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A great example of how the @nytimes.com centers white Americans and Trump supporters in its anecdotal political coverage. You never see stories like this about Black Democrats whose cities are cracked in Republican gerrymandering to give them Republican elected officials.
They Wanted a Conservative State. They Might Get a Democratic Representative Instead.
The passage of Proposition 50, which redrew California’s congressional map, means that all of the state’s conservative north is likely to be represented by Democrats.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/u...
The passage of Proposition 50, which redrew California’s congressional map, means that all of the state’s conservative north is likely to be represented by Democrats.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/u...
They Wanted a Conservative State. They Might Get a Democratic Representative Instead.
www.nytimes.com
December 26, 2025 at 1:13 PM
A great example of how the @nytimes.com centers white Americans and Trump supporters in its anecdotal political coverage. You never see stories like this about Black Democrats whose cities are cracked in Republican gerrymandering to give them Republican elected officials.
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we’ve been over this
we just did this in Massachusetts
they’re not gonna leave, they’ll whine and bitch and moan and eventually this will raise more money than expected because nowhere they go is actually like the place they’re leaving
we just did this in Massachusetts
they’re not gonna leave, they’ll whine and bitch and moan and eventually this will raise more money than expected because nowhere they go is actually like the place they’re leaving
Billionaires are considering cutting or reducing their ties to California by the end of the year because of a proposed ballot measure that could tax the state’s wealthiest residents.
A Wealth Tax Floated in California Has Billionaires Thinking of Leaving
It’s uncertain whether the proposal will reach the statewide ballot in November, but some billionaires like Peter Thiel and Larry Page may be unwilling to take the risk.
nyti.ms
December 27, 2025 at 12:49 AM
we’ve been over this
we just did this in Massachusetts
they’re not gonna leave, they’ll whine and bitch and moan and eventually this will raise more money than expected because nowhere they go is actually like the place they’re leaving
we just did this in Massachusetts
they’re not gonna leave, they’ll whine and bitch and moan and eventually this will raise more money than expected because nowhere they go is actually like the place they’re leaving
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At all levels of involvement, this is the sort of thing that should get you put in front of a firing squad for participating in. I don't care if your role in a seditious plot was just fetching coffees.
December 27, 2025 at 6:35 AM
At all levels of involvement, this is the sort of thing that should get you put in front of a firing squad for participating in. I don't care if your role in a seditious plot was just fetching coffees.
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Another entry for "everybody is 12"
December 24, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Another entry for "everybody is 12"
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still my favorite christmas post
December 25, 2025 at 1:08 AM
still my favorite christmas post
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Merry Christmas and Happy holidays of many cultures from all of us at Tranquility Press
However you choose to mark the season (or don’t) we hope it’s filled with warmth, stories, and good company.
Thank you for being part of this strange, thoughtful, creative little corner of the galaxy.
However you choose to mark the season (or don’t) we hope it’s filled with warmth, stories, and good company.
Thank you for being part of this strange, thoughtful, creative little corner of the galaxy.
December 25, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Merry Christmas and Happy holidays of many cultures from all of us at Tranquility Press
However you choose to mark the season (or don’t) we hope it’s filled with warmth, stories, and good company.
Thank you for being part of this strange, thoughtful, creative little corner of the galaxy.
However you choose to mark the season (or don’t) we hope it’s filled with warmth, stories, and good company.
Thank you for being part of this strange, thoughtful, creative little corner of the galaxy.
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New Illustration: "We Beat 'Em Before..."
Taken from a British WW2 poster, the original features a WW1 German soldier at the top. I just swapped it for the Nazi soldier it had at the bottom.
Taken from a British WW2 poster, the original features a WW1 German soldier at the top. I just swapped it for the Nazi soldier it had at the bottom.
December 18, 2025 at 7:41 PM
New Illustration: "We Beat 'Em Before..."
Taken from a British WW2 poster, the original features a WW1 German soldier at the top. I just swapped it for the Nazi soldier it had at the bottom.
Taken from a British WW2 poster, the original features a WW1 German soldier at the top. I just swapped it for the Nazi soldier it had at the bottom.
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We really should just ban the Republican Party the same way Germany banned the Nazi Party. Conservatives who are anti-dictatorship can resurrect the Whigs or something.
The is a declaration and act of war without congressional approval, and imperialistic jingoism.
December 17, 2025 at 12:13 AM
We really should just ban the Republican Party the same way Germany banned the Nazi Party. Conservatives who are anti-dictatorship can resurrect the Whigs or something.
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in 20 years some of your cultural traditions will simply be mainstream in america: you can get día de los muertos decorations at party stores. the hipsters are drinking matcha lattes. naan is in every supermarket. everyone says “inshallah” now
the promise of america is that you can come to america, become an america, and also keep the stuff you love about your identity. america will welcome you in not just physically but culturally: your food, your music, your holidays, your friends and family too
you will change america--for the better
you will change america--for the better
December 16, 2025 at 8:04 PM
in 20 years some of your cultural traditions will simply be mainstream in america: you can get día de los muertos decorations at party stores. the hipsters are drinking matcha lattes. naan is in every supermarket. everyone says “inshallah” now
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People who urge you to "bridge the gap" with Republicans are deluded. The solution to the Republican Party is a modified Klan Act.
December 15, 2025 at 4:32 PM
People who urge you to "bridge the gap" with Republicans are deluded. The solution to the Republican Party is a modified Klan Act.
