winning crucial victories *all the time*.

The centrist message that everything is fine and change is impossible is designed to demoralize you, to win the fight in your mind so they don't have to win it in the streets and on the job.

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The US is already spending money just to keep people in jobs—through otherwise useless defense spending. What would the country look like if that wasted money went toward reinforcing the electrical grid or building high speed rail? Or (heaven forbid) food stamps & child care?

I have invite codes to the app of the skies, if anybody wants them

Roses are red
The Times is a joke
I regret to inform you

This morning the Attorney General’s office filed RICO indictments for 60 people alleged to be part of the Stop Cop City Movement.

Elon Musk went from being the Henry Ford of our generation (admired carmaker, brilliant salesman) to being the Henry Ford of our generation (conspiracy theorist, Nazi-enabler)

ONE WEEK FROM TONIGHT—MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 11: The Franklin Park Reading Series kicks off its fall season with stellar authors jamelbrinkley, rachelhengqp, Kim Coleman Foote, Tom Comitta, and James Sturz! Drink specials, book raffle! #Free fb.me/e/37xEdSC2y