@michaelianblack.bsky.social is one of my favorite commentators right now. I also hope people look back in a couple of years and think he's a fool.

open.substack.com/pub/michaeli...

So proud of my senators.

To be clear, this is a trope I am in favor of.

I recently read a cozy witchy romance novel set in the North Georgia Mountains (and a side of Wales) with a talking cat. Is this a new trope, witches in North Georgia with chatty pets?

These are precedented times and the precedent is a loud ass warning

www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...

Watching major media fall in line with hate and--just pure fiction--has made for a terrifying few days. It took only DAYS. DAYS. It's not like things were great before, but the curtain has fallen.

This is the time to hold on to your words. This is the time to look at these things hard and carefully. Read these pieces coming out and watch how the language changes. Everyone needs to take a spoonful of this poison, not to become immune, but to at least recognize the taste.

I am worried things *can* get stupider. How is there no floor?

Crockett: "If feels as if y'all have just decided that y'all are gonna castrate your constitutional duty & hand it over to someone who was unelected. It doesn't matter how many cheerleaders he had on the field campaigning for him. That doesn't mean he gets to go in and sit atop any of our agencies"

this is starting to feel like the embarrassingly bad auditions they used to show during the first few weeks of American Idol

but have you ever seen them in the same room

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Yes. This. Each time I post about the hypocrisy I'm getting these kinds of cynical responses, and really, stop it. I get that everyone copes in their own way, but don't pre-give in. Fight for your actual rights. Call out the hypocrisy. Not to convince them, but to remind everyone else.

If some MAGA troll on here tries to come at you do not engage. Attention is a troll’s oxygen.

Ignore and block them into the sun. They’ll get bored and leave.

First time I have seen that phrase.

I live in Georgia, and I received SO MANY fear-driven flyers in the mail from Trump, just hammering the economy. I received maybe 3 from Harris. I feel like that had an impact, especially in rural areas.

every pundit will try to lecture to u about what the country chose

but u know rejecting fascism and bigotry is always the right choice

Wonder what they mean by "personality."

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Some of my favorite commentary on this bitter day. I love a bit of humor in my dystopia. Today, we are all Sisyphus.

It's like the whole damn country is built on a Native American Burial Ground or something

I agree. This is the best oped I've read on the subject — and as a democracy-loving, terrified-of-authoritarians lurker, I have read a LOT in the last week.

Part of a good thread that illustrates why I don’t hang out on Twitter/X anymore

super interesting to me that Harris doesn’t just do better than Biden here but does better than most of the floated alternatives www.cnn.com/2024/07/02/p...