What is so maddening about this to me is it frames the “economy” as something like an entity to be nurtured for its own sake, rather than a sack of measurements acting as a proxy for a society’s material wellbeing. If the society tells you it’s not feeling well, then the economy is not doing well.

MTG is politically irredeemable, Platner is unfit for office. No reasonable definition of leftism, justice, and love for neighbor provides space for antisemitism in public life.

It is interesting that people like Dawkins never find it to be an ontological problem that by purpose the machines cannot initiate conversations.

After Trump's latest genocidal utterances, I'm posting this again from Anaïs Nin’s diary from 1939-1944: “America is in even greater danger because of its cult of toughness, its hatred of sensitivity, and someday it may have to pay a price for this, because atrophy of feeling creates criminals”.

When Harry Met Salad

Jews are targeted in shuls & online. Brown & Black people are abducted and sent to concentration camps. Muslims are openly targeted by politicians. Activists & journalists are targeted by the FBI. Trans & queer people are being outlawed. We are in this together. This is why solidarity matters.

War is massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who do know each other but don't massacre each other.

What pisses me off most about this is the “vote blue no matter who” contingent who screamed for years about needing to compromise in order to prevent Bush from dismantling democracy, is now insisting I must compromise and vote for Bush’s policies in order to prevent Trump from dismantling democracy.

they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.

WPA for the 2026 depression, except it’s just hiring thousands of pissed off people to tear down all the dumb shit he put places.

Legitimately I’m ashamed of my profession at this point

Dick Cheney would have loved this

Oh he knows

“Do they have a Nazi tattoo” is a great purity test, actually.

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

Someone in the crowd: “Go Cubs!” Pope Leo XIV: “Han perdido! They lost!”

“She knows that her proclamation of the Gospel is credible only when it is translated into gestures of closeness and welcome. And she knows that in every rejected migrant, it is Christ himself who knocks at the door of the community.”

Matthew 15:29-31: And great crowds came to him, bringing with them the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute, and many others, and they put them at his feet, and he healed them after verifying their citizenship status.

Bearing a cross on wheels is a great metaphor for Christian oppression

PCU2

Today, 95 House Democrats voted with Republicans to honor Charlie Kirk.   My opponent, Nikki Budzinski, sided with Republicans, which she’s done over 42% of the time, during her tenure in Congress.   Mainstream media and democrats continue to white wash his legacy.   youtube.com/shorts/vU1H6...

Also worth emphasizing that this ruling is a license for the state to harass and abuse latinos & others *for their entire lives.* It's not like you get checked off after one encounter with ICE and never bothered after that, it means that you will be perpetually hounded by the state until you die

Reasonable Expectations

If you can’t be safe might as well be brave

I told my wife on Tuesday I had a weirdly unshakable feeling that Trump was about to die. I’m posting this here because if I’m right I’d like her to buy me very nice cocktails the second they are available tomorrow.

It is bananas that we use a framework for understanding “free speech” that was defined by people who owned people and who communicated political ideas mostly through pamphlets and not bitchy makeup tutorials and memes. What more evidence do we need that it doesn’t work in this info environment?

We have two jowly, jovial midwestern uncles who have what appear to be sincerely held values about their pretty decent politics, but no you ding dongs want us to offer up our votes to Kim Guilfoyle’s sweaty Temu Daddy Warbucks-ass ex.

This is great: a National Guardsman standing up to say every member of the National Guard and military "is legally obliged to disobey an illegal order."

Well doesn’t this just sum up the DNC perfectly- “holding space” and “housing insecurity” are in the same category of social justice jargon only if you think progressive politics is a matter of language and signaling, not actual policy let alone deeply held values.

I hope James Dobson will be remembered for his many accomplishments in life, such as beating a 12-pound dog with a belt and recommending parents do the same to their children

I’m not sure we’ll ever know now that Christopher Lee is dead.

I literally brought this article up in therapy today. The validation I got from the reminder that being this stuck isn’t a personal or moral failure gave me relief I haven’t felt in a while.

This piece on fewer people moving around is a must-read (gift link), as it has implications for higher education and economic mobility more broadly. Housing policy and interest rates affect nearly everyone.

Modern T-Ball

Arby’s: She has the meats

Free Palestine

Ditto, 80% of all pumpkin consumed in the US is produced in one county in Illinois

Nowadays because of woke it’s Renewable Energy Light Orchestra

The entire Trek fandom should be pro-Palestine because it’s literally Bajor

Saving this in my phone under favorites to pull up whenever people ask me what I’m earth we’d do without the police to save us if we abolished the system

As soon as Roe was thrown out I got my tubes tied. As my doctor said, you can still get pregnant, just not by accident.

People so unable to even conceive of solidarity that it looks to them like being a traitor.

Judson Memorial Church (New York), instructing us that “if empathy is a sin, sin boldly.”

Watching the Democratic Party distance themselves from the most popular candidate in 15 years: proof they can in fact stand on principles despite how the principles poll, but it turns out the principles fucking suck.

This Fourth of July I’m declaring my independence from giving a shit about the New York Times

Forever