Been here too long to count as new on site anymore

Anyway, The Simpsons is arguably a neurotypical narrative, so let's be careful about labeling the kinkshaming henchman a cis icon.

Reminder to British people that outside the UK - absolutely including the US - trans rights remain a left-liberal vs rightist split, the mainstream centre-left parties haven't ditched trans people in the way that Labour has, and even some of the mainstream centre-rightists remain ok on the topic

Sadly this is a "tell everyone you live in the UK without telling everyone you live in the UK" post

I think Sarah McBride's presence in the caucus has been extremely important in preventing Labourization because most of these people are kind of dumb and she can explain what's going on in small words.

This is also a huge black eye for Marco Rubio too, who has wanted to reshape Latin America into right-leaning governments

Oh so a country *can* choose not to make the same mistake twice

Lula won????

a green new deal president and they redecorate the white house like rainforest cafe

Deciding "sussy baka" is a fine thing to say tells me that y'all haven't been permabanned by your Shia boyfriends and it SHOWS.

David Eby

low hanging fruit joke: don't worry, DSA wouldn't be running the campaign

Racism is not a distraction or a scam. It’s the whole point. I thought we learned this from the Nazis.

I think a lot about gay marriage: there were plenty of journalistic and political elites who criticized the pro-marriage argument right up into the tipping point but now just happily pretend they always supported it.

I feel this in my bones 😖

like table stakes to be able to even understand what is going on is being aware of the Senate filibuster, a thing that is so deranged that it wouldn't even occur to someone to design it on purpose and is nowhere in the Constitution

I kinda suspect American voters are likely dumber than average in democracies because our system is so complicated and nonsensical

If you require a consensus from existing residents of a neighbourhood to build new housing for other people, you’re not going to build a lot of new housing for other people.

This is how it works repeatedly with Trump — something pretty much everyone agrees is fucked up then Trump jumps in to side with the fucked up thing, and the result is not a story that's like "Trump sides with fucked up thing" but to change the fucked up thing to instead become "controversial"

The argument I have heard is that he participated in a bourgeoisie democratic system, which---fine, I guess---but you're clearly not using "liberal" in the sense people refer to the Democratic Party as liberal at that point, it's a totally different definition!

It mostly depends on how you define "Liberals", "Fascists", or "Socialists", none of which are Platonic entities.

"It does not feel like a coincidence that this increase in anxiety around autism diagnoses comes as women and girls see increased diagnoses." @ericmgarcia.bsky.social on the growing backlash that "threatens neurodiversity and the rights of autistic people." www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/20/o...

For Fuck Sakes, CTV, it's been the Canadian monarchy since 1931. This should be basic civics. Don't just repeat separatist propaganda.

do you know how hard it is to *easily* clear "the woman I had arrested while she was eight months pregnant in front of her toddler was a deadbeat who had it coming, and I'd have her arrested again"

no, charlie brown did not have hoes

“i pay tax before, but still pay tax now?” We spoke with dozens of half-literate morons about the machinations of local governance. Here’s what they’re saying.

If we had a healthier political culture, it'd be interesting to hear AES talk at length about his feelings about the MB, but I'm totally happy with him slamming racists here

It's never going to happen but if Badenoch was genuinely serious about winning over "Waitrose Woman" she should loudly denounce Trump's treatment of Ukraine and then demand Burnham publicly join in with her criticism.

i do unironically think people that are cosmopolitan need sorta paradoxically be more chauvinist about it tbh. places and people that are cosmopolitan in outlook are better than places that are provincially minded. the kind of performative handwringing about not being 'authentic' is bad and weak.

Never mind that the “the Canadian gov’t established MAiD to save healthcare costs” is incoherent when one looks at the incentives and authorities of the various orders of government involved.