does anyone even care anymore that this is so straightforwardly illegal

That episode of Over The Garden Wall where all the skeleton pumpkin people are asking Greg and Wirt why they won’t move there and join them is exactly like being a gay guy visiting New York... "so Sam why don't you join us?"

lifting while listening to the ezra klein/ta-nehisi coates podcast

Echoes of Enrique Peñalosa's “A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It’s where the rich use public transportation."

The lack of mainstream coverage of regular huge protests reminds me of a talk from a Twitter employees who explained that they had to drop BLM off the Trending Tags section because otherwise it would have been there permanently. The modern media environment has no appetite for sustained movements.

90% of elected Dems do not know how to fight, do not want to fight, did not run for office to fight, and are not smart enough or principled enough to fight. They entered office so they could fiddle with policy and feel important, they want to hide until it blows over, and will find excuses to do so.

It’s hack to say but it’s exhausting that every single Republican administration of my life has tanked the economy and people still need to be convinced to not vote for that

Democrats seem to believe the job of Congress is to amass seniority until you die instead of, like, representing anybody

Hey there summer boy

these people are fucking morons and the mainstream “lets just hear them out” bull shit is going to get so many people killed

This sort of admission—the VP is involved in prosecutorial decisions, the "concerns" arise from political actors, and the administration knows they don't have probable cause—would have prompted the Founders to impeach everyone involved.

Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations. The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.

All power to my SISTERS who wore the big blue jeans/little black top uniform to heckle the feds on 14th street last night ✊

We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue.

I'm convinced the Big Balls thing was a false flag, by the way

She lives in Somerville, Massachusetts

Would be fab among many other things for DC to have a federal representative who can immediately get in front of a camera and say why a military occupation is bad, but instead we have an 88 year old who isn’t sure what her job is

DC is a beautiful city full of great people. I have always felt safe here for the last 12 years. The reason I am weighing leaving is that a dictator is overthrowing our government, full stop

Yeah, I'm never voting for Buttigieg even if he's the nominee. This is a bright line for me. You cave on trans issues and lend credence to bigots, it's over. I'm not letting the Dems go down the path of Labour. www.them.us/story/pete-b...

I have learned that my hometown has erected a statue of the local cryptid, the Higganum Mucket

The way these guys (who pay for Twitter) have bought into the AI slop bubble is funny considering it's the product of the kind of insular, self-defeating ideological faction that they accuse everyone else of being in

can you tell i’m from massachusetts :/

My entire extended family thinks this way about every single city. They remain shocked and concerned that I live in Washington or visit New York, because they're too scared to even set foot in Hartford, Connecticut. Lives completely distorted by a Fox addiction

An underrated reason why the government is Like This now is that they are all chugging Celsius constantly

It's a simple political position. I think everyone involved with Jubilee should be sent to the Hague

The promise of a monsoon the second I clock out of work every day forever… I’m sick of DC

I clocked a gag on the HBO period drama The Gilded Age

I take the title of Best Man very seriously

The Bad Place saw it first

So are all the news outlets saying Zohran Mamdani is using coded antisemitic language and if you read between the lines you can tell how bad he is going to make a big deal about the worlds richest man making a chatbot that advocates for Hitler?

In Broken Glass we have a new winner of the I Hate The Headlines And The Weather Award for Lyric That Makes Me Say “SO true Lorde”

It’s not clocking to you that he’s standing on clock business

It’s DC’s most glamorous accessory: back sweat!

Trump calls for deporting US citizens: "We also have a lot of bad people that have been here for a long time ... many of them were born in our country. I think we ought to get them the hell out of here too, if you want to know the truth. So maybe that'll be the next job."

Obsessed with this incredible @chiosse.bsky.social clip x: www.instagram.com/reel/DLkHzBa...

We have got to call these concentration camps what they are, man

I think that we should point out to voters that this is what happens when Republicans have power, rather than (sorry but) paling around with your Liz Cheneys

Now that's what I call a generational mandate

In Washington DC women are not allowed on 14th Street NW unless they are wearing big blue jeans little black top

it's great to have long-term grand policy ambitions, but the short-term can really only involve root-and-branch dismantling of the republican party, and for that democrats are going to have to get really good at bureaucratic ratfuckery of the "in light of this 1823 statute, 2+2=5" kind

Let's run through the finish www.huffpost.com/entry/andrew...

If Mamdani wins, it feels pretty essential that he, the nyc dsa, and whatever faction of progressive orgs and dem party operatives he controls altogether never shut the fuck up about how the institutional dem leadership to the same side as some of the worst republican activists re: mayor endorsement

We’re receiving reports that a gay guy got a haircut… more news on this developing story at 11

I just do not believe any of these people think trump is actually fascist, or that fascism poses an actual threat to their way of life. their public statements and actions simply do not comport with someone who takes the threat seriously or thinks it exists at all.

the more i learn about ai development and the data centers these tech corporations are building and the amount of money and power the people in these companies have and the jobs they want to destroy, the more i understand that we cannot let them build this future they want for us

If Democrats’ next move is a series of podcast episodes titled like What We Talk About When We Talk About Talking To Men instead of just being normal we’re cooked