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The Democrats will accept Marjorie Taylor Greene into the tent before they accept Zohran Mamdani.

being a Falcons fan really has one pondering if they do in fact have a humiliation kink

There's a whole generation that learned irony before sincerity and now they're trapped. Can't be earnest without a layer of self-deprecation. Can't be enthusiastic without signaling awareness of how cringe enthusiasm is. The price of never being vulnerable is never connecting.

man I'm so excited to be on the internet with 100k-500k of my favorite emotionally dysregulated neurodivergents as we wait for election results in places we have never visited and freak the fuck out!!!!!!!

I often think about how Cheney wanted revenge for what happened to Nixon, and how we live in the ruins made by that dream.

Dick Cheney Was Doing War Crimes in Exactly the Right Way, by Ezra Klein.

This is from Autocracy, Inc, about how modern autocratic propaganda works. I consider this every time I decide what to share and how to frame it.

When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same. Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow. academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

saw someone say right-wingers on SNAP are soon going to have to decide if being racist is worth being hungry, as though the entire mechanism by which fascist populism propagates isn't convincing people to vote for being hungry by enticing them with the chance to be racist

If you make the tent big enough for nazis, then a lot of people who were in the tent are gonna leave. It's not a one way tent.

Give Nicole Beharie and Karen Pittman all the Emmys #TheMorningShow

I am verklumpt. 🥺🥺🥺

I thought this was lovely.

they should probably let people know this exists. And put it on Twitch. And have someone who knows how to stream comment over it.

What movie do you consider “perfect”?

The Adipositivity Project and The Uniform Project are two incredible gems from a bygone era that are even *more* relevant now.

take me back to god’s country.

Once again woman’s local Football team is embarassing her. News at 10.

Dress really is a certified banger

The reason we GET to the point they can take out Kimmel is because and CHRISTOPHER RUFO HIMSELF SAID SO is because the groups and people they attack before are erased, silenced and then NOT REPAIRED. and destroyed in the historic record . Why don’t you want to STOP missing the canaries ?

Its research is better than most news shows and its gags are better than most comedy shows but for me what sets it above most shows is that it always tries to ask "What can we do about this?"

bone broth is in fact delicious.

The people who got everyone here simply aren't going to be the ones to get us out.

‪Pat McAfee, Dave Roberts went full company men when faced with a tough question by @jenramose.online‬ about why the MLB All-Star Game was back in Atlanta despite no change to Georgia's disenfranchising voting laws.

my love language is all flats.

"Was it really this dumb in 2003" guys they renamed french fries

The head of one of the largest unions in America is in the bottom of a fucking building with no word and no due process What exactly is more important than that right now ?

A lot of folks need to pause and speak gently to themselves. Admit to yourself, "I'm afraid right now." Sit with that for a moment, understand what reflexes it's triggering, and that those impulses don't necessarily apply meaningfully to anything that's happening.

"This was an experiment by a kindergarten class. They dropped seeds in the cracks of the sidewalk to see what would happen. This would help our bees " via I Love Bees

anything that at any point you loved but then became too cool for, know that someday you will turn back to that thing and say "oh. no. you were fine, you were more than fine. it is I who was cringe"

the bar is so low, kindness is an aphrodisiac.

If only there were slogans or sayings that people could have rallied around to address the blank check and unlimited funding law enforcement seems to have.

Shitting on music, art, fashion, and/or games because "we're in a crisis and should focus on serious things™️" is the "I'm not like other girls" of politics. It requires you to set aside all awareness of how those topics inform and intersect with serious things so you can feel better doing nothing.

Nobody exists exclusively through the lens of struggle. Pick the worst eras, the most oppressed people. You will find rich heritages of art, music, fashion, and games that survived it. Were pioneered during it. Thrived in the midst of it. Why? Because these things give our survival *meaning.*

Oh so if folks actually fight back and protect targets stuff changes? Oh whom would have thunk it

Politics is more clear when you remember that the "waste" in "government waste" is the profit that some rich asshole isn't making off labor in the public sector whose only purpose is the common good.

Grey Street remains an enduring classic that still slaps.

Nobody puts Bobby in a coffin. Except that one showrunner, apparently.

Genuinely, I think the “justice is punishment” mindset is a big part of how we got to this place. People are extremely willing to be hurt if others will be hurt more. And that’s a necessary precondition for fascism to flourish.