"In red states like Texas, the stakes are immediate....Public education, labor protections, reproductive rights, even local governance, these are not policy debates here. They are ongoing fights against a state government that is openly hostile to large portions of its own population."
Yes, 100%
Popped into the comments just to say something along these lines. Rats 🫰🏻
“Two can play at that game” is literally the Drebin quote here when he takes an innocent woman hostage to cluelessly fight the enemy
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If politicians actually cared about protecting children or their constituents they'd nationalize (or at least regulate) social media companies.
Instead they allow big tech to operate without oversight in exchange for ID laws that harvest even more data from users.
It's why big tech is pushing it
Your metaphor made me think of Blackbeard on the Simpsons Halloween segment based on The Devil and Daniel Webster
Not that I expect better, but the NYT comment section on an opinion piece about Viktor Orban losing the election has way too many of those "see, they didn't have frothing leftists driving people away, what a valuable lesson for Americans" comments and really people, can you not for a minute?
FBI agent Denise played by David Duchovny and Dale Cooper, played by Kyle Maclachlan, Twin Peaks 1990
David Duchovny played a transgender woman, Denise, on Twin Peaks in 1990 and when greeting Cooper, the show's protagonist, she says, "I prefer Denise, if you don't mind" and Cooper responds with "OK" and her identity is settled within a couple seconds and was a non-issue, 36 years ago.
A guy asking ChatGPT to review a series of fart sound effects and getting a serious kiss ass response that calls it atmospheric
I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.
I am seeing people saying "TACO" but like, we're here because four months ago he removed Venezuela's president from power and one month ago he began an insane bombing campaign against Iran. Sometimes he doesn't. This is past 25th amendment time. Don't normalize or memory-hole today's outburst.
AI and a newish radiologist said the growth in my breast was benign. It was v small, circumscribed. A 2nd radiologist with decades of experience said, “it looks fine but I still don’t like it. Get a biopsy.” It was triple neg breast cancer. We need more experts. radiologybusiness.com/topics/artif...
I've thought something like this every time since this term started...like, people always said, "just wait till a smarter fascist comes along" but what I've come to realize is that their ideology is inherently self-destructive. At the end of it, they're always just eating each other
Sounds like a cool hang; I will try to check this out tonight, and you should, too!
Julia's amazing game The Crimson Diamond is like someone took a King's Quest IV-era mystery game (if only I could think of such a game :P) and gives it the benefit of like 30 years of humanity mastering pixel art
Your doctor: "have you considered taking bleach to kill COVID?" Free speech, right??
KBJ nails the dissent: "The Constitution does not pose a barrier to reasonable regulation of harmful medical treatments just because substandard care comes via speech instead of scalpel."
Sotomayor and Kagan suckered into siding with the conservative majority in favor of conversion therapy as long as it's based on "talking" because that's "free speech"
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tl;dr: the state of Texas recently issued a requirement that all municipalities remove any fancy (nonstandard) crosswalk or intersection markings, mostly,obviously, to make sure there are no rainbow crosswalks. SMU has a huge mustang-themed crosswalk and the city has decided it's fine
Yes, by all means, don't give University Park crap for this, so that the courts can see how you're unevenly applying this policy on crosswalks to specifically target lgbtq people. I can't wait to see that lawsuit
The US government collected over $1 billion in immigration fees then refused to process the applications. No denials. No refunds. Just silence. This is the largest fee fraud in the history of the American immigration system. Here's what's happening. 🧵
Hello, The Hague? I'd like to report a crime in progress...
A photo of Mr. T, with his signature gold chains. A text overlay says, in all-caps text, "Gets his joke format stolen by Chuck Norris" at the top, and below, in a larger font, "Outlives him."
Dante's Inferno: come for the very rad and metal body horror and pervertedly detailed descriptions of human torment, stay for the "oh NOW I understand why Dante was so vindictive"
We were trying to topple an expansionist imperialist regime that had literally attacked us 🤦🏻
Not to just swallow the line about WWII being a just war or the most just war or whatever, but on the contrary, Trump's elective war in Iran is not even that
How many times must history repeat itself?
We're not supposed to have a two-party system, but without anything to prevent a devolution to two parties, we will continue to be stuck in one. It's a nightmare
So, would he rather have his daughter date a bad person (note: Mullen and I have very different ideas of bad people)? He claims he's a good kid and then implies his only beef with the kid is that the kid's dating his daughter. That's some messed up psychology
I think this all the time. I'm sorry to admit I'll go out to eat and judge a lot of the men around me for wearing hats (cowboy or baseball cap) at the table, which was really drummed into me as a no-no growing up. The shit the south insists on keeping versus what it lets go is mind-boggling to me
It definitely has big jealousy energy. Not a good look at all
You're such an aggressive person. Are you okay, genuinely?
Aw, look at you trying to make me mad! Cute
So anyway, you should look at the history of women's suffrage or industrial regulation and then tell yourself that winning is all that matters. Those shifts didn't come from winning candidates
