ngl it’s kinda irritating how many people on here, when they see a very good joke that works because it’s addressing forbidden topics in a plausibly deniable way, absolutely cannot restrain themselves from making the punchline explicit

I wonder if federalizing investigations of ICE and CBP to kill them becomes a common tactic against cities attempting to hold out of control violent feds.

I do not believe that a principled prosecutor such as Jay Jones would think that Steve Bannon’s crimes warranted imprisonment.

the only part of the system to actually work as intended and convict Trump was his jury, which the judge then proceeded to nullify on political grounds

turns out $1 to punch Jason Kessler was actually a bit of a ripoff

great day for the legal theory of "not guilty if it's funny enough"

this is objectively very funny but also why it’s so critical we don’t take these losers at face value when they’re making ridiculous authoritarian threats

they’re just giving it away!

the "we are the storm, you will be made to come to heel, fuck your feelings" to "uWu why dont you like me? you wouldnt want to hurt me, im just a smol bean" pipeline

PAH confirming his run against Deeds by bragging about being the first GOP challenger to run again after getting his ass kicked the first time is some truly funny shit

please god let this be the start of a trend

Getting new details on this now: As the arrest unfolded, teachers pleaded with the agents telling them the teacher had a work permit. The agents went into multiple rooms looking for teachers while children were present. One teacher hid with a child in her care while the agents stormed the facility.

The New York Times quickly sending out Douthat to argue that Mamdani’s victory doesn’t really matter is so predictable it borders on self-parody. Remember, folks: Every time the Right wins an election, it’s an undeniable expression of the will of the people. If a lefty wins, it’s just a blip.

VA Senate president pro tem absolutely rips MD Senate president for opposing redistricting. Notably, VA Dems win massively *after* pushing for a new map. And that's how it's supposed to work: There has to be an election after an amendment is proposed so voters can weigh in before it can proceed.

Doomerism is a dead end. Organizing and building a world you want to live in is the way. This is why I came back to Virginia.

look I don’t much care for investing politics in a single charismatic individual, but this dude is pretty good at it

So much of what the Democrats got wrong since 2016 was this idea of “we’re going to go back to normal.” There are maybe enough elements of the party who realize now that that idea is a mistake: the way must be forward into something new, energizing, and hopeful.

Can we get Virginia Dems to pass the cycling safety legislation the Republicans repealed as soon as they took office in 2021?

i wouldn't be a total glenn youngkin hater if i didn't mention that the results tonight mean that his total tenure amounted to presiding over the destruction — at least for the next few years — of the virginia republican party. lmao.

I like to think of myself as a decent, solid dude who shows up on time and does his job well. unfortunately the current law in the state of Virginia says that it’s illegal for the institution that employs me to acknowledge the union I belong to. we should fix that.

The Virginia legislative session is weeks away. This is a genuine opportunity to create significant, lasting change. Now’s the time to organize! State workers’ right to unionize and strong tenant protections are within reach!

they better end at-will and right to work in this fucking state.

Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.

this is genuinely wild

that’s my flag 🫡

turns out nobody really likes these gross little weirdos

To understand what was at stake here: in VA, the AG gets to appoint university counsel. From Jim Ryan’s forced resignation to the (mercifully) reject “Compact” to the odious and bizarre “settlement,” UVA has been hamstrung by counsel chosen by the state’s GOP administration. That’s about to change.

all that said, one may notice I have never commented on the content of Jones’s words as such. godspeed, you dumb motherfucker of an AG

glad for the Spanberger win, though it would be pretty difficult to come up with a non-fascist candidate I dislike more. hopeful the rest of these races play out in a way that her hands are basically tied to the legislative Dem’s agenda.

it’s Jay Jones of course it’s Jay Jones christ what a dumb motherfucker I can’t believe that shit. The Office joke or no (that was the best available cover tbf) DO. NOT. TEXT. DAMAGING. SHIT. TO. THE. OPPOSITION.

wish the polls would close already, I need to know if I should call a certain guy a dumb motherfucker or a catastrophically dumb motherfucker

Schumer helpfully demonstrating that the upper levels of the Democratic establishment only think primaries matter as a tool for disciplining their left flank.

i hope to see enterprising democrats announce their intent to retire schumer and gillibrand over the next two years.

important update:

New: The FBI is quietly urging ICE agents to properly ID themselves in the field. In a bulletin to law enforcement last month, it warned of criminals posing as ICE to rob, rape, kidnap—a problem it says now demands national coordination to confront. By me & @carolinehaskins.bsky.social:

the neat thing about Laufer running unopposed is I could just leave that section of my ballot blank with a perfectly clear conscience

AHAHAHA EAT SHIT YOU MONSTER

People fucking hate this guy. They fucking hate ICE. They fucking hate how much power he has. He is at 63% overall disapproval to 37% approval. That's lower than their poll after January 6th. And this poll was done before he started intentionally starving people. I wish our media would reflect this.

The alarms are going off. Active attacker alert at UVA

note for the many journalists who apparently need to hear this: if you don’t like how Bluesky is reacting to your framing of a story, you can just keep your mouth shut about it instead of trying to fight a website

oh no please sir anything but this, it would make the regime so popular we could never stand against it

reactionary centrists once again incapable of recruiting their own militia, the mark of a weak ideology

like I do one of the very least backbreaking forms of manual labor there is, and we still have people laid up on the regular because they twisted the wrong way while drilling overhead on a ladder

"Our party prefers losers"

Healthcare but only for my friends

You can tell the Dems are winning the shutdown battle because all the pundits stopped talking about the shutdown

ok they got this one right, “F new sky” is just mean and rude, we should be encouraging people to use this website

if our brains weren’t always being cooked by the horrors of real life this place could be Actually Fun and it’s so nice to get a glimpse of what happens when it is even if you don’t like baseball this shit was fun, right? everyone getting swept up in the same thing? I missed this

It’s basically Deep Space Nine.