why are ai folks so bent about me hating it. fine, i'll fall behind! let me!!! fuck off!!!!

i want democrats to unapologetically use the power that is bestowed on them legally, including the new authorities granted to those in power by the supreme court, to stamp out fascism and put the country back together before dismantling the current powers granted structure

It's impolite to call these people "Nazis" but that is Nazi talk and the President and his party stand behind this guy, they love him, they agree.

This is about immigration, and it is an important message. I think this also applies a lot to trans issues: a lot of the fears that people have about us are simply not legitimate in any sense of the term and people need to get over themselves.

Pick up the nearest book, turn to p. 42, and post the second sentence:

“The first card represents what is.”

Btw I think the reason we are all so mad at the beds in sheds stuff is not just because it's a bad thing per se (though it certainly is), but because it is a symptom of decades of catastrophically failed policy that is now being presented as a solution

As the mom of the biggest kid in her class at school every year: yes, this is the way.

I always laugh at the pearl-clutching “you don’t want your baby on the pitch facing down someone a foot taller and two stone heavier” because quite often, the bigger kid in this scenario is my daughter.

I used to volunteer in a primary school in London, where they have year-round schooling, and this is pretty much how it worked! Kids got six weeks off in July/August; May-mid-July were for cool class projects and extended recess. It was awesome for all concerned.

perfect encapsulation here <3

also seems like kinda a rudimentary function of democracy that oughn't feel rare :(

I keep thinking about this. For years - decades - the entire enterprise was contingent on the Dems being the adults in the room and undoing the worst excesses.

Then the GOP made their entire identity the worst excesses, and being the adults in the room was no longer enough to undo it.

The world is shit and full of monsters. But it also contains the sort of person who will travel over a thousand miles to rescue a kidnap victim they've never met and return them to their family. So there's that.

You really do love to see it.

I became a music teacher! It’s awesome.

So many long walks just weeping through an entire packet of Kleenex.

Indeed. Complaints about redistricting are invalid. Republicans did it everywhere and invalidated a Constitutional Amendment so they could do it on explicitly racial lines.

There are two choices: use the same levers of power as Republicans do, or let them win. There is no "principled" opposition.

Hey, speaking of another thing urban areas are actually considerably better at than rural areas

Conservatives have been trained for decades to think of Constitutions not as agreed-upon rules for fair governance, but as a series of cheat codes and loopholes that let them hold power even when the voters want to throw them out. They won't accept anything less than permanent domination of us.

"should we really resort to playing dirty to defeat the nazis i–"

yes. kick em in the fucking balls. what kind of question is that. grow the fuck up

flipping through a proof of yet another book from a somewhat well known liberal voice diagnosing “where the left went wrong” and i’m struck, again, by the fact that a large part (if not most) of the liberal commentariat simply does not believe that the political right has agency.

Woooo, turning 51 just in time!

I was once in a meeting where a professor had to defend giving too many As. “I’m not doing anything different; this year’s cohort is just really motivated!”

Biowarfare is as old as 'let's throw the dead guy into the city we're besieging' at least.

It's been argued that George Washington's decision to have his troops inoculated won the Revolutionary War.

But no here's my country going 'no more flu shots for soldiers, lol.'

Nothing has killed more soldiers in the history of humanity than disease. While worst is a more complicated question Hegseth is absolutely the dumbest secretary of defense the United States has ever had. bsky.app/profile/ones...

Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.

unless and until republicans agree to a ceasefire in the form of strict anti-gerrymandering provisions: fuck them to hell, squeeze every last drop of blood from the stone, lock them out of every seat you can

When she was in high school, my grandpa told my mom she’d grow up to be one of those secretaries who was really running the company for the CEO.

He meant it as a compliment.

Or indeed “Broccoli farmer a bit crap at maths”.

the two positions i hold simultaneously based on my mood

optimist: things can't continue in politics like this

doomer: things can't continue in politics like this

this is why Dems need to go as hard as possible on reforms and actually fixing things rather than kick the can, because "people will remember how bad things were and not put these folks back in charge" is a demonstrably false statement

thermostatic backlash + the current recruitment pipeline for new republican politicians = further disaster

I remain confident that Trump himself will fail, but what comes with the next republican to take back power is likely to be just as bad