I don't like that my income has increased and so have my bills. This was not the plan.

Russ Vought set out to ensure a second Trump term would not be hampered by checks and balances: “I don’t want President Trump having to lose a moment of time having fights in the Oval Office about whether something is legal or doable or moral.” By @andykroll.bsky.social, with @newyorker.com

CNN uncovered an audio of RFK Jr comparing Trump to Hitler and saying his supporters are “Nazis” and “cowards”. This is what makes fascism so dangerous… many people will happily join their ranks if it means they can grasp a tiny bit of power. We all know they’re fascists & now they’re admitting it

Ceasefire unravels: Gaza sees deadly strikes; aid flows suspended

I hate to be a doomer but the pandemic broke me in this regard I think. After watching like a third of the country proudly say they wouldn't inconvenience themselves even if it cost other people their lives, where do you go from there

We gotta do a nationwide inquest into antisocial behavior. Leaving your dog's poop on the street. Not returning shopping carts. The What's Wrong With You initiative

They had told Newsom to keep I-5 open during this stunt.

Dismantling the Institutional Review Board (IRB), that oversees all human subjects research, is bad. Really bad.

we are in a self-awareness crisis

Epstein Survivor Lisa Phillips: Everyone makes it about Trump and Epstein, but it’s about this whole ring of men. That’s what makes me upset, because we know they were there. We saw them. We know there were royalty, princes, very powerful people in academia and tech, and we saw them at parties.

I watched La La Land out of boredom and, uh...How did this have 14 Oscars nomination?

Never underestimate the lengths to which men and their allies will go to retaliate against women who tell the world what they did.

Remember when people were bloviating about martial law during the COVID pandemic? Amazing they don't have anything to say about *waves around* all this.

Two people I don't communicate with regularly reached out to me this week to "send me good vibes" or tell me I was on their mind. I'm thankful but also kinda nervous bc that feels a little eerie.

KARL: I mean, you could swear in Adelita Grijalva tomorrow, right? MIKE JOHNSON: No, not tomorrow. We couldn't. We wouldn't.

Another lethal strike, this time allegedly against a vessel affiliated with the ELN. And no, the ELN is not like al Qaeda. The ELN has not attacked the United States like AQ did on 9/11. And Congress has not authorized the use of force.

Rand Paul: "When you kill someone, if you're not in a declared war, you really need to know someone's name at least. You have to accuse them of something. You have to present evidence. So all of these people have been blown up without any evidence of a crime."

Nothing that any elected Democrat has ever said about Republican voters is ever as crass or as cruel as what Trump says about Democratic constituencies every single day, and the media just treats it as background noise.

Oh it’s not appropriate for your program to air the president wearing a crown and shitting on American citizens? You’ll talk about it in euphemisms? Maybe call it the “crown video” and ignore the shitting part? Because that’s appropriate? Tell me, was it appropriate for the president to do it?

Anytime you ask “why did the Times cover it this way?” or whatever corporate media it is, remember that influential moderates are the tool of the wealth class and are there to normalize whatever the wealthy want and create doubt regarding reform and change.

"journalist" should be a protected title, like "engineer". that if you misrepresent things, you lose your practice

I love whatever is wrong with them 🙂‍↕️

I really do think littering is one of the simplest indicators about one’s character. Only awful people litter. Just put the trash where the trash is supposed to go.

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Many soccer fans were excited that the men's World Cup would be coming to the U.S. next year — until they discovered how much FIFA is charging for tickets.

Mike Johnson: "We're fighting for healthcare as well. Not just in word but in deed. We put in the one big beautiful bill, real reforms to Medicaid to make it work better." (The bill in fact cuts nearly $1 trillion from Medicaid.)

This is exactly it. Those over-represented by outmoded electoral institutions with anti-democratic effects are then promoted and perceived as the true lords of the land while the rest of us are just its temporary tenants. Every day

Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) at the Boston No Kings rally today, wore the trans pride flag like a scarf draped over his shoulders and included in his speech. "Because here in Massachusetts, we stand for what is right. We stand with trans people because trans rights are human rights."

📽️ WATCH: This video on the rise of Russ Vought, Trump's “shadow president,” is based on scores of interviews, thousands of pages of emails and dozens of hours of videos and recordings of private briefings given by Vought, most of which have not been previously reported.

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

A LAPD officer driving an SUV through a crowd of people knocks over and injures a man in Downtown Los Angeles. @shoton35mm.bsky.social

🚨 NEWS: Colombian President Gustavo Petro accuses U.S. government officials of murder and violating Colombia’s sovereignty and says the Trump-ordered strike of a boat in the Caribbean killed a fisherman named Alejandro Carranza.

UPDATE: COLOMBIA’s President says 🇺🇸 government (Trump) “committed murder” and bombed a fisherman with no ties to drugs “The boat was adrift and had its distress signal up due to an engine failure”

I know it's a fool's errand to expect anything from the media but "President posts video of himself dumping diarrhea on America" is an important thing to call attention to for a dozen reasons

This is what the 25th Amendment is for.

On our way to #NoKings

I would note that this disdain points in one direction. These legacy media outlets have been quick to cover and hype tea party protests, anti-mask/anti-vax protests, and countless other examples of what they call “real Americans” engaging in protest.

Some of my favorite #NoKings signs (not mine) from Lexington, KY

I tried a Little Trees car air freshener for the first time in years and I don't remember them smelling so awful.

Political parties must shift immediately and dramatically to the left to avoid alienating these frustrated and abandoned young women. Am I doing this right?

If the signs today are any indication of where the electorate is at, mainstream sentiments include: -Abolish ICE -ICE is fascist -ICE would have arrested Jesus -ICE should get Nuremberged -Trump is a pedophile -Free Palestine

A lot of the same people who don't like "they voted for this" re: red states confidently asserted that voting for Kamala Harris was "a vote for genocide." Two sides of the same intellectual dishonesty born of self-righteousness. It's almost like elections and their results are nuanced. Imagine.

Despair is the weapon of the enemy. I see so much of it on social media, saying nothing matters, all is lost, and hope is foolish. I disagree. I refuse to believe the battle for equality and liberation is over and we lost. I REFUSE.

“You can win elections by tacking to the middle; lots of people have. But you can also win elections by staking a moral position and convincing people to agree with you. You can earn support by demonstrating what is important to you instead of just being determined to nod along with what you hear.”

An astonishingly large crowd! Chicago

Looks like the Russians like his Russia tie. It’s not red-white-blue either. It’s red-blue-white. Like the Russian flag. For a meeting with Zelensky.

I find it strange how rarely people in the U.S. and outside of it truly contend with how VAST the country is geographically. Folks LOVE to mention France but Paris has a population of 2 million people and is 40 square miles. NYC has a population of 8.5 million and is over 460 square miles

This woman

Grotesque corruption. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...