Younger people will be shocked to hear this, but way back when I grew up, anytime you saw a movie where some government official stopped someone on the street and demanded to see their identification papers, that was supposed to let you know they were the *bad* guys.
The elite Democrat fantasy is getting a huge youth turnout, but only if those young people vote for 70-year-old boomers who don't want more housing, are OK with a police state and fossil fuels, and don't give a damn about crimes against humanity in Gaza
To Hoot, perchance to Holler
I wonder what country survives a trade war? the one that produces 98% of what it needs and also has the capacity to manufacture homes, high speed rail, hospitals, schools, etc at light speed with efficiency or the one that cant fix a crumbling bridge without a dozen useless middlemen taking a cut?
i have learned that way too many americans see the concept of 'freedom' simply as the potential to be rich and privileged, even if they aren't, & not things like freedom from dying from a preventable illness if you're poor, or being imprisoned for minor crimes, or persecuted by the police, etc
DOJ directs prosecutors to seek death penalty for Luigi Mangione 1 hour ago CAH CNN Gunman who killed 23 in racist attack at Texas Walmart offered plea deal to avoid death penalty
Huh, weird
I'm Kat Abughazaleh and I'm running for Congress.
American civil society is full of abject cowards, that is the issue. The government is a mafia state but it is winning because most American elite institutions are devoid of anything resembling integrity and are folding rather than stand on principles that were little more than marketing.
Screen grab of Twitter post my pundit Matt Yglesias saying that California governor Newsom is not only correct on merit to oppose trans athletes, but that it's bizarre to see the Democratic party line up on an issue that is opposed 70-30.
Interracial marriage did not cross 50% approval in the US until 1996, when I was 30 years old. Good political messaging drives opinion, it doesn't follow it.
Brutal.
Kira Nerys from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine with a serious look on her face. The caption indicates she is saying "Nothing justifies genocide."
evergreen sentiment
Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children. Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. “Are you feeling all right?” I asked her. “I feel all sleepy,” she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.
The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.
This probably isn’t the developers’ top priority (although it should be), but I’d love to see the Bluesky app have an option to switch to the Julian calendar for those of us who reject the lies of Pope Gregory XIII
This piece apparently traveled widely enough that I got a Sent From My iPad email from a dude who got two letters wrong in his attempt to write "dipshit" in the subject line. He had an @aol.com address. This is the big time.
point out, it is also unworkable. (See Dkt. No. 69-1 at 17.) The recordkeeping and administrative burden from such an arrangement, (see id.), ' also mandates nationwide relief. Nor is it clear what, if any, prejudice the Government would suffer from nationwide relief. In its brief in opposition, it points to none. (See Dkt. No. 84 at 57-59). For all these reasons, the Court finds that relief must be nationwide. Anything less is ineffectual. III. CONCLUSION Citizenship by birth is an unequivocal Constitutional right. It is one of the precious principles that makes the United States the great nation that it is. The President cannot change, limit, or qualify this Constitutional right via an executive order. The Court GRANTS the i Plaintiffs' motions for a nationwide preliminary injunction (Dkt Nos, 63, 74) and ENJOINS enforcement or implementation of the Order on a nationwide basis.
Birthright citizenship remains the law of the land. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Washington is full of rule-following valedictorians who were inspired by the West Wing and did Model UN and moot court and studied their heroes and who believe in using government to help people.
That's nice, but you need to learn how to swing on the illiterate bullies who steal lunch money.
The Doing A Lot of Drugs community is sick of taking strays because guys who work at Google started taking .2 grams of psilocybin to write emails in a more annoying way.
John Fetterman’s a disgrace to the oaf community. He does not represent America’s lumbering buffoons, ham-fisted galoots, or men whose heavy footsteps are soundtracked by a tuba.
a key take away from reading a lot of history for me:
the people who survive hard times and eventually brutally humiliate their seemingly invincible enemies are not the people whose first response to adversity is “oh well, guess I’ll die”
one thing i’m stuck on is this idea that “masculine” energy means license to act like a chud in public, as opposed to more traditional notions of public masculinity, such as those that put a premium on the performance of integrity, honesty, honor and generosity.
David Lynch smirking in an interview -Believe it or not, Eraserhead is my most spiritual film. -Elaborate on that. -No.
“AOC should run for president” her own party wouldn’t let her become oversight lead. You live in a fantasy land where the democrats give a fuck. Break out of it.
An Instagram post of a screenshot someone took of a water planes “stats” i.e. how many drops it’s made and its ground speed etc.
There is something so sweet about the human capacity for enthusiasm. For a few days everyone in LA has been glued to Watch Duty and getting in the weeds of how water drops work. Now there are people out here who honestly have a favorite water plane that they are following closely and rooting for.
NASA climate scientist & climate change activist Peter Kalmus moved himself & family from their Altadeena LA neighborhood 2 years ago b/c he felt it had become unsafe. All of Altadeena just burned to ashes. Here's Kalmus talking about it on Democracy Now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMYv...
Good luck demoralizing me, all my joy is stored in my cats and they can't read
every new restaurant in every major city is either called Thistle+Thorn and thinks adding turmeric to brussel sprouts makes them worth $30 or is called Burger Bitch and has a neon sign in the window that says “im gonna fuck a hamburger”
My grandmother used to say, “Don’t weep for the stupid. You’ll be crying all day.”
People act as though anyone actually believed the neolibs had come to save us from fascism.
We know neolibs like money more than they hate fascists.
Are we supposed to be surprised money was given to their buddies?
