"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

FDR would've felt incredibly vindicated by all of this. A core proposition of the New Deal was that the country's ruling class was incapable — at best — of defending the Constitution, and that it was up to a dissident vanguard of intellectuals, in conjunction with workers and farmers, to do it.

No it’s important to listen to this. Because then you understand that many of them will do ANYTHING to keep power. Remember Musk got involved in the 2024 election after saying to Tucker “if she wins” I am definitely going to prison. So we need to move knowing that nothing is off the table for them.

I don't think it's even right to say the voting public doesn't care. I think the truth is a lot of voters may generally find trans identity moderately confusing but also *none of their business*. on the other hand, they find an obsession with harming trans people - say it with me - deeply weird.

What is happening at Goddard is absolutely devastating. We are losing history. We are losing an incredible amount of human talent, skill, and knowledge. Rebuilding it will be impossible same for same. Industry can not absorb the people or the equipment. This is undoing space science in the US.

100% wealthy tax for Elon

McConnell on children going hungry: "This Should Never Happen in America." He goes back to gov't's argument being pretextual, citing numerous statements made by Trump and his adminisrtration over the last week.

"THERE IS NO STATUTE prohibiting the USDA from using Sec. 32 funds to fully fund SNAP. " "29 million children are not at risk of going hungry should the USDA transfer enough to fully fund Nov SNAP. There would still be benefits would still use 19.3 billion to fund Child Nutritiion Program"

"More meritocratic to use face shape over educational achievemen." Is fucking wild. Telling that their idea of merit is "looking a certain way"

straight-up jury nullification. this guy did it, confessed to it, and the jury instructions explicitly said that if he did it intentionally, it was assault.

In light of "Did Women Ruin the Workplace", these men are all still employed and I am not.

great day for the legal theory of "not guilty if it's funny enough"

They indicted the ham sandwich but they did not convict. I'm pleased; TBH, I was worried they might nail him on a risible de minimis offense on pure technical definitions of assault. Happens all the time, sadly. But the system worked.

"Women are bourgeois" The newspaper

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This could be us if we weren't strangling the solar industry to help keep oil prices up

Help a Disabled trans woman leave the USA.

When people talk about the excesses of MeToo, they have to lie, because the reality is that there was no massive social reckoning forcing people to believe survivors or hold perpetrators accountable. In fact, there has been a significant backsliding and new punishments in rejection of MeToo

For @msnbc.com I wrote about how Tuesday's election gives Democrats the blueprint for overcoming Republican anti-trans attacks and how thus should settle all the talk about throwing trans people under the bus. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

someone got indicted on the basis of “transporting antifa materials” for allegedly transporting a box of ZINES THEY’RE PROSECUTING PEOPLE FOR DOMESTIC TERRORISM OVER ZINES

it's pretty funny the sheer number of people who, seconds into the second trump administration, decided the time was ripe to go full fash instead of waiting a little bit to see if people were actually cool with nazis now. every major company was like, we need to court the burgeoning nazi demographic

New data: CBPP analyzed USDA’s contingency fund spending plan & found it is only going to release 2/3 of the funding they committed to in court filings, cutting families’ SNAP benefits far more than necessary, violating USDA’s own regulations & shortchanging millions of families.

hey she’s short about $500 for new glasses and cat food/meds this month if you have some coin to spare. her disability hearings soon which should hopefully offer some relief, she’s had a lot of shit on her plate and could use some help

something that the dems have always struggled with (for at least 15 years now) is that the public doesn't believe the GOP is actually like that, it's always a "negotiating tactic" or "just red meat for the base", even if it's literally written GOP platform stuff. anyways:

It was a rejection of the entire administration and Dems should see this as a signal to become an actual opposition party. On everything. You don't stop the shutdown. You don't approve another appointee. You do nothing at all. The voters saved you, not the other way around. LEARN TO LEAD.

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Okay. I’ve been out of most of my HRT for about a month because of insurance / doctor’s office issues I can FINALLY pick all of my HRT up tomorrow though Can I please have tips to get all my meds tomorrow ?

this reminds me that it wasn't until I read a Cory Doctorow book that mentioned it that I learned that the Tragedy of the Commons was basically made up on no material basis, and in fact that the commons in England that it's named after had the exact opposite happen and were well taken care of.

ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections

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"'They’re spending more money than I would even tax them,' [Mamdani] said in an interview with MSNBC last week." This is the message. Make it clear that these billionaires aren't just worried about losing money. They're worried about losing the ability to exchange their money for power.

“This firewall in the punditry between Trump and economic messaging—that is not how working-class voters thought about these issues,” a Dem strategist tells me. I looked at Spanberger and Sherrill ads. Shockingly, they attacked Trump AND talked about economy: newrepublic.com/article/2027...

I don't know if it's just me, but I've gotten the sense recently that transphobia a political tool is already played out. Not only is it not a winner, but it really feels like the right overplayed their hand with anti-trans hate and people generally seem sick of it, sick of bulling running on hate.

Super important. Thank you

The billionaires can buy the newspapers and buy social media and buy attack ads, but they can't buy their way out of how much we fucking hate all of them.

Not to mention that American votes influence electoral dynamics in other countries. We would prefer it not to be the case, but this country sets the tone. And the tone up until today was that we cannot escape the far right and its billionaire allies.

One hilarious thing you can’t forget in all of this: Trump cut some back door deal with Adams to make him drop out, and is now just stuck with the guy in whatever fake role he’s about to get in the White House AND Zohran STILL won.

hell yeah eugene debs

one thing that other candidates need to learn from mamdani is how to deliver the most cold blooded attacks on an opponent with a smile on your face

"I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life, but let tonight be the last time I utter his name" is a biblical-ass curse. that is CONTEMPT

trans people: "hey when you stand with us you seem to win elections and get the votes of both us and our loved ones" democratic party: "hmmm but what if we could maybe convince 1 singular republican instead by ostracizing every single member of your voting bloc"

transgender 5 everybody

If you don’t know how to fight for the rights of the vulnerable and marginalized, you don’t know how to fight for rights at all. Total liberation is strategically clear, and morally imperative.

We're getting far enough along to have newer examples, but I'd still like go reiterate that pro-trans-rights democratic party candidates and trans candidates outperformed Kamala Harris everywhere they ran in 2024

TRANS RIGHTS ARE A WINNING POLITICAL ISSUE Every single centrist claiming we must all compromise our bodily autonomy for their personal comfort is a traitor to American democracy & rational human decency. They have no place in a modern Democratic Party, toss them out. Total liberation for all.

trans people have long memories & we remember the names of those willing to harm us for profit.

charlie is already gone gavin, was sucking up to him really worth it?

i will never vote for Gavin Newsom. i want every other politician to look at how badly Newsom destroyed his own political career by pivoting to fascism & see it as a clear warning that the dignity of marginalized people is not negotiable.