congrats to my son, on the occasion of his first big byline -- a piece for @thenation.com about his internship with Jon Tester and the future of the Democratic party. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Contest every race. Have a candidate in every race on every ballot in every county in every state. Run even if you know you can’t win. Run because you know you can’t win. No seat uncontested. Bring the fight to every ballot.

The irony is that Trumpism very closely resembles Peronism on many levels (nationalism, populist economics, political repression). The Peronistas took Argentina from being one of the richest countries in the Americas to one of the poorest. Trumpism promises to deliver a similar fate for the US.

There is no "neutrality" in journalism when lies carry the headlines of every topic of every news cycle. www.latinousa.org/2025/10/24/n...

We’re giving $40 billion to Argentina. This is $5 billion MORE that the entire USAID budget that DOGE cut.

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 81st day out of the last 93. 12 days of work in over 3 months. With full pay and benefits. The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown. It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

John Roberts legalized sports gambling; let $ pour into politcs; gutted VRA & administrative state; eliminated the right to abortion; gave complete immunity to Trump "[Roberts] has never copped to the fact that he was enabling corruption, theft, or autocracy" www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

TV ads aimed at 2026 wouldn't typically start. But if I were Tom Steyer, I'd be cutting some digital ads that show Trump tearing down the White House, bailing out Argentina, rounding up construction workers, and prices and buy some space on manosphere podcast video feeds

Monthly health care premiums doubling—or more—may not be "gut-wrenching" to Senators like Ron Johnson. But to most Americans, payments that used to be $772/month becoming $2,400/month is a BIG DEAL.

Mike Johnson has now had the House adjourned for 74 out of the last 86 days. They have worked 12 days in 3 months. Epstein Shutdown.

Chris Murphy: "This is a country that's falling apart because Trump is in the middle of an authoritarian takeover. We're not on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We're in the middle of it ... I have no moral obligation to vote for a budget that literally funds the destruction of our democracy"

Been to Monterey Bay aquarium multiple times. I will actually have occasion to wear this shirt around California and eventually to the aquarium again. 😭☺️

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison. Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

Worth a read today.

Trader Joe's Exec1: we'll sell lots of really good stuff at good prices Exec2: that doesn't sound at all evil. We're a big company, we're supposed to be evil Founder1: we are going to have the most inadequate, cramped, badly designed parking lots in the fucking world Founder2: ok that works

Many historians of Rome identify Roman generals becoming the personal sources of payment for their armies as a key step in the downfall of the Republic, since it personalized military authority and freed armies to fight for their immediate leader, who paid them, instead of for the Republic

Physical Media Collector Pumped For Downfall Of Humanity

Mark Kelly: “lf you are undocumented in our country, you cannot get healthcare from the Affordable Care Act exchange. You are not eligible for Medicare. You are not eligible for Medicaid. They’re just making that up. They just like to blame brown people.”

He thinks he’s Patton. Unbelievable

The complete abdication of responsibility for car drivers is extraordinary.

NEW WIRED led the way in reporting on Elon Musk's efforts to dismantle the US government. My colleagues and I spoke to 100s of employees at dozens of agencies to understand what happened. This is the definitive story of DOGE as told by those who experienced it www.wired.com/story/oral-h...

I'm so sick of uber rich mad men, sadist authoritarians and morally vacant boot lickers.

Kimmel: "This show is not important. What is important is that we get to live in a country that allows us to have a show like this."

He launched a more powerful defense of journalism than the vast majority of mainstream journalists have and that's an indictment of them.

MAGA is a cult. Normies around then world, the majority, rightfully look at them as unhinged. We have the numbers. Don't bow down or be silenced. Also dont make Charlie Kirk into a sant. Use your free speech to accurately call out his life that was lived in hate.

This is the biggest attack on free speech since the McCarthy era but it also has significantly less popular consensus behind it than the second Red Scare. It's being done on behalf of a minority faction led by the most unpopular president in modern history. Organizing against this can win.

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I see a lot of "history won't be on your side" takes lately, and while that's true of Republicans, it's also true that history will look upon this group of Democrats as the weakest, most unserious caucus in modern history People like strength. And they're begging you to show some

i think how we got here is that the right's favorite move is working the ref and the radical centrist's favorite move is self flattery that they could never be worked

Remember, every time they clutch their pearls over something someone said about them, they are lying hypocritical shitbirds.

MAGA is lost, folks. Don't waste your time convincing them. It's a cult beholden to Trump, hate and lies (Yes, he lost the 2020 election.) Win over the majority instead. Just share all the facts about Charlie Kirk using his own words and rhetoric, and Trump embracing violence. It's all there.

idk if you've seen this south korean editorial that ran a few days ago. google translate version scorched my eyebrows www.hani.co.kr/arti/opinion...

Watching all these centrist pundits stress the “civility” of Charlie Kirk’s style without addressing the ugliness of his substance is giving me a renewed appreciation of how the civil, polite White Citizens’ Councils conned the same crowd into thinking they were distinct from the cruder Klan.

Yuuuuup. Also, I don't give a shit if some of the worst people in the world think I am being performative or am virtue signaling. Fuck 'em. They don't get to tell me how to be. Anyway, trans rights are human rights, y'all. It's not complicated.

The murder of Charlie Kirk was criminal, wrong, and should be condemned. And Charlie Kirk was a horrible, hateful man who spent his life radicalizing young people to embrace their worst demons by targeting women, people of color, immigrants, and the marginalized. I refuse to sanitize him.

I agree. It’s rich being lectured by those who constantly inflame tensions and ignite hate.

Dear all writers: If you can't quote what the person you're defending actually said, maybe don't defend what he said?

From me, a list of Trump supporters who killed, or tried to kill, Democrats and opponents of Trump in recent years (since the right are now claiming all the political violence is from the left!) Receipts: zeteo.com/p/charlie-ki...

I would rather schoolchildren not be murdered! Or people in houses of worship! Or people at dance clubs! Or at the mall! Or at parades! Or at protests! Or anywhere! What if no people were easily murdered because we treated guns as though they were lethal fucking weapons!

i wrote this post in july two years ago when blue sky had around 200,000 total users and i thought i would ask again tell me what u are doing be proud of what u do and share it here

Bullshit. Trump and Trumpists and a disturbingly large slice of the modern Right are absolutely fine dehumanizing in far worse rhetoric an alarmingly long list of groups and individuals ideals. It’s their favorite thing to do. It gets them off. /1

GOP greatly overestimates the number of fucks GenX and younger give about Bill Clinton.

This has a very specific context: That Pam Bondi's DOJ refused to enforce an arrest warrant for Cory Mills after his girlfriend called the cops on him. We should keep repeating that fact: Pam Bondi is letting a powerful white man engage in violence in part bc GOP Majority depends on her doing so

USTA to Broadcasters: DO NOT show Trump getting booed. Streisand effect:

Over the decades I have spoken at all of the service academies and War Colleges. They've all known I was "a critic" of many policies This is a really, really ominous development (AFAcad cancelling a speaker, in endowed-lecture series, because she has criticized Trump.) gazette.com/military/air...

Seeing the hundreds of anti vax comments on every public Facebook post about any kind of vaccines, many of which are accounts with no friends and no real pictures, really makes it hard to deny there is a paid propaganda operation going on.

Lovely ride just ahead of the rain this evening. Picture of course doesn't do it justice but the sky was dark and the rain was starting to fall. #bicycling