Humoring conservatives & acting like they make good points over the last 30 years brought us here. You never have to listen to them for the rest of our lives. It's time to treat career arsonists with the contempt they've earned instead of imagining a fake world where they're reasonable interlocutors

investigating Elon Musk, subpoenaing him, making him testify under oath, and working toward significant prosecutions should be one of the leading Democrat campaign promises right now

not just for DOGE, for a decade of self-driving fraud that has killed more than 60 Americans, and many other crimes

well, it depends on whose idea it was. if this is just one of those random Trump ideas, I can accept that he doesn't know how insurance works, since he also doesn't know how trade and tariffs work. if it's someone else's idea, it's probably deliberate sabotage

Obama’s charisma often gets put in terms of speeches but I think it was much more stuff like this, if he saw some little kid he’d be like oh hey there dude in a way that didn’t make him seem like a maniac and 90% of politicians can’t do that anymore

stand up for trans people: it is the right thing to do and it just will not hurt you, not now, not in this environment

and maybe folks can start to relearn that trans people are pretty fucking cool, actually

we have that environment now for the midterms. a lot can happen before November of 2028

“Why aren’t the people who disparage and dismantle the humanities nominated for more literary awards?”