Again, the key divide within the Democratic party does not map onto a left/right axis: It is between those who want to fight back forcefully, like Pritzker, and those who can’t/won’t shake the impulse to accommodate, appease, and uphold “normalcy.”
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Again, the key divide within the Democratic party does not map onto a left/right axis: It is between those who want to fight back forcefully, like Pritzker, and those who can’t/won’t shake the impulse to accommodate, appease, and uphold “normalcy.”
If a woman want to feel like she has big knockers, she should get one of the contestants from pottery throwdown series 3 to sculpt her.
@nytpitchbot.bsky.social Trump's 72-hour disappearance from the public raise troubling questions about Joe Biden's health.
Someone on Bluesky said birthing person and now I have a tummy ache.
This is a problem for Joe Biden.
"What more could you possibly ask for when we provide you with flexible hours so you can be pinged around the clock, unlimited paid time off that prevents us from having to pay out unused vacation days, and company equity that is effectively a lottery ticket?"
I miss the good ol days when real men noshed on bologna between two slices of Wonder plimsolls.
I'm just a goofball out in the corn in downstate Illinois, but even I know that if ham-handed and ultra micromanaged online content is the best Democrats can offer, we're all in trouble. It's obvious that they want their own shlubby blue MAGA sycophants. youtu.be/6Skdqe5e6Eo?...
"She told her caucus, “We have to try.” www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/08/30/t...
"We need drinking fountains specifically for trans people. For dignity."
If they're not careful, the TERFs are going to segregate themselves right back into the kitchen.
Edit: I should have said "deaths" not "homicides", because a big portion is suicides, which are way too often overlooked.
The vast majority of gun related homicides are done with handguns. Assault weapons are big and scary and usually involved in the most visible and horrific shootings, but any ban focused only on them will have only marginal effects on the overall problem.
If there's a shadowy organization out there that wants to shower me with cash to endlessly call shitty chain restaurant logo changes woke, I'm available.
I was starting to write off Alien Earth as a watered down Andor - with the 70s decor and practical effects and beautiful shooting - but not quite there with the writing. That is until I finally watched episode 4. This shit is getting rad.
Is it just me, but when some Horrible Event™️ happens, the elected "leaders" all put out a canned social media statement and then that's it. Nothing. And we just move on to the next Horrible Event™️. Isn't that so fucking frustrating?
To paraphrase John Oliver, It's stupid Fascism. All the potential ramifications of Fascism, but everyone involved is stupid and bad at everything.
$400 million for a concentration camp How much affordable housing could $400 million build? www.npr.org/2025/08/28/n...
Is this the cure for male loneliness?
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I'm so glad to see the IL AG looking into Flock. Big shout out to @thebarbedwire.com and @404media.co for their incredible reporting that I referenced in letters to local media and ACLU chapter urging them to look into the city's relationship with Flock. www.nprillinois.org/illinois/202...
A list of words Travis and Taylor shouldn't use at their wedding. By Third Way
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This was a surprise upset in +11 Trump district. And to top it off, it breaks the GOP supermajority in the Iowa Senate. Good Dem candidates can win ANYWHERE if we just try.
But doctor, I am the AI clown Pagliacci
I dunno, 2 of the most prominent Republican presidents of the 20th century came from blue California, and Florida was a swing state before 2000. Times change, and so do state politics. But they don't change unless people change them.
The thousand-year Reich only lasted 12 years. Can Trump do better?
Simpsons predicted it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Not as triggered as these conservatives upon seeing a Lisa Frank rainbow unicorn trapper keeper.
This is doubly frustrating because I remember wayyyyy back in 2004 when then San Francisco mayor Newsom made his name by defying federal and state statutes and ordering SF city clerks to issue same-sex marriage licenses. Newsom is no friend of LGBTQ+ people now.
Rothko. Big Deal. I could do that.
The future liberals want. And got.
Harris lost because one UC Berkeley professor said birthing person.
Local Oaf Not Sure What Part Of Counter You Order At https://theonion.com/local-oaf-not-sure-what-part-of-counter-you-order-at-1819577026/
I don't have to be faster than the face eating leopards, I just have to be faster than the trannies and fureners. Hohoho I got it figured out.
When I was a kid, the running joke was that Iowa's top exports were corn, soybeans, and college educated workers. Looks like Kim Reynolds is gleefully continuing that tradition. www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinio...
The problems started when we couldn't see inside the devices anymore. What are they hiding?
Honestly, what will $2500 even buy these days? With this $2500, I can finally achieve my dream of owning a used 1994 Toyota Corolla!
Winnie Greco is 1000% a hired goon name.
Skipping right over Minnesota? Good call.
how many times am I gonna have to post this
Trump, Zelensky Sit Across From Each Other In Awkward Silence At Georgetown Cupcake
We'd *love* to put the data centers in space, but we'll gladly settle for a poor neighborhood in Mississippi.
