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meanwhile every other trans woman i know who is one of the greatest minds of their generation is begging for meds and fundraising to eat three times a week and starve the rest

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Yep. Ford represented a very specific kind of Being Cool By Being A Dipshit that used to be right at the heart of American pop-culture depictions of masculinity.

Cary Grant and Jimmy Stewart both excelled at it.

I genuinely don't understand why ad blockers don't block these stupid things.

Tim Miller and most of the Bulwark losing their shit over this probably

One encouraging theme in last night's NC primaries is the simple fact that being pro-trans is now like being anti-ICE among Dem voters: to them, it means you're a fighter, it means you're not giving into Trump.

That's a really, really good sign.

Of these?
2, without a doubt.

The “border was messed up” narrative is horseshit. @gallego.senate.gov is disingenuous. Dem’s need to keep an eye on this snake. Side note, Tim Miller is a fucking Republican, why do we care what he has to say?

some shelley duval studies!

This kind of article writing skirts so close to lying and libel that I feel like Signal should able to be sued to shit for it

Dare I ask what is going on?

"I'd just like to see him extend that to some more flexible thinking about policy" is Yglesias basically pleading with Dems to get more transphobic.

Platner literally had a Nazi tattoo and goes on Nazi podcasts to talk to Nazis and matty's incredibly flippant attitude about that should be enough to end his career

You cannot "yadda yadda" consorting with Nazis!

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In all honestly, I highly doubt the vast majority of people even remember anything about the 08' food pyramid. I don't even remember it and I've been a political obsessive since I was in elementary school in the 80's.

I think people who are still concerned about some of this stuff are outliers.

In all honesty, probably yes?
As best I can tell, he wants something like Obama-era economic policy that might be a bit more market-friendly here and there, with a certain type of conservative shitposter vibe.

Insofar as it's even coherent.
At this point, I barely have any idea WHAT Matt Yglesias actually wants in terms of economic policy. He doesn't favor single payer, UBI, massive minimum wage increases, or safety net expansions. Or much in the way of regulation. But what he does want is...vague.

This is one of the more annoying things about the "popularists". They sometimes pay lip service to the vague idea of a candidate who appeals to the "working class" by embracing "economic populism"...but what they actually accept as far as econ. policy goes still tends to be fairly neoliberal-ish.

There's also no evidence that people actually follow the MAHA lifestyle or eating habits. I don't think that aspect of it is popular in a meaningfully durable way.

In fact, it's possible that "I want to make all the food you eat illegal" is one of the biggest vulnerabilities in MAHA ideology.

I outline how it might work in the subsequent posts, and I think that the short term political memory will work quite well to their benefit.

I also think that there is an inherent aversion to open, widespread bans of things, one that democrats can take advantage of.

full of ourselves, second drawing of 2026

I have no idea how we're going to teach the Republican Party to respect peoples rights and show decency and humanity to others but convicting a few thousand of them for crimes against humanity might slow down some of the rest of them.

The Onion was cooking so fucking hard with this;

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I hear this every now and then, and it has come to my attention to Yglesias in particular is citing "the gamblers" as having some sort of unique knowledge or credibility.

The growing influence and popularity of sites like polymarket is bad, but not just for the same mundane reasons that gambling is fairly bad and corrosive.

But an even bigger point of concern is the way that people in punditry seem to be viewing gamblers as people with some special insight.

Almost every page for the next issue of my comic has been colored.

There is a single, one-page backup comic that still needs to be finished.

Beyond that, it's time to start lettering. This is about 40 pages in all, and it will be text heavy. So still a fair amount to do.

Anti-Trans Democrats Blown Out In North Carolina Primary Election Anti-trans Democrat Nasif Majeed lost to Veleria Levy, who ran on a pro-LGBTQ+ platform. Other conservative Democrats lost as well on primary day.

1. In yesterday's primary elections, anti-transgender Democrats found out the hard way why you don't throw transgender people under the bus.

Two anti-trans dems lost their primaries, including one that cast the deciding veto override vote, in blowouts.

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I'm not familiar with the actual sugar content, but I think that the details themselves don't even matter that much. The political framing on this should just be "MAGA wants to control what you eat, and we don't think they should get to control your life like that."