The "pro-life" party isn't pro- your life, only their own.

the political media is a type of self-serious entertainment designed to parse rhetoric as though it is policy while taking no position on matters of actual public concern, because to do that would alienate some of those entertained by the gossip.

the way Trump and his administration keep going on livestreams and tv to laugh about this, I can’t really compare it to anything political that comes to mind, only thing that comes to mind rn is a serial killer who writes letter taunting family of their victim.

Beginning to believe "elite" means little more than someone whose concern is preserving their status over all other considerations. It scrambles my conception of the word. Like, Bill Ackman, elite, all that matters is status. Bill Kristol, not elite?, he'd lose status before bending to Trump.

rip alfred hitchcock you would've loved saying "go birds"

Good tattoo discourse starting here.

ordinary americans are filming ice agents and trying to save their neighbors. for all the hemming and hawing during 2024 about how democracy was an elite concern, the elites gave up far more quickly than average people.

NY Liberty assistant Sonia Raman has agreed to a multiyear deal to become the new head coach of the Seattle Storm, sources tell ESPN. Raman makes WNBA history as the first person of Indian-origin to be head coach – after being the first Indian-American woman to be NBA assistant.

This exactly.

Starting off my Monday right: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVhC...

America is an idea, and anyone who believes in it should have a home here.

The Bluesky experience. Seeing cool art, being excited for basketball, raging against bigots. You can get it all here post by post.

Whether or not the vileness of this agreement actually gets enforced is immaterial to the fact that every member of UVA's Administration that agreed to this must be crushed and their future salted. Go get yourself a Nazi tattoo you fucks.

I appreciate Rob finding reasons to look forward to watching my Washington Wizards, and I'm thrilled for another season of Tuesday's with Zach and Rob.

it's such horseshit that conservatives like ross douthat dare to call marriage and having kids conservative coded every prominent conservative is either 1) a pederast 2) a rapist 3) fucking corey lewandowski while married to somebody else sorry conservatives, but family values are lib now

Was putting in my gym stats today and after typing out gym the text prompt was Jordan. So, that was wild.

Stop! Stop! He's already dead I will not be saying. Bury the dude so every fucking fool still supporting him gets buried too.

Give me all of my trans friends competing in whatever sport they want, doing whatever they want, living however they want. Give them everything.

“You can’t mutual aid state capacity” is a glaring truth of our times and the reason I stay fixedly a spreadsheet-and-sewers socialist.

People who are generally upset with how their lives are going, and also feel there are too many people around who look different, can never actually be appeased. Not by Brexit, not by eliminating FoM, not by new taxes or fees, not by ending ILR, not by denaturalizing not by anything.

Honestly, really appreciating Will Stancil's total, complete, searing hatred of Nazism right now. For as much mockery and shit as the guy gets, from across the political spectrum, his values are actual fucking values. There's never ever going to be "a little Nazism as a treat," with the guy.

The advantage of a Trump house in my extended neighborhood is every political sign they put up is an automatic "No." It makes the entire process much faster; just eliminating names and Props before you even have to dig in.

The hard pill to swallow is that even in 2025 an awful lot of people simply do think of women as property. Not any deeper than that.

My grand unified theory of contemporary American politics is Everyone Is Twelve for the right and Everything Is Fandom for the left

I like how OKC crowds don't seem to spend that much time on their phone. Almost everyone is watching the game when the camera pans.

I hadn't really expected Nazi tattoos and downplaying sexual assault to be what got people to plant their flag across the entire political spectrum, but here we are.

90 minutes to NBA! Woooooo! (Ahem. Go Wizards. I hope you have a terrible season, but the young guys look good, and you get the 1st pick next year. Thank you for your attention to this matter.)

lol. Poor Faine. Big day for my replying in every post there is.

Bluesky has so many great writers and TV folks here already, but needs the athletes to start coming over. The pull will be the athletes; there have to be some who are uncomfortable on X, or their agents, or family members. Right?

The Bill Belichick coaching tree. Failures, unlikable, or unlikable failures. (Squad not included, the coaching tree success story.)

As someone who is, at best, meh about Sanders, I don't get how he hit a grand slam with the Squad and then every other at bat is a double play? *as a sad Mariners fan this is where my brain went, to baseball.*

Starting to see a couple of liberal & left accounts building a structure to excuse Platner's tattoo. Automatic block even if I've followed you and appreciated some of your previous views. I'm a tiny account and a rando & it won't matter to you, but you're dead to me. You're doing MAGA shit.

Yup. Trans people have done nothing wrong and are not to blame for any part of the campaign waged against them. Any supposed ally who says this about our trans friends and neighbors is a fucking wrecker who can never be trusted.

I declare I am off the record. You can not quote me on any posts I have made on this website

Huh. So one of the people most responsible for making the House the current, uh, house fire it is has some thoughts about that fire? I know "lets promote the wreckers then ask them why everything is a wreck," makes for a great day to day story, but its terrible for your business and the nation.

It's a mystery.

Every pardon a confession. This is why I expect a Maxwell pardon at some point; I'm certain he's trying to find a way.

I suspect the MAGA government decided to launch all these Bluesky accounts tonight to try to bait people in advance of No Kings. These people have incurable 4chan brain and this is how they operate. Block them. Do not engage. Do not give them what they want.

People in the streets protesting? Not successful! People reading a pamphlet from 1926 and arguing over meaning while ignoring the protests happening outside? Successful!

Pritzker: "Stephen Miller is clearly ordering people to break the law. So he should know that yeah, it may be three years from now that he is held accountable, but I think it's important for them to know that whatever they do now, it's not like we're going to forget."

What also helps here is Mamdani listens. When he brings the question back to a talking point it feels organic, like the talking point is the answer. This confirms his authenticity, unlike, say Cuomo, Jeffries, Johnson etc who shoehorn a response out of the ether. The forced point makes them fake.

The Supreme Court’s majority right wing indicated in oral arguments that they think racism is over on the same day that the vice president defended the “I love Hitler” guy, and that the NYT reported that the current administration plans to accept only white, English-speaking refugees.

i’m running for president in 2028, this is my platform: - no more spam texts and calls - smaller cars with weaker headlights - imprison every person in ice and the trump administration on a remote island for a thousand years

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion. As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

The first two that come to mind: 1) Leatherface's version of Abba's Eagle. I think the version from Live from Oslo is incredible. 2) Hiretsukan's version of Metallica's Creeping Death.

It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.

As the people who insist otherwise try to burn the country, it's important to affirm that immigrants, from everywhere, are awesome, and America is better the more immigrants we have. You have to be just empty and vapid and unimaginably small to reject that.

Look what I bought at the bookstore! There's a nice little one by me that has, somehow, managed to survive at an outdoor mall. Lot of recommendation cards, a big kids section for a small store, planners. I always find good books there.