So whose art did they steal for the portfolio submission (is the next question)
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So whose art did they steal for the portfolio submission (is the next question)
So do we think it’s gonna be Stephen Miller in the Edith Wilson position? Because it definitely won’t be Vance. Or Melania.
democrats mega-funded the police and still lost and now the police are all goose-stepping nazis exactly like all the "defund" people said they would be
Honestly I’m not super surprised that there’s an overlap between “prepared to endorse Mamdani instead of still hoping for Cuomo” and “understands that maybe he shouldn’t join the growing list of Dem Members who die in office”
Wicked neat to have a bunch of pro-gerontocracy motherfuckers in my replies, yo
At ANY FUCKING POINT in the last 15 elections were the D voters in that district offered ANY ACTUAL VIABLE OTHER OPTION in a primary? Because if not, I’m not the one doing disenfranchisement.
In fact, if you feel that your party is on the right track and should keep going in the same direction in the incredibly unlikely event you DON’T actually live forever, that would have been the SMART move And that way you can also PASS ON THE INSTITUTIONAL KNOWLEDGE
Yes, and you COULD, if you’re not a power hungry monster planning to live forever and never give up the office, bring people up on your staff and in your org who the voters also get to know and recognize so that when you finally decide to fucking retire voters are already inclined towards them
Ah yes, because the other 434 members of Congress definitely never vote on anything that ever fucking affects me in my district in any way, OBVIOUSLY
It’s super neat to burn an acre of the Amazon to do math WRONG
It didn’t have to go with him if he had groomed and trained a group of possible fucking replacements instead of clinging selfishly to the levers of power until we finally pried his rigor mortis-d fingers away
The bank app is telling me to "tap & pay like a boss😏" and "rally my crew". I am 37 years old and you are the bank. Don't talk to me this way.
In the video you can see the jutted-out bit on the roofline, it’s just not incredibly deep so it disappears from some angles, especially in what’s fairly grainy video for 2025. The dental trim underneath is also delicate enough it makes sense that it would “disappear” at this distance/resolution.
I gave up on a popular internet underwear brand because there was literally a 2” range for every possible measurement in the exact same size and style
Plus the blind box gambling effect!
That’s the actual difference between now and “olden times” — there actually is a “decent human being” pathway for shooting your shot successfully
I have the nonexistent spice tolerance of a middle aged white lady but even so I require approximately three bowls of buldak cheese ramen per year In other news, I mostly can’t feel my mouth right now
The way I had to just put my phone down and stare into the camera
No, what’s absurd is that you clearly don’t believe your sister in law’s health was worth trying to preserve instead of forcing her to encounter 150 potentially infectious students a day, five days a week
No, it was public health, because cutting an alcoholic off cold turkey can kill them A child whose entire cohort simply spends the following school year getting assistance dealing with the trauma of a pandemic while ensuring they are caught up with the grade that was cut short doesn’t die of it
Yes, and also it’s possible to continue providing alcohol in ways that are SIGNIFICANTLY safer than literally any possible way to keep schools open and classrooms full Especially if you’re insistent on not taking even the single smallest step to clean the air inside those full classrooms
Heck, even Bay Area hospitals might struggle to dx valley fever in someone who doesn’t think to mention that their recent trip to LA was by car down 5 rather than by plane, and that’s the same state
You better be goddamned careful visiting the southwest right now if you live back east is all I'm saying. Speaking as a transplanted easterner, we got weird shit out here that will kill the fuck out of you.
Can’t help but wonder whether a bar could eg let 2-3 people in at a time for 10 minutes each in a way that a 25-student classroom can’t stagger attendance while providing every student with the appropriate number of minutes of instruction per day
Homeless vets being a thing should be all the proof anyone needs that this country doesn't deserve your patriotism.
A very happy Labor Day to everyone except the goons, the ginks, the company finks, the deputy sheriffs, the company boys, the company spies, the company stools, and the National Guard.
"I disagree with the fascists when they call groups of people subhuman and demand their removal from society, except THIS ONE GROUP, where I totally think they got it right. C'mon guys, we can remove just one group from society, right? Like a free square in bingo?"
Gonna be so neat when we hear from Greenblatt that every single one of the world’s leading scholars of genocide is an antisemite
More than once I abruptly changed my planned route because I saw that the dangler at a Storrow entrance was swinging wildly and didn’t feel like getting caught in (extra) traffic
Unless they’ve wildly changed the signage arrangements since I last drove around Boston you’ve also physically hit at least one dangling sign saying “you’re too tall don’t go this way” before you actually reach any of the bridges on Storrow
i am almost 40 and i literally do not have any point in my life where the right wing has not been doing moral panics about imaginary child abuse while institutionally working to enable real abuse of real children. if it's not the satanic panic it's fucking pronouns.
