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One of my pet/maybe crank theories is that the Democratic Party doesn’t have a base. It has a bunch of very heterogeneous groups whose only common factor is “not Republican.” These groups co-exist but do not interact. So everyone thinks their little group is the “real base” of the Dems

Ensign Chekov travels the stars

Any politician who’s willing to throw away one group’s rights is willing to throw away everyone’s rights. It’s that simple. Every single consultant, pundit and candidate who’s shown a willingness to abandon trans rights needs to be shunned from the party forever

The Democratic equivalent of the sweaty guy meme is being a permanent Congressional minority with but pols are perfect progressives vs majority with imperfect politicians who are not always progressive.

A River Runs Through It

Kinky

Rumors online and in tabloids about Kim Jung-Uns death appear to be without merit but it is amusing to imagine nocturnal shut-ins listening to channels illegally and spreading the news

A theory of mine is that a lot of NIMBYism comes from people wanting places trapped in amber from the time they move there. Most people move to their perma homes in their 20s/30s so it acts as a balm against aging/death. You need a hip replacement but the old dive stands, you haven’t been in 36 yrs

The staff are “privately” grumbling, not resigning because they have jobs that are tough to get and they want it badly. This is basically what collaboration looks like often.

ultimately it's shit like this that makes the decline of birth rates and resulting demographic skewing towards old people self-reinforcing. Greedy, wealthy retired people voting to destroy the funding for public services they relied on throughout their life now that they no longer need them

Proud to have voted for Wiener

Alrighty then….

When you are one point away from genius on spelling bee and stumped….

you can set your watch to either

Does a Wayne Thiebaud or Richard Diebenkorn painting count as frivolous?

Tom of Finland would reject this for being too on the nose cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thu...

Zacharia did not even last long enough to do the Fanda…..

Popular now, will switch back when Dems control the Trifecta. This happened in Trump 1 and Biden

hard to think of anything that better sums up the modern Republican Party than this note right here

Fun with inflation: Tickets to see the Beatles in 1966 in SF went for 5.00, 5.50, or 6.00. In 2026 money, 6 dollars is 61.46. So the spread between cheapest to most expensive tickets was smaller but there were no seats going for thousands or more

SUSAN COLLINS: I was successful in getting road salt removed from the Canada tariff list TROY JACKSON: What about everything else? We can't eat road salt

If you know you know m.youtube.com/watch?v=gSc4...

FSM help my hopium, Trafalgar, one of the hackiest GOP pollsters gives Darlene Graham a mere plus 1 in South Carolina. What are the actual numbers?

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The Prado has more Rubens and Titian than I remembered.

Stanford tell us the brain is two organs. I am of two minds on this development. #ABDJ

Media slowly begins to rediscover spine

This evening I’ll be with my Jewish community for Yom Kippur, as we atone and look toward growth in the year to come. Yom Kippur is when we repent before God. To make right among one another, we must repair harm that has been done. Wishing a meaningful fast to those who do so.

[0004712] Children have Moods WAY too often

One of the things I believe is that the Democratic coalition is too diverse to have a base and this causes everyone to think they are the real base somehow. Hell, geography can radically change the composition of the Democratic Party county by county.

TFW people apparently really think there is no or should difference between the kind of candidate you can run in a D plus 26 district vs. We might win this R plus 7 district this year because of the national mood

So Trump caves after creating a crisis that was massively costly to key US alliances, and will declare victory for, and lie about the scope of, a “deal” that enshrines the status quo ante but leaves what were good faith relations laden with distrust & resentments. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/u...

I always enjoy when Obama gets in on the imagine if Obama did that game

TIL there are apparently “lust-free” gyms for Christian men and now YMCA by the Village People is stuck in my head

They would think I caved for going to law school because 20 year old me hated when people said “you are just like your dad. when are you going to law school?”

Is it just me or has the “I have always been against Trump/MAGA” phase begun early?

NIMBYs have always been unhinged but “YIMBYs are domestic Zionists” is a new one, as if Netanyahu is just trying to build some mixed income housing on some parking lots

why yes, Richard Pryor saying the N word is different from Michael Richards saying it, go figure right

Suboptimal that the president is a fucking moron.

Everything is so depressing

The E.U. is working to make Canada its first associate member. Even if Democrats smash the midterms and win 2028, we are basically going to be a diminished state and this will make recovery hard and can lead to GOP roaring back in 2030. Sigh. This will be the rest of our lives