BREAKING: Democrats have *flipped* a seat in Georgia's state House tonight. Democrat Eric Gisler has won the seat, which was previously held by a Republican who resigned this fall. This is a red territory: Trump won the district by 13% in 2024.

This Georgia flip is in a district that the GOP drew to drown Democratic voters in Athens into a neighboring red county, Oconee. But tonight, Dems in Athens were out in FULL FORCE to swamp that gerrymander.

“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.” Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻

if i worked at CMS i would eat every cookie just to spite him

they want us weak.

This kind of bottle-shaming is a not-so-subtle way to push women out of the workforce.

Know your rights. Protect your neighbors. New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.

Most systemic issues in the United States can either be traced back to Reconstruction ending too early, the U.S. Government’s Home Owners’ Loan Corporation redlining maps, or Ronald Reagan

“Traumatized, humiliated, degraded.” The nurse, a US citizen, 4’11”, 85 lbs, says she was following orders when she was dragged out of her car by masked immigration agents in Florida. It was the 3rd time she had been stopped and told to produce ID. Free link ⤵️ www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

They are running the government according to the logic of right-wing grievance media. I cannot emphasize that enough. The point is to create content, and they don't see an actual difference between dunking on Sabrina Carpenter, passing legislation, and bombing other countries.

Hideous and hateful.

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Of all the locations where they could have done something so obscene, this might be one of the most profane. These people hate America in every sense that matters.

The dripping contempt the right wing SCOTUS majority holds for district judges is truly a sight to behold every time. When they deign to give actual reasons for their shadow docket holdings, it’s “look at the absolute idiots who keep getting everything wrong!”

NEW: The official USCIS guidance on this pause is out. Until further notice from the USCIS Director, all immigration benefits (including citizenship) are indefinitely suspended for nationals of 19 countries, as are all affirmative asylum applications from nationals of any country.

ICE raids are cruel, inhumane, and do nothing to serve public safety. My responsibility is to be the mayor to each and every person that calls this city their home. That includes millions of immigrants— of which I am one.

This should be a scandal. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/t...

After a college student finally found a treatment that worked for his ulcerative colitis, UnitedHealthcare decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs. His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for rejecting claims. (Published Feb. 2023)

And of course Trump is gutting the watchdogs designed to provide a check on this sort of atrocious behavior. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

What a great headline

I really appreciate that @pbsnews.org ended the interview with this graphic. It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.

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Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.

If RFKj could cry what would the consistency of the tears be? I bet viscous

evergreen

Here’s a disheartening glimpse inside Dept of Ed—lost morale, locked out of accounts,etc. “What is being done to the systems that support kids, students, families, adult learners and our country’s future is worse than anything they can do to us.” www.theguardian.com/education/20...

For months, the Social Security Administration was quietly sharing sensitive data about immigrants with DHS. Now it’s official.

From The Washington Post: The concentration of wealth among the richest Americans is unlike anything in history — and so is billionaires’ influence in politics. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

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Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

For the first time in my career, I can’t tell people to trust what the CDC website says. And that is an incredibly sad and devastating place for this country to be.

Though technically it's meant for youngsters, @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social's Reading Manifesto is, in my opinion, equally relevant to grownups. His five tenets⤵️

We’re hearing helicopters and word is spreading of massive ICE raids tomorrow and Friday particularly in Gwinnett. These excessive raids put all of us in danger. Spread the word, look out for each other, and remember your rights.

Lindsey Halligan should be immediately disbarred.

This hasn't gotten the coverage I think it deserves: a federal judge ruled earlier this month that the Trump admin "violated the constitutional rights of furloughed federal workers by using their work email accounts to send partisan messages blaming Democrats for the government shutdown." /4

Merriam-Webster, the country’s oldest dictionary publisher which is headquartered in Springfield, just released an updated Collegiate edition with 5,000 new entries.

I just feel like people should know about this as we move into some of the busiest travel weekends of the year, no reason. www.reuters.com/world/us-dro...

I simply refuse to accept that police ever have to look like this. this is just pure cosplay. it should be illegal for cops to be dressed like soldiers going to war.

I've been reposting everyone replying to this post with their own ACA (and sometimes employer!) price hikes. Feel free to add yours. There is some comfort in knowing you aren't alone and knowing we'll all be voting on this issue in a year. Chuck Schumer should be chucked out. #chuckchuck

*maximum alpha at 1.25x speed* continuously lives on in my head, unfortunately.

Please read this post below and it’s replies

Couldn’t have fathomed that this would happen…. @schumer.senate.gov RESIGN. You’re an absolute disgrace. @murray.senate.gov Call for Schumer’s resignation. He’s failed to meet this moment way too many times to the extreme detriment of our nation.

A new study shows rents for low-wage Atlanta tenants are rising *9 times* faster than for wealthy renters. The affordability crisis is everywhere: housing, healthcare, food, electricity, survival itself. And the party that won big on "affordability" last week just turned around and surrendered it.

Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...