they’re calling it “jury nullification” and it’s the new trend sweeping communities across america

Cool. What would you call the other wing then? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...

being old sucks it’s been my birthday for three hours and i have no interest in presents and no pizza party plans. we must bring back bouncy castles

i sometimes feel like a man in a barrel on a street corner yelling about social media etiquette because no one believes in that shit anymore i guess but man if you treat real human people as backboards to bounce half-baked takes off of i think you are a bad person

just tried to explain the clinton “it depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is” scandal/trope to someone in europe and he was like “oh yeah i know about that” and honestly just marry me off and ship me to a country where no one else on earth knows about my embarrassing presidents’ testimony

when i would go out to bars and meet younger people they were sure trump was going to win and i did not believe them and it's because i was not shoveling dogshit down my gullet or talking to people who did every fucking day

i just think that handsome men should not be straight

the green knight. just the green knight. you can tell me that it's not horror but all this says to me is "i am not gay." don't ask me to explain this i will not

the united states government acknowledges but does not endorse new york city’s claim on staten island, a strategic ambiguity political scientists refer to as the One New York Policy

was just asked for my senior capstone lit paper by a friend and i found it and it is completely out of control. like they're evil but i don't (not* get why republicans think gay people shouldn't be allowed to study the humanities

i a) don't love to quote dunk and b) was open to the earlier stuff about chinese manufacturing capacity but this guy is just being weird because he has an argument kink, there is no other explanation for this shit

i just think that handsome men should not be straight

it was me and people are replying with beautiful thoughts about humanity and democracy but the belief in question was that it's a crime to serve salmon cooked any way but seared skin-on

one day i will drive a motorcycle through the sun

every time someone reminds me that lina khan is only 36 i am a) mad that i have not yet been the chair of the federal trade commission and b) so happy that she's going to be around to antagonize the worst people on earth for several decades

I'm just relieved that our new 34-year-old mayor will have access to the greater wisdom and experience of a 36-year-old

hes just like me

hey guess what. it's perfectly seared skin-on salmon for dinner day :)

Every new post tonight is like Dems have flipped the Mehaden town sewer authority, long dominated by conservatives, by a +38 margin

NEW: Aurora City Councilwoman Danielle Jurinsky has conceded. A stunning defeat for a MAGA media fixture who built a national profile on claims of a "complete gang takeover" of Aurora that led President Trump to visit and falsely proclaim the city "conquered" by an immigrant gang

when someone says "i voted for donald trump and then mikie sherrill" i promise you they are not a crossover voter with a coherent politics. this illusion has to end

also it is my birthday tomorrow and i was thinking of a switch 2 as a treat but i don't actually have anything i want to play on switch 2 so what if it is not treatly enough!! maybe there is a more significant treat to which i can treat myself

As the face of the “progressive prosecutor” movement steamrolls to a 3rd term, let me be the millionth person to note that when that movement loses elections it’s billed in national media as a crisis for the left, while the movement’s high points, of which there have been many, are largely ignored.

Seeing deranged takes using Jared Golden's retirement to blame progressives or whatever. Ignore them and read what Golden actually wrote. He is burned out and afraid for his family. This isn't some intraparty Dem strategy fight, it's a bleak reflection of our society getting worse.

i know he’s fun to laugh at but we really need to start enforcing corruption laws again, and the statute of limitations has absolutely not run out

hit my absolute bare minimum cycling targets even though i feel bad. please form an orderly line for congratulations and gifts

sit on your hands and let them wear it, it’s not the democrats job to bail out their stupidity over and over again

what's the "score" at this point in the redistricting wars? 5-5 in texas and california. then one each for republicans in north carolina and missouri. maybe two in ohio, maybe one in indiana. so that's 10-5, but virginia looks, uh, pretty likely now, so 10-8? missing anything?

you ever spend all day feeling unattractive and then like. look in the mirror for the first time that day lol

i am so embarrassed all the time

i have to quibble. clayface voted for mamdani. because clayface is gay

i can't believe i saw "former ftc official" and no one thought to tell me it was lina fucking khan

the reason republicans lost yesterday is because theyre a bunch of weird freaks pushing policy that everyone hates

democratic leadership cannot forget to ask themselves the key question about these election results: do they confirm MY priors?

the united states government acknowledges but does not endorse new york city’s claim on staten island, a strategic ambiguity political scientists refer to as the One New York Policy

we can chalk it up to youth and inexperience but the biggest mistake the mamdani campaign made was winning by 8.8% and not 1.5%, which is the margin needed for the media to say it’s a total mandate

my one semi-anti-hopium take is that jesus christ none of this had to happen and it's happening because a lot of people are really fucking stupid

HAPPENING NOW: Immigrant workers calling on Dodgers to refuse invitation to White House #iceoutofLA

New Mexico's universal free childcare (so Elizabeth Warren!), Colorado's free lunch, Mamdani's free buses: something good is happening. (And don't anyone get riled up but maybe it's happening incrementally?) p.s. Some (but not all) free community colleges in California.

california democrats hire this queen immediately

"All hot dog stands will be replaced with goat meat stands." hold up. tell me more about that

shuttering decades-old civil rights and hate org resources to open up the office of What's That Muslim Up To

also lol @ trump saying proposition 50 is under "criminal review," is he gonna arrest two thirds of california

casually browsing all the updated results from yesterday and lol. lmao

ok since i've been elitist about scene culture i will admit my great elitist scene crime which is that i pretended for years that paramore doesn't fucking slap

People look at me weird when I explain that I grew up in the American heartland - New York City.

anyway here is one of the most pleasing songs of all time

sorry for regularly getting sensitive about the scene kid thing but it does bother me lol, the way the idea is all upper middle class suburban kids taking selfies in mcmansions like i wasn't sneaking into 21+ clubs and in the big hipster party photo blogs you all looked at when i was 15

always funny to me when people think of goths as listening to afi, which was definitely a thing, when most i knew were listening to this and nine ninch nails on repeat

another less commented upon element tonight is what this does to democrats' leverage on the government shutdown, which is about to become the longest in history