Taking a social media break until the new year. My best friend does this every year and says it is great for mental health and refocusing on life, so I’m giving it a go. Happy holidays folks. Try to make the world a better place for everyone, especially the poor and powerless. ❤️

The chain of decisions leading to this spectacularly bad moment would be highly educational for business executives to threat model

It is time for @murray.senate.gov and @cantwell.senate.gov to get on the correct side of the opposition party and join this challenge. Stop the corporate establishment weak sauce politics the Democratic Party has simpered into and show some real leadership for the American people.

They stopped him. Broke the car window. Terrorized him. And then disappeared him. Look at the exchange. It's terrifying. This could be any of our children. 'Get out of the car.' 'I'm a U.S. citizen.' 'I don't care.'

DM: The orange fascist lurks in his lair, hunched behind his massive desk, revelling in his stolen power. His acolytes hiss at you as you approach. What does your human bard do -- MAMDANI: Active perception check. DM: ...that's a natural 20 MAMDANI: Let's fucking go. <FLUTE TRILL>

Every reporter covering this story needs to make something very, very, explicitly clear: VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM. VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM. VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM. VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM. VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM. VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM. VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM.

No peace for predators. He should be shamed and shunned for the rest of his pathetic life.

the gulf between the swift brutality with which places like harvard treated students protesting genocide and the endless, endless latitude those same institutions have given people like larry summers tells you everything you need to know

We should NOT be selling weapons to one of the worst human rights abusers in the world. This should be a no-brainer. MBS should be held responsible for the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi — not welcomed at the White House to celebrate a multibillion-dollar arms package deal.

Tim Cook, the head of Apple, is having a nice dinner with MBS, who regularly orders executions, including for tweets. Apple hosts "a Saudi app that allows men to track the movement of their wives and daughters. In 2019, Mr. Cook said he would investigate the app, but it is still available today."

Trump is unfit for the office of President of the United States and is an embarrassment to the nation. On top of that, this was rude and makes it clear yet again that he is just tacky, unintelligent white trash under the expensive suit and terrible spray tan.

Don’t forget to call your democratic senator(s) today and tell them to #SackSchumer. www.5calls.org makes it easy to find the names and phone numbers of your congresspeople based on your zip code.

Weird how many racists like to self-identify themselves as racists.

“Love is temporary, a PhD is forever” - @larbitre5280.bsky.social Best comment in this thread 👩‍🍳💋

Every year, tens of thousands of children are taken from their families because their parents can't afford decent housing. Most child welfare agencies do virtually nothing to help them even as the affordable housing crisis worsens. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

Ghislane Maxwell Doesn't Deserve A Pardon From Chump. She Deserves To Spend The Rest of Her Life in Prison, In Solitary Confinement.......

Alan Douchewitz is, at best, an apologist for pedophiles. And, given his repeated presence in the Epstein Files, it's entirely plausible that he has raped children himself, too.

So many vulnerable people were hurt, harassed and raped by these ghouls and now—I’m worried—it’s gonna become hehe haha lurid internet circus instead of a long overdue moral reckoning. I’m scared of who we all are becoming. That man has brought us ALL low.

I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here

My kids with two tech industry employed parents wouldn’t qualify, and I still think this is fantastic and more top tier universities should do this.

NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected. And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.* Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:

Jeff Bezos paid $50 million for a wedding. He just got a $16 billion tax break. He just laid off 60,000 people. And you're furious about a kid getting a free school lunch?

MAGA keeps saying: "You liberals are going to be so mad when you see all the Democrats in the Epstein files!!!" No we won't. Because we're not in a cult. Pedos belong in prison. I don't care who they are. #ReleaseTheFiles

“Providing tech services to supercharge ICE operations while blocking tools that support accountability of ICE officers is entirely backwards." - @kateruane.bsky.social www.404media.co/google-has-c...

Okay, so, we’re all going to have to agree that it’s wrong to have sex with children. Like, if you don’t agree with me inside your own head, you should keep that inside until you tell a therapist. Also, people who defend pedophiles can not be trusted with your children. At all. AT ALL. EVERRRRRRRRR.

