Look what just arrived at my doorstep 🤩

"Let me be clear: The president has both the funding and the authority to fund SNAP during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.” Gov. Andy Beshear

Spreading the word in case this is new info.

I went a third of a century accepting, on the testimony of a cartoon, that coyotes chase roadrunners before I ever saw the real thing.

My neighbor is doing an acoustic version of All Too Well, and it's really good. I get live shows fairly often living here, and it's great.

I absolutely love that Kentuckians were fired up to vote yesterday (and must have been extremely crestfallen to find that the polls were closed. They had likely been seeing ads from Virginia.)

this looks like a trick daffy duck would put up to get bugs bunny into "the oval office"

I put away my clean laundry on the same day I finished washing it. Would like a head pat.

I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video. I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children. But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.

What's that, Aceco? You took a job from a grifter who is known for never, ever paying people? And then he didn't pay YOU? You, the company who demolished the East Wing? This is my shocked face. 😐

I'm living in a timeline where a priest is cross examined for being shot in the head with pepper balls and a lawyer is being tried for hucking a sandwich. This feels entirely surreal.

Has Mike Johnson -ever- told the truth? About anything? I'm wondering if he's even familiar with it or has heard about it. Since he's never heard or seen anything else, either.

An older medic with scant resources fights to support her community as they survive life behind the company wall. This novelette is my only near future sf story, inspired by a long-ago convo with my dad & by the activists who never give up. Free to read at reactormag.com/barnacle-kat...

I really need “On Your Marx, Get Set, Zo!” on a T-shirt.

There is something especially apropos about so much blue sweeping the nation on the day Dick Cheney died.

I would really love it if we could allow people to rejoice and breathe and feel hope for twenty-four hours.

Rep. Kaohly Her has upset St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter after reallocation of voters' other choices gave her more votes. Her will be St. Paul's first Hmong mayor, and the first woman mayor in

I've long thought that they need to repeal the "natural born" American stipulation and I particularly wish to see it done in my lifetime. Why? Zohran Mamdani would make a hell of a president.

courage is wildly contagious, and it's so powerfully cool that you can peer pressure cowards into acting like they have it

CA Democrats probably just saved the House of Representatives for the entire country but MSNCB decided a mayoral race in NYC was more important to talk about. We had less than 8 weeks to get this done and managed record turnout. Stop telling me Democrats are bad at messaging. It’s a MSM problem.

BREAKING: Democrats just broke the GOP supermajority in the Mississippi Senate! In a stunning victory, Democrats gained seats in court-ordered special elections and will now head to Jackson to represent and fight on behalf of their constituents.

there are basically not enough republican voters to create enough safe seats to withstand the kind of wave that, for example, turned virginia into a democratic supermajority state for the first time in the modern era of its politics

JUST IN: Soren Stevenson, who lost an eye due to a projectile fired by the police during the BLM protests of 2020 in Minneapolis, has won a seat on city council. @pascalsabino.bsky.social reported on his candidacy last month in a must-read: boltsmag.org/minneapolis-...

The latest, 11pm: —Prop 50 wins —VA Dems flip Gov, LG, AG; & gain in House —Dems win NJ-Gov —Mamdani wins —PA Dems win supreme court —ME vote-restricting measure loses —Krasner & Bragg win —JD's half-brother loses —GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices + Dem are leading to flip so many local offices.

We got a pet fountain that looks like a miniature kitchen tap and the cats are frankly in heaven.

If you're in line to say "I told you so" to Democratic pundits, stay in line.

The Pina Colada song was playing when Cuomo backers learned they got skunked? "If you have half a brain..." you wouldn't be at this party for a sex offender.

As many have pointed out, Mamdani didn't stand apart from our trans brothers and sisters. He didn't play the "Gee, gosh, it sure is complicated," milquetoast moderate card. And he crushed. The way forward is together, not over the bodies of our own.

HUGE THING: 100,000 people volunteered for Mamdani. 1000s volunteering for the FIRST TIME. And they just won BIG. So that's a massive army of progressives HUNGRY to keep on winning. That's worth more than all the billionaires' money. We're going to keep working. And we're going to keep winning.

we did it babes.... we're the opposite of cooked. what is that. we're ingredients

I am no longer employed so I'm not blogging Zohran tonight but I can just repeat exactly what I said in June :-) he won on the back of a pro-migrant, pro-trans, pro-working class campaign. and also: Dem pundits are full of shit

There is something especially apropos about so much blue sweeping the nation on the day Dick Cheney died.

[Exit Clown.]

Normal People Don’t Want This Shit is running away with the vote tonight

THEY DO NOT BREAK US THEY BREAK UPON US

this genuinely feels like a moment history books will look back on where the Democratic Party was forced to either fix its hearts or die

I don't live in NYC. I've only been there a handful of times, but I'm crying happy tears over Zohran Mamdani's election as mayor. I'm so heartened to see that being kind and concerned and genuine can have a good outcome. I have always wanted that to be true and to say it play out...

Aaaaaand my rep in the state house of delegates just lost her seat because it flipped blue!!

FUCK YEAH!!!! I love you, New York City! Let’s gooooooooo!!!!!

Regarding all my re-skeets about the elections in the south, these are the folks you keep threatening to leave behind. They're out there doing the work, fighting hard, and they're getting results. We gotta back them. We're not safe until all of us are safe. Nobody gets left behind.

WHOA. Via @decisiondeskhq.bsky.social, it looks like Democrats just flipped BOTH *statewide* Public Service Commissioner seats in Georgia. That seems...significant.

Betting markets just dipped out on Cuomo. Zohran at 98% on Polymarket.

BOOM: That's 5 VA House flips so far!

Jay Jones (D) has been elected Attorney General of Virginia, defeating Republican incumbent Jason Miyares. It's a clean sweep for Democrats tonight in Virginia: all statewide offices.

Congratulations Andre Dickens for winning AGAIN in Atlanta’s Mayoral Race! Atlanta stays BLUE! 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼💙💙 www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

Congratulations on your re-election, Mayor Wu - the best mayor in America. You proved once more that Boston can't be bought and won't be bullied.

is this anything

Sometimes I think about how Mitt Romney voted to impeach Trump twice. Then he retired from politics in 2023, and while I have no particular insight as to why, I like to think it's because he decided the Republican party was too noxious and full of turds to remain.

when do we bring this energy back??? (from a 1946 Photoplay magazine)