Every. Single. Day

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From my new piece on Trump as the pre-WW2 world trying to claw its way out of its very fresh grave: catvalente.substack.com/p/brother-ca...

Thanks, New Yorker

Sounds like Republicans ought to get all the Republicans who form the Republican majorities in the Republican-led House and the Republican-led Senate together to pass the budget that Republicans wrote with the Republican White House and that Republicans now insist absolutely must be passed.

@gailcarriger.bsky.social Miskatonic Brewery feels like something out of the Parasol Protectorate

Donald Trump shut down the government because he doesn't want you to have healthcare. But this isn’t just on him. Democrats MUST use their leverage to protect our rights, but it can’t end there. Schumer and Jeffries can’t just go on TV or write letters, they need clear demands. We need action now.

"Republicans need to get serious and restore healthcare and avoid a government shutdown." Government funding runs out next week and Republicans need Democrats’ votes. Tell your senators to HOLD THE LINE against any funding deals that hand Trump a blank check: indivisible.org/camp...

The discussion around autism has all sorts of facets that can lead to misunderstanding. One important one is that although, given a broader conceptualisation of the condition there are now many who are diagnosed with it living happy, independent lives, there does remain an important number >

Nexstar, the largest TV broadcaster, needs Donald Trump's approval for a $6 billion deal. If approved, Nexstar would control TV stations reaching 80% of households — violating the cap set by Congress to protect against monopolies. This censorship of Kimmel reeks of corruption.

Most Americans don’t know that the U.S. violently colonized the Philippines in 1898, through 1946. An estimated 600k Filipinos were killed in the years after U.S. annexation, to crush resistance to colonial rule.

Disney Adults suddenly talking like the Archtiect from the Matrix

i dunno, i think if my neck exploded people would probably be sad about it without being forced to by the government

As you cancel streaming services, here is a casual reminder that only 16% of Americans read for pleasure anymore, and your local library has hundreds or thousands of books you haven't read. They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.

🚨NEW: "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" just dropped its first response to ABC, FCC chair, and Disney firing Jimmy Kimmel. Trump ain't sleeping tonight. 🤣 This is a must-watch. 🔥

No matter what he cancels he can’t cancel himself off the Epstein list.

Cancel your Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN subscriptions until they bring Kimmel back.

if Jimmy Kimmel's political humor is too hot for you to handle, I'm not sure "snowflake" even cuts it as a term of derision for the level of fragility you've achieved

i don't go too hard on people for the products or services they pay for because it's a consumerist's world now and i just live in it, but, like, you should, at the very least, think about how your money is being spent

It is the job of the Democratic party to sell and defend the policies that most Democratic voters want, not to present a candidate slate that is palatable to moderate Republicans who might switch if they hate their own candidate enough.

I seem to recall the right storming the Capitol on January 6th and beating police officers with the U.S. flag.

This is a time for people to come together and push for things we agree on: - Release the Epstein list. - Ban congressional stock trading. - Get corporate and dark money out of politics.

Any news organization with a shred of decency would fire Brian Kilmeade immediately. There is no gray area about this.

We need to look at what they are plotting to do (the Heritage Foundation writes outlines) and plan to organize against that shit regardless of what events or plot points they attempt to hang it on. We need to be vocal about where all of this is going and try to head off authoritarian consolidation.

I have written and deleted a lot of posts but I keep thinking about how the brutal assassination of Minnesota State senator Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark, and their beloved dog Gilbert in June did not prompt this same level of calls for empathy, sympathy, and flags at half-mast.

Occupying the cities of your political rivals is political violence.

These are bizarre times indeed...

Are we going to see a bunch of influential Dems named when the truth finally comes out? Yes. Should they be prosecuted alongside the Republicans? Also yes.

If it’s run for profit, then it’s profiting off of … us. When I hear that the post office lost money, I think this: Good. We already paid for it. Why on earth should it make even more money from us? Who would keep the money? Would we see it?

8:00am - The world is my oyster and anything is possible! Each day is a blessing and truly this morning is no different! Today we rise with the sun and shine just as bright! Carpe diem, I say! 8:03am - burn. it. all. down.

Fuck that, he’s getting every bit of seething hatred he so richly deserves. He’d deserve it anyway, even if he hadn’t been president! The man was a racist, a rapist, an abuser. He conned and tax dodged and pissed away other people’s money. He leeched from all around him. He SHOULD be loathed.

You see, it's not the absence of the lowest common denominator that oppresses them, it's the existence of anything else

My favorite evergreen Molly Ivins quote: "I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag."

My current favorite bit of right-wing Christian hypocrisy is Ken Paxton, a man whose wife is divorcing him for adultery, forcing Texas schools to unconstitutionally post "Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery." www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

Its pretty stark to watch mass media focus the gerrymandering conflict on California -- despite it being in reaction to Texas. California is seeking voter approval, while Texas is coercing Democrats to provide a quorum. But California is the problem here.

20 Aug 25 -- Trump admin quietly enacts new ban of reimbursement for gender related care through fed govt's largest health insurer regardless of age. 8m fed & 2m postal employees of which ~14k are trans -- will be affected. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

It’s weird that people have a huge problem with tax dollars being used to subsidize part of the cost of someone’s soda with SNAP, and no problem with our tax dollars being used to subsidize the entire cost of a billionaire’s private jets and yachts with Trump’s tax cuts.

a message; a word.

Gerrymandering is when someone uses a map like I use trauma: to redraw boundaries that make no sense and hurt everyone involved

It is extremely frustrating to talk about something like a wealth cap tied to 100x the minimum wage over a lifetime career, and people’s kneejerk reaction is “but what if that affects me?” and I can promise you that you aren’t making $180million (to use California as an example)

Wow. Who could’ve guessed the party that’s led to country to a recession every time they’ve been in charge in the last 40 years would lead the country to a recession again?

When you strip away humanity

Baby Dolphin Break

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

It’s always “Ladies, if you are alienated by overwork, drop out of the public sphere and become a tradwife” and never “Ladies, if you are alienated by overwork, form a union.”

NASA is more than rockets and moonwalks. NASA is behind much of our everyday technology. From space discovery, to Air Jordans, to CAT scans, NASA has played a role. We get it all on less than a penny of every federal dollar. Now their science may be gutted by 50%. #NASADidThat