“controversial belief that all children should be safe and happy”

"He looked up at the empty clouds, and just as he died, he wondered, not for the first time but for the very last, why it should be that we are made for a bright world, but live in a dark one." The Bright Sword (2024) by @levgrossman.com #booksky 💙📚 A MUST read.

Did they arrest Obama or release the Epstein files yet? Is Hillary locked up? Did they figure out who in the Deep State is creating chemtrails?

It's up to us to make sure everyone knows they won't feel the bad stuff for a couple years, specifically because Republicans planned it that way so people will think the bill was good and vote for them again. Warn people it's coming.

Noting that “beautiful” is Trump’s standard term for the conscious abuse of large numbers of people, as in the promise to deport Gazans to some “beautiful” place. This language has to be treated as a subject in itself and not repeated.

"Think about what the United States was when it was founded versus what it is now. We were an agrarian society that lacked indoor plumbing. The population was about one percent of what it is now, and we had only thirteen states."

I would like for wealthy people excited for tax cuts to sign a piece of paper acknowledging that every dollar they get in tax breaks is going to be paid for by someone else…either someone not getting healthcare or SNAP or some future person paying higher taxes to pay the interest on our new debt.

Donald Trump is attacking me because he is desperate to distract from his war on working people. We must and we will fight back.

We are ONE step away from successful autocracy transition. All things we’ve touched on. We have no more checks and balances. Tbf even if Court can “enforce” there are no guardrails to force the executive to force itself. If we can’t defend the country we must defend our State. @governor.ca.gov

“Ladies and gentleman” they say to absolutely no one

He had 5 red sirens too.

*INDIANA JONES AND THE CLOSURE OF THE ARCHAEOLOGY DEPARTMENT*

AOC: "On this point of tax on tips, as one of the only people in this body who has lived off of tips, I want to tell you a little bit about the scam ... the cap on that is $25,000 while you're jacking up taxes on people who make less than $50,000 across the US ... while kicking them off the ACA."

(•_•) <) )╯Publique fundinge / \ \(•_•) ( (> of the artes and humanityes / \ (•_•) <) )> doth benefit everyone! / \

This is not in the bill. Just a total lie.

Collins is no hero. She voted to proceed only to safely vote no later. She could have stopped it earlier, but didn't. Because she needs her wealthy donor cash.

primary this loser

Mohammed El-Kurd’s guide to responding to the most ridiculous anti-Palestinian smears.

Well this is the bold, effective Democratic leadership we all have been clamoring for! Thanks @schumer.senate.gov. I also appreciate the way you convert oxygen to carbon dioxide to help plant life around you. You're the best!

Either name names or I call bullshit. Like what's wrong with you, guy

Whose body did they photoshop that head onto??

If you see this, quote with a robot that isn’t from Star Wars or Transformers.

if you don't want to do the job, john, you can always let someone else do it instead resign, go to the beach, I'll pay for your plane ticket myself

“From The Depths,” William Balfour Ker

If there was ever a time to call your Senator, this is it. Voting has begun on the GOP plan to cut off health care for working-class Americans and slash taxes for the wealthiest.

Mamdani's New York will have nuclear weapons within five years!

I gotta say I find a lot of AI discourse around higher ed very confusing. "if ChatGPT can write your essays is college even worth it?" did people think math teachers were assigning problem sets because *they* couldn't figure out the answers?

they wrote a 900-page book about it and released it for free online

“I canceled Obama’s nuclear inspection program, then I bombed Iran. Now, I am offering them pallets of $30 billion in cash, plus another $6 billion, if they agree to negotiate Obama’s plan. It’s called the Art of the Deal.”

Night lizards are over 66 million years old and survived asteroid annihilation. www.newscientist.com/article/2485...

This 940-page reconciliation bill has a list of horrific provisions. One of the worst is a $211 billion tax break to the top 0.2% who inherit $30 million. In this bill 16 million lose health care & hungry kids lose nutrition. Meanwhile, billionaires get much richer. Disgusting.

Hakeem Jeffries has taken $1,742,105 from the pro-Israel lobby, so—instead of spending his time fighting the authoritarian takeover of this country—he is on TV helping spread lies about Zohran Mamdani. Jeffries does not serve the people, nor is he an opposition leader. He’s a part of the problem.

Really impossible to overstate how completely this guy has failed at every aspect of being an opposition leader over the past six months. Jeffries is a truly inspiring example for every soulless careerist who would rather be king of nothing than stand for anything decent in the world.

People think I'm biased against Jeff Bezos, but here's Sartoria F. Caraceni, widely considered one of the best bespoke tailoring houses in the world, commenting on Bezos's wedding suit. "The most terrible, frightening, horrible tuxedo ever seen in my life. I'm really suffering"

The Right really is in disarray because they cannot seem to figure out if they should push “Zohran Mamdani is going to bring Sharia Law” or “Zohran Mamdani treats his wife with too much equality” as a smear campaign, so they are doing both.

it’s not even that there’s no antisemitism on the left! there is, there’s a reason a lot of Jews on this site stay quiet on certain things but the relentless focus on criticizing Israel as the only valid antisemitism to go after, when Nazis are running our country, is doing enormous damage

Wow. Some people are upset about gutting the national endowment for the humanities. But fear not. The Big Beautiful Bill appropriates $40 million for "for the procurement of statues" for the President's "Garden of Heroes" www.budget.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

In the spirit of “no one knows what will work” and “try a diversity of tactics,” ICE hasn’t shown up at Chicago’s immigration court since June 16.

They do this cause they know the bill is terrible for their states & districts. So they post a tweet opposing it, then fold right after. That way, come election time, they can claim they “fought it.” 99% of the time, that fight was complete BS.

This sentence, typed in her dissent, should scare the living fuck out of everyone in this country. "This Supreme Court is an existential threat to the rule of law." – Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson

I don’t know that I’ve ever respected anyone who lost an election more than Brad Lander at this point an object lesson in how every other Democrat should be responding to this moment what a mensch

Crazy how Corey Booker stood up for 24 hours, people got all wound up that maybe the dems were gonna get off their asses, just to have them shift in their seats, continually lame observers, allowing all of this to continue.

“With fear for our democracy, I dissent.” “In sadness, I dissent.” “With deep disillusionment, I dissent.” What’s next?