Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

2015: oh well they probably have my social security number already 2025: oh well they probably have root at the Pentagon already

Since they’re so into ‘both sides’, how about the article talking about men ruining the f$cking world.

literal press conferences every day. Go live on TikTok or the facebooks or whatever the kids are into

NYT Opinion provides a platform for a broad range of views

Many thanks to MK Pritzker and IDOC Director Latoya Hughes for meeting the call to do the right thing and help our community members stay connected.

Is there a way to buy a peerage these days? Because I would contribute cash money to get Sean Dunn named the Earl of Sandwich

Pierrot, by Jean-Antoine Watteau, 1718-19, 📸 by @andyharnik

She believes in the sanctity of traditional Christian marriage.

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

RFK Jr's response to someone collapsing nearby him was to haul ass out of the room as quickly as possible

I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.

See the film and my update on the ongoing, pointless, man-made loss of life here: bsky.app/profile/agaw...

FDR would've felt incredibly vindicated by all of this. A core proposition of the New Deal was that the country's ruling class was incapable — at best — of defending the Constitution, and that it was up to a dissident vanguard of intellectuals, in conjunction with workers and farmers, to do it.

Steve Bannon: If we lose the midterms and we lose 2028, some in this room are going to prison, myself included.

No it’s important to listen to this. Because then you understand that many of them will do ANYTHING to keep power. Remember Musk got involved in the 2024 election after saying to Tucker “if she wins” I am definitely going to prison. So we need to move knowing that nothing is off the table for them.

An ice agent shot an unarmed woman in Chicago 5 times and she survived. When he bragged about it in a text to his work buddies, he referenced 7 holes, meaning 5 bullets plus her vagina and her anus. Yeah.

7 holes. Get it, everyone? Defund and dismantle ICE, CPB, HSI and all these DHS gestapo, then put their members on a national registry, like we do for sex offenders, which most of them likely are, like this one. The ones we don’t send to prison can’t live among us without monitoring.

Politicians can get away with lying to people for quite a while about a lot of different subjects, but they have never been able to get away with lying to them about how much things cost.

What’s more Chicago right now than handing off 200 whistles in a Portillos bag.

😂😂😂😂

oh my god they actually did it lmao

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

this looks like a trick daffy duck would put up to get bugs bunny into "the oval office"

If the sandwich don’t split, you must acquit

Maybe @jaketapper.bsky.social can find out why what's left of the White House is being turned into a memory care wing.

Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school

I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video. I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children. But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.

Sometimes you don’t win, but you scare the living crap out of ‘em.

Stop voting for people that don't clean, cook, shop for groceries, or laundry for themselves. They don't know us.

Brand new data: Republicans blamed for the shutdown (+12) and for health care premiums going up (+28!!). These are stunning numbers. Republicans aren't immune from the pressure this creates. Time to press our advantage. Stand for what we believe in.

So, Trump's answer to losing yesterday's elections in a landslide is to just end democracy altogether.

here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol

Universal swing in action: "What we saw last night was a directional shift toward Democrats in 99.8% of counties that held partisan elections." www.gelliottmorris.com/p/seven-data...

Zohran Mamdani says on NY1 he didn't get a congratulatory call from either Andrew Cuomo or Eric Adams last night. He says he got a congratulatory call from Curtis Sliwa, though.

Once more, for old times’ sake

Pains me to say it but I think this is true. Some of my colleagues in the media who’ve stayed on X don’t even realize how badly its noxious algorithm is skewing their perception of politics and reality. Also, that place seems designed to make you miserable unless you’re a Nazi. It’s just wretched.

RESULT: Soren Stevenson is elected to the Minneapolis City Council in the Eighth Ward. Stevenson lost an eye during a 2020 BLM protest after he was shot by police with a foam projectile.

I love that Zohran did not praise Cuomo in his speech. You absolutely do not have to say nice things about bad people. We should normalize that in “polite” politics: Praising bad people is not actually “civility.”

Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.

Democrats have flipped 2 seats in the Mississippi senate, and in so doing they've broken the GOP's supermajority in the chamber.

Really looking forward to the Speaker of the House claiming to be unaware of the election results.

A democrat whose last name looks like it could be pronounced “pure evil” just beat JD Vance’s half brother for mayor of Cincinnati. It’s nice to feel political delight again. I almost forgot what it felt like.

Dems winning in Virginia will directly lead to thousands regaining the right to vote. Spanberger can reverse GOP Gov. Glenn Youngkin's reinstatement of a Jim Crow-era lifetime voting ban for felonies. Dem lawmakers can also put a constitutional amendment on next year's ballot to permanently end it

I think a thing we'll learn tonight is that people fucking hate what is going on and they will straight ticket vote against anyone involved in starving people while pillaging the country and kidnapping their neighbors. I don't think it matters at all who that person is.

I continue to wonder when Americans will decide enough is enough. As Frederick Douglass reminds us: “The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”

Joshua Tree is a truly magical place and I don’t say that about anywhere else. I went to two AA retreats there with my home group. There’s something there, an energy I’ve never felt anywhere else: just goodness, light, freedom and a kind of revolutionary core awareness that anything is possible.

Dick Van Dyke has OUTLIVED Dick Cheney

Bucket List: to live in a country where the head-of-state cannot defy court orders.

thank you for the outpouring of support! those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.