you're missing "is not anywhere near as important or world changing as anyone thinks" AI in our day to day lives, as an assistant for office work and writing is a dud, AI video and photos could be scary propaganda but so far remains pretty easy to spot

I don't really see the need or even want for a ballroom, but you know if people want to make the case for building something nice for America's 250th birthday, okay make the fucking case to the Congress to the public, hold an open process, not Trump drawing on a napkin what he wants

the last two weeks have been in the 40s and 50s, raining or overcast its now sunny and 77 degrees at 10am, straight into summer I see.

its wild to live in a time where you know if this case came up now it would not be unanimous, and I can't even say for sure they'd strike down segregation

I saw a post about how Trump has been America's political main character for 11-ish years and a 10 year when he launched his first campaign is 21 now. Any ways someone British commented how they were 10 when David Cameron was elected and how the UK started to slide

quick theoretical question, how is a governor, who has no role and never has in foreign policy "supporting imperialism"? I mean Graham went and fought an imperialist war and loved it and posted about how much he wished he could take part in other imperial wars sooooo

hey if as a kid your parents had to sit through a concert, or a dance recital, or anything like that, do me a favor and call them up some time soon and say "thank you" because only unconditional love can give you the strength to sit through that shit.

as ever....

"if you take money from Jews you will be shot for unAmerican activities" but leftie...

I remember being in a group chat with people much to left of me in 2020 and them bitterly declaring that Elizabeth Warren's 2 year ramp from the current system to M4A was unacceptable that private insurance not just be destroyed at once with no transition period at all not even 2 years!

pore one out for a good guy, Republicans took out the Jewish Congressman representing a black majority district

Nazi Femboy streamers are not the main or even a major cause of transphobia in the US or really anywhere and are not politically relevant, even if they are freaky and weird and I wish they didn't exist at all

nice try deleting that, but no. I saved it. and no I did not in fact say that in any way, what I said was gay people are not the reason or even close to being the reason trans people are oppressed.

I remember there was a wide spread internet culture thing, which has died down somewhat thanks to a wide spread backlash against LGBT people from you know straights, but there was a thing that cis gays, particularly white ones, were some kind of evil oppressor class out to get the true Queers

you base that on what? I mean he and Trump literally came out with the same idea on the same day to drop Gas tax

So my nephew got the bandage off from his top surgery and it was the first time him seeing it and he sent me a picture and... holy shit, idk if it felt totally real till now, it looks great, I'm really happy and kinda emotional

"it was stolen from you" .... oh? by who? tell us who? for a special treat you can just whisper it, I promise I won't tell....

the worst part about migraines is not the pain (for me) its boredom, sometimes I'm in blind pain and have to lay down in the dark with a cold cloth over my eyes and just.... lay there....

the other day I had someone tell me how attitudes toward disabled people "neurodivergent" people had changed and there was so much more acceptance than there used to be, that acceptance was the norm....

uh quick Question why did you pick a picture of Congressman Josh Gottheimer for this story? and no before any one asks he did NOT! vote against the War Powers, he voted with nearly every Democrat so....? why Jewish Congressman?

a lot of people gassed themselves up to think that Bernie's better than he deserved 2016 results showed him as the greatest politician of our age, really he just won the 25% of Democratic primary voters who vote for "most left!" and the 20% of resentful white guys who didn't want a woman

to be clear Virginia Foxx is the devil and has always been the devil, she denied Matthew Shepard's death was a hate crime, with his MOTHER sitting in front of her, demon.

one wonders if we're drawing close to another Labour Party tradition of a bunch of MPs leaving to form their own party get a lot of attention and ultimately fail to replace Labour?

Sorry I don’t know how to link to this properly, but your followers who are curious to hear more might enjoy this upcoming event June 1.

there's a (mistaken) idea that the "most left" candidate is an automatic best for trans rights and no closer look at their record or allies is needed. support for trans rights, real, support, cuts across clear left-mod lines in the Democratic Party, study who's your ally folks.

