dreaming of a normal world where the democrats are the country's right wing party

crossed the caffeine rubicon and am now sleepy

production of The Muppet Show should not be dependent on petty vulgarities like “ratings” or “revenue.” it should be preserved as a vital function of american culture. it should have a taxpayer-funded budget rivaling the CIA

guys. israel is run by america, not the other way around.

You all started it and we fucking finished it.

Lord forgive me, but it's time to go back to the old me: Trying to get dudes on the Internet to say "patriarchy" about the Epstein files:

my favorite scammer (jho low - gifted a piano to miranda kerr which the fbi could not get back because she built a room around it) and a redaction I wish I could see

LMAO: “I helped her commit violence against the unhoused of Los Angeles! How could she betray me so?"

such a weird redaction

what

all I want in this godforsaken world is people to say what they mean and mean what they say

tfw you leave Plato’s cave awfulannouncing.com/nfl/pat-mcaf...

professional photo shoot and announcement in the New York Times. Clearly committed to local politics and the people of Los Angeles and definitely not using the city to build a national profile. definitely not that.

“You have to think about independent voters.” No. You don’t. You’ve made them up in your head as a projection of what YOU believe but are too afraid to admit to others or even yourself. The amount of people in denial in this country is absolutely wild.

Politics aside, jumping into the race 3 hours before the deadline and blowing up every dynamic in City Hall is an incredible stunt.

How far we have fallen

at least Nithya as mayor will continue LA's long tradition of not having a mayor so much as a mayoral mist who is hoping to obtain a higher office somewhere else and occasionally is seen in the city

Nithya will unquestionably be a more effective mayor than Bass. But I’ve seen enough progressives take power and completely betray their values to know how this ends. Electoralism is a parasite on movements, consumes their energy, and co-opts efforts to create real change. Just look at 2020.

There is about to be a push of claiming Nithya is the progressive champion we need. I’d like to remind folks that she switched up on the grassroots base that got her elected in 2020. She spent most of her initial time in office sucking up to Nury Martinez (saw how that worked out lol). Beware!

nithya 🫠🤔😑

Can't say it enough, if you are going to build ANYTHING, you are going to be criticized much more than you will be praised. Do not be deterred. Build what you want to exist. Find your people and seek their counsel. Keep it moving.

coming up with a new idea called "driving like shit olympics". no more bland, unprovable statements like "california drivers are the WORST" allowed. whichever state wins every 4 years gets a moonshot-sized public transit investment to get those fuckers off the road

Concentration camps: stories of as many as 50 people to a cell — men and women in some cases — with no windows and limited airflow, a single camera-monitored toilet, aluminum blankets, no showers and poor quality food.

If you're building a startup in 2026, you are expected to work with the world's largest venture capital firm (which is not even really a VC firm), where one partner strangled my neighbor to death for being Black, and another actively sought Jeffrey Epstein's counsel for years. This is *normal*.

For the record, I 100% support an Amazon boycott — I personally do not use Amazon, Prime, or shop at Whole Foods. But a consumer boycott can’t be the extent of it. Workers need to organize, speak out. More protests. Power.

I am sad and taking it out on the straw man in my head/randos in my feed.

it is funny*** the abuses outlined in the Epstein files are seen as extra outrageous by people ignoring the abuses occurring right now in their neighborhood prison ***making me want to walk into the sea

American athletes were cheered, and JD Vance was booed, and Italy is having a good night

cute guy, cute house, great direction from someone off camera who may or may not be me

tbh, I don’t get why people are going “omg read the article” about Waymo remote guidance. the point is this: gig drivers started to gain labor wins, to unionize. then these things showed up, with underpaid (and invisible-to-user) workers who are more easily exploited. the issue remains the same.

I began, skill-less, to make bad art last year and I recommend. Very freeing. No one will yell at you for it. If you make a physical zine, you can just leave it in the cereal aisle of the supermarket and you’ll never even know what happened to it.

I have a visceral need to see Pam Bondi snubbed by a PTA.

Racism has a material impact on people's lives. I don't know what else to say. It leads to premature death on a daily basis.

AI did not arise out of a real human need. It arose out of billionaires’ agenda that this is what the world needs next so they can be even richer. Everything it does, humans do better, it’s better for them to do. What’s left is that it’s causing people mental crisis, polluting, plagiarizing.

🙃

1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

you don’t control the local government either. your city is controlled by the cops, guaranteed.

Duke needs to be shut down

At the same time, the extent of the Washington Post layoffs highlight how it didn't matter how hardworking, loyal, smart, collaborative, award-winning, competitive, knowledgeable and devoted so many of the staff were. It wasn't enough to prevent being laid off by one of the richest men in the world.

Okay, you guys wanted some fun tea on Richard Dawkins? Here you go: one reason he may have gotten super duper angry about me talking about misogyny in atheism skepchick.org/2026/02/epst...

let us rid ourselves of the “public intellectual” as every one of them is just a dumbfuck who billionaires like

one thing i always look for in a currency is the capacity to lose 15% of its value in response to nothing in particular

I need people to understand that if you’ve dealt with ice, if you’ve had to worry about you or your kids or neighbors disappearing, if you see the govt giving nazis carte blanche to kill you, every “reform”’ from democrats who currently reject abolition sounds insane. and frankly fucking stupid

The fact that they’re running the full Kilmer Abrego Garcia playbook on a fucking five year old in a bunny hat…it was outrageous when they did it to Abrego Garcia. It’s monstrous here

The fact that mainstream media stopped covering ICE kidnappings in LA isn't because ICE stopped kidnapping (they didn't) Or ICE slowed down (they have actually increased their tempo) Or that resistance to ICE slowed down (it never stopped, it grew) It's the "political showdown" that stopped.

Swear to god, ICE could just announce they're leaving a city but not leave and the media will just stop covering that city completely even though ICE never left. It's what ICE and the media did with LA and they're doing it with Minneapolis too

I cannot stand the "this is a good start" discourse. The Democrats in Congress do not want to abolish ICE. They have proposed a series of bog-standard reforms regurgitated by a think tank. Everyone knows they do not work. The Democrats supporting this do not care. They just want to move on.

The pivot to video is a tax on women's time and dignity, I will die on this hill.

Let me add an "allegedly." Maybe these are just people with the same names, sure! But of the three I've found, at least one of them (Kira, below, a season 2 contestant) is on an email chain with Epstein directly.

Didn't take long. I haven't done a HUGE deep dive yet and haven't had the chance to look into the international versions that Naomi was also involved with, but for the US version I found *three* former Team Naomi contestants referenced in the files.