part of this is like, conservatives projecting; part of this is conservatives unable to imagine politics without money; and part of this is dudes who are so out of touch with feminized labor that they think children's birthday parties exist as a spontaneous act of parthogenesis

Hot take, but I don’t think American civilians should be killed in the street by federal forces. Honestly I think that goes for every country.

Aren’t we glad we spent a couple decades maintaining the right for school children to be shot in schools because those weapons could theoretically we used to prevent government tyranny? Oh wait, it doesn’t actually work that way and it was just an excuse to desensitize us to murder?

Appears this is also true for fascism.

Panic! At The Everywhere

Mamdani: "I am in support of abolishing ICE. What we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist. We're seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some kind of immigration law, but instead what it's doing is terrorizing people."

I need to apologize for something I did. The @bostonherald.com is right, there is no place for profanities in politics.

Breathtakingly evil

Decency always loses to fascism

Today is a great reminder that we can never be too ready.

I can’t stop laughing at this

I owned all of the Calvin and Hobbes collections. I wonder where those went, actually

As someone who used to, not so long ago, assist people with the daunting process of applying for federal positions - I don’t even know what to say. Fixing this is going to take a generation.

i hope all the people resisting ICE on the ground know how fucking inspiring they are. minneapolis right now, and chicago and LA and charlotte and DC and portland before them, you’re setting the blueprint for the future battles sure to come. thank you.

Missed this on Friday -- Connecticut Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz: "Renee Good's death was a murder." ct-n.com/ctnplayer.as...

so what's everyone telling their boss. like hey sorry my work is shit right now but The Horrors

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.

After the assassination of Melissa Hortman it’s not hard to understand why a woman in Minnesota would be afraid of a man in a mask who says he’s a cop.

The first two hours this morning

The end goal of Grok sexual harassment is to make women afraid to be visible. It’s a punishment for daring to exist in a way the perpetrators can’t control. There’s no one solution to this, because the problem isn’t just technological. It’s cultural. It’s misogyny. This is just one expression of it.

the reason people sometimes act madder at democrats than republicans when republicans do impossibly evil shit is the same reason why, if you hired an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he showed up to feed and play with them instead, your first instinct wouldn’t be to yell at the roaches

I’m so tired, you guys

Fuck yeah, Bridgeport! #NutmegSky

we, in the United States, through Trump’s mass deportation scheme, have engaged in abductions and torture for the past year, none of it in secret, much of it attested to in legal documents. there is nothing to expose, only to face.

Oceans of data on job, education and housing discrimination: Try harder, losers, stop blaming everyone else Anecdotal evidence and innumeracy: There's no point in trying, the deck is stacked against us and it is a great injustice that must be rectified

A story I found about Haiti: In 1999, a group of Haitians were tired of political disorder and dreamed of a better life in the United States. So they built a small, 23-foot boat by hand using pine trees, scrap wood, and used nails. They called the boat "Believe in God."

Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true

"Cloud Dancer is the color of a MacBook charger in its waning days of service." Goddamn.

A relevant tidbit about the housing status quo this Free Press writer is so determined to uphold: in Connecticut, four-fifths of residentially zoned land requires a minimum lot size of *one acre,* seventeen times the size of a standard New York City lot.

It’s 100% this.

The White House’s insistence on using Sabrina Carpenter’s work and image to promote their crimes against humanity is also them appealing to their base, which already uses technology to try and humiliate and puppeteer the likenesses of women who have autonomy, success, and visibility in public

Break Ya Neck in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. We live in wild times man

Writing isn’t boring!!! If you’re using AI for the parts of your writing that you find boring, WHY ARE YOU WRITING?!?!? Literally!!! Ask yourself!!! Why are you doing this!!!!

Some delightful reading for fellow orange cat enjoyers:

Super interesting thread!

Yippee ki-yay, Charlie Brown

just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management. remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.

these epstein emails are pretty damning. i sure hope that we haven't spent the last couple years in a cultural backslide where men are seemingly allowed to openly and gleefully fantasize about dominating young women without any threat of reproach

Go volunteer for a progressive launching a “hopeless” campaign against an extremely entrenched incumbent currently squatting in a safe Blue seat. The worst thing that happens, is that you drag the incumbent to the Left. Best case? Zohran Mamdani, who was polling at 6% in January.

Donald Trump has asked his employees on the Supreme Court to overrule lower court orders demanding that he fulfill his duties to feed Americans who are due SNAP benefits AND He's demanding that states which just rushed to fill the vacuum created by his cruelty "undo" that work.

Imagine an end to doomscrolling into the wee hours, and instead a restful night of sleep, every night until you die

Raising a glass for Rosalind Franklin tonight. James Watson absolutely did her dirty. But beware...

No mention of Rosalind Franklin? Fucking lame

"Strictly speaking, this was misdemeanor assault. He threw an object. It hit an officer. Those are the facts. Any other context, any other time, that’s a conviction. The jury could have found him guilty on the law and the facts. open.substack.com/pub/mikebroc...

Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment

There will be some recounts, but early results are that Dems flipped 30 towns in Connecticut. Republicans flipped 1, by less than 10 votes, which will go to a recount. 30 towns.

Average home gardening experience

It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.

“Oh poor people can buy popsicles with food stamps” shut the fuck up the government gives perverts a trillion dollars in government money each year for pervert factories for billionaires the fucking popsicles are none of your fuckin business