I wonder what the world would be like if we had taken a tenth of the money that's been spent on gen AI and used it instead to open third spaces and run programs to build IRL community bonds

I feel like we (me + my fellow middle class homeowners who are also progressives) gotta put some work in to deep canvassing our neighbors these next four years.

My mother in law (normie lib) a few months ago asked me out of the blue "Can I ask you some questions about trans?" We had a great conversation and the look on her face when she learned that gaines is so aggrieved over tying for FIFTH PLACE was beautiful (she had assumed 2nd/1st based on the furor)

demonic prairie dog: Alan! Alan! Alan! ALAN! ALAN! ALAN! ALAN!!!!
...oh no wait that's not Alan, that's Sartabakim.
...Sartabakim! Sartabakim! SARTABAKIM!!!!!!!

I frequently get old bits of Songify the News stuck in my head to this day and nobody around me knows them. (🎶 Keith, people often die for very strange reasons - they wake up dead, wake up, wake up, dead 🎶)

"Teach For America Chews Up, Spits Out Another Urban Studies Major"

Sorry to jump onto this post - I'm listening to the back catalog and keep hearing an inserted ad for an extremely christian precious metals dealer that seems like a weird vibe for BtB. Not sure if y'all are aware or have any control but wanted to mention in case someone would like to know.

Delete this shit and reflect on your choices, for fuck's sake.

very funny to use the adjective that means "stupid in the way all college students are expected to be stupid" to describe college student behavior that you want to portray as BEYOND THE PALE!!!!!

This is how local #Minneapolis meteorologist Chris Reese made his graphic recently, I laughed. #mnwx

southernequality.org/tyep/ - and for those who move here to MN, Family Tree Clinic provides awesome gender affirming care and has been SWAMPED with relocating and traveling families looking for care for their kids. I don't think they fund travel/moves but they're fantastic once folks are here.

GENDER AFFIRMING CARE IS GOOD, not because it's lifesaving (though like abortion, it can be), but because it's a matter of bodily autonomy and bodily autonomy is a human right.

The state will never own what I can and cannot do with my own body.

Plenty of other people are already making the point that this was an illegal and nakedly fascist action. Lander doesn't need to hammer it home. Using his position to shine a light back on Edgardo is EXACTLY the right messaging here.

I would give my eyeteeth for Dems in my city to be taking immigration court watch shifts, demanding to see judicial warrants when masked goons try to kidnap people, and focusing attention back on the true victims of this regime instead of on their own personal comfort and safety.

That's what you're taking away from this? That a guy who put his body on the line to try & protect someone more vulnerable, and who then made sure to center that more vulnerable person when speaking publicly about the events, doesn't understand the seriousness of the moment?

I realize now that Murkin is an alternate spelling of "'Murrican!!!" but I definitely read it as "merkin" at first glance... and you know, that's not wrong.