MVP's Mother's Day post over on IG:

It's because MTG had the aesthetics of an "outsider" who isn't part of the GOP establishment, that's literally it. They're attracted to people who have the veneer of the rebel, everything else is secondary.

I often say that the fight for democracy is the fight of our generation. But let me be clear, if you aren’t fighting for Black voting rights right now then you aren’t really fighting for democracy.

" But misperceptions about that economy may prevent us from appreciating policies — especially the strong response to the pandemic — that were actually very good, and which we should be prepared to emulate in future crises." @pkrugman.bsky.social paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-vindic...

"We need to invite Marjorie Taylor Greene into the tent but a campaign stop with Liz Cheney is a bridge too far" is real "I'm going to become the Joker" stuff for me.

The two pictures are 11 years apart. On 10 May 1933, the Nazi Party staged an ideological spectacle of the burning of 'un-German’ books. 2nd image: Auschwitz II-Birkenau, burning pits outside gas chamber and crematorium V, 1944. #Auschwitz warns us of where ideologies of hatred can lead people.

Dunno why I bother. No one cares.

Anyone care to serve her the receipts? Can't let her get away with lying about who was responsible.

Eating old Beijing 炸酱面 (fried sauce noodles) is a must when visiting the city. Nothing hits the spot quite like savory-sweet fried meat sauce, ground pork, green onions, and crunchy vegetables over thick, chewy noodles. It's not too difficult to make, either.

Big name Democrats joined in with the right-wing on that “he’s old and sickly” bullshit because their worst nightmare was Joe resigning while in office and Kamala, a Black woman, becoming President.

This ought to bring a little joy into your day.

The EU flag is flying at Hungary’s parliament again after Péter Magyar was sworn in as prime minister — the first time it’s been displayed there since Viktor Orbán had it removed in 2014.

But he’ll move goal posts & say he’s not awful re firearms because he wants a holistic approach. They’ll pretend that’s not them just regurgitating Omnicause bs. Doesn’t matter he’s called other vets with PTSD weak. Doesn’t matter he’s trashed other vets. Doesn’t matter he’s trained SRA ammosexuals.

My dad, while we were discussing TN getting rid of the single majority Black district, shook his head and said that "politics" has gotten so ugly. I immediately responded that this was much worse b/c it amounted to removing Black people's voting power, but he had already started to walk away.

I'm sick of Bernie leading his fools down a garden path, and people who think their blue city is the entire country. I'm sick of white-centered populism and privilege. I'm sick of passing people in public, wondering which ones won't care if we disappear.

JFC.

UK police charge two men in connection with filming antisemitic TikTok videos reut.rs/3QPqpnv

Viktor Orban officially steps down as Hungary's prime minister today, May 9, ending his 16-year reign.

Welp, I created a new Instagram account. Had one once and deleted it along with with my Facebook and Threads accounts in one fell swoop. I'm lavieennui if you want to add me. There isn't much there yet...

Tried to write a pithy post. Realized I didn't have the writing chops to do it. Deleted the draft. 😞

She’s right! Decades of Russian/Soviet era propaganda and Islamist propaganda in our institutions both domestic and international got us to this point

Horseshoe theory is useful for explaining how “colorblind” class-only politics of the far left can make them similar to the far right. But like others have been saying, it’s not really a true horseshoe. It’s people who are comfortable with Black people having political power, & people who are not.

A party that sells out Black & Jewish voters for white voters doesn’t deserve to win elections. If the Democratic Party wants to make white evangelicals, or I’m sorry, “the (HEAVILY implied white) working class” their base, the people trying so hard to do so should change their party registration.

I'd love to visit the Greater Los Angeles one weekend and hit up the Getty Museum and the Getty Villa. And maybe drive west to Malibu to gawk at some celebrity homes.

It’s time for policies that bring housing costs down and make the dream of purchasing a home real for ALL Californians.

Rep. Justin Pearson sent me a fundraising text. Now, I usually ignore these, especially when they come from a certain Nazi-curious oyster farmer, but for Rep. Pearson, I will make an exception.

