Congratulations to the New York Mamdanis on their World Series win!

Trump will forever be known as the president who weaponized hunger and defied a court order telling him to stop. What a garbage human being.

Roger Ailes being upset that Nixon had to resign because the Watergate hearings were on tv every day and the reporting on them was accurate is the origin point of Fox News and right-wing media. This should be common knowledge and the starting point for any conversation about our media environment.

(4) Trump and the Republicans don't have an advantage over Democrats because they *better understand heartland Americans.* They have an advantage over Democrats because they created their own universe of propaganda outlets, and then went out and bought all the mainstream outlets. Duh.

A very offline cousin sent this to fam group chat. This story is breaking containment.

The guy is literally tearing apart the White House and posting videos of himself wearing a crown and shitting on Americans. Seems like anyone still supporting this is dumb as a sack of hair at this point.

Nine months in, and we’re already in the Anne Frank stage of Trump’s reich chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Trump vs. US was the final straw imo. You cannot read that ruling and continue believing they have legitimacy. It is not only against the plain text of the constitution, it is anathema to the national ethos. It is offensively, insultingly un-American and they ceded legitimacy by committing that sin.

The entirety of Congressional D messaging about the budget – 100% of it - should be: Rs control the White House. Rs control the Senate. Rs control the House. Rs control SCOTUS. A government shutdown proves they cannot govern.

So, hummingbirds make a buzzing noise when they go flying past you. I mean, I wasn't expecting them to hum, but I never really thought they'd make a buzzing noise. A little surprising.

GOP controls the House. GOP controls the Senate. GOP controls the White House. If the gov't shuts down, every missed paycheck, every closed office, every crisis? That's their fault. Every bit of it.

Russia continues to violate NATO airspace largely because Trump is so weak and subservient to Putin.

It’s MAGA that is seceding, not us. They are seceding from - the modern world of science and fact - from the global order America imagined and built after WWII - from the West - from our democracy, rule of law and Constitutional order We are staying true to America. They are betraying it.

The fact that Matthew Dowd lost his job for pointing out Charlie Kirk’s hate speech, while Brian Kilmeade openly suggests we should euthanize the homeless and there is zero outrage, shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media.

Trump Claims He Can’t Be Expected To Remember Every Birthday Card He Sends To Child Molesters https://theonion.com/trump-claims-he-cant-be-expected-to-remember-every-birthday-card-he-sends-to-child-molesters/

1.2 *million* Americans died from COVID before these vaccines were approved and we had widespread access to them. Reducing access to vaccines that are effective and have saved so many lives isn’t simply anti-science, it’s anti-American. And people could die because of it.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey: “Don’t just say this is about thoughts and prayers right now. These kids were literally praying.” Thoughts and prayers won’t stop gunmen with assault weapons or keep our kids safe. Banning assault weapons will.

Instagram’s “Friend Map” sounds like a fun way for friends to share their location. Unfortunately, Meta thinks your friends include Meta's own employees, advertisers, and cops. Here’s why & how to turn it off 🧵 1/5

8/ Kudos to @NPR for this reporting. The leaked documents expose the massive gap between public “pressure” rhetoric and private “partnership” planning. Trump wasn’t going to Alaska to confront Putin over Ukraine – he was going to cut him a deal. /end

No matter how much the leader of the Republican Party kisses communist KGB ass he will always be a weak, deplorable failure.

Escalator, mushroom, TACO; cankles.

Just saw Superman, not gonna spoil anything but it made me feel good in a way that I think a lot of people are going to connect with right now. Caring about others is the new punk rock. Well fuckin played, @jamesgunn.bsky.social

Republicans are determined to kill as many Americans as possible with these horrendous policies.

This has always been the GOP's strategy: 1) Cut taxes for the wealthy & corporations by claiming they'll pay for themselves. 2) Explode deficits 3) Use the debt as an excuse to demand cuts to vital programs that help millions. 4) Repeat.

