Caitlin Dixon

You can’t build solutions with the people who want the problems

Bove and Vought and Miller are cartoon villains. You recoil from their reptilian evil. If we couldn't bring ourselves, as a Republic, to cast these obvious goons out of public life, heaven help us.

I fear that if the list comes out, and Trump and all the GOP greatest hits are on it, they'll say it's a doctored list. Mental contortions are strong with MAGA

Nick Lowe

Oh, those shows are too entertaining for night time! My husband and I have a tacit agreement that if we're both insomniac at the same moment we will watch the world's most terrible science fiction movies to bore us back to sleep. This can be tricky. Sometimes they're so terrible they're delightful.

The Tea Party protests in April 2009 had about a third of a million people involved, and the political media treated it like a game changer for the Obama presidency.

The No Kings rallies were AT LEAST ten times bigger than the Tea Party protests. Will the press keep pretending Trump is popular?

Martha frantically hugs a very worried Don't from "Baby Reindeer"

Uh oh

We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue.

What's the point of these articles then? These are not people who have learned or grown at all.

Every time they profile a person who regrets voting for Trump--someone who is surprised at a personal harm to themselves, thanks to the brute policies of this regime--at some point in the article, this person will reveal that even knowing what they now know, they still wouldn't vote for Harris.

They hate us.

This x 1000

They're able to convince large swaths of voters that the govt is a cesspool of corrupt self dealers, because they themselves are corrupt self dealers. They cannot imagine a person genuinely wanting to serve the public & improve lives. Therefore anyone who claims that mantle must be lying.

A Silver-Gray Siberian cat sprawls luxuriously belly-up across an orange patterned chair

Verifiably true, can attest to this! Another data point attached:

I loved all this context, even (especially?) with the messy asides. Wonderful. Thank you

Every now and then I just pause and think that … we could have just elected Kamala Harris, and we’d still have an economy that was the strongest in the world; we’d still have an American-led trans-Atlantic order; we’d be assured that our universities would remain the envy of the world; … (1/x)

Look. My dad was mean. He was verbally abusive to my brother and verbally and physically abusive to my mom.

They were always shushing me from calling out his bullshit, to not "make him mad." I did it anyway.

He never abused me the way he abused them.

A lesson for the appeasers out there.

Update: I have it on good authority that this is called "poop and scoop" in today's edition of Things That Caitlin Wishes She Didn't Have To Learn

so, opposite of pump and dump? Crash and feast?

What the what? Oh no

I keep remembering how the first thing an abuser does is cut you off from friends and family. This feels like the global political version of that on an unimaginable scale.

The lightbulb that just went off in my head is visible from space. Thank you

A true heater 48 hours for The Onion, in my unbiased opinion.

For the first time, I began to cry during my daily call to my representative, so there's that

I guess if we crater beneath the earth's surface in the next 2 quarters, no place to go but up! "Growth!"

Interestingly I failed the last Wordle of the Biden Presidency so my streak is a daily reminder of just how many -- or few -- days it's taken to bring the country to each new crisis.

74. It's 74 days.

Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements

Thanks for your clear-eyed analysis. Some of us are slow to the uptake on the tech bros' ultimate plans because they are so far-fetched and broken that our minds can't process them, believing that no human could possibly desire the things they desire. So we are caught flat-footed.