I just saw a ms now post for the first time, and while I previously reacted to the painfully basic design, I’m now wondering about the shoutouts to: - Ms. Magazine - the National Organization for Women

Logic can have sharp elbows. It’s so interesting when someone smarting from the pain of applied logic to an illogical argument believes that they are the victim of an emotional response. Quite the opposite. Trust, logic is calm, even impassive.

Anyone advocating for Chris Murphy to lead in place of Schumer is advocating for a Dem party split & sacrificing the base for the sake of white men, the (heavily R-voting) cohort Chris said were getting the shaft while he maligned the rest of the Dem coalition in the aftermath of the 2024 election

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It’s not a “purity test” to insist that the non-fascist party refuse to elect Nazis – or the “merely” Nazi-curious – to national office! That’s an indication of basic standards.

Raising concerns when the guilty feel implicated makes the truth teller the problem. Then marginalized people get disinvited from powerful spaces.

For anyone still not clear, John Thune is telling us that this is exactly the outcome he wanted. Since he’s the guy who could have effected a different outcome, given that he’s the same Senate majority leader who “went nuclear” to push nominations forward, needing just 50 votes, only a month ago

When will the self-styled "captains of industry" & "masters of the universe" acknowledge that they are, as a whole, a group of cowards, collaborators, and thoroughly mediocre people who would be less destructive if they better valued humans without their privileges (& generally were more humble)

The (non-partisan) CBO projected that 16 million Americans would be pushed off health insurance due to the big bitter budget bill & now people who, I guess, don't worry about their ability to afford health insurance are clowning the House minority leader for speaking on budget harms to healthcare 🤨

I don’t think guns should be so available, especially not to people who want to shoot other people. RIP Melissa and Mark Hortman

I was annoyed that Arthur Ashe stadium had nothing except a Sabalenka practice session on all day before the women’s semis started at 7p & now I’m outraged on behalf of Amanda Anisimova and Naomi Osaka. Why have them finish at 1a when they could have pushed up the night session start time by hours.

For no reason at all, here is Jens Stoltenberg with Kamala Harris

be more discerning. the devil could recite Scripture too.

More bad news for unemployed people, who won’t be eligible for Medicaid under the GOP budget

For reference

Important information in this thread. A lot of it should find its way into Republican Senators’ and Reps’ inboxes. May I suggest starting with Bill Cassidy.

It has repeatedly promised to stop doing that and continues. Anyone who thinks we should integrate critical systems with AI Agents, is looking to get a sociopathic overlord.

Thread on today's Congressional Budget Office finally released cost estimates of the budget reconciliation law and its draconian #Medicaid cuts. But we are still waiting on detailed coverage estimates (1/x): www.cbo.gov/publication/...

Call Republicans. Especially the hard right maga nutjobs.

Is there a reason there are only 10 public comments on this request for input about a national SNAP fraud database? It seeks to not only collect data about recipients, but also about applicants, which would include people who never received a benefit. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

congrats to white Christians on achieving the shittiest, most anti-Jesus culture ever. Fruits of the spirit amirite.

I used to joke that the internet was a mistake … but I’m not joking anymore

These documents contain numerous disturbing details that not only corroborate the whistleblower’s claims but also highlight DOJ’s efforts to mislead a federal court and disregard its orders. READ THE DOCS HERE: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25... AND HERE: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

I’m going to refrain from calling that already-flooding weather-calamity-in-waiting concentration camp a cutesy name and respectfully request that anyone reading this considers the same

On the point of a broken Congress: Specifically, Congress broke when the Senate declined to convict an obviously criminal president after an impeachment. Twice!! If you blame Democrats for what Republicans did, you’re a part of the reason we’re mired in fascist shit. So, congratulations.

Try to avoid letting ticks bite you because, thanks to Republicans, you may not be able to afford – or even access – necessary healthcare, if you get Lyme disease!

There’s enough violence around us, and I’m trying not to choose it unnecessarily … but sometimes I get tested.

Great job Democratic staffers! Language disallowed from reconciliation here felt purposefully cruel, and if Congress wants this xenophobic bullshit in a bill, they’ll need 60 Senate votes to pass.

Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪

Senate Republicans are trying to pass the biggest Medicaid and SNAP cuts ever, along with a lot of other unconscionable crap, by July 4. Pressure Republicans to vote no on the wildly expensive and destructive budget reconciliation bill.

My team and I at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@[email protected], Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) have a new piece out: wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/amer.... In it, we show that through May 2025, the size and scale of anti-Trump protests have dwarfed those in 2017. 🧵

The ones intentionally creating chaos are up to no good.

🚨 THREAD: What just happened in Los Angeles is not normal, and it differs from past deployments of the National Guard in key ways that you need to understand. This is a breakdown of the history, the playbook, and why this move reeks of bad faith.

Everyone knows that Amazon is evil. What kind of company conspires against its own customer service reps to render them unable to help customers with claims that their reps acknowledge are valid.

Hey yall I'm being so serious, we have to bury my beautiful aunt next weekend. She died of breast cancer because she didn't have insurance because she was too weak to work. And now we have to pay for the funeral out of pocket. Anything helps. Sincerely.

Never forget the rank cowardice of Jamie Dimon newrepublic.com/series/58/me... May he retire in ignominy

There’s a cohort on here that weirdly sees bluesky posts as a cue to scold the poster for not doing anything but posting. Bring back logic, critical thinking, and common sense.

The comments are running strongly critical of the implementation. BUT (and likely because of this) THE DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED UNTIL JUNE 7th www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... 2/n

The most important thing you can do, by a parsec, is attend a town hall with your Republican Senator and with your Republican member of Congress. There is nothing more useful than spending even a minute talking face-to-face with them and telling them you do not want them to vote for this.

It’s been 4 months.

my response to news about joe

The ones who need to be aggrieved are still firmly in the convicted felon’s corner. They will stay lost in incoherent haterade until they learn to get over their snowflake selves.

Have AG Sulzberger and John Roberts been hanging out recently or did they independently decide to test our collective credulity with the same look-over-there deflections from the fires they themselves intentionally set

The grinch thinks he can kill Christmas, but this time the congress of whoville is actively paving his way. Whoville needs a new congress. And boy did the grinch get fat.

She told the truth about her fascist opponent. The twice-impeached convicted felon and adjudicated sexual assaulter’s perverse genius is that his negatives are so extreme that they seem unbelievable to proponents, detractors, and everyone in between.

Do we think Putin is put out that his bought-and-paid-for puppet with the toupee is doing his damndest to make China great again?

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I loosely keep a grifters mod list. Finally, someone blocked me for getting added … and if you guessed Jorge the datadrivenmd (the most thin-skinned “big” account I have ever run across on the socials), you would be correct. I won’t see them 😌 but I know that grifter will be up to shenanigans.

SCOTUS contact information: www.supremecourt.gov/contact/cont...

So you want to correct some lies about Kamala Harris’s record as a prosecutor from the left because people still believe them despite everyone debunking things several years ago. Here’s some helpful links & photographs of sourced government data to do so with a bonus dragging. Alt text has more.