FFS early Judaism predates Homer by centuries, possibly almost a millennium.

I just saw pics & video of the El-Sayed rally in Detroit Michigan and well…if nobody told me it was Detroit I would have never guessed it.

HOW do you get a 90% white political rally going in fucking DETROIT, MICHIGAN? I'm honestly impressed!

Jesus fucking Christ man

it’s just this constant dumb dirtbag game where people take an entirely reasonable and *objectively true* point — antisocial behavior on transit reduces people’s likelihood to use transit — as an opportunity to bully that person and call them a baby. grow up.

everyone can determine the level of discomfort they’re willing to tolerate, but it is just *objectively true* that irregular transit users who have this experience are less likely to ride in the future, read literally *any* transit agency’s reports on it, which was, everyone forgets, OP’s point

per usual on this website, everyone chose the most egregiously bad faith reading of the drugs on transit take to dunk on, but one of the most annoying things are all of the people who keep referring to this in the context of the subway, which is not the form public transit takes in most cities

Now they're doing what we call "trace forward" in the food biz. "Now that we have a suspect [lettuce from X farm].....where ELSE did that lettuce go?" In other words, a whole lot of companies were probably serving that lettuce! Taco Bell just had a good tracking program, so they found it first!

Under what definition would that be considered "pro Palestinian"?

(To be clear, CIW had to work on Taco Bell for years to get them to agree to it. But also there are companies that CIW's been working on for even longer, that still haven't gotten onboard.)

Taco Bell was one of the first companies to sign the "Yes, we WILL only buy tomatoes from farms that stop doing slavery" pledge with Coalition of Immokalee Workers. @immokaleeworkers.bsky.social

not trying to dunk on OP here in any way whatsoever but wowwwweeeeeeeee the visible, uh, demographics of this audience, huh

People who think that “companies” don’t do anything worthwhile are basically insulting the efforts of the majority of human effort, since most people in fact work for companies

Arguing with a crop scientist and farmer because you don't wanna be mad at the correct people is wild

A quick word on Taco Bell: That's where we found the suspected lettuce, and it's not bc Taco Bell is gross. It's bc Taco Bell is REALLY GOOD at tracing product! Keeping track of exactly where they got their ingredients, & exactly what restaurants each shipment of ingredients went to!

Bunch of incoherent deontologists on this fucking hell hole of website.

Single parents Exist

Because if you're a family where one parent is staying home when the kids are too young for school, you're usually on a tight budget but are also the person with the time to do the shopping. Gonna go out on a limb and suggest that this is why grocery carts are designed to seat young children.

One of my 6th grade students got peed on by a dude on a subway, smoking was bad enough to give one of my coworkers an asthma attack, and I refused to wear my required name tag because I was a woman, but the way Bluesky acts, that never happens

I think you're going to have a difficult time convincing families with young children to give up car culture and take more public transit if you also refuse to police behavior on the public transit and in the transit centers. Yes, people doing drugs in those places is a turn-off.

No, fuck this. I am not doing reflexive smol beanism on someone's behalf if they're in my replies acting like an asshole or harassing people I engage with on here. I don't make a habit of it, but the fact is, if you can't stand catching smoke, then you shouldn't be lighting fires in the first place.

OH MY FUCK THEY ACTUALLY DID THAT

an underappreciated downside of hiring a particularly stupid senator with no law enforcement experience as the head of your law enforcement agency is that he’s too thick to know his statements in that capacity will be used against his agency successfully in court

i hope mcconnell serves his full term and is also never able to return to washington

counterpoint: the longer mcconnell still holds the seat but is physically unable to vote, the better

i don’t expect cornyn to buck the party, but tillis and cassidy may not be in the mood to eat shit and like it, the republican senate majority is significantly more fractured and fragile than people think and mcconnell being out hurts them quite a bit

the last ditch reconciliation hail mary they’re trying to get in before the midterms needs 50 votes + vance, with mcconnell on the sidelines, that leaves thune with two hall passes to spread amongst collins, murkowski and paul, and tillis, cornyn and cassidy can all do whatever the hell they want

i don't think the contention is that Republicans will "be normal again" fwiw just that distinctly Trumpian politics will end with Trump and something even weirder will happen, which will, PROBABLY but by no means certainly be easier to deal with

