It's lucky that our vote won't matter anymore because I will have a hard time feeling like I should bother to vote in the future for members of a party that couldn't care less about me anyway. The Democratic party can die in a fire. I'm done with National politics.

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

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.

"Why do you just attack democrats? Why don't you ever go after republicans?" Same reason I think it's necessary to warn people off an inexplicably popular restaurant that keeps giving everyone food poisoning but don't see the need to warn people off of eating directly out of an open sewer.

Yup. It's all part of the game by which the ruling class keeps us fighting over silly things like political party rather than understanding what we really need to do is end the existence of all millionaires.

Important to understand this. There's a reasonable chance that your Dem Senator who voted against it and is acting mad now was in on the play. It's the same reason why they scheduled the surrender for AFTER the election this week. They didn't want people pissed at Dems right before an election.

Yeah, but that was before air travel was in trouble and the senators were personally affected, see

The thing to remember is that what we see as a major "win" on Tuesday is an overt threat to the ruling class. This cave is about giving up on the people and clinging to the last vestiges of a dying economy so they can siphon off as much as possible on their way out.

Nice of the WAPO to finally notice something that has been happening for five years or more now, but it has less to do with a weak labor market or a flood of applications. It has to do with them not actually giving a shit about job seekers, job havers, or really anyone except their shareholders.

I was at a business conference where a mother from Chicago was constantly on the phone with her daughter who was at a school about to be menaced by ICE. "Leave. Leave now!" she was saying and had arranged someone to pick her up, then was worried until she knew her daughter was home safe.

Watched "Labyrinth" tonight because of recent discussions about weirdos creeping on Sarah, and man that movie still holds up as well today as it did when I first saw it. Which is to say that Jareth is a creep and can definitely slink around my bedroom any time.

"Big Apple billionaire lied about planning to move his business to New Jersey. Now he looks like the pathetic jackass he always was." There, Forbes. I fixed it for you.

A response to the previous reskeet that is particularly apropos to many of my followers. 🐕🐩🐕‍🦺🐶

10/10 take. No notes.

Kaltag asking for treats last week! No chocolate for dogs please. #FursuitFriday

It's okay to be "Bad at Life." It's okay if you never learn how to be. The important thing is that you embrace it and get help with the things your brain doesn't handle well. Perhaps a friend is good at the things you are bad at. Perhaps they are bad at things you are good at.

As an "Olde Cape Codder" this comment wins The Internet. Maybe even the version from ten or so years ago when everything wasn't enshittified.

And this is what they call “the ole Chappaquiddick Farewell” in the Kennedy family, dude couldn’t help it, it’s in his blood.

Probably inwardly seething at being upstaged, but minimally aware of the concept of humanity just enough to be trying not to show it. Also he can only hold one complete thought at a time, and he knows if he responds to the event he will forget who he is and what he is doing.

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Now that state and local courts are starting to (glacially) begin some sort of judicial review of the actions of individual ICE Goons, I am eagerly looking forward to where the government they think has their back abandons them. ICE prefers Goons that don't get captured and charged.

So far they’ve discovered “purest green”.

Nvidia buys Nvidia to supply Nvidia with Nvidia on behalf of Nvidia

This smells like Vulture Capitalist work. Grammarly was a good product. Superhuman was (apparently, I never tried it) a good product. Coda was a good product. All mashed together and turned into crud.

We only rate dogs. This is spaghetti con salsiccia. Obviously has the noodles and the sausage, but is notably missing sauce. Please only send dogs. Thank you… 13/10 (IG: futrinka_tacsko)

Wonder why this scene looks so familiar... #WildlifeWednesday 🐦🐕

Kinda surprised he's heard about it, considering how busy he is not doing anything for the last 7 weeks and all.

Even more accurately, it's Billionaires vs. Everyone Else. It's time to end their existence by making them mere Millionaires. (I'm aware of how silly that sounds, but that's America in the 21st Century.)

It's no longer left versus right or even Democrat versus Republican. It’s now democracy versus oligarchy. Freedom versus dictatorship. Right versus wrong. Millions are awakening to this new reality — and they're speaking up. The sleeping giant of America is roaring.

I think a lot of this is the dividends of the last ten years, when the realization dawned on many that the system is a shell game and we are always the mark. We still have a way to go to completely escape the cage that the elites have built to contain us, but the bars are weakening.

I was woken early this morning by the distant sound of all the Billionaires fleeing NYC. I smiled serenely and went back to sleep.

I’ve been on a ~journey~ with social media lately, in part linked to burnout and my own serious concerns about how it‘s harming our information ecosystem and therefore the human race. But I have to say that at times like this, Bluesky’s ability to surface important news is now unmatched.

Another experimental piece! We used our ultra slim base to create a 'use your own eyes'/'puphood' style suit head! This one is not for sale! But we may offer this type of hood in the future after some refinement! ❤️🐶 #furry #fursuit #puphood #fursuitmaker t.me/MidnightMkrs

I saw lots of people with "I Voted" stickers today and kept feeling guilty for not voting... despite the fact that our district had literally nothing on which to vote. (They pushed all otherwise open school board elections to next year.) I feel cheated.

I found out my debut book was rejected by a ton of big bookstores due to “no interest” 👀 Please show them that introverts are INTERESTED and deserve to be HEARD!!!

One of our country's greatest war criminals just died, the president is arguing with himself about whether or not to let 40 million people starve, and there is an actual courtroom drama about a five dollar footlong. How are any of us supposed to maintain emotional regulation.

Still life with huskies #Huskies #Photography #Chiaroscuro

Well, every bisexual about my age just pumped their fist in the air if this actually comes to fruition.

Extraordinary how many establishment Democrats really wish they didn't have a talented rising new star who connects to people by talking to them and understanding what their interests are, then speaking to those interests. Like a job where the new guy makes everyone look bad simply by doing the job.

Puss & Kitty

Puss & Death

their plainly stated goal is to starve forty million people until they get what they want, which is to rip health care away from millions more that this is too monstrous for most news organizations to tell the truth about does not change the facts

He's both a model (relentless cost-of-living focus, cheerful and informative social media) and a fluke (crooked mayor gets bigfooted by hated ex-gov, ZM wins primary).

A proposal 💍 [ #art #commissions ]

It's also hard for consultants, coaches, and service providers. Pretty much anyone serving individuals and small businesses. The best thing you can do right now is start figuring out parallel things you can do. Got a skill someone else might want? Can you make an education product out of it?

You laugh, but I tried sleeping on regular bedsheets and I was a woman for 37 years. Explain that!

Yeah, sorry... I'll give you that we still managed to have a protest without being violently attacked, but we don't actually have either a "mostly free press" or an "independent judiciary" anymore. Not that either would help given an administration that doesn't care about popularity or legality.

That’s because the old-guard institutionalist Democrat pretty much always was one anyway.