If you’re mad Zohran went to the White House and charmed the president without compromising *any* part of his platform for NYC in the process, I need you to (1) get a grip, (2) learn how politics works, and (3) think ahead beyond two months from now. Let’s walk and chew gum simultaneously, folks.

Whoever said that Trump looks like a Make A Wish kid meeting Zohran nailed it

Trump said nice things about an immigrant Muslim socialist in the Oval Office and it finally broke her spirit

Federal election spending by the 100 wealthiest Americans is now 140x what it was in 2000. Last year they crossed $1 billion in election spending. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

With every passing day, America needs a bigger third reconstruction.

cat tax

A 250-word limit for a grad school application personal statement is *diabolical*

Mail Carriers finding new ways to be heroes

At some point—probably over winter break—I will watch the new Burns doc on the Revolution. But I won’t be happy about it. Before you sharpen your pitchforks, understand that I come at this from the left and there’s only so much sentimental American Exceptionalism I can take in one sitting.

Incredible headline.

BREAKING: 30 more Starbucks locations are joining the strike. Starbucks workers in 25 cities are jumping into the week-long strike. Now @sbworkersunited.org members at 95 stores in 65 cities have walked off the job.

Weakened lame duck behavior, tbh

This will surely surprise most Americans today, but historians have recently discovered that before Donald Trump, it was actually incredibly rare for a president to demand the public execution of this political opponents and press critics.

In Charlotte, protesters used an amplifier to blast a looped recording of a screaming mother being ripped away from her child by ICE agents as agents attempted to carry out another kidnapping. Forcing these people to constantly relive the pain they inflict is critical.

Post a book you love from the 80s. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #bookish #books

This dude spent so much time doing a white supremacist to centrist liberal rebrand only to give it all up because his real calling is defending grown adults who prey on teenagers

NEW: ProPublica has found multiple cases of women with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions. Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old mother, was told by doctors there was no emergency before preeclampsia killed her.

Making mac and cheese with a side of buffalo chicken for those who like to mix and match.

“ At just 16 years old, she took a job at Mar a Lago, believing she had secured a dream summer position. But that dream quickly morphed into a nightmare when Ghislaine Maxwell preyed upon her…. They trafficked her”

Bizarro world 2001 AUMF vote where Higgins is Barbara Lee’s Wario

test the plausibility of this for yourself: ask "what sort of efforts would fully counteract the sociological effects of a system where people routinely sold their own children into labor camps?" and see how different your answer is from "years of open terrorism in defense of retrenching apartheid"

Feeling like some sort of evil genius* picking him up off our league’s waiver wire Sunday and his nearly 25 points tonight being the deciding factor in my win. *I truly do not know shit about football.

In 2028 I will vote for whoever will send Stephen Miller to The Hague.

Bret Stephens and the NYT played major roles in manufacturing consent for the Iraq War. Now they appear to be running the same playbook on Venezuela.

Presidential rhetoric, attitudes, and demeanor often have widespread cultural impacts. And while I don’t think it’s causal, it’s hard to ignore the coinciding rise of Trump’s political career with the overtly, proudly misogynistic turn in American social norms re women in the workplace, for one.

“Scientists Discover Grad School”

Who says local politics isn’t fun?

Look, I know we're all sick of hearing "if this had happened with any other president ..." but it's absolutely true and absolutely can't be forgotten. For some reason, this nation gives this idiotic spoiled brat a free pass from things that would destroy the administration of any other person.

i'd say it did. the public put a group of thieves, vandals and extremists in office last november and they promptly went about destroying everything that might work to limit their ability to loot, steal and inflicting pain on the people they hate

Everything is fine. Trumponomics at work.

Birds grinding out some pretty hideous wins lately. But a win is a win 🦅

Imagine sending this to someone in 2015

Epstein survivors just dropped a powerful message for Congress, and it hits like a warning: no more waiting, the truth is coming, ready or not. Watch till the end @housedemocrats.bsky.social @houserepublicans.bsky.social

reminded of eric williams's observation about britain's relationship to its history with slavery. "British historians wrote almost as if Britain had introduced Negro slavery solely for the satisfaction of abolishing it."

What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?

The difference between the sociopathic and non-sociopathic takes is really quite stark

I love the idea that Mordor Orcs have amphibious landing craft. That rules.

The only brew for the brave and true comes from the Green Dragon

Hard, good reading by Jeet Heer www.thenation.com/article/soci...

They’re all just looting the treasury now

8 years of "What is a woman?" and now it turns out that the comeback was "define a child"

you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric

These people are genuinely depraved and should have no place in decent society, let alone its governance.

The soft pedaling language being used to describe the men in the Epstein files is enraging. They didn’t “have sex with underage girls”. They raped them. Sex implies consent. The survivors deserve better than this. Use the correct language. Say what these men did.

NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find: - NONE of the arrested were criminally charged - NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists." - ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

UPDATE — With Rep. Pramila Jayapal (Chair Emerita of the Congressional Progressive Caucus), there are now at least 12 congressional Democrats, 15 Democratic-aligned organizations, and 8 Democratic candidates calling for Chuck Schumer to resign as leader:

Join a Socialist organization that actually opposes Trump and the Pedophile Government *and* all of the stuff that led to it dsausa.org/join

feels relevant today