do we think it’s a good sign of the stability of the regime when the aging figurehead incoherently insists that people’s lives are improving despite all evidence to the contrary and feels the need send extra money to the military

how’d you get this quote from the voice in my head

Reminds me of the time I had to listen to my MIL rant about how her other son-in-law was “so crazy” because he told her she couldn’t see the newborn if she didn’t get vaccinated. Not even the COVID vaccine, it was just one of the other ones you’re supposed to get before a baby is born.

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you showed them the photo of the babies and the firefighters, right?

thank goodness Bluesky introduced bookmarks

well, he promised, so

reading king leopolds ghost in high school was a formative political experience

(I know you aren’t one of those, to be clear)

“moderate democrat in the US who lost their seat to MAGA republican after trying and failing to move right” coded tweet

Monicals pizza.

Look if you're trans, you have to live. Do whatever you need to do to make it.

ask them if they like the new ROSALÍA album

Cut my hand really bad on a rusty metal fence in Italy a few years ago and the kindly Italian healthcare workers at the random clinic I walked into were so nice to my stupid, American, Google-translating ass. When I asked how much I owed after they’d patched me up, they just laughed and waved me off

Buttigieg operates according to the moderation rules on the r/democrats subreddit: Do not acknowledge democratic socialists.

In the same way, I don’t think it’s a coincidence that a massive, roaring backlash against Woke exploded out of the American squillionaire class, at the exact same time that lots of women started using social media to talk publicly about the very wealthy men who harassed and assaulted them.