gf: hey how as work me: Masturbation is legal and it is implied that gay sex successfully operates outside of the mandate. There are multiple anti-mandate signs and events shown throughout the movie.

a reason that Stevens lost and other AIPAC candidates are losing despite the huge infusions of money is that Dem voters don't want to vote for a candidate who is funded by the same org who will immediately turn around and fund the Republicans

Andrew Solender@andrewsolender.bsky.social · 12h ago

AIPAC: "Our members remain determined to ensure that voters reject Dr. El-Sayed and his radical anti-Israel agenda in November."

Now here's a post

El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"

again the average customer for shein is an upper middle class woman who wants to buy trendy clothes

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 14h ago

Since people are still relentlessly abusing me over this, here’s why the so-called “boots theory” doesn’t make any sense. First, what is it? Some people have suggested I haven’t done the background reading, but it’s not a deep idea. It’s from a passage that’s four sentences long.

“NJPP’s impact comes from a talented team, strong partnerships, and a shared commitment to policy that improves people’s lives in New Jersey. I look forward to building on that foundation,” said @ptrchn1.bsky.social. Read the full announcement: www.njpp.org/media/press-...

NJPP Names Peter Chen as Next President, Succeeding Nicole Rodriguez - New Jersey Policy Perspective

TRENTON, NJ — New Jersey Policy Perspective’s (NJPP) Board of Trustees announced today that NJPP Senior Policy Analyst Peter Chen will become the organization’s next President, succeeding Nicole Rodri...

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being in a situation where you need Literally Every Single Dem on Literally Every Single Vote is a recipe for getting mad at the Dem party all the time because you give maximal leverage to its worst members elect enough Dems and you’ll be less mad! it’s basic math!

i should add- breaking the collarbone of a baby who is the granddaughter of a REPUBLICAN US SENATOR is not a bridge too far for republicans. max miller is the villain in this story but bernie moreno looks like a feckless loser, allowing his party to carry on this way. what a pathetic bunch.

btw if you’re ticked at AIPAC for whatever reason them spending a maximum amount of money to barely lose is ideal, 10/10, just as a pure matter of don’t-know-ball and forward outcome for them as an organization. this cycle has been catastrophic for them purely in terms of inputs and outputs

Discovered a cursed photo subgenre: "grift hands"

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Missouri elections be like: Hitler (R) 79% - Christ (D) 21% And then the ballot initiative: Amend the Missouri constitution to require the state to own the means of production and work towards full communism? Yes 92% - No 8%

Takes like this are very tempting but IMO go too far. The polling miss last night was historically exactly average for a primary — no evidence polls have gotten worse recently. And remember 2022 had the most accurate House and Senate polls in history! bsky.app/profile/gell...

Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · 15h ago

There’s no actual alternative to polling but I just don’t believe they capture public sentiment in any reliable way anymore

They’re calling it the most theater kid story of all time

Pixie Casey@pixiecasey.bsky.social · 2d ago

in insane local news, the 26 year old director of a rocky horror production was arrested for sending threatening messages to himself in order to get the play shut down bc he didn’t want to deal with cast drama www.mynbc5.com/article/rock...

Exclusive: The Trump administration is preparing to set a price floor and impose tariffs on polysilicon and related products, sources told Reuters, putting a material critical to solar panels and semiconductors at the center of US efforts to compete with China on AI and energy reut.rs/4yTmCad

me waiting for other people to take their turns in a board game

Another person conducting ICE abductions in New Jersey has been identified: Mike Smith of Warrington, PA, described by Jersey Counterinfo as “41 years, is married, is a homeowner, has two children, and is a Disney Adult.” He evidently is a U.S. Marshal: jerseycounterinfo.noblogs.org/nj-ice-agent...

insane that streaming services want *you* to pay *them* so that you *can't* see shit like this at the start of your movies

The Archive but it's a videogame from 1998.

I swear to god "professes to be radical left, but spends most of their time complaining about the cost of cheeseburgers and that their household wares are too cheaply made" is an unholy political chimera forged in the consumerist heart of American society to torment me, specifically

All nerd hobbies can have the social structure of their communities quantitatively measured with the Q:N (Queer to Nazi) ratio. Pokémon is 8:1. Warhammer is 1:1. Paradox Games are 1:1 but different from Warhammer because the queers and Nazis are the same people.

Please someone send the mayor MERIDIAN ARCHER 1200 BARRIER. Cost so sustainable good barrier for reducing police overtime he will not regret MERIDIAN ARCHER 1200 BARRIER.

this is not true. there was no conspiracy. it didn't matter whether the streetcars were publicly owned (seattle, detroit) or private (los angeles, atlanta). a thread (because i wrote a whole-ass book on this): 1/?

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 3d ago

Is everyone aware of the General Motors streetcar conspiracy? In the mid-20th century, auto and oil interests bought up electric streetcar systems across the US and systematically replaced them with bus routes and paved roads, funneling commuters toward private cars.

No they couldn't. People unironically get madder about housing than data centers.

GodlessPrimate@godlessprimate.bsky.social · 3d ago

It's all about priorities. The tech bros gave politicians a lot of money.

People would rather have the easy lie of this as a "conspiracy" when reality is that streetcar companies were hemorrhaging money because of local laws that made them money pits, while those same local governments liked buses for a variety of legitimate reasons.

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 3d ago

Is everyone aware of the General Motors streetcar conspiracy? In the mid-20th century, auto and oil interests bought up electric streetcar systems across the US and systematically replaced them with bus routes and paved roads, funneling commuters toward private cars.

Honestly, this is overplayed as to why streetcar and interurban systems went away. The main culprit is the private automobiles

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 3d ago

Is everyone aware of the General Motors streetcar conspiracy? In the mid-20th century, auto and oil interests bought up electric streetcar systems across the US and systematically replaced them with bus routes and paved roads, funneling commuters toward private cars.

"Sikhs suffer terribly from Islamophobia and Bosnians barely do" is I think one of the weird consequences of this

Kevin@reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 4d ago

*using "Islamophobia" as a catch-all for "the weird racialized set of prejudices many Americans hold against Arabs, Muslims, Middle Easterners more generally, and South Asians a lot of the time too"