The way national media is treating Mamdani as a kingmaker and not focus on DSA’s party movement which has a literal army of members is good because it means they still don’t understand and can be taken by surprise again
Funny that they are just pretending LA is not currently filled with toxic smoke from a warehouse fire involving unknown chemicals and hoping nobody notices.
as someone who can't abide moodiness I strongly approve of the central thesis in phantom thread, which is that moody people should be poisoned because if they're going to act like babies they should at least commit to shitting themselves
time to bust out my favorite fun fact that California has the most unrepresentative state legislature in the US: 500K to an Assemblymember and 1 million to a state Senator. you need a hell of a lot of resources to fight those. (we should, tbc)
The US has been very resistant of the term "femicide" even while it's use spreads in other hemispheres. I suspect it's because the term recognizes violence against women as an interconnected social problem rather than a privatized, "domestic" one
Wow, a 2025 study found you could connect Craigslist entering a city with a decline in local newspaper staffing, leading to a decline in politics coverage, which in turn led to a decline in readership, which they connect to more partisan voting and extreme candidates.