It's the last day of summer school and I've graded at least 300 (new!) assignments thus far; thank god for the @trungles.com Pride & Prejudice thread, if you're not following already you should!!! Pure joy 💕

Here is Graham gloating about "killing all the right people." Just in case you see anyone try to do the whole "we should have decency for the dead" nonsense.

I gotta sleep but everyone please take this moment as a prompt to check in with friends and make sure everyone is on the same page with your wishes: Do you want to be woken up when it happens or not?

So I’ve started Pride and Prejudice, and already I feel bad for Mrs Bennet.

It is only when the crime is rape or sexual assault or harassment that suddenly, thinking people fail to understand that a woman's testimony is evidence. They say things like "there's no evidence!" Yes, there is. Her testimony is evidence.

I know the ratio on this is already ridiculous but I was still thinking about it when I got up this morning. We're not your resources. We're not your volunteers. You're the ones constantly asking for OUR money even though most of us have so little. We'll keep primarying anyone who doesn't get that

@krinsyn.bsky.social I was just re-watching Todd's Timothy video, and I thought I should let you know that your art still cracks me up every single time. The look on Joe's face when he decides to eat Timothy?!?!? 😳🤣😭 incredible, love your work

NEWS --> Dem can redraw anywhere from 10 to 22 additional House seats for the party in time for the 2028 elections if they aggressively redistrict in 7 key states, a new Fair Fight Action analysis finds. This would neutralize GOP's post-SCOTUS advantage. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2098...

Once again: If we are to beat the Republican fascist movement, we all must view the Supreme Court as it is presently constituted to be completely illegitimate and all of its findings similarly illegitimate, and we should expect our elected leaders to hold the same view.

My Threads feed is full of Black folks absolutely gutted and despairing over today’s Voting Rights Act ruling. I love Bluesky for so much, but today is one of those historical moments where it is stark that we really live in two different Americas.

I'll restate my oft-stated position that democratic self-government in the United States is not possible unless this Court and its manifest corruption are thoroughly reformed. civic democracy or this corrupt court. can only have one.

Vote for the baby y'all

"“If you do not want us to share personal data or feel uncomfortable with the ways we use information in order to deliver our Services, please do not use the Services,” the policy states." But if it's the only mental health proided by your insurance... or the only one with openings <6 months out

Over 50% of American adults can't read above a 6th grade reading level, and this is an absolutely catastrophic civil rights crisis with implications for every facet of individual and collective life, including processing political statements by politicians, doctors, and so on

If you’re against DEI, you’re a segregationist and I’m tired of folks, for the sake of politeness and naïveté, pretending the discussion is anything but that.

Two weeks ago, we walked out of @propublica.org’s offices for a one-day strike to demand a fair contract. We haven’t gotten ANY proposals from management since then. Tell our bosses that you’ll support us if we have to strike again: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

It's not hyperbole in the least to say Musk purchased a six-month shadow presidency for $280 million and used the power of that shadow presidency to 1. Steal the government’s data, 2. Permanently damage the state’s ability to regulate his businesses, and 3, kill non-white people.

i'm not a hardcore anti-AI guy, but i cannot think of a single benefit of genAI that could possibly outweigh the harm it is doing to our social fabric, shared reality, and most basic abilities to parse information and learn.

Oi! If you've never heard of A Girl and Her Fed, now is a great time to check it out! (And support them at the Hugos!)

I encourage *everyone* on my skyline to read this excerpt. 🥚

Reporter: What do you make of Republicans saying that Virginia— AOC: Wah wah wah. We have asked Republicans for 10 years to ban partisan gerrymandering. And for 10 years, Republicans have said no. What they’re just mad at is that they have been accustomed to a Democratic Party that rolls over.

The implicit media consensus is that urban voters should not be able to overrule rural voters, but that rural voters should be able to overrule urban voters, an assumption so axiomatic and unquestionable that nobody even understands they're making it.

