what if i said that the "matriarchy" myth is a colonial construction used to justify eurocolonial patriarchy ("agrarian matriarchies evolve into industrial patriarchies") and the egalitarian indigenous political formations that existed simply had a weak-to-irrelevant gendered division of labour
this is so comically hamhanded it has a real chance of boosting Kat over the finish line in what is an incredibly close primary
there’s a lot of bad money floating around elections but some of it is very stupid
Lgbtq+ rights are a winning issue. The queer community are a major pillar of the democratic base. The democrats Abandoning them would do nothing but ensure a republican victory.
The wizard eats some pretzels.
Quick question does anyone know how to restore virtue to a decaying society
The little cat steps on the wizard's head, waking him up. He goes to make waffles with passionfruit jam and put some fish out for the little cat. As he makes tea, the air fills with the smell of parchment. The wizard reads the new issue of Magic-Users Weekly as he eats his breakfast.
The funniest thing about modern AI-powered Google Translate is that it will interpret any fake-sounding Latin
When you stare into a manuscript and the manuscript stares into you
If 4,000 coal miners had to move we literally would never hear the end of it
was epstein uniquely responsible for evil or is he just the one obscenely wealthy person whose emails we're getting to read
I find takes like this unsatisfying because they ignore the point of the Nazi analogy. It's not about denying America's history of racist terror. "Nazi" is not just code for "bad but in a way that specifically doesn't implicate US antecedents." www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/26/o...
This was just me making this comparison yesterday, but today the Korean news is calling Minnesota "America's Gwangju" and have human rights lawyers explaining how America is now living through the dictatorship Korea once had.
We’re airing a new campaign ad, starting tomorrow.
Here it is:
You should be embarrassed to be a member of congress and issuing anything other than impeachment resolutions. You're in the model UN. They should give you legos and a propeller hat
THREE lullabies in an ancient tongue?
they don't even know how to sing one!
open the schools
a sad fact we have to accept is kids these days don't know how to summon back the fire witch to the court of the crimson king
with the new expansion, i had to finally formalize this
presenting the first roleplaying game to use Hearts of Iron 4 as a resolution system to properly model fascist dysfunction
it is not cooperative or competitive, but a secret third thing
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
as a white liberal with Southern roots, quite frankly, I think other white liberals from the South need to get the fuck over their oddly defensive attitude about what should be pretty blindingly obvious.
Sire! A conspiracy is afoot
Sire! A conspiracy is afoot
Sire! A conspiracy is afoot
[YOU HAVE BEEN USURPED. PRESS ENTER TO BEGIN YOUR REIGN ANEW]
hilarious to get a package stolen off your porch when that package was a copy of the English translation of Marie de France's Travels of St Patrick. Some porch pirate is trying to figure out what the hell to do with this medieval lit they took
I think the paywall has been a disaster by now
who up halfing they sword
BREAKING: 2,300 home healthcare workers in Nevada are unionizing with @seiu.org.
There is a type of guy who commits crimes like this, and that type is almost never "orthodox marxist-leninist attempting to be the vanguard of a revolutionary movement". Much more common for it to be a "looked at computer too much" guy
Just saw a video of Bill Maher calling Mamdani a “straight up communist” and I continue to be struck by the depiction of policies associated with the New Deal Order as far-left extremism, which goes along with a refusal to depict Trump’s unprecedented authoritarian actions as far-right extremism.
I would have loved to see ian chew on some gilroy dialogue
Never in my goddamn life have I wanted to repost a fucking Instagram post
you can always tell if someone's politics are secretly evil by how they portray the French revolution and French revolutionaries
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