looking forward to not being able to breathe in addition to it be 100+ degrees, despite living 30 minutes away. also maryland is in drought and shit is gonna catch fire. its great, really great.

so what we're doing is blaming systemic issues (grifters and private equity cannabilizing youth sports to make money while we install curfews and close third spaces for kids AND the astronomical costs of a college education) on the one or two trans girls in school who just want to have fun. weird.

we should probably talk more about how cody has a whole podcast devoted to him day drinking and talking bullshit

You may be wondering why it's anyone else's problem that these companies gambled themselves into potential bankruptcy. The answer may be stupider than you think

my gauge for whether or movie starring a women is actually bad is if Angry Joe has a YouTube thumbnail and at least three videos about how bad it is. it's almost always a decent movie if not great in that case.

I feel like I’m going insane, the degree to which politics and yes the media completely made this up. The anti gay marriage panic I got, there were a ton more gay people who wanted to get married, this thing is not a thing

Take the pledge: NEVER take the bait when Axios runs a bunch of anonymous quotes from random Democratic backbenchers dumping on D primary voters

you're not trans? you've never been poor? you're not Black? you've never been homeless? you're not an immigrant? you've never needed to survive of mutual aid? you're not mentally ill? you've never been a marginalized group in a red state? sit. the fuck. down. your opinion is less than meaningless.

...what ever happened to Leon Ruff? 🤼

here is what i think: we're not consumers or spectators, we are participants with agency. you should not hope that democrats will do anything. you must work to force them to do the right thing. the odds are long, but we are far from the first americans to face long odds. we will win.

"but it's good and people like it, surely nobody would kill something like that" shut up and sit down, grandpa is gonna tell you about Google Play Music

The REAL Great American State Fair would be having THE BARBECUE COMPETITION TO END ALL BARBECUE COMPETITIONS and i would be getting so sick eating so much brisket and ribs and it'd be amazing.

I lived in DC for 7 years. It's a delightful but sleepy city. It's mostly empty by 6 PM except maybe the Adams Morgan area where venues are for concerts but even then, I felt perfectly safe walking around late at night and taking photos. Freaking deer roam the streets there. Racism is so strange

"talking about politics online is not a hobby" is my most woke take.

because if the answer is no i have to ask why you are wasting your time on politics, get a better hobby.

the question isn't "do you have faith in the democrats" the question is "do you have faith in the ability of people to work collectively to impose their will on the political system?"

hope is revolutionary dooming is reactionary it's that simple. people should learn which one they are.

"The Great American State Fair" very much looks like a fair organized by a group of cisgendered white men who think having fun is gay and woke

my other halfway joke answer is they fired all the queer people and black people and women who work in logistics and now it's like 6 DOGE bozos injecting Zyn pouches into their eyes trying to launder millions of dollars in no bid contracts while making sure Trump gets to hear opera if/when he shows

So funny how these fuckers “care about women’s sports” when they use that to bully trans kids but never when it comes to female athletes getting the same pay or opportunities as their male peers. Super cool

you ever have a bad mental day and then your brain unlocks something that might explain another thing and then it just fucks you up more

You want sports in a controlled, sterilized environment (domes, identical outfield dimensions) yet you discount the most sterilized and controlled championship ever. Curious

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having a timeline full of people talking politics sucks sometimes because i want to be like "im having a hard mental health day" without clarifying that i really dont give a shit about SCOTUS at the moment

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Anyway, join the Left(s) where we may be neurotic but we are also creative and many of us have a sense of humor and whimsy.

all i'm saying is that if the headline says "Democrats" but the header photo has Cory Booker, "the Democrats" aren't planning anything, someone aligned with Cory Booker (who is juiceless and has no stroke in the party writ large) is floating a trial balloon and generating some press (for Booker.)

the other thing to note is who are the democrats who are signaling submission and why. cory booker has no juice and functionally no power in the party, and that's what he's jockeying for. this is a naked "would be people like me if i ran for president" play. (the answer is no.)

folks I am going to say this as nicely as possible preemptively dooming about how the dems will refuse to even try to use the powers the supreme court is granting to trump to reverse the damage in response to every post saying "they should do that" is somewhat less than helpful

As nice as it is to have AEW/ROH, CMLL, and NJPW discussion that's mostly unimpeded by weirdos, JFC we need more indie and old wrestling discussion on here.

JOKER: Not so fast, Bat-JERK! My LAUGHBangs will leave you BLIND as a BAT! BLUESKY BATMAN: Oof. Many people suffer from reduced vision. Not funny. JOKER: It's like, it's a pun. It's just wordplay. BLUESKY BATMAN: Sorry if I'm not in the mood for "jokes" while SCOTUS shreds our constitutional rights

"It's not easy to divest from Amazon." You're right—& that's how they want it to feel! Any move away is powerful. "Books are cheaper there." Also true! But your dollars go further when you shop indie. (Or check out your library!)

I do not think ANY of the decisions of this court are legitimate no matter whether some lawyers like how they ruled or not. It's the fruit of a poisonous tree. Gotta uproot the whole thing.

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all the hatred people have the DNC should be reserved for the DCCC and the DSCC and it actually protects leadership to complain about the one instead of the other. like jeffries and schumer LOVE when people blame the DNC instead of the DCCC and DSCC.

stop arguing with the guy who loves to argue

wait the bouie gentrification argument spun off of something stancil related? uugggghhhhhhg man, can we just NOT let this white guy dictate every fuckin' discourse on this app? it makes the vibes rancid

Years ago, I said that US electoral politics are essentially intramurals among white people and I got yelled at but I continue to be correct.

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Some Sunday Black Boy Joy

the biggest problem this site has is we went from "two prominent Black users have a minor disagreement/misunderstanding over housing policy" to "JAMELLE BOUIE IS A COON AND I'VE ALWAYS KNOWN HE WAS AN UNCLE TOM!" in like an hour and that seems like it's pretty fucking terrible

black people On Here are not immune from needing to get a real hobby

like the short version of the long answer is "build more housing in communities of color which means black/brown people move in which means white people flee to whiter areas that also have new housing"

so is your problem that he doesnt have an answer for what to do for communities of color that have already been displaced by gentrification? because i dont think that's what he was trying to say. either way the answer is "build more housing".

if you build more housing and amenities in the areas where white folks live, they will stay in those areas instead of trying to snag a place in a black and brown community on the cheap and demand they start building Orange Fitnesses and Whole Foods. like, it's pretty simple really.

"build more housing where the rich white folks live so they dont buy cheaper housing where the black and brown folks live, which is what gentrification actually is." im not sure why this is a controversial statement. like white folks gentrified brooklyn cuz housing elsewhere was too expensive.

The right: listen, it is imperative that we embezzle your retirement into the pocket of this pedophile. Normal people: what the fuck Centrist dems: our Thiel-funded think-tank says you should let this happen, read this Ezra Klein article explaining why this is good. Give us between $5 and $50.

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