Cat

I like a good story.

[Fuck You I Quit @fuckyouiquit]

Walmart wages are so low that public assistance (including SNAP and Medicaid) for their employees costs taxpayers $6,200,000,000 per year. Meanwhile the Walton's are worth $500,000,000,000. Every Walmart needs to unionize.

[femiiiiii. @femiiiszn]

honestly, most of my problems come down to two things:

1. ​i'm terrible at waking up.
2. ​i am somehow worse at going to sleep.

[The Mets Newsletter @metsnewsletter]

Read the damn room, Mr. Met

[Yellowcard @Yellowcard]

There’s a place off Ocean Avenue… literally! It’s a little spot called @thestonepony, a place so nice we have to play it twice!

Thanks to everyone who joined us for a killer first gig on the 12th. Can’t wait to see you all again for another ✨SOLD OUT✨ show this Friday!

[Secular Talk ([email protected]) @KyleKulinski]

Trillionaires shouldn't exist and neither should billioniares. Tax every penny in net worth over $999 million at 100%. We can have extreme wealth concentration or a democracy but we can't have both at the same time. Pick one.

[Cat @rainypavement]

@CitiField @Mets please save some soccer jerseys for the Woodbridge shuttle. We all got here early and the bus is 40 min late

[Cat @rainypavement]

@EemasProdz @VidderPos Absolutely beautiful! There are not enough Everwood fan vids out there. Thank you for sharing ❤️

[Vincent Alexander @NonsenseIsland]

RIP Marjane Satrapi, the great cartoonist and film director, best known for PERSEPOLIS. She was only 56. A great talent. She will be missed.

[Elissa Slotkin @ElissaSlotkin]

In December, President Trump called for me to be investigated, arrested, and hanged over a 90-second video that restated existing law.

My lawyer's advice was straightforward: go quiet. Keep your head down. This will blow over.

But in this administration, the reality is that keeping your head down does not keep you safe. Staying quiet when power comes after you does not make the threat go away. It just teaches the people making the threat that it works.

When a president can call for the arrest and execution of a sitting senator for quoting the law, and the expected response is silence, that's a problem that goes way beyond me. That affects every American who works in government, every journalist, every ordinary citizen who might speak up.

A grand jury of ordinary Americans looked at this situation and said no. They understood what was at stake, and I think most Americans do.

We refuse to accept that this is the new normal.

This moment isn't really about me. When the administration is willing to go after a senator this way, it sends a message to every American who might speak up. That should concern people in both parties.

[Cat @rainypavement]

@PrincessFWrites @BoardwalkTimes @SoWeirdonDisney Yes!! I would love to hear songs from the Phillips Kane Band and see how Rick got into the paranormal and see young Molly being a rebel and having a tense relationship with her parents. There's so much potential. But @joncooksey666 has to be one of the writers or itll fall flat.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas

[Dylan Byers @DylanByers]

NEW: Sharyn Alfonsi goes scorched earth on Bari Weiss:

"Over the weekend, my contract with CBS News expired, drawing to a close nearly twenty years with the network, including more than a decade at 60 Minutes.

Following an intense editorial dispute over our CECOT story, repeated attempts by my representation to establish a path forward were met with absolute silence from network executives. The message could not be clearer: my time at 60 Minutes is apparently over.

In the coming days, network leadership may attempt to hide behind corporate euphemisms like "modernization" and “restructuring” to explain away my departure. Don't be misled. This was not a routine corporate transition; it was a deliberate choice to penalize a journalist for refusing to sanitize factually accurate reporting, and it sends a chilling message to the entire newsroom.

Fearless, independent reporting has always been the defining standard at 60 Minutes. Today, CBS management is abandoning that mission, choosing access journalism over accountability and protecting power rather than scrutinizing it.

The wall between editorial independence and corporate interest at CBS is being methodically torn down. Journalists willing to challenge authority are being pushed aside in favor of those who will not. If this continues, the result will be a broadcast that looks like 60 Minutes but lacks the courage and character to produce journalism that matters.

To my colleagues, who became family - working beside you has been the privilege of a lifetime. You are second to none. I’ve learned exactly what it costs to hold the line right now. Hold it anyway. Viewers and the people who trust us with their stories deserve nothing less."

Backstory:

- January: https://t.co/l518elnE4b

- April: https://t.co/8pWTTjOIbk

- May: https://t.co/LfKHnm18nF

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5,000 years.

[tumblr @tumblr]

a foundational ship

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

When we came into office, we uncovered a $12 billion budget deficit.

Today, I’m proud to say we brought it down to zero.

We didn’t close the gap on the backs of working people.

We closed it while funding parks, libraries, safer streets and making historic investments in public housing.

Call it Pothole Politics. Call it Democratic Socialism. It's government that delivers for the people who make this city run.

That’s what New Yorkers deserve. And that’s what we will keep fighting for every single day.

[Layne Morgan @laynemorgan]

Stearmers think that modern audience's nostalgia for shows like Buffy TVD Gossip Girl Greys etc and their re-watch success means audiences are nostalgic for THOSE PROPERTIES and refuse to realize that what we're really nostalgic for is long seasons, soap, and infinte episodes.

[New York Mets @Mets]

Richard Kind stuns at the Mets Gala.