I don’t know if these old guard Democrats can’t look at the road we’re on or won’t look at it, but either way they shouldn’t be at the wheel.

If I see Keith Urban out strolling with some 20-year-old I will fight him my own self

there are a lot of affluent (and not so affluent) liberals in this country who are very angry and don’t know how to properly direct that anger and Disney gave them a very easy target something for the next big corp that wants to bend the knee to consider

What the actual fuck is wrong with these people?

Keith Urban - we were rooting for you. She survived Scientology for gods sake.

All I'm seeing here is "I'm bad at my job and encourage people to vote me out when it's time for my re-election."

Today is like a veritable list of “fuck that guy”

He’s such a disappointment.

[me doing my new 7-figure political consulting gig] I advise that you surrender more, that will probably work

This is absolutely heartbreaking. This man should not have been murdered. His children should still have a father. His wife should not have to tell people her trauma. This government is committing war crimes.

Do these men feel big, in their uniforms and battle rattle, their masks and their sunglasses, hauling away a little girl and her doll?

I haven't read Tom Sawyer or Huck Finn since high school or college, but I am listening to James on audio. Trying to decide if I want to read Huck Finn again. I didn't really enjoy it the first time (I am not a big classic American Lit devotee). But James, so far, is excellent. #AmReading

I may have found my defining quote. Pair this with my pinned post and you will see what I mean!

This farm bailout situation is so breathtakingly foolish, it's hard to know where to start. The US farm sector has been so insulated from the consequences of its own actions for so long. Is it even capable of learning from its mistakes at this point?

Ah:

Doesn't even make sense.

“I’m all for unifying. I’m all for bridging gaps. But not at the expense of my neighbor’s humanity.” - Ta-Nehisi Coates

Cornell is cancelling a distinguished professor's classes on Gaza and suspending him because of the complaints of a student who previously served in Israel's military surveillance agency and was literally recording the comments of other students in class and deliberately derailing discussion.

I hate it here.

I have @smittenkitchen.bsky.social double chocolate muffins in the oven this morning. Mondays suck and I deserve chocolate.

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There have been 6 mass shootings in the USA over the past 24 hours. The casualty count stands at 41. Here’s the President of the United States of America.

So far today, Chuck Schumer has said his strategy for preventing Trump sending troops into blue cities is to win over Republican senators (!) while Hakeem Jeffries praised Eric Adams's courage and authenticity (!!) while refusing to endorse Mamdani. Again. These two gotta go.

Of course the Red Sox are going to have to play the Yankees in their first post season game in ages. Of fucking course.

I think the case for “this was a decisive affirmation of the MAG ideology” is extremely weak & I think the view that we ought to take the election as an expression of where The People stand owes more to the insecurity and lack of confidence that is pervasive among our liberal elites than the facts.

separate from everything, the idea that 2020 was a squeaker but 2024 represents a historical mandate will simply be the death of me

When I look at what the Republican Party wants to take from trans people there is no line they won't cross--my speech, my privacy, my body. When I look at the Democratic Party I see no line they're willing to draw.

One of the shitty things about being the parent of a teenager is having to stay up for his curfew to make he sure gets home. Or to make sure he has a ride home in case he needs one.

Yeah, this probably should have been a post, but, ultimately, I'm simply saying: Trump is lawless. Too many people and institutions are letting him. We don't have to let him. When we don't, we win.

Finished We Begin at The End. It’s one of those books I’ll still be thinking about later. Onto These Summer Storms. 📚💙 #AmReading

I just spent a week in Portland. The city was busy with tourists and locals enjoying late summer. A prosperous downtown. Factually, there is no observable evidence of a city needing military intervention. A reminder that this is not normal. Please pay attention.

The thing that will drive me insane is watching the right explicitly calling for violence against their enemies (see also the Daily Caller article) and then in the same breath declaring anyone who even points it out as being a violent extremist, and then the media going “Sure, makes sense to me”

Just came from protest and then an emergency community meeting for Doctor Ian Roberts. #Iowa #ICE

The Red Sox better not be their usual cheap bastard selves. They need to re-sign Bregman.

temp check from Chicago: just witnessed four wine moms in the wine bar in a Marianos grocery store on the Far North Side swapping recommendations on where to buy “Fuck ICE” t-shirts

Abolish ICE.

Congressional Candidate: "The federal government is restricting access to public spaces in order to carry out unpopular and often illegal actions." Very Serious Person: "But why are you dressed like that?"

I did not get Sarah McLachlan tickets today, but I did get Ed Sheeran tickets and I am going to take my youngest with me. He'll be 12 and I cannot think of a better date.

Holy shit, I just got Ed Sheeran tickets for next year.

this thread, and everything bearing witness to the honorless slaughter at Wounded Knee, is important

he’s right

Like, how is the MEDIA not bringing this up all the time. He was convicted of 34 felonies for being corrupt! They just parrot his charges that other people are WITHOUT mentioning that HE was actually convicted. The gaslighting in this country is unfuckingreal.

Wild to me that a felon convicted on 34 counts of corruption is calling other people corrupt.

Wounded Knee was a massacre, not a fucking battle. The men, women, and children were defenseless and were slaughtered scholarship.miami.edu/esploro/outp...

The gutting thing is when I speak to anybody under 25 or so, and they… don’t know this is unusual. The only America they’ve ever known is this openly corrupt, broken one.

Logged in to get Sarah McLachlan tickets for the orpheum and it's already sold out in 10 minutes. I can get 2 single ticket for almost $400 each, but then my sister and I can't sit together and I'm not paying $800 to sit separately. I hate ticketmaster.

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

A basic point, but the reason you go after flawed actors like Comey is to habituate people to the abuse of prosecutorial authority, so that when more serious figures are targeted the abuse of authority feels routine.

reposting with alt text because I think the choice to include homophobia and transphobia in particular here is actually very much worth drawing attention to. nuns emphatically stating that those “do not reflect the qualities of a saint” is a very clear callout of Cardinal Dolan