Amazon could teach Alexa devices how to play songs from Amazon Music without stopping after 30 seconds and saying “I’m having trouble. Moving on”

Worked in legal organizing for the last few years, and I never would have thought a movement of lawyers was possible until I had the displeasure of doing this job under Trump 2.0. Attacks on the rule of law are so blatant that even usually nonpartisan lawyers are done newrepublic.com/article/2026...

DC lawyers and law nerds wyd Saturday

Guess what, we don't have to accept a Supreme Court that allows Trump to crown himself king! We can demand court reform to protect democracy from the courts. @mollycoleman.bsky.social and I wrote about our recent report for @peoplesparity.bsky.social for @ballsandstrikes.org

the republican party is engaged in a cover up to keep the american people from learning whether president trump is president pedo

Trump's judicial nominees refused to say that Biden won the 2020 election or that a violent mob attacked the Capitol on January 6. And several Senate Ds voted for these people to become federal judges. Not great!

Streateries are one of the few good things that came out of the pandemic, but sure let’s kill vibrant street scenes so a couple of people have easier street parking

Went shopping for throw pillows, experienced ennui from which I may never recover

The U.S. has executed more than 66 alleged drug smugglers—and their identities are much more complicated than the “narco-terrorist" label put on them. One strike killed a local crime boss, while another killed a 41-year-old fisherman from a Venezuelan peninsula plagued by poverty. trib.al/TuBzqa4

🔥 "One thing I notice when I read history is this: The world is shaped primarily by people who believe things and then take action in accordance with their beliefs." "Don’t think so much. Go fight. We have already lost way too much by failing to do this for too long." – @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social

Lefties' tendency to bargain against themselves also seems related to the widely held belief that right wing voters are real Americans with genuine unchangeable beliefs that must be catered to, while lefties are annoying interlopers who need to get with the program.

@hamiltonnolan.bsky.social is on🔥: "Engaging with politics, to many voters, means stepping into the mind state of a political consultant ... I want to suggest a different mental model of politics: Think about what you want to happen. Then fight for that thing."

@hamiltonnolan.bsky.social is on🔥: "Engaging with politics, to many voters, means stepping into the mind state of a political consultant ... I want to suggest a different mental model of politics: Think about what you want to happen. Then fight for that thing."

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

I am relishing this delicious thread about the resolution of the Sandwich Guy trial

this morning, ICE went into a Spanish language immersion daycare and took a teacher from the building in front of screaming and crying kids and parents at dropoff and the daycare had to shut down for the day (near Lane Tech, where they were yesterday). Really hoping today's "theme" is not "daycare."

UNRWA has enough food outside #Gaza to supply people there for 3 months, amid desperate need. Our teams stand ready to deliver it. But despite the #ceasefire, the Israeli Authorities’ block on UNRWA bringing any supplies into Gaza still continues. Let us get aid into Gaza at the full scale needed.

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This season of The Diplomat accurately portrays what it feels like to spend time with a couple that’s splitting up = very unpleasant

Great to see a clear-eyed assessment of the path forward that incorporates court expansion & other crucial judicial reforms. We can't move forward if we keep letting MAGA justices pull us back. Into a sinkhole. Buried under East Wing rubble. Thank you @rooseveltinstitute.org for this important work!

The argument here is "Bosses exploit and inflame workers' prejudices in order to thwart organizing...so we should simply not have immigration." Sounds like a foolproof plan, surely there are no other prejudices that bosses could exploit and inflame.

Remember how just a few years ago during the worst of the pandemic when we saw how the govt can actually do big things and saw that our collective health & well-being are intertwined, and then corporations got mad that they lost a modicum of power and helped fund a backlash of amnesia and fascism?

If The Flytrap hits 80 new/renewing subs per day for the next five days, we'll smash our funding goal. We'll be able to pay our worker-owners, and we'll be set to commission more freelance work. We're offering 15% off to new paid subs -- share this link with a fellow fan of feminist journalism!

Amazing 🧵 about the importance of cross-racial solidarity to the success of the labor movement (including about the history of bandanas)

Amazing 🧵 about the importance of cross-racial solidarity to the success of the labor movement (including about the history of bandanas)

JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing. Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵

Diversity doesn’t weaken unions. Racist bosses like Vance using racism to divide workers by race so they can exploit them weakens unions. All this stuff is arsonists complaining about the temperature in the building they set on fire. bsky.app/profile/diew...

Welch: "This has nothing to do with the shutdown. The law requires and the funds are available to continue SNAP right now without any interruption. So that is a decision the president is making on his own to allow people to go hungry."

They'll never be able to fully ban this care. There will always be providers willing to provide it like abortion. Even without access to providers, many trans youth will simply go DIY like trans folks have done for decades. They're not actually banning this care, they're making it less safe.

The Trump administration will soon be releasing two Medicaid rules that would ban medicaid funding for gender affirming care for trans youth and any Medicaid reimbursements to any organization that provides care to trans youth. This would be a de facto national ban www.npr.org/sections/sho...

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

Great report on making government work better & making it clear to voters how govt is improving their lives. Very glad to see court reform in there, including Supreme Court expansion--that will be key to protecting any other positive changes from the Roberts Court.

Great report on making government work better & making it clear to voters how govt is improving their lives. Very glad to see court reform in there, including Supreme Court expansion--that will be key to protecting any other positive changes from the Roberts Court.

Wow, this is a great journalism and an absolute tragedy for this man, especially his loss of his relationship with his own children.

1 in 8 Americans won't be able to afford groceries next week because of the Republican government shutdown and because the Trump regime refuses to use the contingency fund that would have continued the benefits. 1 in 8 people!

A... scoop? Multiple workers tell me that dirt from the demolition of the East Wing of the White House (to make way for Trump's new $200 million ballroom) is being trucked to the north end of the Hains Point golf course. It will then be used to create new terrain on the course.

WP new tagline: Democracy will probably do just fine in this soft light which is so flattering to the President's golden face and hair

An abandoned backpack on a sidewalk would be treated as a possible bomb, but a fleet of robots cruising around a city is fine because ... there's private equity money involved?

Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.

The AI bubble crash is going to be the most annoying one of my lifetime. At least the dot com bubble briefly gave us Kozmo (v fast delivery of food and movies and whatever), and the real estate bubble got some people affordable mortgages. AI has just filled the internet with crap

The whataboutism on Gaza really rankles, especially for those of us who have spent our careers reporting on the crises Israel's defenders cynically invoke as so much worse than Gaza. I wrote about how it actually compares, and what the true toll may be. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/o...

Updating my LEGO White House

I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.

The problem isn’t that people don’t want to work. The problem is too many jobs don’t pay enough to live.

I was helping my kid brainstorm Halloween costumes, and I had several 🔥ideas, but the 12 year old was not impressed. So, sharing them with the universe in case they are useful to someone! (Many include a vampire dress b/c the one from last year still fits.) 1/x

There are more of us than there are of them. Thank you for a truly historic day of peaceful protests across America. #NoKings

YES--Ds need candidates who are compelling to watch/listen to and who get people excited, not those who thread an imaginary needle of boring centrism and say "Make no mistake. [Poll-tested message]" over and over www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/o...

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The Kavanaugh Stop is now happening.

You can’t use race as a factor in college admissions. But you CAN use race as a pretext to arrest and disappear people. This Supreme Court ruling is backwards.