Bingo. The only problem I have with being trans is the way cis people treat me. I would never go back and I regret absolutely nothing besides not doing it sooner.

it’s absolutely ridiculous that not a single national media outlet has picked this story up yet except for “lgbtq+ news” and fox! it’s been 12 hours!

Jeffersonians, Jeffersonians! Jeffersonians!!! JEFFERSONIANS!!!!! All of you are Jeffersonians, none of you are free from sin

Jeff Rosenstock was here at Fest in Gainesville

It’s really cool how nothing good ever happens anymore and likely never will again www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I wish to soak in the forbidden Jacuzzi

Contrary to Disco Elysium, it is masculinity that is bourgeois.

> see an article about a “new realignment” > ask if realignment is going to be new or whig/jacksonian > pundit doesnt understand > i pull out a diagram explaining what is whig vs jacksonian > he laughs and says "it's a very good realignment sir" > go through the realignment > its whig/jacksonian

I've been thinking a lot about @bretdevereaux.bsky.social's discussion of how a lot of Late Roman Republic attempts at reform involved codifying previously de facto political norms; which failed to help because it was the loss of the underlying social fabric that mattered, not the letter of the law.

Barack Obama would not have made it a half hour with this

they should promise to let one lucky voter blow it up with a looney tunes dynamite plunger

I take it back, echoes of 2010 - recruiting insanely damaged candidates that blows up the changes at gettable reach seats but maybe it also doesn’t matter

i don't mean to get political or anything but i think if you're taking transition-level hrt doses on purpose and enjoying the results then you are trans

Peronism with San Francisco characteristics

Something for left wing social scientists to reckon with, what, exactly are the conditions that creat fertile ground for liberal and left wing movements these days? Affluence makes us right wing, poverty does too. Are there any conditions outside a lab in which leftism is viable now?

It will not work though, too locked in tbh

I know I have a reputation as a doomer but I genuinely try not to talk about this because I think it's just too fucking grim to even think about; we're looking at a new international consensus in favor of the population relocation efforts of the 1920s-1930s, except with even less reason or logic.

It is not possible to have a democracy under these circumstance. even if the American public gave a shit (they don’t), even if the Dems did a historic sweep (they won’) they face this court and the filibuster.

How did it get this bad? Forget 2015, this would have been completely beyond the pale in 1630s England. It would have caused a war.

Hot take: it will shortly be easier for Dems to Retake than senate than the House

There are Mark Robinsons everywhere for those with the eyes to see

“ why did trump, a man who promised big, sweeping reforms and to make groceries free, even if he was lying about it, win against the guys who wanted to keep things the same” asks very smart New York Times journalists

it remains very funny to me that there’s a slightly-moderated democratic socialist in the NYC mayor’s race and it’s not the guy who used to look like this

the INVISIBLE MAN is imho probably the best of the OG universal horror films. it is delightfully unhinged and the invisibility effect is still astonishing all of these years later

call me an old Tory, but democracies have degenerated at least in part because denocrati citizens have: they shrug their shoulders and expect to live in corrupt places, so they live there. All this information and they are incurious about the truth. They are indifferent to everything.

It is DEFINITELY a bet negative, i just *pray* it’s overhyped

Me and the boys rolling up to vote for Crypto-Maoist Graham Platner over stalwart Dem Janet Mills, because he would abolish the filibuster, and she would not

I am passing the hat for a few FFS related expenses, if you can spare a dollar or two I'd be grateful, if not that's totally cool too! www.gofundme.com/f/saoirse-ge...

Democrats manage to reinvent these meme proposals every single election cycle AND NEVER NOTICE THEY DON'T WORK. It's astounding. Biden really did invest hundreds of billions of dollars into Rust Belt economies... and for his efforts was rewarded with searing unpopularity

I’m a transwoman who lives in Florida and I would not go to the UK for a month if you paid me.

Solvable by getting a PhD. Having a wealthier wife while you make less: you aren’t even the one who has to make the kid, fucking pull it together dude. Having a wealthier wife with a PhD: you are a bohemian intellectual in a loving relationship with someone subsidizes your life of the mind.

Rest in Peace Miss Major

I hate how much that looks like somebody's transition before and after pics.

I still have friends who say things like “after we win the midterms”

people who think older women aren't showing up have clearly not been involved with a single local organization doing anything good that has survived more than like a year of existence. our entire activism and charity ecosystem only survives because of older women and I'm not joking

My dad loves to do this. It has meant both in the past.

my hot take is this includes the growing taboo of seriously describing your troubles and negative feelings to your friends, therapy is fine, sure, but insufficient

AND YET they have the same or slightly better approvals as the last term

Jesus Christ, leave us alone

corn is not an efficient energy transformation vector, turns out

This priest got me feeling like Fleabag

the centrists aren't even good at pivoting to the right because they don't understand how the right works at all, it's frankly pretty ridiculous to watch

that donald trump was allowed to become president again after J6 is something we may never recover from as a nation

for example, there is a spectrum of fair or unfair things that can happen if you (a cis person) commit a crime and are sent to prison but i will most likely be placed in a men's prison and raped to death no matter the crime/sentence (V coding) with the alternative being solitary confinement forever

In our - very limited - historical experience of democracy, (i) states rot from the centre-right (ii) and it's contagious (via geography/powerful exemplar states)

Lmao after the whole Washington press corpse cheering him on too

this is why cavalry officers were all messy bitches who loved drama

[Reading this while listening to Mr. Blue Sky by Electric Light Orchestra and smiling serenely]

no I think yuri took away too much of the soviet faction's identity in vanilla red alert 2.