None of these evil people have any idea how hard it is to get food stamps. They just know how much they cheat & break the rules so they assume everyone else does that too
@jessicaliebman
so do you send emails to every applicant who interviews to let them know that they're not moving forward? I'm not even asking you to reject every application you receive, just anyone who you talk to. curious.
Lizzo is really the ideal of being rich & using your powers for good. Yes I will do a Netflix special. Yes I will sing Rammstein in Germany. Yes I will play a crystal flute & twerk while I do it. Yes I will bring every drag artist in Tennessee onstage with me in Nashville.
@egraceridd
@ArtReyesIII
Sending love from Detroit. You don’t know me but I am sitting here furious on your behalf, as a Michigander, an aunt to two students in school, and a human being on planet earth who knows this is not any way to live.
@AbbyLeeHood
My high school theater teacher tried it with every ingenue & I didn’t find out until a reunion when he was gonna get an award. Then the listserv exploded. I’m so sorry. I hate that these men are protected like you should’ve been.
On today's DJ session on Sirius, Springsteen opened with his own "41 Shots" & at the end of the song said, "That song is 8 minutes long. that’s how long it took George Floyd to die."
Next song: "Murder, Incorporated."
the man did not come to play.
I saw a woman being hassled getting off the G train & I ran up & said, “hi! How’s your mom? How’s she doing?” & she blinked once, slipped her arm through mine & we walked out of the station together while the dude yelled things as we left.
To all teen girls: if you are ever being followed or hit ion by a strange man when you are in public, walk toward an older woman you see and say loudly, “Mom! A strange guy is hassling me. He won’t leave me alone.” Every one of us has been there. We will be there for you.
@StuPolitics
you better have a soundcloud link to drop because there's no other excuse for a grown ass adult man to still have this kind of warped perspective
@bariweiss
I really admire your dedication to the grift. sometimes when i look at people like you i wish i could be more disingenuous bc clearly this type of performative white outrage makes bank
okay i never wish that. but the money would be nice
THANKSGIVING SOUP KITCHEN PSA: don’t think you are “helping” by volunteering for thanksgiving. One year my entire volunteer shift at a soup kitchen was writing responses to the 100s of ppl who wanted to volunteer for 1 DAY but wouldn’t sign up for anything the rest of the year
Senator
@ewarren
made me sit up straighter, think about if I could approach something in a better way, and modeled goddamn excellence in a way that made me rethink my expectations of myself. There are many other reasons, but for that alone,
#ThankYouElizabeth
@indyfromspace
A good friend, who is a female sportswriter, got this for me after the 90 millionth time a man tried to explain something to me I’d just written about. It’s
@effingbirds
. I salute you, sister
I’m eating lunch, so a short thread of Bruce Springsteen kissing Clarence Clemons for no reason except that I’m annoyed by people acting like this has never happened before & I’m unaware of any visual documentation of Peter Buck & Michael Stipe doing so
As someone who 1) was there 2) covered this tour for Backstreets I can say with complete confidence that THIS DID NOT HAPPEN. He was not booed in Philly or Cleveland or Detroit or
@hels
I got rid of the shitty mismatched towels that I had with my ex of over a decade and replaced with quality color coordinated towels of a color scheme of MY CHOOSING
@LCortesRomero
they must be tremendous people to have raised such an amazing person. in yiddish, the word "naches" means "warmth at the achievement of your children" and boy did you give your parents all the naches.
New Yorkers are taught that if there is something going on in a subway car that is sketchy or frightening or, hell, SMELLY, you just step off the train at the next stop! (Unless it’s like 2am in the middle of nowhere) that is what you do!
@ladyfromdalou
there's a yiddish word - "naches" - which means "the warm feelings parents get from the achievements of their children." we used to joke with our parents & ask them if a report card gave them "nachos". all the naches to your mom & best wishes for yr continued success <3
@RepMoBrooks
I hold dual citizenship with the US and Israel. I am also Jewish.
You are wrong, the Israeli government is wrong, and what you are doing is unAmerican. You signed up to govern *all* Americans, not just the white ones.
