The groundhog has babies. I'm doomed

I didn't think I could despise these men any more than I already did, but here we are

Good morning to everyone except the toddler who just smilingly came over and washed her hands in my coffee. Like a little raccoon

The way my heart leapt for a moment when I thought Ben was suggesting that It was maybe Happening

Black people have been the Democratic party's most loyal constituency for the past 60 years. Does it appear that the party is acting as though it is experiencing an existential crisis?

Realized I have a whole "oh yeah, there's a good chance he's gonna plunge us into the apocalypse" routine going now

the iran war is a really fascinating lesson in global supply chains did you know a key component of (insert thing here) travels through the strait of hormuz? now you do!

I love free boxes and I love free tables and I love little free libraries (the concept not the org) and it is so funny to me that every time I say something about little free libraries someone pipes up with how I am murdering libraries No I am not, you are murdering fun

two things can be true... 1. yes 2. And also there is a scrutiny and surveillance of Black women (because that's what we are talking about in the WNBA Black women) that is not given to any other group of people www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Like every Mother's Day today I am asking that you consider a donation to @nationalbailout.bsky.social to help free mamas who are separated from their families by the injustices of pretrial detention systems. secure.actblue.com/donate/freeb...

Apparently no one gives away Little Free Libraries for free, seems like kind of a misnomer to me

If AOC is on one side & Cenk & Ryan Grim & Marge are on the other side it shouldn’t be difficult to figure out who’s speaking the truth & who’s a fucking Russian stooge asshole.

None of this stops until rich, powerful people — who steal from taxpayers and think they're above the law — start going to jail

Men get through a whole day without comparing a minor problem one of you is having to one from a group you’ve systemically oppressed challenge. Difficulty level: impossible.

Dude's brain is baked, man

MOTHER’S DAY FOR MOTHERS, ALL CRIME IS LEGAL

I demand one of these for my firstborn

Speaking of Beetlejuice

Four year old just woke up the two year old chanting "Yes! Yes! Yes!" Two year old immediately started angrily chanting "No! No! No!" Now they are going back and forth in an excited, furious argument. About what, neither of them knows

Personally just me myself, I don’t want a vibrant and reconstituted Republican Party. I want a humiliated Republican Party bleeding out as a crowd of passersby stands idly by.

Increasingly convinced Jerry has a special alert set for any time someone posts the word "Jerry"

Thought we were going to put up a bat house but man those things need a VERY specific location and also, oops, I had not considered the poop factor

Between the Nazi tattoo and the assault weapon hard on, Platner is really building out his brand as a school shooter candidate

He likes assault weapons. Excellent work guys

Dems really should take note of how many mild-mannered dad types are thinking a lot about John Brown these days

Happy birthday to John Brown, who knew exactly how to handle the south’s “Peculiar Institution”

What made John Brown a great man was not actually that he was a "great" man. It was that he recognized himself as a regular man that rejected white supremacy. And was willing to die for that. That when he saw another Black face, he saw a human like himself. May 9, 1800 he was born

Accurate but you cannot ever tell them who they are, they have to guess

It truly amazes me how the NYT just does not think smaller publications are worthy of being cited in its pages.

As I always try to say in the finance stuff threads, we'll be fine, we're making it work on our current income and we have a support network if we ever get too underwater. I share this stuff not to say "woe is me" but because I think a lot of folks on here are insulated and it's useful information.

Except according to the Dept of Ed, which calculated that I have a $920 monthly discretionary income and could go from $0 in monthly income-based student loan payments to $92 in monthly income based student loan payments

I basically spent the beginning of the year doing this. Not out of virtue, but because thanks to Trump we have basically zero discretionary income anymore

Discourse about finding "the Rogan of the Left" or "the liberal answer to Fox News" rarely accounts for the reality that the entire conservative media universe is the enormously unprofitable vanity project of a few rich sociopaths. It "succeeds" because they don't care how much it costs.

We would be a lot better off as a country at the moment if more of our institutions had said, "Fuck you, make me" over the past year and a half

Yeah me too and then got pretty much knocked out of my nonprofit career trajectory by being too loud about sexual discrimination and sexual assault in my chosen public service field (Dem-adjacent political organizing work). Oh well

I say the GOP underestimates this but actually the GOP doesn't bother to estimate it at all, they're panicking and trying to cheat their way to making sure it doesn't matter (see: VA). It's the Dems who need to understand that all of us have a baseline of livid right now

I think one of the rages that the GOP really underestimates is boring middle class millennial rage. The folks who thought they could get a home and then got screwed out of it, BUT ALSO Those of us who squeaked to home ownership on the assumption that government promises made would hold.

There are no good, clean hands options when the basic fairness & reciprocity of a democratic system have been undermined by a fascist movement in power

distressing antebellum politics energy

Bluesky when will you take away Jerry's check and give it to me, you cowards

One side is like “can we disenfranchise all the Black voters by this weekend” and the other is like gotta follow the rules that govern the rules that control the rulebook

virginia voters should call their delegates and senators and demand that they ignore this illegitimate ruling

Agreed. It's not possible to reconcile "rule of law" with "one week the GOP SCOTUS will nullify a 43-year-old statute so they can allow racial gerrymandering, then the next week the GOP VA SC will block voter-approved redistricting and have themselves a laugh by citing the SCOTUS liberals' dissent."

GIRLS was like someone took the worst person I’d ever met at every party or gallery opening I’d been to, put them all on tv at once, and then told me “this is you, right? You like this?”

Everything is 2021 again: through extraordinary effort, ordinary people who want to see pluralistic democracy prevail put in place champions far more concerned with playing by the old rules than breaking the power of their massively unpopular and undemocratic opponents.

not even remotely acceptable

My neighbor just gave me permission to go into their untended back lot and destroy some enemies that have been encroaching, and let me tell you. Ripping out that English ivy and stomping all the tree of heaven upstarts was positively CATHARTIC

Multiple women serving sentences for nonviolent crimes at the minimum security prison where Ghislaine Maxwell is now serving time were punished for speaking to reporters about the special treatment Maxwell receives. At least two women were transferred to higher security facilities as punishment.

Markwayne Mullin is late to a meeting because he has been trying to pull a coin off a wall for the last 20 minutes

I really do feel kind of like I've gone from "wow it is terrifying to watch the gears of fascism grind our flesh" to "everything is breaking because our government is singularly possessed by a brain-fogged chaos demon"