David Faris

Oh Ken. Truly ahead of his time.

I think Pluribus is an allegory about what it’s like to be a Wisconsin swing voter

Grassroots resistance swells in the wake of the immigration crackdown in Chicago Chicago is no longer the main focus of the federal immigration crackdown. For one neighborhood group, the intense enforcement activity was a test of resistance tactics they developed eight years ago.

Cool story about how courageous organizers chased the fascists out of our neighborhood of Rogers Park.

Just 38 months to go.

Whatever the number is, it’s terrifying because the American people have proven over and over again that there is literally nothing the Republican Party can do to lose their trust and that every 4-8 years they will be returned to power because some Democrat used the wrong email server or whatever.

Really loving this new thing where when someone asks what I teach and I tell them, they get this almost indescribable look of horror/pity and I nervously say something like, “It seemed like a good idea at the time hahahahaha!”

The MAGA War on City Dwellers Is Backfiring Last week's elections showed that the GOP can't afford to keep demonizing urban America.

I've got a new piece up @thenation.com about how the far right's obsession with dismantling the urban-based "Professional Managerial Class" and the inevitable collateral social damage of Trump's mass deportation campaign have already reversed MAGA's modest gains in cities.

One of the most unnerving things about the last ten months is the feeling that you’re watching one of those alternate history shows where Germany won WWII. What is happpening in this country every minute is completely fucking deranged.

I feel this

Sorry I meant Miracle Mile obvy

Nuclear war!

Miracle Mike is a great movie though!

Do they think they fooled a single person with this bullshit? If anything it makes it —so much worse—that the whole thing was choreographed weeks in advance to hoodwink us. Unbelievable. Burn the whole party to smoking embers.

Can someone please photoshop Schumer onto Charlie Brown’s body as Lucy is taking the football away

I remember when I was part of a unionization drive in grad school. The night before the representation election, one of the organizers gathered us together and was like, guys we can't want this more than you do. That's how I feel right now. I honestly think it doesn't matter to most of them.

The most demoralizing thing is knowing that we want to save democracy--are in fact working much, much harder at it--than Senate Democrats are or ever will. Genuinely the most fucking hopeless group of people on the planet.

This is why Democrats are less popular than a case of the shingles. Being a supporter of this party is like loving a sports team that is actively trying to lose. Just incredible stuff.

Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.

....their giant eyes at you and then you plunge yourself into another day. I wish I could bottle that feeling of anticipatory loss, the reminder that it's so fleeting and you have to make yourself fall in love even with the hard parts, slam it like a 5-hour energy drink....

Anyway how was your day?

....feeling such internal conflict over this sometimes horrific, sometimes beautiful world you've brought them into, hoping they never remember anything that is going on right now, knowing you'll do it all over again in eight hours whether you sleep well or not. And they will wake up and blink....

...and then they finally go to bed and you pop in on them after you know they're lights out, and you gaze at them with this exact line of thinking barreling through your head, second guessing what you did right and wrong, agonizing if you lost your temper for a minute, wishing they were awake....

...you know this and yet it doesn't really change anything to chant it to yourself as a mantra. In the moment you're still like wow I'm wheezing and out of gas and I have hours left to deal with two kids with the weekend looming and I would give anything to lie in my bed and shut my eyes for 30....

...maxed out on Magnetiles and Bluey and reading, you know somewhere deep in your soul that someday, maybe in 10 years, maybe in 30, whatever, you will be willing to trade every single second of whatever remains of your dumb life for 1 of these hours. One hour. The whole time, highs and lows....

Paradoxes of parenting: rough day today. Have some kind of nasty chest cold that makes breathing a slog, and there was a half day at kiddo's day care, my wife was out of pocket for an immovable work event. The thing is that even when you are completely knackered, desperate for time to yourself....

It has been fifteen and a half years.

Republicans would probably be better positioned in a fight over Obamacare subsidies if they had one single idea about improving the health care system that didn’t involve tens of millions of people simply not having health insurance.

Lol

Is this real? She looks like she’s wearing a Laura Loomer mask to rob banks and go surfing.

indeed i do!