This isn't doomscrolling, it's schadenfeed.
*absolutely certified Nerd
I went the other way, grew up in CA and went to college in MA; the first time I did the pep band* trip to DE for the basketball tournament it freaked me the heck out that we’d gone through like 5 states in the time it took to get from my home in the Bay Area to my Nana’s in Ventura County
We HAD startup railroads in the late 19th century, a shitton of them There’s an argument to be made that railroads, not web1.0, was the first American tech bubble
They don’t care where the people go because they agree with their rich constituents: “anywhere I can’t see them”
Either blazed, or the driver was so hopped up on adderall and roids that they road-raged their way into a “brake check” accident
LOL OF COURSE
Which would also solve the “kids on phones during class” problem that these bans are trying to fix
If parents are THAT incredibly desperate to get texts from their kids describing each step of a school shooting they need to teach their kids to keep their phones turned off and buried in their bags UNTIL the moment of the “this is not a drill” and not before
can't believe they've shelly miscaviged donald trump
You can also get little magnetic doohickies that hold the door at the magic “open enough to circulate air/dry the seal, but closed enough to walk past easily” angle
If you say 'heteronormative' or 'unhoused person' or 'food insecurity' you're basically talking gibberish and nobody can understand you but if you say you can see inflammation in children at the airport and that vaccines lower IQ or that germs are a myth you get to fire all the scientists.
You need to put more on the table than “we’ll kill and or oppress less groups of people overall, or at least do it quietly so you don’t have to see it.”
“We want Patriarchal Dictator But Left” is depressingly common
So do it, you cowards
The same system that used to hand them sex mommies also used to hand them jobs that paid decently without them having to actually work to do well in school for it
Turns out actual human beings with their own equally valid wants and needs don’t make great sex mommies
He’s also apparently too much of a chicken/asshole to actually go to his wife and have the discussion about “hey, could we sometimes get the bread I prefer instead of always sourdough” or wtfever, she’s just supposed to read his mind and/or his pass-agg tweets about it
3) extending the tolerance shown for specific members of a demographic who make good useful idiots to encompass every member of that demographic, especially when 4) that demographic sees gradations in themselves (like caste) that the other side doesn’t understand
Finding someone a useful idiot (this actually goes both ways between Trump/Modi but we’re talking about the GOP here) doesn’t mean 1) considering them equally human 2) considering them the Nazis’ favorite code word for “white” or ->
The far right succeeded in this country in large part because adult men were angry about this supposed theft, and the Nazis learned to channel that rage. "[Marginalized group] stole your sex mommy!" is quite literally their rallying cry a lot of the time.
Fam, is pissing off your troops a good plan for an authoritarian state?
I doubt he goes to the grocery store himself, that’s probably too emasculating, so he’s actually whining that his wife and/or mommy prefers more interesting bread than he does and he doesn’t have the balls to ask for what he wants
Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival
You can argue, justifiably, opposing this regime is the only job and calling out Newsom is too divisive. But verily I tell you that attacking Newsom’s transphobia is attacking this regime. Because silently abetting it is abetting this regime and proving that we’re bigots, cons or cowards.
I agree with much of this thread, but I think it needs to be said: if unity is the way to get around fascists, we need to fucking unify, and that means at this stage, swiftly discouraging the wedge issue dividers in our own party.
I don't know what the correct balance is. But I do know that we need to expand the pro-democracy coalition, and I suspect that this *will* require approaches that abandon stigmatization of allies and potential allies in favor of empathy and persuasion.
Unfortunately that requires a bunch of city-dwellers who are at least hypothetically on the left to stop fucking spouting off about “screw those red states/they voted for this/those voters are just getting what they deserve/we should have let them secede”
If we are going to prevail against them, we need as large an opposition tent as we can get. We need disciplined counter-mobilization. That means protests where SJP doesn't get on stage and tell people that if they don't support the destruction of the state of Israel, then they need to go home.
There's no point in punishing the nominees of the opposition for stances that we consider beyond the pale — let alone ones that are problematic. The logic of "teaching them a lesson" presupposes that we still have a system in which the opposition can win elections.
Just because the GOP finds some Indians useful absolutely doesn’t mean they agree with Modi about high caste Hindus being “Aryan” Also I wouldn’t assume they know or care about Hindu vs Muslim or the fine gradations of the caste system when they look at an Indian person in the first place
They may, but they really should have taken the GOP’s temperature on that before they leaned into it
Oh, I see You’ve already got the cognitive effects I’m afraid you’re a lost cause, bye
Not to mention, vaccination REDUCES transmission but doesn’t FULLY PREVENT it. Every time a new variant slips past your 9+ month old previous booster you run the risk of turning into one of those high risk people yourself.
