Ember Babiak (they/them)

Yes, but when the Dems offer little improvement over the GOP, too many voters stay home. They could offer voters centrist pap if voting were mandatory, but it’s not. So their mediocrity loses elections time after time.

I’m not sure why they imagine that GOP lite is going to be a winning approach.

Not you, but many in this thread. As per usual. It’s a thing. A very tiresome one.

I didn’t realize it was happening until a few minites ago.

AOC, Crockett, Hochul, James (can’t remember the Maine gov’s name). Do women count?

I’m grateful for Newsom’s resistance, but he’s hardly the only one, and we’re very far from the election, so it seems premature to be asking people marginalized by him to overlook it as if it’s him or disaster.

He brutally clears the encampments of the unhoused, and he had Charlie Kirk as his first guest on his podcast and told him he agreed with him about trans women.

So, not exactly seeming to see all marginalized people as humans.

The Telegraph Headline: New Covid virus found in wild Brazilian bats Subhed: The discovery of a ‘furin cleavage site’ suggests the mutation which helps the virus adapt to humans is naturally occurring

Sad day for the folks who staked their reputations on lab leak conspiracy theories.

www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Silencing smart people so dumb people won’t be offended is like unplugging the smoke alarm so the fire won’t feel bad.

In the short term, we really are.
I’m not without my hopes, but it’s clear things are gonna have to get really ugly before they can get better.

Jimmy Carter Walked The Walk.....

REV. BLACK (who was shot in the head with a pepper ball): “If this is what they’re doing to pastors, journalists, teachers, mothers, and the elderly gathered to sing and pray outside ICE facilities… what might they be doing to our neighbors who are behind those walls?”

Robert De Niro: “You can’t just sit on your ass and wait for the insanity and cruelty to pass. You gotta stand up and fight.”

DEFIANCE.org launches today. A club for courageous Americans asking, “WHAT CAN I DO?”

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Yeah, that sounds like ridiculous victim blaming. The American government is extremely well armed. Even if all the ammosexuals actually decided to use their collections to fight tyranny, they don’t have tanks and missiles.

How.

YouTube video by The Hoodoo Electric - Topic Working on Empty

Working On Empty. Running on rage.

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YouTube video by Signal Eris - Topic The Gospel According to Late Rent

The Gospel According To Late Rent.

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Trying to blame the Dems cutting off SNAP (while sitting on billons of available contingency funds) as his boss bulldozes the WH to build a ball room like Saddam's palace, sends $40 billion to bail out Argentines, and eats "gold adorned" brownies in Korea is not gonna work.

I don't think Emanuel is capable of absorbing the fact that many people already hate him and more will once they get to know him.

I hold them no ill will.

It’s the large number of privileged white folks who are not endangered by the current regime and who allowed them to seize power that I hold in contempt.

Explicate.

Those of us who voted for her anyway were the grownups. Those who chose their feelings of moral superiority over keeping the gun away from Trump are the immature twits. Clear enough?

The American government is a gun; grownups know to keep it in the least harmful hands.

That’s cuz it’s easy to break shit. Harder to build.

I know I'm probably late as hell ... but have y'all heard about the TooGoodToGo app?

Allows you access to reserve bags of food from local restaurants and grocery stores like Whole Foods that is good/untouched but that they would otherwise have to throw away.

But also: who tf cares?

For those LGBTQ+ people who are unable to spend Halloween with family due to rejection, please know you are worthy of unconditional love and acceptance.

Seems like they’re asking to be et.

The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.

1.b. A woman who is regarded with respect or affection similar to that often accorded to an aunt (sense la) despite not being linked by this specific kinship; esp. a close family friend or (chiefly regional, as a term of respect or affection) an elderly woman. Also as a form of address or as a title preceding a first name.

BTW I just wanna be clear: it's not that Zohran "misspoke" or was "slightly inaccurate."

He used the word "aunt" in a sense that has been common in the English language since 1750, and it's ridiculous to say "oh well you didn't SAY you meant sense 1.a. and not sense 1.b.