Timeline cleanse: BIIIIG STRETCH (and yawn)

I have been angryposting. I'm not sorry, but also, let me offer you a cat tax

The Graham Platner or else fandom is starting to make perfect sense now because abusers love abusers. It's why so many rapists love Trump. All of these men who are acting like he is the inevitable messiah of democracy are just abusers like him. Like follows like and they can smell one another out.

Hunter Biden is enjoying himself, and I am enjoying that, and the thought about how his angriest detractors are likely unhinged by his responses to them because of their personalities.

I would vote for a crack-smoking gentleman to sex workers a looooong way before I'd vote for Graham "calls women hatchet gashes" Platner, I can tell you that right now

I don’t know how to tell people that the only way to win, to truly win, is to have principles and bring people along to rally behind advancing those principles. Electoral politics is no exception to this truth. If you elect someone who does not adhere to, or advance, your principles, you cannot win.

no way you’re telling me the guy who has a history of shitty comments about women and had a Nazi tattoo and was a violent bloodthirsty mercenary who openly desired to kill people ALSO was physically abusive with ex partners? absolutely shocked I tell you

Hey guess what Ted Chiang agrees with me.

This stuff is so well documented in the intimate partner terrorism literature that it’s been incorporated into risk assessment tools. Abusers like who they are, they enjoy the abuse — and you can see that because they choose who and how to use it. They conceal their abuse well, so they can continue.

Well, that is in fact kidnapping, as well as coercion and intimate partner terrorism. And I honestly don’t give a damn that she’s GOP. He dated her, that’s on him. He abused her, that’s on him. Conservative women get abused, often worse and more, because they’re taught to expect and accept abuse.

Eugenics guy wants eugenics data for eugenics

Medicare will no longer be covering a number of chemotherapy drugs for treatment of colorectal cancer at the behest of RFK Jr. This is going to kill Medicare beneficiaries www.aapc.com/blog/94068-m...

this is worth highlighting again this is domestic abuse from platner, this is not just 'guy who was kind of a dickbag towards women' completely beyond the pale

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Robert Merton warned us. "Particularly in times of international conflict, when the dominant definition of the situation is such as to emphasize national loyalties, the man of science is subjected to conflicting imperatives of scientific universalism and ethnocentric particularism."

It's bad again in Chicago. Same with Minneapolis. These pigs want revenge for getting their asses handed to them by two winter cities full of courageous neighbors. Let's show em we know how to kick ass all summer long, too. I never go anywhere without a whistle these days. Do you have one?

who could have anticipated that the guy who used the "boys will be boys" defense to explain his nazi tattoo also has a history of sexual violence

Please for the love of G-d stop ranking causes. Stop creating hierarchies of marginalized people. Because "x group is more important than y group" just means "sorry, x group has to be willing to die until we get to them."

Excited to learn about how roughing a woman up and confining her in a room that you do not allow her to leave, between bouts of voicing weird elaborate rape fantasies, is the kind of working class authenticity that the Democrats really need and a reason to like him *more* actually.

It’s elder abuse… AND the elder is abusing us

Relying on police issued fines to fund your city is a thing that gives cops tremendous unaccountable power in addition to ensuring revenue collection falls heavily on those with less to begin with.

Quiara is having a bad month. We can all relate. Can you chip in?

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he’s sort of a generational poster though

Publicly offering to lend Bernie my Hinge account so he can go on enough bad dates to stop falling for every working class white guy with facial hair who does class analysis the rest of us got over this phase in our twenties SENATOR

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This is the single most alarming thing I’ve seen yet from RFK Jr. He is attempting to get identifiable medical records from ALL OF US. “Under the proposal, HHS would get data from 90% of the population’s medical records by 2028”. This CANNOT be permitted to happen.

What if they just made an entire guy out of red flags?

The ability to give a real barn burner of a qualification at a large Saturday morning AA meeting in a midsize city is not actually the same as the ability to be a US Senator.

to be a woman is to want to constantly scream and cry at the same time

Tell us more about why Graham Platner beating on the women he's dated as a pattern makes him the progressive choice for the working class!

No surprise these two would become instant best friends. #MayTheGrouchBeWithYou

Platner is a rich guy who is obsessed with power and dominance, probably as a way to cope with his extremely masculine luxury blue collar experience career being that he sells oysters exclusively to his mommy.

its striking me that we don’t live in a normal economy anymore, we live in an economy entirely constructed around speculation now

Well. I have unfortunately seen more news about that fucking oyster guy. What can I say beyond "I told you so"? He's a bad man, who has not changed.

🧵Spotted at a Secondhand Bookfair in Aotearoa New Zealand: A teen radiating maximum ennui is slouched in the poetry aisle next to Mum. Heaving a sigh, she asks: "Ugh. What are you trying to PROVE?" Mum continues idly browsing, unruffled: "I dunno. That a book can be used as a murder weapon?" (1)

THIS. It's why I haven't really appreciated Talarico"s responses. "I eat so much red meat and fuck a real woman" is not exactly the stirring response to fragile masculinity *or* trans issues you think it is.

This is super urgent. Please, please help

This will kill people. And should be fucking illegal. Water is a human right

So they made sourdough from 3000 year old yeast they pulled out of a mummy’s butthole. How long before it shows up on the shelf at Sprouts?

There is some confusion, I think, about the fact that both conservatives and liberals say they oppose sexual abuse; what liberals mean is that parents shouldn't be allowed to rape their children, what conservatives mean is that parents should be allowed to kill their children if they're gay.

YAAAAYY! I adore Upright Women Wanted. It weirdly speaks to me, since I grew up in a cult-adjacent-thing and the way my world expanded after I left it is strikingly similar to the way the MC's world grows (altho her journey is much more queer, bc I am straight lol.) Another in this world is a gift!

Once again: Trumpism is asymmetrical warfare. Trumpists win if they take over an institution or if they destroy it. Trumpists can win a vote or win by destroying public confidence in voting. And they have no compunction about which they do.

Ok, but it's also really painful for the affected animals, so it's not *just* an economic issue. But yes, y'all don't need to worry. Though you should stay angry. This was not unavoidable.

Accountability is a thing that happens in other countries

Lots has been written about the other trappings of authoritarianism: the gilding of surfaces, racist anti-immigration rhetoric, the demonization of queers and trans people, the brutality. But mass sexual repression hasn't gotten nearly enough attention, and too often it's echoed by the left.

Senate Republicans just started a marathon voting session known as vote-a-rama in the Senate. Not to improve your life. Not to lower your costs. But to funnel $70 billion more to ICE and the abuses I saw at Delaney Hall. Not another dime.

This is also how lawfare and defamation claims can be used to silence survivors, even if they don't name their perpetrators