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Former Midwestern Roller Dance competitor and sometime movie extra. Lost on Millionaire. Moved to Madison and never looked back. Dog lover. Also cats. Autonomy. Equality. Peace. Justice. 🏳️‍🌈🟰
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More friendly advice from your mortal enemies.

Inside Trump’s savvy plan to create an authoritarian spectacle to distract from the unpopularity of his budget bill.

Oh, honey . . . You can’t even get your wife back.

"So here's the plan -- we impose massive tariffs on the nations that sell us food." "Hmm." "But it's OK, because we just rely more on states like California that grow a lot of the same things." "Oh, I guess that ..." "And then we go to war with California."

All these Trumpers are in for a hurting real bad once they feel how important immigrants are to the economy. It's going to be immense pain. And you know what? The country did it to itself—the self-destructive power of white supremacy.

Planned Parenthood clinics provide basic health care. If they close, where will women go?

And it's @drewmagary.bsky.social from the top rope: www.sfgate.com/politics/art...

Stop blaming ketamine. If anything, ketamine is a victim here

IMPORTANT: Please remember to loudly bully and ridicule your local Dem politicians if they decide that El*n might be a good “ally” for the party

if the wheels had come off this thing any faster it'd be a Cybertruck

Chris Murphy: "We can't be preparing for the 2026 election. It might not come. All of our focus right now has to be on protecting the democracy, about stopping the corruption."

Looks good to this former NYer, too!

She is so good at this.

Alan Tudyk sarcastically voiced dinosaurs whose betrayal was less obvious narratively than Trump turning on Musk

I'm seeing several reports on Facebook and Instagram, unconfirmed but from reliable people, that Edmund White has died at 85. It's hard to overstate his significance as a gay writer, commentator, influence, and man of letters over the last fifty-plus years.

There are 53 Republicans in the Senate.

I think headlines are misleading on purpose, that the legacy media and its coverage matters much more for intra-Democratic than inter-party conflict, and that the messaging in the media during the campaign was not the primary cause of Democratic defeat. It's why I can't let July 2024 go

Speaking of tacos, the finest pronunciation of the word "taco" can be found in Central Wisconsin. It's sort of like if your stopped up nose had a stopped up nose, delivering maximal nasalness, combined with massive overarticulation of the vowel sounds. It is an exquisite feast for the ears.

Why did I just now learn the baking-soda dry brine trick for the crispiest baked chicken thighs ever?

What happened?

whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing

There’s a very good reason Vladimir Zelenskyy Did Not inform Yam-Tits about his planned attack on Russia. #TACOIsPutinsBitch

Grammar tip: There's no comma after you say an act of violence is wrong. It takes a period. The next word is not "but." You've made a statement. It can have a whole sentence all to itself. Then say the rest of what you want to say.

When you don’t understand how anything works then everything is a conspiracy

Waking up to Ukraine absolutely shredding Russian military and air force Is amazing Slava Ukrainii

"If what you're doing is legitimate and lawful, why do you need to cover your face?”

Pretty wild to make your entire case about how immigrants are lawless freeloaders, but having to go to their workplaces and court hearings to arrest them.

At long last, the corrosive fever of Reaganism appears to be breaking. It’s sad that we need to break the entire federal government & large swathes of 🇺🇸 society for that to happen, though.

WELKER: In 2021, you cited the CBO. So do you only believe the CBO when a Democrat is president? MIKE JOHNSON: No. This is very easy to explain. The CBO sometimes gets projections correct...but they always underestimate the growth that will be brought about by tax cuts and reductions in regulations

pride month is also an opportunity for straight people to practice being normal and letting people enjoy things and have fun

Margaret Brennan totally exposes FDA Commissioner Makary for making it up as he goes and making conflicting recommendations in order to cast doubt on covid vaccines. He's so terrible during this interview that Brennan is left shaking her head as she wraps it up.

Proud of this pride

54% of children in America are insured by Medicaid. The ONLY party looking to kick them off is the GOP. The ONLY party trying to defund the ACA is the GOP. The ONLY party trying to get rid of vaccines and medical research that saves lives is the GOP. The cruelty is always the point.