where are all the Baileys and Codys

I suspect that this is the energy that Dem primary voters are looking for right now:

the only redistricting energy i will accept, at this time

A baby raccoon

A baby raccoon

Meanwhile
A timeline cleanse:

I went to change my snow tires to summer tires this afternoon...

And discovered I've got a raccoon nursery in my shed.

a soft looking and somewhat worn felt swan with a big beak and trailing feathers

thinking about this 1500 year old plush swan made of reindeer wool

I think the stuff being fed to young women is so bad and I think it kinda flies under the radar because the stuff being fed to young men is somehow much worse

i think it's just my algorithms since i interact w feminist content and this stuff often cloaks itself in that philosophy, but the fatalistic gender essentialism being fed to young women on social media rn is SO bleak

People want to pull the "believe women" line here. But. It's the internet! You have no idea if the person behind that anonymous post is a woman! People can lie! Believe women was supposed to be about treating victims with dignity, not immediately believing every anonymous internet post!

there seems to be a push to pathologize being kind of a dick, as if being an asshole is a mental disorder and not just.... really really human and something we all dabble in occaisionally

First saw this story over on Threads, and people really, really, really did not like anyone correcting misinformation about their misreading of the story. We seem to be moving to some sort of post-reality where people just want fake stories that reinforce their beliefs.

this is a profane violation of ancient rules of hospitality

god this guy rules. he says "I'm going to fix this" and then just goes and does it. really humiliating for every other mayor honestly

My fat ass thought this was an ice cream sandwich and was like mm yeah don't mind if I do

in other words

its absolutely incredible watching people not realize the stakes watching DOJ being weaponized against SPLC and not realizing that its basically an existential fight for the republic now

one of the ways the mid to late 20th century political world has distorted the historical memories of even sophisticated observers is in the idea that you can achieve major transformations of american political life through something like bipartisan consensus

My most liberal idpol radlib take is that I think it's pretty bad that
right wing forces are actively intervening on behalf of the Klan with the full weight of the state legal apparatus

it’s so cool how you just *know* this will result in republicans calling the election rigged because they’re too stupid to understand that every single vote cannot all be counted at this exact same time

Remember, Democrats have repeatedly advanced measures to ban partisan gerrymandering and Republicans have voted against them time after time.

This is the game Republicans wanted to play. OK, then.

If rural people want to be listened to then they need to get out of their own bubble and learn about the wider world.

The fact that California stopped at 5 instead of going for the full 54-0 showed their restraint

The implicit media consensus is that urban voters should not be able to overrule rural voters, but that rural voters should be able to overrule urban voters, an assumption so axiomatic and unquestionable that nobody even understands they're making it.

More like Christian heinous

And things are only going to get worse and worse for them. There will be days that make this one look good for MAGA.

every conservative political complaint comes back to "those people shouldn't count because they disagree with me"

This is also genocidal rhetoric btw

This is already demonstrably incorrect. And Wright isn't even dead yet.

Need a list that auto-blocks anyone who uses the 🤣 emoji in a post

the point of the canal is to move water where a river did not exist before. if you build canals where rivers existed they will overflow and become polluted every time it rains