The quote came with less than a week before the January 2010 special election for the seat of the late Sen. Ted Kennedy. Coakley, a Democrat supposedly favored in deep-blue Massachusetts, tersely replied to a Boston Globe reporter, who suggested she was being too passive in her campaign. “As opposed to standing outside Fenway Park? In the cold? Shaking hands?” Coakley said. She would go on to lose the election to Republican Scott Brown, forfeiting the Democrats’ 60-vote filibuster-proof Senate majority. In a 2010 book, Newsweek‘s Jonathan Alter wrote that Obama’s reaction to Coakley’s Fenway remark was a little more animated than the president recently described. Told of the comment, Obama reportedly grabbed adviser David Axelrod by the shirt. “No! No! You’re making that up! That’s can’t be right! Tell me she didn’t say that!” he said—”with a few obscenities tossed in,” according to Alter.

obama just fundamentally has public speaking and interpersonal skills so much of the rest of the party doesn't and isn't interested in getting, no matter how much it might help them even just for self-serving ends. i'm struck remembering his reaction to the martha coakley fenway comments

Inside LAPD's nearly $400M settlement crisis that's bankrupting LA Taxpayers are covering civil rights violations and officer misconduct while basic city services face cuts—and a new audit could reveal whether LAPD is doing anything to stop the pattern.

New from me: The police are defunding our cities. In LA, LAPD’s growing liability lawsuits are costing taxpayers millions of dollars in payouts. $400m in payouts since 2019. The biggest culprits: protests, police shootings, and car collisions. More👇

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ur son is very beautiful

FACT: you should be sappier with your friends and loved ones. there is no reason not to be.

Corbeau

What a profesional! Most people would have been dragged into the cold baren forest, towards an oasis with the last blooming trees of winter, and the old nyphms who live withen them. Ready to split your body asunder to rejuvenate their spirit. But congrats! You avoided this fate!

Bug bites

#ApothecaryDiaries #薬屋のひとりごと #shimao

I think one of the saddest things about being a millennial is remembering a time when technology was advancing in a way that made life better and easier and more exciting instead of actively, intentionally worse

- "Get me the original Simpsons theme in the game!"
- "Licensing it is too expensive sir"
- "Then get me a non-union equivalent!"

TikTok Algorithm Update

Sister Blades

#pixelart #ドット絵

call my dick a joke the way this tenderqueer can't take it

In a twist 💋

Happy Halloween !!
Seattle folk will see me out tonight

It’s his day.

an old colored sketch from 2021?2020? of ruby rose and the red prince from rwby volume 9. it is a recreation of the “smart kid not knowing how he’s losing to me” “me, who has been eating his pieces when he’s not looking” meme

a 2022??? illustration of ruby rose of RWBY with her head tilted up and her eyes closed, her teammates placing a heavy crown on her head

a 2021 doodle of ruby rose of rwby making peace signs with the caption “bro, im straight up not having a good time”

I don’t have any really recent ruby art so :((( old doodles from during v9 to celebrate my bby girl’s birthday

morgan from of the devil dressed up as patrick bateman from american psycho in the scene where he axes paul allen. background text reads "happy halloween from nth circle"

"Trick or Treat."
Thanks for playing.
Expect more jumpscares this month~

why am i always yapping.... #whiterose

A really common guy on twitter rn is pro-UBI and also running interference against food stamps because poor people don't deserve them

If you ever feel insecure, just remember that someone asked ChatGPT how to replace sodium in their diet and it told them to use swimming pool cleaning chemicals instead of salt and they did

i'm not a ghost or a ghoul or a fucking poltergeist okay i'm a *spirit*. it's like a whole different fucking thing okay? hey are you even listening to me?? put your phone down oh my fucking god i'm trying to torment you right now

And I’m listening

developing an international polycule as a ploy to learn languages without having to get a subscription to some app

anyway it's Fine when 'straightbreaking' turns up porn about straight girls getting turned gay. but what if I want her to stay straight but develop a hopeless psychosexual dependency on letting dykes get off with her? what then??

has anyone done this yet #pokemonZA

Reminder that if you're still totally unironically using those weird 4chan tttt trans terminology literally like most of the normal trans women you're interacting with are talking about you dragging down their mood and ruining the vibes behind the scenes

I legitimately didn't know they were competing with Steam and it's crazy to me that they burnt so much money on what sounds like something with very little (or wildly misguided) market research.

if you gave Lao Tzu the internet the first thing hed do is google transfem bimbofication porn.