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My desire to not stand during the national anthem is conflicted when it’s a gay chorus doing the singing

This is not radical. This is bare minimum.

I love that I live in an era where celebrating my kid’s birthday is filling me with guilt.

@jahanahayes.bsky.social what’s up with this?

Then they’ll need to start narrowing their definition of whiteness or sort by religion. Their system depends on the lower classes having someone to look down on.

If & when what happens in LA comes to NY, Adams or Cuomo almost certainly will not stand up to Trump. (Hell, they’d roll out the red carpet.) Hochul miiiiiight, maybe. That’s how we should be thinking about every state & local election - will this person have the courage to stand up for us?

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

As Trump demands that people in masks at protests be arrested, just a reminder that Mayor Karen Bass, nominally a Democrat, floated a mask ban at protests as recently as last year. There’s really no anti-authoritarian party. www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...

Call me the New Town Mayor the way I make his Dick Sweatman

Them: Do you have reliable transportation? Me, out loud: Yes. Me, unsaid: My bicycle and the bus are very reliable.

Birds succeeding where I have so often failed…

These center-right groups (WelcomePAC, ThirdWay, etc) start off with a reasonable premises like, “Let’s talk to people about economic issues that they seem to care most about instead of cultural issues” then immediately follow it up with dissertations on how to best harm vulnerable groups.

Goddamn do I wish there were game writing classes when I was in college. Comedy, film, tv, children’s media - all grand fun. I also can’t fathom paying cash just to have a crappy chatbot do the fun part for me…

While other kids discovered drugs I was freebasing maps with no understanding of plate tectonics

RT if you STILL BELIEVE!