My feeling is that the most important opportunity for the 2026 midterms is not flipping Congress to the Dems, but flipping the Dems to an actual opposition party.

amazing opening www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/p...

$40 billion dollars is the size of the entire NIH budget.

There's no "regular politics" anymore because you can no longer maintain the idea that we all agree on common goals but we only differ about the means of getting there or whatever. The guys in charge now are plainly amoral, sadistic nihilists. They delight in it! You can't civilly disagree with that

No “clean CR” exists when Trump defies Congress and unilaterally guts programs—from law enforcement to pediatric cancer research to clean energy projects.   Republicans want Democratic cover to keep breaking the law. Democrats won’t play along.

Reminder that NONE of these workers need to be fired because of this shutdown — Trump is just using them as pawns because he views people as expendable if it serves his interests.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

The Trump admin is STILL trying to use federal workers as political pawns, threatening now that they may not receive back pay. This is illegal and cruel. Federal workers are entitled to back pay by law after a shutdown - a law Trump himself signed in 2019.

Dutch merchant in 1647: “Yes I've sold my land for a handful of bulbs, but there is nothing especially alarming about price of tulips.”

Courtesy of Prof Bagenstos, the statutory provision is 31 USC 1341(c)(2)

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Whenever America Was Great it had high taxes on the wealthy and high unionization rates so workers bargained a higher share of income. Trumpers are against taxes and unions. Big surprise the system screws working people. It will get worse.

hey Gen z this is fake shit lol you're doing fine. I mean like none of us under 60 are really doing fine but like. *pats you on the back* you're doing just fucking fine

if you respect the law and the constitution, the trump administration has no use for you

yeah this is child abuse sorry

This is the thing elected dems seem unable to swallow. There is no realistic modus vivendi where somehow remain a functioning liberal democracy after 3 years of Trump. He is removed or we become Azerbaijan. Removal is ultimately the only goal that matters.

NEW: Long Covid risk for children doubles after a second infection, study finds www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/h...

Dude if the Democratic Party has a place for anti-trans and anti-abortion candidates then I’m not a democrat and I won’t vote for one I don’t know what to tell you man, there’s already a political party who believes these things It’s not a “big tent” to have zero fixed values in pursuit of power

Governors need to do this now. Instead of focusing on jobs and the economy, this b.s., because of an unstable, idiot President.

This is what Schumer and Jeffries should be talking about. Every single day. This should be top billing in their discussions about the continuing resolution. Do not give Stephen Miller and ice a single penny.

I’m really grateful for Pritzker. But that he’s so good at this also makes clear just how badly most other Democrats are failing to meet the moment.

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"

checking in from Kentucky, where in 2019 we elected a Democrat governor in a state that in 2020 went Trump +26 all because Republican incumbent Matt Bevin went after teachers, including an incident where he said that teachers participating sickouts probably led to kids stuck at home getting abused

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Re: immediate current events. Just remember, any day can be Shut The Fuck Up Friday if you're wise enough.

The real point of literature isn’t just to entertain or inform. It’s to remind you that you’re not the only one who’s ever felt this way before.

On this historic National Tylenol Causes Autism Day, the "RFK Jr makes some good points" people have been officially upgraded from assholes to extra-strength assholes.

Acetaminophen/paracetamol use in pregnancy doesn't cause autism, no matter what RFK says this week. This is not an unsettled question. Evidence summarized here: sciencebasedmedicine.org/tylenol-and-...

You know what “plausible but false” means? If you are not a subject matter expert, do not use this tool because you will be hosed and not know it

AND THEN THEY LOST. THEY ALL FUCKING LOST TO REPUBLICANS. IT WAS FIFTEEN YEARS AGO AND THEY NEVER GOT ELECTED AGAIN BECAUSE PEOPLE JUST VOTED FOR THE REPUBLICAN. DO ACTUALLY NOT FUCKING COMPREHEND WHY THAT HAPPENED

Folks, you can't report the United States to its manager. There's no superhero coming to save us. We don't need one giant act of heroism. We need millions of small acts of solidarity. Help one person in your community for nothing in return. Then, do it again. And again. That's the revolution.

As the recently elected union treasurer for Antifa Local 420, we are calling a strike until Molly redistributes our catastrophic lack of wealth.

this is not the end of days sorry you don’t get to crawl under the covers and wait for death to come. you and i have to find a fight to join *even if that fight isn’t won in our lifetimes* because we aren’t so fucking special that we get to take our ball and go home

Exactly this

Ilya Shapiro remains the least serious "libertarian" on Earth (and there is a ton of competition for that title).

Pretty incredible that two of the coolest, most incandescently beautiful, humans to ever draw breath, who could have coasted by on those things for eternity, instead left behind deep legacies of service and advocacy and goodness.

For the umpteenth time - immigration is a labor market problem

People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police

it’s so wild the 2025 Dems have a worse moral compass than bill kristol

All right, I wrote about it:

There are people who have been saying what is professionally advantageous instead of what is right or true for so long that the question of what is right or true no longer occurs to them.

A truly remarkable legislator, wife, and mother of two--gunned down in her prime while police cowered scared outside her home.

feminist analysis requires that you understand power relations and harms to marginalized communities, and fight to destroy those forces. to use AI is one of the most anti-feminist things you can do on many levels, and that’s why tech bros and AI boosters love it.

Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice. It doesn't have to be this way.

I got amazing news for you, they're the exact same group just like the anti-trans people. At its core, the unifying factor is eugenics