38 is a great year. Make the most of it.
San Francisco-Berkeley progressive from way back. Public-educated working class lifelong renter and queer-allied sober atheist who loves dogs.
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38 is a great year. Make the most of it.
I live in one of those districts. Gotta say, that Kiley is ripe for a butt-kicking out of the House. Count me in.
How does Mehdi stand this shit?
Time for the gloves-off reporting now. You'll either gain even more respect or go down in a blaze of glory.
I know social media is an echo chamber based on who we follow, but based on what I’m seeing, it seems like no company since Target a few months ago has so thoroughly fucked itself as Paramount/CBS has.
We probably have bigger problems than whether teens are consuming tobacco. Like whether there'll be universities and jobs and places they can afford to live in their future.
Fascinating read.
Maybe time to grow a backbone and fill the real news void left by the NYT and Wapo. Think of this severing of dependency ties as an opportunity.
No one ever said they were creative thinkers.
A guy in a baseball cap. No.
We are not free until everyone is free. From @votolatino.bsky.social
It's a wonder people still want to come here. It's a BAD PLACE, folks. Go somewhere safe.
Something the Mamdani win demonstrates is the extent to which the reigning cadre of ancient, establishment, centrist Dems think it’s more important to be on good terms with their GOP colleagues than it is to represent their own voters, and how thoroughly sick of this literally everyone is.
Bu-bye
Harriet Tubman #quilt by my Mom, Vera P. Hall, who makes quilts celebrating Black people who fought for their own freedom. This seems to be the crowd favorite of the “We Didn’t Wait for Freedom” series. Happy #Juneteenth #quilting
What makes the far-right so popular? British activist Matthew Collins breaks it down 👇
RFK Jr’s ACIP pick, Martin Kulldorff, said one of the most disturbing images from the pandemic was a toddler crying about having to wear a mask. I see toddlers cry about everything all the time, and I found it far more disturbing to see refrigerator trucks full of body bags outside of the hospitals…
Bear encounters are way safer.
Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.
If you think about it, the very best books are really just extremely long spells that turn you into a different person for the rest of your life
That resort was for sale a while back. I wonder if he's the longtime owner or a new one? The place had a policy of giving through hikers who stopped in a free cold beer.
"The origin of the term is not clear, but it seems to have entered the popular lexicon starting in the early 2010s. By the 2020s, discussions of polycules had entered the mainstream media." Word of the day for me.
As a UC Berkeley alum, I was disgusted when to hear that several of Musk's tech boys had gotten their compsci education at Berkeley. What a failure and a waste to go to Cal and walk away with no moral fiber. It's not a trade school.
Unexpectedly? He's alienated the whole world, and the food was crap to begin with. The fact that it was American was its only selling point. Good riddance.
My concern is that we will never know if we're afraid to even ask, let alone investigate.
Which means if they ever cheat we'll ignore it because our heels are dug in too deep.
FWIW, I agree that impeachment isn't what it used to be, if it ever was something. Also glacial in a age when that won't cut it. Fellow dipshit here, presumably.
Epoch Times isn't real.
Fond memories from when I lived there in the mid-90s. The best of New England.
I hope The Book Mill is still around! "Books you don't need, in a place you can't find." Heaven.
Costco has actually stood up to Trump and is a fair employer. But your rejection of American companies generally is right on the money.
They were responsible for putting Walz on the radar for VP. At least they were the first ones championing him that I saw.
Would you want one at this point, knowing it could be canceled at a moment's notice and you could be shit out of luck stranded on the other side of the world?
Damn, this conclusion: “We yet cling to the hope that it is not naïve to believe our good brethren in the Executive Branch perceive the rule of law as vital... This case presents their unique chance to vindicate that value and to summon the best that is within us while there is still time.”
And angry. Don't forget angry. In fact, maybe your advice should be to turn that fear into anger.
No one wants him as President. Californians don't even want him as Governor.
If we're still expecting salvation from traditional institutions.
Will the US Marshals carry out enforcement?
Bernie Sanders made a surprise appearance at Coachella 2025 last night. So he went from the LA rally to Coachella. He's 83 and fighting like this. This should be an inspiration to all of us. If he can do this, we can all do a little more.
I could go the rest of my life without having to hear how heroic parenthood is. Particularly when it looks like the most self-indulgent, predictable, mainstream thing you can do.
Absolutely neccesary
Hell yeah. Need more men like this.