It's Austria's newest news network.
So many Xers let the irony eat them alive and don't know the difference anymore. They slop out platitudes like "being conservative is punk rock" on X like they're still the cool guy in the back of the classroom instead of a shill for the most corporate Boomer ever.
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I want to congratulate leading Democrats’ for their insistence on saying the takeover of DC is a “stunt” or a “distraction.” It’s a rare trifecta of intellectual failure, political stupidity, and moral obtuseness.
Tantalizingly close and yet never quite touching. Geographic edging.
The Heritage Foundation loves to make a boogeyman out of the nanny state, unless it's sticking their noses in a poor person's grocery cart.
Controversial take: Jeeps are gender affirming care for heterosexual men.
Starbase Named Best City To Start Family With Boss
I first read it as Bill Burr. That would be a very different but probably equally silly situation.
"Even the choice of Alaska is a concession, and an odd one. Russians, including major figures in state media, routinely claim Alaska for Russia. As one of Putin's special envoys put it, Putin's journey to Alaska is a "domestic flight." open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
Voice as the primary input method? I can't wait to be surrounded by Boomers in my office screaming "double click my documents!" at their computers.
"When my agent gave me the news, I hugged him so hard he had to catch his breath before saying he couldn’t represent me anymore."
Rochester is proud of its decision to reclaim the space taken up by the Inner Loop and restore neighborhoods, rebuild community, and regenerate economic vibrancy. Thank you @strongtowns.org for doing a deeper dive video on this multi-decade effort! www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MVs...
Please cast @theabigailthorn.bsky.social as Sara Connor in the next Terminator.
I used to work with a community food security nonprofit. Big funders often overlook little orgs because they want a few big splashy donations for their annual reports. $100k would have funded us for YEARS. Imagine what $100k to 10,000 small community-focused orgs could do.
But I learned in biology...
Aw man, I already earmarked @mattielubchansky.com 's new book as a vacation read and this interview makes me want to read it now. Now. NOW.
When I was in college 11 centuries ago, I took some classes with a prof that specialized in researching how shitty people are at eyewitness identification and how cops weaponize that to quickly close (diff btw close vs solve) cases.
It's big, it's crowded, there's people on bikes everywhere just zipping around. Worst of all, the nearest Olive Garden is in friggin' Maryland.
Ukraine is not just land, it is a people who are independent and sovereign from Russia (and, I add, any other nation seeking to exert influence). Russia has not only stolen land, but it has also stolen children - literally Ukraine's future.
*latest fad
Wow, so much for the tolerant pierogi vendor.
My adult ADHD has gotten me in a rabbit hole of zines, and this one from 2002 goes so fucking hard. crimethinc.com/zines/diy-gu...
This is feeling more and more like a test balloon for federal occupation of other cities - or even whole states - that don't bow down to Trump.
Take that, Andrew Cuomo.
Point: The AI chip race with China is a grave national security threat. Counterpoint: *Humming 'I'm in the money'*
Well the reason we have a Democrat president in America is because the party wisely decided to stay very quiet and wishy washy and not take a clear position on all the important issues. That worked a treat, I tell you what.
Wandering the desert for 40 years in search of a dining respite with RV parking at every exit on I-40.
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Fact: IL congressional districts are wild. Mine (17th) goes from freakin Rockford down to the edge of Forgottonia on the Mississippi River. They cover urban cores and cornfields. It's a HUGE feat for a candidate to stitch together voters in these places and I love to see someone doing it.
I say the same thing about genetically engineering an elephant the size of a German Shepard. There's your next unicorn, silicon valley. Free of charge.
This is true. I turned 21 two weeks after 9/11. The late 90s felt like we had the whole world ahead of us. So optimistic. Then, seemingly in an instant, it was all gone. We've been more scared, poorer and increasingly atomized for 3 decades.
Yes... watch me make the poors tear each other to shreds... hahahaha yes!
Being born? In this economy?
It's pretty healthy to question the motives of any project that is asking for our political support and - crucially - votes. Especially ones that are so new they're unnamed and have little to offer as far as platform or goals.
Good joke. Everybody laugh. Roll on snare drum. Curtains.
Look, my constituents aren't exactly what you would call readers, so I'll take the Pinocchios because they'll never even know.
Damn kids and their polycules.
I smell next summer's enemies-to-lovers romcom Hollywood blockbuster!
White House handyman: My 10-footer's gone...
Just slap a Millennial lol on the end and send that bitch. She won't know the diff.
Align with an actual male rapist to combat the imagined male rapists. Got it.
No doubt why GOP is trying to steal congressional districts in Texas now before the white population is expected to be a minority.
Leonardo: MAGA Donatello: Moderate Democrat Raphael: DSA diehard Michaelangelo: voting's for squares, dude!
Not to mention the weird way he pronounced Pakistan.
