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the only thing i did successfully today was exist

Was tired. Went to bed before 830pm. Am up (almost 2am). That's enough sleep, apparently.

Ah no, wait, I've got two for this:

It's one oil tanker, Michael. How much could it carry, ten barrels?

And

It's one desert, Michael. How far could it be, ten miles?

like I really would feel better having someone go "ha ha jk those photos are fake" than believe that everyone in the White House is willing to walk around all day every day in physical discomfort, looking like a fuckass, rather than politely wear shoes of their own choosing. mad tyrant king shit

in a stunning departure from my usual approach to everything, I think I would feel BETTER if the whole shoe thing was AI and we just got duped

the thought of it being real paints such a horrifying picture of these people's complete inability to push back on even his most transparently bonkers whims

At this point it's barely even a boycott, I've just stopped thinking of Target as a place to buy the things I used to buy at Target.

Sun Tzu (D-NY) - “When your enemy is making a mistake, fix it for him at great cost to yourself.”

It’s too easy to go to war

“the cost of gas doubling is a small price to pay” is an incredibly funny thing to say as the head of a political movement that in many ways is still built on a nationwide psychosis triggered by having to go about four weeks without a haircut six years ago.

I know I'm old now because when someone asks how I'm doing I tell them the truth without mercy

Several things are true about 2024. Biden left Harris in an absurd position. A 100 day campaign is all but doomed from the get-go. Harris also faced considerable racism and sexism that sucks. AND ALSO, the campaign made a clear decision to appeal to the middle over the left, and that failed.

I think the truly damning thing about the Dem comms response is that they had months to prepare for today and there's zero coordination, no unified message. Just every D leader responding like they quickly hammered out a statement in a panic at 6 am this morning

I'm truly a dum dum.

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I'm reluctantly awake. I hate it.

Today it's trans Kansans. Tomorrow it's whoever else doesn't fit the mold of the current administration.
Either we all have the right to exist in public life, or none of us do.

And here's what history keeps trying to teach you: when a government tests how far it can push one marginalized group, it's never really about just that group. It's about seeing what the rest of us will tolerate.
What we'll normalize.
What we'll let slide.

you're allowed to be. It should be what THEY deem is correct.

This is happening right now in Kansas no grace period, no transition plan, just a demand to surrender your license immediately, or face fines and imprisonment. All so they can hand you back another "license".

Now you are receiving a letter telling you that key is being taken away. Not because you did anything wrong. Not because you pose any risk. But because lawmakers decided your identity doesn't match their definition of who

A driver's license isn't just a plastic card in your wallet. It's how you prove who you are to your employer, to your landlord, to the bank, to the hospital, to any organization that requires an ID.

It's the key that unlocks a job, an apartment, a loan, medical care. To VOTE!

If you need a statewide example look at every fucking reservation in the country.

Did you think you could never be marginalized?

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

"more devoted to 'order' than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice"

What does it tell voters, who have said unequivocally we want fighters, that you sit & silently witness your own humiliation? If you will not fight for yourselves, are we to believe you will for us?

The state of my house when there's an illness in one parent overlapping with a work week for both parents is abominable. And it actively crushes my morale.

I'm not entirely sure how they did it, but they've completely cleared the streets around my office in Midtown #NYC.

They paid a lot of people good wages to do the job effectively, thank you for coming to my socialism talk

Henceforth, I will be describing the way that U.S. men’s hockey spectacularly squandered good will, brand recognition, and fan loyalty as “pulled a Target.”

They pulled a Target.

People born in the 2000s will never understand a nation once so innocent that an ice skater kneecapping another ice skater sent us into an existential crisis.

@irregulargrapes asking my boomer parents probing questions about their childhood in an attempt to microdose them with therapy