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anywayyyyyy gonna go back to thinking about how dorothy day could mop the floor with basically any of the catholic converts running right wing tv right now

I’ve mostly adjusted to living in the South, but when I first moved here, I think I would’ve been freaked out by that post. Now I don’t care. It’s true that a lot of people go to church here. It’s also true that churches have made a lot of people suffer.

To be 100% clear:
Parents do NOT have "legitimate concerns" about trans girls on sports teams.

They have knee-jerk assumptions, made up of sexist stereotypes, that self-serving politicians and media-types have fanned into a groundless moral panic.

Trans girls playing sports hurts no one.

Here in the northeast we don’t check our boots for snakes very often but we do check our Chuck Taylors for vestigial Puritanism and Catholic guilt

If any of the dozens of congresspeople responsible for overseeing the Pentagon could say something, anything, that'd be great

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

Out of Reach: Massachusetts | National Low Income Housing Coalition #OOR25 shows how difficult it is for renters to find affordable housing. Find out how much a renter must earn to afford a modest home at https://nlihc.org/oor

A statistic in honor of tomorrow's rent control hearing on Beacon Hill:

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I was talking with a teenager recently who is not a transphobe but said he didn’t think it was fair for trans women to play women’s sports . I said that I didn’t think it was fair that people who are taller than me get to play basketball and he paused for a moment and then said, ok you’re right.

typos are just a symptom of having a brain so smart it can outpace your fingers… in many cultures they’re a sign of great wisdom…

Follow up question what was your job from 1997-2001?

And 30% of the country says “Hell yeah” to that

I think that the fascists have a different political project and that they do not have to actually deliver anything except cruelty against the out groups. Trump is authentically cruel and crass. People like that because they believe him on those things.

All those data stealing apps? There used to be free websites with that information.

Now people are making "content" that they don't enjoy making because social media will bury them otherwise. Creatives are getting burnt out churning out soulless garbage designed to go viral.

Thanks for making me laugh at this stupid shit

the Washington Post’s methodology for “what jobs can AI replace vs. enhance” was “we asked the chatbot” things are going super duper over there

Dang, that doesn’t look like Paul’s grandfather at all!

This stuff is all awful, but far & away the most important capitulation to date is the total Article I failure/crisis. Congress has done nothing as a runaway Mad King has stolen its power of the purse & closed down entire portions of the government it created by law. All of 👇 is secondary to that.

Genuinely!

The Night of the Hunter was released 70 years ago today, and I'm always amused when people ask "Why didn't they let Charles Laughton direct more films?"

Like: Have you watched it?

This picture jfc

New details about police activity after lawmaker shootings raise questions about response The Minnesota Star Tribune found that Brooklyn Park police waited more than 60 minutes to enter the Hortman home and that several law enforcement agencies were unaware of the situation for hours.

They waited *more than an hour* to enter the Hortman home after watching Mark Hortman get shot in the doorway

Unbelievably tragic & heartbreaking

And, of course, they publicly congratulated themselves on a great, lifesaving police response when they’d let a lawmaker bleed out. Uvalde is everywhere

Yeah, no, I think you covered everything. Who do they think will be persuaded by this? I guess people who think they’re superior because they pay a mortgage rather than rent? Because they send their kids to private school? But they probably wouldn’t have voted for Mamdani anyway!

The night of the 2024 election, the clearest thought I had was “None of us, including the people who voted for him, deserves what’s about to happen.” I still believe that.

incredibly funny to try to claim that mamdani is inserting activist language about freedom into his Passover messages when the entire holiday is about freedom

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“Unmarried male” is way less specific than that paragraph of descriptive clauses, but ok.

That just sounds like every unmarried man I’ve ever met. Tale as old as time. If they feel like spending money & complaining about it, it’s none of my business.

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Many ancient homes all over the world had no private kitchens/food prep spaces, period! Especially if you were poor!

This is why the discovery of a largely-intact "fast food" shopfront in Pompeii was such a huge deal, a few years ago. These places rarely survive the passage of time.

Venus Williams just won her first match in two years and at the end when they were interviewing her about what a miracle it was, she said she had to come back and play a match; they told her she was on cobra and she’s always at the doctor so **she needs the health insurance**