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

Reminder that Republicans don't really believe in religious liberty. Religion is a tool for enhancing their political power, and any expression of faith to the contrary must be suppressed.

A distraught man came to Broadview searching for his wife of five years after she was taken by ICE at her court hearing. He wasn’t told anything, tracked her by her phone, and was left weeping in the parking lot.

I got laid off, I utilized SNAP, and I was able to remain in my chosen field of profession. The program is incredibly effective in mitigating the effects of unemployment, and that’s precisely why they want to gut it.

While US venture capitalists were buying monkey jpegs, and DOGE coins, and figuring out how to get Black women fired, and tweeting about white birthrates, and trying to mandate which bathroom trans kids should use, China was making progress on climate change and taking the lead in a real industry.

Nuremburg trials is the moderate position

Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.

This person took this when they called the race

the entire twitter and group chat poisoned elite of American society who decided Trump winning an election by 1.5% heralded a thousand year reich may have miscalculated a bit

I do not think he should be mayor, but this is so much healthier of an approach to take toward a democratic election than anything we are hearing from Andrew Cuomo. Cuomo is going to leave NYC the moment he loses. Sliwa seems to truly want to stay in this great city.

Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’

you ever think about how this guy is a professor in good standing in elite colleges

This quote continues to rattle me to my core: "So what you’re telling us is you need less evidence to kill somebody than you do to hold them." That's Rep Adam Smith to Pentagon officials in a briefing on Trump's illegal boat bombings. As he told me in this piece, they didn't answer his objection:

I’m really starting to suspect that most of the tech bros haven’t actually read Tolkien, as they certainly don’t understand it. The gentle hobbits save the “hard men” of Gondor, largely through compassion and selflessness. Not the other way around. The Christian parable is barely hidden!

Let’s be clear, most EBT users are white. The reason he’s specifically lying about “weaves” and we’ve seen so many AI fakes of Black women ranting about food stamps is they need to make BW the face EBT because they know many Americans don’t care if Black people suffer, and some actually wish for it.

This is exactly what the entire Dem message should be. Every single Dem should be out there saying this every single day.

Can't overstate how fucked up it is that unraveling what is arguably the greatest achievement in the history of humanity is now a motivating issue of one of the two dominant parties in the U.S.

It’s about possibly redefining what is possible to ask for through our elected officials. For an entire generation or more we’ve been told; “no that’s impossible or no we can’t afford that” to the point where now we supposedly can’t even afford our ideals.

JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing. Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵

Diversity doesn’t weaken unions. Racist bosses like Vance using racism to divide workers by race so they can exploit them weakens unions. All this stuff is arsonists complaining about the temperature in the building they set on fire. bsky.app/profile/diew...

I would rather live next door to someone who speaks another language than live next door to someone who doesn’t want to live near people who speak other languages. I know nothing about Person A but I know person B is a shitbird.

i do think vance is mostly just regurgitating the half remembered ideas of dead slaveholder extremists but also this gives off the unmistakable scent of “i’ll say whatever you hogs want me to say,” which is fitting coming from america’s premier hogman

My God they've just created a machine that incentivizes every Trump staffer to break the economy (and much else) on purpose so they can insider trade on Truth Social. Literally every insider trading son of a bitch in this regime is gonna be deliberately *increasing* volatility as much as possible.

when it comes to Confederate statues, you gotta melt the shit down or otherwise fuck it up so badly it cannot be repaired bc if there is even a possibility that it can be restored?? these motherfuckers are gonna put it right back up at the earliest opportunity

centrists will tell you to your face that we all need to abandon identity issues, and focus on kitchen table issues instead and yet when a leftist candidate runs a generational campaign based on kitchen table issues, it's the centrists weaponizing identity politics to smear the leftist.

Custom made double breasted uniform great coat not alluding to any historical period in particular surely

This is a real thing that a judge had to say to the Chief of US Customs and Border Protection.

I know it’s too much to expect them to know their history, but if the American Revolution had a motto, it definitely would not have been “immigrants go home.” It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”

And I would like to challenge this person to get a real job

“They’ve got money for ICE and golden ballrooms but not for hungry families” is so easy it’s almost funny

I continue to sincerely want the term “Kavanaugh Stop” to be a badge of shame for the rest of Brett Kavanaugh’s days; the only bit of writing he’s known or remembered for; his sole contribution to the Law; for him to perceive, in little stabs of self-awareness, that this will be his rancid legacy.

May I present a former clerk to Justice Gorsuch.

Why do people always wanna go to Florida when shit goes down?

They go because Florida has no state income tax. That's really it. Beyond that, there is no service-based incentive to move to Florida, and there isn't, at the end of the day, a weather-based one. What you miss in snow, you get in the occasional 150+ MPH gust turning your condo into driftwood.

Right wing american christianity is an interesting religion. It grants privileges to its adherents, but obligations to everyone else. bsky.app/profile/razz...

It’s fun to look at this ai slop nazi propaganda and then remember what these guys actually look like. This isn’t what they (or america) looks like and far from loving america, this is an expression of severe self loathing bsky.app/profile/geof...

White men...the story you were taught about yourselves was never true. It promised power, but stole your humanity. It gave you control, but robbed you of connection. It’s time to unlearn the lies.

I really think that we need to talk more about the fact that Republicans have basically quietly abolished the House of Representatives

the ballroom will never be built and he’ll just pocket whatever money he collects because he is a grifter first and foremost

this is the present republicans have created and the future they want for everyone who isn't providentially wealthy

/5 Ezra Kleinism would have me seek mutual values and agreement with the people who brought us to that, and who still support it. I would rather see them burn in Hell.

In Roberts' world, the only racism that matters is mustache-twirling vintage racism. If you're not calling Black voters the n-word or hanging us from trees, apparently it doesn't count. I really loathe John Roberts. He's presided over the most racist Supreme Court in modern history.

Trump is a threat but so are the Ellisons taking over media and SCOTUS gutting the VRA. Those have a much more tangible effect of entrenching a permanent minority rule by Republicans that will outlast Trump. There's really no organized and concerted effort to counter this.

ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase. The President is building an army to attack his own country.

The best time to abolish ICE would have been in 2021. The next best time is if we win in 2028. At this point, any Democrat unwilling to abolish ICE must be drummed out of the primary.

absolutely heartbreaking www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...

The thing that makes Star Trek utopian isn’t the end of scarcity or the harmony between all peoples it’s also that the guy on the ship who gets laid the most plays the trombone at work and periodically does community theater

I think something uniquely corrosive to the US, and not other countries, is that their legislature *effectively does not pass new legislation anymore* and the electorate has spent the last decade plus going absolutely stir-crazy from that fact.