My goddamn mother had the nerve to ask if I thought she’d like Hamnet when her main pop culture opinion is that sentimental portrayals of parental grief fill her with rage. The dead kid plotline in Arrival made her so mad that she has literally not been to a movie theater since seeing Arrival. No, ma’am, I do not believe that you personally will enjoy Hamnet. I think that Hamnet will make you want to suicide bomb the Oscars.

Jacob Soboroff’s story about being asked by Katie Miller to check on Stephen Miller’s elderly parents during the Palisades Fire (and he did it!) is blowing my fucking mind. Truly a trolley problem for our era!

Also he’s clearly telling it everywhere because my mother heard him tell the same story to Terri Gross, who responded, “well, I guess that’s a mitzvah.”

Anyway, I’m going to ponder this ethical dilemma for a while.

Was caused by this absurd graphic to think again that my parents chose to name me, their beloved oldest daughter, after literature’s most famous ugly woman.

I like when you all let me talk about Ryan Lochte in your sports posts. It helps me feel a sense of belonging even though I don’t like non-aquatic sports.

Many House Democrats have taken out personal-liability insurance to hedge against the prospect of being targeted by the President. “We’re freaking out,” one Democrat told me. “You do not know what’s coming around the next corner.” The Administration has claimed that McIver is “aligned” with Antifa. She was “out of control” at Delaney Hall, Trump said. “The days of woke are over.” Press releases issued by D.H.S. stated that she’d “stormed” the facility and “broken in”; on television, a department spokesperson accused McIver of “body-slamming” an agent. “No one else in Congress is facing what she’s facing,” Lateefah Simon, a Democratic representative from Oakland, California, said. “Typically, we would say, ‘Oh, they’re just trying to scare her.’ They’re actively litigating this case.” At one point, a federal judge ordered Justice Department lawyers to instruct Administration officials to stop lying publicly about the incident. “It’s not local ice. It’s from headquarters in D.C.,” the government attorney replied. “We don’t have the authority.

McIver’s case is expected to go to trial this year. By December, she had already racked up close to a million dollars in legal fees. Owing to House rules, the expenses have come out of her campaign funds, meaning that, in the months before her 2026 reëlection campaign, the money she’s raising will go almost exclusively toward her defense. “About five per cent of me regrets going that day,” she said. “Do I want to be hemmed up like this? My mom is worried to death. My husband’s stressed out. My nine-year-old is, like, ‘What the hell?’ ” But the government’s case, she went on, was meant “to slow me down and drain me of joy, and that’s why I’m so bent on it.”

Here’s how you can donate to LaMonica McIver’s campaign. Facing 17 years in Federal Prison and ruinous legal bills also meets the Sumner Rule.