Hey Megyn Kelly, 14-year-old Eloise would like a word: “If my voice makes you uncomfortable, good… because the minute adults start defending predators by defending the age of a child, you’re not protecting the truth, you’re protecting the predator.” Sound up! 🔥🔊 1/2

Coates, kindly, exposes every flaw in @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social's arguments and he continues to double down with white dude, naivety to be kind, ignorance to maybe be more honest. @mikiesherrill.bsky.social's team could learn a lot from Coates here as her centrist push aligns with Klein.

Ezra Klein explains why he is against the “oppositional” approach of Dems. One example he gives is blatantly false: immigration. But more important: Klein shows how folks like him almost always casually throw vulnerable people under the bus in the name of “practicality.”

Klein is wrong: Biden waived 26 federal laws so he could build Trump's shitty wall. It was one of the many terrible Trump policies he continued and was followed shortly by funding and abetting genocide. www.politico.com/news/2023/10...

The mainstream / leadership Democratic position of today is to the right of George W. Bush on immigration.

Revisited this spectacular Kaleb Horton paragraph about crows this morning. "I have met crows that should be in jail" is one of those sentences that's so good you're initially furious you didn't write it yourself before circling back around to just being glad you got to read it.

If/when Dems regain control of Congress, the path is clear. No clerks. No building. No shadow docket. Nothing, until the Wizards In Robes stop ignoring the law, data, history, precedent, & the plain meaning of words in the Constitution. And there will be 25, with 9 chosen by lottery for any case.

Just a reminder that these "pivotal votes" that the Democrats got in these recent special elections aren't pickups. They are pivotal seats that have been vacant for months because the Democrats who previously held them ran for office notwithstanding age and cancer diagnoses, then died in office.

Elected office is not an entitlement and having members die of old age in office is failure of party discipline.

It is fully irresponsible to argue for an American return to global leadership. This country is deeply unwell and has no business leading anything until that's no longer the case. There's a whole world out there capable of tending to the world's problems. We must tend to ours.

All that needs to be said, really.

Compared to abetting the immolation of Palestinian children with bipartisan support, I think it measures up quite nicely, actually.

The Canadians know that they don't run the world and my understanding is that they don't want to. Would it be accurate to describe Canada's foreign policy as Canada First or cruelly isolationist?

My position is that America should adopt the foreign policy orientation of most countries in the world. There are things we can help with and contribute, but we've no right or reason to lord it over the Earth. And certainly not while the GOP is structurally favored to control Washington.

If the Chinese try for hegemony in our stead, it'll end as poorly for them as it has for every other civilization that's attempted it. I also do not presume, as is implied often, that the Global South is doomed to illiberalism, poverty, and impotence forever. The root of this presumption is racism.

I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.

But this isn't toxic debt repackaging, this isn't a bubble, don't you worry your silly little brain about it.

For the record, the local police had to arrive to free the girl from … the federal police. This is horrific. It’s undeniable that we will need trials for ICE officials and officers after all this. “Leominster police arrived at the scene, recovered the child and returned her to the family.”

ICE arrested the man two days later at the same place (his house). They knew where he was, they knew they could come back. Taking a five yr girl on the autism spectrum hostage is appalling. Period. That they knew it was totally unnecessary just highlights the gleeful cruelty.

It’s a new season. The air is lighter. Let’s find an hour a day to move our bodies. Even if it’s a 30 min walk. Just start.

Obviously they only polled Bluesky weirdos and not real american twitter democrats lile Nate Silver

Oh no, now Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries are going to send a strongly worded letter to the Democratic base

chatgpt is much like an improv comedy group 1) you are the audience, giving it prompts 2) it produces things roughly shaped like your prompt 3) it is trained to respond with Yes, And 4) it has the factual accuracy of improv 5) it does not understand comedy

you say "i asked chatgpt" i hear "i asked [an improv comedy group]" an improv group wrote this report instead of a therapist i use an improv comedy group

DEUTSCHE: NVIDIA "is currently carrying the weight of US economic growth. The bad news is that in order for the tech cycle to continue contributing to GDP growth, capital investment needs to remain parabolic. This is highly unlikely.” @fortune.com fortune.com/2025/09/23/a...

🙋🏽‍♀️ I’m raising my hand with some actual science. A very high fever in the 1st trimester increases risk of birth defects—heart defects, facial deformities (like cleft lip or palate) and defects of the brain or spinal cord. The fever itself interferes development during this period of organ formation.

A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore $500 million in federal grant funding that it froze at the University of California, Los Angeles.

If he gets any darker Stephen Miller is going to have him deported.

This is horrific and feels like it should be a bigger deal. Business Insider reports that people who have worked at xAI have seen Grok create images and written material with child sex abuse material. www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-gr...

Nothing says “land of the free” like armed agents of the state saying “show me your papers if you want your daughter back” bsky.app/profile/nbcb...

Today, we argue that the conversational style of AI, specifically its impartial affirmations and polished tone, fosters inflated perceptions of intelligence.

🇮🇹BREAKING: Italy Sees Massive General Strike in Solidarity With Gaza Italy is seeing a powerful 24-hr general strike today, Sept. 22, as millions of workers across transport, education, logistics, and other sectors are expected to join protests for Gaza. The strike has... @ryangrim.bsky.social

Termini Station (Roma Termini) is Rome’s main train station and one of Europe’s largest, serving as the hub for high-speed trains, regional lines, metro routes A and B, buses, and airport shuttles...

Milan

Videos from Rome, Milan, and Naples

Source: Paolo Mossetti on X (@paolomossetti)

Thousands in Naples shut down the city’s central train station.

Source: Potere al Popolo via X (@potere_alpopolo)

Pisa

Public hospital in Naples:

Genoa

Bologna

Just on a basic level, the New Deal coalition was emphatically not built on handing it to Hoover on a couple hot button issues.