I'm mostly trying to stay out of US politics rn but the whole Sec of War doing the example of an illegal order to bomb drug dealers and start a war for oil whilst the Prez pardons a drug dealer is a pretty impressive shitstorm

Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500. And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.

ICE raids are cruel, inhumane, and do nothing to serve public safety. My responsibility is to be the mayor to each and every person that calls this city their home. That includes millions of immigrants— of which I am one.

Since I haven’t seen anyone mention this: When the U.S. commits war crimes it puts our troops in danger also, as it gives a green light to other countries that they can do the same to us

Love how Democrats are judged by the most unhinged posts of random weirdos but Republicans are never called to answer for the actions of their elected representatives.

Mom starts chemo for amyloidosis tomorrow. She has difficulty eating and swallowing, & has lost 40 pounds this year. Has Barrett’s esophagus, low blood volume, rising blood pressure, angina, is on blood thinners. ADVICE WELCOME about amyloidosis, medically induced anorexia, & dealing with chemo.

As much of a bummer as it was when Sandy Hook proved that guns were more important than dead kids, I'm thinking it will be even worse if the lesson of the Epstein files turns out to be that old rich white guys are more important than kids getting raped.

People being willing to normalize pedophilia for Trump shows there's no line they aren't willing to cross.

Sometimes I wonder if our many years of jokes about writers hating writing and doing anything but writing, etc, have convinced people that the writing part is the hurdle and the goal is just to have a thing in hand. But I am here to tell you: the writing is the best part. The act is the thing.

Refusing to provide promised, life sustaining support to a specific class of a country's citizens - especially for political leverage - should be considered a form of genocide, if it isn't already

In the midst of all that we are facing, I want us to think about who we are being told to look to for understanding in this moment, who is being propped up as the voice of wisdom, and ask how right were they in predicting this, a year ago, 5, 8 years ago, and then ask why they are being centered now

Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...

been doing some light reading about the aftermath of the korean dictatorship and I think it's really important that we repeat this to ourselves, to our friends, to our neighbors, to our politicians

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.” aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

Whelp, it’s Wednesday! It might be a soggy one here in the UK, but here is Peanut hopping in to brighten your day. Today is a good day to cosy up, and hide away from the weather. And here is your reminder to take a break, move around, stretch, hydrate and maybe grab a little snack.

Dick Cheney has died. "boom!" by system of a down (2002)

its so neat how like every prepackaged food is made in like one plant in indiana

[Alt text: Death playing the claw machine has a man dangling from the claw. Says “Is that Dick Cheney? Oh Hell Ya!”] So happy to find this meme updated for a deserving guy.

i can’t believe a good thing happened we should do this more often

if you see anyone expressing shock that a candidate who exudes warmth and authenticity and wants to improve the quality of life for working class people won over a rapist whose entire campaign was "that guys a terrorist" that's not a smart person. you don't have to listen to that person anymore.

Why is food assistance not an “essential function” that continues during a shutdown but ICE raids are?

@erinbiba.bsky.social a little something to celebrate this moment

please support these folks now and hopefully when they end up in better circumstances

Democratic party leadership has been on autopilot for ten years, they weren't losing to fascism, fascism isn't popular enough for them to lose to fascism, they were allowing it to fill the void where their leadership should have been. Tonight we're seeing that we have other options. They should too.

I love that Zohran did not praise Cuomo in his speech. You absolutely do not have to say nice things about bad people. We should normalize that in “polite” politics: Praising bad people is not actually “civility.”

This person took this when they called the race

For years, but especially for the past year, Democrats have been in thrall to the idea that they need to chase an imagined median voter, and adopt that voter’s positions. Mamdani’s victory shows another way: hold principles, and persuade people to share them.

This is how it looked on the ballot. Clear and easy to understand.

Zohran Mamdani polled +40% on men under 30. So we wasted all that time on all those think pieces about how we need a Joe Rogan for the left, when what we actually needed were *policies* for the left.

All this AND Dick Cheney died??? What a day!

St. Paul -in a race between respected young leaders, a second-round-of-ranked-choices upset of an incumbent mayor by a Hmong legislator www.startribune.com/st-paul-mayo...

What we know, final edition of the night: [Now in 3 parts] —Prop 50 wins —VA Dems flip Gov, LG, AG —Dems gain leg seats in VA, NJ, & MS —Dems defend NJ-Gov —Dems win NJ+VA trifectas —Mamdani wins —PA Dems win state supreme court —ME anti-mail voting measure loses —GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices

Breaking the 12 year long GOP supermajority in Mississippi seems like a big deal. A bunch of Black women mayors seems like a big deal. Can’t wait for the hot “How Democrats winning is bad news for Democrats” takes.

i'm still appalled people were making fun of her for this instead of being thoroughly charmed by what it says about the insanely cool and lengthy career wallace shawn has had

the reason republicans lost yesterday is because theyre a bunch of weird freaks pushing policy that everyone hates

Republicans running anti-trans hatefests lost and Zohran Mamdani is a hugely vocal supporter of trans and other LGBTQ rights. That is MASSIVELY important to look at and run on. Roll around in all this & soak it in. This is the good shit, & it should be celebrated. And then it should be Built on.

Many headlines will say it’s a miraculous one-year campaign. In a narrow way, it is. But it’s more…it’s the building of structures over multiple campaigns that won and lost, learned how to communicate and deliver, and built leadership at all levels.

Just some perspective from having worked on Zohran’s first campaign back in 2020: the man is detail-oriented, brimming with ideas, respectful of people’s time, believes in our capabilities, nourishes success.

I need more people to understand the movement that could be brewing here in Georgia if this young man only lost by 87 votes in COBB COUNTY.

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?

OK, I have a day long convening today so gotta bounce. If you live in NYC, don't stop organizing. This is a beginning and each of us needs to work with others to bring about a better city that actually works for all of us. I'm looking forward to continuing to focus on our libraries & more.

If yesterday taught us anything, it’s that you don’t know what’s viable or what’s possible til you at least try. We actually don’t have to take what we’re given. If enough of us get together and touch and agree we can do, create, and have better.

if your Parker be Posey then things are rosy if your Posie be Parker it's much, much darker (forget who wrote this)

We all know they're going to do what the California techbros did: Move to Austin because of low taxes and thriving night life, then file noise complaints from their million dollar condos while whining the clubs they wanted to live in walking distance from all shut down.

You may not agree, but I think it’s time for Dems from coast to coast to run on Medicare for all. We do NOT need health insurance companies at all. Period. They serve no valuable societal purpose other than to add cost to healthcare and drive people crazy.

LOCAL ELECTION RESULT: Let me congratulate @zysaidso.bsky.social for her election to the Charlottesville School Board. For those wondering: Zyahna Bryant was a student organizer who led the successful fight in removing two confederate statues from downtown Charlottesville.