“This could take down Democrats, too.” You promise?

A very large faction of one of America's two major parties is about to start openly saying "well as long as she wasn't PRE-pubescent it's fine" with their whole chest.

excuse me what

this is actually really something. The NY Times stuff is bonkers.

it's not a shitpost if it's right or is it?

I hate that this is so legible to so many people

The Speaker of the House shut the chamber down for two months to block the release of the Epstein Files and the president is huddled in the Situation Room of the White House to formulate a plan to keep them from being released, and I don't know why you crazy libs think there's some kind of cover up.

#WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompt I haven't actually worked in this file in a bit.

I lack description a lot of the time. holdover from fanfic, I guess, since you don't generally need to describe canon characters or settings. I'm also not always great at avoiding passive voice but I've gotten better at that one at least #WritingPrompt

"bluesky will suspend you for anything vaguely resembling a death threat" is maybe the single most consistent moderation policy they have I don't know why anyone is surprised by this one yes, even if it's a reference to song lyrics

DRAGONSONG started a life long love of fantasy and set me on the eventual path to meet my wife eight years later. I can honestly say if my uncle hadn't given me the book I might not be married now

my psych asked how I've been lately and I just cracked up because uh...

McGovern: Seriously, we were worried. We actually started handing out missing person posters. Nobody has seen you for eight weeks. But, hey, I'm glad that you are ok. I'm glad you survived your nice, two-month paid vacation

the thing is that there are only two explanations for this and they are both utterly disqualifying for Dem leadership 1. you knew they would come for abortion and you already decided you were willing to give it up 2. you did NOT know, because you are too gullible for the job you currently hold

A woman on TikTok did a social experiment where she had sound effects of a crying baby and called up churches saying she ran out of formula and asked if the church would feed her starving baby. Over 75% said no. She'd then ask if they're a pro-life church at which point most hang up.

Name a single fucking thing y'all have "fought" united in the last year. Just one.

At a certain point we have to accept persistent failure as a strategic feature in service to a pyramid scheme.

We can't do anything because of the next election. We can't do anything because of the next election. We can't do anything because of the next election. We can't do anything because of the next election. We can't do anything because of the next election. We can't do anything because of the next elec

We were fighting united. Then the Senate caved.

I don’t like those who say “both sides are the same,” because it’s not true. One of the parties fights tooth and nail for what they want and the other party is the Democrats

Have you considered kicking out the people who gave up the fight and picking a new leader who is capable of leading the same

Cool cool. Hey quick question who did Schumer vote for in the NYC mayoral election again

No. The people who made a terrible strategic decision disconnected from reality need to face negative consequences, otherwise how would strategy ever improve? Also "we need to stop criticism & internal recriminations" is itself an internal recrimination. I guess recriminations are OK for one side.

We were united, and then 8 assholes from your party decided that waiting in line at the airport was too hard and fucked everyone else. There isn't going to be a victory in November, because you idiots have already given up.

Why should I care about your chances in November if you aren’t on my side

anyway if dems think I'm gonna forget this shit in 5 months, they're wrong. if they think I'm gonna forget it in 5 years, they're wrong. they have fully convinced me that purging the party of these inept losers in the senate is more important than retaking the senate in the next election cycle

Durbin lied on national television and said because Feinstein was sick and not physically there in person, it was impossible to issue subpoenas in regards to the SCOTUS corruption scandal. But his own website specifically stated that they allowed proxy voting.

Joyce Carol Oates: Demonstrating the Value of the Humanities through Public Ownership of the Richest Man on Earth

fellas is it normal for a funding bill to waive the sovereign immunity of the united states government in the context of when senators are targets of federal investigation

Every day I become closer to Howl's bedroom, unclear complimentary or derogatory.

"truly it was out of curiosity"

"Hemp"-derived products that contain only CBD will continue to be legal, and any state that's legalized cannabis will still have legalized (and regulated) cannabis. This is just to close the loophole that resulted in some dangerous products being technically legal.

This is deeply misleading. The agricultural section of the bill does NOT ban hemp-derived cannabinoid products that contain less than .3% THC total. www.cannabisbusinesstimes.com/hemp/news/15...

Sheldon remind me when did Chuck Schumer fight united with the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York

Senate Democrats are the only group of people in America that could look at the election results from *less than a week ago* and conclude, “Ah, what the people want now is for us to roll over and show our bellies to the reactionary creeps”

I know, everybody should leave X, but I think an exception should be made solely for Joyce Carol Oates so she can keep wounding Musk's withered soul on his own site and he can't do a thing about it.

so hey in personal news my doc has ordered a brain MRI, after that we'll likely do a CT myelogram. I'm not really enthused about that bc they hurt apparently but I really wanna know what tf is going on. current dx: spontaneous intracranial hypotension, orthostatic headache #ChronicIllness

Still processing the inanity of this cave, like, "We're going to make Republicans go on record that they want to destroy the ACA." You mean the motherfuckers who radicalized in opposition to it & voted to repeal it, like, 22 times? You're finally getting them on record? Really impressed over here

Note that she's not blaming the Democrats who doomed us to this outcome yesterday. We already know every Senate Republican is trash. But we're SUPPOSED to be supported by our own D senators. But they screwed us. Murray isn't addressing that. Plank in your own eye, etc.

We are literally mad about your failure to fight the real dangers.

If you’ve got a Senate Democrat who is not calling for new leadership, they’re part of the problem. We should no longer trust Senate Dems who decline to come out against the leadership that led us here. Until proven otherwise, we should assume they were in on the game to fool their own supporters.

I have to hand it to them, it's an incredible bit to publicly lose a game of chicken, admit that's what happened, and then spend the next day lecturing everyone about courage and tenacity

A rare interview with the creators of the always-funny, always-brilliant, and *usually*-sexy—or occasionally anti-sexy—OGLAF! Cooper has kept a low profile over the years, but is legitimately one of the very best artists in comics today. Read OGLAF if you're old enough to drive!

my anger is not going away in a few weeks. it is insulting for these senators to horsetrade so that ppl retiring or not running until 2030 can vote no while they find just enough yes votes to do what the GOP wants. i will be angry for longer than a few weeks and i don't appreciate the condescension.

look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry

Gailey is amazing but their writing is often Not For Me (I can't do horror, it's not them) but I'm kinda intrigued by the premise on this one and might be able to handle it?

It’s wild to suggest this is a circular firing squad or something when it’s millions of citizen Democrats who hate it versus 47 elected Democrats who conspired to surrender for nothing. We’re not fighting “each other,” we’re fighting you. There’s only a few dozen of you, but you hold all the power.

“We’re in an existential fight so let’s band together with cowards who sell everyone else out at the earliest opportunity” isn’t exactly the St Crispin's Day Speech