I was holding my breath, hoping to not have the rug pulled once again, but I am proud that my city didn't disappoint.

Zohran Mamdani was elected Tuesday as New York City’s 111th mayor. https://gothamist.visitlink.me/8zAKR_

See, MLB CAN manage to do a review of a course play without it taking 10+ minutes. So what's their excuse for needing challenges during the regular season? If it's close, have an umpire in the press box take a look and call down to the crew chief on the field with the ruling.

Forget the polls. Take nothing for granted. And let's work our hearts out these next seven days. Vote now: zohranfornyc.com/vote Canvass + phonebank: zohranfornyc.com/gotv

Food insecurity is ALWAYS a political choice. Famine is ALWAYS manmade. People go hungry because of other people’s decisions. We have more than enough food for everyone, and enormous amounts of it are wasted—literally thrown in the garbage—on purpose.

Ad: This clip, then cutting to people waiting in food lines, then to Johnson saying he isn't familiar with X, Y, or Z, then cutting to U.S. citizens being arrested by masked goons, then a quote from Roberts and the immunity decision.

I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US. 𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕. 𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

I am just so fucking proud of her.

The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality. I don't know how to yell any louder.

The top 10% now hold 67.4% of all the wealth in the US. The bottom 50% hold 2.5%.

bragging about how much gold you’re putting in the oval office while all the economic lights on the dashboard are starting to flash red and the government is about to shut down is some shit that would make the marie antoinette caricature wince

If you voted for him, you've done this.

This COVID outbreak is no joke, gang. Lots of folks turning up positive. Time to * Get that new Vax if you can * Stock up on masks * Stock up on COVID tests - they are selling out * Make a battle plan to take care of yourself if you need to quarantine * Avoid larger events if you are vulnerable

As I was saying…

I know we keep focusing on Colbert and Kimmel as we should, but we also need to remember there are hundreds of people who work for these shows who also just lost their jobs because of this bullshit, and most of them are probably not millionaires.

It’s ok to put the phone down.

If you want something else to focus on, we talked to Brendon and Sanjay from @blendogames.bsky.social on this week's TechPod. They made a game about protecting cat space truckers from space pirates using a 20+ year old open source fork of the Doom 3 engine. It's a great game!

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Nobody is “grooming” your kids to be gay or trans but people ARE grooming them to be Nazis.

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an appropriate response to your product killing a child after months of psychological manipulation and torture is to take the product off the market before it kills again and the fact that this isn’t universally accepted right now is incredibly frightening

Like, I know Republicans control the government and there’s limited stuff Democrats can do. But they’re not really doing the bare minimum. Every day should be a day of action. A day to tell someone’s story highlighting the harms. Like spouses of disappeared undocumented immigrants. Every day.

Democrats should be doing press conferences every day with people hurt by Trump and his policies. Scientists, struggling people, the disabled, etc. Also with WWII veterans and Holocaust survivors who remember fascism. They should be telling people’s stories to humanize the damage.

there's an episode of The Simpsons where Marge tries to get a violent cartoon pulled from the airwaves, only to discover that the people backing her aren't going to stop at just the art that *she* doesn't like, and that supporting artistic freedom means accepting discomfort. It aired in 1990.

So Barack Obama rigged the 2016 election for His Magasty to win, but the 2020 election for Biden to win, but only the presidency, not any important House or Senate seats that Dems lost, and then the Dems just decided not to rig 2024. Gotcha.

The success of Sinners tells me the theatrical experience isn't dying. People just want good fucking movies. The success of Superman tells me it isn't superhero fatigue. People just want good fucking movies.

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Congrats to Stephen Colbert for never bending the knee.

Ex-farm worker here. We need to talk about this whole "But a living wage for farm workers would spike the cost of food!" thing. Not true AT ALL. Y'all don't understand how fast experienced farm workers are. The average tomato picker pulls 650lbs per hour. At $20/hr, that's $0.03/lb for labor.

Doesn't feel like there's much to celebrate this July 4th. Not when the congress just voted to sacrifice millions of people so a few hundred could keep more of their obscene wealth, while also laying the groundwork for the expansion of the police state.

Alligator Alcatraz was built in 8 days It took just over a week to create a massive concentration camp that will torture people Remember this the next time those in power claim they can't house the homeless, feed the starving or provide medical care to the the poor They can, they don't want to

Survive. Make art. Fight. Our existence is protest. Survival and loving and living IS a riot.

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

Pin this, save it, we’ll need it. “When a prison camp opens in your town…when a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom…when the President destroys what’s left of the Constitution…They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.” AOC 🔥🎯

BREAKING: House Republicans passed Trump’s deadly & dangerous budget bill. Over 17 million Americans will lose health care. Millions more will struggle to put food on the table. The ultra-wealthy are the only winners in this budget. It's a dark day in America.

Yes, Hakeen Jeffries talked for a long time. Great. Wake me up when he stops financing his campaigns with filthy money. I have a hard time being excited about words when actions just don't follow. I want politicians who aren't beholden to their investors. I want actual change, not speeches about it.

AOC: "On this point of tax on tips, as one of the only people in this body who has lived off of tips, I want to tell you a little bit about the scam ... the cap on that is $25,000 while you're jacking up taxes on people who make less than $50,000 across the US ... while kicking them off the ACA."

“Alligator Alcatraz” will begin operations on Wednesday. This is your reminder that a prison without due process is a concentration camp.

Seeing so many Democrats use the word "socialist" as an invective is shining a harsh light on why we are where we are as a nation, revealing so my establishment Dems as nothing more than Republicans in socially-liberal clothing.

So Mamdani won, and here's what we need to know: He won because he ran on a populist platform that addressed the ACTUAL economic concerns of real people. Free buses and rent freeze are leftist equivalents of egg prices and job security. Until the Dems get this, they will continue to lose.

A party that actually wanted to mobilize young and disillusioned voters would be studying Zohran Mamdani’s campaign like the Bible

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Weird to ask people that "serve the public" to have their names be, you know, public. Maybe they'd be less likely to act inappropriately if they knew there might be consequences if they broke the rules/law like the rest of us.

Hi everyone I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing

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