Call me Trixie

Ramaswamy’s ad aimed to enforce the stigma against rape victims that positions them as objects of suspicion and disgust at worst, patronizing pity at best. The Acton campaign now has to pitch a rape victim as something audiences aren’t used to imagining them being: competent, capable, and dignified.

Getting ready for my quarterly "i have to go look at my doctor in person and ask to be allowed to take my adhd meds for another 3 months" appointment which costs me extra copay money and time and also executive function, but it's good to know I'm not...... idk recklessly refilling my adhd meds

god i love this beat. "i'm a cynical realist. that's why i think, 10 years into trumpism, my party should try to appeal to people for whom the total destruction of american hegemony and rampant abuse of power both domestically and internationally wasn't enough to get them to switch teams." sure man

Boring Third Way types: "We need the McCain-Romney Republicans!" The McCain-Romney Republicans:

If I was a parent you wouldn’t be able to get this out of me in Guantanamo Bay

The US is not about to have a free and fair election. The state has put its thumb on the scale to favor the ruling party in multiple ways. It's a mostly free, somewhat unfair election. But still one where the ruling party can be overwhelmed by numbers. Hence the term "competitive authoritarianism."

‘Extremely disappointed’: WA government seeks reimbursement from Deloitte over flawed university report

House Judiciary Democrats have just released a 50-page report that pulls together years of assault allegations against Trump and his reported connections to Jeffrey Epstein. The report calls for a special counsel to investigate Trump's ties to Epstein.

There will always be some ignoramus that will call the cops on a black person for doing literally anything. The terrifying thing is that the cops will show up.

McCain-Romney republicans such as *howl of wind, rustle of bouncing tumbleweed*

A new survey of 1,000 American adults found that the strongest supporters of transgender sports bans are not the people who admire women most: they are the people who hold the most hostile views about women. www.helenwebberley.com/news/transge...

Sure, he can say this sort of thing as a candidate in a safe, blue, hippy state like Kansas...

This one is especially funny. He talks about a nonprofit that trains women and LGBT people how to be welders. But he sees a trans flag at the welding school and suddenly the welding is a “professional-class insurgency” alienating the working class

Good Christ. Also, look at that highlighted bit. "Rethinking red lines." It's Peter Baker's "testing norms," but more explicitly laudatory. It's not that the mutants are going beyond the pale; it's that maybe we should rethink the pale's position. The NYT is so very lost.

A must-read thread ⤵️

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These vile hogs think Cheesecake Factory is fancy. They’re complete simpletons! And if you say that place is bad you’re being mean to them

RFK decided to once again target maskers in a speech, laughing about going to LA and seeing people driving in their cars while masked. And I want to make sure people know that studies have shown that the reason someone might wear a mask in their car is that it's none of your fucking business.

Given the shift in media ownership over the Trump era, Democrats REALLY need to learn to ignore media handwringing now. Because I have no doubt their every move for accountability will be attacked from every possible angle.

No one can survive in 2026 making $7.25 an hour. Let me put that in real terms: If you work a 40-hour work week, that’s a little over $15,000 a year. That’s not sustainable.

They should give him a fake award and say the real one’s in another castle.

COLUMBIA — South Carolina charged at least 381 women with crimes related to their pregnancy over the past three years, far more than any other state, a national advocacy nonprofit found in a report released this week.

one of the things we lose as a society when we start paying too much attention to wormy pundits is a general understanding that it's bad & shameful to be a coward. it's really not more complex than that. most of us who were out there, i think, didn't feel like we had a choice. he doesn't get that.

As abuse allegations rock incumbent Rep. Max Miller, Republicans are trying to characterize his Democratic opponent, Brian Poindexter, as a drug-using criminal. I compared their police records… and uncovered another, previously unreported, incident in which Miller ran from police.

That is the most ass-backwards thing I've heard in a minute. "We believe in nothing, vote for us!" is a pitch that might win Yglesias' vote, but no one else's.

Three years ago, my dad said that all fish are the same shape. Out of spite, I decided to draw all 478 families of bony fish listed in Nelson 2016. There's still some stuff I need to edit and some fish I want to redraw but, after 985 days, I finished my big dumb fish project last night.

behold the dazzling purity of our meritocratic economic system

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On White House Lawn, An Exasperated Trump Laments: "I Don't Know What Else I Have To Do For You Guys To See That I Think Rape Is Good, Actually"

Richard Dawkins is fighting elitism (TM). So is Julie Bindel.

My rule of thumb used to be, "replace whatever group they're denigrating with 'Jew' and read it back to yourself out loud and see how that sounds," but honestly I think "You support this? You want more Jews in positions of power?" on mainstream conservative outlets is just around the corner.

Explains a lot.

@badiucao.bsky.social

Remarkable. I don't know how to explain what journalism is to two of the largest media outlets in America. Journalism is not repeating an obvious, comical lie, then tacking on who said it at the end.

“an investigation to determine whether votes cast for Daniel J. Sullivan were meant to be cast for Senator Sullivan” If this was a thing, Al Gore would have been president three decades ago. There is no investigation that can fix what a voter “meant” when the ballot is clearly marked.

I mean, is he going to admit that prison abolitionists had a point? Will he apply this to all prisoners or just wealthy white ones?

in a dark sort of irony, this too is gender: we displace agency from men onto women as a way of excusing their abuse—what did you say to make him hit you? likewise, the (male-coded) political right is always understood as being provoked by the (female & queer-coded) left

wait SpaceX is canceling the Falcon 9? what the fuck?? www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

Why run a legitimate business when it'd clearly in the shareholders interest not to?

Yeah but BENGHAZI

Posing with Donald Trump in the same manner as Trump-worshiping pastors - "Not a good look" is an understatement. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

We have a Trump Administration that has specifically targeted Black Women—whether they be high or low at this point: Representative LaMonica Iver, Rep. Ilhan Omar, Federal Reseve Member Lisa Cook, Attorney General Leticia James, Rep. Louise Lucas. Over 300,000 Black Women list their jobs in DOGE.