Martin Guerre (real)

The only way to do it imo

Sweet or sour?

Freakish Crows HATE this one weird trick

Paul D'Amato from his 'Water for the People' series a woman in a white dress floating in her back in a flooded street next to a car and a couple of bystanders, her arms extended

'Ophelia' (1852)
the Tate, London
Sir John Everett Millais

“Thanks boss!” is going to be the epitaph for an entire genre of journalism.

Man, the courage and virtue needed to stand up and say “no, this is wrong” is found all but exclusively among ordinary people. It’s not a great situation, but at least we have that much.

I feel I have to be careful with arguments like this, as I’m self-aware enough to know that—for me personally—this is the quickest path to becoming a reactionary.

Homemade Wide Awakes sticker seen on a Philadelphia lamppost

Looks like a homemade Wide Awakes sticker, spotted in the wild in Philly!

@djinnandtonic.bsky.social

One of the things I took away from the 60s and Richard Nixon, first mentioned by Hunter Thompson, but I believe to be true, is the fact that we believed, at time, that all our protesting, marching and sign waving was futile and pointless when in fact, it drove Richard Nixon to alcohol fueled madness

Lookin good, little dude!

Man, it is just intolerable. Every day a new outrage. I don’t know how this ends.

Yeah, politics is not the lecture hall, and rolling up to the protest with reviewer #2 and a bibliography seems unlikely to get results.

What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy

I greatly appreciate how you explain the rationale behind ideas other people would present as simple rules. Understanding these things has really helped me improve my wardrobe.

You’re telling me sucking up to fascists while they go after other groups doesn’t work? And then they just come after you? Damn, somebody should write a poem about it.

“Gotta nuke somethin’”

“No particular hopes or dreams”

let the gourd times roll

I'll take the bullheaded, deeply flawed, 1990s quest for authenticity and cultivating a core which you shouldn't sell out over this any day. Any day.

Which one is your favorite? I like 94, but I have a soft spot for Viral.

My dude really is built different

I want an anti corruption effort so vicious it makes Javert look like a police abolitionist

My most conservative belief is that the Amtrak quiet car is a sacred space and people who talk in it represent a breakdown of social order.

When I was younger, and in a different line of work, I thought it was sophisticated to talk about all the ins and outs that led political actors to do what they do. Now that I’m older things are simpler: if I like something I say it’s good, and if I think something is bad I say so. It’s liberating.

Our system suffers under parties that are more or less ideologically sorted. True in the mid 19th century and now.

They are just lying. I know some people were flatly incredulous that the “anti-ICE” inscription in TX was faked, but things like this make trusting federal law enforcement shall we say challenging.

glhf!

You don’t just join a union like joining the ACLU. The greatest predictor of union membership is taking a job in a unionized workplace. This is not generally a decision driven by ideological considerations.

Yeah, that and other demographic factors (race and gender especially) account for most of the differences. That said, my understanding is even accounting for that, union workers support democrats at greater rates than comparable workers. That’s apart from the other political benefits of unionizing.

Partisanship by family income, home ownership, union membership and veteran status Democrats have an edge among registered voters in the lowest and highest income tiers, union members and voters who rent their home.

Unions are more or less the only aspect of civil society not captured by the right, and union members go Democratic 59% to 39%. This compares to 48% D to 49% R for non-union voters. If for no other reason, Democrats should support unionization because it benefits them.