Dear Baltimore, If possible, please stop catching on fire. Things are tough enough for everyone right now. Also—now speaking from pure selfishness—I only moved here a few years ago. I'd love to get to know you better, and parts of you keep going up in smoke. Stay strong, Jo

And tell them to remove Schumer and Durbin from their posts as minority leader and whip. We know they won't do it, but they fuckin' need to hear just how done everyone is with the party leadership.

agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish

Public Works Administration but it's all forensic accountants, security engineers and attorneys.

10/10 take. No notes.

I think a lot about the story Carl Reiner told: he’d have been a sewing machine repairman if not for a free WPA drama class. That led to other theater work, to Sid Caesar, to Mel Brooks, and all the rest. All because of one free class paid for by a government that felt the arts were worth teaching.

Question for‬ @moderation.bsky.app: Why's this getting labeled as "Rude"? Do all posts that cuss about Mamdani's mayoral victory or Cheney's death get this label? Not from what I've seen! Is there...some other reason? I have a guess, and I'd love to be wrong!

Yes. Many ingredients, but this was huge—and immensely dispiriting because everyone with a shred of real political insight has spent about twenty years BEGGING the Dems to fight, to meaningfully distinguish themselves as more than Republican Lite, to give people something to vote *for*. So! Onward.

Swing voters stay home when they’re offered a choice of Status Quo and Status Quo but Meaner. Swing voters turn out when they’re offered a choice of progressive, forward, momentum.

I would like to wish everyone with lots of judgmental things to say about how poor people eat a very Shut the Fuck Up.

Well, an acquaintance who relies on the ACA marketplace for insurance just received a notice explaining that their fee for coverage will be rising. Right now they pay $180 a month. The new price? $2733.15 a month.

TALL, I SAID It is very beautiful! Its sails rise three hundred feet above the water and FOLD DOWN to go under bridges! Call me a yokel, I don't care, I find this so impressive. *chinhands*

There's a ton of information on this website for Baltimore City residents who have been impacted by the federal government shutdown. Food resources, housing resources, and more. www.baltimorecity.gov/shutdown

TALL SHIP

Every good thing this society half-assedly started due to COVID should've been not just continued but constantly improved upon; but too many of y'all have The Fear, & those programs remind you of the thing that scared you. So instead you burn down your house 'cause your basement made spooky shadows

I would like to paint this on the side of a building.

Welp, this is the most concise and elegant summation I've seen in a while. Thanks, OP! I'm also now thinking of it as a sort of brightly painted banner introducing those couple of absolute banger Liberal Currents pieces from months ago (Pedocon Theory; Politics of Humiliation).

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I'm like a 3. It's fine.

1. Surely somebody has written an essay about "Set the fuckin' tone" as it applies to electoral politics. 2. I warmly and respectfully invite everyone, including Bouie, to apply this insight to public health and to certain infectious diseases beginning with C, as well. I'm not being sarcastic.

A great many of the (wonderful) stories about Ireland's (wonderful) UBI plan for artists tend to bury if not duck completely the hard cold fact that it was funded largely by Google's billion-euro settlement of tax-evasion charges. TAX BILLIONAIRES RUN THEM DOWN LOOT THEM IT WORKS

It is depressing how many good left of center writers are anchored to substack, a certifiably nazi platform

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Timeline cleanse.

Sleep is a biological necessity, and sleep deprivation has real physical, psychological, and social consequences that need to be taken seriously. The way our society treats it as slothful to sleep according to natural rhythms (including midday naps and variant chronotypes like night owls) is evil.

Anybody in the Baltimore area got a smallish older car in decent repair that they want to sell to Mr E for pretty cheap?

Worth occasionally mentioning again that the only immigration crisis in the United States is the severe dearth of immigration the country experiences, owing to absurdly difficult legal standards for immigration that none of our grandparents were held to. The country is empty.

SHOUT IT FROM THE ROOFTOPS Says the woman trying to help her low-income, chronically ill, elderly father get *anything* done.

If you have dollars to spare, can you kick Sydette some dollars? She's a good'n who is trying to do good things while in a really precarious financial position. I say this from extensive past experience—trying to stay afloat in NYC is *soul-destroyingly hard*.

