https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/12/30/nick-shirley-minnesota-daycare-fraud/

In case anyone else wants a link/source so they know what the hell is being talked about

Changing the word “said” to “testified” would improve the headline

What happened with the co-chair of the DSA?

She isn’t a log cabin republican, I assume she just didnt know. We don’t have them where we live.

This makes me sad only because my sweet gay neighbor just went on a roadtrip and brought me back a rainbow tiedye bucees magnet thats on my fridge.

And for now its gonna stay cause it was a nice gift, but now bucees has made it feel complicated for it to be there :/

No! 😀

Damn :((

No worries, it can be hard to read people online, and not giving into defeatism is deeply important

Hope you have a lovely day my friend ☺️❤️

I absolutely agree that voting is agency we should use and that the first step is necessary, you cannot take more than one step without the first. I don’t think electoralism by itself is enough, but I don’t think we should leave any available agency on on the table unused

I explicitly disagree that the time for interrogating whether people are doing a good enough job on our behalf is only at specific points in the electoral cycle. I think we have to do that constantly.

I’m extremely excited about Mamdani but I’m not going to overlook any shortcomings he displays, like recently condemning a protest outside a synagogue as antisemitic when the synagogue was organizing auctions of Palestinian land. And to be clear, I’m still excited about him, and what he represents, and the progress he might bring to new York and the national political stage.

I dont think anyone outside of MAYBE revolutionary communist folks who feel electoralism is a trap are gonna get mad at you for your point about needing to encourage people to vote, but I definitely don’t think anyone really wants to hear mamdani criticism right now.

I get the point that you’re making is that with an election coming up there isnt room for reminders to keep the fallibility of politicians in mind, but frankly I think that’s exactly how we end up treating politicians like our chosen champions who become an extension of ourself who we cannot critisize

If youre worried about whether I do enough to advocate people vote here’s me two years ago on my previous instance:

feel free to post your “I voted” stickers in the comments; seeing them makes me happy!

You can do both: encourage people to vote, and also encourage people to have a healthier relationship with electoralism as a tool.

While I want that to be true, its worth remembering they are still politicians. Sometimes we put our political heroes on a pedestal and expect them to save us, but if we blind ourselves to their potential shortcomings by heroizing them then we can only take one step forward (however far forward they can take us), and to make real progress we need a lot more than one single step

They can make good progress and still let us down at some point, and when they do we replace them with someone who will continue to carry the ball forward and do the work we need.

Be warry of presuming perfection of those who promise progress. They can be the right choice and make real change for us, but we must remain able to see when they fall short.

Even more accurate would be Michigan Zionists. Don’t let them get away with pretending this is about Judaism. Its about denying the liberation of the Palestinian people and continuing the ongoing oppression and genocide.

YAAAAAY

They made icecream?

While thats true, feature suport is still nice to get. Like last I heard there isnt HDR, though maybe I missed that being added.

And we still need the ability to change trackpad scroll speed, which has been in limbo for forever

Do you recognize who that is? Cause I don’t, and tbh I don’t think the person I’m replying to did either 😅

If she’s MAGA I think it makes way more sense to critisize her for her actual political ideology, but I have no idea who this image is of

Yep. When people ignore the point you’re making and just keep saying more words that don’t engage with your critique its generally helpful to return to what your point is.

And you’re still not engaging with my point, and instead just deflecting by joking that I must not be okay because I’m reiterating that its weird and gross to say

she’s purposely putting on a vapid face in order to attract chuds

Still weird. Still not changed by rationalizing it as being purely about her expression. None of:

she’s purposely putting on a vapid face in order to attract chuds

is actually in the photo, or can even be expressed by a single contextless expression-- you made that up. And when I point out that thats weird you are choosing to engage with anything other than the critique I’m making.

But critique remains the same.

she’s purposely putting on a vapid face in order to attract chuds

My guy, that needs some unpacking. I’m sorry, you can rationalize it however you like, thats kinda ick. And again, that doesnt make you a bad person, but its worth interrogating why we’re constructing a whole narrative about her character and who she fucks based on the pouty stare she did for her photoshoot

Thats a really weird thing to read into a single stock photo of a woman you don’t know… So yeah, maybe that is worth unpacking a bit 😅

Lady is hot and therefore either stupid or pretending to be stupid she can fuck weird alt-right men? Its a single image of a pretty woman and you’ve invented a whole character and backstory that just so happens to fit nicely with sexist tropes 😅

I don’t think that like makes you a bad person who hates women, but it might be worth setting down the defensiveness and asking yourself why that’s what you read into stock photos of attractive women

Edit: added last paragraph for clarity

For some reason I initially thought this was a picture of him like getting onto a bus, like why are you flashing these random public transportation riders your midsection

As a ui nerd and gnome user, nice! ☺️