Yeah I’m not trusting a white man with a nazi tattoo under any circumstances. I don’t care when or where he got it. I’m a hard no on nazi tattoos.

By my admittedly rough math, that would fund the U.S. military for about an hour and eighteen minutes

@markhamillofficial.bsky.social Have you seen this!? Truly standing up to the empire.

They don’t even bother denying the corruption and grift.

If Platner somehow (how??) gets into the Senate he's just going to be another Fetterman isn't he? *rhetorical question

Chappell Roan Unveils Midwest Princess Fund for Trans Youth — and She’s Already Raised $400K

This is surely the plot of a romance novel. *not saying this particular post is fiction, just that the trope is very familiar. Romance readers know this one well. It ends 1 of 2 ways. She leaves and finds someone awesome. She leaves, he realises he actually does love her and fights to win her back

Donald Trump knocked down the White House East Wing without notice and before approvals —a developer move known as ‘anticipatory demolition,’ where you tear down a building before the preservationists can intervene. His dad did it too.

He is talking about executing civilians

Today, the White House Press Secretary told the country that this ridiculous damn ballroom is “the president’s main priority”…not reopening the government, not lowering the cost of groceries, not lowering the cost of housing, not lowering the cost of healthcare….building a ballroom

Updating my LEGO White House

Chris Murphy: "There's a lot of history that has taken place in the East Wing & it was just destroyed without any conversation in the public, without any consent of Congress. It's absolutely illegal. That visual is powerful b/c you're watching destruction of the rule of law as those walls come down"

Review at Dear Author: Blind Date With A Werewolf by Patricia Briggs. *Loved* dearauthor.com/book-reviews...

Even Trump's metaphors are shit

a live look at the demolition of the White House's East Wing for Trump's ballroom

Fuck this garbage so much. If drawing the line at Nazi tattoos makes someone a hall monitor, give me the sash and badge or whatever a hall monitor wears. Planter still has the tattoo. Hard to make a case for “growth” under those circumstances.

Putting a Democrat with a Nazi tattoo in the Senate normalizes Naziism in our federal politics for a long ass time. All these recent stories about secret Nazi group chats? Anytime that happens going forward will be met with "But Platner." It's not a purity test. Think through the consequences.

everyone: he… he has a nazi tatoo. liberals: you ppl and your purity politics my god. 🙄

Jon Lovett suggesting not having a nazi tattoo is some kind of over the top purity test is not the flex he thinks it is. FFS.

He had 20 fucking years of looking at that thing stone cold sober every morning in the mirror, and however long he’s been organizing this campaign for at least one staffer to say “what the fuck is that tattoo oh my God?” I’m tired of the milkshake duck cycle. Weary to my fucking bones.

Putin is a fucking ghoul. Watch Trump applaud this horror. Ghouls stick together.

Is it going to come out that Graham Platner was hooking these guys up with the really good coke?

President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has given his reaction to the shocking scenes in Kharkiv. "There is no justification for a drone strike on a kindergarten, nor can there ever be." #RussiaIsATerroristState

Destroying our institutions. Literally.

Join @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org and @annabower.bsky.social at 8 pm ET for a live discussion of Bower’s article about her Signal exchange with EDVA U.S. attorney Lindsey Halligan. youtube.com/live/SZZyccE...

the symbolism of “Trump destroying the White House for a overpriced luxury vanity project, during a government shut down, days after a historically-large mass demonstration against his regime called “No Kings”’ would be rightly viewed as laying it on a little thick if it was in a work of fiction

Halligan is the Hegseth of law.

“What is to stop Trump from making comparably inflated claims about the situations on the ground in other American cities as a pretextual basis for deploying troops? And what’s to stop him from making those claims not tomorrow, but next November—on the eve of the midterms?” Me, via “One First”:

ICE is now the 13th largest military in the world on its own. Never ever accept the lie we cannot pay for Universal Healthcare.

How to Join ICE theonion.com/how-to-join-...

wow, someone didn't see "Superman"

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification. I glanced down at the message. “Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began. So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

It's less than 24 hours after 5-8 million Americans marched against a president who called them domestic terrorists, and there is zero reference to it on the current NYT home page, except for a Bouie op/ed that came out several days earlier.

More great news, everyone.

New BBC headline updated 15 minutes ago: "Israel says it will return to ceasefire hours after carrying out strikes on Gaza" But... is it really a ceasefire if Israel says the ceasefire is in effect except when they're bombing Gaza? Isn't that just... refuelling?

Andrew says he "will no longer use" the title of Duke of York or thr other honours previously conferred on him. Reporting says his title and honours have been "stripped" from him. Is "no longer use" just spin or is "stripped" spin?

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

“You can win elections by tacking to the middle; lots of people have. But you can also win elections by staking a moral position and convincing people to agree with you. You can earn support by demonstrating what is important to you instead of just being determined to nod along with what you hear.”

Seven million. “One of the largest single-day nationwide demonstrations in US history.”

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

Trump's federal agents shot Marimar Martinez, a US citizen, multiple times for allegedly menacing them with her car in Chicago. Only hours later, Kristi Noem and DHS started spreading disinformation about the shooting. Now the official line is crumbling. 1/ (link) newrepublic.com/article/2019...

Boise Idaho #NoKings 10k people said enough

I love this so much

after a clarinet player was arrested at Sunday's ICE protest in downtown Portland, I talked to five artists, crafters and makers - a puppet designer, an illustrator, a graphic designer, a knitter, and a theatre artist - about creativity under fascism www.orartswatch.org/resistance-c...

I just keep thinking about the first guy to put on the frog costume reading the news today and seeing frogs literally all over the world what a fucking thing, man that 25 year old did more for the country in a week than most of the NYT op-ed section in a lifetime

Political parties must shift immediately and dramatically to the left to avoid alienating these frustrated and abandoned young women. Am I doing this right?

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” - James Baldwin

Now WeRateDogs is TRIPLING THE FUCK DOWN and talking about how often cops shoot dogs

This is not a minor issue: it’s a serious threat to democracy. We’re rapidly transitioning into a world where, as long as you support the president, you can be above the law; if you’re in the opposition, you have a target on your back. Opposition can’t survive under these conditions.