“With Sock Full of Nickels” best have been cut from this headline for space, how do you expel the victim of this type of crime for smacking the perpetrator with her hand?

“Actually, he only raped teenagers” is a hell of a thing to say out loud.

Isaac Chotiner Larry Summers interview when

I have never met a 37yo woman who could be ridiculed or tortured into admitting the equivalent and neither have you, men truly are…something else

The answer to “where you were born” should be “I was brought by a stork, am I free to go?” in a free country. The shame of these people taking my tax money to abuse their fellow Americans will be alleviated only by fair trials.

as a CSA victim, it’s a great day to be on an airplane with limited connectivity if you’ve posted more than 10 times about Epstein maybe make a donation to RAINN or your local SA support center

My daughter is 15, a child with a baby face whom I won’t even put in an Uber by herself. Just utterly disgusting from the same people who have spent years demonizing trans people as predators for daring even to exist. What are we even doing right now?

Meal Team 6 didn’t wanna learn how to walk in the snow I guess

On behalf of teen girls who heard this idea firsthand from a man in his 20s, in the format waiting for your 16th birthday is a romantic symbol of his love for you: go away, Megan. Shush. It only gets worse from here.

Lady your mic is on

The last effect size like this was Prop 8, where Latinos broke away from all other Republicans to vote no. In this geography. Trump has Prop 187ed the GOP nationwide, is my prediction for 2026.

What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck? It's the Pope in 1982.

I don’t know anything about this space except that it exists, but I was heartened to learn an AI mental health company has shut itself down after deciding it can’t responsibly proceed releasing tools to the public: yara-ai.com

Friendly reminder that dishwashers made after 1995 or so are so water and energy efficient that even if you ran them twice fully loaded it would still use less water than handwashing the same load. So many "green" things feel like sacrifices. Dishwashers are not one of them.

Interesting result for the Why Vote It’s Not Like My Vote Changes Anything crowd

there are a lot of Dems out there who are finally drafting their own dog to play basketball after being dunked on over and over again instead of just complaining to the refs they're just in the states instead of DC

I think on some level I get really frustrated to see progressives claim the far past was better than today because it’s explicitly the MAGA project to take us back there, and people need to understand that it was a poor, cruel, ugly, hard world compared to the one we’ve built

The failure to fight back then — when this was happening in 2023 — harms us today. The lesson is: Pick Big Fights. When you’re on the right side, fight! The fight draws attention, which is essential in today’s media environment.

In every state but NY and CT, you can’t lose a primary then run in the general on another party line or independent. So while this is a concern for 1 particular senator (Gilliland) there’s no down side to Primary Them All & Let Voters Choose

President Juggalo has spoken

How much of a struggle will it be? County parties are desperate for people under 50 to attend some meetings, bring friends & sign up to be precinct captains. No one is ideologically policing the work of organizing and turning out voters, it's just...work? Do it & you take over The Democratic Party.

“Rather than taking over the Democratic Party the same way the right took over the Republican Party, we should take the easier route and just start up a new party ourselves!” I’m about to fill my pockets with stones and walk into the sea.

this isn’t a silver lining per se but the chances of this particular debacle lingering in voters minds come midterms is slim the fascist atrocities remain very real and felt. and that will continue to resonate

This wasn’t just predictable it was predicted. Even DC Dems should have known the right fight was always “no money for secret police & shock troops” & set the line there. Expired ACA credits as the hill was political malpractice: the money goes thru health plans, a win requires a House GOP vote.

@durbin.senate.gov you’re unfit to lead a state where Jesse Fuentes is fighting. Resign.

The thing to make it about was the lawless authoritarianism. Just like last week’s elections were.

This is not the end of the story, this is a sentence in the "Background" section of a Wikipedia page

In 2024, swing & disaffected Dem focus groups kept saying "it seems to me 'this' happened on Dems' watch." This being fall of Roe, anti-voter laws, more month than check. Coupled with "in 2020 they said turn out to protect our freedoms, we did & it didn't work. Now they're saying it again?"

We are in the weird situation of requiring novel policy responses to an authoritarian regime. As in: Demanding funds to be routed into escrow accounts the executive needs to jump through hoops to access.

[whispers] it's legal to sign up with both Indivisible and DSA. you don't even have to decide who you're doing entryism on until later.

It is thinking like this that helped bring about the authoritarian nightmare in which we are living. Durbin should resign now so Gov. Pritzker could appoint someone willing to fight.

Dick, and I use that form of address advisedly, you need to understand that the government is tear gassing your constituents & any move to let it continue to lawlessly abuse Chicago is a failure. What a pathetic excuse for a man, let alone for an elected official. Resign now.

Iowa Senate seat is open for 2026. Please consider supporting a young Democrat who has proven he’s willing to fight.

I’ll also say this: first gloryhound in the senate to loudly call for Schumer to step down will reap lots of rewards. Van Hollen? Murphy? Who wants to pick up the $20 bill that’s lying on the sidewalk?

Every single person in Chicago has more courage of their convictions than Dick Durbin

Senate Democrats traded the milk cow for a sack of magic beans again, didn't they

Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.

great news, New Coalition Party won't be starting from nothing, we can recruit sitting Democrats to join the coalition if they don't want to be primaried by our candidates folding like origami in Nov of an odd year after a victory for progressive goals by unlikely voters is loser garbage, won't do

when JD Vance said the GOP's plan to provide affordable housing was mass deportation in July 2024 y'all acted like you caught him in a mistake but

My parents (b1942) were raised in homes their dads built, on foundations their uncles helped dig w/shovels. Their dads were a draftsman & a cop. The farmhouse my mom left for college from (they were SO proud) a room shared w/3 sisters, got its running water from a windmill powered pump. Her dad /1

a fair trial is our generous offer for ICE agents, what comes after that is less kind

every generation loves Rumours. it’s fucking Rumours

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

Or you may just want to read it! Do that!

One of the most unintuitive aspects I have to teach grad students about public policy in America is that building the political power to enact your policy agenda doesn’t mean you can. It seems deeply undemocratic, and like a failure of accountability to the voters, because it is!

If you don’t get so angry you literally see red every time you hear an AI booster describe their business model of stealing every word ever printed in English, look up Aaron Swartz who would be 39 today & get mad in his name. If copyright violations can get you 99 to life…

Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine