Call me Trixie
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Writer and editor interested in history, health care, politics, MST3k and Rifftrax, old movies, books, more books, and all the books. This is a Terry Pratchett fan account, praise Anoia.
I block Andrew Cuomo and Al Franken apologists.
I block Andrew Cuomo and Al Franken apologists.
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November 10, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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I'm just not philosophically on the same page as DSA at all (and, to be fair, some (not all) of them have had their own problems being sufficiently fighty over the last decade). But wherever the fight nucleus is is where I'm going at this point.
November 11, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I'm just not philosophically on the same page as DSA at all (and, to be fair, some (not all) of them have had their own problems being sufficiently fighty over the last decade). But wherever the fight nucleus is is where I'm going at this point.
All they had to do was not hate their voters. But they'd trade 10,000 women who vote every single November for one Joe Rogan who doesn't even vote.
I guess you can quantify the massive disconnect between party leaders and the party base they loathe
November 11, 2025 at 10:11 PM
All they had to do was not hate their voters. But they'd trade 10,000 women who vote every single November for one Joe Rogan who doesn't even vote.
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Seems to me like these immigration raids are also an attack on the Catholic Church & Pope Leo, given that most Hispanic folks tend to be Catholic, & so much focus is on Chicago. Now that Roe's overturned, they don't "need" Catholics anymore, certainly not immigrants or "social justice" Catholics.
October 28, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Seems to me like these immigration raids are also an attack on the Catholic Church & Pope Leo, given that most Hispanic folks tend to be Catholic, & so much focus is on Chicago. Now that Roe's overturned, they don't "need" Catholics anymore, certainly not immigrants or "social justice" Catholics.
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i am a one issue voter and that issue is not treating people like things
for example, you don't starve them or lock them away for no reason
anyone calling that radical or threatening knows they're lying
for example, you don't starve them or lock them away for no reason
anyone calling that radical or threatening knows they're lying
October 28, 2025 at 7:11 PM
i am a one issue voter and that issue is not treating people like things
for example, you don't starve them or lock them away for no reason
anyone calling that radical or threatening knows they're lying
for example, you don't starve them or lock them away for no reason
anyone calling that radical or threatening knows they're lying
I especially like how the old men who own NY media can't tell the difference in importance between these 2 scandals.
I like how Zohran Mamdani scandals are like "He called his old cousin his aunt one time" and Andrew Cuomo scandals are like "He sexually assaulted 13 women."
October 28, 2025 at 7:06 PM
I especially like how the old men who own NY media can't tell the difference in importance between these 2 scandals.
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Have your parents contracted brainrot from watching procedurals and now have a bonkers understanding of how cops and the law work? I think we’re all entitled to compensation on this one.
October 27, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Have your parents contracted brainrot from watching procedurals and now have a bonkers understanding of how cops and the law work? I think we’re all entitled to compensation on this one.
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Duh. Analysis a little late.
"the Biden admin—& other D leaders in recent years—allowed well-intentioned caution & respect for parliamentary safeguards & procedures...frustrating voters & making them easier prey for demagogues peddling authoritarian governance..."
🧾 newrepublic.com/article/2023...
"the Biden admin—& other D leaders in recent years—allowed well-intentioned caution & respect for parliamentary safeguards & procedures...frustrating voters & making them easier prey for demagogues peddling authoritarian governance..."
🧾 newrepublic.com/article/2023...
Why Is Trump Autocracy Rising? These Dems Have an Unnerving Answer.
A new Biden administration autopsy, based on internal assessments from many government insiders, has crystal clear lessons for the future.
newrepublic.com
October 28, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Duh. Analysis a little late.
"the Biden admin—& other D leaders in recent years—allowed well-intentioned caution & respect for parliamentary safeguards & procedures...frustrating voters & making them easier prey for demagogues peddling authoritarian governance..."
🧾 newrepublic.com/article/2023...
"the Biden admin—& other D leaders in recent years—allowed well-intentioned caution & respect for parliamentary safeguards & procedures...frustrating voters & making them easier prey for demagogues peddling authoritarian governance..."
🧾 newrepublic.com/article/2023...
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"If liberals want to win, they have to become conservatives" is as perverse a thing as can possibly be imagined, but it absolutely dominates elite discourse. It's the central tenet. It's like if the central tenet of automakers was "we should ban cars."
October 28, 2025 at 5:42 PM
"If liberals want to win, they have to become conservatives" is as perverse a thing as can possibly be imagined, but it absolutely dominates elite discourse. It's the central tenet. It's like if the central tenet of automakers was "we should ban cars."
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It is so so funny how people insist on the most ludicrously extreme standard to ever before saying the most powerful people should be fired.
This is completely backwards. They should be subject to the lowest standards.
This is completely backwards. They should be subject to the lowest standards.
October 28, 2025 at 9:44 AM
It is so so funny how people insist on the most ludicrously extreme standard to ever before saying the most powerful people should be fired.
This is completely backwards. They should be subject to the lowest standards.
This is completely backwards. They should be subject to the lowest standards.
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It’s my first day as a democratic consultant and I just walked over to a dry erase board in the office and wrote “poor people do not want you to tax the rich because it’ll make them feel bad”
October 28, 2025 at 4:22 PM
It’s my first day as a democratic consultant and I just walked over to a dry erase board in the office and wrote “poor people do not want you to tax the rich because it’ll make them feel bad”
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They don't have an answer, because they don't ask the question.
It is 2025. If you are a Democratic Party operative in 2025 and you aren't even looking into media ownership and propaganda effects, then you are either a conman or a mark.
It is 2025. If you are a Democratic Party operative in 2025 and you aren't even looking into media ownership and propaganda effects, then you are either a conman or a mark.
October 28, 2025 at 4:42 PM
They don't have an answer, because they don't ask the question.
It is 2025. If you are a Democratic Party operative in 2025 and you aren't even looking into media ownership and propaganda effects, then you are either a conman or a mark.
It is 2025. If you are a Democratic Party operative in 2025 and you aren't even looking into media ownership and propaganda effects, then you are either a conman or a mark.
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What’s the point of being a political reporter if you accept a national politician pretending to not know about anything that’s happening, including things directly relevant to his job, and move on after you get that answer?
October 28, 2025 at 2:57 PM
What’s the point of being a political reporter if you accept a national politician pretending to not know about anything that’s happening, including things directly relevant to his job, and move on after you get that answer?
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I think a major thing in our culture that changed is a bunch of Dem elites also now believe false things too because they're cooking their brains on Twitter, a fascist controlled brainwashing machine, all day.
The actual finding here is that a huge percentage of the population believes things that are not true. Democrats objectively did not spend significant time on climate change or LGBTQ issues in the last election campaign.
Duh. Those of us on the ground last year actually speaking with middle class/working class voters and who heard from these voters every single day the same - “Trump is an asshole, but Democrats are out of touch” - could’ve saved my new political party a lot of time & money producing this “report.”👇
October 28, 2025 at 1:37 PM
I think a major thing in our culture that changed is a bunch of Dem elites also now believe false things too because they're cooking their brains on Twitter, a fascist controlled brainwashing machine, all day.
The reason we have Governors weighing in on the vital importance of high school girls' teams' individual roster members? We are living in a narcissist's fantasy. Trump thinks trans women are threatening, he gets confused easily during assaults, so the USA is required to live out his sick fantasy.
October 28, 2025 at 3:42 PM
The reason we have Governors weighing in on the vital importance of high school girls' teams' individual roster members? We are living in a narcissist's fantasy. Trump thinks trans women are threatening, he gets confused easily during assaults, so the USA is required to live out his sick fantasy.
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Democrats keep throwing people under the bus to see which "demographics" they can get away with harming and then get confused when Democratic voters don't trust them.
