Indiana University, which has now been subordinated to the direct control of the Indiana GOP, announces that criticism of the MAGA movement and doctrines of the GOP is forbidden. An instructor is dismissed for speaking critical words about the MAGA movement.

Fuck the stock market reports, this is what real life is like

One reason I have nearly no patience with elites is that they have the scope, power & protection to act & they almost never do. Whether it's an assistant or wrier in Hollywood or a high schooler or carpenter standing beside me at Broadview ICE, I've seen regular people show so much courage. SO MUCH.

This is a BIG reason I wrote Burn It Down. I was v tired of doing One Bad Man stories & wanted to shout from the rooftops that every He's Just One Bad Man is NOT a one-off--each 1 is propped up by multiple interlocking systems of enabling, protection & even celebration. The SYSTEMS are def evergreen

Since June, more than 1000 immigrants like Diana whose arrests in Chicago were unlawful have already been deported, despite them being eligible for 1) bond release, and/or 2) ongoing immigration & asylum hearings. So happy Diana is coming home, but we have to keep up the pressure. Be relentless.

If you're going to have a filthy one-night stand with a burned-out former rock star you just met, you should at least have standards. NOBODY'S BARGAIN is short, explicit, and just $2.99. books2read.com/u/bxD0no

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

BREAKING: Starbucks workers have launched a massive, nationwide strike. Baristas in 40 cities have walked off the job on the busiest day of Starbucks' year. Upwards of 12,000 @sbworkersunited.org members could ultimately go on strike as the union escalates.

This is about women and children as objects and tools and how abuse of them is not just tolerated and ignored but facilitated and celebrated.

Not giving the remotest fuck whether or not you’re being coherent is a flex, you speak and understanding is a someone else problem. Most people with dyslexia don’t write this badly, because they can’t, society won’t accommodate them. They have to struggle or they won’t be heard.

PBS did us a solid and dropped the whole Epstein emails. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

today, a federal judge ordered the release of 615 people wrongfully abducted by ICE / CBP from june to october (yay!). as if they haven't already been through enough trauma and violence, they each still have to pay a $1500 bond (aka ransom & extortion) (boo!). donate here twd the $900K+ in bond:

i'm so glad that each of the 615 included in this order will be able to return home to their families &/or communities. but the indiscriminate way they were kidnapped and *now have to pay for release* instead of getting money from the govt for lost wages, bills, & healing is a fucking injustice.

I’m going to think about watching this moment unfold in real time for a long time. for all the horrors coming out of Chicago and its metro area, the principled courage of everyday people, in the face of such intimidation, never ceases to astonish. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/12/k...

So, uh, the Jed Rubenfeld referenced here was disciplined by Yale Law for sexually harassing students. He's married to Amy Chua who among other things took to the pages of the NYT to defend Kavanaugh when he was under fire for sexually harassment. Ken Starr, well we know. This is just incredible.

Me Too didn't fail. It was buried alive

This! I want Kinsale-level shenanigans. Chase-style character work. Joanna Bourne or GTFO.

This is why Me Too got torpedoed and psyopped and turned into a joke, btw. Because too many powerful people are rapists and pedos and too many people were either invested in covering that up, or unable to handle that fact.

This is the logical progression of having the Texas electorate rubber stamp all of his attacks on school taxes in the election last week...and 70 years of Republicans shitting their pants for having to let Black kids into public schools with white kids. www.kxan.com/news/texas-p...

The Epstein story gets a something that is tearing at the heart of the electorate: elite impunity. The idea that wealthy and powerful people can do terrible things *at scale* and face no consequences for them. Whatever political party actually stops it could rule the country for a generation.

Getting annoyed listening to charter school activists lie again and again that charter schools are public schools. They are not. They are publicly funded private schools that siphon money away from public schools and produce no better results.

It just wasn't a big, newsworthy deal like, for instance, the college applications of a mayoral candidate to a school he didn't get into or attend.

AOC: "It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give 8 senators over $1 million a piece & we're robbing people of their food assistance & healthcare to pay for it. How can we vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people?"

You want me to protest and donate and give money and care my heart out, but you get a pass from my anger when I do all those things and you are just like "oh word we heard that airline might lose money? cool nobody gets health care."

Wow! A new low for Ken Paxton. His deranged press release claims that there cannot be any legitimate purpose for legal defense for people facing deportation — effectively saying that removal defense is not legitimate and only “radicals” would want people to have lawyers. Horrid stuff from him.

Man, this country absolutely despises women.

So something this article mentions that I want to footstomp for folks that don’t work with the military: it’s an “up or out” institution where if you don’t get promoted, your career is over. To get promoted you need to have specific types of jobs on your record. This move effectively ends her career

Epstein: I’m best friends with this pedo running for President, here’s a bunch of stories about how big a pedo he is NYT: but her emails

To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015 What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?

*in chicago* alone

Anyway, it's fine. I don't actually believe there is a both sides to snatching tamale ladies off the streets, that's just my one weird thing.

it does feel increasingly like being shaken down for protection money by one mob against another mob

flat out lies. these tech ceos take regulators and the masses for fools

congrats to everyone (glares at UCSF) who helped make this happen. someone who is antivax and has actual knowledge of drug policy levers is extraordinarily dangerous

Very interesting nugget in this profile of (now former) Oklahoma Superintendent Ryan Walters' quiet relationship with far-right Texas billionaire Tim Dunn who, per sources, changed Walters "from loving schoolteacher to rightwing radical."

Probably the most effective lobbying effort by the US airline industry since COVID

It’s wildly disingenuous for @aaron.bsky.team to reply to queries about Sarah Kendzior’s suspension about how they don’t comment publicly on individual users when he knows that we all know that they haven’t even told her privately what the basis for the suspension is

Is there a good explanation somewhere of what exactly is going to happen with the ACA subsidies and our individual plans? Addressing how it's open enrollment now and what this means for January and beyond?

I see folks talking about the whole language approach to literacy and how it explains why so many people today cannot read. I wrote this thread almost 2 years ago, and it's as relevant today as it was then. Little has changed.

how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

NEWS: The UK is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...

anyway if dems think I'm gonna forget this shit in 5 months, they're wrong. if they think I'm gonna forget it in 5 years, they're wrong. they have fully convinced me that purging the party of these inept losers in the senate is more important than retaking the senate in the next election cycle

Democrats handing the GOP a victory on the ACA in a situation where they had leverage, then turning around and blaming us in advance for failing to support them in a losing fight for the ACA in December where they have zero leverage makes me feel like I'm in a toxic relationship.

"The new limits “will eliminate 100 percent of the hemp products in our country,” Ron Paul said. “Every (hemp) plant in the country will have to be destroyed.”"

"If we fight united" Motherfucker, we WERE united. We were supporting y'all despite the pain because we believed it was for a greater good. Y'all burnt all that support and goodwill to the ground, not because people were going hungry or unpaid, but because *flights were getting canceled*.

Democratic Senators are having some sort of mass hallucination where they actually think Republicans are going to give a single shit about Democrats whining about the ACA subsidies. The group departure from reality should be studied.

This is delusional.

I'm still flabbergasted by that Sheldon Whitehouse post. These motherfuckers really think Democratic voters work for them, not the other way around.

> hold Republicans fiercely accountable by doing what?

Why don't y'all stop lecturing us on how we need to support and vote for y'all, and start doing your jobs in a way that makes us actually *want* to support and vote for y'all?