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Once again, in an exhausted voice: None of the terrible things are a distraction from the other terrible things. It's all happening. It's all real. It's all hurting real people. When Dems call "distraction," they're failing the people getting hurt. It's also a terrible strategy.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Democratic leaders: I think it's abundantly clear at this point that simply going along to get along ain't gonna work. Trying to negotiate ain't gonna work. Being collegial ain't gonna work. What you're doing right now isn't working. Take your gloves off and punch back. Hard.

submitted 4 days ago • 959 comments

Of course Trump is a Russian asset but I think he’s also taking revenge on Zelenskyy for not acquiescing to his demand and for his subsequent impeachment. He blames him. It’s pathological. Goddamn malignant narcissist.

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

This is my “daughter of a Black Panther breakfast program volunteer” coming out but anyone who tells you that you have to be public about all your resistance activity should immediately be under suspicion for being an op, or being under the influence of an op

submitted 5 days ago • 97 comments

I’ve considered it and, you know what? I don’t fucking care. They’ve already elevated those exact far right outlets at the Pentagon and pushed out legacy media. Legitimate news outfits can take a stand against this now, or they can meekly enable this fascist shit & still get pushed out later.

submitted 9 days ago • 149 comments

What is a more powerful political statement? Issa Rae canceling a sold out show at the Kennedy Center or Kendrick Lamar getting 430 million streams of his Super Bowl performance? Our black excellence is valuable and ours to control. I liked both performances

submitted 9 days ago • 146 comments

Jim, I mean this sincerely, you are the kind of person who would personally be writing puff pieces about Hitler in the 1930s and you should sit down and think about what that says about you

submitted 10 days ago • 9 comments

Hearing that @indivisible.org and @moveon.org are pissing off house dems by mobilizing their constituents to call them too much is frankly the single best endorsement I've ever heard for a political action groups.

submitted 11 days ago • 116 comments

I’m seeing a lot of soft takes from industry mutuals at the moment that we shouldn’t be so hard on those who use generative AI because it’s becoming harder and harder to resist. Wrong. Betraying your ethics (and your peers) because ‘everyone else is doing it’ does not suddenly make it acceptable.

submitted 14 days ago • 90 comments

I am proud of all the people who DIDN'T understand Kendrick's performance taking the time to LEARN more about the cultural impact & significance. We see you. We thank you. We appreciate you.

submitted 13 days ago • 960 comments

Anybody else feel like nobody has listened to a word you said since 2015 and you were right the whole time?

submitted 13 days ago • 13 comments

Kendrick Lamar's Superbowl performance is why funding arts and humanities matters. We have Kendrick because his teacher introduced him to poetry and writing.

submitted 13 days ago • 185 comments

Marching bands rule

submitted 14 days ago • 11 comments

Someone let me know when Kendrick's halftime is over so i can look it up on youtube because i have less than absolute zero desire to watch any of this Super Bowl

submitted 14 days ago • 112 comments

It has been 194 days since @sagaftra.org actors started striking video games. In that time, we have signed over 150 games to Interim agreements, proving that our demands are more than reasonable. But the bargaining partners still refuse to give us anything more than lip service. (cont'd)

submitted 18 days ago • 12 comments

Again, if your electeds move in the direction you want, praise them! Think of it like keeping fragile tropical fish alive. You might want to shake them until their fins rattle, but that just produces aquarium job openings. If you want this one to succeed, nurture it.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Popular or not Dems cannot bend on the need for trans people to be treated with basic humanity and respect. If we give up that because the right made trans people unpopular, we give up everything. They’ll dice us group by group like a salami. We die on this hill or we die alone in a ditch

submitted 18 days ago • 146 comments

Something the "so you think the law means anything now" doomers fail to grasp: the importance of buying time. Nobody, and I mean NOBODY, has infinite resources and infinite capacity for managing complexity. Make your opponent work. Make their every decision complex and their every move costly.

submitted 18 days ago • 127 comments

See now I’m starting to think that these people want a machine to summarize things for them because when a human does it, the human uses words like “no” and “that would hurt people” and “that’s illegal.”

submitted 19 days ago • 28 comments

I really hope Democratic lawmakers took notice of the actions of Sen. Schatz, Sen. Kim, and others today and observed how quickly they were celebrated by millions of voters. This is not about getting the response 100% right or knowing exactly what the plan should be. It's about making an effort.

submitted 19 days ago • 127 comments

1. You don't need to sign up for a protest, anyone asking for your information is a cop 2. Any time a cop tries to talk to you, shut the fuck up. 3. People who have been to protests have tips, learn them. Protests in other countries can teach us, let's learn. 4. Support your homies.

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

I need Americans to hate this administration the way Kendrick hates Drake so they can actually stand a chance of surviving

submitted 20 days ago • 182 comments

Ezri once told Worf, "The Klingon Empire is dying, and I think it deserves to die … I know this sounds harsh, but the truth is you have been willing to accept a government that you know is corrupt. Gowron is just the latest example." Later that day, Worf killed Gowron. This is a post about DS9.

submitted 21 days ago • 35 comments

5 ways to celebrate #BlackHistoryMonth (cause the fed govt doesn’t run your house) 1. Find out what Sojourner Truth REALLY said 2. Buy a Black horror, scifi or fantasy book 3. Listen to “Naima” by John Coltrane 4. Send the victims of the LA fires in Altadena a few coins 5. Get a library card

submitted 21 days ago • 292 comments

if ao3 users can tag their porn so only consenting adults can choose to view it, so can you on here. all NSFW means is that your boss would fire you if they saw it on your computer. it's not a moral judgement. stop getting mad that your porn gets tagged. it's what the tagger is for.

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Happy: Black history Black present Black future Black love Black joy Black health Black healing Black people Black community Black family Black kids Black culture Black creativity Black ingenuity Black legacy Black innovation Black liberation Black resistance Black existence ...month🖤

submitted 22 days ago • 527 comments

I am begging Democratic lawmakers to stop solely pointing out the obvious problems and start publicly talking about how to address them. We know our democracy is unstable and unhealthy. What are you gonna do about it? Cease the platitudes and broad statements. Get specific and talk about actions.

submitted 23 days ago • 87 comments

grind the government to a halt stop voting for any nominees, object to every unanimous consent, do a rotating talking filibuster on the senate floor going over the transformation of the United States into Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s personal fiefdom act like what’s happening is happening

submitted 22 days ago • 88 comments

I’m officially a ‘do something’ guy now, normally I know Dems are in the minority limited options, etc, but we are so far outside the normal limits of politics now. Fuckin’ physically go to the treasury building & make them arrest you. People are not going to able to pay rent tomorrow due to this

submitted 23 days ago • 110 comments

one of my strongest held beliefs is that we will not fix any of our most serious problems unless we are willing to hold a Nuremberg for social media executives, funders and engineers

submitted 22 days ago • 109 comments

if a major politician held an emergency rally about the current ongoing coup by the richest man in the world, I think people would go to it. Shit is well and truly fucked. I can think of a couple of people who should do that right now.

submitted 23 days ago • 659 comments

no single science fiction author has ever been more prescient. she was one-of-a-kind.

submitted 22 days ago • 45 comments

This. Senate needs to put the brakes on all nominees until Trump recognizes the Constitutionally defined role of the Congress and steps from trying to ignore/negate/obliterate it.

submitted 22 days ago • 32 comments