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Should not have been old till I had been wise.
midwest office guy, he/him
Should not have been old till I had been wise.
midwest office guy, he/him
Pinned
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"I don't want to join your revolution, so leave me alone. No spiritual journeys for me! I'll stay home. Use your breakthroughs for something WORTHWHILE for once, and save the human race! Haven't we suffered enough?"
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the thing about how people think about politicians is weird because politicians are mostly not living in hyperreality,especially on the Democratic side. is it true that the battle for America is in fact in hyperreality?yes,but it’s hard to blame them for not adjusting to that when it’s work for them
November 10, 2025 at 11:59 PM
the thing about how people think about politicians is weird because politicians are mostly not living in hyperreality,especially on the Democratic side. is it true that the battle for America is in fact in hyperreality?yes,but it’s hard to blame them for not adjusting to that when it’s work for them
Well okay then. I was wondering if/when any of this would actually start happening. At least somebody is putting their money and effort where their mouth is. And we'll see what happens! I keep an open mind.
Indivisible in an email tonight, starting project to primary Senate capitulators:
"At some point, you gotta either change your leaders’ minds or you gotta change your leaders. And the time for changing minds is over."
"At some point, you gotta either change your leaders’ minds or you gotta change your leaders. And the time for changing minds is over."
November 10, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Well okay then. I was wondering if/when any of this would actually start happening. At least somebody is putting their money and effort where their mouth is. And we'll see what happens! I keep an open mind.
I literally did not know I got tomorrow off. Or had forgotten. Probably this happens to me every November. I'm still in shock.
November 10, 2025 at 8:57 PM
I literally did not know I got tomorrow off. Or had forgotten. Probably this happens to me every November. I'm still in shock.
Everyone's been furious already about this and I have nothing to add. Except that every time I see Angus King I think "Jean and Scotty never have to worry."
November 10, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Everyone's been furious already about this and I have nothing to add. Except that every time I see Angus King I think "Jean and Scotty never have to worry."
I mean we have ALL said that and all been dead serious! It’s not even a controversial opinion, really. It’s just…not a thing you can do if you’re planning on keeping this constitution at all. So what are we doing here? Come on.
Abolish the Senate. I am absolutely dead serious.
Shaheen: "We've heard from a number of our colleagues on the other side of the aisle that they're willing to come to the table, they're willing to work with us once the govt is open to get this done. We've heard the same thing from the White House. So now we'll see if they're really gonna work w/us"
November 10, 2025 at 8:27 PM
I mean we have ALL said that and all been dead serious! It’s not even a controversial opinion, really. It’s just…not a thing you can do if you’re planning on keeping this constitution at all. So what are we doing here? Come on.
this mostly seems right, yeah. I don't really agree with the "dog" thing but follow your heart.
I have thoughts, and they aren’t going to fit neatly into Bluesky posts. Briefly:
1. The deal sucks.
2. Probably not as much as you think it does.
3. It’s good to be mad.
4. FFS, be madder at the GOP.
5. Strategy is hard.
5b. Timing matters.
6. The fight isn’t over.
7. Go pet a cat. (Or a dog.)
1. The deal sucks.
2. Probably not as much as you think it does.
3. It’s good to be mad.
4. FFS, be madder at the GOP.
5. Strategy is hard.
5b. Timing matters.
6. The fight isn’t over.
7. Go pet a cat. (Or a dog.)
November 10, 2025 at 5:12 PM
this mostly seems right, yeah. I don't really agree with the "dog" thing but follow your heart.
Okay can we all go nuts about THIS now? It’s way more fun.
November 10, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Okay can we all go nuts about THIS now? It’s way more fun.
Oh please let him do this. Hell, let him do it today! He likes headlines, right? This is a day we'd like him to HAVE some headlines.
BREAKING:
A whistleblower tells House Judiciary Democrats that convicted sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell is in the process of seeking a commutation of her 20-year prison sentence from Donald Trump. tinyurl.com/582addcc
A whistleblower tells House Judiciary Democrats that convicted sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell is in the process of seeking a commutation of her 20-year prison sentence from Donald Trump. tinyurl.com/582addcc
November 10, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Oh please let him do this. Hell, let him do it today! He likes headlines, right? This is a day we'd like him to HAVE some headlines.
