Did you know that if NY had kept its original gerrymander for 2024, there’s a very good chance the Dems would have kept the House, giving them leverage to stop the gutting of American state capacity and oversight? You can’t unilaterally disarm in a war, and this is a war.
A screenshot of Wayne Brady holding up three fingers with the text "Girl Scout Selling Cookies Who's Possessed by the Devil"
A screenshot of Colin Mochrie making a face with the text "Heroic Frog Leading 'The Great Escape' of All the Frogs from a French Restaurant"
A screenshot of Ryan Stiles with the text "Gradually Turning into a Parrot"
A screenshot of Greg Proops frowning with glasses halfway down his nose with the text "Judge Judy"
had the big brain realization that you could just whip up a whole D&D cast/NPC list from Whose Line prompts alone
Despite all the handwringing about “intellectual diversity” the reality is that higher ed exposes young people to a vastly different array of people and experiences than almost anything else you can do.
you’re telling me republicans are now going to call democrats communists since zohran won? they’ve never done that before it might be over
In national elections, liberals like me ask leftists to be coalition partners — hold their noses and vote for a candidate they don't love to beat someone truly terrible.
In New York, the shoe is on the other foot. And we should be clear that we're willing to do what we ask of our partners.
gotta say, Brad Lander's really walked the walk in these past weeks and it's not something I'll soon forget
Is there a way to unsubscribe from the Washington Post for a second time
it is, again, intensely funny that the entire country threw a massive "fuck that guy's birthday party" party in response to trump's birthday party
*whispers*
liberals and leftists making alliances to take power away from centrists is good, actually
Seems bad.
What Kenneth Roth and others reduce to "identity politics" is always an effort by a particular oppressed group to be afforded the rights, privileges and protections enjoyed by a society's dominant groups.
It's the very promise of liberalism, no more, no less.
If I wanted to avoid pain, I would simply avoid voting for a candidate with a history of political violence promising a revenge tour upon the country that dared reject him.
Pediatricians say that childhood vaccines are safe. A heroin-addled nepo baby with a brain worm says they may not be. For busy voters, it can be hard to know who to believe.
I’m sorry friend, but this is not actually true.
Unfortunately you have to primary everyone, not just because they don't have what it takes to fight, but because they don't have what it takes to rebuild. Last thing you want is them to win by default and then tread water until the next Trump comes to power
Let this be a warning to you all: nobody steals my charts and gets to be Prime Minister of Canada
Sorry but I just don't feel comfortable sharing public toilets with transphobes. At any moment they could just demand to have a look at my gennies. The law should protect women's spaces from these creeps.
A ranked-choice voting tip: pick me as your #1, then (as much as I appreciate Brian Lehrer caller Christine's question about ranking me five times) rank up to four more candidates you feel would be good choices for Mayor. And remember, don't rank Andrew Cuomo!
lmao, sending a number 2 to give a lecture about compassion, Pope Francis is the ultimate hater
"This guy named Bloomberg, who doesn't work for the real Bloomberg but kind of pretends to on Twitter, misunderstood a Fox News exchange and generated billions in wealth for about 30 seconds"
So good. 🤡
@brendanvduke.bsky.social
I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
“You’re better off than your grandparents, but still less well-off than you should be, because workers are not paid their fair share”?
I don’t *like* economists because they think they invented the concept of utility and therefore know everything but they have real jobs and do real work. Some of it is even good. It’s a “physics vs. engineering” type beef. MBAs are astrology for Republicans.
Ngl it's hard to overstate how much contemporary evangelicalism has broken the brains of American conservatives, an ideology that allows you be ontologically righteous with no actual demands on you so long as you are a considered "a good Christian"
Thinking again about all the people over recent years who have hyperventilated in their insistence that the gravest threat to free speech and free inquiry was overzealous sophomores at Oberlin or something.
On the one hand, decades of libertarians warning about how concentrating power in the state would make the state much more dangerous if it was taken over by an authoritarian look pretty wise right now. On the other hand, lots of those same libertarians are now cheerleading for that authoritarian.
