"I know exactly what you need", said the doctor. "Great clown Pagli-"
Pagliacci yanked off his bright red foam nose and pounded the desk in one furious motion.
"Motherfucker, I came here straight from work!"
The UK has shown, if you want a left candidate don't vote for a right winger in left clothing.
The GPEW have forced Labour to the left.
Not voting for faux democrats will do the same in the US
There are some people who claim "oh, Dems in blue states will never shift towards enacting anti-trans policy"
Meanwhile Colorado is literally enacting a medical detransition protocol for trans youth on medicaid.
Rather than cover the cost of gender affirming care for trans youth under medicaid, Colorado is voluntarily enacting the republican "taper and detransition" policy for youth on medicaid and dropping coverage.
WTF.
Brazil going the way of South Korea. Basically around the world women are desperately trying to keep power out of the hands of incredibly stupid fascistic grifters while men keep trying to hand it over. Men are an embarrassing cringe gender.
Lula winning is great for the planet, great for Brazil, and great for people who aren't revanchist assholes everywhere in the world, but let's not forget that it's also going to make some of the worst people on Earth extremely sad and mad. We should enjoy that, as a little treat.
"How dare Obama make fun of Cheesecake Factory, a restaurant with totally normal décor that doesn't look anything like an unused set from David Lynch's Dune."
The world right now feels like when I went down to LA to deal with my childhood bedroom after the earthquake. Everything formerly meaningful is in a pile on the floor and it's, OK, what's neither shameful nor broken beyond repair, and worth taking into the future, except it's every institution.
The bigotry and transphobia coming from the Democratic Party, coupled with all these weirdos jumping in to defend and excuse it, really underscores just how correct Malcom X was about the white liberal back in the 60s. They haven't changed, even today. Turek, Talarico, Acton...
Just gonna say that if you’re tired in your bones of Cape-shit and you’re hungering for art that explores what it means to be human in a world shaped by the hands of a tiny few individuals holding enormous power with conflicting worldviews, this is THAT BITCH. Gillen keeps raising the bar.
Once more, we're on. Out January, THE POWER FANTASY #18.
"Where we consider the big issues, like if you could travel back in time to kill baby Hitler, would you? How about if Hitler was actually a lovely-if-self-obsessed artist who killed the world by accident?
Also, Jacky Magus panics."
People who think embracing GOP hatred of trans people is the only way for Democrats to win in that part of the country should remember that in 2025, John Ewing became the first Black mayor of Omaha NE by running this ad. He beat Republican incumbent Jean Stothert by 12 points.
Josh Turek of Iowa, Democrat, comes out with one of the worst anti-trans ads yet.
Not only is it an anti-sports ad, it proposes a ban on federal funding for gender affirming care. That would hit all medicaid and medicare patients, and any ACA federally-subsidized plans as well.
Horrific.
You can't beat fascism by agreeing with fascism. You can't beat fascists by accepting a fascist frame.
Corporatist Democratic Party leadership needs to be defeated and jettisoned. We have to fight them, not because we don't want to fight Republicans, but because they refuse to.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC - @electdemocrats.bsky.social) is running anti-trans ads now, so I don't know how you can say the party itself isn't embracing transphobia.
There are still some good Dems out there, but transphobia is apparently a party value.
When I was a kid, I thought the lyrics to Kenny Rogers' "Lucille" said:
You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille
With four hundred children and they dropped in the field
It is, fundamentally, an exercise of choosing the lesser evil, over and over and over again, so that the total amount of evil in the system decreases over time.
And you must keep doing it, because - since evil is easy - good is easily reversed.
Scoop: White House lawyers are weighing preemptive mass pardons for junior staff, sources says
Under discussion: Pardoning everyone involved in deportation, war, or trade policy
www.washingtonsun.com/whitehouse/w...
this nostalgia person on Instagram was like “check out my dad’s WWF toys” and I was like lol those can’t belong to your dad, they were around when I was a kid
there's a burger chain in toronto that sells "california style" burgers, which means that the buns are inverted. not a thing in california. im losing my mind at how stupid this fuckin burger looks. i can't believe they sell this as a regional specialty.
seems like "on the orders of a nazi every major news outlet on the planet hounded an innocent man to death because he's black" should be one of the biggest stories of the year