Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

"Look, things happen. And what happens at Camp Crystal Lake should stay at Camp Crystal Lake. We can’t hold everyone accountable for every little thing they’ve ever done."

British headline writers really nail the "would you look at this prick" tabloid treatment

The reported peace plan developed by envoys for Trump and Putin sounds more like a list of Moscow's demands than a compromise between two combatants. It's not clear what if anything Russia is willing to concede even as it insists that Ukraine give up a lot. www.ft.com/content/2353...

I shared a video a few months ago. Discussing how we FUND the IDF to have better benefits and better treatment in general than what we do for OUR OWN VETERANS. Many people who support the GAZA GENOCIDE said I was spreading lies. I don't peddle lies. But some of you peddle genocide. #SheShed

New — I wrote about the myriad ways journalism’s moral rot manifests, and how our crumbling institutions have created the conditions for it to fester:

Btw, Newsom's trolls are given Trump some of his own "Quiet Piggy" medicine.

Because once we get rid of Trump, we need to have laid the groundwork for reversing this, for saying, "remember when we could have nice things? Well, the way to get that back quickly is to fire the kidnappers and rehire the cancer scientists."

This is a good question. Reuters reports Trump admin has hired 50,000 workers, primarily in immigration enforcement. For context, that's equivalent to the total number of job losses in Health & Human Services, Veterans Affairs, USAID and Interior COMBINED, per the Partnership for Public Service

scoop: one of the largest renewable energy projects in the u.s. is quietly getting killed say goodbye to leading light, the latest casualty of trump’s war on offshore wind (also means there is essentially no more offshore wind in progress at all for new jersey)

Cue the Bishops withholding communion from Catholic SCOTUS justices who betray Matthew 25:35-40.

Fraudster Sen. Rick Scott claims he's writing a bill right now... “We must stop taxpayer money from going to insurance companies & instead give it directly to Americans in HSA-style accounts & let them buy the health care they want. This will increase competition & drive down costs.” 🧾 is.gd/JVJXVB

The closed captioning is devastating

Honestly we get there by making their own criminal liability take each other out.

Scoop: FBI ousts senior official after Kash Patel’s fury over news of his use of government jet to see girlfriend perform. The removed head of critical incident response group was 27-year FBI veteran who oversaw aviation sections. news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/fbi-o...

Good to see @msnbc.com’s @anacabrera.bsky.social & National correspondent Erielle Reshef discuss Trump’s recent MRI Reshef said it’s highly unusual and "It's still unclear, because his physician only referenced 'advanced screening,' which can mean a number of different types of testing."

So much of what’s wrong with our society is grounded in anti-Blackness—the governing ideology of this thing we’ve called democracy.

“We're a small, rural, black community. We don’t have fancy lobbyists or billions of dollars," Greater Greener Gloster founder Krystal Martin said. "All we have is our truth and our stories and our testimony.”

🕯️ We remember their names. We honor their lives. We refuse to let them be forgotten. 🦋 We join the families and advocates across the country in honoring those who died in ICE custody, and those who should still be here today. #DayoftheDead

Maybe he's sending some kind of code to his Russian handler?

Here’s a disturbing video from Evanston of a federal agent hitting a man on the ground as people yell that he can’t breathe.

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I fear that Mamdani would treat all women like an aunt, while Cuomo would merely grab their breasts and let their mothers die in a nursing home.

"According to his running club, the man, who is a U.S. citizen, was returning from a team run when agents pulled him out of his vehicle, tackled him to the ground and kneeled on top of him, allegedly breaking six ribs and causing internal bleeding"

“It sounds crazy to say that Republicans are making children go hungry to protect pedophiles, but it’s actually a reasonable interpretation of the situation.” @pkrugman.bsky.social

Just so we're all clear who is being honored by this statue: "Pike was personally chosen by Nathan Bedford Forrest to serve as the Klan's "Chief Judicial Officer" and to head the Klan in Arkansas as "Grand Dragon of that Realm."

When asked about Russia’s war in Ukraine, ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, DeepSeek, and xAI’s Grok all regularly cite Russian propaganda www.wired.com/story/chatbo...

1. Last week, there were 3 Trump corruption scandals in 4 days that would define any other presidency. Most people are probably not even AWARE of all three scandals. 🧵

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.

Welp, Scott Bessent rescued his puppet. www.wsj.com/world/americ...

“Walmart was the top employer of SNAP recipients in five states and one of the top four employers in the remaining four states. McDonald’s was among the top five employers of Medicaid enrollees in five of six states and SNAP recipients in eight of nine states.” www.cnbc.com/2020/11/19/w...

In advance of Trump shutting down SNAP, this is a way you can help your neighbors.

😲 SEATTLE: Shackled at his wrists and ankles, an elderly man struggles in the cold rain to mount the slippery stairs to this Avelo jet, which will fly him to another detention facility in Texas 👀

Portland City Councilor @counciloravalos.bsky.social woke up to her car and home engulfed in flames late last night. She had to grab her cat and escape to safety.

Here in Seattle, furloughed NOAA employees were out in the pouring rain cleaning up beaches yesterday, part of a national week of service organized by federal workers who can't do their jobs due to the shutdown. Story by @heyjohnryan.bsky.social at KUOW, our federally defunded public radio station.

Time to target all the Oligarchs who support Trump. Find all the products they sell, and collectively we all stop buying. We can't do anything to Trump directly until we flip Congress 2026. But we can't wait that long. We must knock down the economic pillars that support him now. Buy Local.

“Let Them Eat… Ballroom” (A fresh recap and puzzle solver.) Well done.

Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.

This (moderate) level of racial competency is VERY rare for someone of this demo; white folks should’ve been listening to and learning from people like this for decades. Sadly, it’s too late to dismantle racism, now. Racism has won. White America chose it instead of a hyper-qualified Black Woman. 🙁

May you live in very very confusing times.

After trying to bribe Kilmer Abrego Garcia into pleading guilty by telling him they’d send him to Costa Rica if he did and to Africa if he didn’t, the Trump admin is now refusing to acknowledge that he agreed to be deported to Costa Rica — but won’t plead guilty.

Feels like a good day to watch this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Irk6...

🧊✈️ ICE AIR TRAFFIC JAM 😬 Four ICE Air planes converge over Central America 👀

Dahlia detail. #bloomscrolling #macro #photography #flowers

We say this ALL THE TIME, and I don't dispute it at all. But the quip covers over a lot of the WHY. WHY were right wingers able to exercise that power and Dems not. It's really NOT timidity (Dems, after all, have brought real impeachments.)

Not to exploit attention economy guy's comments, but this White House attack REALLY IS a visual that is flooring people, including dopes like Byron York. And it'd be useful to think of all the ways to use it as an organizing/messaging platform, PARTICULARLY bc of timing, "Let them eat ballroom."

Given Trump's destruction of the White House, was thinking, "Maybe Dems should propose that when President OAC takes power they'll move the Capitol to Denver, make DC and PR a state, and rebuild from the start." Just as a way to use Trump's destruction as a way to talk about HOW to rebuild.

Very fond of this effort. Elon Musk was easy to demonize, which made it easy to demonize DOGE. Discount Goebbels is a tougher nut, but I suspect GOPers would be even happier to see him gone than Elon.