Fun fact: roughly one-third of suburban Johnson County, KS, households are renters. ONE-THIRD. So could local homeowners please stop treating renters like an unwanted alien species, please? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson...

OMG. Read this. Especially if you are a woman. Extremely especially if you are a woman anywhere near 40.

The most consequential Supreme Court decision of the year is clearly Louisiana v. Callais. And knowing this hugely racist, totally illegitimate Roberts Court is likely to take a buzzsaw to the Voting Rights Act makes me sick. It will devastate democracy. truthout.org/articles/gop...

I am just going to engage in some wild, unfounded speculation as to why JoCo Election Commissioner Sherman, a competent & experienced public servant, btw, was forced out. 1) He was cool w/ballots printed in Spanish, SoS Schwab was not. 🧵

Cars. Cars are the reason we don't have places like this in the US. www.cnn.com/2025/12/19/t...

It’s time to accept that the US supreme court is illegitimate and must be replaced | Ryan Doerfler and Samuel Moyn

"We here at Bank of America remember a time when a woman couldn't get a credit card without her husband's approval. Wouldn't that be fun again?"

"Has feminism failed women brought to you by bank of america" is my MKULTRA sleeper agent activation phrase

See what happened in Australia was a mass shooting occurred and the leaders went right to work changing laws instead of sending thoughts and prayers.

I just gave my 20yo a rundown of the day's news, and he said, "It's all so dumb, it's hard to take seriously and so it's hard to fight. We'd be better at fighting smarter authoritarians!" "We'd be better at fighting smarter authoritarians" is going to stick with me.

If this ProPublica story doesn't make you really, really angry, then I'm sorry to break it to you, but you are a heartless bastard of a person. www.propublica.org/article/usai...

the headline doesn't describe the point of this piece - it's such a great contrast to that compact article in that the author hit a career wall, got bitter, and then changed his life for the better instead of lashing out at the world and all of "those people" taking what he felt was rightfully his

This sounds so effing boring. Who exactly would watch this?

Everybody’s always pissing and moaning about how Americans need to work together. How about we get a coalition of socialists, blue dogs and never trumpers to agitate for electoral system reform? How about that? How’s that for working across the divide?

Well, this is inspiring! Good job, Texas Democrats! And they are 100% correct that downballot coattails are a thing. Simply having a Dem on the ballot raises Dem turnout by 1%. If they actually campaign, then potentially much more. www.texastribune.org/2025/12/17/t...

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What a beautiful remembrance of a wonderful human being.

As we head into the holiday season, we’re so grateful for our @apwu.bsky.social postal workers, @lettercarriers.bsky.social and LIUNA NPMHU mail handlers who make sure our gifts, holiday cards and letters make it to our loved ones. Thank you for all you do to help make the holidays special.

Is the MTA making merch with the F M Swap icon cause they should be

Things are grim, but I want to underline how powerful Americans' love for their neighbors is I've lived in other countries during this worldwide far-right resurgence. In no other place have everyday ordinary people so loudly fought the disappearance of their immigrant fellows. Every action matters

Ronald Reagan, a cold man who ignored the AIDS crisis because he was a homophobe and craved the votes of other homophobes, is *not* a reminder of anything good or decent.

When we all get imprisoned for posting I’m definitely gonna be going around the yard asking what y’all said that got you locked up & it better be a banger because that’s how we’ll be establishing our hierarchy

Bloop! indeed. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

This could have been an email.

Trump Announces 5,000% Increase In All Numbers

See, America? It's not that effing difficult to do this. www.ksl.com/article/5142...

No matter how you slice it, US police officers are safer on the job and paid waaaaay more than other countries' police despite doing a…less than stellar job The question isn't more police vs. less police. It's why are US police paid so much while doing such little and such poor police work?

This great piece by @halleparker.bsky.social in New Orleans echoes so much of what immigrant families are facing here in Memphis-- people are too scared to leave the house for food, attend medical appointments, or even to call 911 when their lives are on the line. veritenews.org/2025/12/16/i...

Don’t be fooled. This isn’t a family of crime fighters. It’s a family with a slave-catcher mindset, and they made a money move.

STOP CALLING IT AN IMMIGRATION CRACKDOWN! TAKING CITIZENSHIP FROM EXTREMELY VETTED NATURALIZED CITIZENS IS NOT A CRACKDOWN! IT'S BETRAYAL.

This quote is better than the photos!

“There are no jobs” “Which means they’re only hiring minorities!” “Nobody’s hiring anyone” “Which is all the minorities’ fault!” “The billionnaires are literally trying to eliminate the concept of employment” “Can’t talk now, too busy painting hate symbols on my house”

In @kansasdems.bsky.social Advanced Votebuilder Training and I finally found out why the DNC scores suck so much! They're not meant to be used on an individual level, but more on a cumulative level. So any individual's score doesn't make a lot of sense, but in aggregate, they do.

Wait. TAMMY BALDWIN voted for this????? What in the actual f&ck?!

The Cowboys team doctor operated tonight on the QB for the Chiefs without anyone worrying he might be conflicted about helping a rival. Because doctors, like presidents, swear an oath. Yet we dismiss this as “just politics.”

Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true

We cannot let the broligarchs capture the entire media. The threat to democracy is already severe, and that would make it much, much worse. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/maga-the-b...

Oh hey, some actual good news! Thanks, science! www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

I love @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social so much, but this is a different gear, a moment in which he gets to the shortfalls and economy of AI better than a few hundred pieces I’ve read : www.tiktok.com/t/ZTrgLN1c7/

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Listen, all I’m saying is that I’ve seen more pictures of Donald Trump partying with Jeffrey Epstein than I have of Donald Trump playing with his son Barron.

It is an absolute travesty of justice that awful lawyers are allowed to basically get away with sexually abusing people--clients!--with impunity. If only the Kansas Judicial Branch's Office of the Disciplinary Administrator was not run by absolute 🤡 kansasreflector.com/2025/12/15/k...

Holy crap this guy is brave! Kinda weird how the shooter just kinda walked off, tho? Still, damn!

Stephen Miller knows he's going to Hell, right? Either he goes to Hell, or there is no God. Those are the options at this point. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

A federally funded community health center in Kansas has filed at least 1,000 lawsuits since 2020 against patients over unpaid bills. Many of the patients sued were uninsured and qualified for discounted care, a former employee told ProPublica. By @aliyyaswaby.bsky.social

The only thing I have in common with people on Fox News is a contempt for their viewers.

Oh wow, absolute power corrupted you absolutely? That’s so weird, I got absolute power last year and my subjects say I’ve only gotten wiser and more virtuous

This is the kind of Minnesota Nice that we love to see.

Kansans will remember Arthur Laffer as the main economist behind the Brownback Experiment that nearly bankrupted the state. This country is so effed if Trump is listening to that guy.

Housing affordability is important, but the idea that renters have less of a stake in their community and the country’s future is absolutely insidious and offensive.