Note to media: police arresting peaceful protesters singing “give peace a chance” is not protesters “clashing” with police. It’s the state violating the First Amendment rights of people upset that human beings who did nothing illegal are being held without due process and being fed maggots.

The only thing more satisfying than the removal of his name from the Kennedy Center is the unwell Orange Man-Baby's entirely predictable, seething, unhinged, self-pitying, incoherent, raging, angry, vengeful meltdown reacting to the news. Someone call a wahh-mbulance! And how is your weekend going?

Gee! If only we had another candidate that wasn't an ex-Blackwater schmuck !

If I were an action hero, this is what I’d say to the bad guy before the kill shot.

Dems made a massively foreseeable, avoidable, and unforced error with encouragement from David Hogg and the Pod Save guys, who all fancy themselves as strategists.

On this: I’m a tall Brown woman with a strong jawline. A whole white woman accused me of being a man in a public toilet the other day. I didn’t correct her because my being trans or cis was not the point. The point was she felt entirely comfortable and confident doing that to someone in a TOILET.

Mad Magazine, 1991. They knew even then. Great argument in favor of time travel. #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

Ope. Sorry we didn’t give you a howdy neighbor welcome but we were busy keeping our neighbors safe, watching for your speeding vehicles running red lights, sweeping up broken glass, towing abandoned cars back to their homes, feeding frightened families, dodging tear gas and mourning our dead.

I was gonna say, sounds like about a zillion movies, copaganda procedurals and anything starring Tim Allen in the 80s/90s.

I take Jared's point but it's pretty easy to make effective reactionary genre movies. There were dozens released every year in the '80s and '90s, and some of them were decently good and/or widely seen. Craig Zahler makes them today. These guys are just unpleasant nerds who are bad at everything.

I was much more centrist when I was younger. Conservative, even, in some respects. What radicalized me? The Minnesota Republican Party. Fuck these ghouls.

Please don't forget that there is a very solid second candidate running on the Democratic ticket, and to the best of my knowledge he doesn't even have a Nazi tattoo. he's a career USAID guy from an ACTUAL working class family

I am a child of the DFL. I know what our party can accomplish when we work together. I am so incredibly honored and humbled to be the Minnesota DFL’s choice for U.S. Senate.

Hey, @searinglyaaron.bsky.social! Someone stole my super secret strategy for wining at sports

Both parties are not the same

Rhubarb. The punkest fruit/vegetable.

MNGOP supports murderers. I shouldn't be surprised, but here we are.

People talk about efficiency like it's binary. Something is either efficient or not. But it's not. What's efficient for some is inefficient for others. And like so many business terms that have crept into common usage, the definition of efficiency varies depending on the context. 1/

Leftist small town mayor as lieutenant gov is going to break some brains

I’m fresh out of clever promotion ideas so here’s your weekly reminder I do enneagram teaching and coaching. Questions? DM me or change out my website BethBeaty.com

Artists get raked over the coals by clients for mistakes and revisions, often with very little art direction. Artists have to be mind readers and then get punished or have pay withheld. Then these same clients accept mistakes from ai they would never accept from a real human artist.

have we considered that flo rida and vanilla ice might be locked in a deadly game of chicken where both performers have their entire net worth tied up in elaborate parallel kalshi bets that they will be the last act to drop out? I am asking us to consider it

I guess I’m not as politically savvy as I thought. What makes a campaign vegan? Do regular campaigns send flyers made of leather?

Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes

Reporters don't talk enough about how Republicans do not consider Democratic voters to be fully American.

Me: "...and as I got closer to the light, I saw all my family and friends that had already passed away, my dog Sparky. An overwhelming feeling of love spread over me like warm sunshine." The urbanist who has been hiding in my ICU room: ACTUALLY, YOU JUST LIKE HEAVEN BECAUSE IT'S A WALKABLE COMMUNITY

*taking rapid drags of a cigarette, eyes darting around the room, sweat pouring off my forehead, resting heart rate of 168* Everyone is using AI, right? We're all doing it! Like who even cares, right?

if you don’t have a basement guy, how do you plan to get ahead in this evolving market?

Yes to both of these. I will die on either hill

Once you see a real mayor mayoring, you'll look at your own like

Thinking about New Jersey & all of the detainees on hunger & labor strike & all those fighting with them. From Minneapolis to everywhere you are. We owe each other the act of bearing witness. We must find our solidarity.

A former senior CIA official with top secret-level clearance is accused of stealing hundreds of gold bars worth more than $40 million from the federal government and stashing them in his home. n.pr/4dUfil3

Stand With Minnesota’s Adopt-A-Rent formation has stopped taking new rent requests and is winding down so it seems like the right time to express how proud and humbled I have been to be part of coordinating over $500,000 moving from supporters to ICE-impacted families since February.

Lutefisk is barely edible poverty, not a seasonal delicacy to be celebrated. Looking at you, every Norwegian Lutheran church in western Minnesota

The thing with grifting is it actually seems like *so much more work* and it rarely ever pays off, the grifters just *make it look* like it's lucrative so they can sell you the grifting course.

*whispers* The idea that God is GENDERED is actually the really creepy position to take.

Extremely minor take but is thinking God is nonbinary any creepier than thinking God is 3 entities in one, like many Christian sects do?

lotta people want to talk about the Civil Rights Movement but dont want to talk about the role the Black Church had in organizing social events that were as much religious as they were radical and the moves taken by small c conservatives to disrupt that base of power

BEAN FACT: Beans have never done Bluesky discourse posting on a beautiful summer day.

Can we all now agree that running the government like a business was an incredibly stupid idea?

How dare people desire safety? The absolute gall of some people not wanting to be harassed so that others can feel they’ve righteously defended free speech or some shit

Mark Cuban proving once again billionaires are only on our side as long as we fawn over their every word

I say this regularly and invariably some people lose their shit because they have trouble with reading. There won't be a shortage of people focused on electoralism over the next few years. So if that's not your ministry, you don't also have to focus there. There's much else to do. Do those things.

EXPOSED: Microsoft reports show that using AI is more expensive than paying human employees And the price is still only going to go up...

Insider reporting from an unnamed source that my book manuscript is "95% done." The remaining 5% is focused on figuring out what the argument actually is, finding supporting evidence for that argument, and writing it all up.

Funny how the all the people ransacking the Capitol on January 6 were liberals, plants, and ANTIFA—until there was money to be made from it.

Reminder that formerly enslaved Black people started Memorial Day. It was initially called Decoration Day as they decorated the graves of Union troops. “As He died to make men holy let us die to make men free”

This is one of the reasons “we can’t run AOC” makes zero sense. The gop accused Bill Clinton of being a secret communist! They said Obamacare was socialism! The underlying policy just doesn’t matter, they’ll always make this attack. So why don’t we run someone who believes in things?

Not even a fortune. Just a fact.