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I'm just rooting for a scorigami

I think it's more accurate to say that the Democrats have been too cautious about welcoming new constituencies into their coalition. They held queer people at arms length for decades for fear of alienating their social conservatives, but then those social conservatives left anyways over abortion.

Six well-dressed houseguests run around a mansion

There's extensive documentation of Israel's atrocities, including the intentional targeting of children and aid workers in Gaza, settler pogroms in the West Bank, rape and torture systematically used against political prisoners, expulsion of shia muslims from southern Lebanon.

Why do our politicians keep trying to chase a progressive except for trans people demographic that doesn't exist? There is no constituency for this!

One thing we can do is change the way we distribute federal funds, routing less of it through state governments that misuse it for the benefit of white reactionary elites and more of it directly to local governments in the cities and towns we've underinvested in.

it's not an own to point out that all these fucking guys trying to deny trans people their hormones are so into HGH and whatnot. they don't care either way about 'gender affirming care.' they want to be he-men and they want trans people to die. to them the two projects are perfectly coherent

pointing out the hypocrisy of people who are lying about what they actually want will never get you anywhere. smugly owning them for the gaps in their logic. it's an exterminationist project, not a rhetorical one

you know that kwame ture quote about how nonviolence only works as a strategy when your opponent has a conscience? something similar at play with pointing out your opponent's hypocrisy. that only works if your opponent agrees that he's playing a word game not prosecuting a holy war

When I was in high school, there was a Starbucks with plenty of seating, and a bookstore with a cafe, also with plenty of seating. We hung out in these places regularly. Now the bookstore is a trader Joe's and the Starbucks has no seating.

Imagine cooking your brain to the point that you think AI is as important to humanity as indoor plumbing. One of these has saved countless lives, the other has (maybe) made some software engineers more productive.

I don’t think it’s a great use of time or energy to pretend you can reform the president‘s personal militia

There's a difference between expressing your condolences to his loved ones (good) and praising his work as a senator (bad). Credit where it's due, I think the politician who's gotten closest to the right tone is Joe Biden.

SimTower (1994)

A sport that combines incredible feats of athleticism and competitors faking injuries? That's pro wrestling baby

Tell me you know nothing about John Whitmire without telling me you know nothing about John Whitmire.

“For a while now, the World Cup games have commenced with each player stepping out onto the pitch holding hands with a random child, but we never told anyone to start doing that,” FIFA president Gianni Infantino told reporters

Gotta admit this man looks damn fine with gray hair. (also he kinda stole the show in stop that train)

It's impossible for the Democrats to credibly claim the anti-racism mantle when this open bigotry toward Muslim and Arab candidates is accepted within the party.

Met this guy at the metro this morning, anyone know anything about him?

Dudes rock

One out of every eight Americans watched this game.

Between this and the national guard in Memphis it’s kind of disturbing me (yes I know I’m a member of the media) the degree to which these killings aren’t really breaking thru rn

It's true that "good character" is often used as a cover by the wealthy to punish the poor, which is why, rather than abandoning the concept of good character, we need to redefine it to exclude those who use their wealth and power to punish the poor.

When the most corrupt president in American history meets the most corrupt organization in global sport, beautiful things happen.

Our current anthem is fine, I guess, but really we should change it to Party in the USA

Coolest dog in america

Can't overstate how much every flyover sounds like a missile is falling on my home.

Many of our third spaces are dying because they are being sucked dry by private equity. We have fewer bowling alleys because they are almost all owned by one private equity firm, that drove up prices and killed bowling leagues to pursue more profitable birthday parties and corporate events.

If you want better Democrats, gotta fund better Democrats. secure.actblue.com/donate/bab-s...

Give money to @beth4ma.bsky.social, who wants to do something about the fucking problems we face instead of hiding under a table and texting you about how scared they are.

For conservatives, the one and only definition of "societal collapse" is when they have to share power with the people they see as their inferiors. Anything that decent people would see as bad for society is only of concern to conservatives if it threatens white christian cis-het male supremacy.

Ahead of its 250th birthday, I make the case that the greatest work of American art ever produced is made of garbage and was assembled at the behest of God by a Black man working the night shift as a janitor in DC johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/americas-g...

I have already maxed out. I need all of you—ghouls and goblins, freaks and weirdos—to donate. Let's get a fucking trans socialist to Congress. secure.actblue.com/donate/bab-s...

NEW: Workers say their bosses are becoming obsessed with AI and essentially turning the entire workplace into an exercise in AI psychosis -- making absurd pivots, communicating only in AI slop, and even asking ChatGPT who to fire futurism.com/artificial-i...

It's true that urban redevelopment doesn't directly lead to displacement, but it's also true that institutional investment in urban neighborhoods often comes alongside aggressive policing and other predatory tactics intended to harass poor ppl and PoC out of those communities.

“Uncivil, a consortium of scholars and researchers of which Moreton is a member, found that 20 out of the 23 foundations most active in the pluralism and depolarization space also fund conservative policy networks or pro-Israel organizations.”

From Josie Stratman (NY Daily News): “Mayor Mamdani on his "Talk with the Mayor" twitch stream reveals an old username: airnova2112 (after Mars 2112) Apparently a 15-year-old Mamdani used the username to come to the defense of his director mom, Mira Nair, from haters on online film chat boards”

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“I will be one of the Jewish members of Congress most willing to stand up for Palestinian human rights. And I will stand firmly against bigotry aimed at Jews. Those are not two different jobs. They are the same job,” Brad Lander said.

This is not the way you respond to a situation where a few of your players did some homophobic shit. This is the way you respond when you personally approved of the homophobic actions in advance.

AI boosters treat AI skeptics with contempt because AI boosters want to devalue human labor and human creativity. This is why I will never be an AI booster even though I recognize there are certain things it is genuinely useful for (art is not one).

Black Watch Series III, by Gene Davis, 1974

This makes it a lot more likely that Canada participates in Eurovision next year

These people are both very very stupid and very very evil

Are raisins widely enjoyed? Because raisins are an abomination. Why would you do that to a perfectly tasty grape?

Really appreciated this on queer urbanism and Albuquerque open.substack.com/pub/abqurban...

Why is no one trying to stop Elon, he wonders, as he spends a full day insisting that people shouldn't oppose data centers.

The U.S. is one of the most unique and diverse countries in world history and it would rock if we stopped sucking ass and actually were a good country! That may never happen in my lifetime but that hope is the literal entire point of my political beliefs.