huge fucking side-eye from DC residents

This is really well done. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Time to learn to use the pasta extruder…

The holiday/winter stamps are boring this year, so currently debating between Betty White and Dungeons & Dragons stamps for our holiday cards.

it is pretty darkly funny seeing posts like URGENT!!!! it is SUNDAY EVENING you must PUT DOWN YOUR DINNER and call your senator IMMEDIATELY to politely request they not press the big button marked "fuck you". this will not actually stop them from pressing the fuck you button. functioning democracy

I know nothing at all about this guy except the way he uno-reversed Axios trying to get him on his Instagram follows, but if this is the attitude I’ll learn more.

I’m getting close to done with the crochet afghan I have been slowly working on since the first Trump administration. My in-laws asked if I was making it for someone special. Um, *I* am someone special….

*double sigh*

*sigh*

Joy. This brings me joy.

I don't know who to believe and who not to believe, but the good news is it really doesn't matter, it's always a good day to make the Dems fear primaries

How do so many democrats still not understand that the ACA *was* the compromise.

even if you know your dem senator would *never* call them anyway and tell them how much you appreciate that they would *never* and their dedication and integrity is why they have your vote

Oh yeah unacceptable. Senate Dems cannot have staked a shutdown on ACA subsidies and then cave with a….promise of a concept of a vote. Call your Senator ASAP

Happy Trumpsgiving

FUN FACT: That full refund that Delta will immediately give you, that's because of the Biden administration. They put that rule in place. Not Trump. bsky.app/profile/ones...

Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

I understand why we shut down American airspace for a few days after 9-11 to avoid a repeat attack but imagine shutting down American airspace to avoid releasing the Epstein files.

LRPs: I've volunteered and worked in churches for a good portion of my life. The volunteers and part-time admins who work in church offices do not have unilateral authority to just hand out cash to everyone who calls (and there are MANY calls, some of them scams.) 1/

KBJ threaded the needle thanks to CA1’s unfinished business. -if she denied the admin stay, the full SCOTUS woulda stepped in to override her. -if she immediately referred the case to the full Court, they coulda dragged feet. -instead she boxed them in to act quickly once she does refer the case.

"Republicans are keeping the government closed, starving kids, and making you miss your Thanksgiving flights because they want your healthcare costs to go through the roof" is actually a pretty effective message for Democrats

The way this story is presented, it starts off like, "Okay, these are just some life choices I wouldn't make..." and then the farther you get into it, the more you just keep saying, "Oh NO... no, oh HELL no, OH MY GOD NO..."

Did women ruin the workplace?

This is badass and the "Protect Trans Kids" hoodie really just ties the whole thing together.

Finished filling up my homemade art journal. She’s chonky:

Strength training is political. We have a right-wing which has taken over physical fitness spaces, and hijacked “warrior culture”. We need a muscular progressivist visions. We need to be strong to build the world we want. Building my guns for the revolution. 💪🏾✊🏾 #Swoletariat #ResistanceTraining”

Man really do wake up in the morning and then leave the house to go harass women. Knowing that some of us are out here angry, powerlifting, maybe even packing. Wow.

me on my way to ruin your workplace

Just horrific. These are crimes. And let’s be clear — this is by design. They’ve been forthright about that. The aim is to make it migrants suffer so much that they give up their due process rights and leave voluntarily.

Look I get publishing a broad spectrum of opinions but I already fed them this morning

Nuremburg trials is the moderate position

great place to celebrate the sandwich verdict is YOUR ONLY FRIEND where the sandwiches are too fucking good to throw at a cop

the jury nullification take is wrong. If that’s what had happened they wouldn’t have sent a note to the judge asking for definitions of relevant terms. They just didn’t think he did the crime after considering the evidence and following the given instructions. Don’t charge sandwich cases.

DC RESIDENTS CONTINUE RESISTING

as a thought exercise for everyone reading ross douthat's latest missive in the NYT, i want you to think about sending an email to your entire company with the subject line "Did Women Ruin the Workplace?", then think about the over/under on the number of minutes/hours you would still be employed

Employment lawyer here: the number of male employers who genuinely believe they should be able to sleep with their female employees and pay working mothers less than working fathers is most of them. They genuinely believe that it is an injustice against them that they might face repercussions.

God, between “did women ruin the workplace” and “should women be allowed to vote” I’m having a real one already and it’s not even 9AM. Maybe men should not be allowed to say words on the internet. Can we just try that?

For you, Ross Douthat? Yes we did. ON PURPOSE.

Just a note to those of you who have never served jury duty in DC but are following the Sandwich Guy Trial: the closest place to get lunch, other than the courthouse cafeteria… is the Subway across the street.

Who knew all the shitty sound mixing that forces us all to watch TV in our first language with the subtitles on was going to be thing to get Americans to watch international TV?

My gym is offering me free guest passes for my birthday so I can work out with a friend, but literally the last thing I want to do at the gym is work out WITH someone.

The democratic socialist future of America will require millions of Leslie Knopes doing the thankless work of the bureaucracy required to provide services to the people. If you think people like her are "neoliberal shills," you're not really a democratic socialist, you're just a cosplayer.

This needs more attention: Zohran SPLIT the straights with Cuomo. ALL of his margin was from LGBTQ+ voters. Every Dem who ever said “we should abandon the transes” needs this shoved down their fucking throat with a ramrod.

My takeaway from the elections yesterday is that it’s one thing to be unpopular and have a large portion of the media apparatus desperate to pretend that’s not the case but it’s another thing to be unpopular and have that be an undeniable fact

whatever you think of Spanberger, the fact that her opponent ran a campaign based almost entirely on transphobia and is on track to eat shit in the biggest blowout the state has seen since 2009 is unambiguously a huge win

Nobody likes MAGA.

omgomgomgomgomgomg

Okay I actually do need a "Hot Girls for Zohran" shirt though.