Today I turn 41! I’m the birthday, as the kids would say. & here’s what I’ve learned over these years: A. There’s no substitute for great friends. B. The little things are the big things. C. Let things breathe — even important things need space. D. Life is shorter than you think. Tell them you love them now. E. We can win in this lifetime. F. I get why runners always talk about running. G. None of us are bigger than the program — but we make the program.

Lmao he had to make up a fake reason to prove he could lift a child

The former chair of the BK Dems is trying to call a meeting at 10pm tonight to pick a new chair, in defiance of a judge’s order and using rules that the court struck down. No one should attend this meeting. Democrats respect the results of elections and the rule of law.

Earthshaker. Stormbringer. Son of Poseidon. Percy Jackson and the Olympians is now on Netflix!

Julian Curo-Churata, a 47-year-old from Peru, died in ICE custody in Louisiana on September 29. He was the 37th person to die in ICE detention in fiscal 2026, the deadliest year on record. The records show more than the coverage so far. austinkocher.substack.com/p/…

Da'Vinchi is doing himself a disservice thinking he's clapping back. I see he deleted them Cam videos, tho... 🙃

Franklin Leonard, the influential film and television executive who founded the Black List and has spent much of his career widening access to opportunity in Hollywood, has been named Bowdoin’s inaugural Herman S. Dreer Leadership Fellow. bit.ly/4gPDIgR

Pro-Paxton Texas PAC seems to have bought nationwide ad time on Fox instead of trying to target all the markets showing Cowboys/Texans — so their ads are running on Eagles/Rams, Packers/Bucs and Jets/Bears as well.

The wildest part about poverty is how much time it steals. Waiting for buses. Calling assistance offices. Comparing grocery prices. Fighting insurance. Sitting at laundromats. Being poor is a second job nobody pays you for.

The New York Times reveals how Cornell had punished the seven men involved in the 2024 gang rape a year later: Ingalls and Newell were expelled; Lee suspended for two years, with disciplinary probation for several semesters, while Lopes suspended for three years and two years probation. Sarabia, who graduated, banned from the campus. Norris and Kretzschmar, who received no punishment, ordered not to contact Jane Doe, only wrote “reflection papers” and allowed to graduate.

I’m good with folks choosing sides. That playing the fence stuff is for suckas. But, choose the right side though.

what?

Half the books you were "forced" to read in high school are actually spectacular, you just didn't have the emotional maturity to understand them yet.

I think today is going to be a quiet day for me.

Mila is in my face telling me her grandma is coming to pick her up to get ice cream and says “I bet your mom never took you to do fun things like that” I’m like “well your grandma is actually my mom so..” Now she just staring at me 😭

Texas Democratic candidate for governor Gina Hinojosa on data centers: "Greg Abbott invited them into Texas with the most generous tax break in the country. They're owned by the richest men in the world... He signed that 20-year tax break into law. I would have never."

i got kicked out of a bar last year for putting my taser on a table and tapping it lightly (zap sound) when a man was being shitty. when i left i said "god forbid a man feel unsafe for once in his life' and the entire patio went silent. been thinking about both how insane and right i was and remain

Talk to me like a 5 year old. What is CultureCon ?

Chance The Rapper reveals that he has been heavily considering changing his stage name 👀 "I've been thinking about changing my name... I'm going to take off the 'Chance.' I just want to be 'The Rapper.' It's been something I've been thinking about a lot." "I think the 'Chance' part, I give a lot of vulnerability and looks into my life and what's going on in my life... And I don't love that as much now." (Via Tea Time w/ Raven & Miranda)

We have Love Island. We have Survivor. We have The Bachelor. Now please make a show where you put a billionaire CEO in a regular apartment, give them their lowest-paid employee’s paycheck, and tell them it has to last 30 days. I’d watch every episode.

As critical as I am Joe Biden, one of the best things he did was nearly completely clear out federal death row before leaving so that Trump couldn’t just do an inmate massacre upon taking office