Incredible stuff happening on Housing Bluesky.

UK: Prince Andrew arrested. South Korea: Former President Yoon sentenced for life. Brazil: Former President Bolsonaro serving a 27-year sentence. USA: President Trump demands $10 billion payout from taxpayers.

IMO every gubernatorial candidate in California should have an answer to the question "what's your strategy if Trump tries to turn San Francisco into another Minneapolis next year," and if I were a state politics reporter I'd be calling them up to ask that very question.

The decline of right wing cultural production is just due to the fact that they don’t like culture, they like the signifiers of culture, ie “classic sculpture means white people are better.” They don’t like art at all except for this purpose. They don’t even like the nerd stuff they whine about

🧵 1/ We’re devastated about the layoffs at The Washington Post, which are gutting D.C. reporting. These journalists are an incalculable loss for our city. The 51st’s mission has always felt urgent, but now we know it needs to kick into high gear.

If you live in the DC area, you should definitely do this

You know how it’s absurd for us to think the government can afford big ticket items like trains and childcare and healthcare but the instant a republican is president we have 95 trillion dollars to spend on 16 wars and ethnic cleansing and a special big boy job for every pedophile in the country and

It’s the 1990s. I’m trying to explain many abuses we see at Ruby Ridge and Waco reflect entrenched practices of law enforcement. It’s the 2000s. I’m trying to explain many abuses we see under the PATRIOT ACT reflect entrenched practices of American law enforcement. It’s 2025. Guess the fuck what.

An extraordinary document. Read it. “Attached to this order is an appendix that identifies 96 court orders that ICE has violated in 74 cases. … ICE has likely violated more court orders in January 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence.”

“I was confused as to why the victim was on his side, because that is not standard practice when a victim has been shot. Checking for a pulse and administering CPR is standard practice. Instead of doing either of those things, the ICE agents appeared to be counting his bullet wounds.”

You can tell things are going well in America because accounts with names like MovieTVFunZone are posting things like, "THE PIGS ARE KIDNAPPING CHILDREN AND PRIESTS. THE TREE OF LIBERTY DEMANDS TO BE WATERED"

All the evidence one would need to impeach both Rubio and Noem was just posted to the AAUP v. Rubio docket. @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social

You bolt awake in the mountains of Carthage. You are not online. It is 217 BC. You are the general Hannibal, and you have changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Rome must burn.

Seeing Zohran instantly getting a bunch of shit done in like a week makes you realize that politicians could always do that on some level if they wanted it bad enough and very few of them actually do.

.....unless they're Americans....

WE WON BITCHES

Please understand what it means when journalists are evacuating their family members out of town. In any other country, we would be approaching "foreign sanctions" territory

Yes, killing peaceful protesters is a sign of tyranny. www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/t...

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

Denny is completely correct here. I'll even go a step further and say that strictly from a craven political ambition standpoint, if you're the person who stands up to this murder and takes ICE to task and doesn't back down, you become the 2028 Dem frontrunner overnight. People yearn for a leader

yep. i can identify any number of structural issues but at the end of the day the basic problem is the republican party. this has been apparent for at least 20 years. it is also an incredibly unpopular observation to make among “serious” people.

So much of American history is just impulsive and extremely stupid elites, who don't believe in consequences because they have never personally experienced them, doing highly consequential stuff because they're bored or believe it might make them richer. I guess a lot of our culture, too.

A noted feature of Trump II is the blurring of police and military power. The goal (afict successful) seems to be making the US military more like the police - a gang completely out of the control of local governments or Democrats with no accountability for illegal acts.

day one in mamdani’s new york

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a robot boot stamping on a human crotch— forever.

We need to otherize weird right wing billionaires like the smear campaigns they fund against minorities do. Musk leads a baby breeding cult and Thiel wants to suck up the blood of young people. They’re fucking weird and more people need to know.

The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.

The President of the United States is literally threatening opposing lawmakers with death for a video they made encouraging service members to refuse unlawful orders.

Who do we need to sacrifice to get rid of Prop 13???

This was published in '24, "95.80 percent of total residential land area in California is zoned as single-family-only." Single-Family Zoning in California: A Statewide Analysis | Othering & Belonging Institute share.google/tkSh5H0mxOex...

CRIME ROBOT: a con artist gets a personal robot instead of prison time. He figures out a loophole in increasingly convoluted scenarios, where the bot only stops him from doing crimes--not for him. Soon they’re robbing banks, stealing art, and rewriting the laws of AI. Coming to theaters in 2026.

It’s the same old same old. Republicans do a tantrum and break the dishes. The Democrats clean it up. It’s an abusive relationship.

A wealthy safe streets advocate could do the most good by paying a team of maybe a half dozen journalists to aggressively and comprehensively report every single traffic death in every major city. Depicting the horrifying human cost, FOIing PDs and DOTS, contextualizing it in policy choices, etc.

there is a new scandal as bad or worse than what got trump impeached the first time about every 48 hours

That’s $5 billion more than the entire annual USAID budget. All to one country. To rescue one friend of the president’s.

the president using the office to punish americans that didnt vote for him should really be one of the biggest scandals in americas history

dems: we need a joe rogan of the left [zohran sets records for young voter turnout with a campaign around working class issues and affordability] dems: destroy this man

a real question for the roberts majority is what in their view distinguishes jim crow disenfranchisement from majority-minority districts? a related question is what in their view made the typical jim crow law — which was facially neutral — unconstitutional?

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You may have heard my arguments against the Electoral College before. Here’s a new one the Founders never anticipated: If the President is elected by popular vote, he probably wouldn’t selectively punish entire states for voting against him.

someone must have told gavin the game involves destroying hastily built shelters

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

Training the military to “quell civil disturbances” is another step toward authoritarianism. Linking it to “the enemy from within” is absolutely terrifying since that was the phrase Hitler used for Jews & others considered undesirable. He doesn’t even hide what he’s doing.

Trump to generals: "Last month, I signed an executive order to provide training for a quick reaction force that can help quell civil disturbances. This is gonna be a big thing for the people in this room, because it's the enemy from within & we have to handle it before it gets out of control"