Democrats are expected to provide think tank level policy proposals for every societal ill under the sun (fully paid for too, natch!!) while Republicans are just like "we'll figure something out" and the media nods along.🙃

I don't resent poor people who use food stamps to buy another soft drink. I resent rich people who take away the funds for food stamps to buy another yacht.

The simplest reason why the Trump administration is cutting off SNAP, despite adequate reserves, is that they hate the program and don't care about the people who depend upon it. They are breaking the law not to provide SNAP while also enforcing the "equal treatment rules" to hurt SNAP users.

Really important advice. And if you insist on posting these things or keeping them up after you've been informed they're fake, that's going to be a quick block. "Well, it could be true!" It's not. "Well, you can imagine." Nope. "Well, they do it!" Yeah, no.

I finally made it through whatever barrier I had getting through the first season of KILLING EVE. Now, I am midway through season 2 and when go to Wikipedia to look, Jodie Comer better have won so many fucking awards for her work here.

I am actually speechless. If you put this picture in front of me 5 minutes ago and asked me "who is this person?" Never in a million years or however much money was on the line would I have guessed Kristi Noem.

This pairs extremely well with my skeets at 10:12 this morning.

Just thinking of a queen for some reason.

"Wife mad at you? DEI." is phenomenal work.

I left my house this morning to pay my rent and drop off my ballot. I have fulfilled my responsibilities as a grown-up for the day and am now clocking out to lie on the couch and watch cartoons and/or play video games for the rest of the day.

Note: while not unprecedented, it’s actually pretty rare for a sitting Catholic bishop to participate in a demonstration. It’s just not generally what Catholic bishops do. Thus: Getting the hierarchy involved in this protest outside an ICE facility is no small thing.

Yes, BUT it's also exceedingly difficult, if not impossible, to sell something to a media that was and is already under contract with the GOP to manufacture outrage and skepticism at every single Dem policy and politician.

More Democrats should get more combative with the media, in particular by calling out questions that have an unspoken premise of "GOP voters are realer Americans than you," or in this case, "the president can break the law if voters in a city choose a mayor according to their own preferences."

It took a lot of people a minute (or not at all) to figure out my costume... I was a Deviled Egg. Chris came as a tourist but we called an audible and switched him to Ace Ventura because that's who our production team thought he was.

This game is so flipping fun to watch. Portland got an absolute banger from Jillian McBride in the 35th minute and Portland goes to the locker room up 1-0.

Your friendly neighborhood broadcast team made the broadcast tonight! Portland vs Gonzaga women's soccer on ESPN+ right now!

This is literally Nazi shit. This is what the Nazis did. If you support this, you are a Nazi, and if that makes you upset, then STOP BEING A FUCKING NAZI

When It happens (fingers crossed for sooner rather than later), it needs to be in a public place so that these motherfuckers can't sit on it for 2 or 3 days while they write themselves pardons. This guy needs to spend the rest of his life in the worst conditions The Hague has to offer.

Pritzker isn’t perfect but he’s fought back without casually tossing aside trans rights or brutalizing the homeless. It can be done. It’s a choice they make. Newsom is a fighter, I guess, but he’s using trans people as a shield to take the hits. That’s not leadership, that’s selfish ambition. /2

The people yearn for (democratic) socialism (this one will make you cry)

honestly the only piece worth reading on the platner situation. @tressiemcphd.bsky.social is absolutely cooking here. (gift link)

I honestly don't think the NY Times has been this bad in my lifetime, it's deeply shameful.

Great skeet! Definitely read the replies and quote skeets for additional examples! I hope this isn't coming off as bitchy and intimidating!

Every one of my mom's best friends are my aunts. My cousin's kids call me auntie. We are as wonder bread white as it gets. This is such a dumb non-controversy.

I do not know how lawyers sustain 60 hour work weeks. I have been working 10-12 hour days for the past two months, and I would feel like murdering someone about it if I wasn't so exhausted.

11 meetings since 7am, no breaks, and two more hours in the workday. Calling it now, this week blows.

Mar Awa III (David Royel) was born, raised, was graduated from college, and ordained in Chicago. He knew exactly what he was doing.

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

Is the baseball game still going?

Heretic Coffee in Portland will be offering free breakfast to people with SNAP cards until it's reinstated or they go broke doing it. You can donate so they don't actually go broke doing it. checkout.square.site/merchant/MLW...

[Pillsbury marketing meeting 1965] Weird Carl: ok so the doughboy, what if we tickled him?

Mamdani did this without tacking to the center by accepting republican framing and throwing marginalized people under the bus or even apologizing for being socialist; something that party operatives who actually want to win might learn from.

i made a helpful reference

I thought that was the pre game thing!

The only place I haven't been to among these cities is Nashville.

Long, long day from waking up at 6am central time yesterday. My flight falling victim the Alaska IT issue sucked, but I am extremely grateful they have a great customer service group who figured out how to get me home ahead of the UP game tonight.

As a reminder, when Biden announced student loan forgiveness—based upon a statute passed by Congress which explicitly said the President could do exactly that—Douthat called it "semi-Caesarist" because it was done "without consulting Congress."

If you read this and thought "ugh," you have correctly guessed how many hours this trip will take.

Going home to Oregon from Louisiana via New Jersey. 👍👍👍

Just fyi everyone

paying $60 to secretly record yourself not having friends or sex or shame is WILD when there are people who will do it for FREE to show you how much of fucking doofus you are. ALWAYS REMEMBER TO LOOK FOR THE HELPERS

Deep cut, I like it.

Becky Hammon looking at the Blazers and counting her Aces cash and Aces/Spurs Championship rings right now like

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I feel very strongly that the new stupid ballroom should *not* be torn down. I believe the next Dem President should, a week after taking office, have a Drag Queen Story Hour there, and then use it for a rotating exhibit of Black/Latin/East Asian/African/Queer art. We're going full troll, people.

That’s incomplete, he only got 2 of his 3 feet down inbounds

Anyone want a pair of tickets to the Timbers tonight? Free to a good home. Might be fun to watch Phil Neville's last game?!

Everyone skeeting about how great it is to have the NBA back on NBC because the broadcast quality is so great, this is my fervent hope for soccer coming back to ESPN. I miss Bob Ley, man.

We can participate in democracy and be flawed while also having non-negotiable. No nazis. No racists. We aren’t abandoning trans people. Triple the minimum wage. Universal healthcare. Reproductive freedom. Etc etc etc. Stand for something! Appeasement accomplishes very little.