The Fight Agency thought white male identity politics was a winning strategy in the 90% white state of Maine. Now they're throwing each other to the wolves and I love that for them. www.politico.com/news/2026/07...

a corollary to this point is that AOC comes out looking better than every single Democrat who endorsed Platner when Ken Martin put a gun to their head. i have my differences with ANY big-name Progressive but her adamant refusal to have anything to do w/ him looks REALLY wise to me in retrospect

every single person on our side who enthusiastically endorsed Platner really needs to have it dog them for the rest of their fucking life yes, including your fave even people who unenthusiastically endorsed him

It seems sort of underdiscussed given present societal preoccupations that the longest-serving Republican Speaker of the House was an honest-to-God pederast who spent years grooming schoolchildren

If your goal was to add more evidence to the pile that Palestinians don't actually have allies, they just have internet edgelords, mazel tov

He also broke into a woman’s house and raped her Rebecca

"new york new money real estate developer-turned-reality tv star who has spent nearly his entire life in an increasingly and visibly delusional state" is a pretty difficult act to replicate

i *do* think he's utterly unique in american politics and won't be repeated. that's not the same as saying we won't face other authoritarian threats, but we won't see another american politician like him, too many unique circumstances and variables and pathologies

also, like, imagine going back to the year 2000 and telling yourself about the future. "in 2020, joe biden will be president" okay, sure, makes sense "he will have been preceded by donald trump" what the fuck "he will be followed by donald trump" WHAT IN THE FUCK

republican women are somewhat more likely to have changed their names when they married, which will burden them further in voting, rural voters will have to drive long distances to vote, like, the save act is terrible, but it has the possibility of being disproportionately terrible for republicans

if you've ever had to try to get birth certificates or other official documentation from a deep red state, you can imagine the nightmare of suddenly being number 7,651 in a queue of 228,000 to get your official documents updated

adults under 30, urban americans and college grads are some of the groups who are likeliest to have passports

this is a good question and there are a few reasons: 1) it's not a serious reform bill, there's no funding for it, 2) it's a poison pill for reconciliation, and attaching it to anything means the filibuster kills it, 3) rural voters are the most likely to be negatively impacted by it

worth remembering when you read this garbage that tucker carlson begged hunter biden for a recommendation for his son

i get that he’s stupid, that he’s corrupt and that he’s an asshole, but what i mean is that i cannot remember a time he has ever been on the right side of literally *any* issue, and that’s genuinely really unusual.

i straight up don’t understand this guy’s deal at all

The sort of fun thing about the food outbreak is I knew it was safe to get my newest favorite item at Taco Bell (the potato taco) because them announcing that they knew the outbreak source means everything was pulled. But I'm also not trying to tell jokes about a food outbreak online, either.

It’s worth noting that Taco Bell identified the source before the FDA did, and promptly pulled it from their stores. The FDA didn’t even name the source until Taylor Farms outed themselves, and hasn’t issued a recall. Basically, Taco Bell is now a more reliable authority than the FDA.

Taco Bell understands what's at stake They want you to live más, not live menos

Like…how do you mean "return to that model"? Do more local/regional agriculture? Yeah. There's no real reason why not. Magically get everyone to only eat local & seasonally? No. And why would we want to. In real life, that's more likely to end in scurvy than anything else.

Let's insert a different country that is Not Israel here, just as an experiment to see how racist it is: "An occupation of the country and an overthrow of its radical leaders would be doing the very minimum. Vietnam is *the* most hated nation on the planet currently, we would be doing it a favor"

fellas, does it potentially become antisemitic to hate on the jewish campaign consultant who put his whole ass on the line trying to get a nazi elected president