yes it *is* outrageous that public perception is so off base that they genuinely think 20% of people are transgender but also it would be *equally worth defending trans lives and rights and needs if those numbers were correct*

To be clear: this entire “we’ve got to run more pro-lifers” insanity is because literally a week ago polling showed that Democrats would prefer politicians like AOC and Mamdani over Jefferies and Schumer by, let me emphasize this, a 20 point fucking margin. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

thinking about this a lot rn. we just watched GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK and like. idk man. i think everyone should do themselves a favor and learn in some way more about how we have actually been here before, and how we claw it back. it not only *can* be done. it’s *been* done, in living memory.

NEVERMIND WORTH IT

$14 for a single adult matinee movie ticket is crazy

Hey there Delilah I am writing the Quixote Adding hermeneutic weight to what Miguel wrought crude and floaty Vis-à-vis The work— attributed to me? Or only he?

the ability of idiot billionaires to pass themselves off as groundbreaking tech geniuses is the direct result of the universal pivot to an app-centric model of home and personal technology that completely kneecapped all widespread tech literacy and I don't believe this was an accident

95 democrats, including @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social voted to "honor" the life of charlie kirk, who called for joe biden to be killed and said black women like justice ketanji brown jackson are unqualified affirmative action hires. shame. clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/rol...

if anyone was wondering, official NOFOs on federal grants now officially include language stating that in order to receive funding, recipients have to sign a statement affirming that they don’t practice DEI in any way shape or form

they learned that they can sell superficially antifascist media as a capitalist corporation that supports fascism because it is economically beneficial to do both simultaneously 🤷‍♀️

COVID-19 has revealed that much of the US public is willing to accept mass death and abandonment. We were pushed by propaganda to see many around us as disposable. That helped set the tone for current fascist violations. I wrote about it for @prismreports.org. prismreports.org/2025/09/16/c...

i think a sort of weird framework assumption i simply don’t share with a majority of liberals and moderates is that the problem with extreme political views is the extremism. it’s not. it’s the views

while progressive issues appear to poll well with a broad swath of the american electorate, that's not true if you use these new kinds of numbers we just made up

every day abigail spanberger texts me to ask for $15 and every day i have to see some new campaign message about how great the cia is and how awesome republicans are and this is just how we live now i guess

based chiitan 😭❤️

Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide. As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire. End the genocide. Ceasefire now.

... along with murder in the second degree as a crime of terrorism www.nycourts.gov/legacypdfs/p...

BREAKING: Justice Gregory Carro has dismissed the first degree murder charge against Luigi Mangione in his state case, finding the DA put legally insufficient evidence before the grand jury. More TK.

Where did his ears go?

actually I'm a Director of Operations and companies only do this when they're very stressed :/

I hope people understand that the anomaly here aren’t the conditions—the conditions are very typical—the anomaly is that they put a number of documented workers from a high-income country in those conditions. This is how people are treated in custody routinely

if you genuinely believe theyre a priori incapable of empathy, that also excuses their behaviour in a way that "theyre fucking monsters to the people who they refuse to extend their empathy towards" does not

literal honest to god adolf hitler had a dog that i am perfectly willing he loved. i even think he probably loved his wife. that does not make him any better a person and it makes me no more conflicted about what happened to him than if those things werent the case. it is good that hitler died.

if you cannot account for the possibility of a nazi who has a family that he loves and hobbies that he's passionate about then youre totally incapable of seeing your enemy

the thing about nazis is theyre perfectly capable of empathy. theyre not bogeymen crawling from the dark under your bed. theyre not a different species. the fact that you believe otherwise is why you keep getting stumped by "actually this guy had a dog and a family"

small victories in a faithless world: my guitar student has gotten confident enough that she can duet with me and we can play together 😭

[the shooter is unidentified] the left must be purged with the sword [the shooter is, again, a compulsive masturbator who loved Hitler] I believe it was pascal who said that the heart has reasons that reason may not know

Senators Chris Van Hollen and Jeff Merkley have concluded that Israel is carrying out an ethnic cleansing campaign in Gaza in which the U.S. “is complicit” in a report released after their recent visit to Israel and Palestine.

This wasn't the reaction to Melissa Hortman's death, who was murdered by a man posing as a cop specifically because she was a sitting politician he hated. But they relate more to Charlie Kirk. That should tell you everything you need to know.

i’m keeping my mouth shut on most of my feelings about all of this but if you’re talking about the shooter and drawing comparisons to another similar event, i am asking you to think twice about uncritically referring to “Luigi.” Luigi Mangione is innocent and you’re working the prosecution.

charlie kirk has received infinitely more sympathy and support from liberals than every single trans person, immigrant, and palestinian combined

"Pharmacists actively licensed in Virginia who are in good standing...to dispense and administer FDA-approved COVID-19 vaccines (and) pharmacy interns who have satisfied the training requirements of the PREP Act acting under the supervision of a pharmacist" can give vaccine shots to those 18+ again.

has anyone in history ever more consistently captured the vibes of an absolutely awful family dinner than tennessee williams

i mean the funniest thing about this is there’s really no good reason to do an audiobook this way at all. it belies a total fundamental lack of imagination. selling their souls and morals out and for what? to play junior varsity podcast.

GENERAL SECRETARY XI, MY PEOPLE YEARN FOR SUPERIOR CHINESE INFRASTRUCTURE

Liberals who made Hillbilly Elegy a huge bestseller and misguidedly/maliciously fawned over it as a Rosetta stone for understanding a people they share Vance's contempt for must reckon with the monster they helped create.

In Hillbilly Elegy, JD Vance blamed the poverty and addictions faced by Appalachia on the "social rot" of Appalachians themselves. Vance is an opportunistic little toad who will sell out ANYONE for his own advancement. As an Appalachian I can tell you, Appalachians only do this when they're assholes

There is, as of right now, no coverage of this protest on the WaPo website or in their @washingtonpost.com feed. So, if you (you reading this) want people to SEE this protest, you must share it.

Tapping the sign

google “battle of blair mountain”

Orson Welles would murder every one of you motherfuckers with a hammer.

There's already a draft policy to create a category of "transgender domestic terrorism" within the Trump administration. They could potentially classify all trans people as domestic extremists and terrorists just as Russia did.

i cannot overstate how extraordinary it is for federal civil servants to do this

REAL STRAITHAIRNHEADS STAY WINNING

you may have cleverly deduced i’m feeling bitchy about the way people are diagnosing our dead president with all manner of serious health issues from photograph alone. this is because the gleeful association of age, unattractiveness, and disability with morality and medical outcomes fucking sucks!

since everybody on the entire paranoid internet fancies themselves stroke experts now, why not take that enthusiasm and do something productive with it by refreshing yourself on the signs and best steps for identifying and responding to stroke in your own life? www.stroke.org/en/about-str...

one of my favorite gaming experiences of all time. give it a spin for the holiday!

Happy Labor Day, today and tomorrow are also the anniversary of when federal troops arrived in Blair Mountain 🫡 jen-adcock15.itch.io/the-price-of...

Happy Labor Day, comrades 🫡