More Americans got measles this week than Olivia Nuzzi’s book. Guess which got more press coverage.

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

I was just thinking I hadn't seen any 'don't give your money to whichever org' this season, but that was short lived. Just a reminder that many orgs are run completely differently in different cities - learn who's helping & how in your town instead of using it as an excuse not to help.

With the exception of three years in MN for college, I've lived in South Dakota my entire life. I'm 4th generation. There's not a single picture of Kristi Noem in cowgirl drag that looks like anything I've ever seen here in my life. She is an absolute caricature. The hair is pretty classic SF tho.

Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.

Lawrence Summers is a scumbag who should be shunned wherever he shows his face.

where's the lie

Cutting 30,000 jobs at the VA, which will put veterans' services at risk. Firing federal workers across government, many of whom are veterans. Gutting SNAP & Medicaid, which millions of veterans need. Our vets defended us, and this is how the Trump regime is repaying them?

Remembering Kurt Vonnegut today. I hold his birthday sacred - most other things I throw over my shoulder.

I'm a democratic committee person for a small county in a red state. The dems in my county, and most in my state are shocked and outraged at what happened yesterday. I'm sure this is true all over the country. What can folks like us do to send pressure up to change leadership? (asking seriously)

Tim Kaine probably paid sticker price for all of his cars.

I'm the spouse of an air traffic controller and I could not be more livid at the news that Dems might cave. I called and left voicemails for my Dem senators. If my family can hold the fucking line, so can they.

Being a Dem in South Dakota means there's not a single senator who's moved by a call from me about my ACA premiums. If you live somewhere with a squishy centrist, please call them on my behalf! To have this much suffering only to cave is INSANE.

ok but how about a 50 billion year mortgage

Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice. It doesn't have to be this way.

If you have an idea for how the Dems could do better, South Dakota is a relatively cheap place to get proof of concept. Flip a couple of things here and people will want your special sauce!

The disappearance of America’s leadership class at a time like this means that the rest of us have to be leaders. We can no longer wait to be led by those with the power and authority to lead. You must lead, I must lead, all of us must lead. We are the leaders we’ve been waiting for.

The thing that really astounds me is that people in power can get away with mid-level evil and grift in the U.S. perhaps indefinitely. What is the strategy behind doing such deeply unpopular and very public things?

Imagine being one of the NINE OTHER DEMOCRATS running for this seat right now. "Am I real? Do I exist? Can you see me?" ballotpedia.org/United_State...

Kinda wild that Mamdani and Sliwa are the guys who won their primaries and there has been open, nonstop meddling to overturn that will of the voters and install the disgraced former governor and it’s largely being covered like this is perfectly normal shit

Because we can’t afford a third term of Jacob Frey. Get the facts about Jacob Frey before you vote: buff.ly/ok2vH4D

Over 450 turned out in the rain in our little town I'd Vermillion, SD. At least 8000 in South Dakota in a dozen communities. This is not a big city, blue state movement. #NoKings #NoKingsVermillion

Men will do literally anything except learn how to talk to a woman

So glad we’re burning down rainforests and drying up lakes to help total losers masturbate in an entirely new way

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” -Edward R. Murrow

normal person: i just want a place to hang out with my friends tech weirdo: and shitheads np: no just my friends tw: but what about hearing alternative views on race and gender? np: we just want to hang out and goof around tw: so where do the shitheads fit in then np: no shitheads tw: not following

Also an important lesson for cis White folks (straight men especially): Your threat of withholding support or allyship means less than nothing to anyone historically marginalized. It's literally the baseline assumption we work from. You're not "showing us," you're just confirming our expectations.

I've been on the ACA for over a decade. My family is on the ACA. My coworkers are on the ACA. Tons of people I know depend on the ACA. I have yet to meet anyone who is more concerned about their healthcare than they are about paramilitaries disappearing people off of the streets. Shut it all down.

this is, no exaggeration, some of the most loser shit i have ever seen in my life

The Coates-Klein debate (and meta-debate) just reinforces my belief that we elevated the wrong MLK passage. Not the optimistic “content of their character” I Have A Dream speech. But the “white moderate … [who] advises the Negro to wait for a ‘more convenient season’” Letter From Birmingham Jail.

Just read an article in the latest VF where a sleezy PR guy said he'd be up for doing PR for Israel but would never consider representing Bari Weiss because he doesn't believe in burning bridges 😂

@davidfolkenflik.bsky.social If you're around Vermillion, let some public radio lovers buy you a beer or a coffee!

bit by bit, the administration is laying the groundwork and actually carrying out a system of repressing democratic life in america. redefining opposition as terrorism, targeting critics, investigating civic funders. we're so far beyond normal and, again, only eight months in.

Gather your lifeboats, encircle your wagons, make friends locally, figure out who’s making the kinds of things you want to make in your cities and make friends with them. The era of social media is dying and hyper local stuff is all we’ll have left.

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by the process of law. they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by violence. the only lever by which they can obtain obedience is fear. do not offer it to them.

As someone who's always been passionately against the death penalty, the idea that thinking someone is a bad person and thinking they don't deserve to die seems incredibly easy to square. The two things couldn't be less related.

Organizers are exhausted. More people are needed so you should also be organizing.

Let's all to take a deep breath & understand that we have reached the phase in fascism where if they want to declare you a criminal, you are a criminal. You can not magically avoid it, or do exactly the right thing to stay off the list. Fascism must always have enemies, and one day you will be one.

Whoa.

It's dusk in the U.S.

Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."

As long as guns are easily available to crazy people, mass killings directed at so-called soft targets will continue. This is a fact. Countries where it's more difficult for crazy people to obtain guns have less shootings. This is also a fact. Do with these facts as you will.

part of the reason i beat up so hard on democratic weakness is we need people who are tough on the monsters that continue to allow childrens brains to be splattered on the walls by gunshots. i dont want to make nice with these people. they're not "good friends" and "colleagues" on the other side.