The primary reason I still have *some* friends is that I'm basically able-bodied/not immunocompromised and I don't give a single shit if people think I'm weird, so I take the risk of doing some public/social things while masking, or hanging outside unmasked. Not everyone can take even those risks.

There's a whole good thread leading up to this, but I'm reposting this last entry because, oof, yeah. (And yes let's keep pestering our dopey elected representatives in the House and Senate—encouraging spinal development and praising it wherever it appears. Shrinking Medicaid is disastrous.)

If you count yourself in the massive majority of people who pretty much don't want to hear about COVID anymore...please read this thread. I'm sorry. Please. I write this from my father's house, where I am watching Long COVID completely destroy the mind and body of a person I love beyond telling.

The fact that he is not getting real-time destroyed by every journalist who enters a room with him (and then later destroyed in print by every person on a tech or econ beat who reads whatever the hell he wrote most recently) is a blistering indictment of current general media competence.

The Deadlands fundraiser coin is on the very small list of "merch I genuinely love." Look at it; it's beautiful. If you know me, you know how fussy I am. (Ayesha A. Siddiqi's "Every border..." design, Clipping shirts, Deadlands coins, ESPO stuff—it's not "none," but the list grows SLOWLY.)

Tens of millions of people have died from Covid. Every country should have responded with record investments in public health infrastructure. Instead the US government is putting us all at greater risk of more catastrophes by firing hundreds of top scientists whose job is to prevent outbreaks.

Bar associations need to start disbarring. There's immediate precedent with Giuliani. To the point @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social has repeatedly made, a polity that allows elites to repeatedly lie, obviously and with impunity, is not sustainable. Feels like the legal profession is at the same juncture.

I think one of the challenges of AI discourse is that many people have not yet felt or seen the consequences of overusing water and electricity, and so everybody pointing out that queries use a ton of both means nothing to them. Yet.

Ppl claiming they're divesting but somebody is lyin. Alot of ppl are lying.

I am so glad that Menswear Guy uses basic alt now so I can repost his long threads about my country's massive cognitive dissonance around clothing prices (and by extension manufacturing at large).

Nothing is wrong in this post I would only also add a significant part of the pseudoscience was directly created to absolve white men of sex crimes "It's not his fault, he has an addiction!" Said by the same people who think you can beat heterosexuality and good manners into children

Know what get behind me . It’s not just not real , it’s something that is designed to shift the compulsions and need for control formed by the absolute pétri dish that is “Christian” upbringings Onto the objects of their desires

if they say something and you say that's not true, your response is still shaped like their frame Your frame has to *contain and explain* their frame, not just contradict it. You have to eat their frame. Like Kirby

i would again like to remind everyone that NEGATING A FRAME REINFORCES IT "he's not really targeting criminals" makes it an argument about criminality "this is a fascist attack" states what is actually happening START WITH WHAT IT IS not what it isn't

The willful negligence surrounding COVID did untold psychic damage to people. The idea of public good (masks, shared health behaviors, SHARED HEALTH OUTCOMES) went out the window. It is mirrored in people’s obsession with stuff like AI. “Harmful broadly and individually pleasing to me? Yes 🥰”

Want to signal boost this- this place makes a huge difference, We use all the food and it goes to good use and donations are way down so if you know any local church groups or anyone who can help- even just lunch meat and cheese, we can assemble them. Thank you for helping feed Bmore ❤️❤️

The whole thread. <3

It started with Gaza under Biden. We warned you. We warned you by sacrificing with our lives and careers. You either stood up for people, en masse, who lost their job protesting genocide, or you agreed live in a society where lives could be ended for being against genocide. Now it’s anything goes.

My insurance made me get a titer test, wouldn't just give me the shot—but that's not a terrible thing! Found out my titers were very good, didn't need new shot, wins all around. Ask about DTap/TDap while you're at it; you DO NOT want pertussis.

this is an object lesson in why praising Dems when they do the right thing - and not just castigating them for doing the wrong thing - is good politics for those of us who want them to fight Van Hollen raised his profile by doing the right thing and the lesson he learned was keep fighting