The only part of this that isn’t completely known is extent of his participation. But we know her compliance with Trump wishes is the thing exchanged for upgraded accommodation.

“The President sent his lawyer to negotiate a settlement with a convicted sex trafficker to provide cushy accommodation in exchange for her silence on his participation in said sex trafficking” is a cold description of the facts of an insane story that the media doesn’t find worthy of scrutiny

Since the Democrats worked extra hard to hide who actually supported this, I think the No Kings/Resistance position should be to primary every Democrat unless they publicly call for Schumer's ouster this week Either they go into total rebellion mode, which they won't, or the people will

I truly don't know what the right choice is here. On the one hand, it's easy to say "Hold the line!" when you have a paycheck and zero food insecurity. On the other hand, giving up what little leverage the minority party has in a bad situation is hard. I don't know what the right choice is.

I understand the impulse to say "how can you celebrate one small piece of good news when [all the bad news]" or even "how can you celebrate the mere temporary absence of bad news on this topic" but I am, and I will.

I saw a lot of dooming over this case & how it meant that Obergefell would be overturned within the year But it looks like not a single justice was willing to go on the record to take this case. Try to remember that the worst case scenario doesn’t always come to pass, even in Trump’s America

A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.

folks. this is not going to blunt the blue wave. i am going to need you to ease all the way back on the dooming. trump is going to do eighteen more horrible things that eat news cycles by next *week*. no one is going to still be fuming about this in a year

America had a good run. We made a helmet that held two cans of beer. But it’s the Chinese century now.

figured others here would enjoy this

Oh, this is fun

In Japan, tourism to Portland, Oregon, is promoted by a grinning blue monster named Odnarodude. He’s at a Portland artisan event in Jiyugaoka De Aone this weekend.

Brother looks like he smoked an exploding cigar in a Looney Tune

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(he is a baby and is learning to be better about his teeth and claws but he gets excited. unlike grok, which cannot think or feel or learn).

"this is your last chance to dodge a block" I tell my orange cat after our twentieth disagreement of the day over whether it's okay to bite when you get excited. I am still communicating more effectively to greater purpose than this.

GTFO of our city.

a cat will suck the air from a babe's lungs. a dog will fill them with dog air, like a bellows

Way to go North Portland!

Man, LOL at Earle-Sears getting *3%* of the black female vote

Great news!

just a reminder that yesterday ICE tried to probe northwest portland and got shut down by blocks worth of people roving the streets looking for them. they didn't return today.

I do slightly think that what is happening in Chicago could be the beginnings of a non-violent civil disobedience movement that goes way beyond just like, No Kings protests, and could grow quite a lot

I'm not a real Gen-Xer But l'm the proxy-Gen-Xer for these lizardmen to yell at because they're too devoid of principle or integrity to yell at who they're really angry at

Cosmic crisps are awesome, my go-to apple the last few years

“Trump should have been easy to beat” is one of the most brain dead things one can continue to say in 2025. Whatever you think of “should,” we know he wasn’t. You could say that’s down to Democratic incompetence (except 2020 for some reason?) but you should entertain other hypotheses.

I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.

Isn't lichen brilliant?

If you want to quote tweet me you have to let me reply, especially if you’re gonna totally mischaracterize what I said

This is absolutely disgusting and she does not deserve this kind of harassment. Jesus Christ.

To my trans and nonbinary friends, I am so sorry that you have to deal with this hate. And I hope to see us reach the other side of it soon. And, we will reach the other side. This is horrifying, but it is ultimately the latest iteration of a time-worn tale. And their time always comes to an end.

I grew up just up the road from Gallup and would’ve assumed that they’d had Diné on the city council forever, really shocked to find out that wasn’t the case. Congrats to Mrs. Asamoa-Tutu!

Real chance Donald Trump is going to steal Thanksgiving.

New from Trump: I'd like to be Mamdani's bitch

Thank you, Madam Speaker. In 1987, I was a closeted teenager terrified of a world that seemed determined to eliminate gay people. You used your platform in Congress to fight AIDS — to fight for people like me. 1/2

Oh okay Pelosi isn’t running again! That’s fine to good. Thought she’d died.

I'm here for "bluekkake"

This is what I’m talking about when I say these signs and locked doors are coming to a city near you.

It's time to get over the shock and the scapegoating of November 2024. The reality is--as it has always been--that the existence of transgender people is not a drag on the Democratic Party. We have yet more indefatigable proof of this point. Lock in and win.

As the horizon begins to light, a being of pure architectural majesty opens a portal next to the wizard's mailbox. The being drops a letter into the mailbox. It's the interdimensional play by mail post!

Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.

We We will remain, in solidarity There are a lot more of us, and they’re breaking against us already

Folks...we are in for a hell of a fight. The fight of our lives. Bigger than any fight our parents' generation fought. But we're not giving up and we're going to give them hell and we're going to make it at least as hard for them as it will be for us. Let's fucking do this!

This is incredibly important: we must frame tonight as a resounding victory — an electoral landslide, a mandate from the universe itself and as a repudiation of MAGA, of Trump, and of vichy democrats we must be relentless, we must not shut up