Sam

THERE IS TOO MUCH NEWS!!!

I can't explain why, but trump really is a special case in terms of being able to get away with saying and doing the most reprehensible shit. Other GOPers who do this have been able to ride his coattails to some degree, but in general it still disgusts people when anyone else does it.

between serbia, brazil, and hopefully november 3, a good reminder: voting works it’s not the end, there’s always work to be done after the vote, but if you want to beat the motherfuckers and keep them out of power: vote your asses off

I know this isn’t the main point of this unhinged rant, and also that cultures work differently re: naming, but…I also have the same last name as my brother BECAUSE HE’S MY BROTHER and not because I secretly married him?

Honestly, I am 52 years old and if a stranger started speaking to me the way they do in this anecdote, I would also stare daggers into them until they slunk away in shame.

Also they moved the polling site from along Columbus to the entrance on 77th street, which is going to make voting on marathon Sunday very interesting given that this street is inside the marathon lockdown zone. Cc @mayor.nyc.gov

Still one of my prouder moments on the old site that I made fun of armond white’s schtick enough that he threw a fit and blocked me.

Pure anecdata, but I have never seen a line in a non-presidential year election in my neighborhood, where every candidate is a shoe-in.

Another one - I am actually old enough that the ability for a woman to open a bank account without a man occurred the year I was born.

Hey New York! Early voting starts today! Also don’t forget to FLIP YOUR BALLOT to vote on the ballot initiatives (I’m voting yes on all 5).

You KNOW that the entire concept for this painting was just “and Natalie HARP plays the HARP! Get it? Get it?”

The HPV vaccine makes most cervical cancers obsolete.

I think it’s 2 - was law school friends with the guy who became obama’s special advisor on Lat-Am affairs.

Over on the bad site, a defense of the ad featuring Amy Acton's mother is that Acton's story doesn't make sense because someone can't just escape justice by leaving the state for such a serious crime. That's simply not true. Over a decade ago @bradheath.bsky.social did a great piece on this:

Genuinely my favorite time of year!

blaming incredibly vulnerable trans women for actions that are almost certainly committed ~100% by cis men is truly reprehensible. Also "supporting the mental health of trans people" in no way means that this organization does *not* support the mental health of cis women as well.

Guys, GUYS! There’s a Halloween dog parade in my neighborhood on Sunday!

Brad Lander is one of the most humane and decent people out there in American politics right now. And he’s a bulwark against genuinely radical anti-Israel politics in the US right now. And still, the Israeli government hates him. They’re writing off a whole generation of non-Orthodox American Jews.

As a long time Apple user, I have learned very intensely to never buy the very first iteration of a product. I figure by the time I’m ready to upgrade phones again in a few years, this will be fully cooked.

Oh hey, when I broke my ankle in May it took AN HOUR for EMS to show up. I chalked it up to not life threatening+major flooding going on at the time, but it was really fucking annoying, for me and the kind people who kept me company on the subway platform for AN HOUR.

This whole thread is great but this is the best.

The mailer is bad enough for being fraudulent, impersonating garbage, but what I really worry about is kids in abusive households where parents will assume this means something it does not.

I always appreciate the final vindication of Howard Dean’s 50 state strategy. We won’t win everywhere, but make them actually compete everywhere. Don’t cede a single race.

Sometimes I worry that my ankle is never going to go back to ‘normal’, and it probably won’t 100%, but then I think about how hard it was to walk two blocks in the first week or two I got out of the boot and now I’m itching to take walks for fun again, and mostly working on getting better at stairs.

My personal one that only matters to me is that all of the big law firm scenes in Michael Clayton were filmed in my old firm’s offices, and I find it funny every single time that Clayton, described as an associate, has a corner office that actual firm partners would knife each other for.

I know in some ways they were too little, too late in terms of actual accountability, but Dems should also keep in mind just how popular and salient the televised-in-the-evenings January 6th hearings were.

This was my immediate reaction as well, but mine was much a more saracastic "WhY wOn'T mY kIdS tAlK tO mE aNyMoRe?!"

The CEO of United Airlines said this in the NYTimes this morning: (but the headline they ran was: United’s C.E.O. Says It Should Cost More Not to Sit in the Middle Seat)

Scheduling medical appointments for 7:45am always seems like a good idea right up until the morning I have to wake up to get to a 7:45am medical appointment.

This is why I pay for the Handbasket and don't pay for the WSJ. (OK, it's not the *only* reason I don't pay for the WSJ, but still!)

people keep making jokes about New York and New Jersey being next, but he's not doing this because it's 'foreign', he's doing this because it's evocative of a non-white country that he views as our enemy.

One of the genuine things I hope for is that, as people in traditionally red or purple areas get over the psychological hurdle of voting for dems, that the behavior sticks for at least some portion of them in future elections.

I know the point is the disgusting bigotry, but I can’t stop tripping over “mixed sex ward”, like, if your irrational and unjustified fear of trans women is that they might have male parts, THERE ARE ALSO ACTUAL MEN IN THE SAME ROOM.

This is inspiring in the way that kids running a lemonade stand to pay for their friend's chemotherapy is inspiring: the kids are amazing but they should never have to do this. if this inspires you at all, let it inspire you to create a real right to vote so they can just vote on campus.

Go to your camera roll and search “boat” and then post a pic of a boat you like

I shelled out for the very expensive rabies vaccine because I travel to some weird places, but I wasn’t expecting those places to be, like, the park next to my apartment.