Jessica Drew Quiroga

The votes initially haven’t been there for a lot of things (ending slavery, women’s right to vote, interracial marriage, bodily autonomy, same sex marriage, etc.) but we did the fucking thing anyways because IT WAS THE RIGHT THING TO DO

Adults voting on whether a subset of children get to be treated like human beings, what a cool fucking system we've got here.

Got to the part about her getting laid off by Amazon and had to scroll past an ad by Amazon about the great benefits they offer

Went as Tendi this year

"You can't block someone just for being annoying!" Those are actually the most important people to block

Tonight feels like a good night to make chili and watch Over The Garden Wall

“The loss of, or a significant disruption at, any major facility may not be readily absorbed by our remaining or future infrastructure.” Sounds like an interesting business continuity challenge. Y’all don’t have a plan for that?

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But but but i was told that caving on trans rights neutralizes these types of attacks

the washington free beacon is trying to october surprise abdul by revealing his comms chief used to post bangers

I also think about this 2026 headline, and what a contrast it is to the 2022/2023 headlines about employees "quiet quitting" - how that must've so enraged capital.

Nah bro, I’m checkmatepilled

The president's reaction to Obama's Cheesecake Factory joke, however, is mentioned on the homepage twice

There was a brand new allegation that the president raped a woman in the 1990s yesterday and it appears to not be on the NYT homepage at all right now

Surely Nvidia can afford to pay OpenAI so that OpenAI can pay Microsoft so that Microsoft can pay Nvidia so that Nvidia can play OpenAI so that OpenAI can pay Microsoft so that Microsoft can pay Nvidia so that Nvidia can pay OpenAI so that OpenAI can pay Microsoft so that Microsoft can pay Nvidia so

None of these anti-trans initiatives and referendums are about granting rights— all of them, every one— is about taking them away. Imagine feeling like the whole country is trying to decide if you count as fully human, and mustering up the courage to go to school. I promise you are not that brave.

This is absolutely monstrous. Child abuse at scale, shrouded in a sanctimonious facade of faux democracy.

Really try to imagine what it’s like to be a trans kid right now in the many states with ballot initiatives on their rights. What on earth would you tell yourself to get out of bed in the morning? To go to school. To even try and imagine any future at all. Could you do it? I don’t know that I could.

If someone had proposed this ten years ago you would have assumed they belonged on a registry. You would have been correct.

I will revoke lunch money for Mamdani.

its insane how not many people are talking about how republicans with the help of several moderate democrats are building out the largest abusive medical conversion therapy operation in modern american history

San Francisco just had its highest-ever October tide on Monday — and the waterline will probably go higher in the next few days.

this is a perfectly reasonable list, imo these four are all monumentally awful on trans issues and this is a more than fair place to draw the line, especially given how the elections currently look - three of them are in the house, where dems will romp regardless, and iowa can do better than turek

I agree with this strategy of voting for Dems provided that they haven't embraced extreme anti-trans positions. and I definitely agree that Kaptur, Cuellar, & Turek have all crossed that line & I personally wouldn't vote for them

The scene in Star Trek 4 where Chekov is desperately asking an Oakland cop how to get to Alameda to find the Nuclear Wessels is a fucking all timer

My pal Danielle Koenig shared that her father Walter Koenig passed away last night at age 90. A performer whose kindness and warmth shone through the screen. He will be well remembered.

Kavanaugh stops in action: ICE tackled a non-verbal kid near his school, left him with injuries requiring surgery, and then left the scene when they realized he wasn't the person they were looking for www.independent.com/2026/10/23/i...

Exclusive: Cathedral, a months-old cybersecurity start-up, recently told Anthropic that its researchers had penetrated sensitive internal data and messaging systems at the AI company, according to a draft report reviewed by The Post.

lol reminder that betting markets are extremely accurate measures of conventional wisdom

Hey Google, why do I love my child?

Oh my plans for next Tuesday? Am I going to vote? Sure. Then I’m going to take two Benadryl at 9pm, fully confident that in 12 hours no matter what the magic paper says nothing about the country will have changed whatsoever.

There are some people who claim "oh, Dems in blue states will never shift towards enacting anti-trans policy" Meanwhile Colorado is literally enacting a medical detransition protocol for trans youth on medicaid.

Forgive me if I don’t trust this cis dude to lecture us on what’s better for trans rights.

Yes Matthew, we know you support Turek. Pushing anti-trans policies towards being embraced by the Democratic Party is your entire schtick. You want more Tureks because the anti-trans hate is the goal.

In case trans people and allies need another reason to abstain from voting for Turek, Matthew Yglesias is supporting him.

Senate Democrats posted this the same day Josh Turek released the worst anti-trans ad of the cycle. Meanwhile, DCCC released their own anti-trans ad last week in South Carolina.

billionaires bought the news and this is what we get.

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