American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

It’s #SerotoninSunday 🗳️Election day recap: The people have spoken and they said “ABOBO FOREVER.” Pro-abortion candidates mopped the floor, won big, and reminded the nation that we are the majority and that anti-abortion extremists are just loud, repressed, and losing. bit.ly/3LrcVvm

The nature of policing is to avoid accountability and responsibility. That is how it works, in the past, today, and in the future. (I’m not allowing responses because I don’t want to keep explaining. At this point if you tell me the police need to be more professional, I’ll just tap this.)

Watch @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's inspiring victory speech. This is the future the Democratic Party must embrace. Turn the volume up.

There’s no reason ever again for any Democrat to suggest moderating on trans rights. There was never a moral reason but now there’s no political reason either. Somebody tell Gavin Newsom and Pete Buttigieg. it’s joe-ver.

More of this.

Dick Cheney did more than anyone else to build up expansive and destructive executive branch powers in the wake of 9/11; he lived to see another president turn those same powers against his own daughter. He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.

If you see any business owners belittling SNAP recipients for accepting government money to get through tough times, maybe look them up on @propublica.org's PPP Loan Tracker to see if they got any of the $793B in bailout money (96% of which was forgiven) projects.propublica.org/coronavirus/...

I learned a lot and I'm proud of my dissertation but it came at a very heavy cost and there are no jobs in academia lol lmao

Our new report with @hrw is here! But what's next? Join us next Wed. to move data into action and hear from frontline experts to equip you with the stories and tools you need to take action in your state. Register by 11/4: tinyurl.com/whoseabortion

A new @ifwhenhow.bsky.social & @hrw.org report based on 62 interviews across 6 states reveals how state-mandated parental notification laws effectively give parents or judges “veto power over a young person’s abortion decision,” violating young people's human right to bodily autonomy.

I visited Grand Street Senior Housing on the Lower East Side today and tried a little Bomba y Plena…

#lgbtq people in #Jamaica are often marginalized from recovery efforts. Help them through this campaign 🇯🇲 rustinfund.org/category/cam...

Alongside @hrw.org, we interviewed 62 healthcare providers, care workers, judicial bypass attorneys, and more across six states to discover the harms of forced parental involvement in young people's abortions. See what we found: tinyurl.com/WhoseAbortionIsIt

When Genesis found out she was pregnant, she asked her managers at Amazon for a chair to sit on and extra breaks. She wound up with cut hours and no paid maternity leave—and homeless. Now, she and other pregnant Amazon warehouse workers are speaking up. My latest: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Though policymakers frame parental notification laws as less harmful than parental consent laws, @hrw.org and @ifwhenhow.bsky.social found that notification laws essentially grant parents–or a judge– veto power over a young person’s abortion decision. Read more: tinyurl.com/WhoseAbortionIsIt

There are several reasons a young person may not involve a parent in their abortion decision. Fear of abuse, loss of housing, family alienation, or forced continuation of a pregnancy are just a few. Read "Whose Abortion Is It?" to learn more: tinyurl.com/WhoseAbortionIsIt

The person who oversees healthcare coverage for more than 160 million Americans is lying about healthcare coverage

Keep sharing the truth and stop the hate.

“Chicago has long been a laboratory for policing. From the repression of labor movements in the early 20th century, to COINTELPRO surveillance, to Jon Burge’s torture regime... the city has been central to testing and refining state violence.” -Ilā Ravichandran truthout.org/articles/thi...

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Our first ad is up and running! We’re reaching voters all across the district — and we’re the first campaign in our race to do so in this way. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFAL...

ZOMG, @jeetheer.bsky.social coming off the top rope! :) www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

this is something that individual members of Congress could do tomorrow. The government is shut down so they could use their district offices. I suggested in January that they turn those offices into full on community centers where people could find each other re: mutual aid etc...

Hard to tell a nuanced story of pregnancy and parenting at this moment, when the most powerful people in the country talk paternalistically and coercively about whether women are having enough children, when their vision of a family is narrow and cruel. But I tried. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/o...

The "pro-weed" gun case is a trap for lefties. Yes, it's hypocritcal to take away guns from people who use weed, but not people who abuse alcohol. But the way to deal with that is to DECRIMINALIZE WEED, not expand gun rights. My latest in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...

I’m with @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social on finding the appropriate response to calls for help. Public safety requires new ideas and not forcing police officers to be mental health experts! #NYCMayoralDebate

You're also not a sucker for believing in people. I get the sense that this needs to be stated from time to time.

Learn more about how the Trump administration is continuing their attacks on abortion access, their ties to major anti-abortion organizations and plans including Project 2025, and what you can do to fight back here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

guys "don't have a nazi tattoo" "don't be stupid enough to not know you have a nazi tattoo" and "don't be too stupid to not get a nazi tattoo removed before you run for federal office" are not impossible standards

This week on the podcast, @autonomynews.co co-founders @garnethenderson.com and @susanrinkunas.com discuss their latest reporting on "crisis pregnancy centers" and how anti-abortion groups are weaponizing the pseudoscientific hoax of abortion pill "reversal." www.reprosfightback.com/episodes-blo...

Starting November 1st, SNAP benefits are being cut, leaving millions of people with limited or no access to food. If you are able to help, help. Food banks also take cash donations, which allow them to fill the banks with what they know is most needed. We are truly all we have.

Amazon controls over a third of the global cloud computing market. Its customers include Capital One, United Airlines, and the US Army. Today's outage should be a wakeup call: Dependence on a handful of powerful corporations is a threat to economic and national security.

An astonishingly large crowd! Chicago

Conservatives online say they're upset that Bad Bunny will headline the Super Bowl. To be extra clear: Bad Bunny is Puerto Rican – a U.S. citizen. Two scholars who study national identity and #immigration say the outrage is more about who gets to be seen as American. buff.ly/md4QyWb

What I don't have in experience, I make up for in integrity. And what Andrew Cuomo lacks in integrity, he could never make up for with experience.

* I think we’ll likely see a very small Office for Civil Tights Office based out of DC that exists to harass Harvard and Princeton and Smith College and Morehouse

It’s amazing how all the reporting is just memory-holing this part

Thinking fondly of all the pre-election fact-checks that said we couldn’t possibly know whether Republicans wanted to get rid of pre-existing condition protections.

Chikungunya is difficult to test for & has no treatment. It has exploded globally in the past 20 yrs bc of climate change, w/ outbreaks in areas it wasn’t previously found. First detected in the W Hemisphere in 2015, local transmission now occurs in the US. This administration suspended the vaccine…

This is why the inflatable costumes works so well -- it works the same way calling them "weird" or "creepy" did. It disrupts their narrative, and makes them seem pathetic rather than cool-and-cruel.

Get your vaccines, all of them, ASAP; we have no infectious diseases alert infrastructure and no experts to help us fight any outbreaks. The best anyone can do is protect themselves against the current illnesses while we can.

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

The MMR vaccine is one of the most stunningly effective medical therapeutics in existence. It’s also safer than most of your everyday activities. This is simply an attempt to stop people from vaccinating.