Loved #WakeUpDeadMan even though it's more remote/allegorical than the previous two. The message is so important! hard to believe Josh O'Connor played both Prince Charles & the priest in WUDM. Every one of my writer friends will enjoy Andrew Scott's last scene.

so, Google's AI can't tell the difference between a job *for* wheelchair users and a job that involves pushing other people's wheelchairs. Context is king.

Not removing him from office legally is starting to feel like elder abuse.

Rocket J. Squirrel has kept every stray cat out of the backyard... ...until today. Saw him and another cat just sitting on the ground, loaf-shaped, facing each other and giving each other slow blinks. I think we just acquired another cat...

With my next SCOTUS argument little more than one week away, I will be writing less often between now and the 9th. In the meantime, subscribe to Democracy Docket to support the team's invaluable work. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

Clearest explainer I’ve found of what’s been happening on the court case related to the Judge Boasberg contempt legal tangle, and the latest status, highlighted by the claim that Noem metaphorically dragged a court order out to a gravel pit... www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMcD...

Here’s a fun fact: More than 1000 people have signed up at runforwhat.net to run for office since last night. 😈😈😈

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social ’s win reminds me of the time we heard Gus Newport (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gus_New...) speak about being Berkeley mayor. He said he was a socialist but he still had to meet payroll. Wishing you good fortune with job ahead, Mayor-elect Mamdani!

What he said: 💯 🎯

"The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty." #PopeLeoXIV #DilexiTe #RememberThePoor

71.5% of ICE detainees have no criminal convictions, according to government data. Don’t fall for Trump’s lies about targeting the “worst of the worst.” As Trump's regime terrorizes communities to fill up detention centers, remember that some of his biggest donors are private prison corporations.

Speaker Johnson: Federal employees aren’t being paid. Nutrition cuts may cause children to go hungry. Millions are seeing their health premiums soar. End the 6 week paid vacation you’ve taken. Join your Democratic colleagues and negotiate an end to this shutdown.

San Francisco peeps: Seal Rock Inn Restaurant reopened in January. We finally got over there for breakfast. The menu is shorter, very Vietnamese-French influenced and quite delicious! Mains are on average $22, but so, so yummy! Can’t wait to go back and try a Cuban. sealrockinn.com/restaurant/

“This language from the Vice President betrays so much of the promise we have as a nation.”

The average US taxpayer spends $36 a year on SNAP You know what they spend on corporate subsidies? $670 Poor and disabled people who need food are not the problem If you’re angry about “your money” feeding people but not angry it’s giving tax cuts to the wealthy? You’re doing their dirty work.

On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.

Adelita Grijalva now holds the record for longest delay between winng a special Congressional election and being sworn into office. Why the delay from Mike Johnson? Perhaps it's because Grijalva would cast the final vote needed to release the Epstein files.

I feel like, once we get the ship of state to stop listing so dangerously to the right, we might want to work on lifting 1 out of 10 (ish?) Americans out of poverty. Remember when we lifted out of poverty half of the children in it, just with a little money during the pandemic?

Hot take: gerrymandering only works when people vote their tribe, not their conscience. #Democracy

So happy that the courts have empathy with my hungry neighbors. I hope this works. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyiI...

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

That feeling when you really need photojournalism to have been a thing in Hilo by 1938 to make a scene work, and lo and behold, it was! #crimeFiction #Writing #Fiction

Good evening from Queens. New York is not for sale.

The Capital Area Food Bank (CAFB) is actively helping federal employees and contractors impacted by the shutdown. We’ll be making a $5,000 donation to help. If you have anything extra to give, please consider donating to them or to a local food bank near you, every bit helps! 🙏

I could not be prouder that my law firm is currently litigating 60 voting, election and redistricting cases in 30 states. Even as large law firms bow down, we continue to fight for democracy every single day.

I hope NYC makes the right call, and that the DNC wakes up.

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I can’t attend (still sick from the cold I got at No Kings), but hoping others can! www.bayresistance.org/get-ready?li...

Yes! www.youtube.com/shorts/AYm9w...

I wrote about the Mamdani Method: five lessons to anchor a Democratic Party liberalism adrift at sea. Just as abolition, labor, and civil rights once gave parties their compass, Mamdani and the left-populist wing may help Democrats find theirs again. www.waleed-shahid.com/p/the-mamdan...

Quite the truth bomb.

Found it: youtube.com/shorts/SSDOU...

That old Middle Eastern dude who wore a midi dress and cared for the poor and sex workers? Definitely one of the spiritual heavy hitters but not my first choice as an effective legislator. Neither is Chip Roy.

#Gaza: Doctors without Borders is deeply disappointed that Dr Mohammed Obeid, a respected orthopaedic surgeon, and long-time MSF colleague, remains detained and was not released as part of the recent #ceasefire agreement. We call for his immediate and unconditional release.

🧵*10/20/2025 noncooperation thread* A daily-ish thread of acts of noncooperation, noncompliance, defiance, & whatnot by individuals, communities, &/or institutions. * We did this, y'all. You you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you & me.

I was interviewed by an AI bot for a contract! He was pretty good, honestly.

The world joined us and said, “No Kings.”

so here’s the thing, Bari, you’re running an organization full of weapons-grade gossips who hate you www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/b...

Loving these Grantifas who know what side of history they fought for! 😍

Using DOJ to go after Trump's political opponents is wrong. Vindictive prosecutions are wrong. Selective prosecutions are wrong. The involvement of "career prosecutors" does not change any of this or make it better -- it just shows that some career prosecutors are willing to work for this regime.

Thank you @indivisiblesf.bsky.social for all the volunteers, great pre-protest messaging. Like they said, not the end, just the beginning! Thread of images from the San Francisco #NoKings march.

Off to the protests! My sign says “Rules not Rulers.” Inspired by #IndividibleSF, unpaid in case anyone asks. Thank you to all the trained volunteers keeping us safe!!!!

Same, bro, same. Right now in Little Rock. #NoKings

Wan o the Highland rainbows thit inspired ‘The Moggie Thit Meowed Too Much’ at Moniack Mhor. #ScotsLanguage #BuiksFurBairns @luathpress.bsky.social

NEW EPISODE: The GOP's Texas gerrymander map was challenged in court and for ten days, Democracy Docket covered the hearing from gavel to gavel. I discuss the testimony, the map, and the potential outcomes with the Jen Rice, the reporter who was there on the ground. Watch and share!

Andrew Cuomo: taxpayers should pay for $60 million in legal bills for my sexual harassment allegations Also Andrew Cuomo: $60 million is too much money to spend on a pilot program to deliver cheaper groceries

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.