Hotspur Ron Moskovitz

I was keeping it for a few years because I'd try to unsubscribe and they'd offer me a year for <$20.

But the quality has gone way downhill, and I'm happy to no longer be paying any money to that rag.

If that's true, you lost control of the caucus, and you should resign your position as Minority Leader so we can get someone with a spine in there.

Every Dem Senator who supports this travesty - and the leadership that facilitated it - should be primaried.

I guess that list now includes you.

We WERE united. And then 8 senators decided they didn't have to be.

Where were these calls for unity last week?

Why were they silent in the NYC mayoral election?

"Back to fighting?" We were fighting, and then a bunch of senators stabbed us in the back.

Just left VM for Padilla and an email for Schiff (whose voicemail was full) telling them this sucks and that Schumer must go.

It's annoying that we have to keep doing this, but we have to keep doing this. Please call your senators.

Good lord.

This is one of those "evolutionary psychology without a whiff of a testable hypothesis anywhere" papers, isn't it? "Science is what sounds logical to me."

Like the Enlightenment never happened.

Sandwich guy walks!

I had no idea Teen Vogue's turn towards political coverage was shepherded by an African American woman. I just know that their work ran circles around the NYT and WaPo when it came to asking hard questions and speaking the truth plainly.

Condé Nast should be ashamed to be tearing her work down.

Teen Vogue and WIRED are both part of Conde Nast. If they've cut the politics coverage at Teen Vogue... it makes me worried they'll cut Wired as well. I hope not, but...

One of the few outlets providing clear, truth-to-power reporting.

Their corporate overlords were not amused, I guess.

Care about child care & health care?

Your policy platform is adding DC/PR/USVI as states, enlarging the House, multi-member districts, a new VRA, adding SCOTUS seats, & eliminating the filibuster.

Frankenstein is ambitious in the best way.

I don't know if it all works. It might be a little too long. But it is GORGEOUS and interesting and engaging.

Also saw GDT talk afterwards and he was wonderful.

100%.

People run through reds all the time, now. The culture around stopping at a yellow to allow cars to make a left turn is just GONE.

Nothing fills me with hope like pictures from protests in small towns in red parts of the country.

I protested today in Long Beach. The energy is awesome and it feels nice. But the real change is going to happen when people in counties that went for Trump say "enough."

Also, contrary to how people seem to remember it, the "basket or deplorables" speech EXPLICITLY was not calling all Trump supporters deplorable.

Hillary was very specific about who she was calling deplorable. And she was not wrong.

don’t be who starts it, but please know that the police & federal agents in the areas you’re protesting have a long (and recent!) history of being the agitators & starting the aggression

“Kids”

I'm trying to imagine the reaction if Obama or Biden gave the Qatari Air Force a base in Idaho.

It's hard, because it would simply never happen.

illustration showing a female Death figure kissing a woman in a graveyard

illustration of a woman straddling a demon in front of a fireplace

illustration inspired by "Beauty and the Beast" showing a goatman monster hugging a woman in a garden

Illustration of a winged male vampire embracing a human woman in a room with an arched doorway

Abbraccio 🖤
I've been drawing a lot of embracing couples lately

Great lyrics are more than the sum of their couplets.

I struggle with questions like this because the consensus greatest song by the consensus greatest songwriter starts with the couplet "Early one morning the sun was shining, I was laying in bed, wondering if she'd changed at all, if her hair was still red."

Great song. But ... (1/2)

Photo of a passage from "The Watch That Ends the Night" Jerome stopped and stared at me with incandescent eyes. "Try and understand this-the fascists have brought back tor-ture, and torture calls for martyrs. And what else is fascism but the logical product of the capitalist system?" "What do you mean—torture calls for martyrs?" "Simply this. Unless a man is able to stand up and look the torturer in the eye and say, 'I'm not afraid,' torture becomes the way of the world. It's as simple as that." "Is it really as simple as that?" "No." He shook his head impatiently. "No, because underneath it all is the plain economic exploitation of a rotten world. The communists are the only people who understand that. How can you pretend they're not one hundred percent right when they say that at a time like this the life of a single individual isn't worth a snap of the fingers? Wasn't Debs right when he said that so long as there was a soul in prison he wasn't free? What does a single marriage count in a balance like that? It isn't easy being me. I know what all this means. [Highlighted sentence:] This evil inside the human animal-the fascists are charming it out like a cobra out of its hole and the capitalists let them do it because they think it's good for business. You think I'm abandoning Sally by leaving for Spain. I tell you, if I don't leave for Spain then I really do abandon her to a future of fascism and concentration camps."

rereading a novel from the 50s set in the 30s and i know this passage did not hit as hard when i first read it in the 90s as it does now

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

I appreciate Ernst Fraenkel’s concept of the “dual state,” wherein a fascist regime (in his example, the Nazis) will observe set rules and regulations when confronting some actors—what he calls the “normative state”—and will use arbitrary, unchecked violence towards others—the “prerogative state.”

Fuck yeah.

Wondering where ‪@erinbiba.bsky.social is? Suspended. Officially, it's b/c 2 weeks ago, she posted an accurate description of the End Times scenario Christian Zionists believe in (all Jews convert or die), & typing this *apparently* encouraged violence or self-harm. Unofficially? Feels sketchy AF.

But Democrats need to tone down their rhetoric.

One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."

An infant died because an adult chose to be a selfish antivaxxer