Ketamine must be some kinda powerful drug

I've been thinking abt local economic conditions today. Namely, abt the severe shortage of affordable housing, the high costs of transportation by car, & environment costs of hopscotch sprawl into surrounding counties requiring people to drive past empty land to other counties to get home from work

Ellis: The use of force during the Trump administration's Operation Midway Blitz "shocks the conscience."

Defense begins, “This case, ladies and gentlemen, is about a sandwich. A sandwich that according to Agent Lairmore somehow both exploded on his chest in a spray of mustard and onions but also landed intact on the ground still in its Subway wrapper.”

What's the opposite of doomscrolling?

Jay Jones WINS!!!

Not the VA race we're all wondering about 🤞

Alright Virginia, let's do this. Get Miyares the hell out of here

And please for the love of God vote Jay Jones for AG in Virginia. Don't let lying morons make Miyares the AG again over a joke from the fucking office

Good election morning, Virginia! Go vote if you haven’t! Make sure all your friends have voted! Rant about the importance of having an AG who isn’t fascist-adjacent!

good morning charlottesville!! what a lovely day to not vote for a school board candidate who promised to keep police out of schools and then voted in favor of it anyway, without robust data or engagement with the public!!

It's not because they're good,suddenly. It's because they have personality, which is entirely missing from today's greige houses.

I left after this. It’s pretty clear Cville PD can’t guarantee the data isn’t abused. It’s not clear that the costs of Flock are at all worth the benefits.

Winsome Earle-Sears is a walking soup sandwich

What a fuckin den of vipers

Extremely important legal analysis about what happens if the FTO designation gets applied to “antifa.” if you’re organizing against the far right, you absolutely need to read this.

Reminder that if Virginia poceeds with redistricting whoever is our Attorney General will defend us (or not) against the inevitable legal challenges. Not to mention defend (or not) our right to an abortion. Please VOTE for JAY JONES. We need him and he's gonna need every vote.

Some cat to even out my timeline! Happy #Caturday

Competitive authoritarianism offers a tilted playing field where opposition can still theoretically win. Consolidated authoritarianism offers no meaningful path for opposition to challenge power.

Solid résumé material right there

Reminding myself it's easy to fall into a scolding mood. Grace is a better posture

East Wing of the White House during Obama's tenure (we visited in 2015) There were first family photos on the walls showing the families of the occupants over the years.

Looking at this article about McCrery from early August that includes massing renderings of the proposed Trump ballroom, it doesn't look like the East Wing was meant to be preserved at all. I don't remember seeing this in the media but apparently demolition was in the cards from the start.

I should probably have just published this in the morning, but I had some thoughts about the East Wing — particularly given something Trump said during his 2020 speech accepting the GOP nomination. www.pbump.net/o/the-presid...

CAN NOT leave Miyares in place

paul mahoney was selected for this interim role precisely because he is a convincing liar and a respectable enough bootlicker; selling out his university to neo-segregation is exactly the sort of thing he spent his entire FedSoc-fueled career positioning himself to achieve. congrats paul!

Any majorities Dems might claim in Congress are too slender, and the competitive races available to us are too few, to let Republicans create or exploit vulnerabilities to snatch seats away. If democracy is on the line — as it very much is — Democratic candidate recruitment needs to be airtight.

Dammit folks, why is miyares polling 3 points ahead of Jones

I mean, ultimately, this doesn’t matter. What matters is what they choose to do. But this little bit of insight into how many adults really are just preteens has been very informative for me.

Like, the amount of leeway given to oafish men of a particular race

we are all just watching whiteness at work.

Fall 🍁 enjoyer

I'm really glad I'll be paying more for health insurance next year. So worth it, my tax dollars.

Jump scare seeing pic of UVA. Can only anticipate the worst with any kind of "settlement"

is a half-cooked unprofitable energy-intensive bullshit machine run by a bunch of technofascist sociopaths to hoover up engagement with zero ethical guard rails in a collapsing unregulated country going to enshittify? real question for the ages there

Logging on

I did not think when I wrote this in 2020 it would remain so relevant. I get no kickback from resharing my work. I share it because it explains shit

your ring cameras are now flock cameras. don’t rat on your neighbors, find another security install.

Oxford, Mississippi. #NoKings

#NoKings #NoKingsDay From Temecula CA, deep in trump country

No Kings in Corte Madera, CA 🇺🇸🚫👑 #nokings #cortemadera #marincounty

#NoKings in Billings, Montana.

It's a beautiful day in America! #NoKings Elmhurst, IL 🇺🇸💙🇺🇸

Our small group in Zillah, WA, a very red town of 3,000, was met with many supportive honks. A couple drivers stopped in the middle of the street to lecture us but nobody lost their cool. #NoKings

Our San Marcos TX #NoKings rally

White Bear Lake in MN says NO KINGS!!

Seen today in Gurnee, IL. #nokings

Ormond Beach FL showed up for #NoKings