Your priorities? Ghastly. Your excuses? Pathetic. Your plan? Never going to work on this plane of reality. Your scolding of *us*? Arrogant, audacious, and absurd.

Authors, Beware! There's a firm called "ClaimsHero" doing aggressive social media outreach claiming to "help" you file to get $ in the Anthropic class action. In fact, it's a bait-and-switch, they are luring authors to sign up with them, then OPTING THEM OUT of the class action so they'll get zilch.

Had a dream I turned Nick Fuentes into a cat. I guess my subconscious said, "Your body, my choice."

A question for the ages

Everyone commenting that nobody wants this — nor does it address the reasons people no longer shop there — is obviously right! But I wanna point out another thing: This very nefariously transfers ~blame~ for the company’s performance (ahem, repercussions for its choices) onto store employees

BYE BOI

Great timing, theft machine!!

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When I notified my mother (who is very divorced from him [complimentary]), she noted that her town also flipped blue and she actually helped. I'm in touch with the right people in my family.

I would elect broccoli first.

@stegan.bsky.social how many times have you been tagged?

Don't talk to the NYT. They've betrayed families' trust before. They will lie to you and use you and then turn around and tell you it was their job. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

IT'S ACTUALLY PAPER

just want to reiterate that the first amendment isn't something you "hide behind," it's something that constrains the government's ability to limit your inalienable rights. that distinction is very important

feeling sorry for all the millionaires and billionaires who didn’t get to see this perfect NYC sunset because they fled the city forever today. 😞

...So, among other things, my red-hat-wearing shithead father's Connecticut town flipped blue last night... I am feeling joy.

I demand taco trucks on every corner.

If it goes up, don’t cross the picket line. Collective action is the only way we ever get things done.

New statement from Chuck Schumer: “Despite not doing anything useful, and in fact being actively harmful to the process in a number of ways, I am here to take credit for other people’s hard work and risks.”

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.

would be nice if this country loudly and decisively told all the people running on blatant, horrifying racism and bigotry to get fucked over and over and over again in every place and every race

every single one of these people looks like the televangelists from True Blood

At this point, every single journalist needs to have a simple one-sheet of the major news events that Mike Johnson and his toadies claim to have not seen, or know nothing about. Like, hand it to them. "Okay, here. Take your time. I can wait." Call their bluff, ffs. This is absurd.

Even better, it's been around for over a decade...

One thing I think is interesting about him is that people often associate being politically deft and able to think on your feet (and not drive into a ditch) with a lack of commitment to your beliefs, and I think he’s a good example of how those don’t have to be the same thing at all.

This is always the first thing I think of when I think of Dick Cheney.

Extraordinary how many establishment Democrats really wish they didn't have a talented rising new star who connects to people by talking to them and understanding what their interests are, then speaking to those interests. Like a job where the new guy makes everyone look bad simply by doing the job.

This is what evil looks like. I have to believe there are backroom discussions about outlawing food banks as well. Please donate to your local food bank or an org like www.nokidhungry.org or www.feedingamerica.org I donated to both. They can make those dollars stretch so far.

"Woman who waited too long yet again to make an appointment to get her hair cut." Sitting in a swivel chair under a cape, looking scraggly and vaguely embarrassed.

This is my "Lip Sync: Halo" video. It brings me so much joy.

As someone who has done immigration presentations to the general public for 20+ years, this is absolutely true. People have an imaginary version of the immigration system in their minds that is SO MUCH FAIRER and simpler than actually-existing reality.

I am an "everybody gets candy" person. I am absolutely not a curmudgeon about "thank you" because kids are learning. But having the doorbell rung four times in rapid succession makes me want to turn the porch light off and close up shop for the year. Also, kids? Don't try to open the door!

I don't know why people aren't having more kids. We've tried everything from soaring inflation, suppressing wages, stripping rights, destroying public services, making literally everything more expensive, making literally everything more expensive in a different way, and sending in the marines

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

While other people in the thread probably correctly note that this is due to delays in training data, the very fact that the bot seems to express strong certainty rather than, "This was not true as of the most recent data I have been trained on" is telling of Pak's claim re: RW misinfo.

We love her.

Elie Mystal on why the GOP needs the illusion of a Trump third term

Boy, North Carolina Republicans sure don't want the attached story to circulate. I sure hope that this stupid threat from their spokesperson doesn't boomerang on them and have a lot more people read and share the story, which once again, is conveniently attached below. That would be a shame.

With SNAP/EBT cuts looming I highly recommend downloading this app! Basically restaurants and other food businesses will have available bags of random food they don’t wanna waste for ppl to buy for hella cheap! This has saved me sooooo many times when I only have $5 and need some food.

I keep thinking about this passage from THE AGE OF INNOCENCE.

Post a perfect album from 1989, a perfect music year.

I take it all back, we do not actually need the Oxford comma.

I mean, they also pay artists almost nothing (literally nothing if they don't meet certain thresholds, which means they're absolutely profiting off artists who aren't making ends meet with their music) so fuck 'em all the way down. Don't resubscribe even if they disavow ICE.

Midthread truth.

This plus weird "corrections" of contractions which I can only assume are "you used a curly apostrophe and we want a straight one/vice versa" are so fucking pernicious.

OK folks, here's the deal. Spotify is running ICE recruitment ads and has ignored asks to stop. It's time to tell them we won't stream fascism - by cancelling our subscriptions. Here's how to get started: indivisible.org/cancel-spotify

I like how Zohran Mamdani scandals are like "He called his old cousin his aunt one time" and Andrew Cuomo scandals are like "He sexually assaulted 13 women."

BTW I just wanna be clear: it's not that Zohran "misspoke" or was "slightly inaccurate." He used the word "aunt" in a sense that has been common in the English language since 1750, and it's ridiculous to say "oh well you didn't SAY you meant sense 1.a. and not sense 1.b.