Angela: what’re you listening to Me: blank check episode where they go to the zoo and watch The Bear and The Squirrel 4D Angela: The Bear and The Squirrel 4Deez Nuts … Angela: Because squirrels

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Like I dunno, maybe the reason it took a lady to break open the story of all the men protecting the dude trafficking underage girls is because the male journos were all emailing him making jokes about it?

What the Epstein files show is the *solidarity* of many men-across class, race, religion, profession & party affiliation-in the global political project of keeping the boot on women's necks. People have no problem understanding class solidarity among the rich. Why can't they see gender solidarity?

Thinking of the time my Irish law school professor said skeptically “oh! [deadname] is a man?” My guy *I* hadn’t even reached the openly skeptical phase what are you doing?

The only reason this seems implausible is because the GOP enforces strong public consensus when it comes to Trump. Privately things aren’t so clean, so when public consensus becomes ambiguous things can collapse quickly

I suppose that points to the other situation, which is something happens with lightning speed in the space between one group abandoning Trump and the other reacting

On the night of Jan 6 if nobody had gone home they may have been able to force through an impeachment and conviction overnight. Once MAGA media engaged the next day any GOP rebels had to back down or become Liz Cheney

For Trump I think this moment comes if there’s a simultaneous break of congressional and MAGA media support. If either supports Trump it stabilizes the situation long enough for the other to be forced back into to the fold

The real monster in Frankenstein is you. Stop reading other people’s letters

The real monster in Frankenstein is you. Stop reading other people’s letters

cleansing water?

In the US, law enforcement isn't just legally allowed to lie to you, they're ENCOURAGED to. OTOH, your lawyer is legally prohibited from lying to you and can lose her license for it. Which of those professions, though, do you reflexively associate more with lying? You're not immune to copaganda.

I’m not going to go item by item but if you want to convince yourself you can believe that every email reflects a personal feud between Trump and Epstein because Trump is trying to expose Epstein Sure that’s absurd but like, these are people unconvinced by the birthday card

Any famous people want to take one last shot at saying there’s nothing in the Epstein files?

Developing a theory that reply guys are particularly driven to lead social media platforms

Pounded From The Left And Right By My Big Bisexual Tent

50 year mortgages is just to make home ownership another form of rent extraction, right? you can’t solve a supply problem by increasing demand

thinking about the episode of The Office where Michael doesn’t know Meryl is the villain of the movie

My favorite art is when The Scream guy and Mona Lisa hang out in Composition with Red Blue and Yellow

Can’t shave because of electrolysis and I have a patchy little pencil mustache and aside from the crippling dysphoria I could be a cute trans guy

It’s impressive how bsky leadership keeps making the exact same mistakes with high profile moderation decisions

*One vegan is annoying about veganism once* lol isn’t it annoying how vegans are always bringing up veganism -every non-vegan for the rest of time

literally one of the quickest ways to watch most Americans turn into rabid frothing fascist zombies is mention the word “vegan” around them. i’m personally not even vegan, i just think it’s neat. a lot of the theory (especially from BIPOC vegan folks) is really fascinating.

I think it’s now safe to call this race. Progressive urban planner Katie Wilson defeats centrist incumbent Bruce Harrell and will become Seattle’s next mayor.

Yall.

Here it is with some editing. I wanted to poste the original tho because this is not at all reflective of the visual

I got this earlier. There was enough light pollution that it was barely visible without the phones filtering

I’m sorry are you kidding me

Knowing how close elections will turn out is both my gift and my curse

Katie Wilson is going to win

The should invent a new sport (not whatever new sport you’re thinking of I mean something else)

The should put the DS9 baseball episode in the hall of fame so that Cirroc Lofton makes it in but not Kenny Lofton

Like the Guardian, people view the BBC as left wing and, as a result, their combined anti trans campaigning has done more damage to trans people than the entire right wing media machine, because they legitimised the right wing's lies.

Bond drives a car real fast through Budapest. He hits a bad guy and then gets out and takes a thumb drive from the guy's jacket pocket and says "didn't your mother ever tell you to look both ways before crossing the street?" and then he shoots the guy twice and drives off BANAAAAT DANAAAAAA

You can’t have him wake up in the shower because the bed would get wet. Have him wake up in a normal place and say it was all a dream. The moon perchance?

like, Bond has literally been my go to example of “characters must have a consistent canon” being bullshit before people got bad comics brain (good comics brain loves canon *because* over a long enough timeframe it’s all a fun inconsistent mess)

guys i can't express the extent to which you need to shut up about the canon of James Bond. nobody cares. it doesn't matter.

Yeah what she said

Are you a boy who yearns for the moment the dog goes the wrong way around your legs and you have to do a little twirl to get untangled? We can help

If you haven't checked to make sure your vote counted, you need to do it now - the race for Seattle's future depends on it!

It’s not about internal recriminations, it’s about removing a leadership that is unable to control or discipline the caucus. The attitude that we cannot fix our internal problems until we defeat the GOP is one reason we keep losing

If you have a book lover in your life, Woodworking by Emily St. James would make a wonderful holiday gift. The hardcover edition is quite handsome. There are desks on the cover! bookshop.org/p/books/wood...

I asked my most politically mainstream democrat friend about the shutdown deal and he said “you can’t tell people to endure pain because you’re fighting for them and then just give up”

(ok but not really, here, have a silly one I just thought of:)

American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.