Trans woman, Floridian, PhD, ex-academic, synthpop enjoyer, single issue voter It’s genuinely politically hopeless for a long time, sorry!
I agree with the idea of a hard cap, I think 10 to the 82nd power should be sufficient since that’s the largest possible number of atoms in the universe, and there cannot be more indivisible singular things than that number.
Elizabeth Nolan BrownMy 4-year/old just learned about the concept of infinity and is now throwing a tantrum over it. “It’s weird! I don’t like it. I just want numbers to stop!”
It’s always a joy to see trans sisters succeed!
Gillian BranstetterIn other Michigan news, the state looks set to elect it's first transgender lawmaker. Joanna Whaley won her Democratic primary and will compete in November for a state house seat, beating a primary opponent who tried and failed to disqualify her for not running under her deadname
We very clearly live in a time of mostly elite derangement. I think the mood of the voting public is mercenary: they think of right wing populists as wealth totems. But I do believe that the elites have truly driven themselves insane in the last five years.
rev. howard arsoni'm sorry what the fuck. gillibrand attends a church which teaches that COVID was God's punishment for permitting gay marriage?
I sure hope someday the world gets better instead of worse
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)Elon Musk's politics are indistinguishable from Paul Golding of Britain First [except Britain First is more coded on violence, while Musk has been more openly pro-violence as inevitable, necessary, legitimate since Aug 2025] The main pro-Hitler YouTuber "Zoomer Historian" is encouraged.
They did this it was called “The Biden Administration” and literally everyone hated it. This is not actually a silver bullet.
Jeff YangWhat if Democrats stopped obsessing over labels and Republican lies and embraced a mission of being the party of “good government that helps people“? Feels like we’d do a lot more winning. And helping people. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
God I wish that were me
Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICEMercy was invited to fly on the Goodyear Blimp!
Worried this is happening at my job so I’m trying to do more.
The Loch Ness MonsterAn important missing piece of information on that transgender wage gap graph is that trans women quickly learn that they need to make themselves indispensable to their jobs to not get pushed out, so every cent of that 60¢ is earned with twice the labor of their cis colleagues
I’m going to break the clone out of whatever medlab prison Bryan Johnson is holding him in, and have the clone surreptitiously take Johnson’s place, Man in the Iron Mask style.
wormextremely normal guy voice: I cloned myself so I can become my own blood boy.
It’s incredible to watch people discover, From first principles, 19th and 20th century social movements and electioneering after all civil society died in 1985. Like how nature keeps re-creating the crab.
Omar WasowWhy has DSA grown? One argument from this research: not just ideology, but organization. Strong membership plus ongoing and continuous participation in social movements creates credibility, committed volunteers, political skills, and durable electoral capacity. www.niskanencenter.org/inside-the-d...
Marx discusses this exact phenomenon in the 18 Brumaire when he basically calls the 1848 revolutionaries LARPers sapping the French revolution, right down to wearing the costumes.
Nathan GoldwagMy grand unifying theory of politics rn is that we haven't invented an ideology for the material conditions of the 21st century yet, so it's just been cargo cults for everybody.