James H McLaren @JamesHMcLaren@qoto.org

As someone raised by a single mother, who, once I got my license, often got sent on errands to go buy pads, and who has continued to do so, having been married for over 20 years to a real live woman who's a whole fucking person with bodily functions and everything, I really appreciate the type of masculinity that doesn't wilt in the face of totally normal and necessary sanitary products.

If there's one thing these fascists have made abundantly clear is that they value women primarily for their reproductive systems. And then they are gonna get squeamish about the normal functioning of that reproductive system?

And these are the same people who think you should have no problem seeing some white dude cosplaying in tactical gear carrying around an AR-15 in public.

Fuck these Nazi clowns and their fragile china-doll egos. I don't claim to know what it means to "be a man" but I sure as hell know it doesn't involve making women feel shitty about their bodies and forcing everyone around you to wonder if you're gonna murder them at any given moment.

How about just trying to be a decent human being?

The main problem with the failure of journalists and academics to abandon Twitter despite knowing that they should (the liberal professional condition is accepting a paycheck from sources we know perhaps we shouldn't) is that at some margin, Elon and his algorithm drive mainstream journalism in directions it otherwise wouldn't have gone, or at least not as far and as credulously.

I wonder whether the coverage given the lame attempt to "swift boat" of Tim Walz isn't an example of that in action.

Walz's ability to cut through the bullshit clearly and succinctly is such a joy to behold. The simple statement of "Mind your own business!" feels profound in a political landscape where the right complains about a "nanny state" when what they're trying to create is just a fascist nanny state where the government is all up in everyone's business. The Democrats are the ones who are saying just let everyone be themselves. That's a pretty simple and broadly appealing message, and it's so refreshing to hear a politician just say it directly and unapologetically, not because it polls well, but because it actually reflects his core values.

OK, this is freakin' brilliant. https://www.comicsands.com/harris-factcheck-trump-press-conference-2668934028.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

"should Nigel Farage take any blame for the recent riots?"

This poll isn't going the way the Express expected. Here's a direct link so you can vote too 😂

https://xd.wayin.com/display/container/dc/e91ed39c-179d-4b0f-9a09-ad756da68710/entry

If people were taught history, sociology, political science, communication studies, media studies, logic, etc. they would be less susceptible to being fooled by online misinformation.

In a stunning coincidence, these are the kinds of subjects that the right derides as “soft” or “fluff” when it comes to education.

It couldn’t be that the right benefits from ignorance could it?? /s. #politics

I hope people have fun today doing something that:

a) they are not very good at but enjoy anyway.

b) doesn’t result in a penny of profit for the billionaires.

The view while trimming the hedge this morning. It makes me happy. How could it not?

Y’all. I didn’t think I could like this man more. #Walz taught HS sophomores enough about geography and population factors that they accurately predicted the genocide in Rwanda.

“Walz said he was an early adopter of GIS software in the 1990s, using it, among other things, to teach high school students about the Holocaust.
He had his students build maps of the contemporary world using different layers of data that scholars believed could factor into modern-day genocides. “They started looking at food insecurity, potential drought, just like the UN was doing around famine early warning,” Walz said. 
In 1993, he asked his sophomores where they thought the next genocide might happen, based on the geographic data. They pinpointed Rwanda.”

Republicans continue to scrabble to find ways to attack. Elon Musk is using his huge platform to declare that
"Kamala is quite literally a communist."

Charlie Kirk announces that Kamala Harris is "more ambitious than Lucifer."

Donald predicts that Tim Walz — of all people — will “unleash HELL ON EARTH," a prediction to which Alexandra Petri responds with an amusing description of the Walzian hell.

#KamalaHarris #TimWalz #progressive #Trump #JDVance
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/08/07/tim-walz-policies-hell-trump-satire/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzIzMDAzMjAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzI0Mzg1NTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3MjMwMDMyMDAsImp0aSI6ImI3YTZhYzg0LTNjNDMtNGY5NC05YTRhLTI1ODFjNTdiYTFiMCIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9vcGluaW9ucy8yMDI0LzA4LzA3L3RpbS13YWx6LXBvbGljaWVzLWhlbGwtdHJ1bXAtc2F0aXJlLyJ9.6_SdA4VyIDxVYNmr6ICjTMdIGoXmbf6LfOSY-cToY7I&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

The world's richest 1% has seen its wealth soar by $42 trillion over the decade.

That’s nearly 34 times more than the bottom 50% of the global population.

Once again: It's not radical to tax the rich. It's radical to allow this level of extreme wealth concentration to continue.

I'm still up for Secretary of Fuckin' Shit Up. Fingers crossed.

Harris: we need to come together as a country

Trump: the Mexicans want asylum, they're breaking into our mental hospitals

RFK Jr: in October of 1998 I left a jar of human eyes in the fiction section of a Borders bookstore in Philadelphia