Peter Olson

Thanks, Steve, for this perfect distillation of what Republicans want: No public services for anyone!

#ReleaseTheCuomoList

This Economist Crunched the Numbers and Stopped Dating Men And she’s never been happier.

Her research suggested that parenting the second child she’d dreamed of could actually be easier as a single mother. Having it all, in her case, meant subtracting her male partner. She also realized anyone she dated next was not going to be a man. “I’m not physically repulsed by men,” she jokes. “I’m socially and politically repulsed.” She had the good fortune to be, in her estimate, a 2.5 on the Kinsey scale, in which zero is exclusively heterosexual and six is exclusively homosexual, although she now says she’s closer to the homosexual end. “Being attracted to women wasn’t a conscious choice, but actively excluding men from my option set for partnership was,” she explains. Becoming a lesbian, she says, was an “evidence-based decision.” That description amuses Woodruff, who has long known she is queer but is also familiar with the dynamics that Low documents from living with male roommates. “People use evidence to either validate or confirm what they already know,” she observes. The two married in December of last year.

Not to be The Defender of Straight Men or anything but this just seems like a long-winded and mean-spirited way to say that you're bisexual and met a same-sex partner.
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With all respect, the Court will eventually overturn Obergefell. It may not be Kim Davis’s petition. But it will happen.

The conservatives will argue that there’s no history and tradition of same sex marriage. And they will rely on Glucksberg.

I have an article coming out tomorrow about this.

DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAM.

No. We are not doing this anymore. It is 2025. Usha Vance stays with her husband because she agrees with him. There is no evidence that she loathes him at all. Yale-educated women can be fascist too.

Mamdani Leads NYC Mayor Race By Nearly 20 Points: New Poll Pollsters spoke to registered voters citywide between Aug. 4-7.

Some good news today:

The big Democrats not lining up to endorse Mamdani out of some misguided fear of Cuomo or discomfort with (their total misunderstanding of) Democratic Socialism are looking more foolish and cowardly by the day.

EJ Antoni wants to suspend the monthly jobs report because Trump's regime wants to suppress anything that exposes their failings. Our government used to criticize authoritarian nations for suppressing information, but now the Tangerine Tyrant's minions are acting the same way. Shameful.

For all the horniness and fantastical elements, "Baldur's Gate 3" has really thoughtful and compelling things to say about religious trauma.
"Come for the bear sex, stay for the analysis of how vulnerable people become manipulated by religious hacks"

It is amazing that Republicans talked themselves into a panic about crime making them completely unable to seize on and take credit for dropping crime rates, which would be the smart thing to do.

This is what TV journalists should always do when state figures spew lies and propaganda live on their shows: Shut them down with the truth.

A post my brain will never unsee is that it’s one thing to be this dense but it’s another to be this dense and to have once been the cabinet secretary for Housing and Urban Development!!!!!!

Trump Isn’t Liberating D.C. He’s Subduing It. We’ve seen this happen in other countries. We thought it couldn’t happen here. It is.

Trump Isn’t Liberating D.C. He’s Subduing It.
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i am pro-"partisan statehood measures." make DC a state. allow PR a binding resolution to determine if want statehood. offer the same to our other island holdings — american samoa, guam, the northern mariana islands and the US virgin islands. if they agree, incorporate them as a 1 or 2 units.

That white Marine who fatally strangled a homeless black man on the subway got invited to Trump’s suite at a football game and got a job at a vc firm.

They’ve definitely told us what it is.

IMHO this is law enforcement and a violation of Posse Comitatus, full stop, no matter whether they carry out arrests or not.

It's 👏 not 👏 pre-crime 👏 without 👏 a 👏 milk pool

Justice for sandwich bro!

Washington DC has 702,000 people, is 45% Black and has 0 senators

Wyoming has 590,000 people, is 86% white and has 2 senators

DC needs a state with proper representation, not a military takeover

This is not the important part, but:

"The three-term Republican is accused of using the screen name “joebidennnn69” to exchange 220 different files of toddlers and young children"

Huh?

UK folks - reiterating that it's super important that you download Wikipedia for offline use like now-ish if you want to guarantee you can keep having that incredible resource!!

www.howtogeek.com/260023/how-t...

This is not a joke. Consider this.

Its 150 gigs for images and all.

That's literally less than one AAA game.

> @gavinnewsom.bsky.social

Voters, by and large, have strong feelings but little information about crime.

What they know is entirely filtered through how the media chooses to cover it.

The reason they don't think Dems are good at it--despite crime cratering in Dem-led cities--is bc of how the MEDIA covers this.

I hope a "DC Sandwich" becomes an expression - like Bronx Cheer or Molotov Cocktail.

Judge denies release of Ghislaine Maxwell grand jury transcripts President Trump called for the release of the grand jury transcripts after growing pressure to divulge more information about Jeffrey Epstein's case, but the judge on the case said there is nothing new to release.

President Trump called for the release of the grand jury transcripts after growing pressure to divulge more information about Jeffrey Epstein's case, but the judge on the case said there is nothing new to release.

i will never not be amused by how the conservative world is governed by the kind of “affirmative action” they say happens in mainstream institutions. totally unqualified dipshits are handed the keys to institutions because they say the right thing and have the right look.

Like the tariffs Trump is abusing his authority and acting unlawfully in DC.