Reminder: If you're in a city that's been targeted for federal repression & in the path of this storm, small business owners (e.g. coffee shops) might be trying to make a hard choice re: preemptively closing for Monday. Maybe give them some extra business today so a 2-day closure won't hurt as much.

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1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).

But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

A lot of people have been calling me the
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social of Seattle. But where Zohran is charismatic, telegenic and stylish, I've spent my whole adult life looking pretty dumpy. To look more mayoral, I enlisted my friend Andrew Ashiofu, who took me to one of Seattle's premier boutiques.

establishment dems don't want to win. they want to keep getting wooed by corporate interests and driven around and enjoying their lifestyles and to never retire or die and they resent that the natural human life cycle means that they will inevitably have to make way for another generation

Every “it’s the overreach of the left that has led to the right’s embrace of fascism” op-ed is another retread of “the decadence of Weimar Germany (ie, the public presence of queer people) is why we got the Nazis,” which is and always has been victim blaming bullshit

in New Hampshire, JB Pritzker hits the "simpering timidity" of many Dems:
“Fellow Democrats, for far too long we’ve been guilty of listening to a bunch of do-nothing political types who would tell us that America’s house is not on fire,even as the flames are licking their faces"

Patty Murray, Elizabeth Warren, Ron Wyden, Chris Murphy are all people who could do the job better than Surrendering Schumer.

Ed Markey and Tammy Duckworth could do the job better. There are much better options available to lead the Senate Democratic Caucus, is my point.

Chuck Shumer needs to be primaried after caving on the budget. So tired of spineless dems endlessly trying to sell os diet republican rather than fighting for us.

Spent the day playing an ARPG that doesn’t require a server waiting for the one that does to sort out their launch day issues. 🤣