Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan for my dad. Plenty of other phases too, but those were the most consistent throughout (he had the same Jimmy Buffett phase as every other white dad in the 90s) For my mom the constants were the Beatles and various show tunes- West Side Story, Oklahoma, etc.

And now I’ve beat ME:A with a computer that doesn’t crash when I don’t skip cutscenes! Woooooo! Not a bad game. I have plenty of complaints (as usual), but the discovery focus (and the nomad) makes it feel a lot more like ME1 in a way I like.

obviously not the first person to make this observation but the "move along, citizen" shit for regular DC residents is especially galling in context of the pardons for the rioters who broke into the fucking capitol

you want shoes? Freya has shoes. shoes for you! she has all the shoes you need, and then some. where's she getting all these shoes? don't worry about that. the important part is: 1) there are shoes; 2) freya has the shoes; and 3) the shoes could become yours, through her actions.

Eh, same basic time period right? Close enough.

I hate the jets buzzing the city so much. My cat doesn’t need this shit!

Yet another reminder that, unlike a lot of people, Richard Hanania is a known and outed Nazi

This is a good thing. It's a sign that Mamdani is looking for a way to keep his promises to the trans community - the way he's found will help independent providers spin up outside of the large hospital systems that are too reliant on federal funding to offer care.

this is correct except that the political crisis started back in 2000 when Bush stole the election and the "heads in the sand vs we should fight" dynamic has been the major split inside the Dem party since then

Seriously folks, don't follow those altgov accounts here or on any other social sites/apps. Best bet is to block them all. (AFAIK there isn't a block list for them like there is for fed accounts but there should be.)

They should be chasing Carmen Sandiego too. Preferably to a cappella, but I’m flexible on that.

young organizers, some of you have to be able to celebrate actual wins or you will not be organizing for long.

Dems need to run on anti-corruption Not epstein class, not some memeified focus grouped particular thing, just against, big uppercase C, Corruption Against rackets

REMINDER

A new granite walkway. Refinishing the wall to glue those hideous gold accents. Trump claimed he was paying for all of it. He lied. They’ve been looting the National Parks.

"All in all, it's just another bun in the wall All in all, you're just another bun in the wall"

One of the ways the ADL is failing is by ignoring wedges. Lander: Meretz-ish progressive Zionist, pro-Ukraine, quit DSA because it was pro-7.10, friendly to Hakeem Jeffries. Chevalier: Putinist, clownish, against interracial marriage, attended a pro-7.10 protest, anti-Jeffries. Don't lump them.

And the flip side of this coin is becoming cynical of media. Not skeptical, cynical. And when everything is a lie, what is true. It's grim. So grim. And part of fascism.

I do think that this kind of discourse, in general, is far more confined to "elite" spaces than one might think. Mainstream journalism loves this stuff, and they try to spread it on social media...but I don't know that it actually has much traction beyond that.

Later additions to that tumblr post go into how no, it’s not. Google Translate MANGLED that. Sorry. I would hate to be the bearer of badness except I took Latin for six years and I need to use it occasionally.

There’s really no discussion to be had without recognizing how (just as with abortion) rich white supremacists picked trans people as an issue and kept pouring money into the hate campaign. Asking if we brought this on ourselves somehow is ridiculous, ahistorical, and ultimately useless.

I live in what here is called a "suburb" but the train is an 11 minute walk away, a bunch of restaurants are 15, and the supermarket is about 30 minutes away by foot simply be like new england, skill issue

ok this one got me

if anyone is going to sabotage the next president’s agenda they’re going to look a lot more like john fetterman than brad lander

A thing that has been true for well over a decade (maybe two) and still doesn't make its way into the head of the typical "Blue" State Enjoyer is that cities in the American South have socio-political geographies that look ~identical to urban areas in the rest of the country.

Oh hewwo!

I looked at Trumpism through this lens back in 2024 before the election and feel sadly vindicated that MAGA is, in fact, a species of fascism, narrowly and carefully defined. acoup.blog/2024/10/25/n...

Precious says good morning

Tom Cruise is a star, not an actor, and I think there's a meaningful difference between those traits.

breaking his wealth and then smashing his platform takes away his power but it also sends a much stronger warning to his relative peers than random assassination fantasies, and it’s the behavior of the entire cohort we need to curtail

The Texas State Library and Archives still has Texas's Declaration of Causes for its secession in 1861 on its website. How many times do you think slavery is mentioned in it? No, it's more than that.

The idea that black people or gay people or women or immigrants or trans people could have comported themselves differently to mitigate bigotry against them is an incredibly stupid idea that is also shockingly common.

Ok! Good reminder that actually Gatorade is a useful thing when I’ve sweat a lot: Both legs cramping up.

For reasons too complicated to go into here, Popeye has been a Sunday-only strip since 1992 with the dailies being reruns of old stories by Bud Sagendorf. One of the throwaway panels for the current Sunday strip poked fun at the existence of two Popeyes simultaneously. Good stuff.

for #makeaterriblecomicday2026 please enjoy this thing that happened months ago that I wanted to draw a comic about and then never got around to. it existing badly is better than not at all!!!

As, just generally, can I make a plea to academic writers to learn to write in multiple registers and the value of writing-register-switching? At minimum, you ought to have what I'd term an Academic Style, a Newspaper Style and an Informal Style and be able to switch between them in writing.

A few thoughts I had while walking, before the regret kicked in: -There are still adults who like jet stunts? (Some were buzzing the harbor today for something 250 related) I thought that was a thing that appealed to small children who just like loud and my grandad’s generation…

It is far too hot out. I have regrets about that walk.

The area near the capital was struck with 7.2 and 7.5 earthquake. Some Venezuelans were greatly affected including some of the ones here. If you have the means to help donate to their kofi's or other means directly to them. Int organization funds often don't reach as many people here

I’ve wanted this for my entire adult life. One of my first disappointments with someone I voted for was the realization that Obama wouldn’t (and possibly couldn’t?) spearhead rolling back the imperial presidency.

Happy #makeaterriblecomicday I had to draw this.

All children deserve to eat for free at school. ALL OF THEM. I don’t care if their parent is a millionaire. Free lunch.

The belief that Mamdani’s politics are limited to New York is giving the same energy as “there’s no way a Black man from Chicago, raised in ‘exotic’ Hawaii, with the middle name ‘Hussein’ can become a national figure, let alone win the presidency”

Makes sense that his actual DOWNFALL crackup arises out of the combination of his self-proclaimed core competency (construction) and his actual one (corruption)

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That’s a book I haven’t thought of in quite a while. I loved that book.