i know we won't, but we have got to understand that a keystone of the republican project is to both categorize whole classes of people as criminal to justify locking them up, or to make them so broken and desperate that lawbreaking is all but certain to happen.

prosecutor associations are some of the most powerful organizations, and they get little scrutiny. anyway, this surprises me not one single whit www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...

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The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

NEW: Dems easily flipped the sheriff's office in Pennsylvania's Bucks County, a big swing county in the Philly suburbs. So? The incumbent GOP sheriff had contracted with ICE. His Dem challenger promised to end the contract. Now he wants other swing-state Dems to look at his victory as a lesson:

Republicans were really hoping to win control of Pennsylvania's state supreme court before the next presidential election. But Democrats swept 3 seats today. It's now very unlikely the GOP can win an outright majority on the court before at least 2029:

All the most powerful democrats and republicans either explicitly or tacitly endorsed the same candidate for NYC mayor. that should be a path to victory but instead cuomo was easily defeated, will this prompt any soul searching ha ha ha of course not

meanwhile, on x

if its any solace blue jays fan, at least you're not american

People on here will post anything. 'Baseball games have 9 innings.' No they don’t. That isn’t true.

he's yelling out names like they're old friends he mistakenly thought had died. and sometimes like they're old enemies he thought had died.

guys don’t have any agency over childbirth, we have agency over whether or not a backup catcher hits a home run if we just yell at the television more.

husband is 100% more stressed about this game than he was both times i gave birth

i made a helpful reference

I totally agree and will add that a lot of library systems have it digitally for free, so folks should check and see if theirs does!

For people who can't afford it, check your local library. My library has it through Overdrive.

SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live. Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps: * Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled * Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages

if you have kids between like 6 - 12 you should get them a subscription to The Week Junior. yes pricey but it's actually so impressive and informative, my son's obsessed with it. (this is not sponsored [obviously] i've never interacted w/ them i just think its a great magazine!) theweekjunior.com

fun to see the "the left went too far!" scolds go WAY too far to the right. matt walsh out here calling for ending poverty assistance entirely. look, republicans might manage to stay in power in '28 and beyond, but they'll have to subvert democracy to do it. it won't be because they're popular.

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Gassing protesters in the U.S. is a fully bipartisan project and this has been true for a long time...

i was pro-canada before the world series and i'll be pro canada after. but for the next few weeks i'm America First ™️ and this taking jobs from american manufacturing (euphemism) has got to STOP

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really liked this about how racism isn’t just a moral failure, but the operating system for authoritarianism. we treat "talking about race" as a strategy question. but the reason to talk about it is to prevent the power grab that we're going to face rashad-advisors.kit.com/posts/we-re-...

"In his mind, it’s his money. He can shower it on people he likes. He can pick and choose what government program he’d like to rescue. He can cut checks if he sees his approval ratings plummet. But at no point will you be able to accurately trace the money coming in and the money going out."

Really hard to overstate how bad this is.

I wonder if everyone feels safer.

Actual panopticon.

Buckhead HOA can’t keep neglecting historic Black cemetery, judge says www.ajc.com/news/2025/10...

I for one feel totally fine about the fact that both political parties have their own nazi scandal right now. This is great everything feels totally great!!!

just looking around at politics everywhere and a HUGE advantage Mamdani has is that he isn't obviously a fucking freak

Right wing twitter is waterlogged with constant anti-Indian racist garbage. Obviously everyone doing it is a raging bigot so there’s that but can someone tell me why Indian ppl specifically and why right now? (I’m looking for an actual l answer, not “they’re racist duh” bc yes duh)

i can't believe how many of you love fall. fall is the season of eternal stomach pits for me. i can't stop thinking about how winter is coming and somehow worrying about winter is worse than actual winter

getting a mailer from a candidate for city council president accusing the other candidate of caring about "palestinian liberation"....baby girl its not doing what you think its doing

Hero’s of the day - In a small town of Beckley, WV, Kendra Sullivan staged a one-woman No Kings protest. She was confronted, had the police called on her, but stood her ground. She was physically threatened. Police came more than once and protected her right to protest. This is how we do it.

This was fun

Israeli soldiers were filmed dragging and forcing two young Palestinian children to the ground, south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank.

It is only this moment that I’m realizing duh most people never had these rules but swear to god until right now I just stupidly assumed we all had to do this

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Why do I have a sinking feeling that after the fall of the Trump regime, the only presidential power that will be removed is the pardon power?

catturd is losing his livelihood and you're LAUGHING??

tfw your 1,000-word tweets aren't working

can't help but feel that the total gutting of the VRA is going to lead to someone running to the right of trump/vance...and winning. i don't think they are worst case scenario. i think worst case scenario is what comes next.

the prophecy is fulfilled

Yep another U.S. attorney who Trump HANDPICKED this time around who team trump quickly determined: nope sorry not authoritarian enough, next

NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.

Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.

omg josh has so many good stories that need publishing TELL US

The Regime's goal is to grind everyone down. Plain & simple. Our goal is to refuse this by taking turns to fight where and how we can. When one group needs to bow out, then another group needs to step in and so on. We don't all have to do everything. We can all do something though. Stay in the fight

I might not find some political activism that compelling but I try to keep in mind Kwame Ture's point: "You don't criticize somebody who's doing something when you doing nothing."