Don't forget you can fax them as well for free faxzero.com/fax_senate.php

It's so cool that when the right person lands a direct hit on ol' Elon he can't stop from lighting up and spinning his bowtie like a carnival game clown

Oh sure you think Chuck Schumer is “caving” and “wants to ruin all the momentum” and “is horrible at politics” but what if I was to tell you that this old crazy man ran the idea by an imaginary married Irish American couple that exists only in his mind and they think it’s great politics

If you’ve got some time, take five minutes to call your representatives

If any Dem is dumb or blinkered enough to say "let's stick it to health insurance CEOs by just having everyone pay cash out of pocket direct to docs and hospitals" then by god we deserve what will be coming.

Jonathan Karl of ABC claims that he's talked to one Dem Senator who says caving is near but that person won't give their name (Fetterman?) AND says D leadership (Schumer etc.) will vote against it. So who is caving, and leaking? Motivated rumor is not news - it's using reporters for propaganda. 4/

A word of caution about the new Axios report that Dem Senators are caving. Remember the NYT ran articles for months claiming that Harvard was caving, which.. never happened. Turns out their anonymous sources were Trump staffers. Axios may be similar. But, it never hurts to call your Senator. 1/

Rosalind Franklin died at 37 of ovarian cancer attributed to radiation exposure from the methods she & her assistant used to photograph a cross-section of the DNA double helix. Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!

everything is garbage and yet everything also costs infinity dollars

This speech never gets old.

Everyone says calls your senators and you absolutely should but my senator, Chuck Schumer, always shuts down his phone lines and voicemail when he pulls shit like this.

It's an argument for the status quo to remain unchanged and, aside from the moral vacuity of looking around at the world and saying everything is great actually, it's a terrible rhetorical position!

Darwin would be so annoyed at all of these people.

Evolutionary psychology makes a big to-do about their finding that sexual selection favors a "feminine body type" that "signals fertility/reproductive potential", including some rather... silly research. Turns out, those traits don't seem to signal reproductive success. Oops! doi.org/10.1017/ehs....

The press utterly silent about a clearly impaired elderly GOP president who cannot keep his eyes open. Lapdogs to the end. When Biden was still riding a bike, every article was "Why isn't our frail Dem president popping wheelies?"

When you are to the right of Ritchie Torres

I wrote a significant chunk of my first book at a Chicago Public Library, an amazing public space where people could read books and newspapers, access the internet, or just keep warm for a while on a cold day. This is appalling.

"Most", "people", "afford", "good stuff" are all flatly wrong.

Clothing is much lower quality now than it was even a few decades ago. Marx literally wrote about this, it's the fucking linen coats.

people buying piles and piles of cheap shit isn't economic prosperity. hedonism treadmill lmfao

An excellent question. The evidence shows pretty persuasively that many Black people don’t use these terms “liberal” or “conservative” in any context. They are terms that are simply not part of lots of people’s political or social lexicon.

what this means politically is that there is simply not a big cost to doing the right thing and standing up for trans people if you run a campaign based on affordability while supporting trans rights and your opponent runs a campaign based on transphobia, voters will prefer yours (see: Spanberger)

Regular reminder that Axios stories saying Dems are about to cave are likely sourced from GOP staffers trying to make it happen. Doesn't mean it definitely won't happen. But it's like those NYT stories that Harvard is considering caving (they haven't). The anonymous source was trying to manifest it.

I particularly hate the suggestion there's some sort of grand bargain in which trans rights are given up in exchange for _______. No one is offering such a thing. No one would change their vote to Dems after that. The argument exists solely to justify throwing trans people under the bus.

Any politician who votes to give more of our tax money to the grifters who have already gotten too much deserves to be primaried into the sun

Matt claims to listen to popular will...but he's so disconnected from the public and so mired in reactionary centrist derp he doesn't understand just how much Ds hate it when their reps embrace Trump. 1

USDA orders states to stop paying full SNAP benefits and "immediately undo" steps taken to issue them for November. Follow live updates. https://cnn.it/47LOq3z

I am once again saying that we saw what wall to wall, panic coverage of a crisis looked like after the Biden debate and there’s no reason Trump isn’t getting that kind of coverage except for class solidarity.

This kid is launching a million YA pitches with this interview lololol

Mamdani will force wealthy men to pay tithes to support almshouses which will shelter the destitute, and also to open their houses and give food freely to everyone in their area unable to work through age or illness or disability

In the midst of all that we are facing, I want us to think about who we are being told to look to for understanding in this moment, who is being propped up as the voice of wisdom, and ask how right were they in predicting this, a year ago, 5, 8 years ago, and then ask why they are being centered now

Come for the deep-dive into Trump's history of slapping gold on everything and his "sell them a fantasy [of luxury]" strategy; stay to read about how that fantasy is fading for low income Americans

States' rights suddenly don't matter if they mean to save people from dying from starvation.

A "modest margin" when Mamdani beat his next closest challenger by 8 points in a three-person race. Trump won by just 1.5% and it was played off as a seismic realignment of American politics and culture.

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

movie so bad you lose an island

The Democratic caucus trying to stop Chuck Schumer from agreeing to a CR with a nationwide abortion ban attached

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!

Furbies:

This isn't even that much money!

Sandwich Guy better watch out

glad to see jones getting back in the ring

I was talking about Adrienne Rich and misapplications of her work and my students were like "sounds kinda TERFy" and I was like, "girl, you got it."

PAPISTS!!

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

I was told merely yesterday that he was playing 5D chess. are you saying that was untrue???