A government of shallow, glib sociopaths striving to get an "Attaboy" from other shallow, glib sociopaths.

The public has a right to know that a significant reason for the increase in food prices is climate change. And they also deserve to know that neither climate change nor massive prices are inevitable, but the result of political cowardice

Genuinely wonder what would happen if, say, 50 million Americans refused to pay their taxes because they’re being spent unconstitutionally

With Thomas Massie losing his seat, let's revisit this 2017 quote from him giving us a look into the mind of the GOP voter: web.archive.org/web/20170315...

ProPublica used leaked tax returns to calculate that through complex tax avoidance schemes, Jeff Bezos pays a tax rate of 0.98% www.propublica.org/article/the-... So if we doubled the taxes he pays, that would mean he'd still be paying less than 2%.

1. Number of stories about Trump buying and selling hundreds of millions of dollars in stocks in the first three months of 2026: CBS: 0 CNN: 0 Fox News: 0 NPR: 0 PBS: 0 Politico: 0 Semafor: 0 Business Insider: 0

BREAKING: Kickstarter walks back NSFW bans Kickstarter is already unbanning its recent moves to remove NSFW and adult content from the platform.

The next Democratic president should just declare Trump's pardons invalid and put people back in jail. Fake presidency, doesn't count.

LA needs a policy research center. It's such a low-hanging fruit and would be transformative for California given how much LA's dysfunction pulls down the state.

Again, I really don’t know what you do about the fact that “the president is stealing a billion and a half dollars from the government” is both universally understood by all political actors and also correctly understood to not be an especially politically damaging story

The “we don’t have the votes” excuse for refusing to force a vote on impeachment is conceding the point and saying even the opposition party doesn’t think this high crime merits removal from office. It’s not being politically astute and pragmatic, it’s self-defeating in its cowardice.

THIS IS HUGE: Colorado Supreme Court orders Colorado children's hospital to resume gender affirming care for trans youth. www.coloradopolitics.com/2026/05/18/c...

The reason they had to threaten people's jobs over posting Charlie Kirk quotes verbatim is because most Americans, including many Trump voters, would recoil in horror if they ever got an uncensored view of what TPUSA is promoting.

This is probably the most historically illiterate and racist crap that an official in a presidential administration has publicly uttered since...oh I don't know...let's just say a very long time.

Zocalo Health, a clinic in Los Angeles, screens all its patients for depression, anxiety and suicidal thoughts. It documented a marked increase in those conditions since ICE enforcement actions began.

kisss

I love drawing cars (Comm for @kaaverik.bsky.social)

Something I’ll always stand on.

I'm in Liberal Currents! With some possibly crazy ideas for how to defend multiracial democracy in the face of the ongoing legitimacy crisis

The Brown v. Board ruling happened 72 years ago today. The reversal of the Supreme Court’s previous “separate but equal” decision highlights how it’s possible to overcome bad SCOTUS decisions. But it took years of activism from brave people to get there. Keep fighting.

AOC: “It is time for the North to pull up to the South & let them know exactly what they have uncorked with this injustice. They think they can draw us out of power. They do not know the sleeping giant they just awakened. What they thought was the final blow is actually just the opening silo”

They had contracts for prison labor at these camps?? Before they even bought them? www.projectsaltbox.com/p/contracts-...

With mid terms six months away, I'm starting to think about what I can add to... The citizens agenda: pressthink.org/2019/06/key-... "Not the odds, but the stakes." www.cnn.com/2023/11/15/m... "Five changes in political journalism that would pay off immediately: pressthink.org/2020/09/you-...

Additionally, one of the components of inflation is "excess liquidity", aka "too many dollary-doos in the system" So really, when you think about it, Inflation is just a maintenance fee the rest of us are paying for billionaire wealth.

There are like 400 Steam porn games meant for straight men who fetishize trans women (called "femboy" games) but of course it's the actual queer games that get targeted

Lovely day for a walk. Spotted my alma maters mascot. 🐦

I love how, once again, the left is the only party given agency in this situation and not the insane billionaire nazis in control of two- thirds of the internet. It is always our fault, every single time.

Grifters traffic in cynicism because cynicism is a dumb person's way of sounding smart. They're looking for marks and you shouldn't let yourself become one.

🚨 Drizz alert!

I'm going to vote for @tomsteyerhq.bsky.social but if you're not a Republican, you need to either vote for him or Becerra. Keep Republicans mad and unemployed as God intended for them to be.

We’re the FIRST state to ban dynamic pricing in grocery stores. Here’s why:

Mamdani has demonstrated something that Democrats have largely forgotten. You can't just do good things for voters and expect to be rewarded for it. You have to tell them about it, over and over again. You have to advertise your work in office just as much as you did on the campaign to win it.

Is this who you are, a person who will surrender their country without a fight to rule by pedophiles and "ballmaxxers?"

Americans really need to ask ourselves more fundamental questions like do we have such little dignity and pride as a people that we are willing to live like serfs or subjects of a conquered territory?

Me, when the guy in a Yankees hat in front of me won't make small talk with the barista and doesn't say please or thank you:

I've also always wondered if the arrogance of earth around the dilgar war and the Minbari is a criticism of the triumphal nature of 90s interventionism too

I can never stress enough, over 14 years as a professional, shitty mspaint doodles were both ALWAYS a massive help, and damn near always paired with clients who were incredibly effective to work with/communicated clearly

This dog was a three term mayor of Whoville.

So unexpected how Ukraine gaining long range strike capability forces Russia to start negotiations, as opposed to triggering nuclear war. Who coulda guessed

US House Democrats will hold public hearing on Epstein files controversy, with testimony from Epstein survivors, on Tuesday in Palm Beach, Florida

I think I’m traumatized by technology I don’t control and that force things I don’t want into my life. And a VCR never made me spend ten minutes on updates. A VCR never let a stranger steal my personal information.

Last year, it only took five of us showing up and making public comment at a city council meeting to get the council to restore library funding that the mayor’s office had cut. Just a few people showing up can make a huge difference.

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I really fucking needed this. Not as bad as my client, who's been locked up by ICE for over a year. But his case really hurt and I needed to win it for him and for me.

Reminder... Any political party trying to make it harder to vote is sending a clear message — they can't win on their ideas alone.

““I saw how the Russian world is responsible for the genocide of the Ukrainian people,” [..] “What they are doing is murder, terror, occupation. For them, this is completely normal — and that was the most frightening thing.”” Anyone with a moral compass can see this. Kudos to this guy for acting.

some wisdom from james wilson, framer. "The truth is that, in our governments, the supreme, absolute, and uncontrollable power remains in the people."

Put it in black and white, now tell me what decade it is

Why does some ass town like Shafter (pop. 19,000) get to stall progress for the entire state of California (pop. 40 million)?