it's cool how every media company's response to workers unionizing their highly successful publication now seems to be folding said publication and laying everyone off. it's giving real Cashing Out at the Casino vibes

This is an absolutely insane administrative process. Within the space of a week, states were told by judges/White House *no SNAP benefits *half benefits *full benefits *pause provision of benefits. Result is chaos, uncertainty, and uneven access to benefits depending on where people live.

It's inherent in their ideology, & it is no coincidence that internationally incidences of mortal violence caused by militant antifas over the decades are negligible, while the far right has tallied 100s of deaths. You need to treat your safety in that encounter in accordance w/ that understanding.

to minimize the role of luck and create the best possible odds for ourselves and those around us. The principle consideration here, the one to always keep in mind and from which all else flows: Every fascist and Nazi you encounter is a potential murderer.

It’s not just that people are getting overly attached to them, they're aiming at those customers. They want power users who become so lazy they can’t perform basic functions without asking AI.

No more prayer. Because of republicans 😔

The nyt editors already have a biased angle in mind. They’re not seeking facts, they’re looking for quotes to fill in a predetermined narrative of bigotry. Every nyt story about us is intended to spread disinformation and foment discrimination. The leadership’s anti-trans animosity is deeply held

Y'all are really pushing all of the Black journalists out of the industry, so that you can ask trash questions like this? Embarrassing. Some questions are harmful in and of themselves. It doesn't matter what's said in the debate, or who "wins." Pretending that this is not trash, is weakness.

lol

heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.

okay this is the funniest mad about Zohran post

One massive, long-term cultural victory of tonight is that “*socialist* wins NYC mayorship” was just blasted to Americans’ phones en masse by (at least) WaPo and USA Today. “Socialist” and “communist” have been unsalvageably dirty words in American politics for a hundred years!

just want to remind everyone again that zohran is the one cis candidate i am aware of that had his platform on trans rights written by trans people. i think that matters

Cuomo: "Congratulations to Zohran Mandami [sic]—" (crowd boos loudly) "No, that's not right. That is not right, and that is not us."

lol

Who’s tracking the best crash out’s? I know one of you are making a thread

As many have pointed out, Mamdani didn't stand apart from our trans brothers and sisters. He didn't play the "Gee, gosh, it sure is complicated," milquetoast moderate card. And he crushed. The way forward is together, not over the bodies of our own.

🚨 Paul Goodrich, Exec Board Member, IW Local 63 Paul discusses the history of labor strikes and the real change that has come from them over time. Unity is FUNDAMENTAL for success. Please share his messaging. “We want more justice and less revenge.” 1/2

they're treating a Nazi takeover of the federal government as no big deal and the possible election of Zohran Mamdani as the end times. it's a remarkable job of failing to meet the moment, and the most revealing sign yet they don't want to do anything at all except cling to party power.

I think a lot about the chance we had at the start of COVID to finally become a more compassionate, collectivist nation, and how profoundly we were failed not only by the sociopathic greed of the ruling class but by each other. It doesn’t mean we won’t get there, but the lost opportunity haunts me.

vote blue no matter who though, right, everyone?

I always get drawn back to Al Gore telling voters that he’d only raise taxes on the top 1% and then after the election a poll showed that something like 20% of voters thought they were in the top 1% and another 20% thought they would be in the next five years. Just a total tragic disconnect.

My face has changed from estrogen HRT (fat redistribution). What are the odds that it wouldn’t recognize me or other trans people and that’ll become an excuse to put us in the concentration camps

how does one even begin to achieve justice for the sheer level of abject cruelty and mass murder happening right now

The actual finding here is that a huge percentage of the population believes things that are not true. Democrats objectively did not spend significant time on climate change or LGBTQ issues in the last election campaign.

43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.

Pete Buttigieg endorses aid restrictions to Israel, Seth Moulton is running away from AIPAC at full speed, Mallory McMorrow says it's a genocide, meanwhile Cory Booker says that asking if Netanyahu is a war criminal is unfair. What the hell is happening? I take a stab at it in the piece below.

By a 2-1 opinion, the Ninth Circuit just held that the president can federalize the National Guard forces and deploy them when protesters shine flashlights in the eyes of ICE officers. It’s one of the most dangerous and legally flawed court decisions I’ve seen this year. 1/23

I genuinely want to read a book about his career. It was decent but relatively nondescript until Dallas Buyers Club, then he wins an Oscar, and Hollywood spends the next DECADE pushing him not just as an A-lister but the next Robert De Niro, results be damned. I’ve never seen anything else like it.

this dullard believed that landlords should be able to sexually assault their tenants btw

Labour’s ability to consistently come off even slimier than American Democrats makes me feel *lucky* to be in the damn American capital of all places. they’re always like “well you see the Tories are right that some degenerates need to die but wrong about how”

British politics on the timeline 🤮

NEW RESEARCH confirms: Countering far-right messaging by repeating it mainstreams extremist ideas and amplifying extremist terminology cedes the framing of the issues to the right. (I’ll add that social media “dunking” only serves to spread undesired content.) www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump says he has commuted sentence of former US Rep. George Santos in federal fraud case.

The founder of the NMYR (Rebekah Stevens) was fired for her racist posting in 2014. Her friend from the group, Steven Baca, shot a protester in 2020. Another NMYR allum, Anissa Tinnin, signed the fake elector document in 2020. The list goes on and on… This is the beating heart of fascism.

Every successful revolution has had at least one coordinated and disciplined revolutionary force. Undirected movements might win a battle but have no idea what to do next. Don’t listen to Disney adults on this issue!!!

I hate being right.

The President is announcing more extrajudicial killings today. A reminder that the administration has provided no limiting principles and these killings are completely untethered from the law (there was no "armed attack," there's no "armed conflict," and these aren't "unlawful combatants").

Pretty depressing that anyone who rightfully becomes interested in communist organizing now has to already have the bullshit detector to filter out like a dozen deradicalized or cult-adjacent Trotskyist orgs before finding any serious people

Once again: this is also happening in DC. Still. It feels like we’ve been forgotten, maybe because there aren’t huge confrontations to run photos of. But our neighbors are still being taken every day. Routine traffic stops are now done by 12+ feds alongside local police. Please talk about us too.

The Guardian- The US president may impose tariffs, demand higher NATO contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says, if on Friday he is not awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. www.theguardian.com/world/202...

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

One day the industry will recognize the drawbacks of AI agents and nondeterministic automation, and rediscover the UNIX philosophy of chaining together small purpose built tools in a low cost and predictable way, otherwise known as shell scripts.

A roomful of outrage bait provocateurs told a wannabe dictator that they were shocked - SHOCKED! - to encounter people who were pissed at their incessant misinfo & massive harassment campaigns that regularly lead to threats on people of conscience. That's what today was.

this is an explicitely nazi administration and anyone who still supports them should be viewed as such

"we are going to murder americans without due process" ~pam bondi, US attorney general

again, that we were able to push this deal through once Trump got fed up with Bibi just shows that we could’ve ended this shit whenever we felt like it. it’s a horrible stain on our nation‘s history, on Biden, on Trump, and on their administrations.

SHOW US YOUR NAZI TOES

Very scary frog attacks Gestapo with the magic of dance outside of their concentration camp

We left Austin (and UT) for personal reasons, not political ones. That said, this story makes me relieved that we got out when we did—and despondent for the future of an amazing institution that played a really important role in my life; and whose students, staff, faculty, and alumni deserve better: