i hate that tryhard became a slur. all i wanna do is be around and work with and get inspired by people who put genuine effort into things they believe in. fiercely

"Mr. President sir the idea is you're constantly flying around in a big jet filled with your own shit in it. Like human shit. Anyways you're wearing a little crown in your little shitmobile and you're dumping the shit out. I think people will like it."

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

On the day of “No Kings” protests across the country, look to the history of South African disobedience against apartheid. When they try to silence you with repression, reply with more people, louder voices, undeterred steps. #Velshi www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/w...

Looks like the Russians like his Russia tie. It’s not red-white-blue either. It’s red-blue-white. Like the Russian flag. For a meeting with Zelensky.

Rep. Madeleine Dean reads out the litany of grievances enumerated 250 years ago in the Declaration of Independence, including most especially, "He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures." Sounds familiar, doesn't it? A beautiful day to resist.

Berlin is asking the right questions.

We US citizens still—barely—have freedom of speech and the ability to dissent in this country. Use it. So many people and institutions are tempering or silencing themselves in advance. You don’t beat fascists by being afraid to offend them and their ostensibly liberal collaborators.

David Byrne at #NoKings on his bike. (via @wutangforchildren.bsky.social)

Tonight’s clear winner was @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social. He won because he's the only candidate with a plan, with a vision, and with a focus on the working New Yorkers who built this city and deserve to live here with dignity. 19 days. Let’s do this!

Hats off to Ron Conway. I’d love to see more of this in the tech community. Call them out, walk away, don’t pretend they said something remotely acceptable.

Honestly Zohran could probably raise millions in a PPV model of handing Ackman his ass

The only thing that anyone ever needs to know about Bill Ackman is that he once joined a group of avid long distance bikers from NYC to Montauk and back without training or preparation, arrogant in his ability to "lead the pack" and ended up screaming in agony

Your reminder that the local paper partly exposed George Santos weeks before the election, and the journos who worked for bigger news outlets paid no attention.

This government suffers from severe loser stench. Everything they say and do is a barely veiled form of "I'm the BOSS and you have to RESPECT ME!" and nobody does. Millions of people are going outside tomorrow just to say so

An ICE agent, who is being arrested for drunk driving and nearly killing his little kids & others, tries to stop the arrest by racially profiling the officers arresting him. Amazing to watch the courtesy given to him as he is belligerent and uncooperative

A handful of billionaires now have unprecedented control over banking, the food we eat, our healthcare, and the information we receive. Many are now currying favor with Trump to both avoid accountability and maintain their power. This is what oligarchy looks like. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...

Time is up. I gave Speaker Mike Johnson two days to swear in Adelita Grijalva. Arizona's 7th congressional district 813,000 Arizonans are now being taxed without representation. I have lawyers downstairs right now drafting litigation. youtu.be/9OBdjsGntQI?...

Mikey Johnson not swearing in Grijalva is just practice for when Dems win the midterms. He'll adjourn the house and not seat them.

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government…” ~Patrick Henry

“We followed all the rules. But in Trump’s second administration, there’s no level of competence, compliance, or silence that will protect people from state retribution. That they’re getting to people like me this early is such a tell. They are moving so fast.” open.substack.com/pub/spinclas...

Former Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody probably committed a felony crime when he told a witness to delete text messages they exchanged before, during and after he led raids on a newspaper office and the publisher’s home, a district judge ruled Wednesday #ksleg kansasreflector.com/2025/10/15/j...

here’s more context to the videos DHS is putting out from Chicago.

"The chat offers an unfiltered look at how a new generation of GOP activists talk when they think no one is listening." www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

An honor to receive the endorsement of of nearly a dozen Black clergy leaders in Crown Heights today, including Bishop Orlando Findlayter. I’m grateful for their support, and this powerful and humbling prayer.

So glad we’re burning down rainforests and drying up lakes to help total losers masturbate in an entirely new way

Vile and racist comments when they think no outsiders can listen in. Because Chatham house rules, right? A lot of bold, outside-– box thinking going on here on “forbidden” topics. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

The “Oops, protein powder is full of lead” thing would explain so much.

Shocking, but not surprising.

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

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵) www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths apnews.com/article/pope...

Farmers grow what they grow because of farm policy. We don’t need all the soy and corn that we grow, but those are the commodities that receive subsidies and markets. If we want something better, if we want to heal the Earth and grow food, now is the time to do it.

Celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day by supporting Alaska Public Radio stations They serve entire communities as bulletin boards and disaster communications, and have had their federal funds ripped away. alaskapublic.allyrafundraising.com/campaigns/10...

“It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have." ~ James Baldwin

I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.

Things to do in the future: 1. Putting them all on trial for crimes against humanity at the Hague 2. Totally reforming entire government to root out corruption and abuse of power so this bullshit never happens again 3. At some point you’d imagine, brunch

gene kelly is antifa

I think the counter argument to “Ellison and Weiss will turn CBS News into an unstoppable propaganda machine” is Bezos’s WaPo which lost basically all the talent and also is in a subscription death spiral

This should be on a greeting card.

Auspicious start for the new CBS News, laundering unattributed cop shit-talking through the incoming editor-in-chief’s blog and failing to correct a misspelling of the story subject’s name in the web headline for three days.

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States. Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Injustice upon Injustice ... "He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him" www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation Depraved. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

the administration is laser-focused on making sure Americans don't get clean energy, so Saudi Arabia (Trump's paymaster) has someone to sell their oil to in 10 years when the rest of the world has moved on to solar+batteries

Whoa! Did not have this on my authoritarian bingo card.

Imagine being mad you didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize while you’re busy stirring up Civil War in your own country.