I'm telling you, boring old lawyers are now going to ABA panels to applaud hostile retorts to MAGA panelists and yell "you're a clown" at them.
A whole lot of people who merely furrowed their brows at Trump I are now seething with rage, and the Dem consultant class needs to wake up to that.
Attention @ityslmemes.com.
For the life of me I cannot understand why Ds are trying to out-Republican Rs on taxes **in this particular moment in time**
That's the sort of thing when you're getting blown out and desperate, not when you're looking at a D+13 or more midterm wave
Oooh, that Golson is great.
A long long long time ago I had a MIDI version of the opening bars of "I Put a Spell On You" as my flip-phone ringtone.
Best ringtone ever.
Also relevant—the songs I use as alarm tones on my phone:
I Put a Spell on You
Sixty Minute Man
Mr. Wendal
The Passenger
Rock Lobster
Summertime (Janis)
The first sixty-seven seconds of the Coltrane and Ellington “In a Sentimental Mood.”
My version of this musing is that "Dems should dump Schumer now" strikes me as silly almost to the point of meaninglessness, but I'm eager to hear from anyone who can tell me what the prospects of doing that after the midterms are, and how they can be improved.
Man, I'd love to have better self-own service, particularly when I'm out in the country and it's hard to connect with social media to see what's going on.
Ding ding ding! Thank you!
I'm not really a space nerd, but even I can't wait for the livestream from moon orbit, holy cow
Sadly, no. It’d be transiting the moon if it passed in front of it, but it’s passing behind.
It’s an awkward phrasing to wrangle—they’re slingshotting around the moon and coming back, so verbs like “visit,” and “travel to” aren’t quite right, and “orbit” and “walk on” are both just wrong.
But it’s humanity’s first trip outside our orbit since the seventies, and a groundbreaking one.
The first person of color, the first woman, and the first non-American to visit* the moon are heading up in a few weeks.
*the vicinity of
Me: “God, I’m so fucking busy. When will it slow d—?”
Interrupting Jenny Holzer:
Mass marches and organizing are overlapping but not identical phenomena. (And by all accounts, college students are seriously underrepresented in the No Kings protests as well.)
“Maybe if I rewrite the claim on the table enough times I’ll win.”
Why not just provide evidence of the thing I asked for evidence of?
There were basically zero campus Gaza protests in the fall of 2024. Because the movement was suppressed that spring.
Yikes.
“Some students in presumptive sympathy with a mass movement would go on to do X after that movement collapsed” is not the claim I was asking to have evidence provided for.
Again, for the third or fourth time, that’s a piece from six months after the collapse of the organizing wave we’re discussing.
That’s an off-campus anti-Harris protest from six months after the campus protest movement was suppressed. It’s not evidence of what campus protesters were doing six months previously.
Me, in response to a specific factual claim: “It’s possible it happened.”
I then asked for evidence, which was not forthcoming.
Also, this article dates from six months AFTER the campus movement was suppressed with the connivance of the Biden admin. You’ve got a serious reversal of causality problem here, on top of everything else.
The campus protest movement collapsed at the end of the spring 2024 semester, you doofus.
*rando pops into my mentions to vilify me for making claims I never even vaguely made*
We were talking about the messaging of the campus protest movement, which none of these screenshots are examples of.
That’s an off-campus protest by twenty students at a Harris event, not the messaging of a campus Gaza protest, of which there were hundreds.
42 people. millions of trans people are being tortured by their governments because of 42 people.
“People who weren’t part of the movement said bad things to me, which makes me suspicious of that movement.”
