Surely this counts as gender affirming care.

26 billionaires spent over $22 million to beat Zohran Mamdani. Why? Because regular people came together around an agenda that prioritized making life easier for more people. It beat big money. That is how we win.

People fucking hate this guy. They fucking hate ICE. They fucking hate how much power he has. He is at 63% overall disapproval to 37% approval. That's lower than their poll after January 6th. And this poll was done before he started intentionally starving people. I wish our media would reflect this.

One of the quietly hilarious things from BTB/ @iwriteok.bsky.social are the segues into ad breaks, but specifically when no ads fall into the slot. "You know what else smells like the rot of a thousand corpses?" "ROBERT!" ~drum sounds~ x2 "And we're back!"

reading slaughterhouse 5 for the first time and i was absolutely knocked senseless by this passage, which is so true and relevant that it feels like it was pulled from a history book

Very cool and very normal stuff. Super.

We've talked for years about whether or not the song was actually ironic. But nobody wants to talk about how many goddamn spoons 10,000 spoons is.

The thing is that the modern GOP (not to mention its basement-confined moron stepchild, the Mises Caucus libertarian “party”) is accurately depicted by this language and a critical mass of the party is absolutely fine with it. /1

When you ban books before you ban guns, you've admitted you're more afraid of children learning than you are of them dying.

It's such a non-story that the speaker of the house has a secret gay dating app. It's probably not even true, and even if Mike Johnson did have a secret gay dating app, I say God bless. The constitution gives us all the God given right to life, liberty, and all the gay dating our hearts desire.

Not to be overly negative, but I think we need to accept that hakuna matata was indeed just some passing phrase. Time is undefeated.

The US isn't the only country in the world leaning towards authoritarianism. But I'll be forever blown away we let it begin, nevermind get this bad, at the heels of an unapologetically stupid man. Zero redeeming qualities. A walking punchline brought us to the brink. Incredible.

White House Deputy Press Secretary seen here posting data showing how much more prevalent right wing domestic terrorism is than left wing domestic terrorism... while thinking she's showing the reverse. Apparently she can only read headlines, but not the actual graph with the data.

Donald Trump isn't just the stupidest American to become president; he's the stupidest American to become famous.

Fox News just doing tons of free publicity for @katmabu.bsky.social

Here’s what we can do to let ABC and Disney know we’re sick of them kowtowing to the fascist Trump Administration.

I gave my heart and soul to that place. Built entire sections for journalists pushed out of their home countries. When the writer I hired, Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi Arabia, they paraded me around as a symbol for press freedom. I put MY LIFE on the line to defend journalism and WaPo.

Everybody gamely says “Vance hosted Kirk’s podcast” instead of “the regime officially turned the major channel into state-controlled media just as it began its violent crackdown on any opposition or dissident messages.”

Well said!

Please don't forget, and don't let anyone else forget, they did this openly.

Fire Kilmeade.

Anyway, seems like the white community should really do something about all this white-on-white crime.

If the Kirk shooter turns out to be,let's say, into Nick Fuentes, it won't take long before we're reminded that Nazis were national SOCIALISTS, and therefore trump was not wrong. Which is dumb! But so is everything!

Wow I haven't seen this many Christian Nationalists all riled up since... ...ok bad premise. Still a big number tho!

Time for some common sense gun laws. Democrats should introduce a bill named the Charlie Kirk common sense gun reform bill and make every Republican vote for it.

The problem with allowing guns everywhere is that no one is safe anywhere.

If we're changing the DOD back to the Department of War, I think the other departments need upgrades as well: Education: Kid War Agriculture: Plant War Commerce: Price War Interior: Still unclear

Did we ever find out why hateration was so frowned upon in that (or any) dancery?

All this time I thought we had ample evidence that this Trump guy was an unsavory sort. But yes, let's wait for the diary of the world's most infamous child sex trafficker before jumping to any conclusions.

The "Surrounded" with @mehdirhasan.bsky.social was unbelievable. Usually these shows are just sort of sad or embarrassing. This one was infuriating. Even children of immigrants were arguing for, basically, a white, Christian ethnostate run by a dictator. It was hard to watch.

Oh, you like Prime Day? Cool. Name two numbers it’s divisible by that aren’t 1 or itself.

Happy codependence day to those who celebrate

I can't wait to never have to think about him again.

More than 1 million in Boston! www.wcvb.com/article/more...

Boston showed up for No Kings Day!

Especially if you're on the fence about it, protest today. Fascism is isolating and lonely. Its very goal is to make you feel like you're the only person unwilling to accept a cult of personality. On days like today you fully realize there are more of us than there are them. You will feel better.

In the 42 years since the start of the Reagan revolution, bought-off politicians have so altered our tax code that fully $51 trillion has moved from the homes and savings of working-class Americans into the money bins of the morbidly rich money hoarders. https://trib.al/yRIfQlY

Howard Stern famously warned Trump prior to his first run that he “only had about 10 good years left before he starts to drool on himself,” and it was best he spend it at leisure rather than subject himself to the constant slings and arrows of being president. Pub'd 1/18/25: https://trib.al/RjvoKN6

Remember the last time we did this, and people thought the wall was dumb and didn't like seeing asylum seekers put in cages? It's pretty on brand that Trump and co were like...I got it, this time around we got an offer they can't refuse: deporting college kids.

Page One in Des Moines. @jemsinger.bsky.social

~Seinfeld Voice~ But I don't WANNA meet you at the appa tappa tap!"

A bargain with no losers: let's sacrifice CNN and MSNBC in exchange for Fox News. I'm willing to throw in the History Channel if I have to.

Don't forget, if your kids sing "this land is your land" at the memorial day event, they're doing a socialism.

Hey @iwriteok.bsky.social - I'm wildly curious about American Thunder. It's basically a ghost, though. Where did you find examples of articles for your Peter Thiel episode? I've just got to see an insane policy wonk article next to a BBQ sauce recipe. I need this in my life lol

"It’s time for a comprehensive national civic uprising. It’s time for Americans in universities, law, business, nonprofits and the scientific community, and civil servants and beyond to form one coordinated mass movement." Great op-ed by David Brooks. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/o...

Dearest @alyankovic.bsky.social, A DOECHI parody "I've gotta pee" is the glue this ridiculous nation needs to come together now. You're our only hope.

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

🧵 There’s a thread going around misrepresenting my work and Bellingcat’s education strategy. I want to use this as an opportunity to explain what we’re actually doing—and why it matters. This is about truth, democracy, and how we build a more resilient society. x.com/buynevich/st...