a "fun" fact is that texas' state senate map is so gerrymandered that this swing would flip all but four republican districts

the correct way to understand the protest opsec stuff is that its a shibboleth for guys who attend left wing protests regularly that lets them exert status over recruits. i would regard it as pretty benign if these people werent actively discouraging people from getting involved.

People call this lib coded or left coded or reformist or revolutionary or whatever but this is like basic dissent 101 and people across ideological lines think this way if they're competent

it’s kind of funny how these people have exactly the same kind of brainworms as like jim clyburn

For the most part, wearing masks to shield your identity to protect yourself from retribution is ceding the whole playing field to the fascists. Not indulging in the weird black ops security theater is itself a statement: this is our world and you don’t dictate how we live in it.

I’m so glad you went. I had many people ask me - “is it safe? Should I leave my phone and ID at home? Do I need an exit strategy?” We’re building this bizarre and paranoid civic culture based almost entirely on miasmatic online fear endlessly feeding itself. Selma marchers didn’t even mask!

To the people who actually believe that “real change does not, and will not, ever happen in the voting booth,” I’d ask you to consider how much has changed since Trump won the last election. Where did that come from?

The sex act can be between any number and any kind of consenting adults, but it should not desecrate the Republic or its virtues I'm only like 20% joking

Hurting people is easy. It's lazy. Anyone can do it with the right tools and the wrong morals. Protecting people is hard. It takes restraint and courage and empathy. They will never have that. So they can never win, in the end. Minneapolis will win.

The reason why they're still pressing ahead is not because they have some secret plan, but the pretty classic Umberto Eco fascist-folly - because of their ideology they are "constitutionally incapable of objectively evaluating the force of the enemy."

A Reversal Expected Priced As Settled Traders Arrest Market Avulsion Lulling Expectations Great Overall Risk Disruption Immoderates Totally Absent Signal

Important video. These guys are rattled. They can't go anywhere, they can't get anything done. They killed someone and it just got worse. They don't have any other intellectual or law-enforcement tools. They don't know what to do.

The logic of this administration, since the beginning, has been the logic of right-wing grievance media, which is to say that they only response they can imagine to anything is to keep ratcheting up the rhetoric, to keep escalating the claims, to never, ever, ever back down or acknowledge a mistake.

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happy new year everyone :)

eating msg by the spoonful as is my god-given right

IT'S HAPPENING

I am once again asking Democratic congressional leadership to stop completely vindicating the most vulgar leftist 'both sides are the same' midwits

literally breathtaking. just absolutely incredible

There's moderates like Newsom who absolutely do suck but seem to understand that power exists and is important, and then there's moderates like Manchin that genuinely seem to have rocks in place of the space between their ears, unfortunately, almost every elected moderate is in the latter category

Maggie Hassan is really underhated given her behavior in this congress. she and Shaheen have almost as bad a record as Fetterman, and they are neither from a trump state nor do they have serious brain damage

seattle mayoral may come down to ballot cures; if you're a king county voter you can check the status of your ballot here: info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...

getting maverickbaited by Marjorie Taylor Greene is like losing chess to a dog

ROTER ZAR VON NEW YORK

All YIMBY ballot measures are currently winning in NYC by 10-point margins at least

honestly what the fuck is going on

It's often said that the best way to honour someone's memory is to learn from how they lived. I can't do this here, since it's illegal to kidnap and torture people if you're an ordinary person not clothed in the power of the state. It's illegal either way, but you'll get punished in the first case.

RIP 😭💔🙏

just told my 10yo daughter about #DickCheney. She had tears in her eyes And then she did the Wakanda pose and said "#Dickanda forever" -- which is the sort of pop-culture cross-over that I can celebrate.

Game 3 of the World Series will continue until morale improves.

i think i hauve covid

drinking honey straight out of the bottle like the world’s largest bee

i think "brown scare" should be the priority of democratic legislatures before 2029. even state legislatures.

In that, dreadful, terrible moment, every black bloc protestor in the world is useless, but a line of concerned senior citizens, office workers and house-spouses is actually a 'harder' target. And 'the soldiers stood aside' is the sentence in the history book that goes before 'and the regime fell.'

RAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

man-made wonders beyond our comprehension

I have discovered the perfect restaurant and it is now my duty to ensure it never goes out of business

bro

It's All Congress Fault is actually the story of our time

GO WOKE OR GO BROKE

john oliver must be so mad that he's only going to be like the fourth late night host fired for criticizing the regime

i don't actually want the bottom to fall out because i live here and value stability because its hard to get back when its gone

I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords

seems bad

just awful news. out of respect, zero the tariffs

I don’t feel good about this.

total cultural victory

maybe this is the 0 hours of sleep talking but