The soft pedaling language being used to describe the men in the Epstein files is enraging. They didn’t “have sex with underage girls”. They raped them. Sex implies consent. The survivors deserve better than this. Use the correct language. Say what these men did.

Editorial note for anyone writing about Epstein, there is no such thing as an "underage woman."

I trash democrats when they fuck up and praise them when they do a good job. I think people should try that instead of clapping like a seal no matter what they do.

It is going to be rough for several weeks, potentially months. If Epstein’s island rapists go unpunished, all SA victims will be retraumatized just as they are every time rapists like Brock Turner get a 6 month sentence because the judge thinks “A prison sentence would have a severe impact on him”

🔥 “I’ve never seen this level of grift” @RepMcGovern on the @MarshaBlackburn & @SenatorHagerty self-dealing money grab, giving themselves MILLIONS for being investigated in connection with Trump’s attempt to undo our democracy.

Do not forget Dems caved on defending ACA & got nothing in return, Dem senators need to be relentlessly pressured to demand Schumer step down, GOP is trying to ban abortion & hemp (CBD gummies etc), & all establishment politicians put their personal interests ahead of doing their goddamned jobs.

Stop sugarcoating child rape. Adult men knew they were breaking the law, taking advantage of children, and did it anyway.

All the Epstein emails are powerful elites saying shit like “Hello my friend the pedophile, i need your advice as a pedophile, what do you think about this other pedophile? Pedophilic Regards, your Friend ;)” and instead of swinging from a gibbet most of them are still writing op-eds against leftism

So the Republicans, seeing that the Democrats will cave, moved the goalposts? I wish I were surprised by this, but even more so, I wish the 8 senators that capitulated on a promise had anticipated this. It is GOP 101.

Is Schumer still the minority leader? Is Durbin still the whip? Is Cortes-Masto still a vice chair? Good Democrats -- rank and file, those committed to restoring party --must tell Act Blue and every candidate with hands out for the coming midterms -- that there's no cash coming without new leaders.

OH F*CKING SHOCKER

I called @cantwell.senate.gov and @murray.senate.gov today to implore them to remove @schumer.senate.gov as Senate Minority Leader. It is easy to look up and call your congresspeople using 5calls.org. #SackSchumer

When Democrats offered a clean ONE-year extension of the tax credits—which is truly the most straightforward and common-sense thing we can do for people facing gigantic premium hikes this year—Republicans said “never, ever, ever, ever.” They called it “political terrorism.” Are you serious?

Resign right now, you useless, ineffective, Quisling little coward. Go count your money and get out of the way for someone who cares about saving America from this tyranny. You did this, and we all know it.

"Trump’s willingness to hurt people exceeds [Democrats'] willingness to see people get hurt."

Their compromise was to kill 51k people a year: www.finance.senate.gov/ranking-memb...

poor children literally went without food. people lost jobs and went into debt and got evicted and sold their cars they need to get to work. people who otherwise would have lived longer will die younger because of the stress of this. people did things for money they can't undo

THIS. When you flinch, the bully just gets excited and hits you harder. Dems completely fumbled this, zero strategic acumen here

The model of holding individual senators responsible is broken here. The retirees clearly agreed to take the fall. Which is why the nos should get no credit for voting no unless they move to oust Schumer

How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

These 8 Democrats are complicit in the suffering & deaths of Americans who won’t be able to afford healthcare due to the Trump budget. These cowards should be shamed every day for the rest of their miserable lives for selling out the principles of their party & the American people. #senatesellouts

if you genuinely think Schumer and Democratic leadership opposed this & Republicans coincidentally got exactly the number of votes they needed to avoid a filibuster and none of those votes are from Democratic Senators who are up for reelection in the midterms next year, I have a bridge to sell you.

Never forget who sold us out: Hassan King Cortez-Masto Shaheen Kaine Fetterman Durbin Rosen