This wonderful man has always reminded me of the kindly and warm Maurice from Beauty and the Beast, and I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the people whose social position is threatened by accepting people, manipulate the public into fearing community. It’s giving Gaston and D’Arque.

Easy messaging win for Dems, "you can't have [good thing] because Trump is spending $20B to subsidize the failures of some libertarian clown abroad." And, no, Dems shouldn't support it because it's "foreign aid." It's a right-wing clown bailout. Supporting it trivializes and undermines foreign aid.

I don't think I love doing anything as much as JD Vance loves being a piece of shit

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I'm appalled but unfortunately unsurprised to hear that ICE is targeting my neighbors in Rogers Park today. Unidentifiable and unaccountable agents are roaming the streets with their faces covered targeting schools and community centers. It needs to end. Abolish ICE.

If you're like it's not a "miracle it's science" I'm just going to block you. They've successfully for the first time treated people with Huntingtons. We have effective gene therapies for people with sickle cell. People with cystic fibrosis are suddenly confronted with getting to live a long life.

This is not the future of baseball Star Trek promised us.

That's twenty years of money we didn't have for NPR and PBS: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

King County residents shared how Long COVID has changed their lives. With over 200 possible symptoms, it can affect people of any age and health. Vaccination, masks, and good airflow remain key to lowering the risk. publichealthinsider.com/2025/09/23/h...

Here's a great ex. of why it's so very important for us to save telehealth before it expires in a week. Mary is going to have less access to her oncologist, moving forward. Her *oncologist.* You wouldn't want that to happen to you or a loved one. But it might. Please call your MoCs *this week.*

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More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Seen a lot of Tylenol jokes like “if only my mom had pushed through those headaches, the seams in my clothes wouldn’t be so loud” and I regret to tell you that you’re doing the thing they want you to. Even jokingly, you’re blaming women and by doing so, you’re normalizing social coercive control.

And how many infections are our kids going to endure by the time they reach adulthood?

once again, if tylenol caused autism, america would have a better rail system

Well, there it is. Sinclair is digging in for a fight, so please help push back -- find stations in your area, watch their local news to see what ads they run, then write those advertisers to tell them you're boycotting as long as they're on a Sinclair station. List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/

this is the solution to the male loneliness epidemic I am 100% serious

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like, glass is a young man when the readjusters win office in virginia and go on a campaign of land and debt reform. this is significant because the readjusters represent to him twin and connected subversions: black over white, debtors over creditors

What do you mean “the normal amount of pain is zero”? You’re telling me there are people walking around feeling no pain? No aches? No impingements? No adhesions!? No nausea!?? No vertigo!??? . . . if I weren’t chronically ill, it would be so over for y’all.

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"we have the power to embody our values, come what may" ✊❤️

I hope the majority realizes you can't win over the right wing with civility or the old ways. Doesn't work. Its a dangerous, violent, hypocritical cult without shame. They want power by any illegal means necessary. Choose your fighters accordingly. The current Dem leadership ain't it.

the funny thing about the constant misappropriation of MLK is that the guy left a massive body of writing specifically aimed at explaining his views of those of the movement he represented to the broad public. it is extremely easy to know what the guy thought on a variety of subjects and yet

The Christian right honestly believe they're being discriminated against if the faithful of other religions also have free practice of faith

Chat, is it anti-chtistian discrimination to be Jewish?

If you're a cable host interviewing Tom Homan, at the very least you need to ask him about accepting bribes to influence government contracts. Or -- hear me out -- you could wordlessly pull a thick envelope from your coat pocket and slide it to him across the table with a stage wink.

I want an inspirational poster of that first pic that says “BE THE 1980S ELIZABETH TAYLOR OF WHATEVER YOU DO” I mean maybe not marriage but most other things

Brilliant, baller move by Dr. Bagdasarian.

rewatching NETWORK for a project 👀 and it is absolutely shocking how prescient this film is. it’s like paddy chayefsky was granted a vision of america in 2025 and he furiously tried to turn what he saw into something intelligible to viewers in the 1970s

As I told @newrepublic.com, "Once last week, twice today, ICE has picked me up and thrown me on the ground. Honestly, it doesn’t compare to what our neighbors who are trapped inside the Broadview processing facility are going through. They’re committing crimes against humanity there."

If we taught Zettelkasten, mindmaps, and gestalt thinking, I think more people would recognize that genAI is a very poor substitute for what they think they want.

Every week this administration goes out of its way to choose a new or different very specific group to attack & terrorize. At the rate they’re going they are on pace to ban Big Titty Goth Girls right before Halloween.

That was fast. This is also why you don’t surrender to autocrats - you fight them and beat them.

So what are you guys doing for Charlie Kirk Remembrance Day? I'm going to honor him by being a paid demagogue with views so repugnant that they can't be quoted, can't even be generally outlined, in glowing tributes to my good work.

This is what it looks like when ICE violates our First Amendment rights.

Trump just designated “Antifa” as a terrorist organization, on par with ISIS and Al Qaeda. As a reminder, “antifa” is short for “antifascist”. They will use this lie to surveil, imprison, and kill Americans on the left. This may be our Reichstag Fire moment. Wake up. www.cnn.com/2025/09/17/p...

the kimmel thing is bad but as long as they arent rounding people up indiscriminately based on race, building concentration camps and talking about eradicating those they deem sexual deviants, i think we’ll be ok

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A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.

Trump in July: "I hear Jimmy Kimmel is next.”

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Fuck you, LAX. No one scavenges because it’s fun. Gotta love how there’s money for stickers but not money to feed and house people.

get covid once—even an asymptomatic infection you don’t even know you have, like half of all covid infections—and your immune system has probably been damaged.

guess where high risk people go? EVERYWHERE. we don’t wear neon signs saying “autoimmune” or whatever you expect to see that tells you hey, it’s time to do the thing you said you’d do n mask when high risk people are here. we don’t hand you a business card. we just exist. and we deserve to be safe.

I don't know how many times I can say it, or how many ways, but the right's actions *are not caused by the left*. They want power & control. They want to destroy the left, crush its organizing mechanisms, jail its leaders, and rule without opposition. THEY DON'T NEED EXCUSES.

We're watching them work themselves up to a nationwide pogrom and all we can do is comment sardonically.

hey so remember when you said you’d start masking again when it got bad? …is it bad enough yet?

this from my piece on charlie kirk is probably the most important takeaway if you want to know why bad faith, right-wing voices in media are treated as just another set of peers

what to do when a "let's all respectfully debate the intelligence of Black people" guy pops around is itself a political intelligence test and it's wild how poorly allegedly Serious Thinkers score on it