FWIW I’m not trying to be flippant and I usually agree with all your posts. But there IS some policy that once a democrat adopts it, it is a red line for their voters. Newsom wants to erase trans people, but why should they vote for their own erasure when he could very easily change his policy?
Sure, but they made their positions well known and Harris could have adopted those positions and earned those votes. She chose not to earn those votes and she owns the outcome of that. If we can’t require politicians to adopt our policies then what’s the point of any of this?
Yeah, but I think everyone has their own red lines. Like, if Harris was pro-Gaza but
wanted to overturn gay marriage, is it still incumbent on us to vote for her? I voted for her in the end, but I don’t judge any of my Palestinian-American friends for not, because I can’t justify why they should
The funny thing is the country very much still is this, they’re just not a child anymore and don’t have children of their own!
Pitching Monsters Inc as “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” x THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS
LOL I was wondering why they weren’t mentioning Sandcastle by name earlier in the season
Pitt season 1’s Pittsburgh fan service of Primanti’s and Iron City? Superficial. Wikipedia-level.
Pitt season 2 showing a furry in the hospital and saying “gum band”??? NOW we’re talking.
Hell yeah dude
Clay Aiken was my babysitter before he was famous
Sweet and cute and perfect baby boy is perched on top of a copy of China Mieville’s EMBASSYTOWN
I mean far be it from me to discourage early literacy, but I’m not sure China Mieville is developmentally appropriate at six months
this should be the end of the Gavin Newsom 2028 discussion. the party has spoken, full stop
A man asked me last night what publishing needs to do for literary fiction to begin appealing to men again. I said, as nicely as I could, that, with over 2,000 books published every Tuesday, of which many would appeal to men, it’s not a publishing problem, it’s a men problem.
How to win in November
Me when I’m on a playthrough of Hearts of Iron and my wife wants to hang out
Are they both scams and the scammers are pretty sophisticated? Or are neither of them scams and the government send me a genuine piece of scam-bait in order to boost their hashtag???? I genuinely do not know.
Both email addresses are ssa.gov, but BOTH are also very shady-feeling. Slam the Scam APPEARS to be a real campaign, so is this a coincidence and I got a real SSA email (which has never happened before) on the same day as I got a scam SSA email (which has also never happened before)?
An email from "no-replay@ssa.gov" claiming that I have a Social Security Statement available, but the email has no government letterhead, goes to a "socialsecurity.gov" website (a domain which DOES redirect to ssa.gov but isn't the official domain), and "Statement" is always capitalized and italicized. It's weird and scammy.
An email supposedly from "information@update.ssa.gov" announcing "National Slam the Scam Day"
Okay, I got these two bizarre emails this morning. The first one looks very much like a social security scam. The second one also claims to be from the SSA, and is announcing a "slam the scam" hashtag
In a top-notch impulse buy, we found a hunk of basketball court floor that we figured would make a perfect countertop for our in-kitchen washer/dryer and BOY WERE WE CORRECT
Saving this one for what I’m sure will be LOTS of future uses
Turns out he did die today but it had more to do with the fact that he was 124 years old
congress sounds cool i wish it was real
I'm already sick of "It's all a distraction from Epstein" replies. This regime is killing innocent people because our leaders are all power-hungry tyrants and war profiteers. When you say it's "just a distraction" you minimize the gravity of what's happening and the lives lost.
We have the first SELLOUT in @pwhltorrent.bsky.social history! @climatepledgearena.com is packed to the brim tonight, with just over 17,000 fans excitedly welcoming back their team.
#SeattleTorrent #PWHL #SeattleSports
TIL that Max Landis is John Landis’s son and that makes Bright make SO much more sense. No way that movie gets made without nepotism.
How I'd rather begin my broadcast day
Gavin Newsom sweating like old dynamite watching Labour's 'transphobia & bigotry' strategy eat shit tonight lol
Stop pre-negotiating. Stop telling voters they have to sacrifice minorities and the marginalized to have a chance of winning. Stop telling voters to settle, to not ask for everything, to be reasonable. Don't be reasonable. Demand the world. The world belongs to us. They don't have more right to it.
If you have the means, please donate to the Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate and they are overwhelmed with requests. Colorado borders Kansas, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out.
tcpipeline.org
We. the undersigned members of the Washington State House Democratic Caucus. are urging passage of Senate Bill 6346 - a momentous Millionaire's Tax - out of the House Finance Committee without corporate giveaways.
Contained within S.B. 6346 is an early sunset of a business and occupation tax on large corporations grossing $250 million in taxable annual income. This tax break will cost the state $550 million. To put that figure in perspective. the combined devastating cuts to K12 education and childcare in the Senate and Governor's proposed 2026 supplementary budget proposals total $535 million.
The purpose of a revenue bill is to raise revenue. While major corporations can afford to pay state taxes because of the massive tax break they've received from Trump's H.R. 1 budget. Washingtonians cannot afford to hand them a half a billion dollars. We are asking the House Finance Committee to pass S.B. 6346 with strong support - and without an unnecessary corporate giveavay.
Dear House Finance Committee, We, the undersigned members of the Washington State House Democratic Caucus, are urging the passage of Senate Bill 6346 - a momentous "Millionaire's Ta?" - out of the House Finance Committee without corporate giveaways. Should it pass in the 2026 Washington State Legislative Session, S.B. 6346 will be a historic achievement. In the depths of the Great Depression on November 8, 1932, Washingtonians approved Initiative 69, resulting in the establishment of an income tax. Leading the coalition behind that Initiative's passing were teachers who wanted more resources for public schools, farmers who needed property tax relief, and advocates of social safety net support for the unemployed. Unfortunately, the income tax that voters approved was overturned by the Washington State Supreme Court ten months later. Consequently, for the last 93 years, state lawmakers have resorted to patchwork - frequently regressive - ways and means of funding vital state services. S.B. 6346 would be a major step in the direction of economic justice. That progress would be diminished by a big business handout embedded in the bill. Contained within S.B. 6346 is an uncalled-for early sunset of a surtax on corporations grossing $250 million in taxable annual income, which the legislature passed in 2025 via H.B. 2081. This tax break will cost the state $550 million in lost revenue. To put that figure in perspective, the proposed cuts to Washington's K-12 schools in the Senate's supplementary budget draft (a $140M reduction in transition-to-kindergarten spending; a $110M reduction to Local Effort Assistance; a $60M cut stemming from budget depreciation calculations) total only $310 million. Governor Ferguson's supplementary budget proposal of December 2025 contains an additional $225M reduction to childeare in Washington State. These numbers don't lie: the climination of the corporate giveaway in S.B. 6346 could help avoid budget icductions that would harm working famil…
Today I'm joining 12 of my
colleagues in the State House of Representatives to deliver a message to the House Finance Committee: Washington can't afford to hand the world’s largest corporations half a billion dollars. Let's pass an income tax on millionaires without a massive big business giveaway.
