It’s *wild* that we have an actual cross-partisan coalition actively standing against Trump’s election — including multiple members of his previous administration — and it just… somehow doesn’t rate as a news item.

Untitled (Fireflies), by Pete Mauney, 2022, 📸 by @JoshHeim

I was feeling better about the upcoming election when Harris and Walz were actively campaigning against the fascist Donald Trump and the misogynist JD Vance instead of running a resume polishing service for Harvard’s spring 2025 IOP fellows

What are we looking at here??

Lorne Michaels, sitting bolt upright in the middle of the night: oh no we forgot to write an ending to every sketch in the last 50 years

People need to get away from the idea of politicians as heroes and embrace the idea of politicians as cowards who must at every turn be bullied into having good politics

Cats are obligate carnivores but are completely convinced they are actually omnivores. They're like "no you are wrong, our ancestors clearly made sandwiches out of their prey, check the fossil record"

This is, without hyperbole, the same shit fascist Italy and Nazi Germany pushed. The "enemy within." It historically is used to justify mass violence.

one day we're gonna have to explain to future generations how the best political journalism in the year 2024 was being done by Teen Vogue and Rolling Stone while the NYT and their brethren spent the whole cycle pontificating about how its anti american not to put them before voters