in a disheartening space where my unconditional love for all humanity is doing battle with the belief nothing short of gulags and reeducation camps for all Trump voters can save the country and getting its ass comprehensively kicked

It’s not just liberals, in fact his biggest supporters are those who identify as leftists/against the Dem establishment. Mostly men who, just like their counterparts on the other side, do not really seem to think women’s votes matter, that working class men are the only group that must be won

The amount of people willing to ignore every red flag for this guy is really shocking to me, especially when it’s something we criticize the Republicans for so often.

When Platner's campaign staff quit during the FIRST wave of scandals last year, the Sanders Machine swooped in, filled the vacancies, propped him up. They want their Great White Male Hope so badly because they think it's how they take over the party: with sexist white guys.

After the last few days, I wouldn't hold my breath. It's wild how Swalwell was pushed to resign in a matter of days but this guy is fucking teflón without the legislative background that Swalwell had. We have absolutely zero idea how this guy is going to vote and all these people are ride or die.

When men do horrible things to me it's striking how few men I know simply do not care

i really do think they believe that because they're "good" on policy that they don't owe people anything on a human level, and if you're a woman who believes in the same policies but also understands the capacity even "good" men have to be cruel then you're weak

there's a real feeling of like...if a man did something horrible to me or someone i know that guys like this just wouldn't fucking care

like i said, men in media defending this shit: your women colleagues see what you’re doing and won’t forget.

Yep. I made a coworker mad at me for *years* when I told him he didn't know any women with stories like that because none of the women in his life trusted him enough to tell him.

i mean, if you're already going full 'blood & soil but leftishly', you might as well do 'berlin wall but leftishly'

"native born only" is dumb wherever, but new york? the city with this thing?

It’s been almost 30 years since the Fifth Element came out and you still can’t just buy a tank top like this any store. What are we doing.

The biggest sh*tshow in the world. 😆

I specifically requested no more metaphors

we have reached the natural endpoint of “native New Yorker” discourse comparing immigrants/transplants moving to NYC to West Bank settlers. wrap it up folks, impossible to top this

"scientology is a load-bearing component of any potential conservative coalition in los angeles" theory vindicated

A big early part of this website was having a bunch of incredibly idiosyncratic feeds that would show you all the posts discussing drinking milk or every post you made that was liked by an Italian and they all stopped working once more than 800 people had an account

NEWS: SoFi Stadium cashiers, dishwashers, cooks, bartenders, concessions workers, and food attendants voted 96% to authorize a strike, just a week out from when the stadium is set to host its first World Cup game www.huffpost.com/entry/unite-...

Los Angeles continues to move hard in Steyer’s direction with each new batch. If that trend were to continue at its current pace, he would likely win. That said, the recent rate of movement is so strong it may not be sustainable over time.

Jason Benetti: “like when Ric Flair was kinda bored”

back in 2018 the red sox were playing the dodgers in the World Series and I called up my dad and told him to fly out to LA from MA so we could go to a game together it cost less than a thousand bucks total including the cost of round trip plane tickets what the fuck

time to go to the grocery store and Restock

YES

Sunlight reflects brightly off of solar panels in California and Nevada.

savvy investors are freeing up liquidity ahead of the generational opportunity that is the SpaceX IPO

This is the inflection point for the political momentum shift in the US

One CBS News insider just flatly responded "pathetic" when I asked them about this memo.

I'm struggling to understand the business model of the scaffolding trickster

to be mean about it chefs who cry about foie gras bans are upset that they can no longer coast

Congrats, John Roberts! You ended the three-branch method of governance!

We need a president who’s an opportunistic feeder and is constantly eating stuff he’s never seen before

The congressional nuclear bunker at Greenbrier was stocked not only with food, weapons, medicine, etc but with a ton of alcohol until 1975. So many members of Congress were open alcoholics that emergency planners feared a wave of people simultaneously having withdrawal in a confined space.

what is a professional way to say "your problem isn't a real problem and I don't have time for this"

I will never, ever forgive the people who didn't vote for Kamala

Very bad news. Screwworm appears to have made it to Texas, as was predicted. These parasites eat the living flesh of cattle, cause horrible pain, and can ultimately kill them. Yesterday, USDA Chief Brooke Rollins categorically denied that screwworm was close to the border.

Very frequently I'll see a post online and I will very easily understand "that person does not need or want my specific reply on that specific post" and it's always a bit surprising to me when people let me know they have never experienced that 🙃

Yep. The value of corporations rolling out the rainbow carpet isn't what's in their heart of hearts, it's the society-wide signaling of "acceptance is good, bigotry is bad." Even if entirely insincere, it tells society "we think the majority of our customers expect this," and that's good!

Driving 5 under the limit in front of a massive tailgating truck

if you drive a gay little car it's your moral duty to cut off every giant truck asshole attempting to skirt the rules of the road

by bluesky standards I'm not even anti-pickup truck but I love parking the civic perfectly centered between the lines rather than giving giant truck owners even an inch of extra space next to their driver's side

And let's be honest if any of the things accused of Platner were accused towards these three Muslims they'd have been jettisoned far more quickly.

Hamawy, Mamdani and El Sayed really just straight up do not belong anywhere near the same category as Platner and it is strange to see people both pro and anti Platner make this comparison

There have to be some fucking lines.

Interesting, okay

I guess physical, verbal and emotional abuse do count as "being a bad boyfriend". I would probably describe it differently but I'm also not a stupid piece of shit like this guy