I’m not convinced there’s a serious “platform MTG” movement outside the sewer that is the supposed “left” that’s still cooking their brains on twitter but basically the last thing she did before leaving congress was try to ban gender-affirming care for all minors so fuck them very much

Police are investigating a stabbing in Central Long Beach that left a man hospitalized early Sunday morning. Read more from @apignataro.bsky.social on the Watchdog. lbwatchdog.com/man-hospital...

Please father your sons

I often say that the fight for democracy is the fight of our generation. But let me be clear, if you aren’t fighting for Black voting rights right now then you aren’t really fighting for democracy.

This is a party asking to die

Given that it’s Mother’s Day, I’ll share the (long) essay I wrote on my maternal grandmother in 2021. www.gustavoarellano.org/2021/08/mexi...

Honestly true for all disciplines but especially for the humanities.

The Reflecting Pool is the Trump admin in microcosm: *The pool has real problems, like leaky pipes, that are not being fixed *Superficial paint job that will actually make it look worse *No bid contract! No oversight! www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/u...

It’s funny because the hegemonic belief is that reparations for the descendants of the enslaved is totally impractical.

“It reminds me of when I pranced around in lingerie on ‘Boy Meets World.’ It’s just the guys in the writer’s room coming up with their fantasies.” Maitland Ward does not mess around. variety.com/2026/tv/news...

If we actually want to appreciate moms, we should be providing free childcare, healthcare, and guaranteed income for stay-at-home parents to put more money in families’ pockets and ensure no SAHP is reliant on a partner for their economic security. Idk I think that’s better than 15% off a vacuum.

Your regular reminder that when David Duke ran for statewide office in the early 1990s, the MAJORITY of white Louisiana voters pulled the lever for him. This was AFTER they’d seen the pictures of Duke in a Klan outfit and a Nazi uniform.

Today in “the Civil War never really ended”education, we have segregationist Alabama Gov George Wallace and presidential candidate campaigning at the Gettysburg Centennial among Confederate reenactors who joke about finally taking Washington in ‘64

It’s all the usual suspects trying to push AOC out because she’s an actual viable candidate for President who agrees with what they claim to care about but of course they don’t “trust” her because she’s a woman.

Police say they cited 15 people during a DUI checkpoint in West Long Beach Friday night. Read more from @apignataro.bsky.social on the Watchdog. lbwatchdog.com/no-arrests-a...

As someone who spent a dozen years working as a journalist on Maui and later wrote a book about how white people have been dicks to Hawaii for centuries, this is…. satisfying.

Ceci n'est pas une golden calf.

MTG is keeping her eye in the main chance. Trump's going to be gone, MAGA will one day lie in ruins, and a political lane will open up for her.

MTG is the first in what will be a very long line of post-trump fascists vying for control of MAGA and it is imperative that we are not as big of gullible dipshist as ryan clearly is and keep a cordon around them.

*idiot watching an open fascist try and set herself up for the aftermath of the current elderly leader dying voice* "Wow she hates trump she must be on our side"

I don't think this is at all widespread or common, but there is definitely a *particular* sort of ostensibly leftist person who loathes AOC as an unprincipled sellout but is willing to carry water for a nakedly antisemitic, xenophobic oppurtunist

Until I became a flight attendant I never realized how many *extremely* ill people try to fly “The unidentified Dutch woman who later died — whose husband died at sea aboard the Hondius — was removed from a flight from Johannesburg to Amsterdam because staff were so concerned about her condition.”

The US transportation secretary, a former reality TV star, just spent 7 months on a road trip filming a reality TV show instead of doing his job. 1/

“We moved 4.5 million people off SNAP” is a crazy way to say you took food away from 4.5 million people, mostly needy families. And also crazy to think this works for them politically!

They put one of yours in the hospital, you put out a statement about how disappointed you are. That’s the centrist way.

I miss the days when the CDC thought infectious diseases were bad. apnews.com/article/cdc-...

Republicans in Congress, on record: Voting for Trump’s billion dollar ballroom while families can’t pay their bills is a great idea. Republicans, anonymously:

She is a relic of a bygone age who neither understands nor seems to really much care about fighting authoritarianism in the actual current moment of 🇺🇸 politics in which we live

no AP no. There are no pedestrians on runways. There can be misplaced ground crew or trespassers, and in this case it was a trespasser. All emergency procedures appear to have been followed and crew and passengers remained safe. AP's own style prohibits use of heightened language when reporting.

Lmfaooo

DO IT DEMOCRATS aren’t you sick of all this bullshit? Send a MESSAGE

If you don’t have a cat roommate and you have an insatiable jones for feline contact, Long Beach has double the remedy. Read more from @lastwhomstanding.bsky.social on the Watchdog. lbwatchdog.com/two-cozy-cas...

Ofc Ds can still win the House and they should determined. But this mindset from @danpfeiffer.bsky.social isn’t enough. VA Dems shouldn’t be just accepting a partisan decision from VA courts overruling will of the people. VA Gov/leg should be stepping up to challenge the decision now. (1/)

‘Covid ‘only’ kills the sick the old and the vulnerable’ presented as a net positive is not restricted to RFK jr. And I’m sure I will be unpopular for pointing that out.

I sell more books from Bsky than I do from any other social media. So 😏

William Shatner’s best movie, by a mile

I think obviously so and the only reason people think otherwise is because of how racialized our politics are...

After Iran made it clear they were going to physically oppose any effort to get the ships out, Project Freedom was dead. Unarmored commercial ships are not moving back into a war zone. The US can win every sea skirmish and still lose the war to unblock the strait.

Oooh — I can’t wait to see how the 6th Circuit calvinballs this clear, unambiguous statutory language to let Republicans proceed.

You can't "earn" a billion dollars and none of their examples did. Michael Jordan earned $93m playing basketball. He's worth $3.5b today because of our meticulously-engineered legal, economic, and tax structures that prioritize accumulated capital and property over everything else.

republicans when they lose in court: the court is illegitimate, rally with us to overturn this unjust declaration democrats when they lose in court: we respect the court, now watch us roll over and die and people wonder why one is better at rallying voters

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids Democrats and Republicans to gerrymander in favor of Democrats.

virginia voters should call their delegates and senators and demand that they ignore this illegitimate ruling

yes. change the statute on which this decision turned and redistrict according to the legitimacy conferred by the people of the state

Now that it has been directed at me, I denounce the MAGA racism that rewarded and amplified me back when I claimed it didn't exist.

When they say the quiet part out loud.

vote, then demand. election day is just one skirmish in an ongoing war.

One side is like “can we disenfranchise all the Black voters by this weekend” and the other is like gotta follow the rules that govern the rules that control the rulebook