Jen in Motion

The most unsafe I've ever felt in DC was 1) when Trump sent the National Guard after peaceful protesters in June 2020 and 2) When Trump did not call the National Guard while an armed mob stormed the Capitol building on January 6. Trump is the "crime, savagery, filth, and scum"

The American press: but if my dad likes these guys they can't be pure evil, right?

oh trust me i have not forgotten about the way that national press fluff this guy up. this was the lede of a time profile of youngkin just a few months after running the most race-baiting campaign in recent virginia history.

Covid deniers and vaccine deniers bear some responsibility for this attrocity.

Love to see FBI agents with accounting degrees walking the streets of DC bullying homeless people instead of doing their jobs because a DOGE cybercriminal named "Big Balls" got beat up by a 15 year old.

Noooo I wanted Tamsyn Muir to finish Alecto the Ninth

How did they come up with an even dumber version of burrito taxi discourse

I honestly don't trust people who hate kids like this and think they shouldn't be out and about.

I was gonna say, kids on ipads aren't bothering anyone, but I strongly agree the headphone free device thing that people do in public is just BS.

Yes, yes they do. And it's bad, actually, that people are this vicious about children.

“Every misogynist joke poses a question to its female audience: Can you laugh along? Will you be chill or are you going to make a big deal out of this? Are you going to be a bitch…? Arriving in the form of a dildo, the joke that is also the question becomes a double entendre: Can you take it?”

I think the whole "The elites are folding!!!1" is pretty dumb.

No, the elites like what Trump is selling and want it.

depending on how you roll the average (and whether or not you do things like include Rasmussen), Dems are probably up somewhere between 3 and 5 points on the generic ballot right now, which is pretty high.

Importantly, the affirmative republican number is also awful. It's usually around 42-44.

Me, noticing the entire Wandavision group isn't in Doomsday: good, there's a whole-ass other thread for them after that overstuffed mess blows up in Marvel's face and/or you gotta ask "gosh, I wonder if there are any known characters who can handle reality shifting in this 'verse for Secret Wars."

The Venn diagram for “people who think it’s fine not to sell a wedding cake to a gay person” and “people who think this supporter of a pedophile is entitled to pirogies” is a perfect circle.

💜 A year ago, a coven appeared with a song 🎵
#AgathaAllAlong

There is a really hard reckoning to be had re: a bunch of people just always being easy gets for the fash and how to handle that.

tbh Hoover won 39.6% of the vote while house republicans won 42% of the vote

When I was 16 I smoked real actual
cigarettes on an international flight. It was unthinkable then, but now, thanks to actual political will, you can hardly smoke in public spaces (and I am glad to say I quit when I was 23). LLM chatbots are a menace and can be banned.

CPB roughly made up about 12 percent of the starter funds or purchasing power of PBS and about 1 percent of NPR

It is a hit but oddly not devastating as one would have thought

It's my comfort read, for real. I find something about the very immanent, in-place reality of it restful for my nervous system.

(E.g. if you scam enough people, you can't start another business ever. Ever. And maybe you shouldn't get any benefits from any business you start if you do enough fraud)

My most straight-laced but hardcore opinion is that fraud should be treated far, far more seriously than most property crime like petty theft and even vehicle theft in terms of punishment and there should be a death penalty on starting businesses.

an enormous number of problems with modern society trace back to the widespread acceptance of fraud and lying more generally and we should change that

a functional future DOJ should massively crack down on this kind of behavior

The one that fascinates me is how much top/bottom discourse is part of everything and how much it's assumed to be a huge part of sexuality.

Holy shit, these are "but if I don't have mah gun, what about dictators" level ridiculous. I'd hate speed governors for a while if this happened, get over it, and then ignore it.

Leia absolutely took one look at Rey and was like, "the lesbian witches with the Force have a point, why couldn't I have THIS kid?"

Why are all these people so fucking weird? We spent decades in feminism trying to point out it was ridiculous for men not to pick up tampons for their cis women partners! For fuck's sake!

There is a very active stan Twitter/Instagram/TikTok in KPDH world and whether Huntr/x can fly for real or not has been the longest-running argument, even more than the shipping.