Eris

The "Deciding To Win" centrists dismiss base mobilization, but the actual 2024 data shows: the more blue a place was in 2020, the lower its turnout was in 2024.

Swing voters weren't nearly as important as Dem-leaning irregular voters not voting at all. The base wasn't mobilized, so we lost.

Anyway, if you're familiar with the dynamic, it is impossible not to notice the way it is playing out on the national stage, with Republicans the daddy party and Democrats the mommy party. Daddy's raging, destroying, lashing out, & most political analysis amounts to ...

No, I curse Standard Time! Daylight Saving Time FOREVER!

the party now cared more about climate change and various academic fixations than cheap energy and good-paying jobs.

This right here, this exact sentence, is THE problem in American political journalism.

The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.

You Should Blame Merrick Garland Garland's incompetence gave the Supreme Court the chance to set Trump free

My latest is about the latest revelations on the failed prosecution of Donald Trump, and why you should blame Merrick Garland more than the Supreme Court.

Polydactyl calico cat sits on the arm of a sofa - angle 1

Polydactyl calico cat sits on the arm of a sofa - angle 2

Polydactyl calico cat sits on the arm of a sofa - angle 3

A Meekla for today

#catsofbluesky #calicocat #polydactylcat

continually amazed at the persistence of this idea that teenagers are weak-willed and eager to adopt the ideas of overeducated, dorky grownups--when I taught undergrads it was pretty obvious most of them were barely putting up with me

These senators are demonstrating a willful blindness that has become endemic in the Democratic Party. Their rhetoric — and the conventional wisdom that flows from it — suggests that we cannot talk about economic solutions without abandoning our commitment to the Black, Latino, gay, transgender and female poor that are the lifeblood of the Democratic Party’s base. The conceit at the heart of that belief is that poor white people are too racist, and too uniquely ignorant of their racism, to vote in their best interests. Therefore, Democrats have to accept a little racism to win the working class. It is an old argument. History will tell you that negotiating with racism or fascism or authoritarianism never ends well.

From the headline, I thought it was going to be a right-wing piece excusing Nazi tattoos, but it's the opposite;

I think any story about Trump's autocracy should be mostly about the people and institutions who failed to stop it. This guy isn't a political genius, everything else just happens to be rotten. 'Toddler Consolidates Power In Household' is a story about incompetent parents, not shrewd maneuvering

This gets at the core problem the Democrats have right now: Consultants keep telling them to focus on ‘kitchen table issues’ but they don’t have an inspiring kitchen table agenda! ‘Expanding drug price negotiation’ is technocratic and taxing the wealthy is something they refuse to deliver on.

(5) Stop with the fucking “kitchen table issues!” Yes, people respond well to that line experimentally. But if they actually acted on it then Donald fucking Trump wouldn’t be president right now.

Try to have the faintest clue of what sort of apparatus his party network has actually built!

Okay I’m reading it now and, no surprise, it suuuucks in exactly the ways you would expect.

The Anti-David: St. Bartholomew by Marco D'Adrate, 1562

"...It was a hideous thing, and yet there was a fascination about it somehow. I am very sorry I saw it, because I shall always see it now. I shall dream of it sometimes." - Mark Twain mainlymuseums.com/post/1174/th...

"societal unrest (a crime spike) was followed by finger-pointing at immigrants" is just a longer way of saying "racism."

Also as a broke fuck I don't even own any land, so I suppose it can be argued that there ain't no land that's my land lol

And it's played at protests and stuff because it's easy to sing along to but, well, I personally don't think I appreciate the sentiment I guess

I have to say... I find myself not a fan of the song, "this land is your land, this land is my land," because frankly, uh... This land is stolen land.

I don't think acknowledging that means we (white people) should leave, or that we don't *now* belong here, just like, it feels icky to revel in it.

Black cat is hunched beneath the cat tower cave, where a calico cat is crouched

Black cat is hunched beneath the cat tower cave, as a calico cat looks down at his butt from inside the cave

Turns out black cat is munching treats, unaware of the threat above (unpictured)

There were two cats

#caturday #catsofbluesky

Now that you say that I only just realized how clear her battle sequences were throughout Inuyasha. I don't recall ever feeling lost in a scene or confused as to where characters were in relation to each other and the environment.

None of which is a given in shounen/action manga

No one makes it entirely on their own. If you benefit from a functioning society, you owe something back.

#TaxBillionaires

"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something

Evergreen

A screenshot of a post on X that reads: Cuomo, talking to conservative radio host Sid Rosenberg this morning: "God forbid, another 9/11—can you imagine Mamdani in the seat?" Cuomo asks. "He'd be cheering," Rosenberg says. Cuomo paused and chuckled before saying: "That's another problem."

Just disgusting.

Thank Jesus I have good troubleshooting skills and know how to look up information, because those are the absolute top two skills needed for this stuff.

As the dedicated office millennial, every technical problem is my problem. Computer screen on the fritz? I got it. Emails not being sent from the outbox? I got it. Boss can't log into his new iphone? I got it.

starmie ngl has been strugglebussing the whole time but i love them

Calico cat looking at an unmoving image of Dan Heng from Honkai Star Rail as an update downloads

Calico cat has her paws crossed as she stares at an unmoving image of Dan Heng from Honkai Star Rail whilst an update downloads

Here's my cat, entranced by a static image of Dan Heng from HSR. I moved the computer and she turned herself around so she could keep looking at it.

White House East Wing being demolished.

Historic preservation is confusing. In Seattle, we conferred permanent landmark status to a Walgreen’s drive-thru.

In retrospect, maybe it was a bad idea to run almost the entire internet on Amazon's infrastructure. AWS gobbled up all competition so now when they have a service outage, nothing from our entertainment to our work software will run.

Maybe... monopoly bad?

a large amount of people marching in a peaceful protest downtown San Francisco.

my son just sent me this aerial view of the No Kings protest in San Francisco. We started an hour and a half after the start time and it was still packed. No Kings San Francisco, CA 10/18/25