Reporter: What do you make of Republicans saying that Virginia—
AOC: Wah wah wah.
We have asked Republicans for 10 years to ban partisan gerrymandering. And for 10 years, Republicans have said no.
What they’re just mad at is that they have been accustomed to a Democratic Party that rolls over.
Today in social justice toolkit:
A dilemma action is a strategic action that forces your opponent into a lose-lose situation.
You've given them only bad options.
I give some examples
& then we talk about how to design them.
This one's pretty important.
Read and share, please?
Get Rect or Die Try(angle)
Dilley is evil and must be closed. It's a goddamn concentration camp. A moral abomination. People are going to Hell over this.
Get off Substack, fuck's sake.
It's clearly an innocent reference to Frederik Pohl's Man Plus, this happens all the time
a flag that is a brown bar top and bottom, then a red bar in the middle and a yellow squiggle
just in time for pride month, happy to announce I designed the Hot Dog flag
This is very good lore
Boston Globe mock front page from April 9, 2016. Date says April 9, 2017, with giant headline “DEPORTATIONS TO BEGIN” and “Markets sink as trade war looms.”
Ten years ago today, in April 2016, the Boston Globe printed a satirical front page imagining a future Trump administration. The page was called "alarmist," "hyperbolic," "dystopian." But we’ve put up with so much since then it now looks like . . . a slow Thursday?
I have two words for you: Bumpy and Grumpy
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"Let's make a new grappling hook game!" I said back in 2019😅
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The famous Andor line is that "tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle." Here is a perfect example of that through malicious compliance: Idaho forced the city of Boise to remove its Pride flags. So the city painted rainbows everywhere else.
Things that help calm the nervous system, quickly:
- Box breathing (in for 4, hold for 4, out for 4, hold for 4, repeat)
- Immerse your face in cold water (activates mammalian dive reflex)
- Humming (stimulates vagus nerve)
- Exercise (anything helps, outside even better)
- Impeachment and removal
just to be clear, everyone, when 8 pm EDT comes and goes, regardless of what does or does not happen, the president still threatened genocide and war crimes and we should still impeach, arrest, and try him
Substack is awful in so many ways (and hey you, the person that in 2026 is just about to launch your own substack, how about yet another reason to pick another platform)
X is a brain-cooking microwave that radicalizes people into the most extreme viewpoints that permeate their communities and it will happen to your faves too unless you get them the hell off that platform
IF YOUR TRUCK WAS MADE WITHOUT NUTS AND YOU PUT NUTS ON IT THAT TRUCK IS TRANS I DON'T MAKE THE RULES SNOWFLAKE IF YOU GOT A PROBLEM TAKE IT UP WITH GOD
it also has this one
NYT: Iran War Live Updates: Trump Escalates Threat to Hit Iranian Power Plants After U.S. Rescues Downed Airman President Trump used an expletive-laden social media post to taunt Iranian leaders, saying that the United States would attack if they did not fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
NYT: President Trump on Sunday escalated his threats to bomb Iranian power plants within the next two days and taunted the country’s leaders in an expletive-laden social media post. Mr. Trump, seemingly emboldened by the successful U.S. rescue of an American airman in Iran over the weekend, issued a new ultimatum to Iran to end its chokehold over the Strait of Hormuz, a major Persian Gulf waterway for the transport of oil and gas, by Apr. 6. If Iran’s government did not, he said, U.S. forces would target the country’s energy infrastructure, which supplies power for millions of civilians. “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!!” Mr. Trump wrote on social media. The president has previously postponed his deadline to attack twice and the Omani foreign ministry said on Sunday that officials had discussed how to reopen the Strait of Hormuz with Iranian counterparts without reaching a definitive agreement.
“Praise be to Allah,” Mr. Trump added, before signing off in all caps. Iran has threatened to retaliate by intensifying its attacks on critical infrastructure in Israel and Arab states that are allied with the United States. An escalation could further derail the lives of civilians throughout the region and add to worries about the global economy, which has been rattled by soaring energy prices since the start of the war. Over the past two days, the U.S. military has been in a race with Iranian armed forces to find the missing airman after an F-15E jet was shot down over Iran on Friday, in the first known instance of a U.S. combat aircraft since the start of the war. The plane’s pilot was quickly rescued. But a second officer was stranded in Iran and injured in the incident. American commandoes found the airman deep inside Iranian territory under the cover of darkness.
The New York Times deleted Trump’s “open the fuckin’ strait” line to make him look less insane
Their write-up falsely says his post says only “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!!” and “Praise be to Allah”
Your government securities are no longer guaranteed. And there are no controls left on what the Treasury will or won’t, must or must not pay. That’s pretty much the end of modern governance. We just don’t see it on the store shelves yet.
Depressing as all heck. Even the trees can't catch a break
they, uh, “fixed” it?
Whenever I heard "Oysta Bay" all I could think of was gallons upon gallons of these
for #TDOV if you want to read my most recent trans story, it's in @apexmag.bsky.social with an older trans man narrator.
post apocalyptic weird western noir. capital WEIRD.
Happy Trans Day of Visibility, a day that makes it sound like trans people are magical beings who live unseen on the peripheries of your consciousness, which may be true for you (I don't know your life) but trans folks exist and need to work and use bathrooms safely and drive and have rights
But the thing of the author snubbing *any* mention of Train as an obvious inspiration for a plot point or even a special thanks to Brenda Romero _really_ rubbed me incorrectly so I say two thumbsticks down
I thought it was ~fine~, but not as amazing as the reviews seemed to think - my biggest benefit was my partner reading it and now having a better understanding of game dev
Looks like his ai didn't nail it this time with this mid foofery
Do better, because this is awful bsky.app/profile/maxk...
It's so fucking good to feel like someone, somewhere is trying to make their constituents' lives better. That's how starved we are for this sort of leadership.
