As a Canadian, what I've learned so far: - Minnesotans are very nice and VERY organized - Mainers are aggressively xenophobic but in a way that lCE will not like - Philadelphians crave the blood of their enemies - LA is ground zero for chaos tactics that never lose - New Yorkers love gay hockey

This Rocky Horror cast is nuts.

Grumpy's Tavern Garfield, WA

I will simply never recover from reading this sentence: "Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people."

This isn't mine, and I can't definitively find the original source. But I love this little bit of wisdom: "If you're a fifteen-minute walk from a coffee shop, but the server there has to drive an hour to get to work, you don't live in a walkable city. You live in a theme park."

Yes. get rid of the entire concept of the DHS - restore these agencies to their pre-DHS status as entirely civilian bureaucracies. Heck, I'm pretty sure all the scandals we've had with the Secret Service have occurred during the era after it was moved to DHS and out of Treasury.

Michael Rappaport ass senator.

*Watching 10,000 videos taken of the same horrifying murder* "You know what we need? Body cams"

pure fan fiction from our political media. "Imagine if trump were an entirely different human being than the one he has presented to the world for over 70 years!" Yes sure, and I can also imagine that I am tinkerbell.

in political comms, waking up to something like "she was a parttime yoga instructor who also runs a facebook group of 163 people who like old movies, but recent events have caused her to mobilize against you" is the equivalent of being woken up on a flight by the sound of someone starting a chainsaw

"Sir, r/catbongos has fallen" www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

i realize this is actually important information, but it is insane that "MURDERING INNOCENT CIVILIANS IS UNPOPULAR" is a thing we'd even question

These poll results are wild.

Same but Cookie Monster.

Always fun to remember NRA champion Ronald Reagan passed some of the most restrictive gun laws in the country when he was governor of California because the Black Panthers were exercising their 2nd Amendment rights.

Interesting. Stephen Miller is looking increasingly isolated inside the White House as others start realizing that deliberate, concerted ethnonationalist brutality and sadism is hurting Republicans politically. Per WSJ:

Hello I’m the ubermensch, my one weakness is whistles

Walz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdami advises New Yorkers to stay home and read ‘Heated Rivalry’ during the winter storm via hearts530

years and years of avoiding plain language and the active voice do make the choice to use it more impactful, I suppose

In some countries the outbreak of bloodshed inspires the opposition party to call for the leader to resign

On a downtown street in Minneapolis, as people stream out from the massive march, Mary Tyler Moore says “fuck ice.”

Since it came up back in season one, Sandy in Disneyland might have been the very first thing we ever added to The List. Well, here we are! You’re welcome? Join us and very special guest star David Beukema as we sing and dance through the happiest place on earth! www.muppeturgy.com/episodes/san...

This is an excellent analogy, because my recollection from grade school is that the pen on the right looks fun and exciting, and then you play with it for a few minutes and realize it's not actually useful for anything and in fact makes some tasks more cumbersome, and never think about it again.

a thread for hope from one of the best writers out here

Maybe this time AI'll be lucky Maybe this time he'll stay

If you have read even a single history of fascism, you are already aware that one thing that its rise has in common in every case is an opposition party that refuses to intervene for fear of looking weak or putting the left into power

Trying to imagine if the early versions of MS Word had failed to capture 40-60% of the words you typed so most of your work ended up gibberish and you had to spend hours fixing it. And then if Bill Gates was like, you fools, you must keep paying for it or the world is doomed

I would like him to know how many times we’ve been super excited that he might be dead. Like Tom Sawyer going to his own funeral but everyone’s like FUCK YEAH THIS IS AMAZING

i think this MLK day the thing to focus on is the strategic focus and tactical brilliance of the civil rights movement and the way it was laser focused on a set of achievable goals

In a sane world this person wouldn’t just lose their job, but they would very kindly be sent to a 24/7 psychiatric facility

I think one secret to Zohran Mamdani’s whole deal is that he doesn’t seem to hate his city or have contempt for the people who live there. This could be studied and perhaps employed elsewhere.

Tune in next time, when you'll hear David Beukema say, "That's Sandy's journey through the whole special: she starts with an ode to polyamory, and at the end she chooses herself."

Reminder that ICE decided to Try It in NYC and ended up trapped in a parking structure for several hours by regular New Yorkers, some of whom were out doing holiday shopping and all of whom were Simply Not Having It, and, even with protection from the NYPD, ultimately had to abort mission and flee.

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As you watch this analysis, which is VERY clear, remember that Trump, Vance and Noem have been straight-up lying about it from day one—and that Renee Good still had a pulse when ICE refused to allow her medical attention. Call it what it is: state murder. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/v...

Direct investment and tax credits in arts and culture are generally great for local economies. Hockey tv show has more economic and cultural clout than hockey stadium.

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There are many tactics Republicans can & may employ to try to depress voter turnout and intimidate voters. That said, voter turnout can also be depressed by people preemptively declaring the election is rigged. It takes effort to get to the polls, it doesn't help to tell people it's not worth it.

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I was already in but now I am IN.

It is so important to me that Jonathan Bailey is first and foremost a gay theater kid, and all the rest is secondary.

lmfao

No love for Bill Clinton in particular, but this is amazing.

Frost: People should know that them cutting your healthcare, them cutting nutritional assistance, SNAP benefits, all this stuff—they're cutting that from working people so they can give ICE money to go terrorize our communities.

Democrat weaves current state sponsored murder spree into economic messaging, party members are speechless

semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003 when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out

"the excesses of wokeness" as a broad social phenomenon is one of the most made-up things that ever happened and every single time a progressive person did something obnoxious or mean or stupid it got blown up into evidence of cultural rot, down to individual college students and Goodreads bloggers

Let me tell you what, when I confronted ICE here in NYC a couple months ago (after they kidnapped a bunch of street vendors) by making fun of them it gave me the most nourishing sense of inner peace I've had in a decade of this tyrannical bullshit. If you can LAUGH AT THESE PATHETIC FUCKS