Trying a new strategy: your babies don’t need Christmas gifts. How is this polling

Not a terribly productive thing to add, but nonetheless:

Leonard Leo: Not even alive when the Voting Rights Act passed. None of this is nostalgic. It’s a bunch of racist pricks who were showered with opportunity & bestowed with credentials who didn’t like being told they couldn’t hoard all of society’s privileges & rights.

The Voting Rights Act passed before Donald Trump was old enough to vote. He’s almost 80 years old. Alito was 15 when it passed. Roberts was 10. We’re not dealing with George Wallace & Jesse Helms. These guys sought out something to be pissed about, mostly bc they’re whiney, racist cosplaying fucks

Vought was born 11 years after the Voting Rights Act passed & grew up in Connecticut Miller was born 20 years after the Voting Rights Act passed & grew up in Santa Monica They’re not motivated by nostalgia. They’re not revanchists. They’re not trying to regain lost status They’re just evil fucks

MTG is absolutely running for President and everything she does should be viewed in that light

Something that rips about working in food service is that years after the fact all of your old coworkers that were most annoying about being vegan will randomly post “yeah that was 100% just an eating disorder btw”

as a white liberal with Southern roots, quite frankly, I think other white liberals from the South need to get the fuck over their oddly defensive attitude about what should be pretty blindingly obvious.

The vibe I get from the SV set has always been that they know they should be readers because that’s central to the archetype they all strive for but it doesn’t feel like any of them actually enjoy reading or ever really have.

OMFG-ex DOJ official (& now federal judge) Emil Bove was involved in the administration's plots to murder individuals via lethal strikes "At a DOJ conference ... Bove told drug prosecutors the ... administration wasn't interested in interdicting ... Instead... the U.S. should "just sink the boats."

“We weren’t taught in school the stuff we just didn’t pay attention to” undefeated around the world

i'd say it did. the public put a group of thieves, vandals and extremists in office last november and they promptly went about destroying everything that might work to limit their ability to loot, steal and inflicting pain on the people they hate

NEW: Gregory Bovino is exactly who E.B. White — author of 'Charlotte's Web' — warned us about. DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom. Tonight, at Law Dork:

The Falcons were created in a lab to piss me off

The Falcons are absolutely hilarious. It’s a laugh a line every week with them!

ICE vs the clergy

The essential difference between liberalism and anarchism is this: Liberalism recognises that liberty must be protected from the petty tyranny of petty people by law.

Scanning the crowd at that Pope Leo film thing at the Vatican. Spike Lee and Cate Blanchett sure, but front row seat for Dario Argento 💥...

Do you think the Pope wanted Robert Redford to leave his wife in The Way We Were?

I would like to remind everyone that toy drives are always in need of gifts for teenagers. Please consider them when shopping for donations!

When people say "fuck the South", they hardly ever mean barbecue or SEC football or Southern hospitality. They mean this evil that permeates so much of what could otherwise be so much better.

The South must even today be reconstructed by policy or progress (as has already happened in much of the South), & either of these will mean giving up something fundamental to the South-that-was, just as air conditioning did.

The South is full of lovely people who mustn't be ignored or forgotten in any progressive politics, morally or strategically. But you cannot separate Jim Crow or voter suppression from the South. The subjugation of black people (& poor whites) under established power & patronage is fundamental.

reminder that Dubs, Washington’s live mascot, is an ABSOLUTE UNIT

We need a broad coalition to reject political violence. Converts welcome.

I’m not saying the only way to have good politics is to hate the South. I love the South. I love my home. But enabling things that have only ever hurt us is not the way forward for the South or for our country. It has to stop.

not accusing Elizabeth of this, but there’s a faux-savvy take that floats around lefty circles sometimes that if you controlled for voter suppression, the south looks like the north. not remotely true.

The southern strategy was an atom bomb in the development of southern history and so was the death of Abraham Lincoln.

1. This dynamic is always odd, bc white liberals *in* the South rarely write it off — especially if their region is remotely competitive. Black Protestants are the core of the Democratic Party there, full stop. But you don’t get two Dem GA senators and a Dem NC gov without SOME white liberal votes.

Are you from the South? Have you sent any significant amount of time living in the South? Because I think actually understanding the conditions down here is a Must Be This Tall To Ride thing vis a vis The Discourse and I’m sick of NYC Yankees explaining my home to me like I’m a moron.

The Vatican returned 62 artifacts to Indigenous peoples from Canada, a historic restitution that is part of the Catholic Church's reckoning with its role in helping suppress Indigenous culture. n.pr/43T2xmD

This is it, really. In the US, the fact that most people had to drive or be driven an hour or more out of town to get to a casino--or fly to the Casino State--in order to gamble is what's known in design as 'friction.' It puts a lot of speedbumps between the urge and its satisfaction.

Trump & Vance are so extreme that they’ve even lost Cardinal Timothy Dolan.

Literally exactly what the Founders worried about. Exactly.

Did anyone ever think the USA would deport Purple Heart recipients. My God💔 My grandpa fought in WWII like many of yours. He was 100% Hispanic and a Purple Heart recipient. When I say he’s rolling over in his grave he’s doing so while 4 of his 7 kids are maga www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Adam Scott meeting the pope, for anyone interested in that sort of thing

US Bishops have responded to attacks by Border Czar Tom Homan: “The bishops of the United States have spoken together and in unity with Pope Leo XIV.”

Might’ve just won the Hayley Williams ticket war while sitting on my ass doing nothing 🙏🏻

A quick study of Equestrian portrait of Louis XIV I took some shrimperties 🦐

First look at Anne Hathaway as Odysseus’ wife Penelope and Mia Goth as Melantho in Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ (via Empire Magazine)

Trump un-endorses Marjorie Taylor Greene

find someone who will wear a big overcoat with you IG meetcutesnyc

On November 14, 1891, Sir Frederick Banting was born. He discovered insulin in 1921 and effectively made diabetes a treatable disease, when it was previously a death sentence. He sold the patent for insulin for $3 saying "insulin does not belong to me, it belongs to the world."

Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:

Note: The pastor being thrown to the ground and arrested here while protesting outside an ICE facility here — who police single out — appears to be Rev. Michael Woolf, a Baptist pastor (he’s ordained by both American Baptist Churches USA and Alliance of Baptists).

This is a goldendoodle, one person gets the golden the other gets the doodle. Why is hard