It's not that democracy doesn't work, it's just that our political system is profoundly undemocratic in so many ways.

Fun to see how the erroneous predictions line up with how the crypto super PACs were spending. I've spoken before about how Polymarket — despite its PR claims about being more accurate than polls — is often a better signal of what crypto holders WANT to have happen.

I don’t think people really grasp how effectively Talarico’s kind Christianity is an existential threat to Christian Nationalism.

If you are in the military, google "conscientious objector" right away. There is no longer any conceivable US war you should participate in.

Again, ICE did not stop abducting ppl but the news decided en masse to stop talking about it

At long last

The animating principle of representational democracy is to protect the rest of us from the whims of deranged rich people, be they kings or oligarchs. Everything else is wainscoting.

God bless all the folks confidently chiming in on this joke about Croesus of Lydia by saying "LOL Alexander the Great!"

are you an oil tanker? because you dress like you're trying to pass with the straights

A congressional investigation estimates broker breaches have cost consumers $20 billion in identity theft. Major brokers now promise to make it easier to opt out of their databases.

Go watch Gundam: The Witch from Mercury. And it has lesbians!

Interesting comparison by the NYT between Illinois Senate candidates

I know US Dems. They always snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. It's by design. Keep your eyes open for the betrayal.

I’m sure we could work something out.

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

I hate being right I hate being right I hate being right

It is AMAZING how many “anti-capitalists” refuse to engage with the inevitability that some people cannot work or work as much. All of a sudden it’s “nobody who works 40 hours a week should be living in poverty” instead of “nobody should be living in poverty.”

It’s not a plot hole that Elmo has been 3 years old for 50 years. He was bitten by The Count, willingly. Elmo asked for the Dark Gift

Search your camera roll for "Hell"

Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon. Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.

your vote is rarely the single decisive vote but sometimes it is! and you never know when that might be

Mark my words--- Polymarket and other predictive market schemes have the potential to become a serious threat to press freedom/journalists.

between ubiquitous gambling and cyberpsychosis, modern society really is built to turbocharge the exploitation of the human brain's worst flaws, isn't it

Important for pro-democracy Spaniards to know that the Minnesota State Fair has a paella truck with the tagline The Hotdish of Spain. I’m just saying the cross-Atlantic solidarity runs deep.

I had assumed the headline was a joke. But no. people.com/new-dime-coi...

FYI to trans people: HRT Cafe has apparently shut down after too much media attention. Please, take advice from an old trans woman: Take those discussions underground. All of them. Anything that discusses what we need to survive & where to get it. Word of mouth and private forums only!

People just don't yearn for the mines like they used to.

INTERVIEW: @zdroberts.bsky.social talked to @letsgomathias.bsky.social about his new book ‘To Catch a Fascist: The Fight to Expose the Radical Right’ | Mathias provides readers with a peak into a world that’s rarely written about. It shows us firsthand the real work of antifascists.

I've signed this one previously, if you're canadian and you haven't yet, get on it 👍

just a heads up, that article going around about the FDA and a 'registry of trans women' comes from The Needle 'News', who have a track record of sensationalist and inflammatory reporting, take anything they say with a grain of salt until someone else backs it up

Fascism requires an enemy, and one which is simultaneously incredibly dangerous and on the verge of defeat at all times.

if only somebody had written in, say, 2022, that New Zealand was uniquely vulnerable to the Strait of Hormuz getting shut down but thankfully we could prevent this by taking action immediately

looks like we traded generations of healthcare for 4 days worth of missiles

Sick of living in the time of monsters can we skip to the time of lesbians who cuddle good or some shit? Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

finally found the time to dig into this one and she's ripped my heart out again, yall. one brutal, visceral, gripping scene after another and while there is some respite to be found in the small moments, everybody's still in hell. F&F is a hard act to follow but Kay fucking knocked it outta the park

Clearly has poor judgement.

Sounds like it's hard to prosecute this monopoly because ... they are abusing their monopolistic powers. Best solution is to organize the employees of the shuttered stores to take them over and run them as co-ops until CVS plays ball.

I am shocked, shocked to find capitalism isn't benefitting consumers.

There are broadly two types of people: 1. People who are worried about killing children. 2. People who are worried about oil tankers. Recently, we have discovered a 3rd type: 3. People who don't give a shit about either.

this is also my ongoing frustration. you can not run for office on "democracy is under threat" and then lose and go "oh well, nice game everyone" they put us in a constant state of hypervigilance & terror begging for our last $5 to save the country and then they do the joint softball game.

The officer who killed Ruben Ray Martinez has been identified as Homeland Security Investigations agent Jack Stevens.

It's extremely clear that the US doesn't really have an objective here except to inflict maximum pain, and attacking water supply is going to end catastrophically for the entire region. It's not just a war crime, it's approaching a crime against humanity.

If you could politely ask authoritarianism or fascism to stop, or walk into a ballot booth to vote it away, or annoy it until it gave up and went home, IT WOULDN'T BLOODY WELL BE AUTHORITARIANISM, NOW WOULD IT

Okay so getting my mirror sites all set, which means updating Pathways and finally uploading Fates Errant to Webtoons (UGH) but if you're there and read stuff there, drop it a like, follow it, maybe a comment? Or read chapter 1 if you haven't yet! ^_^ www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/fa...

Soon, you, too, will be able to place such bets from the comfort of your own phone. Truly, we have realized the utopian future we were promised. We don't need to burn this motherfucker to the ground. The United States is a blessed country, and you can be proud to be an American. Or maybe not.

(Thankfully, Minnesota is Canada.)

Exactly. We've hit another one of those technological plateaus that makes war expensive, indecisive, and yet incredibly deadly. The obvious conclusion is "don't do a war right now," but some motherfuckers are always trying to ice skate uphill.

“Slurs filled a chat” is a beaut