received my primary ballot. contemplating [redacted]

do not allow the fact that the fire has not ceased to distract you from the success of the ceasefire

Breaking NEWS!! Federal judge rules DOGE illegally terminated NEH grants last year in a summary judgment in favor of plaintiffs AHA, ACLA, and MLA, and orders the restoration of 1400 terminated grants

you win the internet today!! but at what cost? with at long last a quiet moment to think on what you've wrought, what you've become, the pyrrhic victory turns to ash in your mouth

we're back at 'everything is gender'

what's that name for the literary aphorism where if an author shows you something with a clear function early they should make it be important later on

When it’s 24 hours before the D line extension to Wilshire and La Cienega opens up and you’re stuck in traffic on the 10.

i do not want to hear anything about the 2028 presidential primary but i especially do not want to hear anything about the 2028 presidential primary that has to do with maine

this is the first time i can recall an elected republican openly voicing the possibility that the next democratic trifecta will, well, behave like this republican trifecta has

been thinking a lot about the long dance between government doublespeak and american cynicism lately

when you're mean to me online etc

a series of small organizational conveniences for the home could fix me

The Republican Party has effectively ended the Voting Rights Act because they want to keep a dying pedophile in office for the rest of his life.

A still-life drawing of a peach

This headline from Justice Roberts and the red banner of what Tennessee just did to Memphis after the SCOTUS gutted the Voting Rights Act..

hey everyone can i borrow priceless artifact amount of money real quick. it's important

i don't know if it's an unpopular opinion but it certainly brings out angry naysayers every time: no state should have a part-time legislature

Again this should inspire wall-to-wall media coverage for months. The crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement is dead. Black people just lost all of their remaining political power in the South. This is a monumental moment in American history that simply isn't being treated as such.

Unironically this was perfect comms strategy.

this is, of course, a wind project in california, and california is investigating the scheme as potentially illegal. the overall message is that it's not safe to invest in the united states — unless the purpose is to bribe the president

in my natural state (watching a murder mystery b-movie and eating spicy pork rinds at 2am)

today i said that it was possible that in some distant future the most enduring historical legacy of donald trump might be the end of free maritime trade and because i wasn't explicit about the path to getting there was accused of eliding his criminality and white supremacism

I'm really struggling to use social media lately specifically because it feels like people's reading comprehension skills are TANKING 25% of the replies feel like someone responding to a different, vaguely related post. And you can't imply anything or they miss it

“Tomorrow!” cried Toad. “I will do it all tomorrow!”

this is what republicans and the handful of "well what's the harm?" democrats are threatening here in the us. scrambles through bureaucratic offices to access your right to vote. your right to participate in your government. i don't care who it would impact. it's a crime against anyone

as a bonus: screenshot 3 is also why i can't bring myself to click your substack link

i do actually support rudy giuliani having his healthcare costs covered by the 9/11 aftermath/cleanup program. he still owes those ladies everything he owns

spencer pratt deadass answered a question about creating more housing in LA by saying after he puts 28000 drug addicts in jail there’ll be 28000 more housing units, and then said we can 3D printing housing

woke up feeling distinctly like it was saturday and spent all day prodding myself to reorient my clock to the fact that it was actually thursday and i have just realized that it is in fact wednesday

hey everyone can i borrow priceless artifact amount of money real quick. it's important

i would not even have known this about the trust and safety guy if he was not calling repeating it a harassment campaign and suspending people for it lol, real thin-skinned baby makes things worse for himself stuff

i once fell into a rabbit hole reading about how tree law calculates the cost value of regrowing old growth trees rather than the cost to replace them with saplings and it is always so fun to see it show up for real

The reason that they're losing legitimacy in the eyes of the public is that they're making a rapid series of highly unpopular politically motivated decisions. And there's a really easy way to stop!

This. And SCOTUS has blessed partisan gerrymandering, and there's no federal prohibition on mid-cycle redistricting. According to SCOTUS, every single state legislature could reconvene in January of every odd-numbered year, look at how their maps performed the previous November, and redistrict.

i used to think that justices should live like ascetic monks but i'm rethinking that now that it's clear that john roberts truly does not think he will be remembered in the pantheon of judicial villains alongside taney and mcreynolds

And they’re so real for that.

ok but seriously this kind of coverup isn't *that* hard. is he doing it himself to avoid the risk of a makeup artist leaking to the press? kind of defeating the purpose here buddy

This is the history many people don't want you to know occurred even as it's happening again all around you.

A state that redraws its legislative maps before every election to maximize advantage for the incumbent party is not a democracy or a republic and in any case obviously violates the guarantee clause, among many others. No country does this. No country ever thought of doing this. It is a total farce.

i do actually support rudy giuliani having his healthcare costs covered by the 9/11 aftermath/cleanup program. he still owes those ladies everything he owns

no act of god will keep the segregationists from their work

A tornado watch, flooding in the building, and the Alabama legislature is pushing through to work on redistricting

horrible day to find out that fox was also in the files

my fitbit is like "no for real your body's fucked up this time you didn't sleep enough and your resting heart rate is outside of its normal range your cardio target for today is 'sit down' you need to recover i'm serious this time you need to sit down" and i'm deciding whether or not to listen to it

From the main Discord I'm in: "i'm not a furry but this is the least fuckable fox mccloud has ever looked" #StarFox

Well that’s a little on the nose. Message I just received from the New York City Bar Association:

Louise Lucas thing geniunely pretty scary tbh. Like we’re well into competitive authoritarianism/hybrid regime territory now.

we gotta teach handwriting again