MTF

the voters have spoken and they love being trans and threatening to shoot republicans in the head.

why is this mayoral election different than all other mayoral elections?

in all other mayoral elections, we get to see andrew cuomo lose but once. but in this mayoral elections, we get to see him lose *twice*.

Yeah alright

we’re redefining gender roles. in real time

IN THIS HOUSE WE BELIEVE:
-John Brown's body lies a-moulderin in the grave
-John Brown's body lies a-moulderin in the grave
- John Brown's body lies a-moulderin in the grave
- His soul is marching on

Meme where the kid is pushing both sodas at once, the sodas are maximize woke and maximize wealth and the cup is “human flourishing”

me 🤝 you

Yeah, if you don't want political violence you should probably not tear the social contract apart, creating a state of Warre

WP just raging about Mamdani being a class traitor to the moneyed class. Implicit in their statement is that it's good and normal for anyone born into wealth (even relatively modest wealth, not just billionaires) to adopt a worldview of "fuck you got mine" and resist improving the lives of the poor.

Very cool!

gonna reiterate a hobbyhorse of mine: 'let the ATF keep electronic records' is a good fight to pick on guns. it doesn't impact normie gun owners at all, it's an insane bit of GOP mandated dysfunction in government, and it's being "tough on crime" in a way that actually matters

🎶Manual labor is often highly specialized and requires education and training🎶

As someone who doesn't watch sports but does love human suffering, I'm having a great night

I can three-hop to Literal Hitler (via people trying to kill him but still!)

Yale lab reports mass killings in Sudan, calls for student activism The Humanitarian Research Lab was told this week that over 10,000 people in Sudan were killed within three days.

“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”

I swear, every time I see this man he has achieved new heights of Nice Young Man

I’ll bet you never heard of an incredible weather event that happened 34 years ago on this very date, one so rarely mentioned yet so epic in scale, seemingly unknown to younger Minnesotas who lean forward with anticipation and excitement as survivors begin the tale of a Halloween blizzard that

These people could have declared victory, too! "I told you that throwing your full support behind upstart outsiders was risky!"

But apparently the emotional/social reward of being right was less than the emotional/social reward of continuing to sneer at progressive wokescolds for having principles

So much of the discourse around wealth taxes is just taking the Randian view of taxation as theft and punishment, just that this theft and punishment is sometimes good.

The unspoken root assumption that underlies this theme is that fascism -- reactionary tribalism, a desire to draw in the circle of moral concern, to heighten in-group out-group distinctions -- is a kind of pathology, a break from the normal, something that's gone wrong w/ an otherwise decent person.

Your dad's cousin is your aunt. I am from a family of plain boring white people and my kids call my wife's cousins who live around here and they see all the time "aunt/uncle." This is not even some "see, in other cultures," thing this is just a total normal thing they are presenting as scandalous

(not that anyone is pretending they don't understand, just c'mon now, even the white western canon does this)

do we not remember how "cousin" works in Shakespeare

what was the exact wording and second example in the "everyone pretends having a bag of bags under the sink is special" because omg people

People rebelling at the cognitive work of relearning what's what explains a lot about everything honestly. The general trends of nostalgia and conservativism versus progress, aging all of that. But also this particular moment and the alleged excesses of woke.

so the process of writing is a process of realizing how imperfect and incomplete that idea was, and actually working out all the rest of it. writing, in other words, is a process of thinking: a particularly disciplined one, that takes you from a warm feeling to a genuine reality.

a lot of people who call on the party to do things would not like what that kind of a party actually looks like most of the time

i think i would honestly find this whole discourse more tolerable if people simply said what they were actually saying, which is that they think the Democratic Party is too associated with femininity (and secondarily, with black people) and that they want to correct this

"Start a garden a week before November," say the Farming Understanders

“oh so you think the east wing being demolished is worse than-“ it’s a synecdoche, man. a visual metaphor. there’s a reason the aliens in Independence Day don’t aim a huge laser at SNAP benefits

Zoning rules? Tradition, change aversion, + vibes

Parking requirements? Egregiously bad science + vibes

Traffic engineering? Morally abhorrent value judgments about the level of injury and death we’ll accept in exchange for motorist speed and convenience (vibes)

Building codes? Tradition + vibes