It just doesn’t get NIMBYer than Annapolis freaking Maryland and Chelsea’s spouse is an urbanist ready to tackle the NIMBYs. If you’re pissed at Schumer, start in your own back yard. I assure you there’s a Schumer or ten in your state legislature, on your city council, on your school board.

I don’t volunteer for the Democrats in the Senate and the House. I volunteer to support the people that the Democrats are supposed to represent and help. Now, I’m even more motivated to volunteer because it’s very clear that many Democratic leaders only work for themselves.

This is how the lunatic fringe took over the GOP, and now we need the pro-democracy, anti-corporates to take over the Dems. We have two parties and only two parties in this country for STRUCTURAL reasons. Voting third party - even with RCV - is not going to change that.

welcome everyone to the demoralization train that red states have felt for ages! check out your local dems and support them, because the national ones haven't been there for common folks in a long ass time. and locals have had to build infrastructure *for the situation at hand*

Take the Democratic Party away from Democratic leadership.

I can't stress this enough as a super volunteer for the Democratic Party and Democratic candidates. This should prompt you to get MORE involved, not less. Show up and use the existing infrastructure to make it work for all of us. In my neck of the woods, we've seen a ton of local victories this way.

I have a publication coming out at the end of the week! Two scholarship firsts: it’s in a *Canadian* 🇨🇦 journal, which is also a *game studies* 🎮 journal.

For those playing along at home, Maryland senators were both “no” votes BUT it’s still important to call and give them positive reinforcement for the next round. Sticks and carrots.

I am not going to let Schumer and 8 center-right Democrats bring me down. We won on Tuesday. We're gonna keep winning. Just keep telling the stories of what the Trump administration is doing and how it's making lives so much harder, about the corruption, the incompetence, the violence.

Find your senators at reps.fyi or call 202-224-3121

…okay first of all

every generation loves Rumours. it’s fucking Rumours

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

Listening to Jock Jams and thinking about how this music led us to believe that life would always be this upbeat. Everybody dance now! Sweet dreams of rhythm and dancing! The Vengabus is coming! Nobody said anything about the eventual fascism!

It’s Christmas Show daaaaaay www.emgshows.com/anvcm

very long good thread about why trump is so central to the current GOP--he's the only thing holding together what is in fact a very fractious coalition, and even if he lives out this presidency he's clearly not gonna be a force for much longer

Currently:

OVER A MILLION USERS DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT EVERY *WEEK* what the fuck are we DOING here

As of today I have been a Wikipedia editor for 20 years 🧵of my favorite things I've seen and done in my two decades on the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit

*stares in cut SNAP benefits* Can we eat them?

I can’t believe Zohran is transing the trains already www.mta.info/article/f-m-...

Same.

Man there’s an evening that I’ve mentally reclassified several times in the past 25 years

Love this. I started strength training over the summer and love how much stronger and more capable I feel. It's the kind of practice that leads to other healthy lifestyle choices, too.

Y’all seen Lee Pace? Wearing That Shiiiiiiit

It shouldn’t be forgotten that a big piece of Mamdani’s campaign was simply “cities are cool and lots of people enjoy living in them” which in and of itself dismantles alot of rightwing talking points

i'm very glad this technology is being forced onto us everywhere on all levels

Finally started watching True Blood and wow, I’m hooked already!

Sandwich man leaving court

of Fuck. oh god. oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck www.wired.com/story/lego-u...

He won!!

Refreshing the city of Annapolis vote count for my husband's race like it's a page to buy concert tickets (Mail-in ballots are being counted today!)

turning a big dial taht says "Sexism" on it and constantly looking back at the audience for approval like a contestant on the price is right

Did balding Bible-thumpers ruin the New York Times?

Ross Douthat right now:

Mamdani, Spanberger and other wins tell Dems: you don’t need to cave on transgender rights to win an election.

I do wonder what it was like to be a woman working at the NYT and wake up to the “Did Women Ruin the Workplace” headline.

The whole press is Breitbart now

Good morning! AI is being force-fed to you by a handful of billionaires who will lose a bunch of money if they fail to convince you that you need it. You do not need it 🫶

the 2028 ticket

Okay. So. If you commission an art piece from me in the next few days, and pay at least a deposit up front (let's say 50% deposit), I will guarantee you that I'll get it done by Christmas (or your December date of choice) genuinesnips.art/commissions/

Thinking about the Democratic Party’s messaging tug-of-war between “kitchen table issues” and human rights issues, as if they’re not inextricably linked. Affordability IS an issue of human dignity. My right to make a living wage is right there next to my right over to my own reproductive choices.

I'm about to buy a Zohran Mamdani snuggie and no one can stop me

if not Ponzi, why Ponzi-shaped? www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Astonished that the "AI is inevitable" premise is still circulating in November 2025, as evidence of a bubble only grows by the day. It really does feel like the months leading up to the subprime mortgage industry collapse.

YES MA'AM