You know who the real freeloaders in this country are? Not people who rely on SNAP, but corporations whose business model depends on wages so low that taxpayers have to feed their workers.

Bill Maher said Cuomo is the “normal” candidate and the sexual abuse allegations should be chalked up to him being “a little too handsy..” and “a little too Italian”.

Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."

My closing pitch to voters? “I will only live in this awful place if I rule over it”

It’s quite impressive how Mamdani has pulled almost every Dem into his coalition, not him into theirs. He keeps the door open for everyone but true enemies (Adams, Cuomo) & rather than try to extort a Hochul into a promise, he just puts her onstage & lets the popular will confront her. Amazing.

its really awful to contemplate the people that we’ve starved through USAID cuts and the people we are about to starve when SNAP benefits stop.

Stop trying to sweeten the deal, Andrew. I'm already voting for Zohran!

Sadako crawling out of your tv, turning motion smoothing off, then crawling back in

It's only truly "Libertarian" if it's from the "government" region of "bailout."

"What I said was that I hate seeing minorities on TV but what I meant is that I hate seeing minorities on TV"

Sign up for this @handsoffnyc.bsky.social call, friends in NYC! This is an important one.

Got to ride the Harbor Charger, the new all-electric governors island ferry. It’s very impressive - practically silent. flic.kr/p/2rBxx1a

The ex-prosecutor also said this: “I have a lot of close contacts in law enforcement, and almost to a person, none of them support these actions. As a lawyer, someone who adamantly believes in the rule of law, watching it in open sight in front of my house just be completely eroded…it’s upsetting.”

Tax the Mellon like it's 1979!

Billionaire Tim Mellon sent $130M of his $14.1B to fund US military salaries during the Govt shutdown 1. This covers 1/3 of military payroll for 1 day 2. DOD has a $1T budget. $130M is .013% of that 3. Mellon can casually part with $130M—he can be taxed at a 91% marginal tax like during 1940-1980

jesus christ man, we can’t ever get used to this and normalize it.

…let up for weeks, even when the media attention ebbed, knowing that the more they let up, the likelier it was that the administration would disappear him. He’s walking free today.

The energy we need is this suburban dad standing out in the street -- barefoot with Blackhawks pajama pants on -- screaming at the masked goons to get the fuck out of their neighborhood.

Schiff voted to confirm one of Trump’s judges roughly an hour before his account posted this.

Reagan on tariffs. youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc?...

It cannot get lost in the shuffle, even with so much else going on, that the world's most wealthy people have had their minds absolutely rotted out, just saturated to the dripping point with black mold down to the studs and frame, by the all encompassing unhumanity of their wealth.

The X accounts that use Roman statues as avatars are the same ones that won’t grasp why this sort of thing is perilous to the integrity of a republic.

Racist Old Yank Caught in New Lie. www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...

every day leaders of the new tech frontier are spending billions of dollars to digitally reconstruct the mind of george zimmerman

But even a client state gets better trade terms than what America is offering Canada and Mexico. Client states are there to supply cheap labour and raw goods — Trump doesn't even want that. Trump is insisting the world join him in economic self-harm, because if we do it lessens his pain.

Death (of a building) Notice: just a blip on MSM

Unimaginable headline in the morning paper

Loyal readers may remember that last month, President Trump filed a defamation lawsuit against the NYT so magnificently florid and prolix, and so lacking in actual claims, that a judge told the lawyers to go home and do it again but this time, you know, according to the law n’ stuff. They have!

Alaska: $25 million Argentina: $40 billion

This is the Canada ad Trump lost his mind over. Shocker, he’s lying—it is Reagan’s real voice. He’s now cutting off trade with Canada because he’s scared it could mess with the Supreme Court case over his “reciprocal” tariffs.

Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America

Today @samthielman.com writes about an ICE raid on Canal St. in NYC and everything these pigs are trying to destroy that makes his city beautiful and @caiken.bsky.social writes about ICE raids in Chicago and everything these pigs are trying to destroy that makes their city beautiful.

There is a moment at this time of year when the word ‘apricity’ really comes into view. For those who don’t know it, it was recorded only once, in 1623, before slipping out of view. Apricity is the warmth of the sun on a chilly day.

worth reiterating again that “the executive can raise and spend money however he likes” has been anathema even under monarchies for centuries we’re not rolling back anything in US history here, we’re rolling back the English Civil War

“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡

"Conservatives." What, exactly, are you conserving?

Precisely. Racism is the gateway to Trump’s power grab.

If you saw this in another country, you would see it for what it is. Chickenshits mask up. (Except for public health.)

The East Wing was built in 1902 & rebuilt in 1942, long after asbestos was used as a fire retardant. So, I’m sure the White House took steps to prevent a known carcinogen from entering the air during the current willy-nilly demolition. Kidding! These irresponsible assholes don’t care who they kill.

“The Trump administration on Thursday announced a plan to allow oil and gas drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, one of the largest remaining tracts of pristine wilderness in the United States… a critical habitat for polar bears, caribou, migratory birds and other wildlife.”

I should note: by my count, this makes at least four clergy members *that I know of* who have been shot with pepper balls or rubber bullets fired by ICE/DHS agents in recent weeks — two Presbyterians, two Methodists and a UCCer.

This brilliant little article gets at what I’ve seen but haven’t yet read: Chicago locals, regardless of status, are apprehensive about venturing out to restaurants and food stalls targeted by ICE. The result is a whole sector in economic and social crisis. www.chicagomag.com/news/we-wont...

Helpful to that phase is the fact that Trump is constitutionally ineligible to be president and “Congress” is refusing to seat legitimately elected representatives

So to be clear, the ICE fascists violently deporting 70-year-old immigrants because they allegedly forgot to check a box 15 years ago, themselves fail basic reqs so badly that the 13 week ICE training is now 6 weeks, & people with criminal records who'd otherwise be banned, are leading these raids.🤦🏽‍♂️

Unidentified bodies with missing limbs washed ashore on Trinidad’s coast after the U.S. carried out its first strike on a boat in the Caribbean. In Trinidad, some are questioning whether the prime minister’s hesitance to cross the Trump administration is keeping residents from getting answers.

This op ed argues against its own title, which caught me off guard. Well, worth the read. (Gift article) “The new right groans under the weight of its nostalgia for a nation that did not exist.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/o...

Oh bravo, Trump! Soon the only folks driving American cars will be Americans.

It's cute when people think individual responsibility can solve systemic crises.

On Threads, the usual suspects are telling ppl about to lose SNAP benefits to just start a garden. As a gardener, I had to laugh. You need at LEAST an acre of land to feed a family of 4. Start-up costs are enormous. But yes, subsistence farming on the balcony of your rental apartment is the answer