My son is 21. Never learned cursive. You're rapidly getting to the point where teachers won't know cursive. Give it up.

“Grindr users.”

sorry, no

It's great that we've had 10 years+ of the media and centrists concern trolling whether we can call Trump a racist or a fascist etc

Me to a student: "This argumentative essay is over a month late. Per district policy, you can't get more than a 50 for an assignment that late, but at least give me something so I don't have to put a zero there." 1/

What the fuck.

Laura Ingraham's warning to Trump: “Unleashing hell means destroying infrastructure, which itself causes a series of cascading problems for the region, including maybe outside the region — political problems for the president in a midterm election year." www.mediamatters.org/us-iran-rela...

congrats to sam moyn on getting the coveted "even the liberal [blank]" endorsement from reactionaries eager to destroy equal citizenship

"it was 60-40 against you, but by everyone leaving its 80-20 now" this is a huge misunderstanding of how X's algorithm works and the power Elon Musk has to manipulate it to his own ends. It's not a democracy, certain topics and opinions are pushed to the top and others are suppressed.

So this is why my homeroom students were talking about Erika Kirk today.

I think there's a big difference between 65 and 88, especially when it comes to running for public office.

Openly signaling that you'll nuke the filibuster whether Democrats take the deal or not? What a great negotiator this guy is.

Neither Platner nor Mills is as strong against Collins as I would like, considering how off the polls were about Gideon vs. Collins in 2020.

What’s the joke here?

Kara is a friend of the family, and Nox is a great kid, and it's such bullshit that Novant Health is doing this to them. Of course, this is exactly what North Carolina Republicans wanted.

Truth nuke.

AWFUL. This upholds the crazy argument that for the last 30 years, no one noticed that Congress mandated detention of anyone who ever entered unlawfully. This will effectively gut most habeas lawsuits coming out of Minnesota. FWIW, the 8th Circuit is as conversative/more conservative than the 5th.

BREAKING: Eighth Circuit, on a 2-1 vote, sides w/ Trump administration in support of its mandatory immigration detention policy. Shepherd (GWB) writes, joined by Grasz (Trump). Erickson (Trump) dissents. This opinion joins the Fifth Circuit ruling (from which en banc review was sought on Monday).

This one gets a little weird imo

If anyone is looking for a progressive church in northern Virginia, I recommend Floris United Methodist in Herndon. It's an active congregation doing lots of community work. And if you're not in the area at all, you can watch the services online. www.florisumc.org

Thinking of Ms. Rachel's Unitarianism and Mr. Rogers' liberal Presbyterianism and how, when properly committed to, progressive religious values really can do the thing.

I'll caveat this: the kind of 'I had a gay friend in college but woke has gone too far' audience of guys in their 50s and 60s that Weiss cultivated at the Free Press is *extremely* fertile ground, which is why they succeeded - and they also control a lot of media.

PROJECT HAIL MARY. It's good, folks.

4-3 is closer than I expected, but the main way to stall this map is to hope that the signatures for the referendum get certified in time.

It says something about how poorly the other guy handled the situation (almost causing Ritchson to have an accident; striking Ritchson first, etc.) that I'm not on his side.

The ideal in-flight movie is a complicated beast. 1. It can’t be too long or you won’t finish it 2. It can’t be too good or you should watch it somewhere else 3. It can’t have too much gore or sex because other people 4. your plane is now landing

you need a household income of $115,000+ (top 30%) to eat out

Yeah, it's very similar to knowing that social media overall is bad for you but still posting and scrolling.

lolpwnt

I fail to see how this is different from Putin saying the Donbas must become part of Russia.

Looking forward to seeing this tonight. I have the same fashion goals.

Roe was doomed by electing Trump, not because young women in the aughts were distracted by "Cover Lies."

everyone is prone to “the only way to win elections is to adopt my set of pet issues” but on no subject are people worse about it than transphobia despite mountains of evidence to the contrary

"Jews don't belong here, but I say that non-racistly"

This is especially important because accountability can't really happen without court reform. Under this SCOTUS, Trump v. United States won't be the end of protecting the executive branch from consequences.

it is not ageism to say that a person who is 25% likely to die during the next two years should not be making our democracy contingent on her healthy survival

Sorry folks you’re going to have to be sincere and earnest and uncool and otherwise lame if you want to defeat fascism

Why would the full annexation of the West Bank be apartheid but not the illegal settlement and annexation that has already happened?

This is Mr. Samsa and he'd like to inform you that he's very much alive, thank you.

Who believes this? Who is the audience for this?

I thought Sean Penn's performance was way over the top until I took a long look at Greg Bovino. I've said this to several friends. In all sincerity, Bovino changed the way I saw the movie. Penn was tapping into something real that I had managed to avoid.

I am struggling to understand the extremely muted international response to this. whatever you think of the regime, it is not the regime that is suffering. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"I am an erudite jurist who stops reading a newspaper because its views stop aligning with my own."

March 18 and March 24 Republicans know they can make news by simply yelling about their opponents. Are Democrats worse at this or is the media less interested when Ds attack Rs?

The opposition to "sense of homeland" is a super red flag and has someone's fingers all over it.

Very emblematic of Bluesky's whole deal that this is getting savaged by people who haven't noticed it's part of a thread about why she voted against Markwayne Mullin.