Mitch McConnell hasn’t been seen or heard from in 25 days in the hospital. Yet he still has a job, still getting paid, and getting unlimited world class healthcare. The man who voted against a living wage, against universal healthcare, and against guaranteed paid leave, is now getting all three.

Just thinking about how MarkWayne Mullin said he pursued his current wife aggressively and "beat up" her boyfriends, then joked, "today, we would call that stalking," and a room full of law enforcement laughed.

Hey, fellas, before you write that white hot take about how rape is such a tricky thing and, I mean, who can really say what happened and, you know, maybe we should not be too judgmental, I'd like to remind you that instead you can simply shut the fuck up.

I want our next Dem president to bring back the WPA and just build infrastructure all across this country again. Build green energy, trains, housing, etc. We can have nice things (and nice bathrooms), but we have to invest in ourselves!

ICE agents must be tried for the murder of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.

In case anyone is wondering how I "clocked" Platner, it was the fact that he is a literal mercenary with a Nazi tattoo. Maybe keep that in your back pocket

We can see this in the ICE flight data. Domestic “round-up” flights are spiking, and some activist flight watchers report the flights are getting fuller. But deportation and removal flights remain steady. This means the concentration camps are getting packed to the brim. It’s awful to comprehend.

CEOs should be required to commit seppuku when they do a layoff.

I wish everyone could get the same number of eighth chances as a 41 year old sex pest with a Nazi tattoo

I haven't really been keeping up, but i guess a lot of shit has changed over there since Shinzo Abe got popped with the whatchamacallit

well, fuck, it happened. 12 years ago I was excited about self-driving cars and a friend of mine said "you know they'll just drive people to jail, right?" So I wrote a story called One Star and sold it to Vice. www.vice.com/en/article/o...

I have an inner standard of "put a rich and politically connected person in prison, for at least 20 years, preferably for life, and take away the ill-gotten money from their family," BECAUSE it as an implied site of conflict-- successfully completing this would indicate a massive power change.

So can we go back to "never trust a person with a nazi tattoo" now.

New PUBLIC COMMENT on some recent evidence that men's lingering attachment to patriarchy is behind falling birthrates in the developed world publiccomment.blog/p/if-you-wan...

Look, people can absolutely change their character, but it is involved and difficult and time-consuming, and so itself pretty rare

it's totenkopver

IF YOU ARE UNAWARE: THIS IS WHY YOU SHOULD ALWAYS STRIVE TO GET ON A JURY BECAUSE YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT CASE YOU WILL DECIDE.

I think this might be one of the most incredible, unsettling and symbolic photos of today’s America I’ve ever seen. I can’t stop looking at it. From Reuters, published on the Guardian website.

this dynamic described by jenny racicot is, as i understand it, very common among progressive women in maine. they’ve been put in an impossible position and feel like they’re tanking platner’s campaign when in reality he did that on his own by being a violent and reckless person.

I will also say more broadly that WHATEVER your particular choice of political parasocialism, this is a good moment to repent. We only ever elect targets for organized pressure. Never saviors

Please do not let these people replace real information with the intellectual equivalent of pink slime. The Smithsonian is a treasure worth protecting and preserving. We cannot let the president and his coterie of sycophant broligarchs simply erase reality because they don't like it

Infinite funds to bomb civilians and indulge our incontinent clown emperor, not one red cent for health care, housing, food, etc HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMERICA

America keeps trying to get me to go to her birthday party and I’m like no girl u need to go to the hospital

ICYMI: Alex Jones popped like a balloon. Get the real story at www.theonion.info.

if I were an elected representative and my constituents were coming up and saying "our daughter can't go to college unless she gets an athletic scholarship" I would be like "this is why we need universal free college" not "we'll pretend to solve this by being cruel to trans people." crazy right

i appreciate that the implicit pact the dsa operates under is 'the wreckers get to make whatever grand proclamations they want while we get down to the actual business of organizing' but for anyone outside the DSA 'you fool, you cant assume our official statements mean anything' is a bit galling

My proposal is to just drastically reduce the power of the executive

I remain thoroughly unconvinced that a president is a thing a country needs.

Free movement of people is a fucking human right. Full stop. No exceptions. People are not the property of their fucking land, and i'm getting tired of people implying they should be.

I see a lot of “so-and-so is a birthright citizen” because their parents weren’t citizens when they were born on American soil. But the truth is, we’re all birthright citizens, unless we have been naturalized.

This is bone-chilling. A conservative hedge fund manager wants to require little girls to pass genital inspections for their “safety.” And it’s only for girls’ sports. There’s a clear link between transphobia and child sexual abuse.

Reconstruction 2.0 will feature free prenatal care for all but especially immigrants. "Come to America to have your baby" will be the new rallying cry. The federal government will buy out whatever neighborhood Stephen Miller settles in and fill it with immigrant families.

Obviously this is a dipshit opinion. But since I sometimes see people on the left rolling their eyes about those signs, I just want you all to know that the other night some lost Black teens came to our house after taking the wrong bus and we were able to get them home. Why’d they pick us? Signs.

so does gavin newsom it's the same dynamic. they amplify white supremacists because they think white supremacy is uniquely important, interesting, and validating.

This was correct in 2014, as was "Sotomayor & Kagan should immediately retire in Jan 2021," as was "Thurgood Marshall should have retired in 1978" etc. Pretending Justices were irreplaceable geniuses instead of aging partisan votes in a 9-member super-legislature has been Democrats' fatal error.

Exactly this. They’re trying to decide who gets rights and who doesn’t based on gender. It is a terrifying time for all of us but esp for those people that were already taking a massive social risk by simply living as who they really are.

So, in Alberta, you have to show a confirmation of female sex in order to register your daughter for youth sports. Nothing required for boys. It has been associated with a decrease in registration for girls participating in sports. No change in boys. edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...

Sports parents can get super insane, and kids sports is a primary venue where racist attitudes play out.

It's easy to forget that the current anti-trans moral panic, for instance, is only four or five years old. That doesn't mean it's not ruining real people's lives and it won't take a while to fix, but it's completely artificial and brand new because, ironically enough, it's not natural.

That's right.

congrats america, some faceless government official will now be inspecting your childs genitals if they want to play sports with their friends

fixing the court is table stakes for any Dem running for national office, you are not a serious candidate if you can’t get on board with this and refusing to do so is disqualifying in a primary because it doesn’t matter what your policy positions are if SCOTUS will just overrule them

Having a group of sex pests, opus dei cranks in charge of our interpretation of law was a mistake in retrospect.

With this ruling, the birthright issue is not going away. The right hasn't really begun *organizing* around getting rid of the citizenship clause. Like Roe, this will be their fight for a generation. And if the Democrats just say "we won" and ignore it, like Roe, the Republicans will eventually win.

The Supreme Court today addressed one of the most pressing threats to the nation today: banning this high school sophomore from playing school sports with her friends 🫡🫠🙃

Thankful that birthright citizenship has survived this assault. But it's repugnant that four bigots ruled against birthright citizenship on the constitutional question. Spitting in the face of Wong Kim Ark and millions of US citizens. Eternal shame.