Its very hard to feel hopeful about Tennessee, you have white southern racists, the Black population is only about 15% of the state vs 75% white, with few out of staters moving there for work like with Virginia, Georgia, or NC while have blued those places together with high black turnout

..... lol well I know the worst: Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund by Molly Crabapple I'd say best is (so far) White Heat: A History of Britain in the Swinging Sixties, 1964-70 by Dominic Sandbrook

again re-reading Who Dares Wins and we're at the Falklands War, and god, I hate Tony Benn and the surrender crew and good on Michael Foot "I know a fascist when I see one"

hmmmm on the Starmer crisis, while many people expect Starmer to be out, I'm not so sure at the moment 92 backbench MPs have called for Starmer to leave, however that might be less then meets the eye since many are asking for a "time table" rather than an resignation rn

so should we bust out the cabbage for Keir Starmer?

I think Solidarity should be for issues that strongly relate, for example, if you suffer housing or job discrimination because you are black in makes sense to have solidarity with other groups, other racial minorities, women, LGBT people, who are also suffering housing and job discrimination

........ could mean anything really....

Just because I may agree with you ideologically, doesn't mean I am going to back you. I am Black before anything else and ideology ain't going to protect me from hate. Now, I ain't speaking for other Black people, just myself.

so I have the deep misfortune of having a gun post going somewhat viral and one of the more interesting and tragic things I've noticed is a number of socialists with 🏳️‍⚧️ in name and or profile screaming in support of guns as if lack gun laws don't support transphobic violence in America.

funny how we all managed to hold these kinds of things till he had in the bag and not when it would make a difference, by design of course.

worth saying Maine OVERWHELMINGLY passed a ballot measure for Red Flag laws to take away Crazy Earl's guns, so Platner is very to the right of the voters of Maine on guns.

hey I was promised a pure progressive without compromising! that voting for compromise was an unbeatable betrayal, wow! now he's allowed to be Conservative on issues? which issues though? can he say M4A isn't gonna pass or would that be unthinkable?

you know, solidarity without independent power isn't solidarity, but submission, giving up your abilities to protect and advocate for your community and hoping your support of others will lead them to support you while you're unable to support yourself.

I was told Mills was a centrist we just couldn't trust to be truly progressive on issues.....

any ways a snapshot of the election up here in Maine rn. on-line you get 3 types of ads 1. "Susan Collins voted for this bad thing! (war=inflation)" 2. "Susan Collins voted for this great thing, thank her! (health care, fighting fentanyl)"

I wanted to wait for the final results in the UK before I put down my thoughts on that shit show, but its late there and I think they'll wait till tomorrow to call the last few English and Scottish seats and the overall picture is clear.

its important to note 1. no asked Maine Primary voters, none of them voted, we had a few polls and a sea of out of state money, Collins has even more out of state money 2. what Democratic Primary voters like (or might like) is not always the same as what general election voters want.

we can all look at this campaign video in light of the questions raised by the Nazi Tattoo...

I saw Jen's little clip and there is just a type of white person who can seem totally normal but when a black person with a powerful job in the room acts the way the person with that job ALWAYS acts they get all twisted up and resentful

final results out of Wales, Plaid Cymru: 43 Reform: 34 Labour: 9 Conservative: 7 Green: 2 LibDems: 1 so a hung Parliament, a majority is 49, so likely a PC-Labour deal of some kind

well this is stupid. oh you wanted more? well 1. Platner has never held office or done any activism before running for office so you have to take it on faith he believes in everything he says today and isn't saying it cynically 2. "there's no such thing as left wing antisemites" call the USSR

I've spent a lot of time in politics and when I'm tired I think of what a black lady in her 80s told me with a smile "don't you go getting weary now" "Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up." never get weary.

he's out of surgery and awake last I heard, went well according to the surgeons.

Americans naturally assume economic union supporting economic left and middle class social/environmental college educated left go together they don't naturally Labour's core is socially conservative white working class union members, it moderates to attract those college educated middle class voter

hm, maybe nothing, but Labour picked up an unusual Scottish seat, the Outer Hebrides, which was represented in the UK Parliament by a SNP MP from 2005 till 2024 (taken out by scandal) and an SNP MSP since 2007 maybe just shifting ground but big boost in Reform vote causing strange ripples.