I've been working on campaign and homelessness stories all day, so I'm just catching up on today's Seattle City Council budget meetings. Here's one that jumped out: Sara Nelson wants to add $350,000 to the budget for private sober housing, specifically saying the money should go to Oxford Houses.

Whattya mean your home isnt supposed to resemble a Sally's

youtu.be/tN2KHeEWqZM?... Realest shit

The entire reason West Coast partisans fundamentally disrespect the The Franchise is because we collectively and dutifully do exactly what we are supposed to do, and it counts for jack shit against struggle Liberals who cant even gain ground locally with or without us.

Bluesky is the only place youll see Liberals stolen valor french peasants in 1789

Liberalism has a big 'what to do without a State to do it for us' problem and the entire scope of the issue is more or less 'we lost directive of The State and just need that back'. As if a totally State bound political ideology that only plays the elections can get it back without a State

Also note that the supposed most media literate and generally literate are in the same tub as their lessers and are big mad that they couldn't just rely on their own framework of why they're betters to get political outcomes. Neglectful and vain and they're literate enough to construct an exception.

Yall want to reduce this to a battle of identities. I don’t speak on intragroup debates about membership. Not my lane and it doesn’t need to be for a cogent argument. Thank you.

At least when I punish myself out of guilt I'm doing it because I think I am not living up to my ideals, not because I think it'll make a homeless person miserable what the fuck is wrong with you.

Trying not to tease introverts, but for real, a lot of you pathologized yourself out of trying. Myers Brigg adjacent thing.

I want to also highlight the aesthetics of this exact shot where of course I'm going to take the side of the freshly bathed maybe stoned interview subject over the 'presenting seriousness seriously' Podcaster.

if the ref didn't want you yelling at him, he shouldn't be changing his calls because the other team is yelling at him

lol, metagaming an assured victory 3 years away if you just throw trans people you're in cahoots with away and tell them the greater good is served without their existence. Absolutely the state of the Democratic Partisan Art right now.

Maybe their initial impulse was celebrated acceptance through defecting out of Liberalism and then popularity as 'one of the good ones' and they didn't get fluffed enough for their liking.

my kinda spicier take is that, at least in the realm of street-level discourse and mockery, using therapy language or diagnosing people with therapeutic modalities doesn’t have the quality of “hitting a person where it hurts”, but more “I, the insulter, go to modern church”.

Every single one of you violence abhorring partisans will choose The State, this is what it boils down to, you will use your agency where it can be applied to take burdensome noise out of your hair so you can properly do politics to defeat fascism without a direct loss in the effort.

I’ve been thinking a lot about how I’m going to have to live in a world full of people I can never forgive, and how I’m supposed to manage that.

I do wonder what unforgivable means here given 1. They're going to be begged to vote again 2. They're going to be doubted openly they will vote 3. The fascists will be societally forgiven and it'll be one big memory holed 'weren't those the worst times?' 4. And it happens again, if you live to see

"If the oppressed to not remove their own oppression through expert pleading to the homebound docile masses who only vote, that's on them" Shield Maiden indeed, one threat by The State from turning on her neighbors, barking at trans folks and Black folks as a pointer dog.

Absolutely howling that someone who marks themselves as a Leftist is like 'Leftists weren't better Democrats than actual Democrats about Democrats own political deliverables with policing', like what a place this is.

At which point, its The State or Your Neighbors, and some are gonna insist they are choosing neighbors but on standby for midterm turnaround. Perpetual lines in the sand washed away by perpetual new lines to cross

Theyre literally selling rolls of pennies for 10 bucks on TV, like cmon

People pleading their own unpopularity on BlueSky while clocking in 5 digits in followers is a bit right? Like theyre being self depricating facetious to lampoon a similar buffoon consumed by their own inferiority complex despite every contrary validation a lot of people like them, to put up with em

Secular Civic Education doesnt teach a connective social glue, its not a theraputic for social bond even if YOU bond over it.

