This shit fuckin rips

I loved the West Wing storyline about this, actually. Sam keeps trying to convince the party they need to pour money into races they know they’ll lose because it energizes the state and local parties to see the Dems actually get in the game and draft someone with something to say

Reposting because, and I say this with love, some of you are going to see this and go “oh shit, I need to check my bottle” and then immediately forget about it so if this could affect you, go check right now before you even scroll to the next post, I mean it.

This needs more attention: Zohran SPLIT the straights with Cuomo. ALL of his margin was from LGBTQ+ voters. Every Dem who ever said “we should abandon the transes” needs this shoved down their fucking throat with a ramrod.

The billionaires can buy the newspapers and buy social media and buy attack ads, but they can't buy their way out of how much we fucking hate all of them.

this is more a "circle back" than a crashout, but like...pack your bags, loser 😂

oh, any excuse to post a Guthrie song… especially this one. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwcK...

Only surprise is that this hasn’t happened more.

we tried "it's morally bad because trans people are people" and that didn't work so I guess it's time for "it's strategically bad because most Democrats besides you guys think trans people are people"

begging with my entire heart for election results across the map which force the Dems to finally begin internalizing the lesson that throwing trans people under the bus is going to fuck them repeatedly

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.

oh, without a doubt the nearest courthouse. can you just imagine the delicious amount of JOY you’d get from harassing the unethical asshole judges & lawyers?? plus plenty of alone time, due to business hours, and internet access. also people are bound to leave books around bc they forget them…

Really tired of having elections with such dire consequences can we have fun elections where we're choosing the greater of two goods instead

take heed, friends. impacts TJs, any Kroger chain, and wallyworld. across many states.

VP Cheney will be honoured with a 21 gun salute accidentally aimed directly at 21 of his friends

i hate it here. i’m sitting here trying to find appropriate resources (all of which will no doubt completely overwhelmed) for my single mom friend who is currently living with us she’s so broke, so she can feed herself & her daughter. this ain’t a society. it’s a punishment.

i have lifelong Oregonian friends who absolutely have to escape around Jan-Feb lest they spiral into the winter dark blues… many of them. Texans don’t stand a goddamn chance. i’ve lived in Texas, they are Not Prepared.

this is just straight facts, and it’s so infuriating just to watch. i can’t even imagine still being in the industry

Land back isn't a slogan, it is an existential necessity. We can't just listen to indigenous voices, we need to support them. Fund them. Elect them. Follow them.

I really love this Vincent Van Gogh quote: "To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace." No romanticizing the starving artist. Van Gogh said UBI all the way.

me, sitting at the absolute peak of what they will prescribe for my med, realizing eventually i’m going to have to try adding something

Ask any of your favorite Black women writers from a decade ago why their bylines stopped appearing, and you’ll likely hear the same response: There is no place for us in media. In TV. In publishing or academia. For the majority of us, there’s no place but gone.

i think about this william gibson quote a lot

today’s information came out piecemeal, and people should be able to share their own situations on their own time, but I could share this much ^ as it is pretty cut and dry on the facts. Teen Vogue also no longer has any trans staffers as of today.

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

“if you just do what they say you’d be fine.” oh realllllly? or are they just trying to punish people for protesting?

Twitter used to be so powerful because it was for a while where the consensus narrative of our society was being constructed, in a more-participatory way than ever before in human history, and I hadn't quite clocked how important the chronological timeline was for that, but it was

if our brains weren’t always being cooked by the horrors of real life this place could be Actually Fun and it’s so nice to get a glimpse of what happens when it is even if you don’t like baseball this shit was fun, right? everyone getting swept up in the same thing? I missed this

last night i saw not one, not two, not even three, but FOUR separate motherfuckers in various xmas bullshit. one was fully santa from head to toe. WHAT. THE FUCK. IS WRONG. WITH THESE PEOPLE.

If you would like to give people a physical gift, I recommend Snack Kits. They’re based off what I saw people use and enjoy the most when I was working in shelters and later homeless myself www.patreon.com/posts/901016...

on this, the sacred holiday of Halloween? ABSOLUTELY THE FUCK NOT

The Unkillable @peterclines.bsky.social

when you live with the knowledge you'll never own a house, never retire, and the govt thinks safety nets are bullshit, you want to have at least one little moment of joy with a treat once a week instead of overwhelming despair. sounds reasonable to me.

If you just banked that coffee money every week and denied yourself every other instance of life’s gastronomic pleasures, however small and ordinary, you could save enough to make the down payment on that starter house in [checks notes] five hundred and seventy three years

“My tax dollars are paying for their steak!” Yeah, well, my tax dollars are paying for ICE to threaten and abduct my neighbors. Steak sounds better.

This whole thread. “Oh no, someone might eat food!” Good. That’s good. “They might buy something they like.” Cool. “They might get a treat!” Also cool.

There are even more PDX restaurants offering free meals that aren’t on the oregonlive list: www.koin.com/news/oregon/...

There are more and more places stepping in every day (and they don’t have all those donors) Most of them will provide meals to anyone who asks- not just SNAP recipients. www.oregonlive.com/food/2025/10...

This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.

The people yearn for (democratic) socialism (this one will make you cry)

America right now is an airplane that the crew is actively trying to dismantle mid-flight while at least half the passengers are sitting bare-knuckled just hoping we somehow eke out a survivable landing. (The other half are, inexplicably, rooting for the dismantling.)

this is, hands down, the best laugh i have had all fucking year

currently using the power of cheap food specials tuesday to make a fried chicken take & bake pizza… giant pizza + the chicken (from the chicken shack) will run us about $25. not to mention it makes us several meals. so a pretty solid idea if i do say so myself.

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/eugene-deb...

Entire communities in rural areas that are already under-resourced, under-represented and systemically impoverished and not just Native communities but rural White and Black communities as well. This is a crisis compounding crisis.

For Natives in more rural areas, there are food distribution centers for commodities which low-income Natives rely on because they are situated in food deserts. These centers will also NOT be distributing food, so this isn't just a scatter of individuals in need but entire communities.

every time I read an article about the state of the national parks system I contemplate the merits of suicide for the next week straight www.outsideonline.com/adventure-tr...

just because people are religious doesn’t mean they have even the tiniest smidge of moral character. unlike most sex workers i know.

apparently i’m the outlier american with an electric kettle… we have 2. but then, i drink tea pretty much constantly once the weather starts dipping into the 50s. so, makes sense in my house