Brooding Mara

If you are planning to vote early for the March 3rd primaries, you have one week left.

This is your chance to pick the people and issues that best represent you!

In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court has come down in favor of money

some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing

The corrupted Trump-Bondi DOJ trying to jail Democratic members of Congress without being able to cite any law they violated is very bad.

And their failure to get an indictment—zero votes on a grand jury—is good.

Great example of bottomless desire for authoritarian domination but limited capacity.

Trump Can’t Steal the Midterms The case for being vigilant without panicking.

Trump can't steal the midterms.

I say that not as a call for complacency, but to right-size worries. Authoritarianism partially exists in our heads. Excessive fear plays into their hands.

Be vigilant but don't panic. Don't grant the regime more power than it actually has.

Me, in @thebulwark.com:

So many arguments on Bluesky feel like when a kid uses a word and you ask them to define it. Then you find they just have the vibes* of a word and even the vibes are wrong.

*connotations

I'll be telling at the Durham Public Library on the 21st of February at 10:30 am!

I'm expecting nonsense after the votes are in, like what happened in NC with Allison Riggs. She won by 700 votes and our corrupt GOP courts tried to overrule that by tossing votes.

It turns out that the only thing standing between us and a version of the pentagon that closes airspace to shoot down party balloons were those diversity trainings at work

Tried to take a photo of a grasshopper on my windshield, but it looks like its giant and destroying the town Posted in r/mildlyinteresting by u/AhoffNYC • 4,722 points and 333 comments

There's a super-viral post going around on here with replies and quotes disabled that is just a rip-off of someone else's image from more than a decade ago. See old.reddit.com/r/mildlyinte... for what *might* be the original source but it's hard to say.

This art features 100 bees of various colors and shapes. These bees are designed in a cartoonish style, based on real species. The common name or species is written below the animals. Some bees are moving leaves, scraping plant hair, or sticking out their tongues. Some male bees have hairy faces and unusually shaped legs. There are also baby bees that have just hatched from their petal nests. Cute and colorful atmosphere. There are over 20,000 species of bees, so I only depicted a very small fraction of them!

Bees 🐝

To be very clear, that lady in the NYT article is not making any money with her hundreds of AI slop books.

She makes money by *convincing people* she makes money that way and getting them to pay her to teach them how to do it.

It's an evolved MLM, and the NYT is helping market it.

Late result for anyone still awake: Na’Cole Thompson, the Democratic candidate in the mayoral race today in Leander, Texas, has won the election.

She got 57% and won’t need a runoff, with two Republicans adding up to 43%.

RESULT: Democrat Chasity Martinez wins a special election for a legislative seat in Louisiana, 62% to 38%.

This was a district that Trump carried by 13% last year, so a big overperformance by Dems, but the seat was already Dem-held.

I think one of the most persistent social lies we are all taught is that evil, unshackled by the need to be moral, is better at things. This in spite of the fact that every time evil is tried on a societal level, it fails. It makes everything worse, not just what it wants to make worse.

kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them

VA Gov. Spanberger (moderate, was in CIA) and NYC Mayor Mamdani (left, is in DSA) both taking steps to block local law enforcement from helping ICE as it violently violates people's rights is a good example of how the relevant divide in the Dem coalition isn't center-left, it's fight-don't fight.

The Post is now a right wing penny saver. Easily ignored. Even the least of fish will refuse to be wrapped in it.

the stalker from perfect blue with a video camera

Once a hack, always a hack: aftermath.site/darren-aronofs...

It should be crystal clear to anyone with eyes and ears that Trump is DETERMINED to subvert free and fair elections in America.

But in America, state and local governments run elections. So Trump can kick rocks.

Still, ALL of Congress must be VIGILANT.

YouTube video by SUMERIAN sace6 - ego (Official Music Video)

Can't stop listening to this. Softness and screaming feels so right for the moment.

so his response to losing every booking the Kennedy Center has is to demolish the whole thing East Wing-style and reopen with Kid Rock in some garish nightmare palace

someone issue a preemptive judgement immediately before the bulldozers move in

Note from the editors: ProPublica is publishing the names of the two federal immigration agents involved in the fatal shooting of Minnesota protester Alex Pretti. We believe there are few investigations that deserve more sunlight and public scrutiny than this one, in which two masked agents fired 10 shots at Pretti as he lay on the ground after being pepper-sprayed. The Department of Justice said it is investigating the incident, but the names of the two agents have been withheld from Congress and from state and local law enforcement. The policy of shielding officers’ identities, particularly after a public shooting, is a stark departure from standard law enforcement protocols, according to lawmakers, state attorneys general and former federal officials. Such secrecy, in our view, deprives the public of the most fundamental tool for accountability.

A note from our editors:

Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

Playmobil Druids holding aloft golden sickles with sheep silhouetted by the sunrise.

Imbolc
#PlaymobilInfestation

What is happening in Minneapolis stands in contrast to the idea of Trumpism’s irresistible power.

It should be a reminder: Being lawless, immoral, and violent does not make the Trumpists omnipotent. Obscuring that distinction is an act of defeatism that only serves the regime.

Good news! Get involved in local political efforts, if you can.

JD Vance @JDVance X.com Remember when we learned that our wealthiest and most powerful people were connected to a guy who ran a literal child sex trafficking ring? And then that guy died mysteriously in a jail? And now we just don't talk about it. 8:28 AM • 9/4/21

JD Vance in 2021:

Where is this snow?

The “Where are the protests?” lament after Trump’s inauguration was always based on a (willful) misperception. Over the past year, protests have been far more numerous, more geographically widespread, and more sustained than what we saw in 2017, for instance.