my hot take is that I don't think it's this website specifically that's toxic. the Circumstances are toxic and nobody really knows what to do about it so they come online and scream. and if I may offer an alternative: actually going outside and screaming feels better.

Pols, take note: Take this man's advice if you want to keep failing to build a coalition, and keep falling back into a minority.

Though it still has not been litigated as to whether the statute of limitations can be paused for trump pursuant to the DOJ OLC memo stating that you can't prosecute a sitting president. Jack Smith mentioned this in his bid to dismiss the J6 case against Trump without prejudice.

I think one of my problems with a fandom-centric response to media is the bit where the audience members get so hung up on the story they *want* told that they fail to engage meaningfully with the story that is *actually being* told.

kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

2021-01-06 was a riot. What did Dr King tell us about riots? Spare me any slave morality piety; that sleeps on the corruption and social murder perpetrated by the orderly, inside, and empowered; while scolding the commoners for storming the boyars' gates.

Neither of my children got well visits/physicals last calendar year bc of doctor flight out of our system that was bought by private equity. Much less the transgender for everyone surgeries I promised they'd get because Trump said so. But for real, there was no availability for well visits!!

in our country with no universal healthcare we’re to believe that surgeons are doing 100K sex change surgeries on children for free…🙃.

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I ended up hospitalized because of the flu once. It’s not a joke. Get vaccinated if you haven’t. I get my vaccine the exact second I can every year. Children are dying from the flu; get them vaccinated too if you haven’t. Wear a mask and wash your hands often. Don’t touch your face. Be safe!

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' CBS staffers were reportedly not impressed by Weiss’s uninspired pick of a “mediocre white man.” ' Let's not flatter Katy Tur's husband by calling him mediocre.

This is spot-on from @gregsargent.bsky.social—and exactly what my next book is about: “Trump is making it unusually explicit that in this sphere of influence, Trump-approved oligarchs will be enriched by our regional spoils.“ newrepublic.com/article/2049...

Lowlights from the government attorney at today’s Haiti TPS termination hearing in DC District Court.

When we ran into each other by the elevator, my work friend (who I hadn’t seen in weeks) greeted me by saying: “happy new year!” and though I should have replied “happy new year” back, instead I just asked: “happy?” and with a glum sigh he said: “yeah, that’s fair.”

You don't get to call yourself a nerd if the thing you nerd over is Incredibly Popular. Oh really, you know loads about Star Wars or Marvel or Doctor Who? That's normie shit. A true nerd knows dressage stats.

It's also a confession. Moscow kidnaps non-Russians to Russify them. Anglicizing indigenous children was policy in the US & Canada for ages. I saw what churches tried to do to my peers; the pro-lifers and the patriarchalists have a lot to answer for. And Donny himself raped & pimped children.

When people understand anticommunism is fascism we'll get somewhere

imagine seeing this and thinking it’s a painting LMAO

Yeah. I see people act like January 6th was this unprecedented disaster, and not actually analyzing or explaining what it was part of. Mass marches on Washington are a legitimate tactic. The Bonus Army? MLK? The problem is using the violence to distract from the actual corruption in "quiet rooms."

we're not actually a racist country, he's just a Russian op! It's not our fault that kids are disillusioned with American imperialism, China is poisoning their minds with social media! And so on. The truth is it's ALL our responsibility. The question is what we plan to do about it.

And "Haitians are eating the cats" 🙄 (You can't even get Haitians to eat ackee, but try to tell a white person that.)

G-d forbid any of these clowns actually read Machiavelli

hey remember when you shut down and tried to blockade nadler as much as possible when he was pushing for impeachment instead of supporting him to the hilt

I learned ages ago the adage that, "Everything in comics takes six months." And that was when you had stories released as 24 pages or less, with division of art chores.

I wish I'd thought sooner to explain to tradpub editors that illustrating a graphic novel is not like writing a prose novel or illustrating a picture book, a 250-page GN is actually like illustrating eight picture books.

BREAKING: Abortion will remain legal in Wyoming after the state Supreme Court struck down laws, including the first U.S. ban on pill abortions.

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Anyway, after the Trump budget passed NYS sent me the sweetest bureaucratic email I've ever received about how they were going to have to kick me off coverage come summer 2026 but that they did not want to, and it was a pleasure to have given me healthcare.

To be clear: I am working. I do not have a job. These are mutually distinct things. But I've been on state sponsored health insurance for almost a year and I understand now why they do not want us to have it. Because it allows working people to say no.

"The issues" are not immutable. Americans do not come out of the womb arguing about trans girls in Division III volleyball. The issues are what you make them. The issues are what you're loudest about. Create the conversation around these murderers' war crimes, don't equivocate, and don't let up.

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No they got bot farms to coerce ppl into silence about their parasocial predator faves.

What do we have to lose?

For all of those white people out there: Imagine being so hateful of marginalized people that you're willing to toss your entire country away, including 200+ years of public rights and freedoms, just to make sure that BIPOC, disabled and queer people suffer and have it worse off than you.

"Democrats vote for evil for nothing in exchange, this is good politics". It must rule to be stupid and amoral.

If kidnapping a foreign president isn’t enough to get him out of office, why would the Epstein files be a silver bullet?

Venezuela has a constitution. Their constitution does not say that Donald Trump gets to appoint a new president of Venezuela. It says that their vice president, Delcy Rodriguez becomes president. She has already been sworn in. Don't believe Trump MAGA bullshit.

Horse figure sketches for year of the horse

Entryism!

his friend was murdered and some people are making his decision to call it a career about an insufficient willingness to fight and like, do we not want those who can't hack it to step aside for those who can?

Man I am burnt out and I didn’t even run for VP and lose to a couch fucking fascist, then have my friend & her husband & dog murdered by a masked fascist, then have my constituents brigaded & threatened by a mob of fascists, then get blamed for my friends’ murders by the fascist in Chief

"your password must contain at least one special character" bro they're all special to me

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It's Out of Touch Tuesday "...you mean Thursday?" Do I? It's Out of Touch Tuesday, kitty cats