Ate them all up

The next time there's an article about how voter registration numbers are an omen for the next election remember: This piece ran two days before New Jersey Democrats pulled off a blowout win.

the pigeons, I'm welling up

Sexual harassment allegations by MANY subordinates should have been more of a dealbreaker for folks than it was today in NYC.

I ALWAYS BELIEVED 60 WAS THE FLOOR!!!

HD 75 let's go...

circling back on this

in all seriousness, this showed very bad judgment on his part. If i say more i will be cancelled 2019-style so i shall not but.

This to me is the game. I don’t care if Schumer doesn’t like Mamdani, but for him to stand silently by while sex pest Cuomo leans into gutter racism and Islamophobia while accepting endorsements from Trump, Musk and Miller is outrageous from the Senate Minority Leader.

They better not go and shake that man’s hand while he’s kidnapping folks from the community that made them

yamamoto unquestionably the mvp

You expect Protestants to care about gun violence?

Dodgers offense heading into Game 6:

i'm currently reading colson whitehead's john henry days, and it's at least 35-40% this

Earlier today the UNSC voted to endorse the Western Sahara Autonomy Proposal, which if imposed would violate the right of the Sahrawi to self-determination.

"UN refugee agency official Jacqueline Wilma Parlevliet said that the new arrivals told stories of widespread ethnic and politically motivated killings, including reports of people with disabilities shot dead because they were unable to flee" this keeps getting worse www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl...

me reading “girlfriend”

I'm shaking almost too hard to type. I entered SLC airport and heard screams and cries for help. I could see people gathered around, watching. I sped over to discover this woman face down on the floor, four grown men pushing her down, while she cried "HELP ME" and pled for her child.

DODGERS MANDATE OF HEAVEN ALERT

Lisa, you are holding the knife that you and your colleagues have used to cut Article I’s throat. The blood is still dripping from the blade. Nobody wants to hear your mealy-mouthed concern trolling.

The one day I stay off the internet all day.

Dr. Nila Devanath (D) Launches Campaign for Congress in VA02, Currently Misrepresented by Trump Loyalist Rep. Jen Kiggans (R-VA02); Devanath says Kiggans "broke her promise to protect Medicaid, voted to take health care away from 300,000 Virginians..." bluevirginia.us/2025/10/dr-n...

in which @annaleen.bsky.social and I obsess about the Wicker Man (1973), with its nipple anointing, sinister man-woman, Christopher Lee, Bond girls, scary cakes & ACAB (a cop is burning) ending, for @flaminghydra.com flaminghydra.com/issue-426/

“The number is impossible to measure since Congress let lapse a requirement that ICE report how many pregnant, postpartum, and nursing immigrants are in custody.” 19thnews.org/2025/10/ice-...

Proud papa moment: my son J published a letter in the @nytimes.com today (in print tomorrow) on the need to think our definitions of autism.

It’s also not been true (in my experience the last 2 times) that the majority of attendees are older and white. It was at the first one, but the second and third were extremely diverse on every spectrum (age ethnicity etc)

Texas state troopers confiscating canes and breaking sign poles to be below a certain length

The history of the present King is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these Waters 1/12

On April 1, ICE apprehended 47 people — including 9 children — at a birthday party in Dripping Springs, Tex. The agency’s only disclosure about the raid describes the operation as targeting people believed to be connected to the Tren de Aragua gang. 🧵

updated for 2025:

like... why?

me when I lie

EMS called to ICE facility bc protestor has broken collar bone (!). ICE agents then refuse to let EMS ambulance leave. EMS driver puts ambulance in park, which makes the vehicle lurch slightly. ICE agent then get up into the cab threatening to shoot driver in the head www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

If anyone's wondering how this is possible, the answer is these strike teams are moving terrifyingly fast. Grab first, ask questions later. We were about 8-15 minutes behind them today for several hours. They're jumping out of vans, chasing people across lawns, taking them from bus stops, etc

and the CDC library, which has been open since 1946. gone.

No more obstructionists. No more Susan Collinses, no Joe Manchins, no Kyrsten Sinemas, no more Getting Along To Go Along, no more Norms, no more Collegiality, no more Bipartisanship But above all: No. More. Obstructionists.

If you're running in a Dem primary for Senate, preemptively endorsing the filibuster is already a red flag. ... but not knowing the filibuster for lower court judges has been gone for more than a decade is even worse, it's indisputable evidence of incompetence.

i was told by rolando pablos ads that if this happened, it would be gina ortiz jones' fault. that's who[se party] made this decision, right?

Marina Gregg is going into music now? Huh!

This research from the Boston Fed suggests that inflation expectations may becoming unmoored. That means higher inflation is becoming normalized, which could be own self-fulfilling prophecy on a more sustained bout of inflation. Here are key takeaways:

North Carolina Republicans' proposed congressional gerrymander would likely elect an 11-3 GOP majority in a 50-50 swing state. Black Democrat Don Davis' 1st District would shift from Trump+3 to Trump+12 & likely elect a white Republican. Interactive map here: davesredistricting.org/join/3f06a7f...

BREAKING from PP We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens* The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied: Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado www.propublica.org/article/immi... by @nicolefoy.bsky.social

This is possibly the all-time funniest real answer to an interview question

👣 The End of Asylum? 🧵 MiSC Scholar Mae Ngai forces us to reckon with the collapse of asylum under the second Trump administration and its deep historical roots in her latest, must-read article for @nybooks.com. drive.google.com/file/d/1CnsS...

I think two things are true: 1. young republicans were always terrible and racist 2. young republicans become openly hitler-loving groypers is in fact a new and alarming development that is worth paying attention to

the cities are Corpus Christi, Boston, Winston-Salem, Rochester, Huntsville, Las Vegas, Tacoma, Erie, Los Angeles, Columbus, Camden and New York.

It’s a bit old, but John Higham’s Strangers in the Land is still extremely illuminating on the interplay of nativism and antiradicalism.

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