Now is the time to fight, not surrender. 🗣️ Schumer must step down from his post as minority leader and allow for new leadership to emerge—someone who is willing to consistently fight for the American people.

The horror! 😱

look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry

They’ve chosen to fold in the immediate aftermath of election results that gave them a clear mandate to fight. Think about that. They’ve arranged their votes to enable them fold while also appearing to oppose—and they will fundraise off the appearance. Think about that. They think we’re stupid.

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.” aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

In 2008, a blogger named Curtis Yarvin called for a future president to kill foreign aid programs as part of a plan to replace democracy with dictatorship. Now 600,000 people are dead—and 14 million will die by 2030, according to the Lancet. This is the running death toll of tech fascism.

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment

This is an excellent thread on the economic underpinnings of our country’s descent into fascism and the antifascist, democratic alternatives that leaders like Mamdani offer us as a way forward.

This leads to what I mean by antifascist economics. It doesn’t target one party; it tackles the material conditions that make fascism appealing: insecurity, despair, unmet basic needs. Policies that make life affordable are not just social policy, they are democracy insurance.

not all heroes (or subs) wear capes

"This new age will be one of relentless improvement." Read, re-read, maybe even memorize Zohran Mamdani's electrifying victory speech.

Longo explains status of investigation into hoax that caused security alert

Sic Semper Tyrannis, y’all 🫡

Every single county in Virginia shifted Blue.

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 This is the President openly announcing that he will violate court orders - two courts had concluded that the Trump regime withholding SNAP funding was illegal - and that the government had to pay out (at least reduced) SNAP benefits starting this week

Currently locked down with my youngest child in the UVA area. Hoping that everyone at UVA and Shannon Library are safe!

The entire purpose of the conservative movement has been tearing down public goods and any policies that limit or hinder in any way corporate profiteering and wealth accumulation by the powerful elite. It abhors the social contract. Destruction of modern society is the goal.

Donald Trump deleted this from the government website. Let's be clear: there's funding available to cover SNAP benefits next month. Trump is stopping SNAP benefits because he wants to. He is forcing mommas and babies to go hungry.

Everything is a distraction from this.

He believes it is all his to do with as he pleases – the White House, the government, the country. He believes he wasn’t elected to serve the public but installed as a sovereign. The demolition of the White House is the manifestation of an outrageously autocratic assertion of power.

Trump is demolishing the White House – which is far from the worst thing this regime is doing, yet significant nonetheless as it really captures Trump’s authoritarian pretensions. Trump is destroying public goods, because the very concept is utterly alien to him.

New preprint alert! 🚨 “Let Them Eat Large Language Models: Artificial Intelligence and Austerity in the Neoliberal University”

Cutting off food aid while building a ballroom for dinners for billionaires is the 2025 equivalent of "Let them eat cake." www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/24/t...

Glad this piece of the story got national news coverage from ABC. If anyone wants to take a deeper dive, I poked at the issue a lot yesterday. Eisenhower’s 1960 Northern Red Oak, Jill Biden’s Yoshino Cherry, and George H.W. Bush’s Redbud also among the commemorative tree losses.

This is it, friends. This is who we have to be. We have to stand up for EVERYONE. No one gets thrown under the bus. Do not accept anything less from any leader. We ALL belong. blacksky.community/profile/did:...

Here’s the original clip of Ronald Reagan from April 25, 1987, where he delivered a complete and total rebuke against tariffs. Trump's calling Reagan’s words here “FAKE” and “fraudulent.” They’re 100% real. And the original clip is actually far worse for Trump, as much is left out of the ad:

NEW: NBC News confirms that the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, on the east side of the White House, has been destroyed as part of the demolition of the East Wing. (📸 Getty Images)

Over the past week, the president said the DOJ should pay him a quarter billion dollars, bulldozed half the White House to build himself a gaudy ballroom, bragged about murdering civilians in international waters, pardoned some more criminals, directed federal prosecutors to indict his opponents ...

Malignant narcissists often destroy what other people love. When they do, they’re acting out of pathological envy. They have a need for absolute control and a desire for sadistic pleasure. They intentionally engage in destruction to cause suffering in order to reinforce their sense of superiority.

Oh no, in accepting Eric Adams's endorsement, Andrew Cuomo reiterates that Mamdani's giving the finger to a Christopher Columbus statue is "un DISGRAZIATO" (I've been assured that this is not actually the Italian noun meaning "disgrace")

Excellent point by @samshirazi.bsky.social - even if you're not a Jay Jones fan, the AG's office has a LOT of power in different areas, including bringing lawsuits (or not) on a wide variety of matters. Very important who holds this position, in other words. bluevirginia.us/2025/10/ny-t...

🥳🗳️💪⚖️ www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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ABC News pulled the satellite imagery of the White House comparing Sept. 26 to today. abcnews.go.com/Politics/new...

absolutely shameful that the university has embraced the administration’s demand that it discriminate against its students. this is the board of visitors telling UVA students that if they aren’t white and cisgendered then they don’t belong.

This is such an illuminating conversation. I’m constantly wondering about the psychology of the times that we’re living in, particularly how people on the right who are supposedly so values driven can care so little for ethics, and this piece does a lot to explain what’s going on and how we got here

Whenever you hear someone invoke the unitary executive, remember the image below. This was an inevitable result of the unitary executive theory: Empowering a president to tyrannically destroy institutions that ensured our government reflects the rule of law rather than his personal whim.

Collaborators:

It's wrong to call this "the Justice Department." He wants $230 million from the US taxpayer. Federal dollars. DOJ isn't some private company or NGO.

Seeing the destruction of the White House makes me emotional because Trump is so visibly flaunting the absence of constraints to his abuse of authority. He’s tearing down parts of the People’s House to construct a massive fascist temple where people will come to pay tribute to him. It’s grotesque.

The White House heard the complaints Dismissed them as “manufactured outrage” And kept demolishing the East Wing on Tuesday New photo and update with @jonathanreports.bsky.social

the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes

Trump hates this country, he hates Americans, and he is destroying everything that generations of our families built together. The destruction of the White House is just the ultimate symbol of the wrecking ball that he has taken to our country, but it’s an ugly, devastating symbol indeed.

unfortunately a good metaphor for democracy right now

The joy and absurdity that Portland has brought us all is giving me life

“We’re here peacefully protesting, looking as ridiculous as we can, just so maybe we appeal to the president because he’s a ridiculous leader that is normalizing abuse of power. And we cannot stand and act like nothing is happening.” 🦄