imo, taxes are good. we should aspire to the goals of confiscating the wealth of billionaires until they're no longer democracy-destroyingly rich AND ALSO to paying everyone a wage with which they can afford to pay taxes. if someone can't pay now, np, that's rl rn. but that shouldn't be our goal
so for the record folks this is the sort of shit that gets spread in your circles.
New: I spoke to Rev. Babs Miller, a lesbian pastor at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church in Austin, who has known James Talarico since he was "Jimmy." They told me about how Talarico's church formed his support for queer and trans people from a young age.
www.chron.com/culture/arti...
I've been fascinated with Talarico way before he became a national darling. Part of that is because for a lot of Dem politicians, their support of LGBTQ+ rights lives uneasily with their faith, if they have it at all. But for Talarico, the first flows from the latter.
When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.
lol. CBS had been trying to get Zohran Mamdani for an interview, but Bari Weiss' deranged tweeting caused him to turn it down
link.vanityfair.com/view/5df1007...
most of what you need for pro-natalist policy (strong social welfare net, affordable housing, affordable health care) is good for *everyone*, not just people who want to have children, even if i have to chain and gag the inner reactionary inside me who grumbles about portland's PFA tax
and a $600 laptop that can run these tools in a serviceable *enough* way beats the shit out of a heavy duty, spec'd out MBP and a $70/mo subscription for a lot of people. if you're not one of them, you already know that
they're killing the $600 laptop market, but i really honestly think people are sleeping on them coming for adobe, too. a neo running creator studio for $13/mo gets you pretty close to feature parity for a *lot* of what people do with creative cloud
FindMyFGC is now live!
Built a site to help people find fighting game events in their area. You can filter events by certain games, and I'll add more games in the future
You can find it at www.findmyfgc.cc
you — yes *you* — are going to pay more in taxes and you are going to get better service from the government for it, and you are going to like it
we need to find whatever fucking idiot consultants are advising dems to slash income taxes and dump them in the middle of the ocean with concrete blocks chained to their ankles
Free message for Democrats on taxes: We will use them to improve people's lives instead of killing people for no reason.
It won’t make you big (or really any) bucks, but if you love reading out loud to folks who’d love the company: see if your local nursing homes and hospices need volunteers.
I think one thing to consider here is that Nazis frequently lie about their beliefs, and it is part of NYT ideology to never question whether someone is being honest about their self-reported political beliefs
@libbycudmore.bsky.social Good news about that Criterion Closet invite
so, next time they are in power, i think democrats should ask themselves real serious questions about whether they want to continue considering bids and accepting contracts from an organization that has made eradicating half the country an explicit political goal
REI also outfitted ICE in Minneapolis this winter, in case you need another reason to stop shopping there.
The thousands of feds were easier to spot at first because they very obviously weren't dressed for the cold, and that stood out. Then, they went shopping, and REI was happy to sell to them.
It's why it's very important for Palestine solidarity work to not be antisemitic and also for American Jewish institutions to STOP FUCKING ABUSING antisemitism to suppress Palestine solidarity activism, even stuff that makes them uncomfortable. Because the alternative is erasing the barrier.
It's very bad, because there's a genuine problem here—the Israeli state is incredibly evil, people are rightfully furious about that and how much support the U.S. state gives them, American Jewish communal institutions have lashed themselves to it—and also it feeds directly into insane bigotry.
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there was a sentiment i used to see all the time online that was always phrased exactly as "if you support x, then" and the ending would vary, but it was "you're part of the problem" or worse. i don't think anyone ever really pushed back hard enough on how much work the word "support" was doing
This is really interesting. I’m biased bc I got my start in journalism working on high school sports coverage for my local paper, but I do think it’s often overlooked
The problem with this argument is that many of us aren't saying "loli is just as bad as the real thing", we're saying "loli is the weeb equivalent of gun shops when it comes to being a far-right honeypot and you should distrust self-proclaimed 'lolicons' based on that alone"
IDK, I'm glad someone was finally honest about it. People don't join the right because they believe it offers useful or correct ideas. They get a thrill out of shocking or being mean to people they don't like. That's all the right is.
MAGA sexism IS the same as the old patriarchy. Of course it is. Certain individuals, subcultures, or waves are inevitably more mask-off about it, but at base it's always the same thing. Sorry that some people had to learn this the hard way because they liked feeling edgy.
Trans and queer writers review thirteen essential queer books (that weren’t covered by the New York Times Book Review during Pamela Paul’s reign).
I found the world's most unfortunate name for a wrist doctor
Very yes!
