In other words, I get really leery when “realism” goes from an expression type to some sort of rope around the neck and criteria for judgement in an absolute way when it comes to art.

Another thing LRP tangentially reminded me of: how ppl will say visually-driven social media pages are “fake” or “superficial” or “curated” as a pejorative if there’s any focus tied to themes or aesthetics. As if “realism” is only expressed through sloppiness, chaos or resentment for visual skills.

big Chicago news: Cook County prosecutor is making it citywide that the police can file certain felony charges directly, *without review* by a prosecutor: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/21/f... Bolts reported in March when she created this program in just one (predominantly Black) area of Chicago:

I am very left-wing, and the way you know this is that I am always primed to begin handing it to right-wing dictators on the slightest excuse

this is your brain when your entire politics is just a set of aesthetics

Chicago organizers get another win. thetriibe.com/2025/11/cook...

Some advice from a couple of years ago that I still think most creative people need to hear --

listen to this king. a team with low morale is ineffective. relatedly, a team with high morale is effective. also relatedly: we are going to win

Sales of AI-enabled teddy bear suspended after it gave advice on BDSM sex and where to find knives

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The problem is people confuse the pleasure of consumption—that pleasantness—with the arduous, underpaid, exploitative, highly volatile nature of production. Ppl liking seeing, hearing, touching, feeling, experiencing art…doesn’t mean regular working artists spend everyday happy, well-fed and safe.

Many ppl have so much venom towards artists, often based on the perception that artists experience something (a pleasant career, visibility, status) that’s ‘not deserved.’ Hence they cheer gen ai. I’ve see many ppl cheering the end of whole creative industries let alone singular careers or crafts.

My grandmother’s condition is worsening as we enter week 4 without dialysis. She’s dying. My family is organizing her final arrangements. We’d be grateful for your support. gofund.me/da3946ede

Sick to death of evil people facing no consequences. Just sick of it.

Repost with an iconic fictional band.

Dem voters are going to spin their wheels calling for Schumer to resign while whoever would take over for him would do the exact same things he's done. The. same. things. The rot is pervasive.

I don't think it's cowardice. I think that they are OK with what the GOP is doing. The sooner folks reconcile with this, the better.

UBI has to become a reality in America sooner rather than later and this article is a good explanation of why.

Now that really warms my heart 🥹💜

i can’t believe a good thing happened we should do this more often

So, even if Kamala Harris ran the centrist campaign of their dreams featuring police officers, Liz Cheney, no Palestinians, and a pledge to build the most lethal military in the world she did it Black-ly and woman-ly so actually it was a “far left” campaign.

Young people in NYC absolutely showed out and there should be 1000 articles and profiles about this. Because we have had to put up with 1000 MAGA diner stories for years now.

If you are a Democratic senator watching these results and the lesson you take is "I should cave and help Republicans reopen the government for nothing more than a promise written on toilet paper" then you shouldn't be in the Senate anymore

Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.

Another @runforsomething.net win!! Aislinn Kalob won her race for Concord City Council, ward 6 in NH -- her campaign focused heavily on affordable housing, especially for renters like herself. www.concordmonitor.com/2025/10/26/w...

Make sure you're following Run for Something here - it'll be an unending stream of GOOD NEWS all night long.

Douthat argues that a party should respond to electoral defeat by moving closer to the center and by default the other party's line. But this is famously not what the GOP did in ... 2024. Or in 2016. Nor did Reagan moderate the GOP platform in 1980. And FDR did nothing of the kind in 1932.

An even better rule of thumb is to never do what your political and ideological opponents say you should. That alone should be enough for Dems to ignore Douthat's advice here. But in addition to being intellectually dishonest about 2024, he's also staggeringly wrong about US politics.

"Department of Defense (DOD) officials told Democratic lawmakers in a brief on the U.S. military’s strikes against boats off the coast of northern South America that the military is not identifying the occupants of the boats before they bomb them."

I'm asked all the time about the cost of universal basic income and often reply that the lack of UBI isn't free and that poverty actually costs us trillions of dollars a year that we pay for in all kinds of ways instead of UBI. Well, here's a study showing the lack of UBI also costs 9 years of life.

My momma bestie is my auntie My auntie friend that go to her church is also my auntie My 75 year old cousin... is also my auntie "Auntie" is what happens when you understand the expansive proposition of family "That's not your aunt" is what happens when you live outside of restorative community

Like I said... I assume NOTHING re: the NYC electorate except that folks usually live down to expectations. If you don't want Cuomo as Mayor then you need to get out to vote. Vote early if you can.

i think i would honestly find this whole discourse more tolerable if people simply said what they were actually saying, which is that they think the Democratic Party is too associated with femininity (and secondarily, with black people) and that they want to correct this

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I think the problem is when people immediately leap to grace, or talking about grace when we're still at the 'they're a nazi' stage.

This is tonight in the Belmont Cragin neighborhood of Chicago, which has been hit hard by ICE. (See the article under the quoted post)

Not the perfect shot but I took it on my birthday and there was a subtle rainbow. 🥹❤️

what Caress did to their daily silk bar soap formula is absolutely criminal. I want them tried at the Hague.

Anthony Hamilton began his career as one of D'Angelo's backup singers. 🕊️💔 www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Q5G...

It’s funny how black people are expected to reach across the aisle to voters like these, while no one ever expects them to reach across the aisle to black people. Amazing who gets to be human, and who doesn’t.

Yeah; that’s it. 2025 is irredeemable.

you got a nasty attitude and you don’t listen @GrimReaper

I’ve done everything short of drawing that bitch a map. I’m done.

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I’m just gonna pretend that D’Angelo news is fake. That’s what I’m gonna do.

Another example of what we'd see more of with universal basic income.