Blastinus

every day the same shit over and over again

mahjong mood

We're primarying John Fetterman. Last week, Fetterman again sold out working Pennsylvanians. He was the deciding vote for a Republican budget bill that will strip healthcare from over 400,000 Pennsylvanians. We deserve real working class leadership in the Senate, not a Trump-enabling Democrat.

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

Matthew 15:29-31: And great crowds came to him, bringing with them the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute, and many others, and they put them at his feet, and he healed them after verifying their citizenship status.

I will say that I find it weird that a lot of people are like "this is the moment that will tip us into violence" when a Minnesota politician was assassinated in her home 2 months ago and someone literally shot Trump in the head last year. how exactly is charlie kirk the tipping point

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“You can’t say people are our most important product and then treat them like shit.” - Jim Sinegal, co-founder of Costco

There are many folks in the world who deserve a steel-toed boot right up the tailpipe, but speaking as a Christian, this guy deserves at least five.

Belmont Tools

‘Confessions of a Hateful Leftist’ FULL POST: johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/confession...

"A survey of over 100,000 Germans revealed that 94% won’t buy a Tesla vehicle. It doesn’t bode well for the automaker, whose sales had already been falling off a cliff in the important European market."

Watching a Godot tutorial and the creator starts with "Let's get right to the point"

one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much

i wish the political press were more conversant in american religion because there is a story to write about the inverted christianity that predominates among the new right, postliberal set

Historian of race and religion here. We are out here researching, analyzing, writing. We’re happy to talk to any journalists to expose this corrupt version of faith. JemarTisby.Substack.com

If the Democratic Party was a soccer team, they’d kick the ball into their own net because it’s more attainable and tell everyone it’s a good compromise

one of the things i hate most about "originalism" as a supposed methodology is that the practice of it rests on the idea that it takes the specialized knowledge of a special elite to be able to understand the plain language of the constitution.

reminds me of an essay i know in argument theory about the "epistemological filibuster" which is often used to discuss how "we need more evidence" arguments are used to kick the can down the road and prevent more action on various technical questions...this is weirdly that but with "inventing a guy"

it is, effectively, a view that nothing should be done to solve any problem if there might be a trade-off somewhere for someone who you could code as “marginalized.” it is just anti-government conservatism with a different aesthetic!

having exactly (1) day out of the year where every amateur chef in America attempts to cook a giant bird and not fuck it up is, honestly, a wonderful and hilarious tradition

low key the most egregious condescension is this idea that conservatives do not have agency and are not making choices but are purely reactive and have no mind of their own

The Switch version of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door contains a new Partner Hint function that provides instructions to the next step of the adventure. While they are elaborate, they are not granular enough to account for partners seeing items right in front of them.

Many people think that as you get older, you care less about politics. But it’s not true. You start thinking a lot more about the kind of world you want to leave behind. You want it to be better than the one you were born into. We all have a personal legacy in mind. Mine is to outlive Trumpism.

Don't know if this is happening for everyone, but I've been getting a lot of folks sharing beautiful nature vistas in my feed. Don't mind one bit. Keep 'em coming!

oh good, Trump is already flogging Elon Musk like a discount rented mule newrepublic.com/post/188412/...

Wrong Order - Gator Days

Taking a break from all of today’s insane political news, here’s a photo I just took from my backyard. Hope you enjoy! ❤️

Normalize this reaction #art #artists

The "Perfect" stabbing the Good repeatedly in the face.

“The left needs to have voices that speak to young people!!” I know I should keep my mouth shut, but I’ve watched at least a dozen smart, passionate, popular left wing content creators get torn to shreds /by the left/ until they retreat either into obscurity or apolitical content.

mental health tip, don't try to understand the election results, read hot takes, look at exit poll data, etc. your brain will die. political junkies will spend months figuring it out. instead be like me, get off the internet, hang with your buds, play video games, eat hamburger