We’re neighbors with Sarah Huckabee Sanders and lots of folks let their dogs use the lawn outside her gates as a toilet - and I’m not saying I have encouraged my dog, or taken photos of it, or made it my Christmas card last year - but it’s been a topic, “should we all be letting our dogs shit on her lawn, since her lawn crew cleans it up?” Yeah, we should. But it was a good thought exercise.

We are in for it now. Public heath has always ben a sisyphean task. Interrupt it and you lose ground immediately and constantly until you go backstop the fall. Which is to say, we’re in for it.

I like that they actually included a photo of Mrs. Doubtfire in the article, in case people need a visual reminder of the hilarity.

Oh shit… I have like 15 spider plants around the house, this suddenly explains a lot

Is the stimulant desoxyn by chance?

They’re only being classified as weapons in prosecution, not being banned.

And rub your face all over it. They want to be near your smell, if they like you anyway.

The article claims that changes in water lines resulted in altered perceptions of the border line. As if international borders are hallucinogenic in some way? IDK

Wasting. They’re depleting entire aquifers that took thousands of years to fill up. it’s remarkable that they’re allowed to do it. Hell the major cities in Texas are sinking because of it. But ho hum, whatever. We don’t need conservation.

Onto a trampoline where he bounced back in, and was refenestrated.

And then they injected polonium in his veins, the end

Presumably whoever was in charge of .NET? Weird writing around that.

We both agree the party has to be changed from within. We agree on basically everything. I do not hope everyone starts talking like Mamdani tomorrow. I’m in Arkansas, formerly blue and now red (like my home state of Iowa). Absolutely zero people here, within either the Dem party or the progressive coalitions working outside of it, would say “what works in NYC will work here.” People are not there yet. We have to meet them where they are so we can change their hearts and minds.

What will work here is the simple message “we know you’re at or beyond financial ruin, we have the only solution.”

What won’t work is "let’s divide ourselves as progressives vs. establishment, pro vs tepid trans support, split every hair and make ourselves look like the weak navel-gazers they paint us as. Stop dithering about who is “DNC” and who isn’t. That’s the problem right there. We are all DNC. We are all progressive. We are all one.

Unity. It’s what the Republicans started with the Southern strategy, which I know is real because I saw it flip two states, starting way back in the 80s when AM radio was quietly taken over. AM radio was in fact a brilliant way to reach the rural folks and start a populist campaign, which the bore fruit in the 90s and 00s as the party began evolving away from old ideals. They had one message - “those city folks want to destroy your good, wholesome, Christian way of life.” From there the party itself reinvented itself (multiple times over) not at the ballot box, but by powerful people within the party who knew how to crack whips and enact reform. We need to identify and empower these people within the Democratic party, and that might mean putting side differences to build the big tent coalition we need.

When Elon Musk and all the other now-mainstream-weirdos started calling for a civil war, it should have been a wakeup to progressives - this is not in your best interest.

Taking back the average middle-class voter will require changing hearts and minds. That’s what the Republicans did to them. We, on the other hand, have been hitting them over the head with their own racism and stupidity, ignoring the reasons they’re doing what they’re doing - and how we’re playing into Republican hands by doing this over and over.

Now is the time to build the progressive party as a big tent - if you hold one progressive tenant, you’re a democrat, goddamn it - and start inviting voters into it, with solutions to their problems and acceptance of their ass-backward views until we can soften and change them.

I believe this is the only path forward.

If you’ve ever heard of “neoliberals,” they’re not talking about Democrats, they’re talking about an economic philosophy, they’re “neo” liberals because now instead of just wanting capitalism on the national scale, they want to see it globally, which is what has happened in the past decades. China being the world’s factory, for instance, is a neoliberal greatest hit. Offload the negativities (like shitty life for labor, polluted land and water, etc) and import the positives, while netting a handy profit, what’s not to love.

All of them yes. I make it a point to get back on friendship terms so there aren’t any open wounds or resentments festering. I want to wish them the best, so I do.

My friends bought me a dance from a male dancer, in a private booth… once in there, the guy told me they’d paid for a blowjob as well. I kept my dick in my drawers and we chatted for a few minutes instead. Who the fuck wants paid sex, ick

A friend of mine just got her first real break from her 3-yo-kid in a while… she caught up on the news… by the next day she was in the ER having a full panic attack she couldn’t stop.

She’s a therapist.

Nothing I love more than coming upstairs after my day of chores, exhausted, to find a ball of sheets on my bed. THANKS earlier me.

There is a third option… the horror that will be visited on survivors

Always live and work near a city center so you get taken out quickly

He’s demented.