West Coast Chick

Why are there women in the picture? Are they secretaries?

[This is a brain on GOP agitprop]

OMG

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God grant me the confidence of a mediocre white man … OR Bari Weiss.

We used to give people direct cash assistance until Reagan decided block grants would help transfer more money from poor people to rich ones.

I don’t even know how!

“Mamdani created shame the same way he created vision: by having standards, and then showing everyone what his standards are, and then proving that he truly held those standards by standing for something without shame.” He made ordinary people feel proud and shitty powerful ones rightly ashamed.

It’s hard to believe anything is evidence-based anymore, but I am glad to hear it!!!

An important distinction. Thx for pointing it out. Guess I should have read the article…

Maths...

If you make $100,000 a year (not bad), it will take you 10 MILLION years to earn a trillion dollars.

If you make a million dollars a year (wow!), it'll still take you a million years to earn a trillion dollars.

Tax the rich.

If you need somebody to eat the cookies to free up the tins … 🙋‍♀️

It feels like 1000 years of MAGA diner stories.

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I don’t know about the other places but I know Gluesenkamp Perez squeaked out a win over Joe Kent, a Trumper who would be infinitely worse. Until the right wing disinformation advantage is addressed, it’s going to be v hard for Dems to win in places where people can’t easily get accurate info.

Also “Christian”

Unfortunately, there’s never been a better time in history for doltish grifters.

I value your voice, @walshfreedom.bsky.social but you are mistaken about what Dems supposedly focus on. Dems fight an uphill battle every day against RW misinformation and disinformation and this is the biggest problem facing both Dems and the country.

The full quote as it should have been imo: “As is typical for Mr. Trump, he has identified a real problem” along with 99 similarly oversimplified, misleading, or outright fake problems he has made up, all of which we, the credulous press, take seriously to avoid being called nasty, biased, or fake.

I like his point about anti-woke being anti-Black but at this point it seems ridiculous to say it’s not about Democrats and Republicans when Republicans are very much enabling all of it.

YouTube video by Randomer Monopoly Social Experiment - How Money and Power can Modify Your Mind

It makes people jerks, too, per this research experiment:

(Sorry in adv for the shitty ads.)

Political #corruption made Americans in the 1800s distrust social programs, a prob that continues today, when wealth inequality has grown to Gilded Age (1870-1910) levels. This is the time Trump wants to take us back to. #Dems in ofc should be loudly anti-corruption, pro social programs.

Same!!!

I don’t know if this is true but I heard Grover drowned in a bathtub?

This experiment is very revealing about the antisocial effects of money.

Hmmm…I’ll have to check those out….

I hope so. My husband likes to say I unravel more than I knit.

“As the Kaiser Family Foundation notes, Go Fund Me campaigns soliciting donations to pay for obscenely high medical bills are becoming more and more common in the United States. This is a moral failure.” 🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯

Starting my most ambitious project: a wool vest. 😬 I anticipate it will be ready for winter … 2029.

its remarkable to see random suburbanites in their fucking PJs have more courage than the vast majority of america's political, social, and civil elites

@therickwilson.bsky.social is a brilliant writer and this piece is an elegy for what we have lost. How now do we recover and rebuild when the GOP is complicit/fascist and the Supreme Court and states like NC and TX are trying to make it impossible for Democrats to win elections ever again?