Reposted by Mary BKieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 06/10/2026I introduce the concept of “Emotional Administrative Burden” to describe the additional labor required by having to look at that guy’s face every time I need to conduct some piece of official business. In this essay I w 522437
Reposted by Mary BJessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This should be so obvious that it doesn’t need to be said, but given what kind of weekend it’s been on here, apparently it does: If you don’t want old rapists running the world, in office, in the board room, making decisions for all of us get comfortable with “ruining” young rapists’ lives 1851871379
Reposted by Mary BRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Time for this classic again. 156164885558
Reposted by Mary BFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 08/09/2026“Elon Musk destroyed USAID as a mechanism for killing off as many of the global poor and non-white as he can before they kill him first (as he, insanely, believes)” is not a conspiracy theory. In truth, it’s very hard to conclude anything else. 7838601024
Reposted by Mary BTom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Write the book you would like to see someone pull from a higgledy piggledy pile in a secondhand shop 63 years after your death and say, "This looks fucking weird. I think I will buy it for Joan 271842515
Reposted by Mary BKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 22/08/2026I'm sure this take has been took already but it's worth saying: the obscene, cynical performance of "It's about being against plagiarism" re Arday is absurd when the entire academic superstructure is being reorganised around mandating plagiarism using advanced plagiarism automation software 291880429
Reposted by Mary BBrendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 15/08/2026If you think intellectual diversity is a problem in the English department, but not the Finance department then you’re not a serious person 4698100
Reposted by Mary BTom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Note from my notebook (2018). Still relevant. www.tom-cox.com/my-notebook-2/ 216536
Reposted by Mary BElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 02/07/2026I cannot wait until I don’t have to watch any more fucking Fox commercials to watch an international sporting event. 90158884
Reposted by Mary BObsolete Dogma @obsoletedogma.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Reasons the Supreme Court should have upheld birthright citizenship: 1) The Constitution 2) Flo Balogun 126769
Reposted by Mary BKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Exactly right. Thousands of different cultures are mingling happily in lower Manhattan right now, and anyone who can't get on board with that is the social misfit. America always has been and always will be diverse. Love it or leave it, assholes. 181180225
Reposted by Mary BAdam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 18/06/2026For years I've tracked billionaire excess. Each year I show students a chart that blows their minds. This year I had to redraw it for a trillionaire: Elon Musk, $1.32T. Depressing that we're here. Silver lining: couldn't have happened to a less deserving person, proof that wealth ≠ merit.stanford.eduElon Musk's $1.32 Trillion, to ScaleThe first trillionaire's fortune, one pixel per $1,000 — scroll past every dollar, and see what a fraction of it could do instead. 17603249
Reposted by Mary Bjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/04/2026yeah, so two things. first, i have been saying for some time that *this* is the message. and that it is a broad one that can fit a large number of concerns. and second, this dude has the juice. 1034128807
Reposted by Mary BPaul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Today is a reminder that except for a brief period running roughly from Brown v. Board to Roe v. Wade, throughout its history the Supreme Court has been a reactionary force protecting the wealth of the wealthy and the power of the powerful, almost always hostile to equality and justice. 6758601710
Reposted by Mary B21st Century Schizoid Tran @grayathena.bsky.social · 26/04/2026Pour one out for the Hilton staff who are working perhaps the worst shift in food service history rn. 195222183258
Reposted by Mary BAnfor @anforsorrow.bsky.social · 25/04/2026If you visit Istambul, look up at the walls of Ottoman-era mosques, madrasahs, tombs or other buildings. You might find "kuş sarayları" (bird palaces), gorgeous stone bird houses in the shape of elaborate mansions. These were mainly built between the 16th to 19th centuries, to show kindness to birds 16805289
Reposted by Mary BTom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Eight *kids* and I had to ask my wife about it when it scrolled by on local news. We're a nation with massive brain-poisoning. 712011338
Reposted by Mary BAkilla Cooper @akelacooper.bsky.social · 23/01/2026Reupping this cause it’s evergreen and I feel better knowing someone out there called him out like this 21461527
Reposted by Mary BProf. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 11/04/2026Humanity did that. Science did that. Publicly-funded research did that. Excellent universities did that. Diversity did that. International cooperation did that. Artemis II is a perfect example of what we can do at our best. Welcome home, Integrity crew! 3253161413
Reposted by Mary BTony Elkins @tonyelkins.com · 08/04/2026We are not equipped to deal with this much adrenaline and cortisol on an hourly basis. The burnout is far beyond our regulatory capacity. 120829
Reposted by Mary BRebecca Bratspies, Author @rbratspies.bsky.social · 04/04/2026I needed to see this today 0133
