This “affordability” framework for a second reconciliation bill (i.e. a “Second Big Beautiful Bill”) follows the same structure as its predecessor: 1.)Making it harder for Americans to afford health care, food & groceries. 2.)Tax cuts for rich people. 🧵

402 signatures, over 100 a day. My goal of 500 by Monday is within our sights. Are you a supportive mum, dad, aunt, uncle, sibling, grandparent, extended family member, friend, neighbour, work colleague of a trans person? Take a look at the Transparent Pledge and help Transparent Action grow.

@recurringdream.bsky.social I have thoughts and feelings about social media, but I there has never been another moment in history when a robot might encourage me to follow back "a disgusting feminist whore with a Jezebel spirit who uses filters in all of her videos and lives in rebellion to God."

My son's special interests are airline disasters, forensic science, and the phrase "fun fact." I can assure that, while his facts may be factual, they are almost never my idea of fun.

When it comes to serving takes that are clueless but also feel erudite @theatlantic.com does not disappoint.

“Fucking magnets, how do they work?” #miracles

“Even without these worst-case scenarios, simple passport revocation could temporarily or permanently prevent transgender people from leaving the country if, and when, life here becomes untenable.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-politics...

In the spirit of @karenattiah.bsky.social's post, sharing this picture a clerk at my local hardware store insisted on taking of me handily carrying two 40 pound bags of salt. #Swoletariat

What is Kavanaugh talking about? Genuinely, what "cost" has Sam Alito incurred for his values or opinions or whatever? People who already didn't like him before now like him even less? These people are such babies, man. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Strength training is political. We have a right-wing which has taken over physical fitness spaces, and hijacked “warrior culture”. We need a muscular progressivist visions. We need to be strong to build the world we want. Building my guns for the revolution. 💪🏾✊🏾 #Swoletariat #ResistanceTraining”

This is very good.

Enjoy my interview with the queen of Beachy Gothic YA! @elockhartbooks.bsky.social #wewereliars #delacorte #booksky

Hey, neighbors. Perhaps you, like me, would like to air some grievances. I have a few!

@nytimes.com going hard in the paint

This seems like something one might forgive as a slip in other circumstances. Here, however, it tracks.

My son only caught parts of this episode, which I listened to while making dinner. Nevertheless, he made a detailed and persuasive case that Dale Carnegie was autistic. NB: My son is autistic.

What we might refer to as a "Kavanaugh Stop"

Source: Center on Budget and Inequality at Georgetown Law

Is this a cursed headline? Obviously. Is this the most cursed headline of even just today? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

"Practice being brave now, don’t wait for some special moment at the end to be a hero." This is excellent. open.substack.com/pub/peaceful...

Hegseth fires general officers and JAGs, cracks down on dissenting views in military, orders killing civilians at sea without legal rationale, calls generals to Quantico to demand loyalty. Trump deploys troops to U.S. cities. "What are Trump and Hegseth up to? It's a mystery!"

Men, if you’re wondering why you’re lonely: This is men.

“I’m emotionally shellshocked right now,” said one professor in the Texas Tech system. “What does it say about academic freedom? It says we don’t have it.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

"The envy of all women."

My mom worked for the CENSUS Bureau. One of her long-term projects was a study about what people eat for the Department of Agriculture. I learned a lot from hearing my mom talk about that work.

Trying to figure out where the fuck to begin I settled on HARRY REID.

Utah was the first state to allow open carry on campus. A would-be assailant could walk right onto campus armed as they please and nobody could’ve done a thing about it.

Do not be bullied, cowed, or shamed by bad-faith right-wing actors and MAGA that are blaming "liberals" and everyone who isn't MAGA for Charlie Kirk. Call them out for their hypocrisy. Go on offense. They are fine with political violence and mass shootings when it's against the rest of us.

These are the folks building that white hetero housing development in the Ozarks. They seem like cool guys.

love to anthropomorphize my electromechanical slave, surely nothing bad will result from blurring the lines between how I treat humans and how I treat machines, I am a very serious philosopher

Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s austere, well-cut, all-black drip really brings out the Hobby Lobby in the Oval Office.

This is, like, I don’t know… The Super Bowl of Y R M3N?

well that explains why trump showed the european world leaders his hat collection lol

Oh, hey. This is my school district and I may be quoted in this article.

there is no better time than the present to get to know your neighbors. go to community meetings. organize. look out for one another. all we got is each other.

The goal of a broad anti-fascist alliance isn’t to agree on everything. It is to defeat fascism, so that liberals, neocons, progressives, and nationalists can disagree bitterly about everything else

Dang. Even white people are coming around.

100% No race should go uncontested. Even if a Dem has no chance of winning, people need to see Dems running. Republicans should have to fight for the ein and liberals and progressives need to know that they are not alone. Over the long haul, it makes a real difference and drives change.

hi this is my favorite writing advice, it's from former simpsons writer john swartzwelder (i think about the crappy little elf all the time) www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

It cannot be easy to be a police officer in Sandwich, Massachusetts right now.

A useful WaPo map of where Trump Storm Troops are actually operating in DC. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202... If you know DC, what this map tell you is: They're making the gaudy show of strength in areas where it matters least and will do least good. Except for sheer spectacle.

Why aren't there more support for Republicans among academics and scientists? We may never know.

Thinking you're all tough and projecting strength while actually just humiliating yourself really is the foundational feature of MAGA masculinity.

this is like if a far side cartoon grew up to be a real boy

On Wednesday, ICE GOONS arrested a mother in the school drop-off line at Inzunza Camarina Elementary in Chula Vista, leaving her two children in the car.

I didn’t know I was hoping to never see this bish’s face again but apparently I was

This gal really has her finger on the pulse