it's great that a bunch of previously safe republican seats might flip but people need to get ready for some incredible election throws and betrayals from democrats. they will always find an excuse to not pass uncompromised legislation.

Absolutely incredible sequence from CNN. "Maduro was a paranoid lunatic always lying about the CIA trying to overthrow him. Anyways, now that the CIA has overthrown him..."

mysterious

broasted chicken

I went on Substack to suggest to Simon Rosenberg that there might be some valid reasons for Minneapolis activists to be suspicious of Dem party fundraising. Ooof.

made some iced banana cinnamon roll cake

just saw that one of our cats, Jimmy, has a heavily swollen inner eyelid. no idea about the cause so I'd like to get him to the vet ASAP. paycheck doesn't hit until tomorrow and is pretty much accounted for for bills so any help getting this looked at would be appreciated paypal.me/yardgnome737

A lot of blue mayors and governors know the "don't give an order you don't expect to be obeyed" leadership maxim but interpret it as "I guess I can't order the cops to do anything" rather than as a crisis of insubordination.

what people need to be asking dem mayors and governors is if they believe the local/state cops would obey if ordered to arrest ICE or CBP personnel they'll lie, because they can't tell the truth and say that police are not subject to democratic accountability or control, but the lie will be obvious

I don’t think they’re misreading them so much as they are terrified of the implications because it means the status quo has to break. there’s no incrementalism for this. mass radicalization of this scale scares Democrats more than anything Republicans could do and I mean that literally.

they do it because they genuinely want to demotivate their own base. losing more elections is an acceptable price to destroy any pressure leftward.

the premise of every bad reactionary 80s action movie is true (violent gangs of subhuman freaks in the inner city could come out of nowhere and destroy your entire life) except it's the cops

remarkable stuff

illegally kidnapping one guy, theatrically dropping a few bombs, and then tuxedo mask-ing away claiming victory while the world humiliates itself for trump (again) and nothing really changes would be the stupidest outcome of this so it's probably what will happen

everyone else is terrified to speak the truth but i'll say it and no one can stop me zohran's wife is really hot

merry christmas

my wife understands me

what could it mean…

it’s gotten a little cold out

made some gingerbread with candied orange peel

finished cooking dinner and went to look something up on my pc but it’s been commandeered

i couldn't remember why i had bogost muted but this last week is a good reminder

bandcamp friday! anabstractillusion.bandcamp.com/album/the-sl... i don't usually like death metal but this is proggy enough to win me over

It's not just about leave but about what we are producing when we are working, says Toss Grumley.

sometimes it hits me that the product propping up the US economy and inflating the biggest tech bubble in history is literally just a chat bot and i have to lie down

my first thought was wishing they would put lower incomes on this chart then i realized it's so bad they'd have to make the y axis logarithmic to make it readable

Personally, I think the idea that all women should be measured by the failures of Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris is actually a sort of sexist doomerism.

at a workshare office setting up a laptop for a client and the men’s room has urinals that are just full sized toilet bowls sticking a foot and a half out from the wall at waist height and i really dislike it

best ending of all time, let's be real

love this weird little thing

focaccia is such a good easy bread, everyone should try making it

she wants attention… or not???

folks she is back at it

My dad sent me this

While I’m sure historians and others may disagree with me, I don’t really care if they do Groverhaus to the White House.

@murderxbryan.bsky.social trying to answer a question at work and got blindsided by the chuck norris joke bot

good afternoon

this is the only way through the shit we're in right now. if we can get people to recognize their common ground and shared material interests with the most marginalized groups we can fight the real enemy and win.

the illinois state police are helping ice because they support them and @govpritzker.illinois.gov is sending the isp to help ice because he supports them. if that wasn't true they wouldn't do it and it's fuckin stupid to write fanfiction trying to wishcast otherwise

The CEO of Bluesky is craven and evil. The only people that build these platforms are infected with the self-reproducing moral rot of capitalism. They have no sense of duty or stewardship. They see their monetary reward as a cleansing justification for their actions.

daiistar.bandcamp.com/album/good-t... also bought the daiistar album

findelmundo.bandcamp.com/album/todo-v... fin del mundo rules