i wouldn't be a total glenn youngkin hater if i didn't mention that the results tonight mean that his total tenure amounted to presiding over the destruction — at least for the next few years — of the virginia republican party. lmao.

A 34-year-old as a politician: My god he's like a baby. It's like they just elected an infant to be their mayor. A 34-year-old as an athlete: You have to admire the bravery of him attempting that dunk, knowing full well the grim reaper is right behind him.

Being Pope means just receiving baseball jerseys all day long of teams he hates

This is a masterclass in repeating carefully workshopped robotic talking points that miss the forest for the trees and are irrelevant to the question at hand: Trump chose to build a ballroom instead of funding programs that would feed those kids.

"Sexy capital of ancient Egypt"

again, the sooner Platner reads the room and bows out with some kind of grace, the sooner a plausible alternative to Mills can be stood up

Is this really the best that the state of Maine has to offer, a dude who posts racist Reddit comments and gets SS Totenkampf tattoos, a scam artist who bombards elderly voters with endless fundraising texts, and a gerontocrat who won't even vote to abolish the filibuster?

absolutely the fuck not. this needs to be a red line.

"Every synagogue in the world is a valid target unless they actively release a statement rejecting Israel to this person's liking" is the same logic of "Every Palestinian person is a potential terrorist unless they actively denounce Hamas."

What if I told you I had written Amphibia Fanfic in the form of an Old Norse Saga. What would you do then. You would read it, right? archiveofourown.org/works/71504151

Something I've been saying is if there's one political plank that Zohran should lift from his opponents, it's Sliwa's promise to put rescue cats in Gracie Mansion

KNIGHTS OF GUINEVERE PILOT IS OUT NOW ON YOUTUBE!

Overcrowded cells. Unsanitary conditions. Limited access to food and water. These are the conditions that ICE has created at 26 Federal Plaza, which eleven elected officials sought to expose. Instead, they were arrested. They must be released right now — and inspectors let in.

"Free speech advocates are sounding the alarm about a bill in the US House of Representatives that they fear could allow Secretary of State Marco Rubio to strip US citizens of their passports based purely on political speech."

getting the sense the FBI was kinda outta leads until this guy got turned in by his family

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

Losing my goddamned mind. We can condemn political violence without valorizing a destructive, hateful bigot.

If u watch the whole clip here this is about as good as you’re gonna get from a Republican leader rn; contrast it with the myriad other prominent conservatives in politics and media calling for blood, gore, and preemptive blame games

accidentally watched that charlie kirk video and one thing that often goes unreported in a shooting is the trauma experienced by everyone there who wasn't shot. thinking about those students and hope the school gives them trauma therapy. a horrible thing to see no matter your politics.

Political violence disproportionately hurts people with less power, not people with more power. Political violence will disproportionately hurt people of color and women and LGBTQ people. It’s not fair, but that’s the way it works. Celebrating political violence means at best indifference to that.

- you clean up that banksy? - sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked

i appreciate Kier Starmer putting Lakshya Jain Thought into practice (ignore your base and keep doing what you think polls are telling you to do) to exactly what you'd expect that strategy to achieve

because I've seen Starmerism and it's a catastrophe.

My last name is just white bread German but it's long and not common so it still gets messed up, even at my high school graduation lmao.

I am telling you, this could and should become a murder investigation capable of really scaring the shit out of Trumpworld.

Pritzker: Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: Once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next

See? This shit is why I'm not going to let up on Newsom or other transphobic Democrats: they might otherwise go the Labour route and plunge the country into full on transphobia as policy.

I don’t like that the strategy among Newsom promoters is to spend three years trying to stage a political crisis where he’s our only option. We see what you’re doing. Ask Hillary Clinton or Joe Biden how well it works.

Those willing, by contrast, to trade away the rights and dignity of transgender people or the poor cannot be considered friends of democracy any more than those who were willing to countenance second-class status for blacks and Jews.

Character dynamics!

Illinois Gov. Pritzker vows to pursue Trump officials who participate in an illegal National Guard deployment to Chicago: "If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."

any halfway decent journalist should ask Newsom "why is 19 too young to receive lifesaving medical treatment but not too young to date you"

putting aside the trans rights issues specifically (lol), I think part of what has me so frustrated with the Newsom thing is that Pritzker, Walz, and Zohran are putting on clinics for a popular, progressive politics and we’re wasting time talking about this used car salesman ass goblin.

I’m not a big fan of over-the-top litmus tests in the current moment but I think ‘are you sufficiently committed to defending the rights of the communities under attack by the current regime?’ is a pretty reasonable, simple and easy one and I’m not getting behind anyone blatantly failing it.

Made beignets tonight. Turned out pretty good.

refusing to accept this isn’t just about “purity” or whatever, it’s about effective politics. someone who thinks it’s practical to cave on trans rights misunderstands how politics works, they don’t recognize that public opinion is forged by perseverance

Tonight's vibes: cheesecake, oreos, stella rosa wine, and Saw II

look I'm not myself a political scientist so I can't say what effects it would have for a spate of politicians to crop up saying "the enemy is the oligarchy" and "the enemy is billionaires" while swinging a kettlebell but I think we should try it for science and see what happens

it's very true that Nazis can be welcoming and accommodating TO INFLUENCERS who they want to help them spread their message. if Nazis are being nice to you it isn't a sign they are more "welcoming". it's a sign they find you useful.

THE AMAZING DIGITAL CIRCUS - OVA 6 (1993) #TheAmazingDigitalCircus

I lived in Washington, D.C. for four months and not once did I ever feel unsafe.

@gralefrit.bsky.social You have to see these! A friend of mine has been collating a series of images entitled "Things my students have written turned into Philomena Cunk quotes" and they're just glorious.

My Cousin Vinny: Ace Attorney Had to finally release this from my head

Thought I’d add the clip!