Beth

The single most important thing for you to know before you cast your ballot in California is that Sonja Shaw, running for the nonpartisan Superintendent of Public Instruction office, is a MAGA-aligned Moms for Liberty transphobic piece of shit. Thank you for your time.

I am finally managing to watch The West Wing after bouncing off it for a quarter century, I think because I can now just treat it like fanciful historical fiction. Like Casablanca. Or Hamilton. Or Oh Mary.

Oh we’re still using weed laws to harass Black people? In twenty fucking twenty six?

Westlaw: good news! We're going to upgrade you to our AI tools FOR FREE ... unless you opt out. Reader I could not hit that "opt out" button fast enough.

It was never extreme for trans people to want to be treated like human beings in whatever spaces we entered. It did not go too far, and no amount of historical revisionism will make the simple request for equal access to safety in public spaces unreasonable.

Think about how little your representatives have said or done to defend their colleague Ilhan Omar. Now try to imagine how little they will do when it's our turn.

The two issues that tend to set me apart from the people I mostly agree with about politics is that I am opposed to both legalized gambling and assisted suicide.

I am entirely serious when I say that this should be seen as a moderate position. It specifically and surgically dismantles institutions that did not exist pre-9/11 and assigns their functions much as they were assigned pre-9/11.

Gavin Newsom you fucking snake, you hack

Planned Parenthood says it's "only a one-time revenue boost at a time when California needs ongoing funding to recover from the impact of the federal One Big Beautiful Bill” and like, yes, you're saying we should... ask Trump nicely to reverse his bill? www.sfchronicle.com/politics/joe...

Katie Porter standing over the body of a guy dying of a heart attack: "look, a bypass is only a one-time solution. We need to talk about diet, exercise, and long-term solutions to the underlying problem"

They call it a "one-time" solution, even though it provides five years of funding, because they want you NOT to understand that this is a response to an event that happened when Trump passed HR 1. This is fucking triage. There's a hole in the body, you stop the bleeding first.

Katie fucking Porter wrote an op-ed about how it is isn't Medicare for all, and only "perpetuates the status quo." YEAH that's FUCKING RIGHT, it allows people to still get healthcare? For the state to pay medical providers? For hospitals not to close? THAT status quo? archive.li/gUp3l#select...

The more I read people arguing against Prop 40, the more furious I get at the absolute shameless mendacity and basic craven opportunism of it

I thought I had autoplay turned off, and yet! Don't forget to check your settings kiddos. ❤️

Doris Matsui is really squandering thirty years of goodwill to win a race the ugly way the first time she's challenged. What a way to burn a legacy.

I appreciate Dan giving this issue exactly the right amount of grace and nuance that it deserves. dansinker.com/posts/2026-1...

i do think it's worth stopping for a moment to recognize how extraordinary and how fucked up it is that this sentence exists.

Old people telling college students how they should have protested in 2025-2026, after so many of their institutions brutalized and expelled them for Gaza protests? Do shut the fuck up. The kids didn't build this.

Confidential to teenage girl having an embarrassing conversation with her dad about pap smears: He's on a train and he's got you on speakerphone.

California you have GOT to stop pretending that weed makes you a better driver.

Keep seeing that I have a text message and think it's one of my kids BUT NO IT'S JAMES FUCKING TALARICO asking me for five dollars. (Nobody texts me except my children and Democrats. And only one of those groups asks me for money.)

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

sorry i get fired up about this but like once a month the "why doesn't everyone become [trade]" conversation picks up despite very few of you actually knowing what it feels like to be one (also i would love if someone who actually knows what it's like to work like that wrote about it.)

The ugliness of our local congressional race is the most unnecessary expenditure of peace of mind and political energy I have ever seen in my life. It did not need to be this way and I just so disgusted by the way it has played out.

And, for the coup de grace, two bills protecting fire survivors from predatory insurance companies, which he vetoed, deliberately, to punish fire survivors for rejecting his "reform" bill that was actually a huge payout to SCE for starting fires. calmatters.org/economy/2026...

Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers

Sometimes I'm walking the neighborhood and I see someone walking their dog and I say hi and the person says hi and I'm like MIND your BUSINESS, JENNIFER, I was TALKING to the DOG.

SCHOOLS CAN'T GIVE YOU A BANDAID, WHO ACTUALLY BELIEVES THEY ARE DISPENSING HORMONES.

Intentionally addressing trans people with their birth name or previous gender at University of California schools is permissible under freedom of speech rights, federal judge rules.

I feel like the "white Gen X is maga" talk is at least ten years late but we are waaaaay overdue for the "white Gen X is annoying" discussion. (I am white and Gen X but there are at least four high profile influencers whom I can't block fast enough.)

I will vote, make calls, knock doors, take up arms for whoever destroys the online gambling industry