"Well, it's finally official. Sandwich throwing is now legal in the District of Columbia."

Call me old-fashioned, but shouldn't it be a news story when the president is posting AI videos of himself (without disclosure) talking about *nuclear weapons*? truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

Then he spent millions of dollars to elect a corrupt fascist government which ignores these concerns and disappears people off the street and tear gasses kids.

Smell the onions and mustard—of *justice.*

when you stunts the press covers it so do stunts so the press covers it

He's not getting his security deposit back.

JD Vance et al are so concerned with birth rates and claim to fight antisemitism yet ally themselves with a Nazi incel who says sex is "gay."

I see, I see www.reuters.com/world/us/boe...

Let it unleash a thousand memes. I call this one: "Donald Trump stands idly by while the American economy passes out in a corner."

George Washington is a funny reference point to use in an argument that a president should hold power indefinitely

This parenthetical is striking, given how often the Washington Post references Republican attacks on Democrats without noting their falsity. Also striking since Democratic criticism of Project 2025 has aged much better than Republican and media critiques of that criticism.

all thanks to the innovations and build-out that Trump is cancelling and undermining at every opportunity

I’m 47. In my lifetime we have had at least 3 major economic contraction/recessions under Republican presidents. Reagan/Bush, Bush II, and Trump. It keeps happening. Layoffs rise to recession-like levels through October, new report says www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

When we were on Twitter the line was “Twitter isn’t real life” and now that Twitter is deliberately stirring up bigotry it’s “Bluesky is a bubble you have to be on Twitter” and I think that is a pretty clear statement of value.

The timeline right now. Find the country trying to run itself into the ground

Must say, I disagree with the idea that Garfield’s assassination “led fairly directly to the collapse of Reconstruction.” I would argue that was the “corrupt bargain” over the disputed 1876 election which saw Republicans keep the White House in exchange for removal of Union troops from the South.

Reuters: "U.S.-based employers cut more than 150,000 jobs in October, marking the biggest reduction for the month in more than 20 years..."

"Death by Lightning" on the assassination of James A. Garfield was released on Netflix. It is worth revisiting his lone major campaign speech in 1880 to the "Boys in Blue" at NYC's Madison Square Park.

You don’t raze entire towns and cities street by street with controlled demolitions and bulldozers for any military objective. You do it because the aim is to wipe those places out of existence forever, and it’s not like they’ve been hiding this.

LGBTQ Nation: "At least 188 Christian & Republican leaders have been accused of child abuse this year"

Mamdani got me like "Filipino tilt-a-whirl operators are our nation's backbone."

Beshear: 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.

Until then, Gatsby parties! WHEEEEEE

"Sleepy/Crooked"? Like, fetal position?

Das Kapital, of course, written by Karlous Marximus in 184 BC.

Well deserved for everyone. An all-star crew worthy of the praise.

*cut to campaign logo* "I'm [insert name here], Democrat for Congress, and I approve this message."

Trump is on live TV saying he wants to rig elections so Democrats can’t return to power. The most corrupt, anti-American administration in our history.

Denny, there’s an update

I did not realize a U.S. senator's oath of office to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic" included the phrase "guardian of Israel" as well.

"Issuing correction on a previous post of mine, regarding Nazism"

“Foreigners” now means “not born in New York City,” according to this thoroughly racist douche, who is himself a Korean immigrant Heads up pal, with an Asian face and a name like “Kangmin Lee” no amount of sucking up to MAGA is going to protect you from being on the wrong side of an ICE raid

ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections

speaks volumes that Trump's response to tonight's resounding defeat is to demand Republicans redouble efforts to rig elections

Republicans use a litany of buzzwords because they know their base doesn’t have a clue what they actually mean and are too incurious to find out for themselves.

Universal swing in action: "What we saw last night was a directional shift toward Democrats in 99.8% of counties that held partisan elections." www.gelliottmorris.com/p/seven-data...

so where are the op-eds about republican overreach today? where’s the commentary about donald trumps war against american citizens or his terror campaign targeting brown people? where’s the pearl clutching over the conservative social media bubble reliant on nazi propagandists?

Democrats swept every race yesterday by a bigger margin than expected, and the press story is apparently "Dems did well but there is still a lot to worry about." Needless to say that this is not how a massive Republican shift would be covered.

There is some sad irony in McClatchy shutting its DC bureau the same day that Dick Cheney died. That bureau (then Knight-Ridder) did some of the best, most skeptical reporting anywhere in the run-up to the Iraq War. And they took a lot of shit for it at the time. www.cato.org/commentary/q...

Subjects of a Rob Reiner film on the Iraq war.

Congratulations to my good friend @arjunjaikumar.bsky.social who, according to preliminary results, was elected to the Cambridge School Committee in Massachusetts!

“Taken together, the results amount to a resounding rejection of the notion that Democrats must soften—or stay silent—on LGBTQ+ rights to win.” www.erininthemorning.com/p/a-stunning...

Fetterman supported Bernie Sanders for president, who shares Mamdani’s “extreme views and opinions.” This sudden change makes him look like either a total fraud or a bigot.

Politicians should probably get on Bluesky to get better in touch with the American electorate.

Even when he was on the ballot, they lost all the swing state Senate seats but one.

So you *can* interdict legitimate drug vessels without extrajudicial killings. Maybe one day Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth's U.S. military can achieve the level of *checks notes* Portugal like it is the 1700s.

*still amped from the World Series* "So when is the mayoral election's Game 2? Tomorrow? Or do they have an off day and run the election in Westchester for Game 2?"