I want one
And yet
ELECTION RESULT: A team of city council members in Rolla, Missouri, have been pushing anti-LGTB policies, including a ban on drag shows and book censorship. Voters just ousted all three of these city councilors who were running for reelection, backing candidates backed by a local LGBT group.
Come to North Lake Tahoe! You can fish!
Until your supply chain hits a speed bump.
Did you take this photo?
THAT'S the big news today?
Bill Burr is a national treasure 🎯! "You journalists need to get your balls back"
This is exactly why condemning Israel's actions isn't anti-semitic. It's sane and compassionate.
imagine accusing hecklers of being paid while youre on stage at the event where youre literally purchasing votes
Obama's 3rd term wouldn't be consecutive.
Michelle?
#GVerse Repost if you agree! 👇
The two things aren't mutually exclusive. The fact that they were on Signal in the first place tells us what idiots they all are.
Only a certain kind of idiot goes to Greenland without a wool hat, gloves, and a pair of sunglasses.
I would pretty happily trade in my life for that of a cat. This cat in particular.
Nosferatu over here literally runs a right-wing lawsuit mill with an unlimited war chest that files forum-shopped vexatious lawsuits with cherry-picked plaintiffs solely for the purpose of silencing its targets. Clutch those pearls harder, Stephen.
No, just lonely
Word of the day is ‘erumpent’ (17th century), which describes buds and blossom that are bursting forth with vigour. Can also be used of energetic humans.
The humble BART station.
Yes, yes, yes. Truth!
I really hope we find out one day that the person who no-so-accidentally brought Goldberg into that chat was a woman.
Thank you, but there's a reason I canceled my subscription.
Wrong post?
Then he'd better stop pissing off the soldiers.
What I'm noticing, is that when I plan an event that gives people something useful to do, they are psyched, and show up. This is also the case when I offer a toolkit for recreating projects in their own neighborhoods. I think this is a really great sign. It gives me hope.
New WTAF lows
These petitions are also how he gets info used for his fraud scheme.
No, we're consumers and tax payers after all.
Whoever made sure he was on that chat (and I think it was an intentional hack) knew what kind of journalist he was.
He went to the pne with the condos
Barbie was plastic, too.
I donate $5/month, but I've pretty quickly hit my max for reading.
"Liberals and media elites?" You sound like just the kind of disgruntled Bernie Bro who hasn't moved us forward one iota with your sexist trash talk. What Sanders and AOC are doing right now is productive and uplifting. This griping is not.
Speaking of names, he's so proud to be Hebrew that he's anglicized his name.
It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.
That's awful and wrong.
My thought exactly. If we can respect your right to an invisible god (and His special pronoun), you can respect another human being's stated gender identity.
Sizing you up to see if you look like a mouse poacher.
I wish they had a monthly subscription option rather than just annual.
We also don't differentiate between news programming that meets standards of journalism and that that doesn't.
Bingo
My D&D group handles a raid on a cave full of orc bandits with more gravity and concern for civilian life.
Unfortunately states and even private organizations are acting as though EOs are somehow binding on them. This is why I think the proper response is not "This is illegal," it's "This does not have the force of law. It's just Trump fantasizing about what he would like to happen."
Why would Waltz have the editor of the Atlantic's number in his phone?
In other words, he's trying to figure out if Waltz got hacked. Which would just be so sweet.
Is it also possible Hegseth didn't send the 11:44 text with the deep details, but the same hero-hacker-insider did that too to get him canned? (Which I love, btw) This makes it much scarier for the Cabinet goofs, because now they're not only in deep shit, but they've been set up.
I don't think it was an accident. I think Waltz's account was hacked by someone who wanted us to know this that these guys are playing fast and loose. Goldberg was seen as the best chance to get the info out there.
In sales you can address an objection and resolve it, but counterintuitively it's often better to just ignore it to control the narrative. Dems need to project "stfu about crime, you sent innocent people to a torture prison, you're monsters." Project confidence and assertiveness, not information
NB, I'm not arguing against the concept of common ground; I'm saying that elected leaders need to stop using this lazy rhetorical device in their messaging
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Cannot, will not, and never intended to.
Also, to cover his ass. They're already coming for him, and watch how in a few days this is his fault, not theirs.
Like, what, the NFL is going to fire its black players and only hire white guys with "merit"?🤣
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I can't imagine being Canadian and choosing to live here in the States.
That's a real person? I thought for AI generated.
Well, yeah. What teenager is ready to take on the guilt of the world?