Another data point for my argument that nothing in this world makes Gregg Abbott happier than the needless suffering of children. School shootings, razor wire at the border, preventable diseases, health care reductions … if it will lead to more dead kids, the governor is all for it.

Birthright citizenship is a Constitutional RIGHT. Any attack on it is an attack on us all. This is an attempt by far-right justices to attack immigrant communities and remove protections from any American who questions Trump. Your rights are nonnegotiable. We can’t compromise on that basic fact.

Hey, you know what heavy lift rocket is capable of sending tons of cargo to the moon and Mars without exploding all the time? SLS.

Mike Lee is an incredible piece of shit.

ICE just arrested Brad Lander, the NYC Comptroller and one of the leading candidates for Mayor, without grounds. He was conducting routine immigration court work, escorting individuals from hearings. He asked ICE for their warrant - well within his legal rights. This is political intimidation.

Hi, this is Meg Barnette, Brad's wife. While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE. This is still developing, and our team is monitoring the situation closely.

There a reason the protests are being covered differently from the Tea Party The Tea Party was a front for the wealth class that owns the media and were used to demonize necessary reform These protests were democratic and populist, which the wealth class and its media opposes Hope that helps

CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @dccartoonist.bsky.social )

If randomly kidnapping people (including first grade kids) from places of work, education, worship, and immigration appointments and disappearing them without due process to foreign prisons does not meet your definition of fascism, then your definition of fascism is wrong.

The one good thing about Trump is that he’s made clear most conservatives don’t believe in freedom, the constitution, the rule of law, democracy or any of the basic tenets of our way of life. They only care about white supremacy and naked greed.

We cannot rely on mentally unstable rich people for our space program. The federal government should develop and maintain its own vehicles for access to space. Keep SLS and Orion and get Starliner fixed.

If two of the worst people in the world want to have a slap fight I'm cool with that.

Two weeks before Trump chickens out again on consequences for Russia. bbc.com/news/article...

MSNBC: Understand this clearly: when Stephen Miller says they’re looking at ways to suspend habeas corpus, they’re talking about depriving each of us of the right to challenge the legality of our detention by the government.

A fascist government in the United States is testing boundaries daily, ignoring the courts and getting no repercussions. None. Zero. If you don't think you could be next, you're not paying attention.

I'll say it again: the modern US Republican Party has gathered unto itself all of the nation's worst, cruelest, dumbest, meanest people. For all the other kinds of "sorting" sociologists cite, this is the clearest & most striking.

no one person is going to save us, but a future in which AOC is the next president sure seems brighter than most of the other options.

ICE Agents Wait At Edge Of Delivery Table To Deport Newborn

On Ukraine, Trump has surrendered to Putin, and gotten nothing in return. Russian products are exempt from Trump's 10% global tariffs. Seriously, WTF is going on here? Trump is now openly, nakedly, just out there advancing Russian interests while damaging ours. www.politico.eu/article/marc...

When you force people to foreign incarceration for the rest of their life without due process... that's not deportation. That's human trafficking. And it's not a prison. It's a concentration camp.

If you're a reporter in a White House press briefing as the spokesperson for the government asserts flatly that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a member of the MS-13 gang who's guilty of human trafficking and you sit there silently without shouting out "PROVE IT!" I'd like to invite you to go fuck yourself.

And Strawberry Milkshake Frosted Flakes.

To be a right-winger is to believe things that are simply not true. Some of those things have real world consequences—like COVID and climate denial, anti-vax nonsense, etc. Calling misinformation misinformation isn’t censorship. The truth is the truth, no matter how political the right makes it.

It’s still hard to believe the simple fact that this is all self-imposed. Everything that’s happening right now wasn’t the result of some foreign adversary destroying the country. We did this all to ourselves by electing the dumbest motherfucker to ever rule a nation.

Maybe the guy who bankrupted casinos *isn’t* an economic genius.