This is one of the best pieces of pop culture writing I've read in the past couple of years. These excerpts are great but you need to read how the build to that last one. Goddamn. Thank you @awalrusdarkly.bsky.social and @popheist.com
You can’t do that to rural voters! What are they, black people? bsky.app/profile/coll...
I hope Louise Lucas is getting crunk af however she pleases tonight
DEl speedwagon EM @uhs...•51m X I loathe Spanberger as much as she loathes people like me but I do appreciate that she appears to be governing Virginia like Benjamin Butler governed the military dictatorship of Union-occupied New Orleans The Political HQ • @ThePolitica... • 1h € BREAKING F The Virginia Redistricting Amendment has passed. This changes Virginia's congressional maps from a 6-5 Democratic split to a 10- 1 Democratic split, representing a four-seat gain for Democrats.
the cool thing about being a progressive normielib is that I can just say “this is awesome” instead of doing a bunch of throat clearing about loathing Spanberger before I praise her for obliterating 4 Republican seats
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.
This is so funny
And she was right
Found enough time between technical difficulties at work to get my shave/trim in
I was considering between a couple of Robot Devil quotes.
"What'd you do to my nails?!"
"I cleaned them."
“This is an outrage! *I* was going to eat that mummy!”
Me with a carnival "strongman"
Carnival strongman from the back
We're not a glum lot, that's for sure
Party time
also apropos getting through the already tortured MILEY acronym intro with "Y" standing for...20 years?
I guess it makes since the finale for this season in particular would be so...flaccid.
Exactly one year ago today:
Baby born at Miami International Airport given extremely appropriate name (MIAMI, Florida) The baby, born June 20, was named Unincorporated Area In Miami-Dade County.
life is beautiful
Trumpist Law Professors: John Eastman advocates for you being disenfranchised if you voted for the wrong party and shot by the army if you protest it. If you disagree, you’re INTOLERANT
Never ask Matt Yglesias about Kenyon McDuffie's proposals to freeze property taxes and create more historic districts
I am so annoyed by @mattyglesias.bsky.social's head-in-the-sand takes on the DC mayoral race that I made this stupid meme
Jammy eggs and lox on spicy avocado toast
When I make food for myself it's usually begrudgingly but it often really comes out so good
no shade but is there a limit at some point to the "she's supposed to be messy/sloppy/uneven/cheap/nonsensical/'stupid'/etc." metric that would never be granted to a bigger and/or queen of color? guess we'll find out tomorrow!
explains a lot
@JoeBiden tweet 2/2/2019: "There is no place for racism in America. Governor Northam has lost all moral authority and should resign immediately, Justin Fairfax is the leader Virginia needs now."
feel like...I should probably sleep, but it's hard to say when the caffeine will wear off. 👁️👄👁️
Compliance hell period is finally over after logging in 80 work hours this past week 😭⚰️
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Hell yeah, finally
Back to it 🥲
Can never get over how tawdry the modern Right's view of Western Civilization is; nothing to build, nothing to aspire to, nothing even really to destroy or wage war against, just sullen resentment of their own children and seething hatred of the cities whose economics subsidies their regimes.
Tisza at 137 seats, 4 clear of a supermajority, with 2/3 of the constituency votes counted.