Jessica

A few months ago I was talking with a friend about how the anti-exclamation mark pearl-clutching was probably misogyny.

Welp. All the way down.

It’s so embarrassing. Voters deserve so much better.

If you’re a Colorado legislator choosing to wine & dine with corporate lobbyists in Vail instead of standing up for working people…
You’re part of the problem.

The people you are supposed to represent are paying attention. And they’re tired of being sold out.
coloradosun.bluelena.io/index.php?ac...

Fuck this guy.

Reading about Democrats who agree with Trump's plan to forcibly commit homeless people

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

And yet Johnston didn’t touch their budget and wants to make it less transparent

You want to be alive, but they want you dead. We’re a new, well, funded democratic group that thinks you can meet them halfway.

he was a champion of free speech and if you disagree youre under arrest

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

I said something last week that is more broadly applicable today:

Calling for empathy is not neutral or apolitical when only one group of people have been socialized and brutalized into having empathy.

Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.

I'm sure the right's reaction to all of this will be totally chill and not at all extreme.

YouTube video by Farm to Taber "Everyone Drank Raw Milk!" No They Didn't

When people say "We used to drink raw milk from our own cow and it was fine,"

That's... usually not the case!

In families w their own cow, the mom usually boiled it before using.

We just forgot bc that's a boring chore that mom did. And who pays attention to that?

youtu.be/vKDPast9WFk

How We Brought Respectful Debate Back to The Harvard Crimson’s Editorial Board

To us, the solution is deceptively simple. Universities should create environments where students with different views must talk to one another routinely and establish ground rules that ensure they do so without distractions or prejudgment. Illiberalism on college campuses isn’t inevitable. At The Crimson, it took only a few months to radically improve.

I will never understand how American elites managed to convince themselves that uncivil debate — not fascism, not impunity and not widespread indifference to facts — is the defining problem of our time.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...

Promise made, promise kept. 😉

"It is very hard to wall off data collected from lawful government use. The simple truth of digital surveillance is that if you build it, it will be used, and likely used against those with the least amount of political power.”

NEW: Records obtained by 9NEWS show Loveland Police have given the Border Patrol access to a network of license plate reading cameras in Colorado. @spencersoicher.bsky.social reports. #copolitics

COMMENTARY: Hundreds of Denverites may drop off their kids for the first day of school next Monday then lose their jobs hours later. The goal for the Mayor and his administration should be compassion and competence in handling these mass layoffs. #copolitics

A brewery to avoid, Denver metro friends.

Honestly can't think of a more straightforward example of how men profit from the sexual degradation of women

Whatcha watching? This is the speed of TV I need right now.

San Francisco has spent the last 3 years undoing any evidence-based drug policy in order to appease a very vocal group of uneducated but rich, fascist, right-wing losers (Sacks, Tan, Tandler, Shellenberger, etc). As everyone with understanding of this topic warned, San Franciscans are dying bc of it

Once again, this is a massive public jobs program for fascists.

This bill was never just about tax cuts and gutting social services. It's about investing our collective resources in violence and using state power to spread fear and destroy solidarity. We need to resist this with all we've got.

Same, friend.
(I did a very mid job cleaning the kitchen tonight. Not unusual but I wanted to commemorate.)

Did I do the best I could with the skills I had?
Probably not.
Did I do the best that I thought the task required?
Meh. It’s just a kitchen.

I don't think we talk enough about how dignity is also a human right.

Food, water, shelter, education, health care, representation...all of those are human rights that everyone should receive regardless of who they are. But it's also a right to not have to beg for them.

Starship Trooper

I’m keeping oil prices down!

We might be at war, but at least highschool trans athletes can't the play sports