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Trumpists speak like this about others because they know that no one will care when they die and they're entirely justified in feeling that way.
December 15, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Trumpists speak like this about others because they know that no one will care when they die and they're entirely justified in feeling that way.
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I think the fundamental gap here is that non-creative people think that creative people make things for the end product, when in fact it’s the act of creation and not the end point that makes it worthwhile.
I have grown to believe that excessive wealth does something to your brain that is analogous to a serious head injury
December 15, 2025 at 6:26 AM
I think the fundamental gap here is that non-creative people think that creative people make things for the end product, when in fact it’s the act of creation and not the end point that makes it worthwhile.
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Spent a little time today refining my TAS shaders. I'm pretty happy with how things are looking right now! Used some compositor nodes as well to add some post-processing. These are all 'in-camera' renders straight out of #Blender3D
December 12, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Spent a little time today refining my TAS shaders. I'm pretty happy with how things are looking right now! Used some compositor nodes as well to add some post-processing. These are all 'in-camera' renders straight out of #Blender3D
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Germans had outside forces imposing de-Nazification on them, we're going to have to do it ourselves.
December 8, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Germans had outside forces imposing de-Nazification on them, we're going to have to do it ourselves.
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I consider both models to be essentially complete, but I never really decided what I wanted to do with them. Perhaps inspiration will strike later and I'll come back to it! /2
December 8, 2025 at 7:38 PM
I consider both models to be essentially complete, but I never really decided what I wanted to do with them. Perhaps inspiration will strike later and I'll come back to it! /2
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me giggling to myself alone at 2:30AM
December 8, 2025 at 10:37 AM
me giggling to myself alone at 2:30AM
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This is why every mayor in a city where the ICE/CBP Gestapo operates should order their police to stand down and stop providing security for these missions. Now your 5-person snatch team has to become a 50-person team.
December 8, 2025 at 8:57 PM
This is why every mayor in a city where the ICE/CBP Gestapo operates should order their police to stand down and stop providing security for these missions. Now your 5-person snatch team has to become a 50-person team.
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The point of being in the opposition is to increase the costs of Trump's illegitimate and illegal rule as high as possible. It not only makes implementation of his dictatorship exponentially more difficult, but the conflict puts his actions front and center in people's minds.
December 8, 2025 at 8:55 PM
The point of being in the opposition is to increase the costs of Trump's illegitimate and illegal rule as high as possible. It not only makes implementation of his dictatorship exponentially more difficult, but the conflict puts his actions front and center in people's minds.
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It is time for a 2nd nullification crisis. California should open its ports and declare all imports to be duty free. Let Trump send in the military to enforce his stupid and illegal taxes.
Trump: "I'm delighted to announce this afternoon that the US will be taking a small portion of the hundreds of billions of dollars we receive in tariffs ... and we're going to be giving and providing it to the farmers in economic assistance. We love our farmers. The farmers like me ... $12 billion"
December 8, 2025 at 8:50 PM
It is time for a 2nd nullification crisis. California should open its ports and declare all imports to be duty free. Let Trump send in the military to enforce his stupid and illegal taxes.
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Josh Marshall is absolutely right about this as a matter of constitutional restoration BUT ALSO
You can't do ANY of the "kitchen table" agenda EITHER without abolishing the power of the six corrupt GOP justices. They'll kill any good Dem policy (eg student loan forgiveness) just to watch it die.
You can't do ANY of the "kitchen table" agenda EITHER without abolishing the power of the six corrupt GOP justices. They'll kill any good Dem policy (eg student loan forgiveness) just to watch it die.
“Supreme Court reform is now the sine qua non of any reformist program in the United States, any program to re-implant/re-secure civic democracy in the United States”
-- @joshtpm.bsky.social talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/court...
-- @joshtpm.bsky.social talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/court...
Court Reform: Breaking the Corrupt Rule of the Six GOPers Is Everything
I’ve become something of a broken record on this. But repetition sometimes...
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Josh Marshall is absolutely right about this as a matter of constitutional restoration BUT ALSO
You can't do ANY of the "kitchen table" agenda EITHER without abolishing the power of the six corrupt GOP justices. They'll kill any good Dem policy (eg student loan forgiveness) just to watch it die.
You can't do ANY of the "kitchen table" agenda EITHER without abolishing the power of the six corrupt GOP justices. They'll kill any good Dem policy (eg student loan forgiveness) just to watch it die.
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Does anyone know of any explicitly YIMBY ballot measures that have been run or attempted to qualify recently?
On the other side, I can think of Our Neighborhood Voices and LA's Proposition U. But nothing pro-housing comes to mind except Prop 2 in NYC which kinda fits the bill.
On the other side, I can think of Our Neighborhood Voices and LA's Proposition U. But nothing pro-housing comes to mind except Prop 2 in NYC which kinda fits the bill.
December 8, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Does anyone know of any explicitly YIMBY ballot measures that have been run or attempted to qualify recently?
On the other side, I can think of Our Neighborhood Voices and LA's Proposition U. But nothing pro-housing comes to mind except Prop 2 in NYC which kinda fits the bill.
On the other side, I can think of Our Neighborhood Voices and LA's Proposition U. But nothing pro-housing comes to mind except Prop 2 in NYC which kinda fits the bill.
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This man has no fight instinct and no taste for blood. He's the last kind of person we need as president.
December 7, 2025 at 5:26 AM
This man has no fight instinct and no taste for blood. He's the last kind of person we need as president.
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