wannabe bluestocking

A January 2000 newspaper column with the following quote: “This union will agree to a salary cap about the same time Donald Trump gets elected president.”

Sometimes you run across an old quote that stops you cold. From a Jayson Stark article in January 2000:

yes this post is about christy (2025)

if the subject of your biographical film is not recognizable by only their first name your film’s title should not be their first name and if you do make it their first name i’m going to assume you were too lazy to come up with a good title

listen.
i can't complain too much about the overton window shifting to people wanting M4A.
but this is insane historical revisionism! "the democrats wanted medicare for all" literally when?? the ACA was a compromise dems made with themselves and their donors, not republicans.

why are there so many lawyers on the internet. don’t you guys have trials or something

this is correct but also not to be dramatic or anything but it seems really bad to have a political system that hangs in the balance of trusting the party in power to act in good faith and not remove the technicality that gives the minority any semblance of power, which they can do at any time

Text from CNN reading: "“I did things; you have never had a job,” Cuomo said motioning towards Mamdani and drawing applause from the crowd. “There is no reason to believe you have any merit or qualification for 8.5 million lives. You don’t know how to run a government.”"

Text from CNN reading, "“You sought to access her private gynecological records,” Mamdani said. “She cannot speak up for herself because you lodged a defamation case against her. I, however, can speak. What do you say to the 13 women that you sexually harassed?” The question drew applause from Mamdani supporters in the audience."

wow incredible reporting @cnn.com, i could barely even tell which candidate you're being paid to support

image of mark zuckerberg with the caption “‘everything I say leaks’ says mark zuckerberg in leaked meeting audio”

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

that would just be naive i think, i dont have it in me to go find it rn but dnc types were talking to news about being worried about primary attacks weakening them in the general. its an inherently authoritarian mindset, and its incredibly frustrating to not have a real say in who our governor is

i’m less confident about that last part, she’s at the same spot polling wise as mcauliffe was in 2021. i don’t think there was a grand salacious conspiracy where dems threatened to break kneecaps, but i refuse to believe there was no politician in the state who was interested in challenging her

see 2021 RE mcauliffe, it's been a long time since 2017. i also don't see how one person dropping out pre-everything proves anything, he may well have dropped out because of party pressure. there was a concerted effort not to "weaken the party" with a primary

um, are you from virginia? mcauliffe is not popular here and stoney is even less so, ask anyone from richmond about him

its incredibly obvious that there was pressure from the party for nobody to run against her. it was a de facto appointment

sorry but if you think there's no other dem in the state who wanted to run for governor, when so many ran for lt governor, idk what to tell you. there was obviously pressure from the party for nobody to challenge her

also, fuck spanberger for giving into the republican narrative on this, and FUCK the virginia democratic party for refusing to give us a primary and just appointing her as the gubernatorial nominee

nick is a well known asshole in northern virginia. transphobia is his primary issue, he's always pushing these narratives and it's so gross

right wing guy angry walking into his local bank: why isn't your flag at half mast for charlie kirk

me working as a bank teller: who's that

right wing guy (voice noticeably cracking): he was murdered

me (distracted playing umamasume on my phone): cool

from the washington post: Opinion by George F. Will William F. Buckley Jr. would recognize Charlie Kirk as a kindred spirit

inigo montoya in the princess bride saying “I do not think it means what you think it means.”

they literally want to round us up man. can democrats please get a fucking spine and stand the fuck up for us now? we literally cannot counter this ourselves when they want our voices and rights taken away. please do fucking something

i don’t think there’s been real gun control momentum in this country since sandy hook. parkland, maybe? but even that felt like it had no real movement. the fact that we looked at 26 dead kids and were unable to pass anything really feels like the death knell, it just zeroed out any momentum

you start reading this and think to yourself, wow, what a brave man, using his full name when whistleblowing to expose these evil acts to the world.

then you realize he isn't whisleblowing.

he's bragging.

like i read nate silver's article on bluesky today and he uses the amount of times people google bluesky vs x/twitter in each state to measure their popularity... babygirl maybe people are just trying to look up tweets because the search function sucks

political researchers understand that there are many different reasons people could search for a given term challenge: impossible

a person looking at kpop demon hunters and going "wow!! I should face my fears and anxieties instead of hiding them" but going over their head is the text "BURN YOURSELF OUT NOW!!! BURNOUT IS GOOD!!! DONT STOP WORKING AND DONT TAKE ANY BREAKS!!!!!"

i think i understood kpop demon hunters

rise and shine!!!

A screenshot from Fox News' Jesse Watters Primetime There is video playing of a black cat and a brownish orange stripey cat kinda cuddling up The chyron reads "Lesbian cats take over Seattle"

what the fuck am i reading

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