@oxfordcomma.bsky.social
High school English & social studies teacher. Grad student. History, literature, sociology. Mom. Liberal. Regular desert woman in Michigan. Every account of mine inevitably becomes a political account, so assume that's where this train is headed as well.
Yeah i think you really do have to be a stodgy stick in the mud about universalism because it’s the only way to avoid getting infected with this kind of thinking. You can’t have “as a treat” carve outs for why *this* ethnonationalism is different. No matter the context.
the times demand it
I miss Joe Biden's dog that bit people. It felt good having someone in the White House I could identify with.
right, like, don't offer up tax cuts, gin people up about the fact that wealthy people pay way less in effective tax than the rest of us, and keep the fight there. don't voluntarily give up revenue ground.
it feels like a lot of Dems are suddenly trying "we can run a robust social safety net by only taxing rich people and corporations" messaging and that is
a) not a great message, in that we should all contribute
b) not actually true, math-wise
This is the correct take. Also "McDonalds Revenge" is a term I'll be employing in the future.
It's only "understandable" to people who see Muslims as lesser human beings with an inherently broken moral compass. You're talking about this guy like he's a dog who bit a man wearing a large hat. I think that terrorism apologia, Hamas apologia, etc. are an especially malignant form of Orientalism.
Coming up with a post-hoc theory section when your results are weird:
I'll admit it: I was genuinely a guy who, when murphy vs ncaa was decided, thought sports betting legalization would be basically fine and not cause any major problems and I was wrong about it.
"I got my PhD by writing prompts instead of doing research, I'm winning"
got some bad news, there still no jobs and now you also know nothing
me and the other scheming viziers are wearing shoes gifted to us by the king that are way too big. we look ridiculous. the whole court is laughing at us behind our backs. honestly this is a pretty low point for us, the scheming viziers
“Republicans have repudiated Christ to the point that we can accurately call them heretics” is a thing that sounds melodramatic but is actually true.
Has anyone considered opening the Bisexual of Hormuz?
the most thoroughly vindicated man in hollywood.
trade disputes and conspiracies ✔️
republic subverted over sex hangups ✔️
“sand people” killed, royalty indifferent ✔️
naive idiot casts vote for tyranny ✔️
villains with silly names like “dooku” ✔️
powerful clerical order screwing up ✔️
list goes on
The bottom line is Trump sacrificed 8 American lives (& counting) and more than 1,000 Iranian lives (& counting) for nothing. He hurt the US & global economies, destabilized the Middle East, & will pull out with the same Iranian regime in power. There's no silver lining.
A senseless, criminal waste
in case you've never seen it, this is Roger Ebert on The Mummy
Every day of life under Trump is waking up to a headline like, “Wyoming is missing”
Things look grim in the markets right now, but at least the U.S. economy wasn’t already being propped up by a massive speculative AI bubble that is highly sensitive to rising energy costs.
someone at the pentagon frantically typing “Claude, open the strait of Hormuz for me, quickest possible strategy, make no mistakes.”
Also, now that the Dow is so far off of 50,000, I believe that according to the Pam Bondi Rule we are legally allowed to care about the Epstein Files again?
they're not going to do this and don't need it, but as the white house's politics advisor, i am going to loudly insist that they keep repeating it
Pete Hegseth's murderous buffoonery, coming amid a lifetime in which he's betrayed everyone close to him and failed up from one disaster to the next, is a perfect example of how the appeal of Trumpism is that it creates a permission structure for people to openly be their worst selves
Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs
DHS keeps the fuck plane. Lewandowski stays on it and he has to fuck. Markwayne's problem now.
This post is how I found out Kristi Noem got fired.
They killed 180 children and their teachers in a double-tap strike on a school. The girls were 7 to 12 years old.
I’ve seen enough. Not about the election. Just generally.