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Find your senators at reps.fyi or call 202-224-3121

Yeah it seems like the best political move is to give into this guy

The WSJ frames the "send checks" solution as a Republican pitch but doesn't indicate that any Democrat is interested, so I'm taking that with a grain of salt.

Senate Democrats voting to dismantle the ACA to avoid any problems with their Thanksgiving travel is tragically on brand.

I'm old enough to remember when Sen Coons cut having witnesses for the post J6 impeachment trial because of Valentine's Day plans. It seems like 30 years ago, but it was less than 5.

My understanding is that Chuck Schumer and leadership aren’t caving but these senators are: call them!

IF THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO DO, WHAT THE HELL WAS THE POINT OF THE SHUTDOWN @schumer.senate.gov A "PROMISE OF A VOTE ON HEALTHCARE" MEANS THAT PEOPLE WILL LOSE THEIR HEALTHCARE

if you're in a libby line for my book STAY IN LINE (your library might buy more copies)

The electoral college is bad, actually. The will of the people isn't properly reflected.

They have had 15 years to think about an alternative to Obamacare and the alternative is

This is my district and MY GOD. GEAUX AWAY - LEAVE US ALONE.

Trump ran as a populist but has governed as a plutocrat. The coalition that lifted him—including new small donors—appears to be voting with their feet, and their ballots. As Malcolm X said, “the chickens are coming home to roost.” “Plutopopulism: Wealth and Trump’s Financial Base” cup.org/4cfm0Az

I wish I knew a way to not-buy a Tesla any harder than I already am.

Work sucks etc but they do not want you to be able to support yourself or pursue your dreams; they want you dependent on a man, so he can treat you as badly as he feels like without you having the option to leave.

It’s hip on the left and right alike to hate “liberal feminism” (a term I challenge detractors to define—usually the “liberal” is silent). But the fascists of our moment hate nothing more than the actual liberal feminist ideal: a public sphere where women are equal. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/o...

Families rallied after the feds took a Chicago daycare teacher: "We are filled with rage." blockclubchi.co/4hOYLQM

Really cannot stress enough how many times we’ve witnessed ICE or CBP agents laughing at and taunting protesters or bystanders as they fired chemical munitions at them. They are having a grand time rolling with their boys, accountable to no one, wreaking havoc through our streets.

@admcrlsn.bsky.social discusses in a long X thread what they did differently from other polls: weight sample towards a larger/different electorate than past gen elex, adjusted likely voters based on primary results, polled in 4 languages, weighted Muslims x.com/admcrlsn/sta...

@michaellangenyc.bsky.social on X: "With each passing second, I am more bullish on Zohran Mamdani exceeding 55%. Manhattan and Brooklyn continue to turn out in droves, with lines reported across base neighborhoods. We’re pacing for a record number of votes. The vibes are screaming landslide."

“A Mamdani victory is a serious problem for those in the party who believe, as we do, that they should pay millions for our shitty advice rather than, as Mamdani has, generate unprecedented voter turnout, volunteerism, and youth support across the most diverse democratic coalition ever assembled.

All I want is one single reporter to ask him if he thinks people seeking asylum = means from insane asylums

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My article on activism and coalition building is out now at Time! Shout out to the folks at Made by History. We need multiracial coalitions now more than ever! time.com/7307042/hist...

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“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second. We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

I’ve just stopped Microsoft from adding CoPilot to my 365 sub. If enough people do this it’s going to smart.

Threats of mass layoffs during a shutdown have zero legal basis. A government shutdown is not the purge. It does not magically grant the President permission to do whatever he wants. There are decades of history on this. Reporting on Trump and Vought's threats needs to make this clear.

Fascists are commandeering our public lands and dollars to create their very own elite cities on the backs We the People. This, THIS is their IDEA of housing. To hell with Apartheid Clyde AKA Musk and his band of billionaire TechBro whackjob misanthropes. #Resist www.newsweek.com/freedom-citi...

Hey remember when the CDC dropped 6 of the 8 foodborne illnesses from the nationwide monitoring system in July and one of them was listeria? Mentioning for no particular reason www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Trump to generals and admirals: “this war from within will be the major part for most of you here”

BREAKING: Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe (R) just signed Trump’s gerrymander into law. If courts do not intervene, a referendum effort fails or the GOP again ignores the will of voters, the GOP will have locked in a 7–1 majority in the U.S. House for the rest of the decade.

not like i'm some important predictor of the future, i'm a shitposter, but i sort of thought there might be a climbdown here when i read that neither the pentagon nor the national guard had any fucking idea what he was talking about

In the dark dark tragicomedy of the second Trump term, the State Department described a call to not kill people incendiary, reckless, and inciting violent. Violence is not violence, only nonviolence is violence.

The FBI has fired a group of agents who were photographed kneeling with protesters in Washington during the 2020 racial justice protests that erupted in response to the police killing of George Floyd.

that Harper's letter just keeps aging worse and worse

Birds and Snakes are out, too (not XX / XY). Algae and amoebas, too. Probably also worms.

This also affects horticulturists, biologists etc

Suddenly medical schools can’t teach about intersex conditions or gender dysphoria.

“I’m emotionally shellshocked right now,” said one professor in the Texas Tech system. “What does it say about academic freedom? It says we don’t have it.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

The thing regular people don’t often grasp about ‘academic freedom’ is that if you don’t allow experts to research & teach in their fields of expertise, guided by their professional judgment & decades of training, you have effectively given up on the concept of knowledge & shut down your university

So it turns out ‘originalism‘ was just a front for reluctance to reinterpret when that meant redressing social injustice, but now if reinterpreting means increased power to inflict social injustice, it’s totally fine.

I can’t imagine going to law school and trying to learn or teach anything now.

Remember, SCOTUS conservatives said it was an abuse of power for Joe Biden to forgive student loan debt without express authorization from Congress.

SCOTUS is so clearly untethered from the law and the constitution that sitting justices are expressly saying “this is worse than Calvinball.” That’s an invitation for other judges to say that. And, I hope, some of the lawyers arguing doomed cases before them—don’t let them hide.

A domestic terror organization that does not exist is a tool of a tyrant. Nobody is a member so anyone can be branded as a member.

Clear grounds for removing Trump from office. He’s sending America’s military against a domestic terror organization that does not exist fighting a war that is not happening. He’s gone completely and dangerously mad.