I couldn’t make that argument to a trans person

" im not boomer humor! im not boomer humor!!" the barber insist as he slowly shrink and transform into a minion

“I just want to maintain the status quo and I will burn this whole place down to do it” vs “I want to fundamentally revolutionize our society, would you please sign my petition” seems to be a running theme of our times

More of a “selling out is hella lame” Gen X thing, but I’ll take that compliment anyway

The NYT is a transphobic, war crime excusing, bootlicking shit rag that just happens to have so many resources at their disposal that sometimes they can’t help but accidentally do reporting so good that I have to upvote it in spite of those facts

Well, that shouldn’t be how it works. Hoping to see the return of the rule of law to this country at some point in my lifetime.

Barry Goldwater said desegregation was a states rights issue while winking at the KKK as hard as he could

What did she say that you disagree with?

I’m holding on to the hope that DSA candidates winning more elections in the face of centrist nonsense will make moderates realize they’re being self defeating by doing this kind of crap. A real working coalition of socialists and liberals could be a political juggernaut that could also create some good policies together.

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Selling the man made horrors at the edge of comprehension back to us as entertainment

Hope the AP at least got some kinda payment from Garmin for that pointless product plug

A true and important point, but the message I takeaway from this one is

Failure: you will wonder if there was more you could have done

Success: you will wonder if there was more you could have done

Lol, one was vice president and the other was governor of the state, and you don’t need to be in elected office to coordinate with violent shitheads employed by a US government, just ask the Republican who undermined Vietnam peace talks in 1968, or maybe the Republican who screwed around with Iranian hostage negotiations in 1979

Pretty easy to look like political geniuses when you’re also having police murder and imprison a bunch of black voters and organizers at the same time, that’s like saying knocking out your opponent with a sucker punch over the board makes you a chess grandmaster

I think it’s because Newsom just wrote an autobiography where he talked about this woman and she responded with her side of the story

In related news sky may be perceived as blue

And besides the fact that they’re a bunch of smug lying assholes who stab marginalized folks in the back and call it pragmatism, they’ve only gotten worse at winning elections since 2016

e; meanwhile, this morning NPR is pushing some fucking horseshit from some Ivy League assholes arguing that Dems won’t win back working class voters until they distance themselves from “social justice warriors” - https://www.npr.org/2026/07/29/nx-s1-5905696/2026-midterm-elections-democrats-working-class (arc)

These fuckers constantly poke holes in the liferaft then say we have to throw our weakest swimmers over the side

French newspaper Le Figaro reported Kavinsky had been complaining of headaches for several days, and authorities think he may have had a stroke.

No suspicious items were discovered at the scene by the first responders and Paris prosecutors have now opened an investigation to determine the cause of death, the outlet said.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c204n74xyv3o (arc)

Also, https://www.lesoir.be/762002/article/2026-07-29/le-dj-francais-kavinsky-retrouve-mort-son-domicile (arc)

I wonder what would happen if a Muslim tried to do this

Only Fortune magazine could be stumped by that one