I’m tired of correcting ignorant posts about “why can’t Biden just fire DeJoy” so here’s the fucking civics lesson you’re all too lazy or intellectually dishonest to Google. 1/ The Postal Reorganization Act of 1970 made the US Postal Service an independent organization. It hasn’t been part of the Cabinet for over half a century. 2/

Here is what pisses me off about intellectually dishonest asshole takes like this one — Biden and Dems cannot fight an entire country that doesn’t want to accept the reality of a pathogen. I have had to structure my life around my compromised immune system long before COVID and I can tell you one truth that doesn’t change — the vast VAST majority of humanity would rather kill you than compromise their own convenience at any level.

Mutuals, if you’re in my demo, I need you to understand something.

If I see you insert yourself into the mentions of Black/WOC accounts wagging your ass stealing their energy and harassing them with your nonsense it becomes my entire day’s goal to exhaust you. I want you to sit there sad, exhausted, and confused at how your ww tears did nothing to save you. I want you to be afraid to ever, ever do it again.

Because there is no room for this bullshit. None.

Okay, I read that whole CNN article and all I can say is this…burn it all down. Nuke it from space. Only way to be sure.

Also The Atlantic writer makes it clear that expecting white dudes to hold their peers accountable is why American newsrooms are so very broken. You can just smell the GOP-complicit “but let’s call ourselves libertarians” douchebaggery as you read. Especially when you get to the part where they both agree that no matter what else happened, Don Lemon was certainly the biggest problem at CNN.

The thing about this gifter that annoys me is not that he constantly tries to rewrite history (all grifters do that) it’s that he constantly tries to rewrite RECENT history. Daou’s schtick of pretending to be so fucking progressively holier than thou only developed because he was too inept and unlikeable to leverage his contacts within the Democratic Party to any significant role after 2008.

It’s been a while since I’ve plugged anything from @BF_Makeup but I just want to let you know that my favorite soap — Sirens and Satellites — is mermaid themed and has a special PRIDE edition where a percentage of sales go to the It Gets Better Project.
…autiful-freak-cosmetics.myshopify.com/products/pride… BF is a very small company where one exhausted Xer makes everything with her own gothy hands. You can, however, request your own colors for the hand painted mermaid tails if you prefer.

“Believe Women” was never intended to be about blind acceptance or never question anyone. It was about recognizing that assault, harassment, and threat are happening all around you and have been going on forever. It was about listening to those coming forward with an open mind. It was a slogan to raise awareness and drive a point.

The media allowed it to become weaponized by bad faith actors because the media was being revealed to be one of the biggest industries that shelters abusers.

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*deep breath*

Hahahahahaahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha It’s such a universally happy demographic that we have to delegitimize our entire democracy and corrupt all the branches of government so that a fundamentalist psychopath minority can force women to give birth and discover such happiness.

I absolutely refuse to post her name again on my TL, but I just want to say that woman did active, deliberate harm to survivors of sexual assault and abuse. Opportunistic journalists and clout chasers elevated her because it let them get cheap shots at Biden. We will not forget. Absolutely no part of her story made sense or held up. So much of it wasn’t just suspect but blatantly over the top and counterfactual. She had a long history of lying, manipulating the system, and fraud.

Bernie Sanders was a non-starter in 2016 because he had no significant Blsck voter outreach in the Dem primary. This was his own campaign’s fault and his choice as a candidate. Instead of accepting defeat with grace he chose to sabotage and poison the well. He chose to lie and cry “rigged” to cover his own political malpractice. He chose to complain that Red State Dems got a voice in the primary when they “didn’t matter” in the general. He chose to center only the *white* working class and disrespect the Dem base.

This bears repeating since all these “no labels” type grifters are trying to dupe uninformed voters.

In a FPTP voting system, voting third party only benefits those who are most diametrically opposed to your goals and values. White supremacists understand this. Any “third party” that is trying to sell you a reason to not vote for Democrats is trying to help the GOP. Some are useful idiots or stubborn old assholes that only listen to their own noise. Most are grifters that know exactly what they’re doing.

Fuck your “it was an impossible stage” takes. Hillary Clinton stood on a similar stage and held him to the fire while your entire industry played burn the witch and sucked the table scraps off GOP filled midwestern diner floors. It was not an impossible stage. It was set up to favor a twice impeached traitor and sexual predator that everyone in journalism has had years to prepare for but somehow is never ready for.

It was not an impossible stage. It was a deliberate stage.

And you all helped set it.

I want to point out one VERY IMPORTANT thing today. Every single complicit CNN mouthpiece and other journalist insisting today that there’s NOTHING THEY CAN DO as journalists when Trump just lies and lies are claiming their industry — based on communication — is helpless. These people who make their livings entirely around presenting information, spinning narratives, “debating” each other, and communicating with the public want you to believe Trump and the shameless GOP are forces of nature they just cannot professionally handle.

Undocumented immigrants give a lot more to our economy than they ever have a chance of getting back. Republicans know this. Their think tanks used to talk and publish about it pretty openly. But they willfully painted themselves into the corner of needing full scale white supremacy to maintain power so here we are.

FL’s economy isn’t going to be the only one tanking, but since our gov is gleefully burning down tourism, agriculture, and real estate…it’s gonna suck.

If your six year old can access your guns then they are not “secure” and that single, stubborn lie makes everything else in this statement suspect.

https://twitter.com/michellewolftv/status/1616105702786994178

I’m sorry. But if your six year old got to your gun, took it to school, and SHOT HIS TEACHER and you still refuse to acknowledge the reality that your gun was, in fact, not secure, nothing else you say can be trusted.

My theory is that it isn’t a big mystery why many people might find the escapism provided by theme parks compelling.

I have another theory that just hating on people you know nothing about isn’t a substitute for a personality. Look, I could go on in depth about Disney park problems, and, yes, fan base has oodles of problematic elements, but I find it interesting that the more non-white Disney parks get, the more white liberals feel the need to invent nonsense about it.

One of the main things “The Twitter Files” has exposed is how many established publications have allowed right wing nutjobs to write for them. None of these people are good or ethical journalists. Yet they got a place on the page while actual journalists scraped for jobs. So these outrage porn hucksters were given shards of legitimacy in an anything-for-engagement media landscape.

Everyone else keeps pointing out that Haberman clearly offered positive spin and coverage to Trump world in exchange for access. Which isn’t really news; it’s been obvious for a long time.

My question is different. My question is that we frequently see her name tagged onto a list of other bylines where actual investigative reporting is happening that exposes the GOP.

How much of that investigative reporting has she traded or sabotaged for access?

This year’s first holiday family drama has hit and my Mom is scrambling. Let the games begin! There’s a family member who my parents have sent a gift basket to every year for at least a decade (probably more). They have never sent anything back. Not even a card. Sometimes they call to say thank you.

This year my Mom decided to only send them a card.

It is in the low 30’s and still dropping. It’s so cold it woke me up.

I go through hurricane seasons to avoid this shit.

I demand to see a manager. I do not understand how some of you do this every year where it gets this cold or colder. Fuck this.

I’m wearing half the clothes I own and I have the heat on.

30 years ago today my family and I walked outside our battered home after surviving a night we didn’t think we’d survive, to find absolute devastation in every direction for as far as anyone could see.

https://twitter.com/bryannorcrosstv/status/1562407808665935872

Thirty years later and these lies about “looting” still piss me off.

There was no looting because most people had no electricity, running water, food, or shelter. There were people foraging for supplies to survive. That is not “looting.”