Evergreen. This happens to me every few months.
You all have totally lost me on this one to the point where I'm starting to wonder if it is a Me Problem
November 10, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Evergreen. This happens to me every few months.
Am I the only one who, as a midwesterner, feels a bit salty about all this? Oh you like the Edmund Fitzgerald? Name three of its albums. We grew up with this story and now it’s this huge thing!
The Edmund Fitzgerald is one of Michigan's original rock stars.
November 10, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Am I the only one who, as a midwesterner, feels a bit salty about all this? Oh you like the Edmund Fitzgerald? Name three of its albums. We grew up with this story and now it’s this huge thing!
Why do Dems hate canceling Thanksgiving? It’s win/win.
Democrats could have had "Trump cancelled Thanksgiving" and instead decided to lose.
November 10, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Why do Dems hate canceling Thanksgiving? It’s win/win.
TRUMP TAKE NOODLE
Trump trade war costs US Italian pasta: “Exporters say import and antidumping duties totaling 107% on their pasta brands will make doing business in America too costly and are preparing to pull out of U.S. stores as soon as January.” Via WSJ
Italian Pasta Is Poised to Disappear From American Grocery Shelves — The Wall Street Journal
Trump administration is set to impose duties of 107% on Italian pasta imports, among most punitive of tariffs it has levied
apple.news
November 10, 2025 at 2:27 PM
TRUMP TAKE NOODLE
I don't know of the specifics of this decision (which was really a bunch of separate decisions) but yes, this captures a very important tension that's existed all year. And resolving that tension isn't as simple as people on either side of the question might think.
seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
November 10, 2025 at 1:41 PM
I don't know of the specifics of this decision (which was really a bunch of separate decisions) but yes, this captures a very important tension that's existed all year. And resolving that tension isn't as simple as people on either side of the question might think.
Yeah I mean this is all you really can say. It’s all grotesque and insane but the Trump GOP is getting to the point where they CAN’T win anything. Even if they get what they want it makes things worse for them! We’re all hostages to it but nevertheless. They’re kind of screwed!
Trump and the GOP aren't getting more popular, they have a habit of fucking up any "win" they get, and they're increasingly just idiots relying on brute forcing their ways through problems. And while some elected Democrats may be yielding, Democratic voters are not. This is a marathon, not a sprint.
November 10, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Yeah I mean this is all you really can say. It’s all grotesque and insane but the Trump GOP is getting to the point where they CAN’T win anything. Even if they get what they want it makes things worse for them! We’re all hostages to it but nevertheless. They’re kind of screwed!
It is indeed fascinating how here on the Gender Website many people are very certain that all that matters in the end is being "tough" and "fighting" and not "caving" like a "[gendered insult]."
Lots of people are just eager to demonstrate how blithely they'd murder people through neglect, were they making the decisions.
November 10, 2025 at 1:54 AM
It is indeed fascinating how here on the Gender Website many people are very certain that all that matters in the end is being "tough" and "fighting" and not "caving" like a "[gendered insult]."
And if said this to anyone literally anywhere else they'd be like "of course, duh. Who remembers stuff like that? I'm bored already." But HERE? Good lord. It is all remembered until the end of time.
Very, very few people are going to remember this fight in a year’s time and it will play almost no role whatsoever in any primary campaign from 2028 on; it is doubtful it matters in 2026 either
November 9, 2025 at 11:55 PM
And if said this to anyone literally anywhere else they'd be like "of course, duh. Who remembers stuff like that? I'm bored already." But HERE? Good lord. It is all remembered until the end of time.
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Mike Johnson is the Liz Truss of Theresa Mays.
November 9, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Mike Johnson is the Liz Truss of Theresa Mays.
This is deeply true and deeply distorts the way so many people look at the present.
