jordan, but spooky 👻🦇🎃

All of the pictures I see online look like...slushies 🤔

I am watching Abbott Elementary for the first time & would like Philly bsky to tell me why you call it water ice when shaved ice would be more accurate of a name

Folklore & Evermore were her PEAK imo

This album is so poorly written that I feel like I'm being gaslit

And how are you going to do a "showgirl" album and not have one song that heavily features brass instruments

What a complete and utter waste

a woman wearing glasses says it 's on in front of a whiteboard Alt: a woman wearing glasses says it 's on in front of a whiteboard

Tomorrow, tho?

I for one think that i should be praised for not yucking a single [ts-related] yum today on album release day

Please clap etc, you're welcome

Literaaaally
Like nails on a chalkboard, I hate it

I need there to be a setting on my language learning app where I select "no spanish speakers from Spain please" because the accent is graaaating lol

Screenshot 1 of 2 of Ezra Klein speaking to Tim Miller on The Bulwark podcast 27:56 rSo, I've been thinking about the Affordable Care Act. As you mentioned, I used to cover healthcare a lot. When the Affordable 28:02 Care Act passed, there were about 40 pro-life Democrats in the House. 40. Um, Democrats held Senate seats in 28:09 Arkansas, in Louisiana, in North Dakota, in South Dakota, in Ohio, in uh Montana, 28:15 West Virginia, in Montana, you know, in Indiana. I think to a lot of people, I've been 28:22 thinking about this in the email I've been getting recently. I think for a lot of Democrats to twist the old line about capitalism, which you may have heard, 28:28 right? It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. It has become easier to imagine the end of America than Democrats winning a Senate 28:34 seat in Arkansas. Like they just like it's become like a completely inconceivable thing.

Screenshot 2 of 2 of Ezra Klein speaking to Tim Miller on The Bulwark podcast 28:52 have to say politics is about winning power. It's not about only choosing 28:58 strategies I am personally comfortable with. I am very very very pro-choice. My wife had medically horrific pregnancies. 29:06 There's almost nothing that I feel more emotionally intense about as that a woman should be able to a family should 29:13 be able to choose whether or not to go through that. that it would be very dangerous for her to be pregnant again. Have we protected reproductive rights 29:19 sing the political strategies we have employed over he past 15 years? We have not. We have failed. And I think core to 29:25 my view is failure. We are failing. We are failing to protect trans people. We 29:31 are failing to protect immigrants. We are failing to protect everybody we say we are here to protect. And we are failing to protect them because we have lost power.

Screenshot 1 of 2 of Ezra Klein speaking on his own podcast with Ta-Nehisi Coates: Klein: People got really upset about that. And I get why. But in 2010, when the Affordable Care Act passed, there were 40 House Democrats who were pro-life, at some level. You had to do this whole negotiation with this guy Bart Stupak. Coates: Yes, I remember. Klein: On the bright side, you don't have to have those negotiations now. And on the downside, you can't pass the Affordable Care Act. And the point is not that one issue. For example, Susan Collins is, in theory, pro-choice, but she votes for Mitch McConnell and John Thune as leader. That's how you build power on some level, right? Like **Joe Manchin - I wish he were still a senator from West Virginia, as much as I have deep disagreements with him.** I think that I am a person - and I think that you are a person, whether you admit it or not — who is one of the people with a voice in shaping what our political culture is. And I believe at some level that political strategy is downstream from political culture. I think it means exploring things that are uncomfortable and being pretty disciplined, in a way that maybe I haven't been, about separating the question of what I believe from what I believe will win power. Because I currently think that the cost of losing power is horrifying and dangerous, and we can't keep doing it. So that's where my head is.

Screenshot 2 of 2 of Ezra Klein speaking on his own podcast with Ta-Nehisi Coates: Coates: But if you're going to say that, I think you really have to put the data behind it. I think that's really important. Klein: I will stand behind it. I will say, and I think this is actually the nub of it - I'm glad we're here. I am saying the thing it sounds like I'm saying. To be very clear. I think in a place like Nebraska, you should try to run some pro-life Democrats. I wish people, **instead of saying that an expressive or strategic question in politics was betraying or abandoning the people we wish to protect, I wish what we said was: We lost power in a way that allowed Donald Trump to drive the Supreme Court to a 6-3 Republican majority, and that majority overturned Roe v.Wade and actually abandoned all these people, actually [expletive] them over.** Right.

It’s actually incredible how wrong Ezra is about “needing” to welcome anti-abortion and anti-trans politicians. Democrats were unable to protect vulnerable people BECAUSE they had conservative lawmakers in their ranks—including one Joe Manchin. Alongside Sinema, he blocked codifying Roe v. Wade

The super duper fancy bidets are REALLY nice but the 130 dollar bidet attachment from Tushy is still miles better than mere TP & wet wipes

No compromise: mattresses, hiking boots, eyeglasses, film cameras, coffee, beer, desserts

Compromise: preeeetty much everything else lol

Wait no, I cannot

Any place that offers craft cocktails does not meet the criteria, sorryyyyyy

Thank you for the rec tho 🫶

I will add it to the list ✍️✍️

Doubling down after getting ratioed yesterday is...a choice

bsky.app/profile/jay....

The CEO of this website is shitposting instead of addressing users' concerns about transphobes ruining this place

Women in male dominated fields lol

You can tell a lot about a culture by how it treats people with disabilities.

I mean they almost did!

I think many many people are married to the concept that they never want to interact with strangers on someone else's terms

Aggressive weirdo behavior imo

Just kidding

Hell yeah
The metro system here is imo incredibly easy to pick up/understand with a little practice so I think they're gonna be just fine

Like you can tell that the people who designed it actually want people to use it, what a concept!

Okay maybe the Vikings won't make me want to walk into the ocean too badly today

Also the not waiting for everyone to exit the train before you try to get on the train

Like I promise you bud, if you keep your hand across the sensor you are not getting left behind

No need to bum rush the door

Also, the school age children have figured out DC escalator etiquette, so if you're a tourist and a grown adult, what's your excuse????????

I have made like 10 variations of this post and will continue to do so until it stops being true, sorry not sorry

I know that much of this is the fault of mainstream media crafting narratives that drive clicks and reads and whatnot

But it feels deeply deeply anti-social, anti-community to hate and fear places where lots of people are

Which i guess is the point

a basketball player is sitting in the stands with a towel wrapped around his shoulder . Alt: The Kobe gif where hes shaking his head disapprovingly and yells "SOFT"

Oh you conceal carry every time you go into the city because "you never know what could happen"??

School age children use the DC metro unaccompanied every day without issue

If you're still acting like cities are big scary hives of villainy,

1. You're bitch-made
2. You're not an alpha
3. Stop calling leftists weak/soyboy/beta/cucks
4. Go touch grass

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Mumford and Sons doing a collab with Hozier is very exciting to me personally but also is regretfully a recession indicator