I realized I can't really play because I never say anything at work. I'm just staring at a screen.

Agree.

Murder will out.

Also “Don’t talk to me about my own morality” is…odd to say to clergy. It’s their actual job?

…if you’ve been paying attention, that’s less surprising than it sounds: religionnews.com/2026/01/23/i...

An under-appreciated piece of this story is that one of the more liberal members of Congress met with clergy to discuss ICE/DHS, and she found herself to the *right* of several faith leaders whose support for abolishing ICE was so intense that they got into a genuine spat with her over it. Granted…

Is anybody ever gonna take a step back and realize the "Russia Russia Russia" people — derided as lunatic wine moms — were actually underplaying the foreign influence stuff, and the loud people who kept insisting it was all fake are now saying Jeffrey Epstein was kind of a cool guy?

Even if they wanted to go after a smaller subset of protesters they, one, had no justifiable reasons, and, two, did so with the incompetence that should result in them being criminally charged for essentially assaulting hundreds of people.

As someone who was there it was clear that ICE intended to fire teargas on the labor march, directing shots over the heads of those closest to the building and firing munitions directly at the crowd. They even chose munitions that would have the widest possible effect.

To say “I don’t do politics” is to say “I don’t do power.” Politics is another word for power. To say “I don’t do power” is to say “dominate me.” Meaning, to say “I don’t do politics” is to consent to being dominated. Precisely what these authoritarian regimes want.

RFK Jr. is a liar. He lied to me about his anti-vax Samoa trip. The CDC’s vaccine advisory panel is now stacked with conspiracists and the US is positioned to lose its measles elimination status. RFK Jr. must be removed now.

Yeah that's correct. Emily Brontë was writing a polemic against the state of the world. It's not a pleasant book; anyone who wants to be with these characters (ahem, Bella Swan) is seriously disturbed.

tbf to vance, I think he does also hate poor people as well as Black people.

Lots of people deeply committed to believing “there has to be something more there under the surface, it can’t really be that obvious” but no there wasn’t anything more there under the surface and it really was that obvious. It was just that the implications of that made them feel uncomfortable.

Yup. Back in 2016, when we still had a dominant Sober Self-Critical Liberal Intelligencia, they collectively gushed over Vance’s brave truth-telling. Anyone who had done real work addressing addiction in poor communities warned it was just repackaged racist ideological bullshit…and were dismissed

The core issue isn’t just that Gabbard sat on a classified complaint. If the allegations are accurate, she routed intel about a Trump‑adjacent call toward the WH instead of triggering the usual DOJ/FBI referral. The WH doesn’t get to adjudicate their own crimes. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Thank you so much, Pete!

Can't say it enough, if you are going to build ANYTHING, you are going to be criticized much more than you will be praised. Do not be deterred. Build what you want to exist. Find your people and seek their counsel. Keep it moving.

NEW: House Republicans Friday unveiled an amended version of their voter suppression bill that, if it became law, would gravely undermine the right to vote in the U.S. ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

“[Pam Bondi] pretty much slandered all of us,” said Utah Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson. “And to me, that’s problematic to publicly claim that secretaries of state are not doing our jobs and the federal government has to do it for us. Not OK.” www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

“They issued a polling sheet this morning to see who would attend and, at least from my crew, there were no takers.”

I’m increasingly of the view that NYC’s campaign finance reform (small donor matching) was key to Mamdani’s victory. Yet popularists and many Dem elites call small donors “extreme” and prefer the large donor dominance that wouldn’t led to Cuomo.

the only people going to see it are MAGA.

US elite institutions be as ethical as Burning Man challenge via @henryburke.bsky.social

The biggest danger is still if the VRA is gutted this summer. If that happens, the south could wipe out virtually all blue seats in their states, either for 2026 or for 2028 depending on timing. It's a threat either way, and one Democrats need to be pushed to respond to

My weekly post.

seems like it would get a lot of press coverage...

"We simply do not care what you think about that"? This map will literally go to the voters for approval! It cannot take effect unless a majority of Virginians support it. This talking point is so stupid.

If Virginia Republicans are angry about the new Democratic gerrymander, they should attempt to win the hearts and minds of voters by persuading them to oppose it at the ballot box. This is democracy in action!

“Partisanship is inherent and permissible in the legislative districting process” — Ted Cruz in September, in an amicus brief supporting the Texas gerrymander. www.cornyn.senate.gov/wp-content/u...

also also a big part of the reason trump's gerrymander scheme failed is that he's horrifically unpopular and the midterms look like a huge blue wave. that makes *all* his schemes to rig elections less feasible. 1

please help if you can.

we're close, y'all, just $304 left to go - if 15 people have $20 she can pay it today before they start threatening eviction #UrgentNeed #MutualAidRequest thank you all so much for showing up for her

also worth pointing out that this was trump's most obvious and I think most straightforward/workable path to rigging 2026. it's been a bust. 1

I think there are a few reasons for D advantage: 1. Rs had already done more gerrymandering than Ds, so less to pick up 2. in a massive D wave, gerrymandering for Rs is risky & can backfire (may have influenced IN) 3. trump's hugely unpopular; more support for gerrymander among Ds than Rs.

in terms of the 'voters trust Rs to handle immigration over Ds' line, 2 points: 1. R advantage has been cut by half/two-thirds since 2024. 2. Public clearly disagrees with Trump on enforcement. Task for Dems is giving voters a coherent alt, substack.com/@gelliottmor...

“The dominant model of voter decision-making is flawed. I term this the Strategist’s Fallacy—the erroneous assumption that voters reason like political scientists and elite strategists, and that preferences observed today will persist through subsequent electoral cycles.” @gelliottmorris.com

how do you write this story without noting there was a campaign literally called SUBSTACKERS AGAINST NAZIS in…2023

This is the guy who talked back to DeLauro when she was defending ICE, and damn I think he should run.

donors have disproportionate influence...but Ds have consistently opposed the trump tax cuts. that's not for donors. Ds consistently vote for minimum wage increases. not for donors. Biden didn't put in place a strong NLRB for donors. 1

This is what I have been saying. It isn’t that he’s neglecting it to death because he lost interest. It is an intentional murder.

"For years, a cottage industry of political observers has contorted itself to obscure and occlude the obvious. That regardless of what others see in him, Trump’s entire political career...cannot be understood outside the context of his bitter, deep-seated racism." (gift link)

this week's writing, with kitty drinking milk, what I published this week, poetry, music of the week, who knows what else! www.everythingishorrible.net/p/this-weeks...

death by preventable disease is an inevitable and even desired outcome of concentration camps. in every era of concentration camps people have died of typhus, which is a disease of privation and enforced crowding. this illness is intentionally inflicted

I cannot sufficiently underline how despicable it is that the IOC has required Haitian Olympic athletes to remove an image representing the leader of the Haitian Revolution (against SLAVERY) from their uniforms.

I feel like this is one of the more valuable things I've published; hope people give it a read. www.publicnotice.co/p/delia-rami...

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

Lo que sí diré es que esto nunca debió haber ocurrido. Pongan fin a la detención familiar. Quiten fondos y desmantelen ICE.

also, fwiw, I think seeing defund the police as a failure is a mistake. it's provided people with a lot of tools to understand and respond to the current fascist escalation. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/now-is-def...

Rep. Delia Ramirez has some good ideas. www.publicnotice.co/p/delia-rami...