Jacobonaut

This strategy is part of why we can't have nice things. "That guy you love is RICH and he HATES the gays and the Jews!" It's all made up to see if anything sticks.

This is his calculated strategy, straight out of the DARVO playbook: accuse the guy trying to make the city affordable of being rich.

Only, Cuomo is orders of magnitude more rich and out of touch.

Doing Dishes at the Beach by Stevan Dohanos, a painting made in 1952. It depicts a woman in the foreground inside a kitchen, with dishes piled high in the sink, and a mess all around her -- the oven is open, milk sits out, a dirty pan on the counter beside it. The woman wears a yellow shirt and an apron, and she has her back to the window, gazing out a large picture window. A man (presumably her husband) relaxes on the beach outside, while further in the distance, two children toss a beach ball with a dog.

Just came across this painting on Reddit -- Doing Dishes at the Beach by Stevan Dohanos -- and woof, the visceral reaction I had to it.

Gotta have "proof" for the gender police.

But those are brown people, Brandon!

Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk say human population not nearly big enough: ‘If we had a trillion humans, we would have at any given time a thousand Mozarts’ “I think in a lot of these endeavors we're very like-minded,” Bezos said of himself and Musk regarding getting humans into space.

I don’t know why this incenses me as much as it does, but it does:

we very likely have a thousand plus Mozarts *right now*. But they make non-Western art in economically destitute conditions so they have to do other work to pay bills; if you cared, UBI’d be more important to you than going to space

Confederate history is not OUR history, it is the history of a failed rebellion that didn't even last as long as the COVID lockdown.

A key part of this story has got to be how random unelected jabronis in some shadowy organization get to decide what happens to our streets. How does that happen and how could we change it?

Is this even a crime? Wtf?

The folks who mine the minerals used in Apple products can't afford to treat the illnesses their job gives them. And yet.

I am only sad that this is not being livestreamed so I can share in their slowly dawning horror as you don't stop talking about who Gandalf would kiss full on the lips.

Vegas is a boomer city

In 2025, institutions with money and power are complicit little cowards while everyday people are unimaginably brave

Columbia bends the knee. A random LA principal blocks ICE from coming into his school

Paramount cancels shows. A Bronx baseball coach tells ICE agents to fuck themselves

YouTube video by Jessie Gender The Politics of Forgetting

Jessie made such a beautiful and important piece of art here. It breaks my heart that it isn't performing well in the algorithm because I think this is what a lot of us need right now--I know I did.

Please take some time for it, and share it with others.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vU5...

a white woman with blonde wavy hair wearing a puffy dress is fist bumping a tall red ghostly woman creature

me accepting that my demons are a part of me and that they deserve love too

The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.

losing my mind at this. apoplectic. want to punch a wall, or a human being

data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-mother...

Boiling Water The corrosive damage cause by forcing people to defend their own lives by debating ideas that have already been defeated.

Imagine you have a friend. Let’s call him Rick Reasonable.

Now imagine you have an enemy. Let’s call your enemy Bart B. Oilingwater.

Bart is a real piece of crap. Whenever he sees you, he throws boiling water at you.
www.the-reframe.com/boiling-water/

"i can't believe you don't like that politician just because you disagree over ~one single thing~" & then the one single thing is whether minorities should have human rights

Newsom is going to beef it so hard. Flirting with fishy podcast guests and throwing trans folks under the bus to get ahead shows his true nightmare colors.

New Study from Madaket Health Reveals Nearly Half of Americans Delay Healthcare Due to Cost and In-Network Barriers

About half of Americans say they've put off healthcare services due to cost barriers, with Millennials most affected by far, per new study by Madaket Health.

Percent of age groups who've put off getting care:
Millennials: 78%
Gen X: 56%
Baby Boomers: 30%
www.morningstar.com/news/busines...

When they were wolves, the thunder feared them.

We've elected worse mayors of NYC and worse Presodents
Mamdani's fine

my finger is just a bloody nub at this point i've been tapping the sign so much

DARVO is strong with this one

Trans rights are not a wedge issue. You either support bodily autonomy, and recognize that there are more important issues that this argument distracts from, or you are a garbage person.

Throwing trans people under the bus is a sign that Pete's willing to sell out vulnerable populations to further his career, and that's disqualifying. This matters more than what his favorite sports team is or whatever.

[quoting a tweet from isabelunraveled in which she rails against depressing books that get branded as “great writing”]

A key point in Fahrenheit 451 is that books were banned because they made people depressed and uncomfortable. The novel's protagonist, Montag, is taken into custody after he reads a poem that makes a woman cry because she realizes the emptiness of her life.

Drawing of a very stylised Bigfoot with these words written on it: “I am your dear friend Bigfoot and I bring you a pokey-stick to brighten your day”

The Sears Tower looking insanely creepy during a blackout, including the impression of a scary face topped by a crown of spikes. It looks like a giant humanoid evil robot or a demonic Minecraft creature.

"It's ok, honey. The Sears Tower experiencing a blackout won't hurt you!"

The Sears Tower experiencing a blackout:

Public Progress Solutions and Zenith Research polling breakdown between Zohran Mamdani, Curtis Sliwa, Eric Adams, Jim Walden, and Andrew Cuomo

85% of young men support Zohran Mamdani.
79% of young women support Zohran Mamdani.
67% of Jewish people aged 18-44 support Zohran Mamdani.
65% of Black people aged 18-44 support Zohran Mamdani.

Would you have guessed *any* of that with how the media has covered all this?