I would submit that a gerrymander by politicians saying fuck the voters and one by voters saying fuck the politicians are two wholly different animals

No no, you LEAD with the facts. Always start by establishing the truth first, then present the lie in response to it.

@shadowtodd.bsky.social welp, you were right about Ella Langley disappointing you :( goddammit

Gonna spend the next two years spamming every elected Dem about the concept of "damnatio memoriae." Chisel his name off every inscription. Build over the various Trump Towers like they're Nero's Golden House. Remove him from physical memory, not to forget but as a sign of disrespect to the man.

this reminds me, i don't think SCOTUS should be allowed to choose their own clerks. standardize the hiring schedule, put the applications in a pool, blind reads (perhaps by a panel of former clerks) and random assignments.

You absolutely SHOULD NOT go around telling people that data centers are full of gold, silver, palladium, copper, and that the data centers are almost entirely unstaffed.

I am not kidding at all when I say that every Democrat with a microphone should mock JD Vance every chance they get between now and 2028. Call him weird and feckless. Laugh at his eyeliner & dumb beard. Talk about the nazis & freaks he follows on Twitter. *Brand* him.

Matthew's home (yay!)... but they have been told that they're going to need another surgery (boo!). Matthew Cortland has been so generous with the gifts that they've been given... if there's any way that you could be of help during this time of need, it's not just Matthew who would be grateful!

"No, no, the leopard won't eat MY face. I'm too special!" The leopard, five minutes later:

Chief Justice John Roberts should be impeached and removed from the Supreme Court.

As taxpayers across the nation file their taxes, our dedicated members are out on their routes, delivering for millions of homes and businesses every tax season and all year long. ➡️ And did we mention we do it all WITHOUT using taxpayer funds?

there was the commissioning and then canceling of that Pride collection by queer and trans artists, then there was the DEI rollback, now it’s AI-driven false arrests. Target is setting land-speed records for torching customer goodwill, given how high their popularity and how far they had to fall

Jesus Murphy.

If @shadowtodd.bsky.social ever covers Katy Perry again, there's gonna be a weeeeeeird section about the last couple weeks

WHY ARE YOU STILL ON SUBSTACK. if you're a big creator particularly, you will legit make more money on beehiv. and you won't be asking your readers to pay revenue to a site that promotes literal sex traffickers and pushes Nazi content to your goddamn phone. i'm gonna lose my mind

THREE NEW HAPPY CUSTOMERS TODAY love this for me istg converting people from TurboTax to FreeTaxUSA is the only real evangelism I have ever done in my life

goddammit :/

I am becoming a 80s-90s tough on crime reactionary but for white collar crime specifically.

This is the culmination of SIXTEEN YEARS of dogged work by everyday Hungarians. You think that felt hopeless sometimes? I'm sure it did. 👏 Don't 👏 give 👏 up 👏

Swalwell: "[Name I theoretically shouldn't know], how dare you accuse me of doing X at Y time and Z location! I would never!"

I missed this from @phineas.bsky.social when it originally came out but it sure feels relevant at the moment. Also, you can buy this as a print from the artist here: www.inprnt.com/gallery/phin...

Excellent thread:

“Oh but Republicans would…” Lemme stop you right there. I know that Republicans are okay voting for men accused of sexual assault. Republicans are also okay with voting for racists, child rapists, genocidal maniacs, and whatever the fuck pathology is a “Ted Cruz.” So miss me with that argument.

Re: Swalwell Given allegations like these, there isn't a single Democratic politician I wouldn't immediately fling into oncoming traffic "But what about—" No. No exceptions. Keep your genitals and nudes to yourself or face the consequences.

Wishing you and yours a very merry Confederate Surrender Day.

you do not have to hand it to tucker carlson or marjorie taylor greene or alex jones or megyn kelly. they're all rats who see trump as a sinking ship and they're getting ready to jump in preparation for their next act. you do not have to fall for it.

Journalistic malpractice and democratic betrayal.

I’ve never written anything using AI, I never will, and I have zero respect for any professional who does.