actually their problem is precisely the fact that some people still remember this kind of guy and what happens when you empower them

Seemed pretty funny to me that Trump banned CNN and then had his DOJ investigate CNN for not covering the WH pool...

Corporations publicly celebrating LGBT+ equality is a good thing and I am glad to see it coming back.

I hope researchers are watching this closely, because I *really* want to know what traffic we can link back to Yandex farms.

"It suddenly became a little easier to breathe on many social media platforms."

If you need to be knocked down a peg today, here's a way to do so.

This is gross (and, as is typical, juiceless) but also betrays how hung up they are on Talarico. They genuinely don't know how to handle his candidacy.

None of this makes it acceptable, or any less antisocial. It's context, not an excuse. But sometimes contextualizing it makes it easier to walk away.

Like it's not surprising that deeply toxic behavior exists in online spaces for marginalized communities. People are going to pull for power and status wherever they can, and if they don't feel they can get it from the world at large, they'll find other venues.

A lot of people feel completely disenfranchised and/or generally powerless right now. Participating in a dogpile is a way to feel like you're in a position of power.

JUST IN: Judge Reyes has barred the Trump administration from cutting down additional trees on the East Potomac golf course through at least Oct. 26.

"Elon Musk is using nonconsensual porn to compete. And children are being abused in the process. And the entire Republican Party is accepting his filthy money. But that’s not all. Elon Musk committed visa fraud when he first started working in the US..."

One of the striking things about this race is that there’s almost always SOME factual negative thing to say about your opponent, at least in the eyes of some voters. Whereas every single major talking point against Talarico is just an easily-demonstrable lie.

I... genuinely don't know? If I had to guess, it'd be around the time I discovered anime, which was still a very niche phenomenon.

Wet pet food in our house is "slop" (typically prefaced with "gourmet," "artisanal," or other florid adjective). "Tomato salad" refers to literally any kind of salad involving tomatoes. "I stared at the wall" is how we describe any day where nothing notable happened.

FYI, the fugitives Paxton was partying with were indicted for selling hospitals hundreds of millions of dollars worth of fake Covid tests.

you want to be a writer and yet you hate people loitering around in cafes doing nothing? that's like most of the job

My friend Evan has a new article up on deep canvassing going on in Missouri by the group PROMO. This involves canvassing undecided voters, engaging in substantial conversations, and following up over years not just weeks.

See, you can be corrupt like Paxton and Lutnick and all the others but to be corrupt and a woman, well, that's just gone too far. Trump allows one or the other.