ALL HANDS ON DECK!! IL's AIPAC-backed Dems want to quietly kill a bill that would repeal the current Anti-BDS law, which blacklists any company deemed to be limiting its economic relationship with Israel from the state pension.

OK. It was The Smoking Gun. They deserved for me to remember their name. I plead getting older. I bring them up because what they published shows what was publicly know about Jeffrey Epstein and when, which is important to evaluate the character of the people dealing with him in the 2010s. /1

All I see on my Twitter timeline are reporters parsing every quote from AOC in Germany, trying to mock them for incoherence or inaccuracy, while a demented old man who can’t string sentences together or stay awake sits in the Oval, while the legacy media happily sanewashes his quotes.

AOC’s biggest problem if she runs for president is that the white men who control our media ecosystem will not so much put a finger on the scale to stop her as an entire hand it can be done (see: Zohran) but it’s going to be blatant and it’s going to be infuriating

letter from a Birmingham jail should be read before every sporting event instead of the national anthem

The teacher wasn’t fired, though. He quit twice. There’s no “potentially dangerous precedent” being set here, because the “Go Gestapo” guy wasn’t fired! Instead, we should be talking about LASD history teacher Ricardo Lopez, who was actually fired for opening a gate to keep his students safe.

In a nutshell, the Dem lodestar should be: "ICE is bad, and immigration is good"

i simply do not think the "2016 and 2024 prove america will never elect a woman" people in the QTs are expressing a savvy political wisdom as much as they are expressing cope

This thread is the we are going to win thread, is the kids are alright thread, is the STOP ICE thread, is the civil society rising thread; read it through.

Defending the Genocide in Gaza is the logical endpoint of Brianna Wu’s politics. She weaponizes her own past suffering in an effort to use the exact same tactics against her targets. It was inevitable that she’d end up sympathizing with the crybullies committing crimes against humanity.

Look I have thick skin, and I know we are hated, and yet this statement still makes my breath catch. What kind of society allows for this sort of thing to be said

Can’t believe we are still doing this

I am gonna go out on a limb and say that a Jersey dude so horrified that he went to his first protest and is trying not to cry on camera has a pretty good chance of staying radicalized. And that while Bluesky loves to pick apart things like this, this kinda video moves the needle for OTHER dudes.

If you’re tempted to yell at a Trump voter who has now decided they’re anti-ICE, pack that impulse as deep down within yourself and scream it into your pillow later.

kid-in-the-brown-hoodie is a whole-ass ideology

the more you learn about the antebellum south the more you transform into this every plantation owner should have been put to death

yeah this kind of shit is why I'm a lot more confident AOC will move towards an Israel policy suitable for DSA endorsement rather than away from it

I legitimately don't think I'll ever forget when Ilhan Omar asked where Afghans or Palestinians could go for justice if not the ICC or ICJ and dozens of Democrats legitimized the Republican smear that she was talking about the Taliban

So this is a pro-gamer move that we in the Political Comms world call “accidentally making our opposition seem more likable and authentic” Happy Valentine’s Day @ossoff.senate.gov! Your team’s work just got a bit easier LOL

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

white dudes in Callaway hats doing this are a five alarm fire for the GOP

Anyone currently involved in federal immigration enforcement, every officer, every bureaucrat, every lawyer, every judge, is a member of the most evil group of people this country has seen since Reconstruction. Darkness personified, every one. Doing this to children is beyond depraved.

Sanders: The American people do not want this country to be an authoritarian society or an oligarchy. We have our differences, that’s what democracy is about—we argue it out. We don’t throw people who disagree in jail. We don’t intimidate the media. We don’t send ICE agents to shoot people.

Can someone remind me who is the majority party? WaPo seems to need help here. I thought it was the GOP, who despite what the WaPo wants you to think, actually have some agency. Lots, really, tho you’d never get that idea from the media.

i wonder if famed investigative journalist matt taibbi will have anything to say about this

keep it shut down until 2029

This is really succinct. Fuck Gavin Newsom. He's a loser. I can tell you right now for certain that I'm not going to vote for him in the 2028 general election BECAUSE HE'S NOT GOING TO BE THE FUCKING NOMINEE.

journalism as a profession should be noble. on balance it is net monstrous

what this should actually tell countries that want a good relationship with a stable and prosperous US is that they should collude to help democrats

yeah, sorry, but whatever their many flaws (and they are many tbc), the dems - to their very real credit - have held up pretty well on trans rights. lot of that "left" people jerk off to in europe would be infinitely better if they could even get halfway to the average dem position

Oh my

When James Talarico says trans rights, James Talarico means trans rights.

I did security work for a while, and, yeah, we had “guy gets bribed to walk out the door with a flash drive“ as part of many people threat models, but like, how do you model a “random guy takes a massive bet on you having a cyber incident and then hires Romanian hackers” problem

NY politicians defiantly raised a 🏳️‍🌈 at the Stonewall National Monument, rebuking the Trump regime. Until a few days ago, the flag had flown for several years in a park across from Stonewall Inn, the gay bar where a 1969 raid sparked an uprising and helped catalyze the LGBTQ+ rights movement.

if AOC is too right-wing for you to support, you do not believe in electoral politics and should just be honest about that

not putting Zohran in the center here is… a choice

I see 4 feasible options for “2028 ticket to abolish ICE, prosecute Trump admin/Epstein associates & won’t pave the way for mid-2030s Fascist Takeover 2 Electric Boogaloo” rn 1) AOC/Talarico or Beshear 2) Khanna/Massie anti-pedo unity ticket 3) Pritzker or Ossoff swings left & picks Tlaib for VP

I feel exactly the same way about AOC today that I did about Obama in 2006, in that their candidacy feels like a longshot, yet at the same time the most natural & correct thing in the world

of the likely choices available i don't see us doing much better

anybody currently raging about Newsom needs to be stopped better get on board or I might think your outrage is a tad performative

Tlaib campaigned for Michigan Democrats, she is a better person and partisan than any of her dnc juche detractors

AOC was Biden’s strongest soldier is a madness rune for people in every faction of the party

"will you vote for newsom in the general" is designed to undermine the left opposition to him *in the primary.* it's meant to show that the left can be ignored because they'll come around or that they can be ignored because they're a lost cause. the mission *now* is to make newsom lose the primary.

Admittedly it helps here to be somewhat clear eyed that the dems are basically a party shaped ballot line control entity and that a sufficiently focused left opposition willing to operate on principles can pretty much skinsuit it

This website has the juice.

Some personal news

i decided to be really petty and emailed our alma mater’s alumni hall of fame (of which lutnick is an inductee) to see if they would remove him from it and they have not responded lmao

Dr Oz inviting ol Jeffrey to his V Day bash in 2016

if you played sonic the hedgehog and put down the controller, sonic would look at you and tap his foot impatiently. this was proof that sega genesis cartridges had souls. the decision was made to make the storage cases a lot larger than the cartridges so they would have room to move around in there