It is genuinely hard for most people to grasp how poor the past was.
November 9, 2025 at 6:46 PM
This is deeply true and deeply distorts the way so many people look at the present.
I cannot aspire to the heights of contrarianism that would allow me to talk about Nirvana like this. (Though people did it all the time while they were active!) But I absolutely agree that "Superunknown" holds up as well as any record from those years, and that Soundgarden is deserving.
soundgarden should’ve been in the hall of fame long before pearl jam or that talentless self-important garden gnome who fronted nirvana, but man, get brandi carlisle’s shitty country ass tf out
November 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I cannot aspire to the heights of contrarianism that would allow me to talk about Nirvana like this. (Though people did it all the time while they were active!) But I absolutely agree that "Superunknown" holds up as well as any record from those years, and that Soundgarden is deserving.
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Saw the Zohran campaign sign generator on Instagram and had to get this out of my head. Ok goodbye again.
November 9, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Saw the Zohran campaign sign generator on Instagram and had to get this out of my head. Ok goodbye again.
Heh you can tell who's never worked in retail by who's sharing this as a grotesque and dystopian-sounding policy, rather than the normal (laughable) guidance corporate retail people ALWAYS get from management. "We're going to be the FRIENDLIEST store in the world and that's how we will WIN!"
Target is now requiring its employees to smile more
As the holiday season fast approaches, Target is urging its employees to add a little more “jolly” to their work routine.
www.wilx.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Heh you can tell who's never worked in retail by who's sharing this as a grotesque and dystopian-sounding policy, rather than the normal (laughable) guidance corporate retail people ALWAYS get from management. "We're going to be the FRIENDLIEST store in the world and that's how we will WIN!"
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Yes the Roberts majority has destroyed SCOTUS’s legitimacy, yes Trump shoulda never gone to SCOTUS asking to starve people, but in the world we live in KBJ did the best she could to control the process and let CA1 put its reasoning on the record before her colleagues disregard it without explanation
KBJ threaded the needle thanks to CA1’s unfinished business.
-if she denied the admin stay, the full SCOTUS woulda stepped in to override her.
-if she immediately referred the case to the full Court, they coulda dragged feet.
-instead she boxed them in to act quickly once she does refer the case.
-if she denied the admin stay, the full SCOTUS woulda stepped in to override her.
-if she immediately referred the case to the full Court, they coulda dragged feet.
-instead she boxed them in to act quickly once she does refer the case.
November 8, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Yes the Roberts majority has destroyed SCOTUS’s legitimacy, yes Trump shoulda never gone to SCOTUS asking to starve people, but in the world we live in KBJ did the best she could to control the process and let CA1 put its reasoning on the record before her colleagues disregard it without explanation
Getting tired of all the winning
BREAKING: Judge Immergut issues a permanent injunction against Pete Hegseth and the deployment of the National Guard to Portland.
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November 8, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Getting tired of all the winning
I was just about to ask whether anyone even understands the rationale here. Like, what principle is being defended here, and to what end? Is this really just "you can't make us"?
WILL THE SUPREME COURT AGREE THAT IT WOULD IRREVOCABLY INJURE THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENCY AND ARTICLE II OF THE CONSTITUTION TO INSIST THAT PROMISED MONEY BE MADE AVAILABLE TO STARVING CHILDREN
Thank you for your attention to this matter
Thank you for your attention to this matter
November 8, 2025 at 12:21 AM
I was just about to ask whether anyone even understands the rationale here. Like, what principle is being defended here, and to what end? Is this really just "you can't make us"?
Yeah and it's honestly pretty disgraceful that these kinds of unsourced insinuations and rumors can have a real effect in our politics. I think EVERYONE should be reposting this just to set frivolous people straight.
sure hope the rumors coming out of the GOP House caucus about the horrors in the Epstein files aren't true. that would sure be bad for big don
November 7, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Yeah and it's honestly pretty disgraceful that these kinds of unsourced insinuations and rumors can have a real effect in our politics. I think EVERYONE should be reposting this just to set frivolous people straight.