In the face of fascism & tyranny, it’s important to celebrate wins for democracy, so here’s one that just happened: Democrat & West Des Moines City Councilwoman, Renee Hardman, won the election for Iowa State Senate District 16 - blocking a potential pro-Pedophile supermajority 🎉🎉🎉

THIS A MAJOR L FOR TRUMP It’s important to note that Trump was effectively forced to abandon the deployments, even though he framed it publicly as a choice, and NY Times’ reporting echoed his propaganda.

"And I never say no" We need to have a serious talk about the way "AI companion" apps not only prey on the vulnerable, but are priming their users to ignore consent and to conflate love with control. We need AI regulations across so many sectors, but this area is particularly horrifying.

I'm not worried about people being abusive to their AI chatbots, especially men being sexually abusive, from the POV of "AI chatbots are a real sentient guy being harmed", but I feel like the way you repeatedly learn to treat something that can't say no *must* bleed into how you treat humans, right?

it is still pretty clear at this point that Israel is actively trying to kill every living person in Gaza.

International aid organizations are under absolutely no obligation whatsoever, legally or morally, to provide information about their workers in a territory that Israel has no sovereignty over or any right to occupy.

We're slipping into full-blown gutter racist pogrom politics and the reactions from most of the media/punditocracy/commentariat/elite/influencers/etc has tended from gleeful participation to "well, if that's what the people what it can't be that bad". Seems suboptimal, to me.

it's awesome that like 40% of the Bari Weiss CBS stuff is because Ta Nehisi Coates made a stupid freak lose it on TV

MTG isn’t standing for democracy, Jonathan. She was a true believer, yes, but in QAnon, in racism & transphobia, and *in fascism.* She’s a Jan 6er who is getting out of dodge after being stabbed in the back by bigger grifters. Stop capitulating to fascists who don’t even have leverage.

Property taxes are like libraries in that people would scream they are an impossible leftist fantasy if they hadn't already existed forever.

I am open to making deals within the coalition or to expand the coalition but if the proposed deal mechanism is “give up things you want and I will explain how that helps you later” that’s going to be a problem

You can be a Tasmanian Devil of vile and easily disproven bullshit, but if you also hate trans people you will be called a "challenging thinker" by American media institutions

The Marjorie Taylor Greene conciliation tour is fascinating to watch - it doesn't accomplish its stated goals of damaging Trump any more than she was willing to do on her own, but it's still an excuse for centrists to browbeat leftists for "failing to think strategically"

Wow, it turns out the guy who wrote the unhinged anti-Muslim immigration screed is the type of guy who would write an unhinged anti-Muslim immigration screed. We’re shocked /s. FYI: the Claremont Institute is just a bunch of Jan 6ers in a trench-coat.

This year produced the single largest mass mobilizations in the country's history. Its entire history. I think that there are people who would say that this isn't true EVEN AS THEY ARE LIVING THROUGH THOSE MOBILIZATIONS. It's something to see.

The Uncommitted Movement was a movement organized by Democrats, targeting the 2024 Dem primary. Its leaders, like Alawieh, publicly stated he would vote for Harris to "block Trump," distinguishing between endorsing a candidate and voting strategically to prevent harm. I'm tired of this narrative.

Because of my work w/ 50501, I tend to be in spaces with both leftists & median libs. I think @diplomatofnight.com is correct here: More & more, there has been a shift away from “Israel must be defended” to “hey, this looks like a genocide. Why aren’t we helping Gaza?” It’s definitely progress!

very convenient that the rich ruling class techbros solution to income and wealth inequality will be solved by letting them accumulate even more wealth

the vice president announced in a speech that Americans no longer need to apologize for being white, prompting millions of Americans to apologize for his white ass

Two weeks ago I spent the whole day at the Museum of the Moving Image to listen to New Yorkers. This is what Liam shared with me.

Gotcha, that makes more sense . We still disagree, though: it’s the strategy that the Black Panther Party used - building power by and for working families through mutual aid. It’s also a form of prefigurative politics - building the political change you’re promoting in the here and now.

(Hot Take TM) Providing mutual aid as part of campaign work is a good thing that candidates should do more.

🧵 Our mutual aid hub has been a HUGE draw for our immense volunteer base, many of whom have never wanted to be involved politics before now. This model isn’t just about the immediate impacts: It’s about showing our values, building a community, and reaching voters — without selling our soul!

I disagree with Will here, obviously, and the primary reason is someone in need got to use one of those 5,600 tampons. Win or lose, lives got easier. But also: her campaign manager's car was literally clown-car level FILLED with tampons, and we did spend the night praying he'd get pulled over.

White man has opinions about the Black Panther Party and their Free Breakfast for Children program, which we have to thank for Congress's school breakfast program that feeds over 14 million American kids ever day.

When I launched my campaign, I said I wanted to do politics differently… and we’re actually doing it. Thank you to Jessica Washington and @theintercept.com for covering the most exciting and rewarding part of this campaign: theintercept.com/2025/12/26/k...

Trump, after bombing Nigeria on Christmas: “MERRY CHRISTMAS to all, including the dead Terrorists [sic].” These are the words of an evil man whom Christ does not know.

Finally watched Wake Up Dead Man, and I think it’s one of my favorite Christian movies ever.

Via @liamjscott.bsky.social at the other site here’s the full email from 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi. She’s putting her career on the line by fighting here. And she’s fighting for all of us.

This new flock leak is honestly terrifying in what it opens up

An open letter to Representative Vicente Gonzalez: If you don’t want a serious primary challenge, don’t vote to let ICE to strip-search literal children. Until then, stop whining.

“It would be better for you if a millstone were hung around your neck & you were thrown into the sea than … to cause one of these little ones to fall” (Luke 17:2) Yo, JD, nice “Christian nation” ya got there. Lemme know when you wanna practice Jesus’s teaching about preventing pedophila with Trump

This is a very well-reasoned thread penned by a congressman that completely dismantled a brainless “thinkpiece.” Some pundits want the left to reject progress & civil rights & become GOP-lite, but Dems lose when they bow down to oligarchs & fascists. We only win when we fight for a better tomorrow

Hey @democrats.org, why haven’t you released the DNC 2024 autopsy? Does it say something about centrism that would make corporate megadonors mad at ya? Does it show that supporting a genocide was a terrible idea? Sorry bud. You still got to release it. You can’t repeat the mistakes you made in 24

❤️‍🩹 NATIONWIDE: Jan 20, 2026 Free America Walk Out! ❤️‍🩹 ★ We walk away from fascism. ★ We walk towards a Free America. ★ We fight for a future that belongs to us all. ★ Everybody in, nobody out. ★ Welcome to the Free America Walkout HOST a walk out: bit.ly/1202026 Pledge to walk: www.freeameri.ca

Every vote counts, and every election matters! TN-07 may not have gone our way, but @aftynbehn.bsky.social swung a Trump +22 district 13 points to the left. That is seismic! Based on calculations our team did by hand, if every Senate and House seat in 2026 shifted 13 points, the Dems would gain:

fwiw I think there is a lot of negative sentiment about our chances of success at this and related which underrates the tremendous power of a restore-national-greatness narrative.

One thing that absolutely definitely happens for real in the academic job market is that when you do not get a job, the Dean calls you and explains why you didn't get it. This is extra-super true when the explanation is something legally actionable on its face.

"We here at Bank of America remember a time when a woman couldn't get a credit card without her husband's approval. Wouldn't that be fun again?"

That’s literally a Lolita quote. They wrote pedophile quotes from the pedophile book on the girls they were trafficking. The Epstein clique made their pedophilia into *memes.* The pedophilic corporate elite hates you, and they have spent billions to empower a fellow predator to make you suffer.

you know, I'd understand if someone said "okay well before any photos come out, I had dinner with Jeffrey Epstein in 2010. I knew he was a scumbag but I wanted to meet Woody Allen. It was stupid and I regret it." but now it's just like oh there's David Brooks in a photo dump with some poor teenager

this woman is your FRIEND she FIGHTS for FREEDOM

The comments under the screencap of Puka saying he didn't know what the gesture meant and that he apologized for doing it and never meant to offend anyone have gone one of two ways Bluesky: You liar asshole antisemite Twitter: Stop apologizing

To all the young people in New York and across our country who count on gender-affirming care: I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.  Your health care is still legal and protected.  I'll always fight for you.

I cannot express how pathetic you have to be to believe this happened in the TTRPG hobby in the last decade

They updated the website today to remove the word "independent" Before (left), after (right)

The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story. Holy. Shit. www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...

The media needs to stop writing headlines like “The CDC changes course on vaccines and autism” and “The CDC defends measles response”. NONE of this is coming from legitimate scientists at the CDC. ALL of it is coming from RFK Jr. Every such headline is causing further harm to public health.