there is a rich vein of "if we perform enough of a caricature of masculinity that's gotta make republicans stop calling us pussies" anxiety in Democratic politics that started with Truman and has not stopped for even a single election cycle since

I don’t understand the old conventional wisdom that a person gets more conservative overtime. Every new piece of information I learn only radicalize me further.

Voters need to take responsibility for themselves

there is a cohort of men who resent the responsibilities and obligations of adulthood — of the fact that you owe things to other people. it is a fundamentally childish impulse that they have reconfigured as the height of masculinity, and i think it informs the parasocial attraction to platner.

Here's the trailer for S1. Seems like a MUST WATCH youtu.be/tZhtkzpB6Ac?...

*angrily, bitterly*: "you can't even be a rapist anymore, because of woke"

Platner was just several red flags in a trenchcoat. And there’s a few things more disgusting than watching people trying to justify their support of such an obvious problem.

They’re doing it again. That thing where every accusation is a confession.

Thou shalt expand and reform the Supreme Court. Thou shalt only support candidates who promise to do so. Can I get an amen?

Name a less appealing human being than Sam Altman. Yuck.

Browsing apple news front page and there are three stories being served to be about penises. Wtf

We’re getting the 250th birthday party we deserve.

Where do I get my Mel Brooks flag?

Also drove a lot of people to vote for Obama in 2008

This is awful advice. Local politics is far more important to the average person’s daily life. Local news organizations need your eyeballs and support. These three papers in particular have very pointed agendas that are in direct opposition to local needs

A tool called DROP lets California residents fill out a few forms to keep their personal data from being tracked or sold by data brokers.

Thinking about starting a go fund me for curtains. Nobody ever told me that curtains were gonna be so expensive.

Someone tried to sell me an eight dollar tomato. No, it wasn’t a prize winning tomato. It was a regular tomato, and slightly on the small side at that.

If they run Trump in 2028, Barack Obama has to run. There’s no other option. Because nothing else will get us the necessary Supreme Court decision that’ll keep Trump off the ballot. Only the threat of him returning to the White House will get John Roberts to make the correct constitutional decision

Stevie Wonder is our greatest living musician, and I don’t think it’s even particularly close.

Missing someone who’s passed hurts in part because it’s a feeling without resolution. You are faced with a boundless longing that at best becomes background radiation of your life but never truly diminishes.

I’d forgotten my mission, but I won’t forget again

You too can change the US flag to slime green if you so choose: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

liberal democracies will never be safe with musk this powerful—they must unite to break him my latest with @newrepublic.com c/a @gregsargent.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2119...

Israel has killed over 260 journalists and media workers in Gaza and 28 in Lebanon since October 7, 2023. Irish filmmaker Seán Murray investigates Israel’s killings of journalists in his new feature documentary "Journacide: The War on Truth."

It's embarrassing to be an American

“I can’t turn left! I’m not an ambi-turner!” - Democrats

They learned Say’s Law and then never looked at another Econ textbook in their life

“I insist on being shocked. I am never going to become immune. I think that’s a kind of failure to see so much of it that you die inside. I want to be surprised and shocked every time.” - Toni Morrison

I think about Pam Grier in this suit at least twice a day

Can’t get my kid a Steam Deck for his birthday because of stupid AI

This security guard died protecting children at the Islamic Center of San Diego. If you can help support his family, it would go a long way. www.launchgood.com/v4/campaign/...

The word "hero" gets thrown around a lot. But it's clear the attack on the San Diego Islamic Center yesterday could have been SO much worse. 140 children were feet away from the attackers. Security guard Amin Abdullah engaged these cowards in a gunfight, and they ran away.

He’s not a nice man, he’s an Immigration and Customs Enforcement man. - @mike-eagle.bsky.social

That’s right, slaveowners got reparations. Enslaved African-Americans got nothing for their generations of stolen bodies, snatched children and expropriated labor other than their mere release from legal bondage. aas.princeton.edu/news/when-sl...

We HAVE made progress. We just can’t seem to HOLD the progress.

mNRA vaccines are more important than anything that’s come out of Silicon Valley since the first computer

"Unions are the opposite of fascism. That is why fascists attack organized labor first." - Cory Doctorow

The Voting Rights Act made this country an actual democracy. Before it, the label was merely fan fiction. 60 years of democracy out of 250. And they couldn’t stand it.

Re the Voting Rights Act: I've used this graph a lot to illustrate how the VRA largely ended the historic pattern of blocking and burdening Black voters in the south. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Recent studies show that data centers are creating uncertainty for the Pacific Northwest’s power grid, potentially creating massive gaps in energy leading to blackouts.

Obviously the secret service hates this guy

Whatever else is true, the president is inherently untrustworthy. He is an unreliable narrator. And he has spent the last decade convincing the American people that we cannot trust the media establishment or our own government to tell us the truth.

Hacks is the perfect show

TRYING TO CONVINCE MY KID TO WATCH BILL AND TEDS EXECELLENT ADVENTURE

BRING ME MY ROBE

"Pope says do revolution in the imperial core" x.com/makbethel/st... warhammer intensifies bsky.app/profile/70sb...

I knew it was Wednesday, but I kept thinking it was Friday tomorrow regardless