Grandpa is getting drowsy in the recliner

what mtsw says, and also I don't think you even have to consider it charisma. He's been promoted by mainstream media as a savvy businessman and fun character for like three decades. hardly any other politician has anything like that kind of massive generational publicity machine. 1

It’s deeply pathetic that Republican members of Congress have completely abdicated their constitutional responsibilities. What a bunch of cucks!

Let's not forget that women ruined their own faces via the dreaded "bicycle face"! www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...

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Reminds me of pro-slavery southern voices before the civil war, like John C Calhoun. They worried about new “free states” joining the union, and losing their majority in the senate—

A real can of corn, as they used to say in the baseball. Also, fuck you @nytimes.com , you don't know what I think

On this day in 1968, Shirley Chisholm was elected to Congress. You know just in case you need more inspiration to keep this party going.

Heh, well said. Worth noting, too that the in year 12 of the 1,000 Year Reich, Nuremberg, site of stadium-sized Nazi rallies, looked like this

serious note: they're gonna try 5x harder to sabotage the midterms after tonight and we're gonna have to organize on a literally historic scale to stop them

My first reason for hope here, #1: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/why-i-have...

MAGA wants to end competitive elections because they know people hate what they’re doing.

"If Republicans want a return to political influence in America's dynamic economic and cultural powerhouses, they're going to have to learn how to appeal to the complex folkways of urban dwellers"

If I was a Republican member of Congress watching the results tonight, I’d ask myself if I really wanted my legacy to be: Guy who helped an aging pedophile suspend the constitution so he could enrich himself and his friends.

And THIS is what it’s really all about. Dems need to push this right up there with ballrooms and Gatsby vs. groceries, healthcare, SNAP and Unemployment Insurance…

Violation of the Hatch Act at top of the SNAP web page: "Senate Democrats are withholding services to the American people in exchange for healthcare for illegals, gender mutilation, and other unknown 'leverage' points."

Similar to the Nazi group chat semi-apology responses, I think it is remarkable that the “Groyper” war is being framed pretty exclusively in terms of antisemitism, while the racism is unremarkable for them.

The problem with most of Yglesias’s advice for Democrats is that Republicans do the opposite and win all the time. So it’s either bad advice or evidence of an asymmetric playing field, which he never addresses.

billionaires have invested in media not because they support journalism but because they want to control it. there is only downside to a free press for people with that level of wealth. journalism is a great equalizer and they don’t want us to be equal.

good time to respectfully tap the "please support worker-led, billionaire-free, independent news" sign

Pundits say the problem is that Democrats fail to represent the people—but the real problem is that our political system fails to represent the people.

Oh wow, major work of interest to #MedievalSky #GlobalMiddleAges #EnvironmentalHistory. A new special issue devoted to "Environmental Challenges in Premodern Eurasian and Mediterranean Narratives": journals.uio.no/JAIS/article.... Kudos to the editors for bringing this work so quickly into print!

"[Chicago mom] Andrea Soria... overheard her 6-year-old whisper to her dolls: 'We have to be good or ICE will get us.'" apnews.com/article/chic...

republicans just default to harming the american people as a way to blackmail Ds, the clearly stated assumption being that Democrats are the only ones who care is people suffer.

it's utterly wild how the Heritage Foundation president talks about other people if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops

Denying they are even accountable—

study after study after study shows that literally just handing people money and telling them "do what you want with this" reduces homelessness, increases food security for children, makes it more likely people will find and retain jobs.1

As you can see through these stunning photos, Minneapolis is a real war zone. Burned down.

The US is killing people it calls "nacro-terrorists," alleging that they pose a grave threat to the homeland. But killing them doesn't count as "hostilities" - because they pose no threat to the US troops killing them.

And we have now progressed from data analysis to policy recommendations. I told her that we'd calculate the cash value of her candy haul, that I'd ask her to raid her piggy bank and donate 1/3 the candy cash value to a local food bank, and that I'd add on a 5X match.

Note: while not unprecedented, it’s actually pretty rare for a sitting Catholic bishop to participate in a demonstration. It’s just not generally what Catholic bishops do. Thus: Getting the hierarchy involved in this protest outside an ICE facility is no small thing.

the right turned clinton saying "deplorable" into a decades long controversy. Trump literally shits on the bulk of Americans and all we can muster is, "oh you should be thinking about something else instead"? come on.

The world’s largest slave society was a crucial factor in the country’s economic takeoff beyond what’s commonly assumed gift link

“A transport grid designed for steady detainee transfers” is, quite literally, the EXACT phenomenon that Hannah Arendt was referring to when she coined the phrase “the banality of evil.”

In the middle of the collapse of moral consensus you wonder what’s next.

This isn’t true, but it is true that slaveowners routinely enslaved and sold their children.

/2 Anyway it’s great to see Heritage recognize and support the philosophical core of “free speech culture”: judging Jews as inherently suspect or harmful to America is just another opinion, but judging someone for saying that is unacceptable in a free society.

You can trace a straight line between this moment, McConnell’s declaration that his task was to make Obama a one-term President, and Newt Gingrich’s whole congressional program.

Trump and his lackeys treat the Constitution of the United States like toilet paper. The only thing they respect or care about is their own dictatorial power, and wielding it in the most needlessly cruel ways imaginable

blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/30/f... They are targeting children and religious holidays. They are staging ICE raids in cemeteries. There is nothing about this that has anything to do with law and order. This is lawlessness and desecration.

PEORIA, Ill. (AP) — Illinois deputy found guilty of murder in the shooting of Sonya Massey, a Black woman who called 911 asking for help.

Congress created Special Immigrant Juvenile Status as a protection against deportation — yet because of procedural quirks, there is a lag/limbo between SIJS and a green card, and a person can have both a removal order AND a SIJS grant. This admin is pushing forward with removal during this lag time.

Anti-ICE action cannot and *will not* stop. Join us in the streets 1 week before Election Day with @miracmn.bsky.social to demand ICE out and a *real* Sanctuary city in Minneapolis. 4-6pm 10/28/25 Federal Courthouse Plaza 300 S 4th Street

That's the authoritarian dream

Doubly mad. #MadKing

Also, he is imposing a tax without our consent (which was enough for our forefathers to start a revolution) because an ad made him mad. It's mad king stuff.

When Anthonhy Burns was kidnapped in Boston in 1854 under the auspices of the Fugitive Slave Act, thousands of ordinary white and Black Bostonians responded with outrage like this and stormed the jail in an unsuccessful attempt to free him.

Fear, Greed, Civic Virtue and the Fall of the Elites talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/fear-...