you've blinded your last third eye

A lot of discourse since Tuesday hinges on idea that some politicians are owed a seat, it’s their turn & it’s problematic to not back them. & that’s so odd to me — because not only you have to wait for 88-year olds to deign to retire, but then there’s someone else waiting who’s owed & you can’t run?

what if they fought back against republicans instead

My pithy comment: the difference between the Democratic Socialists winning and the Tea Party winning is that the press gave favourable coverage to the Tea Party

"Broom the soup." A lot of centrists are freaking out right now, and people are both reading too much and too little into the DSA victories, but a metaphor from my career may be helpful here. 1/?

I think moderates who vote to confirm bad Trump nominees are driving voters to look for anyone that seem aware of the stakes.

RESULT: Darializa Avila Chevalier, a challenger backed by New York's left, has ousted Rep. Adriano Espaillat. An earthquake result, which means all 3 congressional candidates backed by Mamdani have won: Chevalier, Brad Lander, and Claire Valdez.

The theory that “electable” means “work to appease right-wing bigots under the assumption that majorities agree with them, at least partially, and they prioritize it when voting” has been tried. It has failed. Try something else.

Like the US, the UK should be having a debate about why moving to the right didn’t work. Also like the US, they are pretending the move right didn’t happen and are still telling the center-left party to move right.

bananas goal from cape verde

i have not watched much of the world cup but this paraguay team is so incredibly annoying

What a surprise ….. “Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good Reliance on artificial-intelligence tools degrades the abilities of physicians and software engineers, studies show.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Writing "alleged" and "it calls" does not exonerate you from the error of continuing to print lies in the newspaper instead of writing "Trump administration violates international law again by murdering civilians on the high seas."

this article is ai slop; not necessarily llm-written, but slop about ai slop. the problem these "ai agents" are even supposed to be solving isn't clearly defined no explanation why chat bots are needed vs standard error handling/monitoring everything regurgitated here is theoretical or simulated

Fellas, you do not under any circumstances have to hand it to Nick Fuentes

Okay, folks: The big El Niño update is now out on Weather West! This sure looks like it's going to be a dramatic year from a global climate perspective, and there are major implications for extreme events (across California, the U.S. West, & well beyond).

i procrastinated for 10 days on a work task, so i had to spend 3 hours tonight to have something tangible for my 9 am meeting with my boss tomorrow. flashbacks to banging out an essay for school the night before it's due lol

Musk functionally ran the US government for 6 months last year and managed to: increase spending, slash services, kill 100,000s, and help nurture both Ebola & Screwworms. Yet somehow no one mentions this when they talk about the company he is going to take public this week.

Playing on their turf never ever wins, not morally, not politically. Here's a response: "this is a wedge issue targeting kids, getting into their doctors' decisions. Next, they'll come for your hysterectomy, your vasectomy. And it's because they can't talk about the economy." Say Fuck You back

Corporate media is functionally worthless at this point to anyone except sponsors. Support independent journalism today and stop supporting anyone that isn’t interested in challenging power.

Friendly reminder that NPR has been fucking the dog with shit like this for awhile. No different than anyone else in the toilet for Trump, even though he's been coming for their funding. People need to be clear headed about this shit. Same as the other captured media

The state of the California governor’s race:

adhd is crazy cause you can rot for an entire week and finally on day 7 your third eye opens and all the tasks you were procrastinating on get done in 3 hours

the position here is that being a liberal is itself a heresy and that the only real christianity is whatever happens to be aligned with the republican party

getting old is fun because you can sleep in a slightly different position and then the next morning your elbow feels like it is made of silly string

I am tired of Democratic senators warning me that all of Trump’s judges will dangerous “MAGA loyalists,” and then dutifully voting to confirm some of them anyway. Completely unserious people. Do your jobs or stop talking about it.

Try to imagine a Republican Party with a dozen or so staunch abortion advocates. A dozen pro-choice Republicans wrecking every shot at eroding women's autonomy, ruining every anti-choice vote. Can't picture it, can you? Yet we have to accept this kind of Democratic Party, for some reason.

This is why the Democrats' current obsession with tax cuts is so dangerous. They're paving the way for more extreme proposals like ending progressive taxation altogether. Again, we don't need "Republican lite." We need a party that affirms that paying for the things government does is good.

Absolutely devastating read. www.them.us/story/slain-...

The Payback is out in paperback today, it’s the same great student loan industry heist novel in a smaller size and lower price. www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Pa...

this is... wild actually? it's just been a birthright trip fund for east coast teens this entire time?

i am tired of having to listen to dumb assholes just because they have a lot of money

Third is Bridgett, whose little son has surgery scheduled next week, out of town. She's trying to raise $300 for it, but my guess is it'll be *at least* double that, probably more before they're done: PayPal: @Bridgett190 Venmo: @Bridgetttru17

Fourth is Daniella, who's been trying for a solid month now to raise $350 for diapers, wipes, formula, & infant supplies for her baby, and soccer safety gear for her grade-school son. She hasn't been able to raise a single cent. PayPal: www.paypal.me/NelliBear96 Cashapp: cash.app/$Nellibear96

Thinking again about how Mackenzie Scott has given away $19 billion of her $38b and still seen her net worth increase, these are some weird little pissbabies

Your 2026 EDSBS Charity Bowl grand total is $1,763,317. edsbscharitybowl.com

@hollyanderson.bsky.social @edsbs.bsky.social last-minute $45 donation + fees. i couldn't find the option for UCSD men's club lacrosse (and our 45 years of excellence) so it went to PTKU

Something we don’t address enough is how many people, especially adults, do not have a working imagination.

Reading a well-written takedown of a person I have long despised is such a wonderful feeling www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-ban...

the basic theory of DOGE was that if powerful people said it was fine it didn’t matter what the law said. I think proving that theory wrong is worth significant effort

I want Democrats to run on accountability and prosecution for every last piece of criminal corruption that has brought us here. They can't do it now, but they can promise to do it as soon as possible.

The insistence on “my friends across the aisle” rhetoric doesn’t make sense to me when democrats are also like, “we’re fighting fascists.” Like, which is it??? Who are the good fascists on the other side of the aisle??

The point of all this isn't to turn a profit or come out ahead. The point is to establish that capital can never be invaded, that wealth belongs exclusively in private hands and its expenditure decided by private interests, that the state and its people have no right to it or say in its use.

Here is my debut piece for @flaminghydra.com. It's about celebrities, thinness, and my own anorexia. flaminghydra.com/r/d37a670d?m...

you truly love to see it

Even if it takes years, we have to bring EVERYONE who made this happen to justice. No moving on, no letting this go. Revenge is good enough motivation for me personally, but the nobler and important reason is to ensure that anyone who thinks of doing this again knows they’ll rot in prison for it.