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The model of holding individual senators responsible is broken here. The retirees clearly agreed to take the fall. Which is why the nos should get no credit for voting no unless they move to oust Schumer

It is a handicap in politics to be the party that genuinely believes in governance and is broadly opposed to continued suffering of constituents, and yet there is no future for anything but degradation and misery if the Republican Party under Trump cannot be made to suffer consequences for its acts.

Staggering off-cycle overperformance by the opposition, now time to take all the enthusiasm of the base and watch it explosively drain out like it's an overstuffed tank of molasses on January 15, 1919

Mitch McConnel's singular political insight is that Presidents get punished for Congressional obstinancy and he used that insight to get the Right an unbreakable majority on the Supreme Court, so of course Chuck Schumer's iteration on it is to proactively let democrats take blame after tangible harm

PLEASE vote in local elections–mayors (of small towns, even), board members, etc. They have a direct effect on your life AND are currently the last line of defense against destructive federal policies. In many places so few people vote for city council etc. that your 1 vote can change the result

if people could stop writing lies on the internet that would be awesome

I mean you are living through an attempt at inflicting mass starvation on millions of people. This is an ELIMINATIONIST political movement. The sooner folks wake up to this, the better for all of us.

A book very famously about how cool and in touch with humanity rich people are.

So we beat on, souls weighed down by gravity, borne back ceaselessly into the past

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

A photo of Nick Mancuso, Bebe Neuwirth, Angie Dickinson, Dana Delany, James Belushi, Kim Cattrall, and Robert Loggia, the cast of Wild Palms (1993)

Following the example of “metroidvania” where a two-syllable title is mashed with the last three syllables of a five-syllable title, with this corpus you have to go with “kenjifortuna”

Coming back to this bc I think my ex-evangelical lens is important. This “redemption” = continuation/enhancement of power & privilege is exactly how patriarchal, white Christian nationalists operate. It enables and perpetuates abuse. That’s why it is so vital that the Left NOT fall for that logic.

The brand new Cosmic desktop environment is still pretty early but imo it’s a huge improvement in basic usability. I get why they aren’t promoting it too much while it’s in beta but I hope it can turn the corner soon.

You cannot take these outsider centrist candidates on their word, you gotta dig. Locally we have a LaRouche Party donor and RFK campaign volunteer guy trying to campaign as a bridge-builder, using AI-generated images of multicultural support, while also joining a slate mailer with MAGA candidates.

The Tea Party was a totally contrived astroturf psyop that dominated American politics for years. It was even obvious at the time, and yet we all had to talk about it seriously.

I was out for a riverfront run that day in 2009 and randomly ended up going past one of these. Stopped for a minute to listen and it was totally juiceless; warmed-over right-wing blogosphere complaints delivered charisma-free to a bored and homogenous crowd.

I do sincerely think everyone should get to experience the narrative arc of competing in the Nathan’s International Hot Dog Eating Contest, regardless of ability and/or dietary restrictions

In any honest history of our current century, Garry’s Mod is a more important cultural incubator than, say, the Iowa Writer’s Workshop. I am GenX and it gives me no pleasure to report this

Call it a state-organized tax strike. Call it fiscal disobedience. Tell me it’s illegal. I don’t really care. The law, which is now Trump’s preferred fascist tool, is not justice and is not binding when its founding social contract is disregarded. We must stop paying for our own fascist subjugation.

…not acknowledging the schism, or the cause, is part of the underlying framework, right? To really solve it, you *have* to acknowledge it, but if you acknowledge it, it's real, and can't be attributed to "economic uncertainty" or whatever the fuck. And if it's real, then other bad things are true…

I wonder what it's going to take for a history textbook to ever state plain the fact that a Black liberal being elected President of the United States broke this country's psyche so hard that it spent the next (at least) 8 years simultaneously schisming itself & pretending it wasn't.

Because, like…

At some point, the people of the US are going to have to ask themselves why in 2025, we still have a system of "democracy" that is intentionally designed to give the 60% of pro ethno-state white voters more power than everyone else in the country combined.

Questions for the 40% of white folk.

"No Kings" illustrates the uncomfortable truth about US politics: That the > 50% of white US people that want to turn the US into a white ethnostate (their words) is a lot of people. But the > 40% of white US people that don't want this, plus > 50% of brown people and > 90% of Black people, is more.

The basic structure of so much commentary, some in the guise of academic study, reduces to:

(1) generative AI products are detrimental to the goals of education

(2) therefore, the goals of education must change.

Without the tacit axiom that AI has authority behind it, that just doesn’t follow.

passing the so-called “ marshmallow test “ by refusing to eat a single delicious marshmallow. passing the stupid test by setting fire to the factory that makes the delicious marshmallows

Like, there are other things potential devs could be doing with their time. People go where they feel welcome.

I’m fairly bullish on atproto’s chances to evolve into a usefully decentralized foundation for social apps—but irrespective of the technical arguments, it’s not going to be pleasant, nor will it succeed, if people in a position of authority and influence are going to be jerks.

oh no, we’re doing videogame difficulty discourse with food now

I don't know how university leaders expect to sustain their institutions *even as class-reproduction machines* if they sell out to a dictator and crush their own core workers. Like, you have to put oil in the engine. You have to put gasoline in the car.