Are we doing "The ACA Sucks" Discourse again? I'm going to guess most people hating on it from the left have never received a hospital bill the size of book; I put the apple there for scale. That's the $1.3 million bill my kid incurred in his first ~94 days. Why does that make me respect the ACA?

I'm going to use the zombie analogy again: If you want us to survive the apocalypse - 1) we can't let people in the safe house who WANT to open the door to the zombies 2) the person who arbitrarily says we need to give up some of us to save the others also can't stay in the safehouse.

Hope there’s video of trump literally tearing down the Whitehouse

Wow. And we’re gonna pay to undo it as soon as he’s gone.

this is exactly right, and it bears repeating a million times over: we're not pro-Obamacare because we're partisans; we're just simply old and/or aware enough to understand that it was *the start of a series of systematic reforms* THAT REPUBLICANS HAVE NOW BLOCKED FOR A FULL GENERATION.

Oof sorry we all made the same hack joke :p

As an OG earnest I really hope i come back in vogue.

When you are pure of heart no amount of earnestness is Cringe. When you are a malevolent little freak no amount of sarcasm is enough to make you cool

Folks are asking what to do about the One Special Boy's AI vids and whether they should share them: MOCK THEM WITHOUT SHARING. This creates what an enthymeme, where readers have to SUPPLY PART OF THE REFERENT to understand what you are mocking. An enthymeme is the STRONGEST form of persuasion.

Theres a recent paper on these weirdos making the rounds, it’s good and might help us form frames and narratives that reach these people. phys.org/news/2025-10...

This is absurdly bad PR. These are the images that need amplified. If you're online, think strategically about which images need to go viral to tell the story of the horrors of this moment. RT and share the shit out of them.

The Tea Party's biggest distributed event was on tax day 2009, with 750 modestly attended protests. No Kings had 2,600. Its biggest single gathering was on 9/12/09 in DC, with somewhere between 75K and a few 100K participants. No Kings had 5-7 million. So: No Kings dwarfs the Tea Party. [2/3]

Reminder: We spent YEARS reading thousands and thousands of articles on the Tea Party and how it was a true expression of the American people's will, and it never mounted anything nearly as big as Saturday's No Kings rallies. [1/3]

"I am a Trekkie because Star Trek isn't woke" Star Trek:

[checks calendar]

This is what they took from you

The first two episodes of the revival of Reading Rainbow have nearly 500,000 views each 🤯 Do you know how cool that is for literacy, for book joy?! We are all worthy of reading, we are all readers 💚 And NOW episode three is out! Take a look, it’s in a book 📚🌈🦋 youtu.be/e4VIV48ZB0M?feature=shared

Good lord police you're looking for someone who robbed an art museum the guy is RIGHT THERE

Sharing this for one reason: I caught it without sound and it really hits home how all of this is a performance for right wing bigots. Watch it w/o sound. What would you think he’s talking about? Something serious? Something important? He looks like a used-car salesman trying to sell a mattress

I keep thinking about how so-called AI is literally just time-displaced human intelligence. Bottled human decision-making, by converting human acts of perception and description into data via effective slave labor, that can be replayed for first-world elites who have given up on thinking themselves.

seems that RFK is clearing the path for his CDC to do tuskegee syphillis experiments as a matter of course. in other news, RFK is a genuine monster who relishes in the pain and suffering of those he feels he has control or dominion over

what trump brought to the republican party, more than maybe any other thing, was contempt for virtue, and he’s demanded that republicans abandon any virtue they might have once had.

i love when people from other countries are like “does the US know how bad things are???” and it’s like YEA WE’RE AWARE

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

This sign rules.

So…civilians. Cause if they were criminals bringing drugs to the US, we would be putting them on trial and not sending them back… right? This feels like it should be a huge story.

notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”? anyway that’s why these events are important

(also y'all do a shit job focusing on the content too but keep making excuses)

whatever helps you sleep at night, sympathizers

Another day to remember that Republicans in Congress can stop all of this any time they choose. Any. Time. They. Choose.

vance to his kids: “it is okay to tell your friends you love hitler as long as you don’t get caught”

What I don't have in experience, I make up for in integrity. And what Andrew Cuomo lacks in integrity, he could never make up for with experience.

Sexual predators of a feather stick together 😂

This debate coverage has been great. Thanks everyone. Bluesky has the juice!!

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DAMMMMMMMMMMMNNNNNN!

I know I've said this too many times, but I used to think a lot of journalists were malicious, but I've come around the idea that a lot of them are just very, very dumb.

WILL ONE PERSON ON BLUESKY CRITICIZE RFK JR PLEASE!

Time for Congress to just pack it in. Caesar is paying the legions to make them his legions, regardless of the law: www.newsweek.com/government-s... If Congress can't dictate spending anymore, both what to spend on and what not to, it has no real authority anymore.

very funny that JD Vance has so little to do with his time that he goes on podcasts to defend 30-year-old men for saying how much they love Hitler

we’re gonna nazi so much harder at you for correctly identifying that we’re nazis

NEW @motherjones.com: Nobody in that GOP group chat praising Hitler or making racist comments was a “kid,” as JD Vance claimed today I tracked down their ages. (Weirdly, it seems nobody else did.) Eight of the 11 in the group chat range from 24 to 35. Ages of others are unclear. But… no “kids”!

kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school

Whether it's young Democrats expressing their support for DEI or young Republicans saying "I love Hitler,' both sides have expressed controversial opinions.

"The richest man in the world and the owner of the most influential social media site in US politics is a nazi who openly supports and amplifies other nazis" would, on its face, seem to be rather newsworthy!

The homie Steph Curry’s new book ‘Shot Ready’ is out now. Great conversation with him at the Brooklyn Paramount about his book that walks us through the pain of preparation in the quest for perfection.

Tesla Cybertruck Sales Are In The Toilet

Struzan’s work was the first art I saw as a kid that made me feel like I saw a magic trick. Like, I knew it wasn’t a photograph, but I just couldn’t work out exactly how it was a painting, either. A true instance of “how is this possible??” Even after seeing footage of him working it’s still magic

NO!!