The rest of the article is as bad as you might imagine including a comment from a white dude about how he doesn’t like it that he has to know anything about Bruce’s politics or Neil Young’s & he would love it if Neil would stop it WHO APPROVED THIS ARTICLE. WHO EDITIRD IT
@kylegriffin1
Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA) tells Postmaster General Louis DeJoy that she’s concerned his “new strategic plan ... may neither be strategic nor a plan.”
The Go-Gos documentary is the best rock doc I have seen in years. It was about the actual band & told the story & centered the actual work of being in a band, didn’t hide the warts. Mostly rn I’m just furious how they got written out of music history 1/4
@DarrenLeeKirby
@AnaMardoll
What part of “if I get this, I will die” is hard for you to understand, you freakin ding dong? Your family made bad choices. I hope no one dies as a result.
if billie eilish was a dude no one would care that she didn't know who van halen was, but she's young and a woman and successful and wears baggy clothes and defies conventional beauty standards. its like punk rock never happened you idiots
@FiveThirtyEight
When are men going to stop treating abortion as something theoretical to debate as optional. Can you just stop playing devil’s advocate for the sake of some Socratic ideal you have in your head that makes you into some “deep thinker”. You’re still boring and shallow
@antherpensee
@nikkiLynette
Right?? My therapist told me it was normal and that it would come back. She was mostly right. But it’s terrifying when you are in it and thinking you’re vaporizing
SOME PROFESSIONAL NEWS. I am very excited to announce that I will be writing a book about PATTI SMITH for the new MUSIC MATTERS series at
@UTexasPress
! working again w/the awesome
@EvelynMcDonnell
& thrilled to be on this roster with many other awesome writers/titles. 1/2
When I worked in the building the old Astor Place Kmart was in I accidentally walked by the layaway department one year in December when this dude was there paying off people’s accounts. He apparently did this on the regular right before the holidays 1/
Rock star Bono, the 26-year-old who disarmed a gunman in last month’s Monterey Park, California, shooting, and the family of Tyre Nichols will be among the featured guests sitting alongside first lady Jill Biden at Tuesday’s State of the Union address.
@claseur
@blueapron
@chrissyteigen
you literally have never seen a photo of 1) chrissy or 2) the food she & john are always making, this is a bad way to promote your book cathy
Last night at Roxy Music a friend reported that a dude on the floor was dancing & having a grand time until a very slow song & then he yelled “THIS IS WHY BRIAN ENO LEFT” which is both hilarious and not incorrect
We had a lot of "showrooming" today: people taking pictures of books and buying them from
#Amazon
in the store and even bragging about it. This is not ok, people.
Find it here.
Buy it here.
Keep us here.
That is all.
at some point, people stopped understanding what purpose criticism serves, and instead, writers are no longer evaluated on their knowledge; instead, you're evaluated on your fandom, which is a purity test that most thinking humans can never pass. 1/3
@seasidechic
@beyerstein
@Ocasio2018
Pointing out that the status quo in our government is still, in the year of our lady 2018, assuming that a young Latinx woman is a spouse or an intern, is valuable and important. it is not being a victim or being petty. sit down, let the woman govern.
also WOMEN ARE NOT DECORATIVE. WE ARE NOT HERE TO MAKE YOUR ENVIRONMENT MORE PLEASANT. STOP CRITICIZING HAIR / VOICE / CLOTHES / SHOES / WALK / HOW WE FUCKING BREATHE
@caytlyn_brooke
We are in a global pandemic & everyone has a lot going on and their reaction to your book is 53729265 on that list. You gotta drop this
I am gutted, it feels like I've been kicked in the chest. I have so many things to say about Tom Verlaine & you don't need me to tell you to go listen to Television but this song on his 1981 solo album should have been a bigger hit than it was. whole record is worth your time
this NPR article from an expert in crowd behavior & how you can protect yourself in a large crowd is required reading. as someone who has spent a lot of fucking time in large event crowds, this all rings true to me, esp the advice about crowd density: