Feels a bit like trying to consciously ignore the multi-car pileup out on the street because it makes you feel guilty, but also you keep popping out every now and then to see as more cars smash in to the pile

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Georgia voters are turning out in record-breaking numbers during early in-person voting. While some observers have pointed to high turnout to argue that the state’s restrictive voting law, SB 202, has no impact, topline numbers obscure what's happening below the hood🧵

As an introduction to my work for my Masties (is that what we are here?) a cover story I wrote for The Economist in May on SCOTUS’s legitimacy crisis https://www.economist.com/briefing/2022/05/07/americas-supreme-court-faces-a-crisis-of-legitimacy

Boost/retoot if kolaches have impacted your life in a positive way

I was waiting for the subway when a European tourist took her coffee cup and set it on a box, intending to leave it behind. Right before we boarded, I grabbed her cup, handed it back to her wordlessly, and got on the train. My husband, who was traveling with me, was giddy with how angry she was. In that moment, I became the asshole I have always aspired to be.

My new favorite picture theme is "cats trying to summon beings from a horrifying realm"

How did "the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog" become the typical sentence that contains all letters of the alphabet and not "sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow" which is objectively a million times cooler