It just feels like everything is being flattened. Rape, genocide, wildfires, etc etc is all just fodder for internet discourse rather than turning points that lead to… something, anything better or different.

Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.

Whether it's garbage NYT left-bait or right wing flood-the-zone nonsense that we all pile on to, we are letting the wrong people set our overall information agenda in a very deep and fundamental way. And it's a very serious mistake.

And MAGA? That’s not the American dream. That’s the nightmare we need to wake up from, what we’ve fought against for so long. It’s the poison slipped into the veins of too many people by the rich and powerful who want us divided.

Yikes 😬 an official U.S. government account just referred to Americans as “imbecilic morons.” That’s… a choice.

Namby/Pamby 2026 will not save democracy. We need fighters, reformers, and passionate progressives who will demand real change, real accountability, and real consequences.

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Imagine what this number will look like when health insurance premiums go through the roof and countless people will have no coverage.

People seeking federal pardons generally must file petitions through the Office of the Pardon Attorney. But during Trump’s second term, only 10 of the roughly 1,600 people granted pardons had filed such petitions. By @jeremykohler.bsky.social

"the wealthy and powerful appear not as master operators but as bumbling sycophants, eager to cozy up to influence no matter how villainous or depraved" PS read those emails and tell me you would pay that person hundreds of millions of dollars for investment advice

Every "population crisis" article in western media is just "WHERE ARE THE WHITE BABIES" in disguise and we absolutely do not have to give any credence to any of them

The Justice Department argued in a new legal filing to the Supreme Court that Trump has unreviewable powers to flood U.S. cities with National Guard troops, marking the latest step in Trump’s authoritarian effort to militarize cities. https://bit.ly/49mfIA1

Jasmine Crockett: "If people decide that they want to continue to support person who may be a pedophile themselves or a person who obviously is covering on pedophiles, that's on them. But they should at least know the devil they decided to pick."

Climate knowledge has been taken hostage to prevent climate action. “It didn’t happen by accident. It’s the product of a deliberate and systematic assault on knowledge by some of the richest people on Earth. Preventing climate breakdown means protecting ourselves from the storm of lies.”

And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.

This is Archie. He's deaf and doesn't hear when his humans get home. Luckily, his little brother Frankie lets him know with a gentle nudge to make sure he doesn't miss the moment. 14/10 for both (TT: melissamilne)

My daughter is 15, a child with a baby face whom I won’t even put in an Uber by herself. Just utterly disgusting from the same people who have spent years demonizing trans people as predators for daring even to exist. What are we even doing right now?

Rape is the distillation of the far-right worldview that Trump embodies: a gleefully sadistic act of domination carried out as fulfillment of a supposedly natural hierarchy. It would be weird if Trump wasn’t a rapist, given his ideological commitments—which is before you get to all the accusations.

instead we're like omg do you think THIS credible charge of serial abuse will be the one that sticks???

DO NOT REPEAT THIS INSIGHT

They can read the room. They're just hoping the room doesn't notice their complicity. bsky.app/profile/ebha...

Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.

I want to uplift the women hearing in these stories the echoes of their own, the many countless women who have been survivors because the world decided that they were expendable because all women & girls are expendable if a man might be inconvenienced by them & all of our bodies are free game.

You have to understand what pieces like this from the NYT are and are not. They are not an honest assessment of the state of politics today. They are a negotiation tactic—an effort by a calcified, right-leaning legacy institution to steer the discourse in a direction more palatable to elites.

We have some good neighbors.

How does Blinkist define reading, though?

Who could have foreseen this? (Everyone but our leaders, it seems)

Oh wow. Who could've ever seen this coming? "Speaker Johnson won't guarantee vote in House on ACA subsidies" abcnews.go.com/Politics/liv...

Joyce Carol Oates is antifa.

People living in countries with Universal Healthcare don’t envy the US system They don’t want for profit healthcare There are some Americans who insist on defending their healthcare system even as it bankrupts (or kills) people for profit…. But most would happily switch systems if they could

All about the grift. "I serve ME in Congress, not you"

Thought I'd share this comment from me - an American - about the cost of healthcare I experienced in other countries. Just to add some color to the healthcare conversations. There is another way.

Absolutely worth your time.

Look at this new outrage. To open govt, we're retroactively letting 8 Senators sue for $500K each over having had their J6 phone toll records looked at. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...

Good morning and happy Sunday 🐴 🥰

And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons. State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

It seems absolutely wrong to me that Adelita Grijalva’s lack of signing-in is being discussed solely in terms of the Epstein files, rather than as a broader perversion of the rule of law

Speaker Mike Johnson says our House of Representatives will be closed again next week. They have been out of session for almost 2 months! And unlike federal workers, they are still getting paid! 

story link www.thebanner.com/community/ho...

Living this here in Ontario.

Why are ICE agents being paid during the shutdown, but not air traffic controllers? 🤨

Seems like a valid question. Why is ICE considered essential while ATCs are not?

JUST IN: A federal judge has barred the Trump administration from using furloughed employees’ email accounts to broadcast partisan messages about the shutdown. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Like this, being unable to meet with the Mayor-elect of NYC is not a problem. He's not taking meetings from most of us. Why would he take a meeting from the Shark Tank guy but the Shark Tank guy thinks he should take a meeting because he's rich. That money can't buy him access is now a problem.

NEW: Here's the vindictive/selective memo from New York Attorney General Tish James storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

What a banger

The extent to which shitty centrist journalism rests on the same thing as Trump, the never-identified "some people say, everyone says" etc. including "critics say" here is a zombie move, lifeless yet vengeful.

Politicians like Cuomo are a relic of the past. (Did I want to title this one “Don’t Let The Door Hit You On The Way Out”? Yes, I did.) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/o...