Today is a good day to remember that authoritarianism is not inevitable, overthrowing fascists is possible, and good things can still happen. www.pbs.org/newshour/wor...

the feds have done more to harass americans angry over good and pretti’s killings than they have to investigate them

IMHO, the Supreme Court is a *bigger* problem than Trump, and it should be the primary target for reform. Trump and Congress would both be very different under a law-abiding SCOTUS, which would have stopped government action clearly animated by racism and racially gerrymandered districts.

The new racist double standard set up by Alito in the TPS ruling: if there’s any other motive in addition to the racism, the racism doesn’t count, but if the state wants to *prevent* discrimination against black people, that is racist and unconstitutional www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

"Tapper asked Warnock what he thought about the chants, after assessing that the group making the chant was mostly white. He noted that Jeffries could become the first Black House Speaker in US history if Democrats reclaim the lower chamber." It's Woke 2, Ayanna Pressley could be the next speaker

This story is wild. CPC lawyer: "Do not advertise, 'We can rule out an ectopic.'" But @accountableorg.bsky.social found 100 examples in 49 states of pregnancy centers using language on their websites about how they can "rule out" ectopic pregnancies.

Collins' gaffe on KBJ, now in video form www.instagram.com/p/DaJt7k6sSZs/

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Someone buy my dress! The first two in this thread already sold. the planet thank you

thank you jd vance for helping instigate an ethnic cleansing campaign

CBS staff, you have one job and that is to incept Bari Weiss into believing she can win over Isaac Chotiner.

The wonderful @marisakabas.bsky.social let me go long on the grim historic parallels between the Prairieland defendants and 19th century America’s brutal repression—and execution—of anarchists, union organizers, and political dissidents. We are all antifa now. www.thehandbasket.co/p/haymarket-...

What Buttigieg went through here was awful, and he is right to call out the terrible practice of making a false CPS report for political purposes. But as you read, consider this: why can any report lead to a parent being separated from his kid for even a day without any judicial oversight, and...

*taking out my clown gun that shoots bubbles* get ready for war

It's so funny to talk tough like this and then demand anonymity. These people are complete frauds and they're terrified that a lot of their voters see that now.

what if they fought back against republicans instead

Absolutely serious: Every article like this should include information about the top corporate donors of each politician mentioned and how much they've received.

No, what happened was the religious right in the US, after losing on Obergefell v. Hodges, immediately changed tactics. They held huge conferences outlining their plans to roll back LGBT rights as whole by targeting trans people. They didn't skip a beat. We aren't to blame for our own oppression.

I wrote about the Prairieland defendants and the urgency of opposing the extreme sentences handed down on Tuesday. And they likely will not be the last.

helpful coverage from @elpais.com english.elpais.com/usa/2025-08-...

"Abolish ICE" is the minimum requirement for any politician running for federal office. This is the "law enforcement" function ICE performs: invading polling places to harass people over social media posts about the ICE agent who murdered someone on her way home after dropping her kid off at school.

ICE agents went into a polling place yesterday to demand an election worker take down an Instagram post naming Jonathan Ross as the agent who murdered Renee Good. www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...

Two ICE agents tracked down a woman *inside a polling place* yesterday. Why? They demanded that she take down an Instagram post in which she named Jonathan Ross as the man who shot & killed Renee Good (after the Star Tribune identified Ross). www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...

Jeffries refusing to endorse Mamdani through the near-entirety of the 2025 campaign was a constant storyline in the summer and some of the fall—so one thing to note here is that his own disregard for building a relationship with Mamdani is part of what left him no leverage this spring.

Pretty telling this isn’t him saying congressional democrats have to patch things up with primary voters

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Consulting giant Accenture is trying to figure out how to stop non-technical workers from blowing through companies’ AI token budget on trivial tasks like converting PDFs to presentation slides, according to leaked audio obtained by 404 Media. Welcome to the Tokenpocalypse.

it is truly inappropriate for pissy pappy to be yammering about such nonsense when people are being thrown in jail for decades for PRINTING ZINES

oh no we lost the cryptkeeper what will we ever do

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NEW: A spokesperson for U.S. Health and Human Services confirmed to Stateline on Friday that the agency is canceling 53 out of 67 grants, worth about $68 million, under the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program, affecting grantees in more than two dozen states.

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I know this is not the biggest concern going these days, but it stresses me out that basically every artist/writer/critic is now expected to create their own tiny empire instead of getting paid by any existing entity to perform a job they've worked to get good at!!!!

Fun fact: Garnet and I met when I was an editor accepting some of these (great) pitches

Stephen Breyer erasure smh

John Roberts will want you to forget everything that happened this week at SCOTUS after he confirms that the first sentence of the 14th Amendment means what it says, please do not fall for it

Very MAHA

In the asylum case, Justice Alito apparently *responded* to Justice Sotomayor's dissent from the bench. That's ... unusual.

And Justice Sotomayor goes there in her Al Otro Lado dissent (where SCOTUS allows the Trump admin to nullify asylum guarantees if they stop people at/outside the border): "The current asylum system developed in response to the international moral reckoning that followed the Holocaust...."

Here is Sotomayor, in dissent, explaining the dire consequences of today's decision in Otro Lado. The government may now circumvent a vast range of laws protecting asylum-seekers by simply blocking their entry at the border. An insane loophole to open up. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

KBJ dissenting in Wolford (decision invalidating Hawaii law that creates a presumption of no firearms on private property w/o property owner's consent): "Today’s decision makes one thing clear: The Court’s objective is protecting guns, not consistently preserving any principle of law."

um.... "If Roger Marshall were to resign his Senate seat between now and Oct. 2, an untested Kansas law dictates that Republicans in the Legislature would control his successor and voters wouldn’t get to pick a senator until 2028."

"While the Violence Against Women Act prohibits states from directly charging for a rape kit, they are allowed to charge for anything not directly related to the exam—like STI testing or pregnancy testing ... 86% of women with private insurance will pay out of pocket for their sexual assault care."

you people need to show more respect for the political machinery that lost to donald trump twice

surely those candidates all lost in those districts? oh? they all won? odd

the DOJ's counterterrorism messaging named "Antifa", "Anarchists" and "pro-trans extremists" as major threats. nearly a third of the 22 Prairieland defendants are trans. Autumn Hill and Meagan Morris, sentenced to 50 yrs each, have been held in men's prisons, even denied hormones in the last year.