Darcy Conaty

I understand why people believe Trump’s invasion of Washington DC is The Event but I think it’s more helpful to understand it as dialing up the heat on the boiling frog. Trump did this in LA. He’ll do it in D.C. with more boldness. And then he’ll do it again. Fascist takeover is never one event.

There is a TikTok making the rounds of a woman crying after seeing her child's kindergarten classroom and finding it "underwhelming" and "not cute." I am married to a teacher who began his career teaching at the elementary level and I have a few things to say. 🧵

If you're National Guard or any other service member being deployed against people in the US and you'd like to apply for conscientious objector status or have any other concerns whatsoever, call the GI Rights Hotline to get some guidance on your options:

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No, they just want to lock them in a closet and slide bologna under the door.

Pete Hegseth shares a clip saying women shouldn’t have the right to vote, the 19th Amendment should be “repealed,” and women should “submit” to their husbands: “All of Christ for All of Life”

🚨🧵1/2 Tomorrow, 8/9 in Ft. Worth, DFW is standing together at 3:00 to support our TX DEM REPS

No excuse, it’s plenty of time for ya’ll to drive up from Houston, Austin & San Antonio & even stop at Buckees for a Brisket sandwich

Or as we say in TX regardless of where you live, “Ya’ll come on down!”

Non-New Yorker here, but if $2,300 is a rent-controlled amount, won't the rent be raised to way more than that if Mamdani moves out?

I realize broad science-literacy problems cannot generally be solved just by shoving more facts at people but I really wish more people understood that the entire purpose and mechanism of a vaccine is to educate your OWN immune system, making it about the most "natural" medical intervention possible

Bolsonaro attacked the census in Brazil as well. Cut funding for the agency that runs it, delayed it by 2 years, harmed quality of the data, publicly challenged data he didn’t like, pressured to get the numbers he wanted.
noticias.uol.com.br/colunas/jose...

Living a moral life in an age of bullies requires collective action; it cannot be done alone. Each of us must organize and participate in a vast network of moral resistance. From this solidarity we will grow stronger. This is what our current moment requires.

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Listening to Popehat here, or ElieNYC, or Barred and Boujee, will give you vastly clearer and more accurate insight on American law today and tomorrow than listening to the median Harvard law school constitutional law professor. That may sound like hyperbole but I promise you it is not meant to be.

Let me qualify what Josh is saying. It is quite clear that the Constitution requires a census of all persons. It’s quite clear that past Supreme Court cases support this proposition. (For instance, the recent census question case makes no sense if persons doesn’t include immigrants.)
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Yes, we're careful about those now. Supervised play only.

When released from the hours in the bathroom with no food after the ribbon passed, she ran into the kitchen, pried open a box of donuts, & helped herself.

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Jeez. Guessing the only lesson learned was on your end, right?

I'm very grateful that when Magdalen swallowed a 6' ribbon halfway, she actually came to us (well, my wife, who wakes up faster) for help. A visit to cat ER & a 12-hour wait for it to pass followed.

If you’re a dog owner, this is your periodic reminder to:
- Check that your dog’s collar is properly sized and latches securely
- Check that all tags show your CURRENT name, address, and phone number
- If your dog has a microchip, have the vet do a test scan and make sure it’s readable and correct.

Tumblr poll from “lesbianalism” Do you think you could take a werewolf? Yes: 70.6% No: 29.4% In a fight? Yes: 8.1% No: 91.9% Final results from 35,878 votes

Allow me to share one of my favorite tumblr polls of all time

I'm going to hold everyone's hands when I say this. Citizen's United injected so much rich people money into politics that it has completely fucked American elections and everything we see has a direct line back to that decision. You cannot have an effective labour movement until it's overturned.

Oh for chrissake are we *still* on that "journalist" who wants a piece of the griftwing manosphere money and his bullshit "the 'left' doesn't talk about men getting laid"?

Fine, let's deal with this before we block and move on.

They’re coming after cities, universities, professional bureaucrats, and markets. They want to flatten all countervailing institutional power that may exist outside of the executive in order to remake America into their single image.

Blue26.org Not a PAC. Just helping raise money for Democratic candidates to help save democracy.

REMEMBER: Unlike PACs, not one dime of what I raise for Democrats goes to me; aside from the standard credit card processing fees, it *all* goes *directly* to the candidates listed on each page.

My ActBlue pages also let you *opt out* of sharing your email/phone number w/the campaigns.

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“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”

The first part of this James Baldwin quote gets thrown around a lot, but it’s the second half that stick with me.

We got to use a jackhammer to remove a concrete slab over a collapsed sewer pipe, which my sister thought was great fun. The digging out underneath was less so, but it saved us a fortune in plumber hours & at least a day's wait. Plumber came out Easter Sunday AM to replace the bad section.

I read a couple of pieces this week that show how people are not just protesting but actively resisting Trump-era abuses and putting themselves on the line to protect their neighbors. They're well worth your time.

On @siriusxmprog.bsky.social State of the States, I talked to Debra Shigley, running in Georgia State SD-21 on August 26 www.debraforgeorgia.com

Then, Alonna Berry, running in very competitive Delaware HD-20 this Tuesday, August 5. Early voting this weekend!
www.alonnaberry.com

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Impersonator or Imposter Accounts - Debbie Ridpath Ohi - Obsidian Publish Impersonator or Imposter Accounts on Bluesky As Bluesky grows in popularity, so are the number of trolls, spammers, and impersonator accounts. Happily, there are many ways to Control What You Do (& D…

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I think the really important thing about the "trans sports debate" is that it's NOT REAL, the things that people are fearmongering about are NOT REAL and are NOT HAPPENING. Cis women are not competing at a disadvantage against trans women, cis men aren't transitioning to win at sports, IT'S NOT REAL

We need to teach people the difference between being uncomfortable and being unsafe. Because the discomfort of the safest people is endangering the most vulnerable, all day every day.