👴🏻🇺🇸"Stay out of American politics!" 👩🏼🇦🇺"Dude, what do you think I'm trying to do? I want nothing more than to stay out of your declining empire crash out politics! But your boy keeps putting me in it!"

It’s about that time. I know it’s a pain in the ass, but researching the judges on the ballot is as serious as it gets.

This took me a pleasant side quest of refreshing my Latin obscene vocabulary and it's a *very* loose rendering, but I humbly offer "sī scortāris, pēdīcāberis", which if I've got my conjugations right (always a big if) is "if you go whoring around, you're going to get fucked"

this is what the nail girlies are up to

Heyo, Chicago pals: Quick note that the executive vice president of the Bob Loquercio Auto Group is vociferously defending the murder of Alex Pretti. The auto group has 16 locations in and around Chicago, listed below. Please take your business elsewhere. www.blautogroup.com/locations/in...

A picture is worth a thousand words: Arkansas governor at an MLK commission event

Red Wave

At first, I was proud. But then… Senator Cory Booker @booker.senate.gov broke a filibuster record with a 25-hour speech about moral courage and resisting fascism, then turned around and voted to arm a government committing genocide.

"Suddenly, and not accidentally, people who work for the American federal government are having the same experience as people who find themselves living under foreign occupation" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Can never forget how much of what we’re going to see in the next four years was road-tested and normalized by the last four years.

This is what we mean when we say “woke” and “DEI” just mean Black. Odd how the folks who insist race no longer matters and so we shouldn’t discuss it or acknowledge it, get really upset when a person who is not white plays a favorite fictional character. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/fe...

Seems to me if ICE really wanted to do mass immigration raids they’d go to the factory farms, not urban areas such as Chicago. But mass raids on factory farms would likely put our nation’s food production to a halt, so I guess this is more a fear and optics game.

Because people are correctly interpreting MAGA’s use of the terms “DEI” and “woke” to mean Black.

To instrumentalize what my sister is saying below: every time someone says DEI say “you mean civil rights?” Every time someone says they are against woke reply “oh so you’re a segregationist!” Words have meaning! Don’t allow that nonsense to stand.

Not that it needs to be said, but: If a plea for kindness & compassion feels like a threat to your way of life, chances are you are not a good person.

A reminder for y'all since there's been nonstop siegeposting on this app

ICE raids are apparently planned for Chicago, and probably other progressive cities, starting Tuesday. If you or anyone you know are undocumented or are likely to be targeted, take precautions.

A whole half-decade of American life squandered by centrist libs who wanted power for power’s sake, didn’t want to achieve anything with that power except to maintain the status quo and just ran out the clock instead of fighting the actual fascists www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

The story of who's impacted worst by the LA fires is not that it's wealthy white hollywood people at all. It's the working class Black & Latino families who were keeping humble generational homes in neighborhoods.

me on twitter vs me on bluesky

Let's talk about how to report on right-wingers without amplifying their hateful rhetoric. Far-right extremists count on YOU to spread their messages for them. Here's a thread of resources. 1) The Oxygen of Amplification: Better Practices for Reporting on Extremists, Antagonists, and Manipulators

2025 white house cabinet meeting

Brutal… but where’s the lie

This Apple xR product is getting a lot of hype. No doubt, an Apple xR product announcement would be a huge deal, but it’s being extremely over-hyped. It will not have anywhere near the impact as the iPhone, as a lot of folks are claiming.

“Guns don’t kill people!” - the people who think rainbows turn kids gay

Happy Friday, y’all!

Oh shit! My first block! I couldn’t be more honored.

Not only are they renaming the service, but they want you to download a new app? What kind of disaster rebrand is this?

JIMMY: hey bro ima go crack some corn ME: yeah whatever dude

This was actually one of the biggest lessons I learned working on a political campaign. Tech loves to believe we can solve every problem with code. A lot of the time, all we need to do is listen.

feels like this on account of the butts

It costs about $100,000 per year on average to incarcerate someone in a California prison. $100k/ year for each person who is locked up.

#hashtags are played out

The race is on to replace Twitter. Will it be Bluesky? Spoutible? Post? Has Mastodon already won?