October 28, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Democrats keep throwing people under the bus to see which "demographics" they can get away with harming and then get confused when Democratic voters don't trust them.
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and this is why I will never trust or support Newsom no matter what he does to push back on Trump
if he becomes the Dem standard bearer, trans people will have no political party willing to stand up for their rights and that is simply unacceptable
if he becomes the Dem standard bearer, trans people will have no political party willing to stand up for their rights and that is simply unacceptable
gavin newsom says he wants to pass legislation banning trans people from playing sports in california
October 28, 2025 at 2:33 PM
and this is why I will never trust or support Newsom no matter what he does to push back on Trump
if he becomes the Dem standard bearer, trans people will have no political party willing to stand up for their rights and that is simply unacceptable
if he becomes the Dem standard bearer, trans people will have no political party willing to stand up for their rights and that is simply unacceptable
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Amazing how the only answer to every question in american politics is what if we made it safer for bigoted white failsons
October 27, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Amazing how the only answer to every question in american politics is what if we made it safer for bigoted white failsons
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Acetaminophen (Tylenol) in pregnancy does not increase the risk of autism @jama.com @ki.se
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Acetaminophen Use During Pregnancy and Children’s Risk of Autism, ADHD, and Intellectual Disability
This nationwide cohort study with sibling control analysis examines the association of acetaminophen use during pregnancy with children’s risk of autism, ADHD, and intellectual disability.
jamanetwork.com
October 28, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Acetaminophen (Tylenol) in pregnancy does not increase the risk of autism @jama.com @ki.se
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Again, not the most important here, but I'm begging for a journalist to figure out how/why NPS put up a Confederate statue DURING A GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN. How is this "essential" when food stamps are not?
Feels symbolic that a Confederate statue first installed in 1901, at the peak of the consolidation of the Jim Crow system—when the states of the former Confederacy were in the midst of revising their constitutions to disfranchise Black citizens—has been reinstalled.
www.npr.org/2025/10/27/n...
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A Confederate statue toppled in Washington, D.C., in 2020 has been reinstalled
A statue of Confederate general Albert Pike, which had been pulled down during the Black Lives Matter movement, has been put back up in Washington, D.C.'s Judiciary Square.
www.npr.org
October 28, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Again, not the most important here, but I'm begging for a journalist to figure out how/why NPS put up a Confederate statue DURING A GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN. How is this "essential" when food stamps are not?
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This, to me, is the signal feature of the DC-based Dem consultant class: the caricature of the Dem Party sketched by right-wing media is more real to them than the actual people & organizations that compose the party. They have more frequent & direct interaction with the caricature!
even the democratic consultants are evaluating the democratic party according to the caricatures put out by republican-aligned media
Incredible to claim that “abolish the police” is in any way a Democratic policy
October 27, 2025 at 8:13 PM
This, to me, is the signal feature of the DC-based Dem consultant class: the caricature of the Dem Party sketched by right-wing media is more real to them than the actual people & organizations that compose the party. They have more frequent & direct interaction with the caricature!
Just don't talk about it or do anything about it, because that's how Trump wins apparently. You can only help the environment by doing nothing about it, I hear.
And over here, children, we see the three-year running mean global surface temperature anomaly reaching a new record high.
And over there, look children, it's a category 5 hurricane devastating Jamaica.
And over there, look children, it's a category 5 hurricane devastating Jamaica.
October 28, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Just don't talk about it or do anything about it, because that's how Trump wins apparently. You can only help the environment by doing nothing about it, I hear.
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Neither popularism nor deliverism are forms of participatory democracy. They feel instead like attempts to placate an inscrutable alien other.
October 28, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Neither popularism nor deliverism are forms of participatory democracy. They feel instead like attempts to placate an inscrutable alien other.
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NBC wants you to trust its coverage of the East Wing demolition even though NBC's parent company helped pay for the destruction.
October 26, 2025 at 3:01 PM
NBC wants you to trust its coverage of the East Wing demolition even though NBC's parent company helped pay for the destruction.