He/Him. Liberal af. Follow if you enjoy very little OC but some reposts. Play games but not a gamer (Planet Zoo, ONI, Cities: Skylines, World of Warships Legends, single-player adventure). Kansas City to a fault, probably.
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Oh, the courts might object? The courts that the Trump administration has defied with impunity? The Supreme Court that handed Trump a huge win in his battle to unilaterally repeal the 14th Amendment? Give me a break. The norms are gone. There's one rule now: The president does whatever he wants.
Everything I've seen about Democrats' version of Project 2029 is far too modest and weak-kneed. Democrats need to look at the precedents Trump is setting (and shattering) and figure out how a progressive can maximally wield the power that this administration is concentrating in the executive branch.
NONE of these plans are any more extreme than what Trump is currently doing with the help of the Supreme Court. If Trump can shut down the Department of Education and CFPB, President AOC can shut down ICE. If Trump can kill green energy projects, President Newsom can kill the fossil fuel industry.
Every conservative principle that could have merit is already represented in the mainstream Democratic Party, not to mention fully abandoned by conservatives themselves. What's left? Bigotry, sadism, tantrums over corporate logos. This is what you're trying to find common ground with
One reason for Democrats to ditch their reflex to say "You have a point" to the other side is the right wing hasn't had a good point about anything in most of our lifetimes
That's what I look for in music, for sure: someone with absolutely no idea about music.
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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
"The visible health problems of the oldest president in American history barely registered in mainstream coverage," writes @passantino.bsky.social for Status_. But @nytimes.com 🐔, @wsj.com 🐔🐔 & other major outlets published dozens of stories about Biden's physical fitness while he was in office.
well, it was a fun evening online anyway let’s do it again sometime
And has any politician or commentator ever - as in EVER - opined that right wingers and conservatives should “reach out to” or “try to address the concerns of” liberals and progressives? Seriously, has that EVER happened? Why is it always us who need to “understand” them and never vice versa?
Everybody at 6 in the morning on a Saturday on social media wishing for the same thing for no particular reason
I have some old fireworks that are 💯 being lit when the time comes.
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.
You should call your Senator about it, given that you're clearly helpless to do anything ohwaitasecond...
If you want to defeat Nazis, then maybe don't support the dude who goes on Nazi podcasts and agrees with Nazis on trans and homelessness issues.
You seem nice.
His idea is eugenics. It really is that simple. He thinks the healthy will survive and everyone else can fuck off and die. (Nevermind that he and his kids are vaccinated. That is different...somehow.)
But read, eg, Heather McGhee's book "Sum of Us." You will learn that in post-segregation America, *thousands* of public pools were ripped out, because white people would rather not have pools at all than allow blacks to enjoy them. That's Deal 2! Examples abound.
This story has it all: aquaculture, Black Flag, Bernie Sanders, Star Trek as policy, John Hodgman, male tears, and a candidate citing Luthen’s monologue from Andor. Meet Graham Platner, the Maine oysterman trying to crack the senate. @grahamformaine.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/1996...
This is how you do it. No one gets thrown under a bus. No. One.
For 12 months, America had a limited proof of concept for universal healthcare, and it was so uniformly successful we had no choice but to obliterate our society
No, but it might make someone yell "OH GOD" so there is that.
People also use this analogy about guns. So let’s treat chatgpt (and guns) like cars: you need a license, you need to carry insurance, and the industry is highly regulated.
This diagram is excellent and 100000% correct.
over over and over "The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity"
In America we have city cops, different cops for your county, cops for the whole state, cops for soldiers, cops for malls, presidential cops, cops for the stock market, mail cops, federal cops, cops we secretly send to other countries. Even your neighbors get to pretend to be cops. We’re very safe
Lmao
Ginger napping while ensuring her bear doesn't go anywhere without her knowing. (Reposted with alt text this time.)
It’s crazy that America just like. Destroyed science. Just looked at its golden goose and went “wow should we kill this? And not for the gold, but just because we fucking hate this thing” And if you tell random people about it they go “no, that doesn’t seem true” and just refuse to believe you
Another morning to say that I will not vote for Gavin Newsom when he inevitably runs for president. If you want my vote, you should make sure to nominate someone who isn't a transphobe.
