It’s too bad only farmers are people and not librarians or artists or healthcare workers or researchers.

Mamdani did this without tacking to the center by accepting republican framing and throwing marginalized people under the bus or even apologizing for being socialist; something that party operatives who actually want to win might learn from.

this is a good idea and they should do it, just so the court can expose itself again bsky.app/profile/cris...

Sign of things to come? FBI not ICE but at what other time would people think masked weirdos might actually be Feds.

The New York Times publishes a handy guide to which federal forces are terrorizing us at any moment. This is America, 2025.

how does donald trump keep breaking all these norms when all i'm doing is repeatedly suggesting he might do that with softball questions and then writing up the answers as if it's not a settled issue and attributing equal validity to his sundowning avarice and the written constitution

might be one of the funniest videos i’ve ever seen

When you reach a certain age and have worked all your life believing in—and often fighting to create—a better world for our children and look around at where we are now, it’s radicalizing. I really don’t think political leaders grasp how furious we are.

And critically, who would still have it if not for a campaign controversy, and who has no record beyond social media videos and his platform on a website with which to evaluate his character and suitability for office.

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

I don't think the checks are balancing.

this is what will happen if mamdani makes bus rides free

Chris Cillizza is one of the dumbest, most dishonest people on the planet

😑😑

Might be the most vacuous person of the last decade. An empty vessel for lobbyist cash.

88-year-old congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton is suffering from dementia, says police report filed after she was allegedly scammed out of $4,400

she's running for reelection btw

This is embarrassing. It shows that Jeffries is no leader. He's a weak follower.

Thoughts on this guy’s threads @dieworkwear.bsky.social ? Is This Dapper Man Going to Crack the Louvre Heist Case? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/s...

What's worse to me than the Dem House leader's last-minute endorsement of the Dem mayoral nominee is that Jeffries/Schumer have said nothing about Cuomo -- a longtime Dem! -- losing the primary and then running a sore loser campaign that was overtly negative. They treated this as normal!

He said plenty by waiting this long. Too late.

It's not lost on me that the part of the White House we are destroying is the part that has to do with women's history in the White House.

Don’t laugh at this. Don’t dismiss it. They’re serious. Prepare for it. And get ready to fight against it.

I love that this is literally just we realized we weren't connecting with Black people so we tried talking to more Black people and Black people like us much better now

Sixteen-year-old American Mohammed Ibrahim has described horrific conditions in Israeli prison: overcrowded cells, no heating or cooling, and barely enough food to survive. Democrats in Congress are demanding his release, but he remains detained without trial.

Holy shit! That motherfucker TORE DOWN THE WHITE HOUSE!

“I’ll see what I can do,” or as I also like to say, “I won’t be doing anything”

Holy buckets. This is exactly what the Oregon Silver Shirt fascist I’m writing about thought children should be taught about Communism ca. 1965 (minus the more recent references).

Trump Lied and Will Now Demolish Entire East Wing www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

i feel the same way. what do you mean i took someone’s spot? i worked my ass off to get to UVA and i worked my ass of when i was there. sorry some dipshit couldn’t hack it enough to do the same

I'm serious re: the _personal_ offense I take to this. I went to U-Va. on a merit scholarship for high-achieving, heavily recruited Black students. I worked my ass off, racked up AP credits, and devoted evenings + weekends to extracurriculars to get in. Whose fucking spot did I "take"? Whose?

Existing literature distinguishes "purity testing" - withholding support from candidates who fail to meet each and all of a set of standards - and its negation, which treats all standards as expendable. Such a distinction elides a third possibility I call "tattoo inspection". In this essay I will -

they should make a bagel bite the size of a pizza

NYT White House desk not beating the Stenography charges.

For folks asking if they've made it *inside* a Home Depot yet as the business has clearly just continued letting agents do whatever they want in their lots, the answer is yes. This is from yesterday in Evanston.

I bet some clever university president can strike a super productive deal with Trump, the guy who said ‘I wouldn’t knock over the White House’, then knocks over the White House and updates the media after they noticed the rubble - ‘actually I plan (future tense) to knock over the White House’

to retire, you say?

Several times a day, I add to something like this, “And we’re all just watching it happen.”

Democrats are still voting to support Trump nominees

Most Democratic voters easily understand this but most Senate Democrats do not

“What a travesty,” said Bennett L. Gershman, an ethics professor at Pace University. “The ethical conflict is just so basic and fundamental, you don’t need a law professor to explain it.”

Well, good thing my colleagues are all panties in a bunch about a Brown Muslim who’s been working his tuchus off to build relationships with actual Jewish New Yorkers, it’s not like there’s anything better for them to be weighing in on anywhere, no secret text messages being blown off or Nazis or 🙄

great piece from @adamserwer.bsky.social on the “anti-woke” tax that americans now pay as a result of conservative identity politics run amok.

The Dems had to be dragged into opposing the Iraq War. They had to have a fire lit under their asses for health care. They had to be dragged into impeaching Trump and nowadays their opposition to him is still less than quarter assed — they still vote for his nominees! I’m fucking over it.

I’m 25 years into this, and for the majority of this time I’ve watched the Democrats sit on the sidelines while the GOP destroys the country. I’m a little over it.

The GOP said Democratic voters were pro terrorists. The GOP leader is literally demolishing the White House right now. Democratic response?

People act as if the Dems are hobbled by media access or money. Neither is true. Yes the msm is coerupt and the right has more money. But these aren’t good excuses for why Democrats just don’t fight. They make an active choice to just not fight. Every day.