Jake

I’m triggered by it because the small progress we have won on bike infrastructure and support is FRAGILE and the last thing we need is people attacking it from the left because of badly thought out elitism or ableism reasons.

Historically they dehydrate beforehand if they’re really going for it

“You were stupid enough to get a Nazi tattoo and then wear it for twenty years and it doesn’t sound like now that you know it is a Nazi tattoo that you’re at all ashamed or planning to get it covered up, so you’re not qualified to be a senator.”

*HOW* is there anything more to say than this?

We looked into doing the same for Poland but surprise surprise it turns out that most of the records of Jewish marriage and citizenship had *some stuff* happen to them shortly after my family fled, and so that route is closed to us, despite Poland ostensibly having a right of return

Listen,

POLL: Do you approve | disapprove of the U.S. government taxing the tooth fairy's liquid assets (year-to-date teeth)?
U.S. adult citizens 38% | 48%
Democrats 62% | 23%
Republicans 6% | 87%

A story I read years ago that I consider apocryphal: truck driver got road rage and started shooting at a Prius. Prius driver returned fire, killed truck driver.

I am so certain that the truck driver never expected a guy in a a Prius to be armed. It was like thinking that a deer might shoot back.

Two other thoughts:
1) aoc is a perfect ‘the exception proves the rule” case here

2) paying electeds way more helps solve this

Candidate quality/sourcing is genuinely, really difficult.

This is for the simple reason that being a major candidate sucks shit and is one of the worst opportunity costs decisions that someone with the capital to run could make.

With that said: not having a nazi tattoo is such a low bar jfc

Pretty much all political scandals get parsed in my brain in the voice of my friend learning about our last big election and saying “yeah she seems okay, but ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY PARKING TICKETS!?”

The Seahawks are not prepared for the psychological weight they are carrying right now lol.

The British military burned the White House and marched north. Deploy the guard to New England immediately.

We have such a tiny wee little three million dollar grant. I was really hoping low issue salience would save us BUT GOD FORBID we run a workforce dev program

For. Fucking. Real .

We’re scrambling with them same shit rn

Grandma has entered hospice and is refusing further treatments. I’ve never known anyone with less joie de vivre, for which we blame the Nazis/the holocaust, but the flip side is that she is so totally unafraid. She wrote this poem a while back and I think of it whenever she talks about death.

Fwiw they already fired the parks director and the plan for if the levy fails is to slash spending g immediately via layoffs and by closing art centers and community centers. Longer term it would I think really come down to selling park assets (ie the parks themselves) in order to balance the books

Likewise, just because a player is unconscious that doesn’t mean they’re not in the game anymore and that it’s okay not to include them. Throw an attack or two at your unconscious players to keep them engaged and having fun.

Also like the majority of general strikes fail. “Direct action gets the goods” is not actually that accurate historically

Lmao how did I miss this

I’ve got a great article on this if you’re interested in something long long form

Got a *lot* of compliments on this sign today. The little old ladies of Portland Oregon eagerly await tribunals for Nazis.

Relatedly: I was so glad to hear @pnwpolicyangel.bsky.social call out America’s fascists as neo-Nazis explicitly. We are so lucky to have such leaders at this time.

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

Kerning is hard

I feel like you’re failing to interpret my post correctly despite easy context clues. What do you think I meant here?

Idk. US mainland is close enough to stage on. It would be wild to get into it without a few carrier groups , but like Florida and TX are not that far away?

Normalize the practice of not seating new members prior to the midterms

For all my nations many many faults, we do not have an inherited nobility and as I’m sure you know, such nonsense is banned by our constitution. I’m sure you’ll want to be dense and say that our capitalist class is the same thing, but it’s not

I would simply not have a cringe monarchy, a thing that is bad

I'd like to take this opportunity to remind everyone that EVs are worse for salmon. The fact that they're much heavier means they generate a lot more tire pollution that kills salmon. When Harrell says that EVs are THE solution to our transportation emissions - sure, if you want to kill more salmon.