Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

Some important context for anyone writing about that Texas special election shocker

They keep dropping Epstein stuff at the end of the day on Fridays hoping to bury it and it just gives people all weekend to read it lol

Californians are NOT going to vote for Gavin Newsom. They're telling you now, with YEARS to go before the election. Fair warning. Please support better candidates, there will be many to choose from.

I've seen some folks giving into doomerism by citing the US's history of paramilitary violence shutting down fair elections in the South, and I want to add some historical context to support Jamelle here (as an historian of Reconstruction paramilitary violence)

The SPEAKER implies. The LISTENER infers. The DUDE abides.

Please be aware that contrary to their fundraising ads, @forwardblue.bsky.social has no relationship with the No Kings mobilizations, no record of doing anything in support, no inside information, and is ignoring requests to cease advertising that suggests they are involved.

It should be bigger news that masked agents were filmed hours ago removing potentially inculpatory evidence from the ICE shooter's house, clearly lacking evidence tags or chain of custody stickers. Before we have word on whether he underwent a toxicology screen at the hospital following the killing

For Californians receiving scary mailers about Sacramento raising gas prices from “Californians for Affordable and Reliable Energy,” that group is primarily funded by the oil and gas industry (which I guess I didn’t need a Google search to figure out, lol).

"Paywalled" is the word you're looking for. They didn't turn it off. The only thing that changed is X now explicitly makes money off CSAM.

Make it viral.

Emily Heller, an eyewitness, is speaking out to set the record straight. Officers were screaming at Renee Nicole Good, “Move, move, move.” So she moved, and they shot her multiple times? Then Noem and Trump branded her a domestic terrorist. Does everyone see how absolutely insane that sounds?

ABSOLUTELY THE FUCK NOT

Just in case any journalist or editor reading this is tempted to minimize Trump's Reiner post because it's a "showbiz thing" and "real" stories are happening: No. It's a President thing and a decency thing, and if you don't understand that those things are newsworthy, you are failing in your duties.

Completed the most important part of holiday prep today: picking up a refill of my migraine meds.

Alan Dershowitz is one of those claiming Epstein was not a pedophile because he pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. "That’s not a pedophile." See this important response from Julia Brown, the brave reporter who broke the news on this

Your local freelancer here.... if the ACA subsidies get axed, this is genuinely really scary. I'm very fortunate that I live in California where they also have subsidies at the state level, but many people in the other 49 will be priced out. Please call your reps!!!

Walmart, McDonalds and Amazon are the largest employers of people who require SNAP assistance. The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income. They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive. Wanna fix fraud and abuse? Fix that.

What did people do before SNAP?” They died. Healthcare, vaccines, disability support, education & food assistance are vital to our survival. They’re why the average lifespan isn’t 35 anymore The mark of a good & decent society is whether it sees the value in helping others.

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP. Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP. The people who need help are not the problem. It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

An important read.

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

The standoffish cat has been powernapping on my legs for over an hour now and if this is how I go I’m good with it. #cattrapped

There’s $5 billion sitting in SNAP reserves right now. The money’s there. The Administration just decided feeding families matters less than bailing out Argentina.

Trump admitting that he shits all over America is a level of honesty I would not have given him credit for.

Thread: If you’re wondering why it is important to show up…

A beautiful Bald Eagle circled overhead during our protest in Burnsville Minnesota and the crowd went wild #NoKings #Minnesota

Use this blocklist to block the MAGA gov’t accounts trying to blame their failure to govern on the Dems.

While you’re busy blocking the latest MAGA infiltrators, consider blocking @dol.gov—they’ve clearly been taken over by MAGA.

California!!! Yes on Prop 50

California, this November 4th, the whole country is counting on you. Prop 50 puts our elections back on a level playing field, preserves independent redistricting over the long term, and lets the people decide. So return your ballot today. Vote yes on 50.

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..” @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I’d like one newspaper to try out the headline “Republicans fail to attract Democratic votes they need to end shutdown” as a little treat.

Folks — this is not a normal government shutdown. Let me explain the stakes and how we got here.

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

Actual rain in SoCal this morning!

My coworker/foot warmer.

Reporters on the ground in Chicago are screaming to be heard over the false narrative that Pritzker defeated Trump there. PLEASE listen to them.

Everyone in America reading this is dead yes you too

there are some people who weren't worth the precious currency of my time when they were alive, and certainly have not somehow become more deserving of it when they are not.

Know your rights, Illinois. Stay safe and stay informed.

Los Angeles: share this. Fuck ICE.

Hundreds of thousands of people are on the streets of Tel Aviv to protest against Netanyahu.

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INBOX: Union for Reform Judaism, Central Conference of American Rabbis & American Conference of Cantors issue a lengthy statement declaring: "Starving Gazan civilians neither will bring Israel the 'total victory' over Hamas it seeks, nor can it be justified by Jewish values or humanitarian law."

JUST ONE MORE BACKER!!!

I keep saying it: The push for AI made so much more sense to me once I realized tech bros talked to it like a woman who won't talk back.