This is the thing about bathroom bans targeting trans people - assault is already a crime! Indecent exposure is already a crime! And laws that protect trans people don't suddenly make them legal
and the longer he goes thinking no one is going to stop him, the more people will be dead before someone finally does. try the fucking war powers act again NOW, guys! do it again every week! grind everything else to a halt! like as always a handful of GOP senators could instantly stop this
If Timothee Chalamet wants to make being a reverse-snob part of his deal, whatever. Be a child, you know?
But at a time when arts funding and support are so imperiled, it would be nice not to lead with your contempt for wide swaths of the arts during your campaign to have your own art recognized.
what is the case for thinking that the duration of the conflict will be up to Trump?
He got a Nazi tattoo, he frequents anti-Semitic podcasts and posters, he says racist and misogynistic and homophobic shit on reddit...reality called, he's a wannabe Nazi. And, as I frequently point out he's also not equipped to lead anything. You could spin in a circle and point and do better
Even if it takes years, we have to bring EVERYONE who made this happen to justice. No moving on, no letting this go.
Revenge is good enough motivation for me personally, but the nobler and important reason is to ensure that anyone who thinks of doing this again knows they’ll rot in prison for it.
this is a very good thread. the point of rough drafts is that by creating them, you *learn about the nature of the problem you are trying to solve* and your new understanding shapes your strategy
As an aside, this mindset is often described as "lean" because you skip the "waste" of low fidelity work.
Buddy, no. Low fidelity is not the waste. Work in low fidelity is what prevents the high detail work from being waste. Lean is when cheap-as-free sketches are all you need to avoid that waste.
I don't pretend to know what it is like for trans people, and I'm not saying this is the same, but here is something I understand.
If I was told by society that I had to perform my gender like Kristi Noem, I feel an instant and immediate deep revulsion to the idea.
I think this is a great argument, beautifully constructed
The problem isn't just Noem or Trump or Miller. It's not just the MAGA movement. The problem is that 25 years ago we took the evilest gov't police force, supercharged it, removed any semblance of real oversight, and then turned a blind eye to its festering corruption. Abolish ICE & CPB.
These guys are going "look, I invented a mind that is ok to enslave!"
Which means they *already think there are some minds that are ok to enslave*
And then you look at how they treat actual people and you're like "yeah that checks out, shithead"
there's a thing I like to call "load-bearing assumptions", that you don't notice until they're suddenly gone (e.g the air you breath has oxygen in it).
the post-ww2 order is a load-bearing assumption for basically the entirety of american life. trump took a sledgehammer to it in the last 90 days.
have noted this before but want to again emphasize that us Tattoo Havers can tell you only certain shops would have totenkopfs and they are going to be surrounded by other nazi symbols that you will in fact easily recognize
This should be terrifying to anyone who makes their living actually doing something, as opposed to moving imaginary piles of money around a computer screen.
wow y'all.
The HOUSE OF LORDS got it? The HOUSE OF LORDS?
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Relatedly, when I started teaching music, a lot of my getting-to-know-you conversations with adults started to centre around where they could take lessons, and what to expect from them.
There was a joke on Grace & Frankie about a dad taking the kids to flute lessons & staying for his own flute lesson. But you know what, getting over my embarrassment and taking my own guitar lesson after my kid’s led directly to me writing songs & now teaching music lessons.
If there was ever any advice I would give to younger women regarding dating it is this:
Whenever a man volunteers to disqualify himself from the “race”, let him. Do not inquire. Do not implore him to reconsider.
Let. Him.
The mother is an asylum seeker. Her 7-year-old is deaf and didn’t have his hearing aids when he was detained.
There is absolutely zero explanation for hitting targets like this unless your objective is to destroy any possibility of normal life and produce mass civilian death. Completely unjustifiable and another war crime. We saw this thirty years ago in Iraq.
i cannot stress enough that if you know anything about how kristi noem found out she was fired you must tell me
Democrats may not be able to prevent Mullin's confirmation, but they can certainly turn his track record of offense and stupidity into two days of televised humiliation so spectacular that he is wounded in Trump's eyes from day 1. That is the job.
This is my actual objection. Our entire jobs have been transformed overnight into entirely different jobs, of far less social worth, and with zero relationship to the reason most of us got into them in the first place. All we want to do is contribute and AI billionaires are like HAHA NOPE.
“anger is real, and so is resolve” goes pretty damn hard
Have they considered widespread electrification, loans and loan guarantees to solar and wind and nuclear projects, and somewhat robust vehicular mileage standards to compel more efficiency?
Is *the exact model of the IRA* under the rock, or is it just one rock with “Drill Baby Drill” written on it?
I’m the descendant of Kansas settlers. My mom always told me how the farmers who did best created a crossroad with their neighbors. Folks who built alone in the middle of the claim didn’t make it.
But the national mythology is all about the greatness of those idiots trying to go it alone.
There are LAYERS to this one.
A small book with limbs made of rolled-up paper held between the covers and a crudely drawn face sticking out from the top
I don't have kids so I dressed up my book as a child for world book day
