Probably dumb as hell to publish this on a Friday afternoon, but the clock is ticking to get @gavinnewsom.bsky.social to sign SB 79. Please share — and, if you're a Californian, please call the governor's office at (916) 445-2841 to ask for his signature. publiccomment.blog/p/newsom-s-f...

ICE is out of control in Chicago. Now just tossing tear gas canisters out of the car in the middle of one of our neighborhoods as kids are walking home from school, people out going grocery shopping. chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...

They know their culture is abject loser shit, and they know they’ll never be able to enforce their culture on the vast majority of Americans and it makes them INSANE.

modern conservativism is essentially a series of temper tantrums thrown at the idea of living in a multi-cultural society where sometimes things happen that aren't about you

this is wild: while Stephen Miller's guy was in Minnesota for his uncle's funeral, somebody was able to see his entire phone and take pictures of his Signal group chats talking about military deployments to Portland, and brought them to the Strib (gift link: www.startribune.com/trump-offici...)

What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy

Just pretending he's dead hits like crack, think about what it'll be like when you don't have to imagine anything

one thing we all need to grapple with is that what DHS/ICE is doing, and being allowed to do, is not entirely new even if it is at a reckless intensity never seen before. deploying the national guard to places not facing domestic unrest for political reasons? that's different

Update: had a friend just call and said there was zero wait time to talk to a live person and the whole call only took 30 seconds. Call 916-445-2841 NOW to support SB79 and building more housing near transit

We're all in our own information bubbles including over here, but the funniest one on the internet right now is on X, where legions of people are convinced that there is a burgeoning cultural revolt against Bad Bunny, one of the most popular musicians of all time, doing the Super Bowl halftime show

what trump and most republicans want is a permanent 2020 portland they can kick around and brutalize at will so that they can make social media and news clips to weaponize against other liberal cities

“If you shut me down I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine” is the biggest fucking lie and apparently they’re sticking with it.

“He takes food and health care from the neediest and tries to, in his words, traumatize people—then he calls himself a Christian,” (Russell Vought's) neighbor said. "Pretty despicable."

Wanna know whose shutdown this is? Pay attention to who’s enjoying it.

I think one problem with the government self-consciously governing like the country is a 4chan board is that there’s a plurality of the public paying just enough attention to notice but still cognitively sorting what’s happening into precisely the same register as noise on a social media platform.

tired: they're keeping the government shut down to keep from releasing the epstein files wired: they're keeping the government shut down because the president is dead

live your life in such a way that the words "nazi porn scandal" never appear next to your name in the news

"we didn't want to do this, but look at how much fun we're having" is an argument even the median voter can see through

this is all very bad, i hate this shit, but it's worth repeating over and over that these guys are so fucking bad at this. absolutely zero message discipline, completely incapable of pressing their case, they'd all rather shitpost and lose than shut the fuck up and win

dem elected officials need to make it very clear that the next time we are in office, we will have a comprehensive investigation into and prosecution of every ICE agent who has carried out a wrongful arrest or otherwise violated constitutional rights

The government is in full shutdown and the Republicans are refusing to call the House back into session. Want to know why? Because we have secured the final vote on releasing the Epstein Files and they don’t want it out. Call GOP and tell them to swear in @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social.

one of the things about these guys slobbing all the way out and refusing to wear their uniforms is that it makes them very easily identifiable by their neighbors and communities. one sleeve with a nautical star on the elbow, wearing your regular sneakers? great op-sec, scumbag.

johnson to thune: have another helping of shit, senator bag of hair, i'm peacing out to spend more time with my son's pornography collection

the solution to that anti-trans writer still having the right to post takes on this site despite many people feeling that this right should be revoked is that he undergo a prison abolitionist-influenced community-based trial before an auction is held to decide who gets him as an indentured servant.

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"are you paying us" is a particularly funny response from the CEO of a company who has failed to deliver an actual monetizable product

This isn’t true. The press used to be offended by this. Guys like you would writes stories about how they are huge liars, which would make them not want to do it in the first place.

i want len's outfit

I agree with the need for comprehensive street redesign / traffic calming in San Francisco, but I do not think it's "entrapment" to cite people for exceeding the speed limit. Drivers are personally responsible for obeying the law even if it is physically possible for them to disobey it.

not just PDX tariffs, high interest rates, dwindling labor pool and increasing insurance are killing projects across the country. we're about to see even higher tariffs on canadian lumber, cabinets, appliances. going to see massive rent increases due to this www.planetizen.com/news/2025/10...

i got through to an actual staffer and was able to do a "tell newsom to sign SB79 or else i won't vote for him in the 2028 primaries" spiel just now, y'all can do it too at (916) 445-2841

you know the Dems are winning the shutdown fight because Republican operatives keep posting cope about it

AND ANOTHER THING: if you think "Pritzker is not personally forcing the Chicago PD into armed standoffs against ICE/the Chicago PD continues to be the Chicago PD" is disqualifying for his 2028 Presidential candidacy you're a fucking mark.

bill de blasio told cops no horse unit deployments in the wake of the 2020 blm protests and they kidnapped his daughter and made a veiled threat while demanding he authorize their deployments

FDR had a supermajority all 12 years. Vote for a Democratic Congress.

Oops! All Viziers

they need to keep hammering at this, because even if it doesn't move public opinion it *will* make trump mad

Man, it is -weird- having a government that is posters from the top to the bottom who have absolutely cooked their brains on right wing schlock

this piece has been in the works a while but honestly i could not have asked for a better foil than ezra klein's interview with ta-nehisi coates. klein longs for peacetime--but you don't get to decide when you're in a fight. www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-mu...

eg: if you 'save the university' by making it so the bio department says that Tylenol causes autism, and the Poli sci dept says trump got more votes in 2020, etc etc you have not saved the university in a way that matters. it's not just the buildings and people, there is an actual mission there.

this is sort of what bothers me about a lot of 'reasonable conservative' takes on how to 'renew higher ed' by making it less of a target for republicans: at a certain point, you have to be *for something*. there are options that are either worse than or functionally identical to destruction.

The thing about the "information environment" is it's entirely consensual. Nobody's making anybody spend all day on Facebook. Nobody's making them scroll TikTok. Yeah it's addicting but it's not The One Ring. People have agency and I'll happily judge them for how they use it.

I'm gonna say it: her husband getting murdered was absolutely a boon for her brand and she's not hiding it one bit. I'm not sure she's even sad at all

Like the thing is this wasn’t trump. He doesnt know what an ai video is. He couldn’t post one if you told him how. This is a 29 year bap staffer who jacks off to school shooter videos and war porn out of ukraine. He is a the average gop staffer now

Bluesky is a site explicitly founded by cryptocurrency libertarians with the idea that it would be a decentralized platform where users would be free to choose the open-source moderation and algorithmic feed tools they wanted, and by accident acquired a power userbase that hates all of those things.

some people told dave chappelle his jokes weren’t funny and this ego maniac has been having a meltdown over it for ten years

huh can’t think of anyone in Russia who loves poisons who might be getting annoyed with his houseguests

Everything we see about ICE has to be understood through the fact that theyre completely incapable of hitting their quotas, so theyre having to resort to more out of pocket shit to try & do so, which makes them less popular & encourages more resistance, which means harder times hitting the quotas.