this is kind of peak incel. by day, race war and fascism; when nom gets in trouble, mom calls the principal

ICE agents greeted by a hero on arrival in New York this evening. Make statues of this.

Both the U.S. marshal and the immigrant were shot by federal officers. You’d never know that from this headline.

It is demonstrably incredibly possible to be a straight white cis guy who is a very good person and ally, which means the bigoted assholes are very much making a *choice*

I know a lot of absolutely wonderful straight cis men, and I think writing them all off as unredeemable is quite frankly letting the miserable assholes among them off way to easy

On top of everything the fuck else, a crucial task of the insurgent wing of the Democratic Party right now is to make it the anti-Nazi party in US politics.

People act like all the men are gone. The men are attending protests. The men are putting together scooters for their kids. The men are getting a set of turntables for the first time. The men are buying Nikes. The men are getting super into noir. They're not Nazis and they're fine. Keep your freaks.

I'm just a lowly art historian, but in moments like these I always think back to one early sign of Trump's wanton, pointless destructiveness: his demolition of the priceless & irreplaceable Art Deco relief sculptures on facade of the Bonwit Teller building, which he tore down to build Trump Tower

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH

Know when to fold ’em www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/10/know...

Seriously, why are you insulting people's intelligence like this. There is very obviously a massive excluded middle between "bland Ivy League corporate automaton" and "still has large Nazi tattoo." There's nothing wrong with having found him appealing. He was! But it's over and this is silly

I repeat, “no fucking Nazi tattoos” is an extremely low bar that shouldn’t be difficult to clear

The way so many people are willing to settle for Newsom and Platner this early on is baffling. You don't even have to settle until after the primary is called! What are we even doing being this fixated on the first quasi-acceptable white men who pretend they're on our side?

The fact that he's DARVOing us on his literal Nazi tattoo is disqualifying. Get out of here with that abusive bullshit.

If being against a guy with a Nazi tattoo makes me a purist I guess I'm an anti-Nazi purist. If you think that makes me an anti-Nazi single issue voter, you're wrong, but also it's a pretty good single issue. There is more than a year. Go get another real progressive who doesn't have a Nazi tattoo.

“Once my colleague pulled out his camera, the agent put away the gun," Huynh told the Sun-Times Tuesday night. "[But] if they can do this in broad daylight to an elected official, and point a gun at someone, imagine what’s happening behind closed doors.”

I don’t understand why anyone’s debating this — a Nazi tattoo is a non starter, full stop. This is a race for a U.S. Senate seat. The bar for candidates to clear doesn’t have to be insanely high, but it should at least be off the ground

The best advice I ever heard about this was "Maybe the reason the exec is asking for a car chase on page 38 is because the previous 20 pages of character development isn't working. They don't really want a car chase; they're just bored."

what about the murdered guys

now i see why they do not want photos

why not isn’t this something they are proud of

"1/3" is the most depressing part tbh

all those ceos who gave trump millions for his personal ballroom just cheering on the White House demolition right now gleefully watching the tik toks on repeat

wtAF

New Susan Collins fundraising script misrepresents which party controls the Senate and characterizes her as "Independent" with a capital 'I'. Either her team outsourced the text to ChatGPT or they're trying to trick folks into thinking she's not GOP or both. #MEpolitics via @dabbs346.bsky.social

As they campaign to stay on the state supreme court, Pennsylvania justices have emphasized their records protecting voting rights. “My court is the backstop of democracy,” one said on the campaign trail.

Ssh.

An investigation by ProPublica and @texastribune.org found more than 60 instances of nepotism, self-dealing and conflicts of interest among 27 private schools that likely would have violated state laws had the schools been public. By Lexi Churchill and @emsimani.bsky.social

imagine if people would give up games, puzzles, and recipes

The NY Times published an editorial citing Susan Collin as "a moderate Republican." Collins is a reliable vote for Trump's agenda, has voted against democracy at every turn and supported extremist judges. This is why people are abandoning legacy media--even while enjoying games, puzzles & recipes.

How to Join ICE theonion.com/how-to-join-...

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...

Oooooo, interesting. Somebody on the Ninth Circuit was quite unhappy with the baloney order justifying the National Guard in Oregon. (They also likely believe there's a good shot at reversal before the whole Circuit en banc, or they wouldn't have done this.)

Just gonna shout OFF THE RECORD next time I do anything even remotely embarrassing.

Before detaining community advocate Leonardo, ICE was caught on film rear-ending his truck, and L.A. TACO is sharing the dash cam footage for the first time. The full story: lataco.com/oxnard-dash-... By Aisha Wallace-Palomares and Izzy Ramirez

Oh nooooo, Lindsey Halligan, this is not how any of this works (15 screens into a Signal exchange) www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

It’s clear at pretty much every turn that none of these people have any experience with anything they’re doing and are just playacting what they’ve seen in movies. It’s a government run by people whose experience amounts to the “I’m not a doctor but I stayed at a Holiday Inn last night” ads.

The biggest mistake we can make is assuming people actually know what's going on. The overwhelming majority of people don't. Make sure they know by telling them. The worst that can happen is they'll say they already know. The best? This right here... having the information gets 'em to vote.

I showed a relative the video Trump posted of himself taking a literal sh*t on the country, and she immediately stopped wavering and filled out her ballot “Yes” on 50. Talk to your people! Many of them are not terminally online like you are. That goes doubly for those of you in NJ and VA.

Step 1: ??? Step 2: use step 1 to defeat Mamdani Step 3: profit!!!

Large parts of the internet stopped working earlier; not great! @lhn.bsky.social explains what happened and why it wasn't exactly a fluke:

My response to the NYT’s “moderate to win” argument: The data shows the strategy is tapped out. Being seen as moderate by voters doesn’t boost votes, replacing every progressive with moderates would net 0 seats, and the graveyard of defeated D incumbents if full of moderates, not progressives.

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the secret message of all art and politics is “you are not alone”

I don't know, I'm in two different group chats that have been going on for several years and somehow we have all managed not to say racist things or use slurs or stan Hitler even once.

Writers - the scam predators are changing up their tactics. If you don't follow Victoria Strauss and Writer Beware, why on earth not?

Voters in the US and UK really need to start thinking *before* elections, not after.

Blessings upon those who told me how to kill off "Discover" and to append "-ai" to all searches. Yours is the kingdom of heaven.

'How its boosters describe building a future that’s devoid of craft' their enthusiasm for this future is what is most depressing tbh

Instead of asking, "how do we make NYT better" ask " how do we make it less relevant"