To be clear: this entire “we’ve got to run more pro-lifers” insanity is because literally a week ago polling showed that Democrats would prefer politicians like AOC and Mamdani over Jefferies and Schumer by, let me emphasize this, a 20 point fucking margin. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

I would love for a single democrat to reckon with the fact that conservatives are not in fact motivated by reasonable concerns. They are — just as they were with ‘concerns’ over blacks and gays and numerous other minorities over the last five decades — motivated by bigotry.

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How do you deal with a political party that worries about doing what their voters ask of them, for fear that they will alienate people who don't vote for them?

I recall an anonymous quote from an elected Democrat asking with exasperation: do people expect us to put our bodies on the line? @katmabu.bsky.social did it. She gets it. All the respect.

One thing I've hesitated to say clearly is that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment disqualifies anyone who provides aid or comfort to insurrectionists, not just insurrectionists themselves. The Democrats are without question fulfilling this requirement.

Every pundit who took at face value the idea that the Right sincerely cares about free speech, or ideological diversity, or in fact has any principles at all, should be wearing a dunce cap and writing a lengthy mea culpa right now. Not for our catharsis but for public awareness at least

The Republican Party as it is currently constituted will destroy the United States — politically, economically, socially and culturally. The democratic reform of our federal system isn't only justified in itself, but necessary to force its moderation into a party compatible with liberal democracy.

Basically. The first political story I remember following was the 2000 election. It's difficult to take for granted that our divisions are a temporary aberration if they're all you've known. One's personal experiences aren't enough though. You also have to appreciate that history began before 1945.

If bigots are not just free to be open about bigotry but can use the state to punish undesireables for wrongthink we no longer have a democracy in which all can partake; we have a state that determines who gets to be human and who does not. What Ezra proposes is negotiating the terms of surrender.

I tell you it is deeply infuriating to raise small children and try to instill in them that throwing tantrums to get what you want is unacceptable behavior and then you look at the news and all you see everywhere is tantrums being rewarded government by petulant five year olds

i need everyone to understand and internalize this shit deeply. The antithesis to "weird fanfic with problematic elements" is "Women can't open their own bank accounts because they are property."

The wild thing, to me, is how Mitch McConnell—when he was Minority Leader—did so much to constantly fuck up what the dems—WHO HAD THE MAJORITY—wanted/tried to do, and now minority dem leaders do not have (or use) that same power/tactics. Wtf.

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Those reading this as approval of Kirk’s killing are reading words that aren’t there. I don’t want to live in a world of normalized violence. Charlie Kirk spent his life ensuring we all have to live in such a world. We do everything a disservice to elide the reality of that.

It's totally unfair to judge the Israeli state based on the actions of the Prime Minister, Defense Minister, Finance Minister, National Security Minister, Diaspora Minister, Foreign Minister, and Settlements Minister. You're also taking their calls to flatten Gaza and kill everyone out of context.

Easy vote for me: #azurite is beautiful and familiar, but come on. Originally discovered from a dissolved meteorite? Literally CALLED "space color"? My standard metric for picking a mineral is pretty much maxed out, so my vote is #kosmochlor. #MinCup25

Print these words out, post them up where you and everyone else can see them, read them daily, and fight the good fight.

Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing

Two trials will be repeated endlessly despite always producing the same results: 1) Does UBI work? (yes) 2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)

I've been doing a re-read of the Dresden Files, and it makes me want to visit Chicago again. I know it's fiction, but one of the things that makes it good is how it captures the essence of Chicago so well. I won't spoil Battle Ground, but you don't mess with Chicago, no matter how big you are.

I am a hypermasculine and extremely powerful alpha male. As such my greatest fears are seed oils, rainbows, people who don't look like me being on TV, and preventative medicine. I cannot explain any of these fears and consider that to be your fault.

Oh jeez. "[T]his man 'curates his aesthetic in a way that he thinks might render him more likable to progressive women. He is, in short, the antithesis of the toxic man.'" We can't believe that people are authentically who they are anymore. We must attribute everything to putting on a mask.

Low-temperature stars have spectra characterized by TiO, but as the temperature drops, those bands disappear. This is due to the formation of #perovskite grains that rain down on the star (or brown dwarf). You don't get more spacey than that, so for this round of #MinCup25, it's perovskite for me.

6. “Elections are won from the centre” is a mantra used to try to block challenges from the left. It says “you can’t win if you want to change the system”. It ignores the fact that first the neoliberals and now the far right have completely transformed – in some respects replaced - the system.

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Darin. Darin was studying business administration and her husband Fesal was studying accounting. Darin gave birth to their little girl Lareen during the war. They’ve lost everything and Lareen was injured by shrapnel recently. They need help ❤️

My long-standing habit is to vote for minerals with an outer space connection whenever possible. Pectolite is pretty, but it appears to be an Earth-bound phenomenon. Chrysotile, however, is an asbestos, highly useful for sound insulation and its resistance to heat, electric and chemical damage.

Anything short of a wholehearted "fuck literally all of this, we are going to go Nuremburg on these freaks and then drain Elon dry to fund fixing this stuff" will lose, badly. And there's like zero chance the dems will even think to say that.

Ooh, zunyite is triangles that look deliberately crafted but aren't, and that's appealing. www.mindat.org/min-4433.html

For 12 months, America had a limited proof of concept for universal healthcare, and it was so uniformly successful we had no choice but to obliterate our society

If you’re the side of: - capital interests - wealth as an indicator of virtue/the value of one’s societal contributions - free markets - “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help’” …you’re fucked. COVID just exposed you entirely.

People need to understand just how openly genocidal the rhetoric on the far right is getting towards transgender people. They're openly talking about eradicating us and forcefully mass institutionalizing all trans people. These are people with direct ties to the Trump administration.

You'd think journalists would brag about something like, "We stood with Palestine early, when it was wildly unpopular, because we knew it was right." But nope! In 2025 you earn kudos by bragging about how nice you were to each other while you abandoned any pretense of having moral values.

it is unconscionable that this is how @apnews.com reports a deadly IDF strike that KILLED ONE OF THEIR OWN FREELANCERS

So here comes the trolley, barreling its way to the fork in the tracks. Yes, and here's the switch, and the people on the tracks; five of them in the trolley's current path, one on the alternate track. And then there's you, standing at the only switch. www.the-reframe.com/there-is-no-...

CEO pay is up 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 24%. Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?

Made some focaccia.

Trans kids have a very high rate of homelessness due to their families kicking them out onto the street. Newsom has *definitely* killed trans kids for being homeless. All it takes is tossing out their ID and meds. A thing he, personally, has done on camera with a huge smile on his face.

If a candidate who definitely could beat Trump proposed re-enslaving Black people would you expect Black people to vote for that person? Let’s use our noggins for a change.

When Ted Turner asked Carl Sagan if he was a socialist, Sagan gave the answer America keeps failing to learn.

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this isn't an matter of pet issues and compromise, it's about the core dangers of our current moment. If we're lucky enough to have a change in regime again, the next President will have to rebuild the entirety of civil rights law from the ashes. Newsom has told us over and over again he won't.

MIT’s NANDA initiative found that 95% of generative AI deployments fail after interviewing 150 execs, surveying 350 workers, and analyzing 300 projects. The real “productivity gains” seem to come from layoffs and squeezing more work from fewer people not AI.

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it's insane that for basically my entire adult life every election has been The Most Important Election and to save democracy we all have to abandon our principles and play nice with fascists and vote for a guy everybody hates. and now here we are and it turns out none of that saved democracy anyway

For years people said it was a gross exaggeration to label Nazism and its associated viewpoints within the modern conservative movement and especially online. Now Nazis are openly thriving and their rhetoric is impossible to avoid and many of the people who downplayed it are saying nothing at all

Like, I get why you wouldn't want your constitution to say that the head of state should be "of sound mind and good moral character" or something like that, but dang it, it would help.