Youre hate this idea but a return? To Punch and Judy Road Show Politics - a little puppet show that tells it like it is to the kids, with high level stuff for the adults, smoked sausages, a petting zoo, classic 'all the local orgs have a booth' and maybe a beer garden far away from petting zoo.

Liberal Nationalists really really really overestimate how many people love America like they do, but they keep trying to wield it like a cudgel to animate people that are more or less not deeply attached to it as a concept, and dont see it as potential Bringer of The Good, given a lot.

Does anyone know what Cuomo's dad did for a living?

Folks, youre not outeducating your way around a National Mythos, you gotta fucking kill it.

My idiosyncratic reverance of games makes me wish the 'this isnt a game' or 'stop treating it like a game' people werent the exact people losing The Game theyre in.

I would like people who think we're under some 'workable threshold' to explain how politics worked on a demos with worse priors and worse education and less 'tape' on the entire enterprise of Liberal Democracy, like really ponder this without reaching for education directly.

The best bit is, they can see what education does to a person and dont see the value in it which drives the educated to the brink, like how could they not enjoy the ecstacy of knowing and the agony of getting dogwalked by the unknowing and the world turns another day without consequence.

I just want to revisit this from the 'in their orbit POV' where it's like...no human can give you the frictionless validation of a bot designed to give frictionless validation. This is like Very Onlineism on some kind of Super Soldier Cocktail, hows a fleshy invalidator supposed to get in the way?

How many people does Liberalism need to lose before its biggest acolytes do some soul searching on where they lost the plot of it all.

youtu.be/lAJpNUKtaaI?... Give me a pickitup pickitup pickitup cover of this one, cause its a good one except for the glacialness.

And yet Kevin, and yet.

America is one big "People in %%my_jurisdiction%% are just built different" circle stitched together in commonality by assuming their own singular uncommonality. What are the jurisdictions of control here?

Locally in Seattle there was a similar murder to Sonya Massey - Charleena Lyles. Charleena called the cops, the cops took a beat and then shot her on sight and they were washed clean by the apparatus. It's all around us all the time and rarer than rare cops serve time, but Charleena's murder

Some in Seattle want this 'final solution' too, but they aren't showing their faces yet.

We are at a point where it's like, if you as a ground level partisan thinks that the Media Ecosystem is cooked, there has to be an operational gaffe or a complete rebuke of how you think politics works and the worth of anyone in it, if they plow anything you give into the Media Ecosystem.

It's a case of the dog-that-caught-the-car. They fucking overturned Roe v Wade! And then, instead of talking a big game about a nationwide abortion ban with no chance of passage, they got down to business really controlling women's bodies. That's not policy moderation, It's measurement error.

Nathan Vasquez is the DA Malinche of Multnomah Countyvwho is prosecuting me for making Earth Day art with chalk as an Indigenous Grandmother on Earth Day. My trial is December 29, 2025 Multnomah County Courthouse. Portland, Oregon. PDX IS NOT PROGRESSIVE AND THERE IS NO SANCTUARY HERE.

A majority of the mainstream media is trying to spin it as getting rid of gangs/fighting the war on drugs. Don't fall for the lies. The Governor is a fascist monster. Things are not good in Brazil just because they've charged Bolsonaro. I wish more people could grasp that simple fact!

"250x bigger and lost" is pretty insane. Imagine 250 Steam competitors all spinning their wheels And it's not like the labor is crap. It's not like thousands and thousands of people did their job wrong They had shit captains who will experience no repercussions for Shadow Realming billions of $$$

Outliers congregate around their own birthyear, do the survey.

One day we're going to talk about the difference between 'Partisan Ideology' and 'Partisan Ideology Fanfic Told As Lofty Real Ambitions'

you know things are bad when Romney's son is like "you guys are going to take money to intern the homeless?"

Susan Collins is more likely to drop dead from fright over someone popping a brown paper bag at this point.

scoring and browning the hot dog does make it decent enough, like, friends don't let friends just microwave the damn thing and slap it in there.

Lay out the case that anyone under the age of 30 has seen America lick a collective action problem with something other than memory holing and 'onto a better and brighter future'