Lexi Koren
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Woman of Mass Destruction 👩🎤☢️ comms consultant, occasional freelance writer. AlexLKoren at gmail dot com
Or you could win 50+1% of the vote (plus whatever the hell you need for the Senate and EC) and just do good and popular things. Landslides aren’t virtuous in and of themselves, and they don’t last from election to election.
No value, no villain, no vision. Sounds like the tagline for the earnings call of a collapsing appliance retailer
November 30, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Or you could win 50+1% of the vote (plus whatever the hell you need for the Senate and EC) and just do good and popular things. Landslides aren’t virtuous in and of themselves, and they don’t last from election to election.
Also, the moral of the story, that society needs a villain to hate… that’s literally what we have sports rivalries for.
Wicked: For Good was fine, except for the source material. If I had $150 million, I would’ve hired someone to re-write the script so Glinda actually does something other than fail upward. Yes I know the musical is based on a book, but the story is sooo far removed from that.
November 29, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Also, the moral of the story, that society needs a villain to hate… that’s literally what we have sports rivalries for.
Wicked: For Good was fine, except for the source material. If I had $150 million, I would’ve hired someone to re-write the script so Glinda actually does something other than fail upward. Yes I know the musical is based on a book, but the story is sooo far removed from that.
November 29, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Wicked: For Good was fine, except for the source material. If I had $150 million, I would’ve hired someone to re-write the script so Glinda actually does something other than fail upward. Yes I know the musical is based on a book, but the story is sooo far removed from that.
Also, while the science isn’t conclusive yet, there’s good reason to think detrans women who transitioned at the onset of puberty can get pregnant. But hey, Irreversible Damage wouldn’t have sold as many copies if the thesis was we must save teen girls from deep voices and unwanted facial hair.
November 28, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Also, while the science isn’t conclusive yet, there’s good reason to think detrans women who transitioned at the onset of puberty can get pregnant. But hey, Irreversible Damage wouldn’t have sold as many copies if the thesis was we must save teen girls from deep voices and unwanted facial hair.
The special for D5 next year
could decide the battle for a progressive council, depending on which camp you consider Strauss in. Hollingsworth is also probably looking at Wilson’s landslide in D3 and worrying she’s on borrowed time.
could decide the battle for a progressive council, depending on which camp you consider Strauss in. Hollingsworth is also probably looking at Wilson’s landslide in D3 and worrying she’s on borrowed time.
District 5 was roughly evenly split between Harrell and Wilson. Harrell led overall by less than 1 point, winning all but one precinct on the shore of Lake Washington, Puget Sound, or Bitter Lake.
November 27, 2025 at 9:38 PM
The special for D5 next year
could decide the battle for a progressive council, depending on which camp you consider Strauss in. Hollingsworth is also probably looking at Wilson’s landslide in D3 and worrying she’s on borrowed time.
could decide the battle for a progressive council, depending on which camp you consider Strauss in. Hollingsworth is also probably looking at Wilson’s landslide in D3 and worrying she’s on borrowed time.
No leftist could possibly do a better job reducing the size of the US military than Pete Hegseth is doing right now. Scouting is literally a recruitment pipeline, and he’s going to cut it off because of woke.
Pete Hegseth Targets Scouts for Pettiest Reason Possible
Trump’s defense secretary is secretly planning to cut all support for the organization formerly known as the Boy Scouts.
newrepublic.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:16 PM
No leftist could possibly do a better job reducing the size of the US military than Pete Hegseth is doing right now. Scouting is literally a recruitment pipeline, and he’s going to cut it off because of woke.
Van Hollen is such an unlikely anti-establishment figure.
Wow — Senators Van Hollen, Smith, Murphy, Sanders, Warren, Markey, Merkley, Heinrich have created an official internal "Fight Club."
They're challenging Schumer & Gillibrand's leadership, arguing the party is using an old, corporate-friendly playbook insufficient to take on Trump or win elections.
They're challenging Schumer & Gillibrand's leadership, arguing the party is using an old, corporate-friendly playbook insufficient to take on Trump or win elections.
Chuck Schumer Faces Pushback From a ‘Fight Club’ of Senate Democrats
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Van Hollen is such an unlikely anti-establishment figure.
TIL that one of David Duke’s fellow Klansmen described Duke’s womanizing as, “Conduct unbecoming a racist.”
November 25, 2025 at 3:53 AM
TIL that one of David Duke’s fellow Klansmen described Duke’s womanizing as, “Conduct unbecoming a racist.”
Attack of the Clones' tag line really should've been: "We wrote a plot that is intentionally vague, and if you want to have any chance of understanding it, you'll need to watch Clone Wars, which premieres this fall on Cartoon Network!"
haven’t seen ROS or Solo but this seems like a pretty ball-knowing list from Pritzker, particularly if he volunteered the name “Star Wars” rather than “A New Hope”
November 24, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Attack of the Clones' tag line really should've been: "We wrote a plot that is intentionally vague, and if you want to have any chance of understanding it, you'll need to watch Clone Wars, which premieres this fall on Cartoon Network!"