The shooter appears to have been radicalized by neo-nazi propaganda, and inspired by white supremacist shooters. Ask them: what steps do you propose taking to combat the spread of white supremacist and neo-nazi radicalization? Ask them how they will protect our children from this Nazi threat.
My trans community, this is not a time for us to go into a defensive crouch. When they come after us for this, we go on the attack. Demand to know: 95% of all shooters are men, and 84% of them are white. What restrictions are you proposing for the White Male community?
This is such a no-brainer that the lack of a coordinated response feels deeply damning. A Democratic leadership team that can't mobilize an instant all-hands-on-deck effort on RFK Jr. isn't a leadership team at all.
From an uptick in comms from wildlife rescue places lately: don't use glue traps, they're so cruel; do not spray paint wildlife, including birds and turtles; do not pick any animal by the tail or you can severely injure their spine. This includes opossums, for whom it can be life threatening.
If I thought RFK Jr was a malevolent plague cultist intent on killing as many people as possible, I might even suspect that was the *real* goal: drastically reduce population immunity so then, when Covid deaths of "high-risk" populations start rising, he can claim vaccines themselves are at fault
Important to understand that Republicans do not want a functional, orderly, law-abiding immigration system. They want an excuse for the arbitrary exercise of government powers. The more chaotic and inconsistent our immigration structures are, the better for their purposes.
This is an incredible two minutes of information and I encourage you all to watch it
Brief 🧵, as someone who has studied mass shootings for 13 years: -gender does not cause them -SSRIs, no -mental illness, no -internet/gaming, no Above can be compounding factors—but motive is complex, often very. The most fundamental combo: suicidality + rage + isolation + easy access to guns
Good to see KRS One love. (I'd add Tech N9ne, but I'm hometown biased.)
basic human rights are not something u put up to debate like some influencer game show shit
"The fascists want us depleted, numb, and cynical." - I keep this top of mind daily and I actively refuse.
remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
Gentlemen, we need to do better than this
I do wish people would treat transphobia as the serious red flag it is, because if someone is repeating bullshit pseudoscience talking points from right wing cranks, that's just as bad as conceding to anti-vax nonsense and undermining trust in science and medicine, alarm bells should be sounding!
isnt it cool and fun how we make 10year olds live through insane fucking trauma like this instead of regulating the nra's penis substitutes?
Trump and the republicans are not communist they are fascists. Stop intentionally lying about the kind of threat we face because you’re more afraid of communism than fascism.
There can’t be any gun restrictions because we have to protect against federal government tyranny, and if kids get shot we just have to live with it. Also the President can send troops to cities because the federal government can do whatever it wants. These two ideas are consistent and reasonable.
So the sandwich guy ... beat the wrap
Look what they did to Notepad. Shut the fuck up. This is Notepad. You are not welcome here. Oh yeah "Let me use Copilot for Notepad". "I'm going to sign into my account for Notepad". What the fuck are you talking about. It's Notepad.
...lmfao WUT?!
Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it
Why are you like this (complimentary)?
What if wealthy businessman repeatedly failed to takeover over a company, then that company was the target of right-wing social media anti-woke outrage, then a competing company (owned by that same businessman) repeatedly publicly engaged in the right-wing social media anti-woke outrage…
The project of Christianity is to put all of humanity in the largest circle and for you to care about it anyway let's see what the loudest Christians in the US are up to
Lmao
The dude has upper case gums and lower case teeth encased in a face with features that are 30% too small.
sure, we do have crime still in this country, but we have in fact made insanely huge strides to reduce it it in cities over the last 30 years - we have got to stop accommodating mass GOP delusions about non-existent crime waves
The "You can say crime rates are down, but I saw black teens on ATVs popping wheelies, so you're lying" crowd do not need to be catered to at all. They do not have reasonable concerns that can ever be addressed.
for instance a couple years ago republicans were very mad that the design of the female m+m wasn't as sexy as they like it. based on how we are dealing with crime now, the democrats needed to address the very serious policy question of m+m fuckability. instead of rightly saying the right is creepy
Crime is only "salient" because people like you buy into rightwing framing -- one that's based on a flat-out lie. Stop doing the fascists work for them.
Fuck off into the sun with this xenophobic bullshit, you absolutely useless clowns.
"Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it" - The Declaration of Independence
It’s honestly kind of impressive how MAGA guys bleat about traditional masculinity but then embody none of the actual virtues (courage, discipline, honesty in the face of difficulty, self-control, restraint) that make up traditional Western masculinity.
does my refrigerator get sad when i close the ahh i can’t even make jokes about this anymore. you people are fucking morons
Not to worry. Many countries survive without shipments from these countries. For instance, North Korea.
I will vote for whatever Democrat assures me these dickscabs die in prison.
This article just reminded me of this old tweet
Hard to convince younger generations, but for decades, Republicans went on and on about how two of the worst things imaginable were (1) state intervention in the market and (2) DC using federal troops against US states; both so bad the people should be ready for armed rebellion in case it happens.
Does a calculator suffer? A washing machine? Toaster? Tea kettle? This is the dumbest fucking shit I have read in ... maybe forever, and whomever wrote it should be mocked into oblivion.
I don't mean big stuff. I mean like accidentally drop your extractor pin down the drain or something
Nope, not at all! Think this is just worded awkwardly.
Then Snoop is a fucking pansy ass baby. What a sad, pathetic sell out.
call us old fashioned but, this account finds newsom's "check out my rock-hard AI nipples. they're absolutely glistening" platform less inspirational than pritz's "you fascists bring that shit here and I will personally fuck your asses up."
Don't go, even if you have to, don't, it's not safe because if they see you've got a burner, if they see that your socials have been wiped they'll decide that suspicious and the nightmare begins. So don't go, only winning move.
Military occupation of areas loyal to the political opposition is what you see in a civil war, kids.
The Supreme Court as we’ve all known it requires smashing into bits at the first political opportunity. No hedging here, no outside commission to debate little changes at the margins — just wholesale, abrupt reform to yoke the institution to the Constitution it’s supposed to serve.
apart from electing a black president nothing has driven more Americans irrevocably insane than the requirement that they participate in the collective good
Trumpers confirm that ICE Thugs kidnapped Abrego Garcia in order to send him to Uganda. This is intended as punishment for his refusal to plead guilty to sham charges that were invented to punish Abrego Garcia for objecting to being kidnapped and illegally sent to a torture prison in El Salvador.
They gaslit you all throughout the election.
reposted this today because the inverse is also true: if you abandon trans people right now, you are abandoning civil rights period. if you can't stand up for trans people when it matters, no one should, or will, ever trust you when the bullseye moves to the next target.
Image reposted with Alt Text. From Michael Harriot via Substack
fwiw, I don't think this is crazy talk at all. He tried to retain power last time, and he was much weaker then.
If they can remake the country so can we.
this country makes a lot more sense when you realize the ultimate goal for the democratic party is to stop the left from gaining power and ultimate goal for the republican party is to bring back slavery
normal people don't say "triggered" or "heteronormative," they say they gave their life to christ in a cracker barrel parking lot
holodeck program practice nazi punching
The modern conservative movement is a mental health crisis. Not joking. These people are unwell.
we used to build household shrines to Going On The Computer and it's no coincidence that as we abandoned these we started straying further from god's light
ok so the times witnessed reporters receiving cash from Adams people three times at mayoral events and sat on it for over a month but couldn’t pass up a hot tip from a neonazi about Mamdani’s unsuccessful college application for long enough to check if the neonazi had already been identified
I dunno let me try: Gavin Newsom once climbed Mt. Everest in 15 minutes, he’d have done it faster but for 14 of those minutes he was throwing away the possessions of a homeless person
I guess the mistake was having staff reporters and photographers witness it in public rather than having a Nazi steal the information for them
Well, this is an interesting 🧪🔭 Over 500 species of birds globally were reviewed, with the authors reporting that human-induced light pollution is having a measurable effect on other species (this is not the only piece of evidence for this). Cities should be built with light pollution mitigation!
They even left in the Cracker so wtf is the problem?
Logo is so bland that you'd think all the white people would love it.