Here's a partial list of suspected guilty parties. Call them if they're your senators, friends, right now. blacksky.community/profile/did:...

Okay, Ezra is confirming that he's hearing D senators are actually plotting to cave to Trump and end the shutdown WITHOUT any extension of the ACA, just a promise of a vote later down the line. Call your senators, friends, NOW, and tell them NO DEAL without ACA funding! Find them here: reps.fyi

I called @repaprildelaney.bsky.social and @vanhollen.senate.gov and @alsobrooks.senate.gov to ask them not to cave and to not provide cover for any of their dem colleagues who want to cave. Call your senators and reps.

Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.

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At some point we have to let pain hurt Trump instead of helping him. Every time we let pain help him, he’ll do more and bigger next time. Each acquiescence means the next one will be *more* painful.

Absolutely insane goal in insane conditions in the CPL final. Absurd.

I’ve come to believe that we need to gather considerable forces and a campaign to demand the removal of face masks by ICE, Border Patrol, FBI and police. It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.

They’re wearing masks so they can’t be prosecuted later. As long as they think they can’t be prosecuted, their crimes will intensify. They will torture, starve and kill, as they have already, on greater and greater scale. Signed, someone who’s covered the unaccountable War on Terror for 23 years.

Have you seen it?! Romare Bearden’s mural “Baltimore Uproar” in the Upton Metro Station.

initially thought that this was a shadow being projected on his face. didn’t realize he was in blackface

It’s pretty obvious how this works. The general public are too busy and tired to understand how government and health insurance and trade work. And actual solutions are complicated and boring. Trump’s blunt stupidity looks to those people like he’s cutting through all the guff to *do* something.

The more simplistic and idiotic he is, if presented with enough confidence, the more MAGA voters believe him and trust him. It’s the literal opposite of how the system is supposed to work, where we choose qualified competent people to represent us, because we know we’re not experts on everything.

Gloria Richardson

HE'S APPEALING TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES THAT HE BE ALLOWED TO STARVE AMERICANS

HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE

Which one is more English?

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This is The One

You might expect me to joke about this but I am genuinely happy and emotional about a jury of ordinary citizens finding sandwich guy not guilty and standing up to the obscene and absurd abuse of police and prosecutorial power by this lawless administration. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

This is a really good overview.

Dear bullies who also happen to be autistic, Stop using “I’m autistic” to justify your bullying and abuse of others. Use that beloved “autistic sense of honesty” to be straight up about what you are. A bully who uses your edgelordiness to mask your insecurities while calling it unmasking.

Yeah, because they’re fucking starving.

Genius on display

"'They’re spending more money than I would even tax them,' [Mamdani] said in an interview with MSNBC last week." This is the message. Make it clear that these billionaires aren't just worried about losing money. They're worried about losing the ability to exchange their money for power.

GOOD MORNING

idea: books in schools by a broad range of authors, spanning centuries, religions, races, genders, identifications with places, no ai

A Map Of Britain After The 2029 Technology Crash, by me and my dad.

I really thought the diarrhea plane would turn things around and make voters love Republicans again sad

this is such a great encapsulation of why this race feels existential even to people outside NYC. Cuomo as the final boss of everything wrong with the current Democratic Party, Mamdani happily grabbing the third rails everyone’s told are too dangerous to touch (trans people, Muslims, socialism)

Again, the median voter in 🇺🇸 politics (if what folks mean about 🇺🇸 politics is "the next presidential election") is a 49-year old female school teacher in the Milwaukee suburbs with teenage kids. If you think she isn't concerned about climate change, or all the other things, 🤷‍♂️. Get out & touch grass.

“People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.” - Rogers Hornsby (May the waiting commence…)

It’s basically Deep Space Nine.

Hahaha eat shit Jeff Hoffman

I have a hard time believing that if it would have benefitted Reagan politically to be anti-immigrant that he wouldn’t have done so. I don’t think that makes him “the same” as trump but I don’t really care to defend the man either. Maybe he was calculated where trump is just racist. Both racist tho.

He ain’t lyin’

The "elites" of our country have exposed themselves to be fascist and/or cowards and can't comprehend millions of normal people telling the wannabe king to go fuck himself

genuinely: it is fine and good for teenagers to go out trick-or-treating let them enjoy their youth!

Posting a photo of Ceausescu’s bathroom for no apparent reason.

In fairness to the Germans, “center-right party willingly enters coalition with social democrats to keep far right locked out” being an actual thing that happens is something I’m rather envious of.

Grateful to @repaprildelaney.bsky.social for this post. No one in our country should go hungry, ever. Donating your time, food, or money can make all the difference to your neighbors and community.

I spent my afternoon at the Downtown Food Bank in Frederick, joined by Mayor O’Connor, Frederick Dept. of HHS Director Stuart Campbell, and the bank’s staff and volunteers. As they prepare to step up when SNAP benefits are stalled, I packaged food, toured the facility, and heard their priorities.

The courts have spoken: this Administration must release appropriated dollars in the SNAP contingency fund and feed American families. Emergency funds exist for this very reason. Our children, veterans, and seniors should not go to bed hungry. apnews.com/article/snap...

Couldn’t settle on a Halloween costume this year. So instead my wife and I drove around the neighborhood, distributing red balloons to storm drains. (H/T @stephenking.bsky.social )

Can we "dislike" this system? We all like the simple, chronological system. It was a breath of fresh air after Twitter's constant stream of bullshit.