In addition to everything else I really don’t like the word “tend” here, it feels very weird

I always made fun of pre-2020 German politicians that were afraid of inflation like the Plague, turns out they were right!! Prices rising are the one thing that cuts through every messaging, chart and metric that you can throw at people, it is not even irrational per se!

Lower Decks really starts out awful so I get why it turned people off initially, but we’re in S3 now and it’s good Star Trek, I say

loomis is right, but yes, material support for each union should absolutely be weighed on a case-by-case basis. it’s crazy to me people disagree with this when cop and prison guard unions exist!

What movie do you consider “perfect”?

People will be like “you seriously believe in boiling politics down into a bleak, consumerist nightmare of appealing exclusively to prior held beliefs? That pales in effectiveness to my strategy, persuasion” and then have little success persuading people

The Heelers would probably support RFK Jr is not something I considered but the evidence is not great for the Heelers, if we’re being honest

With my notification settings I cannot be dogpiled

In the first 100 days, a bill letting auto manufacturers sell direct to retail customers.

I /like/ Mamdani but I do not like how he gets wielded like a cudgel constantly, getting stuff like this where you become the enemy even if you say you support him but not with the right words or enthusiastically enough

As America's most pro-business leader in a generation, I will choose one company each week and accuse them of witchcraft

Just found out conservatives are apoplectic about a shooting here in Sacramento I’ve never heard anybody locally mention at all (probably because nobody got hurt)

TIL I am only one day older than Stephen Miller (and I hope this goes without saying but I look much better ok)

Like the naturopaths, they think modern medicine is bad. For example, with all these vaccines & medicines, children aren't getting those wonderful high fevers any more, which stop cancer. carahealth.com/health-artic...

love to have maternal health information doled out by a man who hates women, mothers, and children

A masked ICE agent sprayed David Black, pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, directly in the face during protests outside the ICE processing facility in Broadview, Illinois. Photo by Ashlee Rezin of the Chicago Sun-Times.

the QTs on this are dealing me psychic damage, our side actually won here so I think it’s just the more social media driving me ever closer to madness but it’s impossible to read these and not feel cooked

They genuinely believe either that there will never be another Democratic president or that any future ones will gladly accept being shoved into a locker, and it’s our duty during the primaries to pick a nominee who will disabuse them of such notions.

bsky.app/profile/same... I think @sameoldstory.co is fully correct here, "why take the chance" really just sort of takes for granted that Not Doing Things has no trade-offs, like wearing a seat belt is a choice between "being comfortable" and "being uncomfortable."

This is a situation where “but why take the chance with your baby”ism (which I know I’ve ranted about before) is going to be very harmful

Tylenol does not cause autism but *not* taking Tylenol can cause women to be truly miserable during pregnancy so you can see why the GOP is so gung-ho about this line of argument.

increasingly I find myself working from a position of "capitalism is basically functional but capitalists must be disciplined by the state so they do not lose their minds"

It’s amazing how whenever Republicans do something upsetting (like a white nationalist rally disguised as a funeral), this site responds by working itself up into a frenzy about either 1) Biden, 2) Harris, or 3) Merrick Garland. Have some fucking self-respect people. Jesus

100%. LOTR is a very successful version of the thing Tolkien was trying to do and not an incomplete or flawed version of later became conventional wisdom about contemporary fantasy world building

I’m almost completely cured of my addiction to fighting on Reddit, increasingly my opponents cannot read like, at all. It’s all so pointless

Genuinely not kidding when I say I think this goes back to that Cracked article!!

Also totally unrelated to current events, running a kid’s birthday party nearly destroyed me

god just realized the Mouse made a ton of money off of us today (merch other people bought our 4YO for her birthday party)

Sheet cake I baked for my daughter’s birthday party last night did not turn out 😭 Husband is out searching for a last minute grocery store one

I’m sorry but I think folks can often be too harsh with Sarah. 95 Ds voted YES bc of leadership, why single her out so often? She got elected statewide in Delaware. Her path is challenging and this time is terrifying. I think the disagreements w/ her can be less personal. I care about her safety.

Today I chose violence (posted this on Facebook)

Wow. From an article in The Guardian.

I’m reading a book on Kindle Unlimited and the author laments 1) how often mothers get unsolicited advice from family and strangers, and also 2) how women, particularly older women, in the community used to take a leadership role in pregnancy and childrearing and now don’t, the missing village

yeah, I think in rich countries, “the politicians are all corrupt and I don’t trust institutions” is a luxury belief, and a lot of journalists have erred in seeing it as a sign of despair rather than the opposite

Apparently I get Disney+ for free through Verizon?? Now I guess it makes no sense to cancel it. Or does it??? The modern world is very complicated

Conservatives keep posting about how the Kirk murder has radicalized them like never before and we have no idea what’s coming and so far that’s mostly meant harassing Starbucks baristas, their number one activity for at least the last 10 years

sigh, me, you’ve done it again

If it’s really true that Disney’s empire comes crashing down without park and cruise revenue, they’re actually super vulnerable to government fuckery

It's this weird paradoxical space where threats to invade our closest ally, specifically, were wholly unforeseeable but some unforeseeable insane plan on that scale was essentially a certainty.

If I sign up for the Charlie Kirk vigil, does that cancel the risks of signing up for the No Kings protest?

This is a bone chilling thing to read

Our decision last night to for sure do a Disneyland boycott was practically a relief — it’s so expensive! so far!! so tiring!!! — so yes they absolutely should be worried

BlueSky update that blocks you from politics posting for 30 days after you post stuff like “it’s over, the fascists won, all hope is lost.” You can only post about hobbies and sports and whatnot. Don’t pump that doomer shit out to a big audience unless you mean it.

They do the dance because they love the illusion that they're open-minded—they want you to believe it, and they want to believe it themselves. But what they love most of all is that they win: You've tacitly agreed that they're reasonable, like a chump, and they've made no concessions at all.

I cannot stand the Millennial use of “gently”, I can’t believe I’m saying this but it’s as bad as anything Gen Z says

That guy from the gambino family expresses his concern about your wife’s health and you claim it’s a threat?