It is legitimately a tragedy that the 250th anniversary of this country's birth will be presided over by a president who is EVERYTHING the founders warned us against -- a partisan demagogue who fundamentally loathes the separation of powers and denies election results he dislikes
I don’t want a president who’s “just like me.” I want a president who’s smarter than me, more articulate than me, more well-read than me, and better educated than me with the confidence to surround themselves with people smarter, more educated and articulate than they are.
Find me the conservative parents with kids in daycare who would be okay with a group of anonymous men, some masked, some with cameras, being allowed without their permission into their kid’s daycare in the middle of the day to *film their kids*.
Find me one.
I say this as someone who’s not a romantasy reader: if you read at all in 2025, good for you. I hope the books brought you joy and I’m proud of you for wresting something good out of a pretty shitty year. I hope you read more books in 2026. I hope everyone does.
Seemed like every attempted takedown of #Mamdani either accidentally showed off that he was awesome and hot or was just blatant racism... So it's nice that the latter didn't work this time.
Conservative inability to distinguish commercials from reality now extends to thinking Grey Poupon is an expensive luxury item because of the limo commercial from the 80s
Truly sick of the "he can't do that!" "this is illegal!" etc takes from everyday humans while the people whose literal job it is to do something about it are on an extended vacation to deliberately not do anything about it. We're so cooked.