Since it's AAPI Heritage Month, I thought I'd occasionally post on Chinese culture and customs. Today's subject is the Dragon Boat Festival, which will be held from 6/19-21 this year. The holiday has its origins in ancient China and involves eating rice dumplings and watching dragon boat races.

With a slim majority & Kamala Harris existing as a record-setting tiebreaker because you did not elect enough Democrats, Chuck Schumer was able to guide a record 235 federal judges to appointment under the Biden-Harris admin. These judges are a large part of why things aren’t even worse right now.

Partisan gerrymandering is bad. It’s also hard to stop when Republicans have held the majority of the Supreme Court since 1970, or 3 years before Roe v Wade. But hey, while you blame Democrats for not having the votes to codify Roe, you sure like to ignore that the VRA WAS federally codified.

One of the myriad ways Joe Biden was always disrespected, even when he was running and winning, was the idea that beating Trump is somehow easy or automatic or morally deserved when ain't none of those things true

Another informative Pierce thread.

Like no, I absolutely do not want Democrats to act like Republicans. If I wanted a racist, antisemitic, homophobic, fanatical dumpster fire of a party I’d change my registration to Republican. I want checks & balances to matter. That can’t happen without more Democrats in power.

VA AG Jay Jones is already exploring options & VA Dems are already filing petitions about the ruling. WHY ARE YOU SURPRISED that conservatives aren’t playing fair? WHY ARE YOU BASHING DEMOCRATS AND NOT CONSERVATIVES? Why are you a pathetic sheep that needs to abide by Murc’s Law 24/7?

Last month in Virginia, the people made their voices heard at the ballot box and voted for new Congressional maps. Today, the Virginia Supreme Court ignored the will of the people and overturned those democratically chosen maps.

we have in real time in the last few years seen people who at least used to pretend to want to show some kind of civic virtue throw a fit of pique and shift from charity to aggrandizement. we cannot and should not be subject to that level of societal volatility based on fickle individual whims.

There’s a segment of the left that is just traditional male chauvinism but couched in left-wing aesthetics as camouflage, and it’s really easy to spot.

So I attempted during our lunch to convince my parents that the base is Black, Jewish, and LGBTQ voters, and that Harris has been running well ahead of potential 2028 contenders. Don't know id they absorbed the info or not. My dad had been going on about how he didn't think Harris had the support

Tennessee just erased an entire district of Black voters. Because Bernie’s cult told us the Supreme Court didn’t matter. News flash; The far left never wanted to “free Palestine”. They wanted to return Black Americans to slavery.

Remember when you told us we were being hysterical the night of the election in 2016? Remember when you told us SCOTUS was gonna be fine? That they wouldnt strip away abortion rights? Remember when we told you they were coming after marginalized communities?

My parents asked me if VP Harris said "bullshit" at yesterday's event and I confirmed that she did. News must have gotten around. 🤣

Well, off to lunch with the parents at a hot pot restaurant.

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People bitching about Spanberger for a court's decision are once again doing Republicans' work for them. Dem legislature got the thing on the ballot and passed if the court strikes it down, they should just do it again.

Curse your ancestors to the 18th generation.

The Democrats who stood behind Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, and then Kamala Harris have been TELLING YOU that this was ALL coming! And some of you are acting like this is new information? You just weren’t listening.

Attenborough: "It's very disturbing that when you get a message from science that you don't like you say 'Well, the science is wrong.' That's not what science is about. Science is about looking unblinkingly at the facts, and when they don't match what you thought, then you change the way you think."

BREAKING: South Carolina lawmakers have proposed a gerrymandered map that would make all 7 congressional districts majority white - suppressing the votes of thousands of Black South Carolinians.

In 107 days with a team she largely didn’t select as her first choices that included people who routinely never fucking defended her in the White House, beyond a bunch of losers that tried to remove her from the ticket, she still ended up with the 3rd highest popular vote total of all-time.

Never again should mean something.