The mayor of Chicago retweeted my guy @bebopott.bsky.social

I had a thread on my old account that was basically about this. In short, it's hard to navigate this question when people mean drastically different things by the same words, we all need to try to be generous and see things from another person's perspective when there's other indicia of good faith.

To all the young people in New York and across our country who count on gender-affirming care: I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.  Your health care is still legal and protected.  I'll always fight for you.

Approaching the gates of hell

The way I (a generally pacifist-leaning person) want to physically fight this administration on behalf of the trans kids in my life.

Brutal numbers for food in the latest inflation report: - bananas rose 6.7 percent in the past year -beef and veal rose by 15.8 percent -coffee, which rose 18.8 percent in the last year. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

The D.N.C. Is Killing Its Autopsy of What Went Wrong in 2024 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u... This is the stupidest decision Martin has made since becoming DNC chair. It fits every online stereotype of the Democrats; self righteous, spineless and refusing to admit when they got something wrong

Americans have no idea what any of these words mean and don’t care about these labels.

lol she would

AOC on a 2028 presidential race against JD Vance: “I would stomp him.”

Taking care of my great aunt (84) who has dementia. It doesn’t require all that much (she mostly watches westerns and is very quiet, but very funny when not), but it feels like sacred space

Nahhh fam

they should invent a form of bourgeois democracy where you don’t get ruled by an ailing pedophilic geriatric mad king who thinks the TV is talking to him

Apparently I missed a presidential speech. I just watched like two minutes of it but apparently it’s TWENTY minutes long? Did the WH plan this speech or did he just put a camera on himself and start rambling?

very weird feeling watching a seemingly coked out president yell at you for 20 minutes straight

A couple of larger and more systemic failures led to Trump 2.0 1. An education system that has produced adults and is producing children who can’t read or critically think 2. Racism, nativism, anti-intellectualism and misogyny being typical go-to’s of an ignorant and exhausted populace

January 6 was like a much dumber version of Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch and yet a plurality of American voters were like, Yeah, let’s give that guy the nuke codes again. An absolutely world historical debacle of societal ignorance. I’ll never understand it.

my latest is on the odd confluence of unitary executive theory with a president who is mostly AWOL from the business of governance (gift link)

What else would someone use to clean a toilet?

One of the group chats I’m in is convinced that the tell a man is normal and well adjusted in 2025 is if he owns and uses a toilet brush, and this started as a bit but at this point I’m basically convinced that it’s true

Guess this is going to be our politics for awhile

Drag him

BREAKING on MS NOW: Jack Smith, in his opening statement to House Judiciary, says: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power."

who needs opposition research when you have Trump's chief of staff?

If there is anything that will actually hurt Trump among white evangelicals, it’s this horrendous and comically racist policy

Acting like No Kings is some kind of detriment to the Democratic Party is such a bizarre take.

So Goldman loses by 10 points? 15-20 points?

Excited to announce this special endorsement today— thank you, @agounardes.bsky.social!

rest in piss Dan Goldman

Boueism: a very short introduction Coming to a bookstore near you

robust social democracy + abolition-democracy = bouieism

Federal jobs and the Civil Service created the Black middle class and put millions of Black families on the housing ladder. Both large cities and states also benefit from mostly Black public service workers. The attack on the federal government was meant to do this…

US jobless rate for Blacks and teens surges in November reut.rs/49gilCM

oh look a real unemployment problem

You come here, and within a generation some entrepreneurial member of your community is commoditizing your food to sell to white people at Target.

Unemployment going up Job market the worst for college grads since the height of COVID Health premiums about to spike to record highs, forcing millions out of the healthcare market Grocery prices going up along with cuts to SNAP This was all predictable and he won anyway

AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.

I don’t know what’s going on with us right now, but the casual way I’m seeing the “r” word slur and jokes about disabled people coming back to the internet is making my blood boil

I repeat what I’ve said before; The Republicans have absolutely nothing on healthcare. It’s a permanent kryptonite issue for them because all of their supposed “ideas” for how to somehow make the healthcare system MORE privatized are complete and utter shit

This is so beautiful and so devastating

Folks, friends, I hate doing this but it’s tight around here these days and if you’re in the Christmas spirit and have some coins to spare a very broke seminarian, any bit helps! @Talique-Taylor (Venmo) $TaliqueRTaylor (cashapp)

The Crucified God speaks from the cages of ICE detention centers. His mother bears the wounds

Yes, this is what the actor in one of the most popular shows of all time, and director of some of the most popular movies of all time, will be most remembered for.

Amy Winehouse, gone way too soon

Donald Trump is doing public mourning the right way. by Ezra Klein

"As religious leaders began to speak more openly about the goodness of sterilization and euthanasia, lay people responded in kind." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-devils-b...

The Christian center-right are just as guilty as our feckless institutions for enabling Trumpism and their crocodile tears at his behavior do not move me in the slightest

Hasn’t Candace Owens explicitly embraced antisemitism? Like not even the “bankers control the media” shit but full on “Jews are the spawn of satan and should turn to Christ” shit?

I am totally serious about this: file articles of impeachment over this specifically

I don't view it as stupidity anymore, but as a profound moral failing, to be this willfully credulous, which millions of people are even a decade into this.