I lost my thesaurus and I'm gutted. Totally gutted, absolutely gutted.

Every fall my husband likes to tell me what year the college freshmen were born, and I regret to inform you that we are up to 2008

I love how TSA rules are different at every airport and they look at you like you're a fucking idiot when you don't speak their regional dialect of security theater.

Wrong, I don’t apologize. Israel is very obviously right in its fights with third world barbarism. Wish them well. Unless you mean apologist in the medieval sense, then yes, sure.

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Americans can’t know what their government agreed to do because we need to avoid offending Muslims, Vance explained

Brutal. Latest Oregon forecast shows no rebound in births. Implication is the K-12 population outlook is now *worse* than the no rebound scenario I shared with Legislature. Older adult forecast higher. Demographics and therefore budget priorities shifting even more than expected

This guy never explains *why*. He thinks it is self-evident, but it is not

And there it is… Six years ago, the man accused of committing a heinous mass shooting that claimed the lives of eight children in Shreveport, Louisiana this morning, was given probation rather than a lengthy prison term for a shooting (per the @nypost). nypost.com/2026/04/19/us-new…

In late '19, we made the decision to experiment with running a few of the 4/4 units we own as co-living (rather than conventional rentals). An apparently young, single person applied for a room. We vetted and approved him and signed a lease. He proceeded to move his girlfriend and their baby into the room, causing all the other tenants of that unit to break their leases and leave. Understandably, no new tenants would move into that unit, meaning we were only collecting 25% of the rent. Then Covid hit, the city blocked evictions and he immediately stopped paying. They stayed for like 6 months. I think we finally ended up *paying them* something like $10-15k to just leave. (And, of course, never got a dime of the unpaid rent back from the city's farcical rent relief program.) So, yeah, that's our experience running co-living under modern landlord-tenant law and we'll never do it again.

“Who cares?” Racial favoritism in government contracting is the most costly, egregious form of DEI that exists. When the government wastes tens of billions of taxpayer dollars by illegally requiring firms to discriminate on the basis of race in contracting decisions, it undermines merit not just in school lunch programs, but in infrastructure, national defense, disaster relief, and more—all while doing nothing to help the truly disadvantaged. This does far more damage than imbecilic mandatory DEI trainings—or even affirmative action in college admissions, which affects only an elite subset of Americans. I care about that! Many other Americans do as well.

Notice in every city where crime is down (most cities), there's no reduction in poverty, no improvement in educational outcomes, no end to systemic racism, no massive increase in affordable housing. If I didn't know better, I'd think those things are unrelated to crime fighting.

Wait, you guys are getting rescued?

These cases illustrate how utterly shot the US asylum process is. These were children of regime leaders claiming to be oppressed by that same regime - and going back for visits. Yet they got asylum, LPR, and damn near citizenship.

A federal judge once gave literally unlimited money to public schools in Kansas City. Those schools got worse by every possible metric. The money was mostly stolen by unions.

new york has the best museums!! for example right now i’m at The Duane Reade looking at a beautiful deodorant through the glass

Also, if you feel called, and we know each other a bit professionally/in real life, and you're able to come into Manhattan, I would be happy to give you the funeral details via DM. I would like to mourn with people, and I would like to have babies and children there especially.

This is the first reaction from inside Iran to the news that Mojtaba Khamenei has replaced his father as “Supreme Leader”. People are standing on their balconies chanting: “Death to Mojtaba.” A nation is telling the world: we will not accept another inherited dictatorship.

So true! My taxes may be higher in Europe, but I very much enjoy not having to deal with the constant microtransactions skimming my reduced take-home pay. Why, just the other day I drove back home from a short vacation to the city, paid the congestion charge, used a VPN to access half the internet that would otherwise be blocked, then paid the fine for forgetting that I’d passed through two countries that required a vignette, a detour required because I didn’t have the green environmental sticker that would have let me go on the route I planned. Before I got home, I fueled up so I’d have a full tank before the week. Just a small matter of paying the EU excise duty, VAT, carbon tax, biofuel cost passthrough, and strategic reserve contribution. That afternoon, I got two letters online but one was just a passive aggressive note from my building for missing my Kehrwoche obligation. The other was a letter urgently seeking to schedule my mandated annual chimney inspection. Then I was hungry, so I walked to a restaurant, paid for tap water, then visited the pay toilet, after which I realized I didn’t have enough money to be eating at a restaurant. I tried to search for directions to the grocery store, but got a GDPR cookie consent banner that was 19 pages long, and by the time I clicked through all the “legitimate interest” toggles, my phone died because I didn’t bring the correct USB charger I was forced to purchase after the passage of EU Directive 2022/2380. So I took the train to the grocery store instead, but forgot that I didn’t buy a seat reservation in addition to my ticket, so I had to stand. Then I forgot that I didn’t bring a coin to get out a shopping cart, so I just went home and immediately got a knock on the door from the TV license inspector. Apparently I was delinquent on that and many of my other bills because I forgot to schedule my meeting with the local administrator to formally renounce my faith so that I wouldn’t keep getting a surtax carved off my paycheck. All of this gave me a headache, so I went to the Apotheke to get ibuprofen – since it’s a dangerous pharmacy-only medication – but it was closed because it’s 6:01 PM. So I went to the emergency pharmacy and paid the after-hours surcharge. My friend from America texted me to ask why I didn’t just move somewhere more convenient, and I had to tell him, well, I’d need an Apostille, a certified translation, my Meldebescheinigung, a SCHUFA credit check, and 12 appointments at the Bürgeramt to even think about doing that. Who the hell could even come up with all that? he replies. I text him back: The Aristocrats

stages of christmas shopping: 1. there's plenty of time. 2. oh no.