I really, truly hope that over the next week the Dems get their shit together, all get on the same page, and just keep repeating that American families are starving to protect the Epstein client list. Over, and over, and over again. Every interview, every broadcast. Starving people to protect pedos.

How about a press conference made up of Democratic leadership near the White House with the demolished East Wing in the background, talking about the government shutdown and Trump's warped priorities and demolition of public goods, including not just the East Wing but health care and so much else?

The break-in at the Louvre is getting more US coverage than the illegal tearing down of the White House East Wing and democracy.

We do so many things wrong in the US. Breads, cheeses, meats. Just came back from Spain & Portugal & the quality at a middle of the road market was stellar. So many countries make food quality a point of national pride & demand it. We don't.

Alright so are we ready for step 2 now? We've needed it since 2000 but still no step 2. We need to build a media & political ecosystem on the ground, online,in the media. The Right's been doing it for decades, buying billboards, legacy media, social platforms, news orgs. WHAT. ARE. WE DOING.

I know Donald Trump is a pathological liar, malignant narcissistic sociopath, racist, antisemite, misogynist, xenophobe, homophobe, transphobe, hater of our troops and believer in euthanizing folks with disabilities, but we too often forget that he's *also* an adjudicated rapist and convicted felon.

Honestly? I'm not feeling it. We've been here before and it's only getting worse. So these protests make you "feel better"? That's dandy. What's on for tomorrow that'll actually change something?

This, right here… the double standard is CRAZY, and disgusting. #USA #media #news

Leave your Palestinian flags at home on Saturday. Leave ALL your personal policy demands at home. Saturday is about one thing only: Defending democracy & the rule of law. No fucking kings in America. That’s it. That’s our ONLY message. My #NoKings rant.👇 open.substack.com/pub/socialco...

15 years ago the Supreme Court decided corporations are people under the First Amendment. Today, sold-out politicians block progress on all fronts to appease their corporate donors. Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day.

It is in many ways the traditional norm of white Christian patriarchal dominance that is experiencing a crisis and is under threat to be finally upended by an actualized egalitarian, multiracial, pluralistic democracy.

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"To bring a democracy under authoritarian control, you need more than a strongman. You need politicians who will assure the public, as we slide toward one-man rule, that nothing odd is happening. That’s the role Johnson is playing in Trump’s takeover of America." www.thebulwark.com/p/speaker-mi...

This is right on point and pretty great. 😙

“There’s not been any check and balance against this executive authoritarian regime of Donald Trump. Congress as a whole has failed to do its constitutional responsibility.” “Things are not normal. They’re not returning to normal."

"Renewable energy surpassed coal as the world’s primary energy source in the first half of 2025, according to a new report. The milestone was led by solar and wind power adoption in China, with the US and EU relying more on fossil fuels in the first half of 2025 than in the previous year."

New York City, I can see a future with you. And it’s one we can afford. Our new ad just aired during The Golden Bachelor.

It's fucking insane I was considering wiping my phone coming into my own country (US citizen) after a vacation in Europe and for no freaking reason except I was born in Venezuela and left when I was 7.

As I was saying…

We should all be spicy.

In a very scary and horrible way, anti-antifa is now a "legit" political position in the US.

Okay. If you want to have an effect, make an ACTUAL difference... You do it AT THE LOCAL LEVEL. He is absolutely right, by the way. Local businesses HATE controversy. Here's what you do:

"There will be tough days ahead, I can guarantee it...But let’s stay strong, refuse to be scared into silence and embrace our shared obligation to stand up for America." www.americaamerica.news/p/capitulati...

Not just a space telescope! @starstryder.space @fcain.universetoday.com (I don't drink so maybe everyone else already knows this and I'm 10 years behind? 🤷‍♂️)

8 euros for this in Spain. More than double anywhere in the US. We are doing something VERY WRONG.

Stephen Colbert tonight is also a must-watch on Kimmel’s firing (and the gutless corporations and people who did it, and why) as part of Trump’s blatant slashing of Freedom Of Speech (and any criticism or dissent) in the United States. Please watch and share. #Kimmel #Colbert #Trump

Updated map of the Northeast Public Health Collaborative. Health departments who have officially confirmed that they are part of the collaborative include Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont and New York City.

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

Look, nothing at this point is distracting you from paying attention to anything. This is it. This is the end-game. Just as Trump is finally reaping the opprobrium he deserves vis-a-vis the Epstein scandal, he pulls the ripcord to solidify the lazy self-coup he's been working since before 1/6/21.

It's darkly amusing that as Musk pitches xAI to investors, businesses, and the Pentagon as some sort of all-knowing synthesis of knowledge, he just openly and publicly manipulates the levers of its flagship product whenever he thinks it's wrong.

Yes.

I'm kinda resigned to the fact that most people don't really give a shit about how millions globally will die horrible deaths directly due to Musk and Trump's decision to gut USAID - I guess it's too abstract to comprehend, or something - but it is HAPPENING, and nobody is swooping in to stop it.

(trying to explain "fuck, marry, kill" to a black widow spider) no it's *three different* guys

🚨 UPDATE on the current COVID vaccine access situation in the US. Please note that this is based on state laws but different things may be happening on the ground, and some pharmacies are defaulting to federal guidelines instead of state laws.

Broken record territory rapidly approaching, but once again: Homelessness is not a societal inevitability. It's a policy failure. This is a solvable issue with a known solution, even under capitalism, because that solution is less expensive than the current responses. We just don't want to do it.

I remember six years ago we thought this was farfetched “SciFi.”

This polarization is going to produce some pretty dramatic statistics pretty soon.

Companies think they're doing right by going less public on DEI support, but they're giving into bullies & making employees feel hung out to dry. We don't need allies just to make a company feel good when it doesn't matter, we need allies for when we're being attacked & persecuted. LIKE NOW.

I don’t think non physicians realize how for real physicians, vaccines is a controversy like flat earth or creationism or birds aren’t real "No true Scotsman" actually holds here it's hard to really describe how baffling this is, how frustrating its been to see grow and how high the price will be

Dear @massgovernor.bsky.social, let's go!

Yes, it's true. Someone did take your job. And your healthcare, pension, wage hikes and life off a single income. It just wasn't immigrants, welfare recipients, queer people or women having abortions. If you want to know who took your money, it's the people with all the money.

What a cursed sentence (gift link) “The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”

My abbreviated summary of this rant: Dems need to run against the entire Republican Party on the economy by reminding people economic changes take time to affect the public, and then presenting 50 years of economic history with easy to understand charts and graphs, over and over again for 3 years.

Holy fuck that’s the actual Image! In my lifetime we have gone from: “other stars probably have planets” to “We are directly imaging baby planets in young stellar systems.” We could do more of this instead of the fascism and genocide.

It’s still amazing to me that we’ve basically let ourselves be tricked into buying that THIS is what “freedom” looks like. #CarDependency

He’s been positioning himself as a dictator for a while now, and now he’s just outright saying it out loud. And he sees the absence of near-universal outrage and condemnation as a green light to just make it official. He says what he’s going to do, and counts on rational people underestimating him.