Warren is providing us with an answer to the question "If Democrats were presented with a bigoted populist candidate who had some ability to win elections that other Democrats couldn't, they would turn that down, unlike Republicans, right?"
Normal people: the courts are very serious interpreters of the law
The courts: go ahead, impersonate the feds
My most liberal idpol radlib take is that I think it's pretty bad that
right wing forces are actively intervening on behalf of the Klan with the full weight of the state legal apparatus
I really miss mushrooms on pizza. The only way I get them is to order my very own pizza.
If you and my kids ordered pizza together the only topping on which you would agree would be the pineapple. That's everything they hate. If we're ever in this position I'll just buy you each your own pizza because this is horrifying.
(I like pineapple on pizza fine but not all by its lonesome.)
Aside from who started it, states like CA and VA putting a counter-gerrymander up to a referendum, where people are told and can make a decision on the context for why it's being done, has vastly more democratic legitimacy than state legislators rushing it through because they got bullied by POTUS.
Did you like the Mambo Kings? I am reading it right now and trying to decide how I feel about it.
A tornado warning was issued for portions of Fresno and Madera counties along Highway 99 on Tuesday afternoon. The warning lasts until 3 p.m.
This needs to be shut down HARD. When the theiving slop machine inevitably starts putting out racism and misinformation, the reporter whose name and work it stole from will be blamed and reputation tarnished, the ones responsible will walk away
also:
I don’t even think it’s really a conspiracy anymore but Game 6 of the 2002 West Finals: come on. lmao, no, absolutely determined ahead of time
Okay maybe this gets me to quit Chewy. They are so convenient but whoever delivers those packages chucks them onto my wooden porch with such force that I think they are going to break something one day. I should just go to the pet store like the olden days.
we all know I have no life, so:
I say it sometimes and I always, always mean "fuck off and I hope you die." Same when I say I pray someone finds Jesus; I actually mean I hope they get hit by a bus.
Man, when you compare the bravery of every day Minnesotans to the overpaid cops it’s astounding
If I vote for Becerra I need you goldfished-brained motherfuckers to start bugging your state reps to hold him in check on police reform.
(I am not voting for Steyer, fuck off.)
(I think he is 100% going to be our next governor and I am pretty mad about it.)
Lots of climate leaders, some local DSA-adjacent folks, some union people. I am honestly stunned at how many people are falling for a guy with literally no voting record, only an investment record that is pretty grim.
I am unfollowing every wide-eyed innocent bleating about how refreshing Tom Steyer is. Jesus christ were you people asleep for the last ten years.
I just started seeing live music again after a long break when we never had a babysitter, and it seems like during that time it got a lot harder to figure out who the fuck the opening band is.
Currently counseling my kid long distance to not let the US healthcare system bully them or make them feel like they are incompetent. It is HARD to get care, it is HARD to navigate insurance and networks and authorizations, and that is because the system sucks, not you.
Maine's going to elect a nazi, California is going to elect a billionaire, we get the government we deserve.
I think the best case scenario is that he is a Fetterman/Manchin sort who caucuses with Dems and thus increases their chance of taking the majority (which matters) but then his actual votes are as bad as Collins.
This, and also "it's not x, it's y" is occasionally a useful construction in legal writing and you should use it if you need to.
One of the best parts about earning an English degree where you actually paid attention to historical context of the works you studied... you know this statement isn't true!
It's actually bonkers levels of untrue!
A lot of books that are the most popular of their time are pretty mid.
Isn't he polling way ahead?
Me to 3yo: What do you want for your birthday party theme?
3yo: “Poopoo & peepee theme! We can get apple juice for the pee, so a skeleton pees and you drink the skeleton pee but it’s okay because it’s juice”
Me: ..K I was thinking like “dinosaurs” but let’s put a pin in “piss fountain of the dead”
I'm gonna be a fireman when the floods roll back. There's trees in the desert since you moved out, and I don't sleep on a bed of bones.
A while back a friend in Maine chided me for weighing in on Platner because I don't understand Maine culture. He is not running for city council! The US Senate affects the whole world, and we've already had a Fetterman and a Sinema. If you get duped by a Nazi it matters to the rest of us.
I simply think we can be choosy about not wanting our populists to have had Nazi tattoos, call me an out of touch cosmopolitan elitist
In the only part of that Hegseth quote that included a real Bible verse, the language was changed to be explicitly and breathtakingly blasphemous. (Replacing God as the subject of the sentence with some random airman.)