Every time Carville goes off about how Democrats must ditch wokeism to win, I’m like dude you had it right the first time, “It’s the economy, stupid!”
I see that NYT has published another inane op-ed from James Carville raging against "woke"
November 24, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Every time Carville goes off about how Democrats must ditch wokeism to win, I’m like dude you had it right the first time, “It’s the economy, stupid!”
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this is not a drag of the writer of this particular piece, which is largely sympathetic, but this line of argument makes me nuts
young people are involved in protest and organizing at several levers of power—but they're not able to show up to photo op street rallies at the same rates as retirees
young people are involved in protest and organizing at several levers of power—but they're not able to show up to photo op street rallies at the same rates as retirees
My @nytimes.com op-ed: The Boomers Are Protesting Trump. Where Is Gen Z? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o... (gift link)
The key point: "The absence of young people from conventional protests is both a problem and a warning."
The key point: "The absence of young people from conventional protests is both a problem and a warning."
Opinion | The Boomers Are Protesting Trump. Where Is Gen Z?
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:22 PM
this is not a drag of the writer of this particular piece, which is largely sympathetic, but this line of argument makes me nuts
young people are involved in protest and organizing at several levers of power—but they're not able to show up to photo op street rallies at the same rates as retirees
young people are involved in protest and organizing at several levers of power—but they're not able to show up to photo op street rallies at the same rates as retirees
I have literally never been to a Thanksgiving where the host places the un-carved bird in the middle of the dining room table for everyone to admire the aesthetics. If you want this kind of presentation without sacrificing taste, hire a professional chef.
There is no amount of old-timey Norman Rockwell aesthetic reward (no slander, it’s real) from serving a full bird that overcomes the culinary reward of breaking that sumbitch down and cooking the component parts to each be their best selves.
I think this is unfair to turkey. turkey is good but hard to cook well because it is so damn big. turkey *parts* are great but lack the esthetic appeal of a centerpiece bird.
November 23, 2025 at 8:42 PM
I have literally never been to a Thanksgiving where the host places the un-carved bird in the middle of the dining room table for everyone to admire the aesthetics. If you want this kind of presentation without sacrificing taste, hire a professional chef.
One of my favorite bits from Slate’s “Gays Against Briggs” series is learning how much Dianne Feinstein sucked all the way back during her time as an SF supervisor and how Harvey Milk loved to fuck with her because of it.
Please tell me we’re out of the era when certain centrist Dem Senators like Feinstein were very “reluctant” to support this kind of no-brainer amendment. (Recall that Feinstein also SUPPORTED an amendment to ban flag burning and was FOR the death penalty.)
www.sfgate.com/politics/art...
www.sfgate.com/politics/art...
Doubt about a foreign-born president / Feinstein, others cool to changing Constitution's rules
Comments from skeptical senators Tuesday showed why proposed constitutional amendments...
www.sfgate.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:28 AM
One of my favorite bits from Slate’s “Gays Against Briggs” series is learning how much Dianne Feinstein sucked all the way back during her time as an SF supervisor and how Harvey Milk loved to fuck with her because of it.
I think people would’ve been fine with the Liz Cheney appearance if Harris was offering anything compelling.
November 22, 2025 at 12:21 AM
I think people would’ve been fine with the Liz Cheney appearance if Harris was offering anything compelling.
Can we get a trans version of Mamdani to go meet with Trump and convince him to give us our rights back while Steven Miller isn’t in the room?
November 22, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Can we get a trans version of Mamdani to go meet with Trump and convince him to give us our rights back while Steven Miller isn’t in the room?
There are pockets of the country where people overwhelmingly vote Republican but are actually raging woke leftists on one issue. The key to winning as a Democrat is to run on that one issue. Joe Cunningham snuck into Congress in 2018 this way in a seat he had no business winning.
Whatever Florida Dem emerges to fight this the hardest would make themselves the immediate frontrunner in the governor's race
Trump administration announces plan for new oil drilling off Florida and California coasts
The Trump administration announced on Thursday new oil drilling off the California and Florida coasts for the first time in decades.
www.sun-sentinel.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:52 AM
There are pockets of the country where people overwhelmingly vote Republican but are actually raging woke leftists on one issue. The key to winning as a Democrat is to run on that one issue. Joe Cunningham snuck into Congress in 2018 this way in a seat he had no business winning.
The first Democratic candidate for president who pledges to give this guy the Medal of Freedom automatically gets my vote.
“The first time I caught up to them, I could tell that they already knew who I was. They had seen me before, so they thought they were just going to speed away. I was like, ‘Ha ha, bitches, I got a new scooter!’"
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:00 PM
The first Democratic candidate for president who pledges to give this guy the Medal of Freedom automatically gets my vote.