Reposted by Mary BMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 04/04/2026It's impolite to call Musk a genocidal white nationalist because "civility" in American discourse functions not as a neutral procedural norm but as an asymmetric weapon to shield the powerful from accurate moral characterization while policing the tone of those who object. 6265681939
Reposted by Mary BMichael Feinberg @michael-feinberg.bsky.social · 28/03/2026It’s far too often forgotten that these people are powerful because we make them so. Were we not insistent on integrating their products and services into every aspect of our life, their reach and influence would be orders of magnitude smaller.theatlantic.comThe Very Powerful Men Who Think Introspection Is DumbFor some of America’s tech oligarchs, looking inward seems to be a waste of time better spent moving fast and breaking things. 14515
Reposted by Mary BTimothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 22/03/2026As called by Kent Pavelka & Jeff Smith on the Nebraska Cornhuskers Radio Network: 18371100
Reposted by Mary BHadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 20/03/2026friend who can’t wait to read my essay once she has some time made a sourdough starter 6627
Reposted by Mary BJo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 15/03/2026Heard a writer say how much she loves predictive text as it’s a warning you are about to lapse into a tired old cliche and should look for a different expression. 510511
Reposted by Mary BBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 14/03/2026There's a hauntingly beautiful irony in these morons thinking that carefully crafted American hegemony was actually weak and woke, and they would be the ones who would do Power and Dominance properly, and immediately bringing everything crashing down 97162433243
Reposted by Mary BBen Litherland @benlitherland.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Nutritional science and media effects research are both kinda interesting as the science, really, hasn't changed for a hundred years, but we keep having to reinvent new ways of reformulating what is essentially the same rough heuristics about consumption. 021
Reposted by Mary Bdoom boy @doomboy.bsky.social · 09/03/2026love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region 225192464806
Reposted by Mary BKevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 06/03/2026To take this seriously a sec: when your political-economic system allows massive inequality to explode, it creates a class of people who have no material problems but do have the resources & power to make their trivial irritations the central business of politics—at immense material cost to others. 7558170
Reposted by Mary Bceej @ceej.online · 03/03/2026we appear to have four competing fascist movements jockeying for control: blood & soil nazism under miller and hegseth, darwinian ecofascism from rfk, technofascism under vance and musk, and one Big Wet Hitler who understands the true animating core of the american volk is a deep love for shopping 10380221910
Reposted by Mary B[toxic] kaija osmote @pube.online · 25/02/2026I hope when all this is over that we can move on from a toy democracy for slave owners 07016
Reposted by Mary BLiberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 23/02/2026“It was his very lifestyle that offered something worth aspiring to. Not a vision for society, but a vision for the individual: to say, do, and be whatever you want without consequence—not in spite of cruelty or selfishness, but because of those things.” www.liberalcurrents.com/what-trump-s...liberalcurrents.comWhat Trump Sells Is ImpunityTrump stands out in the GOP not for his racism, but his vision of emancipatory irresponsibility. 27869227
Reposted by Mary BRandy Rainbow @randyrainbow.bsky.social · 10/02/2026Lyin’ and Spinnin’: My Apocalyptic Valentine 😬💘youtu.beLyin' and Spinnin' (and Cheatin' and Hidin') - A Randy Rainbow Song ParodyYouTube video by Randy Rainbow 40693261
Reposted by Mary BLiz Ahern 🌈🇲🇽🏳️⚧️☮️ @austinmermaid.bsky.social · 09/02/2026The senior citizens at Independence Village chose Bad Bunny over Kid Rock! #BadBunny 331573316
Reposted by Mary Bceej @ceej.online · 09/02/2026heads up to the american news media: I do not care what racists thought of the super bowl halftime show 5086751786
Reposted by Mary BPatrick @atomicpopwi.bsky.social · 05/02/2026This is what leadership looks like. 151065207
Reposted by Mary BHarry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 31/01/2026From the court's order granting habeas corpus for the 5 year old & his father: "Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us,the perfidious lust for unbridled power and the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds and are bereft of human decency. And the rule of law be damned." 34913259
Mary B @herself50.bsky.social · 30/01/2026I’m looking forward to reading Dr. @philipncohen.com correcting the record. Will it make it in the next edition of the textbook? 000
Reposted by Mary Balexis simpson is confused by display name changes @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 29/01/2026"Every good thing you have in your life is the product of someone else's struggle." 4590163
Reposted by Mary BThomas [DARK MODE], DO @tom.medsky.social · 27/01/2026Downfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome. 913188436202
Reposted by Mary BMark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 27/01/2026The testing ground for Bovino’s Operation At Large was Los Angeles. A California judge initially prohibited ICE/CBP’s most flagrant constitutional violations. SCOTUS overruled her 6–3, handing Bovino a blank check to inflict unspeakable brutality on Chicago and Minneapolis. The 6 bear so much blame. 11445701338
