KCSM is currently playing a jazz cover of Pavement's "Summer Babe" and I'm finding it very disorienting!

Top-notch set of responses.

I can't believe they made hiding "rude" posts the default setting – some of my very best posts include "f-bombs"! so yes, turn this setting off if you wanna see those posts :)

To put this in scale, Elon Musk's salary from Tesla alone could fund the SNAP program for the entire country into 2034.

conde nast fired the vp of new york newsguild for asking HR questions

"conservative feminism" lmao

😂 I am loving this night so far

Gosh, who could have predicted this?

Many of our elites are living in an alternate reality mediated by their phones and social media algorithms. Tonight is a good reality check

i live thousands of miles from new york and have no connection to the city and yet this made me cry so hard the first time i saw it. incredibly thrilled by tonight's results!

this is genuinely wild

A moment of silence, please, for the "young men are all MAGA now" narrative. (Source: www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...)

Earle-Sears ran what felt like 12 billion ads about how much she hated trans kids and I didn’t hear a single pundit say she should stick to real issues that affect real people.

Every single county in Virginia shifted Blue.

wait, are you telling me that all the centrist pundits who insisted that Dems wouldn't win any future elections unless/until they threw trans people under the bus turned out to be wrong? how could this be?!? 😱 www.erininthemorning.com/p/new-poll-v...

That was fast! Transphobia DID NOT play in Virginia

Whatever happens in the elections tonight, it will prove that reactionary centrists were right.

Similar to the Nazi group chat semi-apology responses, I think it is remarkable that the “Groyper” war is being framed pretty exclusively in terms of antisemitism, while the racism is unremarkable for them.

My final piece for @teenvogue.com politics section was a piece titled "There's a Steep Price to Ignoring Black Expertise" and boy has that come full circle. Thank you @allegrak.bsky.social and the politics editorial team for turning this Head Start kid into a Black woman who writes for the public.

And there it is. Vogue laid off @leximcmenamin.com, leaving TV without anyone on politics bsky.app/profile/lexi...

NEW: 12 Mississippi polling places have moved and 4 have been closed ahead of the Nov. 4 legislative special elections, an MFP investigation finds. Counties also have incorrect addresses in the state system for 11 polling places, risking sending some voters to the wrong location.

Suddenly when puberty blockers are given to cis kids, the Daily Mail (the same newspaper which backed Hitler btw) finally admits that "their effects are not permanent, and once a child lets their blocking treatment lapse, puberty will just continue as normal." Which is true for trans kids too.

every news outlet and journalist who calls trans rights a losing issue should be forcefed soap and their own regrets

apparently Paul is at WSJ (rather than NYT) now, but still on the "promoting transphobia" beat

if you're looking for some weekend reading...

IT IS CLEAR FROM TONIGHT'S WORLD SERIES GAME WHY THE TUSH PUSH MUST BE BANNED!

For the 6th year in a row, a player named Will Smith has won the World Series 2020 - Will Smith (C), Dodgers 2021 - Will Smith (RP), Braves 2022 - Will Smith (RP), Astros 2023 - Will Smith (RP), Rangers 2024 - Will Smith (C), Dodgers 2025 - Will Smith (C), Dodgers

Tucker Carlson's friendly interview with a Holocaust denier raises new questions about Zohran Mamdani's commitment to fighting antisemitism.

wow another TOOTBLAN!

to be honest, I wouldn't put it past this supreme court...

if you're looking for some weekend reading...

“Stephen Miller is wasting our tax dollars by taking military housing while service members are lining up at food banks and veterans struggle to get the care they earned,” said Common director Jose Vasquez, whose group represents veterans and military families. www.thedailybeast.com/stephen-mill...

They literally ruin everything they touch

fyi this is me. a brief window of no spinning circle. pls reply to me below (@katcataclysm.bsky.social as I'm mostly shut out of this account... thanks!

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

re-reading this for an upcoming interview – it provides a good overview of some of the main points from Sexed Up re: why the straight mainstream views women (but not men) as "spoiled" by sex, & creates fucked up ideas about bi & trans women within queer spaces: juliaserano.medium.com/penises-priv...

the democratic party’s basic problem is it has almost no control over how its message reaches the ears of voters, especially outside of presidential election years. but rather than devote serious time, attention and cash to that problem its consultants and pundits want to fight factional battles

centrists will tell you to your face that we all need to abandon identity issues, and focus on kitchen table issues instead and yet when a leftist candidate runs a generational campaign based on kitchen table issues, it's the centrists weaponizing identity politics to smear the leftist.

democrats have been pivoting to the economy literally my entire life, and yet somehow centrist pundits are still convinced we're the party of identity politics. maybe the problem isn't policy. maybe you can't run from the culture war. maybe you just have to win it!

as if I needed even more reason to root for the Blue Jays over the Dodgers haha

seeing further discussions on here today about who "counts" (& doesn't count) as "working class voters" who Dems should be pursuing, and it's basically a variant of this dynamic:

🎯🎯🎯 It’s not being divisive, it’s just being unwilling to leave people behind to unite with you, the person demanding that they be left behind.

And this is why you can’t just palm any candidate off on Dem voters. When it comes to the Senate we all suffer. Vet them.

A very offline cousin sent this to fam group chat. This story is breaking containment.

oh hey, this quotes a passage from my book Excluded, which is germane to my LRT regarding why many mainstream Dems are bending over backwards to defend Planter & his sorted history (& Nazi tattoo), while simultaneously complaining that Mamdani is too "divisive" of a candidate...

So weird that they won’t say the same about a Muslim man with no Nazi tattoos or Blackwater job experience who wants free buses.

Me and @janus.bsky.social in @teenvogue.com: "If lawmakers really cared about kids, they’d stop trying to take away their health care ... Instead, many top Democrats in Congress are trying to help Trump censor the internet. And by speaking out, it’s the kids who are protecting us from them."