Want to feel old? All the teenagers who used to email Rockstar Games asking why you can't shoot dogs in Grand Theft Auto now work for the federal government

"In America, we fetishize misery. We treat suffering like a virtue, and it’s not. We live in the wealthiest country in the world. We don’t have to live like this."

This is the only thing we should ever think of when we think of Anthony Blinken

This is both terrifying and also a terrible idea. But also Of COURSE they’re scabs. Of fucking course.

I’m very glad I got to work on this campaign and I’m very excited for her next move. I’ll be there to help because this is truly what government should be doing. Kat Abughazaleh on Losing, Mutual Aid, and What Comes Next newrepublic.com/article/2080... via @newrepublic.com

If you told 2003 weebs that a prospective rep in the House wore a Naruto jacket in public they’d pass out

I’ve seen some people get texts for other campaigns despite only donating to mine. Just wanted to note that 1. I’m actively trying to figure out how that may have happened, and 2. I have not and will not sell your donor info. I’d rather go into personal debt than break that promise. 1/2

A week after the election, I talked with @anamariecox.bsky.social about our race, AIPAC, and how we’re trying to not just keep *our* mutual aid operation going, but make it a nationwide strategy: newrepublic.com/article/2080...

Three right-wing talking points whose logic contradicts each other: 1. No voter ID means illegal immigrants are voting. 2. You need an ID to fly on a plane so you should need one to vote. 3. We need to send ICE to airports to arrest all the illegal immigrants flying on planes.

Need yall to appreciate one of my best friends and also appreciate the fact that he got my a 2003 Viz Media Naruto jacket, look how COOL it is!!!!!!!

It's one of my best friends' and my favorite person’s birthday today! Love you, @katmabu.bsky.social 💙🧡. You’re my Hokage, BELIEVE IT!

@katmabu.bsky.social I appreciate the inclusion of your cat 🐈

Catching up on Celebrity Jeopardy and am IMMEDIATELY confronted by my face in an AIPAC attack ad. Truly nothing is sacred to them, not even pre-recorded Celeb Jep.

Well holy shit. The Onion was just named one of the 50 most innovative companies in the world by FastCompany. We're coming for you AI perverts!!!

Eat shit, lol, and long live The Onion.

I’m loving everyone posting their campaign comics that arrived today 🥹

abughazaleh told voters she was 26, but only days after the election, revealed she would be 27 - what does this mean for the progressive left?

At this point I don't wonder how much insider trading is going on. I wonder how much policy is being made with the purpose of insider trading on it.

NEW: For the first time, ProPublica has been able to quantify how many U.S. citizen children have been directly affected by Trump’s immigration crackdown: more than 11,000 kids had a parent detained — and that’s an undercount. 1/ 🧵 www.propublica.org/article/trum...

hey look its the same "journalist" who authored the attempted hit piece on Mamdani's college application.

if you're travelling and you are a documented citizen (esp if you're white/white-passing), you need to speak up & interrupt any racial profiling you witness. We are absolutely defeated if we allow ICE agents to harass people in the broad light of crowded airports. Don't be a good deputy citizen.

Your life isn't shitty because of Trans people. Your life is shitty because of billionaires and republican legislation.

new personal scandal just dropped and it’s just the fact that I Have A Birthday

✨ yes ✨

about to turn 27, anyone have recommendations for being 27

oh no wait, found other source pics

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Heater actually has a Patreon! It’s $1 — or however much you choose — per month for daily Heater pics when I was a freelance journalist. It’s now being regularly updated again if you want extra Heater in your life (but no pressure): patreon.com/katmabu

I'M SORRY HEATER

Heater *is* magic! She has a future in mind we cannot see but I trust her wholeheartedly. We merely try to make the biggest change + help as many people as we can with the levers of power available to us. 🧡

Best I can do on short and also long notice.

I think I rented the wrong Dune.

Ben just said Luka is on a crazy heater right now,,, can anyone photoshop Luka Doncic riding Heater so I can make him laugh really hard I can provide Heater reference pics if necessary

This is incredibly irresponsible journalism. You cannot write this headline without acknowledging all the times Elon Musk has promised to pay for things, then didn't. Let's take a stroll down memory lane. 🧵

going live in 5 for the first time since the election, come hang 🐈

post-election stream tonight 6 pm ct :) twitch.tv/katabughazaleh youtube.com/@katmabu

you are loved, and we will win

Hard to overstate how bad this is. This would be *national legislation to aid book banning*. The time to call your reps and say you are against HR 7661 is NOW.

amaze amaze amaze!

Gonna go see one of my favorite books performed by one of my favorite actors. Will report back. *jazz hands*

Still figuring out what’s next. But I will say: To any candidate who wants help setting up a new style of campaign, who needs advice on integrating mutual aid in their operations, who has questions about any weird, fun, unconventional part of our race, I would love to talk. Let me know.

'Broadview Six' ICE protesters can see White House communications about their case — if they exist

okay I know this is kind of off-message from the last 24 hours but does anyone know anything about this korean ball bucket show? I’ve been watching it for at least 30 minutes and I have to know what’s going on.

For my newsletter, I wrote about all the ways @katmabu.bsky.social's campaign challenged the conventional thinking about modern campaigning: www.burnsnotice.com/kat-abughaza...

Kat Abughazaleh showed that you do not need to be on Twitter in 2026 to be a competitive political campaign.

Thank you to everyone who supported this campaign. Together we were able to do things never seen in American politics, to set a new standard from what we should expect from the people who try to represent us. What we built matters, regardless of the outcome. And the work isn’t over.