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Had a nap this afternoon and dreamed I was at some kind of corner store. I kept apologizing for being kind of flaky going "sorry I'm actually sleeping on the couch right now"

Democrats collectively deciding that most Americans have Stephen Miller's views on immigration was a cataclysmic political fuckup, not simply a moral one

roses are red tulips are white WE FOUND A NEANDERTHAL INDUSTRIAL SITE science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

What voters think nativism will mean: stop giving benefits to others, so you can focus resources on citizens What it actually means in practice: stop giving citizens benefits, so you can focus resources on punishing others

Not loving @nytimes's "housing trumps the environment" gloss on today's generational reforms of CEQA. These reforms most certainly are not an invitation to pave over paradise. 1/9

Here's a wild idea: maybe Rowling has been a conservative woman all along? Why isn't it your highest calling to defend and protect? What do you think Rowling thinks your highest calling is?

TERFs have abandoned feminist liberation because they have decided that oppression lives in the chromosomes. Rather than oppose oppression they prop up an oppressive state in exchange for being the token - very rich, very privileged - embodiment of the oppressed. 3/?

This bill is expected to be signed into law by the Governor on Friday. Why is it such a big deal? Let us explain in a short thread.

has that dude had his little birthday boy tank man parade yet? it’s hard to tell because the only thing the news is showing right now is how much people around the country hate him

PSA from your tired public defender: Please turn Face ID off on your phone and leave it off

Oh the musical about how people who commit crimes are human beings and how blind adherence to law enforcement is evil?

The original French lyrics of Do You Hear The People Sing go so much harder it's genuinely unfair

Just un-mothballed a craft project after like 8 months, please clap

Here’s a little hint: the far right just want to do martial law and concentration camps. They’re thrilled by the prospect and disappointed nothing really bad happened to justify it more easily

The AI industry is full of blatant lies, but the claim that we can reliably detect AI-generated writing is one of the worst. The idea that these pseudoscientific AI writing detectors are being used to justify punishing young people makes me incandescent with rage.

And that’s fine. That’s good! If you want to win, whether you’re a diehard true believer or a pragmatic moderate, you actually all need each other, because you’re all just variations on a core moral worldview, that you’re all collectively engaged in a project of selling to others

I propose that anyone criticizing Abundance without reading it be instead required to read a single sub section of the california HSR environmental impact statement. You can find the itemized hundreds of pdfs on this page hsr.ca.gov/programs/envir…

bro I JUST woke up

NIMBYs are realizing their position is untenable and are desperately latching on to any and every bad faith argument. They want you to think “we don’t really need 1:1 unit/parking requirements” = “we should legalize building tenement blocks out of cardboard and popsicle sticks.”