Michael Laidlaw compared youth gender medicine to the Tuskegee experiment, but yes WaPo ed board please go on about how these people are not ideological cranks.
November 19, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Michael Laidlaw compared youth gender medicine to the Tuskegee experiment, but yes WaPo ed board please go on about how these people are not ideological cranks.
I’m thinking about how the media covered the debate between EBM people over whether to start mammograms at age 40 or 50. And if you actually talk to women, and enbies and men at risk of breast cancer, this is so blatantly a patient autonomy question informed by risk factors.
“While the EBM movement has indeed contributed greatly to the push for better evidence and ever more rigorous standards for research, it has also created a plausible mechanism for opponents of scientific progress to discount enormous volumes of data using scientific language and ritual as costume.”
November 19, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I’m thinking about how the media covered the debate between EBM people over whether to start mammograms at age 40 or 50. And if you actually talk to women, and enbies and men at risk of breast cancer, this is so blatantly a patient autonomy question informed by risk factors.
The opioid crisis and the Vioxx recall created a lot of understandable calls to question medical authority. Journalists had a responsibility, though, to do this by talking to sources who are asking smart nuanced questions. Instead, they platformed (and continue to platform) reactionary cranks.
“While the EBM movement has indeed contributed greatly to the push for better evidence and ever more rigorous standards for research, it has also created a plausible mechanism for opponents of scientific progress to discount enormous volumes of data using scientific language and ritual as costume.”
November 19, 2025 at 6:27 PM
The opioid crisis and the Vioxx recall created a lot of understandable calls to question medical authority. Journalists had a responsibility, though, to do this by talking to sources who are asking smart nuanced questions. Instead, they platformed (and continue to platform) reactionary cranks.
SEGM js basically going around the world being like, “The UK, Sweden, and Finland are doing this, you should do it too so we can have more countries who we can say are doing it.”
It's being reported that New Zealand has banned puberty blockers for transgender youth. I removed New Zealand from my recommendations to families fleeing a while back after the far right saw a surge in power in the country.
Sad day for NZ trans youth.
Sad day for NZ trans youth.
November 19, 2025 at 7:05 AM
SEGM js basically going around the world being like, “The UK, Sweden, and Finland are doing this, you should do it too so we can have more countries who we can say are doing it.”
This is objectively not wrong. But the second you suggest it as an argument for fighting climate change or supporting workers' rights, Fox News will 100% call you a communist.
Fox guest on how to save money during the holidays:
"Remember, adults don't need gifts. Focus on the people in your life who are aged 3 to 18. Grandma doesn't need slippers. If they don't live by you, don't get them a gift."
"Remember, adults don't need gifts. Focus on the people in your life who are aged 3 to 18. Grandma doesn't need slippers. If they don't live by you, don't get them a gift."
November 17, 2025 at 11:32 PM
This is objectively not wrong. But the second you suggest it as an argument for fighting climate change or supporting workers' rights, Fox News will 100% call you a communist.
This article is not hard to write... interview a bunch of trans dudes with full beards and ask them how much trouble they have when their documents say female. And then force the proponents of this policy why these dudes deserve extra harassment from the TSA.
I really disliked this piece on trans passports by Amy Harmon of the New York Times. It is, admittedly, an "old" New York Times story, one that makes a reasonable effort to cloak its biases and present itself as seeking both sides of a story ("new" NYT stories don't bother).
Here's a gift link:
Here's a gift link:
New Passport Rule Sends Blunt and Sweeping Message to Trans Americans
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:12 PM
This article is not hard to write... interview a bunch of trans dudes with full beards and ask them how much trouble they have when their documents say female. And then force the proponents of this policy why these dudes deserve extra harassment from the TSA.
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The right wing approach now is to put me in a box with an incredibly successful politician who just won a stunning victory.
This is Pure Cope Exhibit A
Join.greenparty.org.uk
This is Pure Cope Exhibit A
Join.greenparty.org.uk
November 17, 2025 at 12:23 PM
The right wing approach now is to put me in a box with an incredibly successful politician who just won a stunning victory.
This is Pure Cope Exhibit A
Join.greenparty.org.uk
This is Pure Cope Exhibit A
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Considering that we don’t have a city income tax, I’m also not entirely sure why moving some jobs from Seattle to Bellevue is a huge deal. It means more vacant office space, some sales tax loss. But if the people live on the Eastside, it’s less strain on our extremely strained housing market. /1
bellevues office vacancy rate is above 20%, up from 4% 5 years ago. the problem is not "jobs moving to bellevue", it's entirely been "jobs moving to online".
November 17, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Considering that we don’t have a city income tax, I’m also not entirely sure why moving some jobs from Seattle to Bellevue is a huge deal. It means more vacant office space, some sales tax loss. But if the people live on the Eastside, it’s less strain on our extremely strained housing market. /1