Back in the day I transcribed an old Barth speech that isn't anywhere on the English Internet, I think, and my old site is gone, but it's still on the Wayback Machine. One of my fav speeches ever, changed my life. web.archive.org/web/20210121...

Kendrick, Joyce Carol Oates, Menswear Guy, and Isaac Chotiner are the Voltron of People You Don't Want Focusing on You

my patience has increased but I will say, it is ok to have trouble reading, it is not ok to scream at people for things you imagined they said because you can't read what they actually said

how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

like i don’t understand what solutions to these problems look like that don’t include remaking or altogether replacing the democratic party. i haven’t seen a single articulation of one at all, let alone a convincing one. it’s not sufficient but it is necessary

There are no bounds to my contempt for cowards and quislings who surrender to fascists and thereby make of themselves accomplices.

Some of these Dems need to get primaried so hard they will need to invent a color in between red, blue, and yellow to describe it.

correction: they are all retiring, announced or not

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

Van Hollen: (202) 224-4654 (other offices: www.vanhollen.senate.gov/contact) Alsobrooks: (202) 224-4524 (other offices: www.alsobrooks.senate.gov/contact/) Maryland, you know what to do.

This Post seems to think that Zohran Mamdani is coming in glory, and all his angels with him, and that he is gathering all nations before him to separate all people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. That's the Son of Man you're thinking of, not the mayor of NYC.

and another thing: the washington post isn’t mad. please don’t put in the washington post that the washington post got mad wapo.st/47sWzLi

we did it, we found spiders georg’s cave

Here's the promised longer explainer: www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-wtf

ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections

In my personal capacity, I am volunteering at the polls in Gaithersburg and can confirm that the vibes are immaculate ✨⭐️👢 Gaithersburg, come out to the Activity Center at Bohrer Park and vote! Polls close at 8pm. #Maryland

*Good* books. Courtney writes *good* books that you will probably enjoy reading on these distinctly ungood times. Books in which people are warm and gentle and kind with each other and the ending is happy!

It's the "old people" part that is perfect.

It’s basically Deep Space Nine.

Y'all, my heart has just been warmed to bits.

More details Hey so not that there’s ever a GOOD time to have Dem candidates who’ve had Nazi symbols inked on their bodies for nearly two decades but maybe this is a particularly bad one www.hbgdiocese.org/statement-fr...

RCTs are not for every research question or every research population. Just give it up. It’s TOTALLY acceptable that the research is “only OK” because the alternative is far worse.

Homey literally said "touch mass"

Since nothing matters anymore and there are no rules, let’s knock out Thanksgiving this week, do Christmas next week, then have six beautiful weeks of that full goblin mode space between Xmas and new years where time doesn’t exist and sweatpants are required dress

fwiw: 49% of Americans APPROVING of a protest movement as it happens is... historically almost unheard of. keep going.

and part of winning is also being convinced that you are fighting for something worthwhile—that your want to win for your values, rather than choosing values that you have decided will win.

It would be good for the country and good politics if democrats stopped being so afraid of everything

So much of "cancel culture" discourse is a re-description of the normal functioning of a democracy and public discourse by people who didn't like the results of one, or both, or how it made them feel.

no one is getting 'canceled' it is literally a primary election

There are already food banks/depositories in every district & a ton of Democrats have been doing events to support them, but if no one besides a staffer posts about it, no one knows about it. Even with a massive support, it's not replacing $100 billion in SNAP. We need a functional government!

My fellow Maryland state (and other govt) employees, you can easily donate $10/check to food banks (mine is split between local and DC) as part of the annual charity campaign. We are living off retirement savings, but at least we have that. You won’t miss $10 pre-tax and it helps so much.

Also: Team Themself.

Relevant once again. We've all been marinating in the idea that winning requires compromising your values since at least 9/11. I think the fear of "purity tests" is downstream of that. But to present a credible alternative to fascism, compromising on values is exactly what we cannot do!

if Platner wins the primary, it's going to be "well whatabout YOUR party nominating the guy with a NAZI TATTOO" until the end of time. no thank you.

Scrolling local social media & this baby appears. Someone in NoVirginia needs this doll! Tiger is a lovable, slightly chunky gentleman with the sweetest soul & the softest purrs. This handsome boy may carry a few extra pounds, but that just means there’s more of him to love!

I've been at Communiversity all day and today is "youth day" so we have a bunch of 14-17 years old making zines, making art, learning about restorative justice and more. It's truly so inspiring and refueling. All of the work that everyone put in paid off.

Why are we even having this conversation at all. This entire conversation should just be “fuck this guy” and then we all go on with our lives confident in the fact that we kept another Nazi out of office.

The Maine primary is in what, June? People really wanna die on the unrepentant Nazi tattoo hill instead of, idk, using the next eight months to support somebody else?

it is never okay to take out your frustration on service people and people who do have low moral character

“i have friends everywhere” was EVERYWHERE

We are not fighting what we hate, we are fighting to save what we love

almost every single one of the gov accounts that got created today have kicked off with some message blaming dems for shutdown, they’re trying to turn back the tide of public opinion blaming them, just block them

Today from A CHORUS, DIVERGENT, our neurodiversity reprints issue, "The Last Great Repair Tech of the American Midwest" by @ellisnyeland.bsky.social is a fictional obituary celebrating a life well spent enacting restorative justice through the right to repair: reckoning.press/the-last-gre...

I think what annoys me most whenever this happens (aside from calling adults “kids”) is diminishing the significance with absolutely no mention of even an apology, or why it was wrong. I am a teacher. Kids say dumb stuff all the time, yes. Then: you make them apologize. That is like, the key step

I'm not a political radical, in fact, I'm far from it. That's is why I'm going to be at the #nokings protest on Saturday. Tearing down our institutions to suit a mad king's delusions isn't conservatism, it's radicalism. It's destruction for its own sake. They aren't trying to conserve anything!

"I don't think the president is a king" and "free and fair elections and civil liberties are good" aren't positions from the Anarchist's Cookbook, which is how Johnson is trying to frame this. This is some bizarro world framing where *opposing* major institutional changes makes *you* the radical.

Obsessed with this cover. ENTWINED will come out in the US on March 10. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/775715...