When gender is irrelevant to the story being told, it's normal to leave it out in just such a way. Just like they left out lots of other superfluous details that don't irk you.

I still have to pay attention to my words because I use gendered language reflexively from years of learned behavior (US English here) and I don't get it right all the time, so I'll be the first to say it's not only not weird to say "my wife" or the like, it is in fact far too damn easy for the words to just fall out on their own. It's been practice for me to get used to saying spouse and partner but I think it's good overall to omit the gendered aspect when it is irrelevant simply because the result is more inclusive language that resonates with an even larger audience.

We stopped including things like skin color and sexuality as an extraneous identifying detail in conversation a long while back (speaking in a really broad generality here, forgive me please) because people recognized it as othering. I feel like we're getting there with gendered language and like it's for the best.

Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords as a basis for a system of government.

Food is famously a luxury good so it makes sense people would pull back in order to spend their money on necessities like bombs to drop on foreign elementary schools and shit

Weird how we have to pay more money every single year, and insurance somehow provides us less and less for our greater and greater spend

Didn't George Floyd get murdered because he paid with a counterfeit? And assholes like this are proud of it.

Ooo let's make it nationwide then

Raping children is a political issue? That's a weird thing to say, Mike.

Jonathan Ross murdered Renee Good when he shot her shot through her head from outside her driver's side window.

Hell yeah, AOC. Get fucking loud.

Take off the masks, you fucking cowards

Of course they did. This is fascism.

It's soul crushing at this point to see how effectively a bad actor can fuck up the US. A carnival barker is nominating arsonists and telling everyone the bonfire is going to be amazing and loved by all, and instead of giving consideration to what the fuel for the bonfire will be, the half of the Senate comprised of arsonists and pyromaniacs has decided the bonfire must be funded at all costs and should be the biggest bonfire ever.

I fucking hate this. Fuck fascists.

Yes. He is now directly and mockingly violating the constitution and an explicit Supreme Court order. It is now a completely naked constitutional crisis for all the public to see.

Reasonable people have seen it happening since long before today, but today marks a shift from a more covert assault to an open one, and that is noteworthy.

Eta: I don't mean they were really covert before, either, to be clear. They dropped any remaining veil of plausible deniability today though. And then also let it slip on recording that the intent is to deprive US citizens of due process and ship "terrorists" (read: undesirables) to El Salvador, too. Today is a historic day, sadly.

I'm a descendant of immigrants. And I bet you are, too, fellow American citizen reading this comment. I wonder where they draw the purity line tomorrow?

This is from the future I always dreamed about, amazing

This is the one to watch. All of the cases are important, of course, but this one has come to a head. The top layer of the judicial branch has issued an order at odds with the wishes of the Trump administration, and it's the executive branch's constitutional responsibility to see that the order is carried out.

This is where we find out if our fascist leader has any guardrails left to protect our democracy or if we truly live in a fascist state where people can be disappeared with complete public awareness at the whim and pleasure of ICE.

Resist. Yes. This is what they need to be doing, and not just rolling over and capitulating. More of this please. So. Much. More.

"What do you say to the Proud Boys?"

• "I don't know them, but stand back and stand by"

"What do you say about Project 2025?"

• "I don't know them, but I wish them well"

Cool. Cool cool cool.

"I do think that again, we are in the midst of a massive shift in dynamics in the media ecosystem for lots of reasons, again, including the permission structure that President Trump's election has provided," the FCC chief said.

The fascists with the real power have abandoned their masks. The fascists with ambitions for power still wear them. For now.

The suspense is terrible. I hope it'll last. (RIP Gene Wilder)