This tracks with my experience 💯. Just show up a handful of times and you’ll find yourself in charge of all kinds of things. Not happy with how the party is functioning? Well, guess what. YOU are the party. Show up and help out.

Don’t know who to credit for this. But it is how I feel.

Colorado State Parks has this handy guide

the stock responses all boil down to “but nothing lasted because GOP got power again” which isn’t really true (we do still indeed have some Nice Stuff, some of which the GOP even benefits from as they’re in power!) but if your barometer for success is “total victory forever” you’re basically fucked

Such fake performative toxic aggressively ignorant bullshit in saying that stuff like cutting child poverty in half, the largest investment in climate ever and infrastructure and forgiving billions in student loan debt vaccinating millions of people during COVID etc is fuck all

It’s frankly too late to criticize enormously harmful people when they die; it’s just easier because all of a sudden people start paying attention when you do it. “Why would you speak ill of the dead?” I spoke ill of him when he was alive! It’s not my fault he’s dead when I do it now!

I finally get to use this This is an actual poster the National Park Service designed ages ago to use online. It is funny but it is also just true. Real sacred, that bison.

you guys don't understand. they have to speak about lindsey graham like this. every elected official in the US gets a thousand dollars worth of virginia lotto scratch offs as a eulogy fee. look it up

an account with this avatar has just died

the strongest of cosigns

I’m saddened to announce the passing of my work colleague, The Zodiac Killer. While we were often on opposing sides of the business, I always enjoyed his silly little scavenger hunts.

Lindsey Graham spent the last decade of his life in public service as a US Senator, trying hard to be remembered as an enemy of the Constitution who worked to destroy American democracy and exhibited occasional signs that he knew why that was bad but kept doing it anyway. I will honor his choice.

remember, be careful what you post on a day like this. If you do it right, you can get illegally fired for being disrespectful to Lindsay Graham and then win a massive lawsuit about 10 months from now and retire with 2 million in your pocket

Today, the AAUP & Texas AAUP sued Texas Tech Chancellor Brandon Creighton over directives he gave that mandated the censorship & thought policing of thousands of faculty & students leading to the suppression of academic freedom & the pursuit of knowledge. More Here: www.aaup.org/news/aaup-te... 🧵

Hey thanks for sharing that article, mind if I yell at you about what I think the headline means?

And note I said CULTURAL, not legislative (although that matters too, obviously). If we're to leave behind patriarchy for egalitarian expectations, more men need to get a grip on figuring out how to be Wanted, instead of Needed.

nice, france

A bear just ran across the road in front of me

Some of us thought the Pod bros were absolute garbage trash from day 1 and coincidentally we were the same people who thought Platner was garbage trash from day 1 and maybe you should all start fucking listening to us.

Couldn't fit this into the piece, but the belief that the left needs its own oaf means that Trump is still dictating the rules of engagement. Believing 1) white working class men are the voters that matter and 2) that they will only vote for themselves is just MAGA with a different coat of paint.

Oh my god

Himpathy is the WaPo using this photo of Graham Platner as he's poised to exit the race over alleged forcible rape.

All of this. Adding: HR is also code for the state. if you are an affluent man with inherited entitlement Mark describes here, you simply don’t encounter the state very often. Maybe the DMV. But most of these dudes work. HR translates state power by managing regulations and risk.

Repeat after me: I am not more radical than Contrapoints. I am not more radical than Hillary Clinton. I am not more radical than Lowtax. I am not more radical than Neera Tanden. But if I stand back and watch and learn, I will be more radical than I am.

Would

I think the Platner thing hit me so hard bc it was one of the most protracted, widespread acts of misogynist gaslighting from my own side that I've seen. We were presented with an obvious violent scumbag who was constantly lying (badly, might I add) and told we were crazy for not loving him

there is a cohort of men who resent the responsibilities and obligations of adulthood — of the fact that you owe things to other people. it is a fundamentally childish impulse that they have reconfigured as the height of masculinity, and i think it informs the parasocial attraction to platner.

I have this idea for a game show called Less Online, where the more online spouse/partner tries to explain something to their less online partner and they are racing against another couple to see who gets it first. (this morning I tried to explain the grink to my husband)

weighing in on "did cherry pepsi make a rape joke? or am I dehydrated and not getting enough sleep?" is the only purity test that matters this november

Big news: The Eleventh Circuit just upheld the injunction blocking enforcement of Florida's Stop WOKE Act, affirming that professors have some First Amendment protections in the classroom. Judge Britt Grant wrote the opinion.

'She should have come forward sooner' is always the first response like no she was waiting to see if maybe society would do better and she wouldn't have to join the ranks of women who ruined their lives in the hope that their assailants wouldn't gain even more power.

i have been trying to unpack why the i told you so’s here feel so legitimate despite the horrific seriousness of the allegations. i think bc it’s so enraging that he was allowed to make it this far. that poor woman was forced to traumatize herself in public because pundits are too fucking stupid

One of the most insidious mechanisms of rape culture is the way we treat a rapist experiencing *literally any consequences at all* as "ruining their lives." Not getting an extremely competitive job that literally 100 people have is not only not a death sentence-- it's not a sentence. At all.

Not gonna pierce these baking potatoes with a fork, in fact I hope they explode. I hope it takes out the whole neighborhood.

If you need to read the gory details of a woman’s violent assault in order to believe her - especially about someone who has mountains of evidence against them already - then I’ve got some news for you about your support of women…

I have edited a lot of sexual-assault-accusation articles, and this one easily clears every veracity check: contemporaneous emails with her therapist, a boyfriend who knew, a woman she warned—all before Platner ran for office. Good on Politico for nailing it, and on Jenny Racicot for speaking up.

Just take a minute to think about all of the known rapists we have in our system of government, elected and unelected. At the tippy fucking top. And then consider that there's definitely more.

Seriously. If you've ever spent any time in the left, you've met a Graham Platner

I'm going to destroy you all with my "The Saw Movies Are Fascist" substack article.

We built a whole building on campus as a "tech startup" "incubator" and it never really had much permanent occupancy but then we were able to build a whole second building to also sit mostly empty, because why not if someone will give you the money for it

Oh, something in the news reminded you of Idiocracy? Did it remind you of an episode of The Good Place, too?? Should we throw a party???? Did you find an appropriate gif??? Did you use a funny nickname for Donald Trump????? Was Keith Olbermann there

A man who publicly was doing something which, when done wrong, can cause graft-vs-host disease, an autoimmune disease which can attack, among other things, your GI tract, now has an autoimmune disease which is attacking his GI tract. What a coincidence.

Nice empire of dirt, dude. It would be a shame if I could have it all

Hey guys. Stella here. Just wanted to say I figured out today that “baked beans” is an anagram for “naked babes”. Well, have a good one

Politics is literally just sport to these people. Ezra Klein wants Trump V Obama not because of anything it would lead to, but because he wants to see a contrast in styles. Like wow wouldn’t it be cool to see Steph’s Warriors versus Jordan’s Bulls?

Happy 10th anniversary to the St. Louis dumpster fire graphic

Sorry to lib out but I guess my thought on the Fourth is that if it wasn’t possible for this country to really be an egalitarian multiracial democracy someday, the most disgusting people alive wouldn’t be trying so hard to foreclose that possibility

Ppl on this app will genuinely doompost "WE'RE SO FUCKED" like a mantra 10 times a week, call it activism, and then wonder why it didn't fix anything