Ash McGonigal

You will never convince me that it's good politics for Democrats to cater to the imagined anxieties of bigots rather than condemn them.

Either this doesn't work so well or everyone in my professional network also thinks Bryan Johnson is ridiculous. Could go either way, really.

This took three people? Truly embarrassing shit.

Even to a Kansan, Halloween in Salina sounds bleak

FACT

Fine, every Scott Bakula character is Sam Beckett in Quantum Leap. Even Jonathan Archer somehow,

Captain Dudley Smith and Farmer Arthur Hoggett

Well my mail in ballots never appeared but I have voted (provisionally)

…Bebop and Rocksteady?

Somehow, about six years after @edsource.org introduced news briefs, I wrote my first one. Sorry to my coworkers who have to do several per week!

i don't give a rat's ass what matt yglesias has to say

Just speaking for myself but I was completely fine not knowing what Matt Yglesias thought about basically anything

Being in a swing state sucks and I don't know why we allow this.

Conor Friedersdorf's job is to write the same column over and over again regardless of how bad the original, or how stale it is now. If his job was something different he'd have been fired by now.

How are you still writing this shit www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

The Roger Marshall ads keep calling the Democrat "Pastor Adam Hamilton" which immediately drops the entirety of a Lin-Manuel Miranda musical into my head

Eric voiced characters for Star Trek Prodigy and Star Trek Lower Decks and basically everything else you’ve ever heard including Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and so so many more. A lovely human. Sending love to his friends and family. ❤️

HEY DIPSHIT THE BALL GOES WHERE YOUR HIPS ARE POINTED AND GUESS WHAT - YOUR HIPS WERE POINTED RIGHT THE ENTIRE TIME

dudes rock

I live in a rural town and, like, I don't know how to tell you this, but the girls play on the boys team and vice versa all the time because otherwise we don't have enough players for a game and it's literally always fine so stop being weirdos about kids sports and just let trans kids play.

Congrats to Lula on overcoming Mark Zuckerberg and Donald Trump to defeat Hospital Pervert Jr., even as his opposition literally blocked off roads and turned off bus service during election day. Fascists are scary but they are always, 100% of the time, ultimately gigantic fucking losers.

Honestly trying to remember how to react to something close actually tipping the right way.

Lula winning is great for the planet, great for Brazil, and great for people who aren't revanchist assholes everywhere in the world, but let's not forget that it's also going to make some of the worst people on Earth extremely sad and mad. We should enjoy that, as a little treat.

Orphan Black ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🥑

Early this year, I visited Ingram, a TX town of ~1,900, to check out a tip. The area was starting to recover from its worst flood in a century. But as Latino workers drove to jobsites to help rebuild, the tipster said, a cop in a black Dodge Charger kept stopping them ... 🧵

Politicians like Josh Turek are the reason we have one party that's full of bloodthirsty fascists and one party people assume are just as bad. Cowards like that always do more damage to the Democratic coalition than their vote is worth.

The Sixth Sense is a wild movie from Toni Collette’s perspective. Her kid is obviously haunted but hey the ghost is doing free therapy on him and that’s probably a win all things considered.

I don't care for jet flybys but the V-22 Osprey is pretty cool

Alison's mom seems like she's based on my mom

We built the torment nexus from the famous novel "Don't Build the Torment Nexus.' We were shocked and dismayed when the company decided to sell it as some sort of nexus of torment.

The correct position for Democrats moving forward is "the office of the Presidency has been constitutionally vacant since January 2025 and none of the executive actions taken since then carry the power of law."

a 25 year old could not comprehend how bad the dining options were in the median American town in 1996

I swear that every day that I weigh my options between electrifying my old bike and buying a cheap new ebike, the cheap ebikes get cheaper and batteries get more expensive