How someone so selfish and self-absorbed survived to adulthood I mask in public so that high risk folks DON’T HAVE to spend the rest of their lives hiding inside. Maybe you should try it for a few months and see if you feel good about it.
I’m going to say this louder this time: if you are lying about having a high-risk condition to get a Covid vaccine, all good, do what you want to do BUT show some actual goddamn respect for people who *actually* have that condition and start masking.
Full movie theaters are “distanced”? Full basketball and hockey arenas? Classrooms? Busy grocery stores?
As many times as we’re supposed to save those who live in tornado country, blizzard country, and earthquake country Kindly tell the class where exactly is left once you remove all of those?
I was following from California as a friend of mine documented the run-up and then quite abruptly dropped off the grid after the levee was breached We didn’t know whether she’d survived until she managed to get a new phone, in Texas, three weeks later
If you can’t see the difference between “I am prepared to do this incredibly selfless thing DESPITE the risk to my personal health” and “wheeee paid organ donation” we’re living on different fucking planets
Why not E) all of the above?
average Dem strategist: we must focus on bipartisan policies that undercut Republican attacks average Dem voter: having studied the denazification of Germany, we must raze the RNC and leave JD Vance clutching a single wool blanket in a cell after we strip him of everything
my father-in-law is a “I know a guy” Guy. sadly all the old Guys are aging out of the Guy Economy. Guys are fundamentally incompatible with Hustle Culture because it’s not about “winning” a deal, it’s about collecting favors and goodwill in a mutually-beneficial cycle. protect your local Guy Economy
Super cute!
I’ll give LeBron credit too, but that other one exploited (among others) a whole raft of actors, VFX artists, and I’m prepared to say every single person who worked on every one of the computer/mobile games
And we only know about the food banks because the FOOD BANKS said something The closest to charity Zuck ever came was slapping his name on SF General
And by doing 3-hour concert productions in heels every third night for like 2 years She’s the only billionaire where I’m very nearly prepared to say that no, she really DID actually make that money herself
That also works, these days I usually end up eating it often enough to avoid that
just need to know if I have to send a small muppet bunny to the butcher shop for a goose or not
Excellent! But if you change your mind be smarter than me when I first had my own kitchen to stock, is what I’m saying.
THE DREAM idk if you need to know this but if you are into brown rice sticking it in the freezer for idk like a week? before pulling it back out and storing it normally has kept my kitchen moth free for like a decade
Trump could single-handedly fix the global economy by kicking off the surge in flagpole-doubling construction
What omg
Key word is suffer If we kept everything else about the lifestyle of the 99% exactly the same, with exactly the same amount of money and power going to the 1%, but the 99% just had 3 fewer respiratory illnesses per year, the 1% would feel like they’d lost something
US schools: “chronic absenteeism is a crisis!” Also US schools: yeah, our hvac systems were last updated in 1977, so?
Ah yes, the “obviously everyone is physically incapable of NOT driving way the fuck above the speed limit so this is basically just a tax” argument
Yeah, if they’re going to hassle you, the hassle gets way worse if the prescription you hand over is technically expired Everything about the war on drugs is f’in stupid
Why not both?
The fact that the state got this by agreeing that maybe they *didnt* need to carry reasonable insurance really doesn’t make me eager to catch more rides I’ve literally had a driver pull the “oh shit that’s our exit” horizontal slide across 3+ lanes of traffic more than once
What a beauty
The thing about accepting Newsom's depravity against trans people or the homeless on the grounds of "Yeah, that's bad, but we have to beat Trump or it'll be worse." is that by accepting it, you mark it as acceptable, both within your mind and in the larger world around you.
About how you’d expect!
“Patient reports smoking cigarettes ‘to clear out the lungs’”
Which also means that if eg their lawn guy fires them as a client because the Trump lawn signs make the lawn guy concerned about ICE showing up the next time the shrubs need pruning they can wail about how “mean” those “libs” are for “ending the friendship for no reason”
Ah yes, the “identity” of “believing the people who say they want to harm or kill you when they say they want to harm or kill you”
I’d just do the chargeback today tbh
i assume he was quietly transferred to another server
But doing that could result in Senators capable of making a real push for leadership before it’s “their turn,” and chuckles won’t allow THAT on his watch!
That’s the thing that trips up ANY fucking “oh he’s just looking at the numbers” argument, because if he was looking at “the numbers” they’d be begging Mamdani’s campaign manager to take a major DNC position instead of STILL trying to shove Cuomo in there