The calls to expand SCOTUS are no longer sufficient, democrats can only rely on one tool for reliable change

It's so exhausting that everything is immensely fucking weird all the time.

Ironically, her main advice to the city as Heat officer was don’t let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat.

what a crazy thing to post like immediately as the Chapo boys were going in on how bad the Dutch are at posting

I'm sorry for ranting so much about politics today I was busy at work and needed something non Jira related to vent about

@adamserwer.bsky.social is the most incisive yet humane essayist writing today. #icymi

Gingrich Revolution of '94 another massive hinge point. It's almost like there's a pattern of Democrats winning normal elections and governing normally and then the GOP doing some insane backlash no matter what the Dems do and then the Dems..... Accepting the GOP blame & narrative???

it rocks that the "opposition party" whip has ties to all these groups

Dem party is a party of capitalism. We are in a clash of culture of capitalism vs socialism. If you are on the side of socialism, Democrats are your enemy. Debates over who is "more" your enemy are silly; the answer is as useless as it is obvious. Sure the GOP is worse, no it doesn't matter.

hey 👋 I'm that PM from work who sends last minute meeting invites for 8am. scheduling a group this big is tough, haha, appreciate the flexibility! looking forward to seeing everybody online bright and early, just in time for me to cancel the meeting at 7:55

it’s a nice day outside. time to get angry online

I like Hank Green, but it's weird as fuck to me how much time people spend speculating or making statements like this that you could just spend a few minutes googling and putting numbers to if you wanted to (Clavicular is, in fact, actually popular)

Look I know sitting in a classroom and listening to lectures and taking notes fucking sucks. I goddamn hated it and skipped as many lecture classes as I possibly could. I found it difficult to learn in that way. IT SUCKS. I also do not believe there is a better way to teach the fundamentals.

speaking of millennial music, remember how fucking perfect that Amy Winehouse album was?

"Democrats need to take back Congress and then haul these judges on the floor of the Capitol and make them explain themselves" okay cool how does that help anybody get the fucking vote back

I honestly don't think I understand this. The Democrats have not mentioned one single thing they would do other than "enforce the rules" to stop this, yet those rules ..... clearly have not been able to stop this? Like how does them winning fix anything at all and not just delay???

I'm not denying that there is racism all over and racists everywhere but after five years living in Ohio and the previous twenty in Brooklyn I'm willing to say that Ohio Whites are *significantly* more frequently openly racist.

imagining the very first human to pet a cat and hear it purr. my god i would feel so blessed

listening to rfj jr give the dr strangelove speech about our precious bodily fluids fuckin rules man. Like it sucks that this dude is in charge of American Health but it's very fuckin awesome he has exactly the correct voice to match his brain. It almost makes me believe in God.

It's so funny to read an impassioned post like this and then look at a picture of Kier Starmer, a quarter-zip fleece in a human body

Last thing I’m gonna say about this as it’s really not my place to opine much. But as a cis guy who had virtually no connection to the trans community even just a few years ago, something I’ve learned is that trans people are *forced* to be more vocal to stand up for themselves

You know, Sotomayor should fucking quit. What is the point of staying on this court? Issuing dissents like this claiming the majority to be bullshit just validate the bullshit; stop playing a game you can't win you fucking dummies

does Tunnel Vision refer to looking past Les Wexner and Dr. Richard Strauss??

I wanna start a podcast but I don't wanna be on one I just wanna be in charge of it. Being perceived by People At Large sounds fucking intolerable but booking guests and keeping lists of upcoming episodes and using all the Ops Management skills I have from my career but For Fun seems fun

Keir Starmer has resigned, that's right, resigned himself to the fact there's a long three years ahead of being prime minister

This is a long, hard to read (complimentary) piece and y'all owe it to yourselves and each other to read it. It's important.

jb pritzker may earnestly mean well and have kind and good intentions but as a billionaire by birth who has never once turned on his class he will never be able to be a full human being. Billionaires are less than human.

Just greeted one of the cats with a "Hey" as he entered my office that I can only explain as "too intended-for-a-human-inflected" to such a degree that we both kind of just paused and looked at each other surprised and confused for a second

you can really tell the people for whom the internet is a video game, designed to give them endless enemies to destroy in pleasurable combat

I think a sad and complicated part of the transition happening to America now is that for us to get through whatever the fuck is going on, the Democrats being destroyed by not fighting fire with fire feels somehow necessary at this point?

I do feel like "big accounts" of people I like who are basically allied on 90% of shit are snippy and fighting with each other on this website way more than they used to on Twitter and that is a bummer.

Discussing in the group chat a theory that your parents taste in video game box art style was a more important factor in our childhoods than any of their actual parenting decisions

This graph shows two things, 1) obviously that the cameras reduced speeding, but 2) that the improvement kept getting better over time. Speeders tend to get one or two tickets and then learn and change their behaviour. This isn't a cash grab, it's an extremely useful intervention.

Transphobia is the greatest lodestone for today's far-right, because it embodies the far-right desire to claim all identities are natural and biological. Today's fascists hate trans people for the same reason interwar fascists hated diasporic Jews - because they hate fluidity and border crossing.

I'm not doing it cuz I enjoy socializing with my friends on this platform but any time a Mod posts a long ass thread about how everybody needs to Respect The Mods every inch of my body starts calling out for me to start harassing them rudely and obscenely. I don't know why I'm like this.

so taking a look at the sex toys but no insertion rule, I guess they're soon it's okay if Your Kickstarter Sucks but not if your kickstarter fucks

the eyebrow move when you're dead fuckin asleep and tryin to convince people you been paying attention he's just like us fr

"My reporting for this article is based on conversations with 14 men and women who said they had been sexually assaulted by Israeli settlers or members of the security forces". Why is this piece in the NYT Opinion section?

Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

You know how fucking bad a Republican has to be fuckin up to lose the don't dumb white guy vote?????

Anyway, "Girlfriend" by Matthew Sweet and "How Deep Is Your Love" by Dru Hill are the correct answer

Oh well, nevertheless

I think part of society breaking down right now is that we're all, in so many disparate fields and varieties of life, going thru "the death of the monoculture" as if it is this bedrock of Human Experience when in reality it's just some shit that was only around for 50 years between Radio & Online

Definitive millennial song is actually this

I don't like that we keep sharing the clip of that god awful graduation speech and the kids harassing her without naming the lady. We should be using her name and making this the top search result for her for the rest of her life. We need to make people ashamed of this shit for decades.

The “what’d I say??! Why are they booing??” To “what am I gonna do??” Is amazing

I feel like I should get some kind of prize for being a massive teenage Springsteen fan in the nineties when everybody thought that shit was uncool. I have been cool as fuck my entire life but never at the right time for anyone else to think I was anything but a fucking loser.

two things can be true... 1. yes 2. And also there is a scrutiny and surveillance of Black women (because that's what we are talking about in the WNBA Black women) that is not given to any other group of people www.thenation.com/article/soci...