Texas Republicans hell bent on killing everyone while telling us they’re “pro-life.” Get fucked.

“Having a United States senator subject to discipline at the behest of the secretary of defense and the president — that violates a core principle of legislative independence,” Kreis said in a phone interview. apnews.com/article/pent...

Nydia M. Velázquez, a prominent New York Democrat, announces she's retiring from Congress after 16 terms: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/n...

trying to claw my brain back from the private pool in the desert where it was blissfully floating for the last week, and make it function again, is... not going perfectly...

I would rather douche with battery acid

Kaitlan Collins to Leavitt as she walks off: "Karoline, you misquoted Democrats in that video. That's actually not what they said."

The boomer compulsion to yell at people who did nothing wrong in public is baffling.

Going through the official 1957 NATO Cookbook (?) and there’s a section where they asked the various heads of state to contribute recipes. You can tell which branch of the Nassaus converted to Catholicism and which one stayed Protestant.

Jesuit magazine America: The Trump admin’s anti-immigrant rhetoric is “in some cases the same tropes used by Nazi criminals whom Americans died to overthrow in World War II.” www.americamagazine.org/editorials/2...

SEATTLE!!! We’ve now taken the lead by 91 votes! 🤯 This thing is certainly not over! Over 1,000 ballots have been challenged, so if you haven’t tracked your ballot yet get on it! Our trusty volunteers have been working hard to "cure" ballots so they count! We're so close!

THE JUDY BARBRA HAPPY DAYS CMON GET HAPPY I AM DYING I AM DEAD

heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.

well the gbbo finale was spoiled for me by paul hollywoods official facebook account, which i neither follow nor have ever looked at before, showing up randomly at the top of the page when i first opened it.

Given the issues that used to be run out of there and the focus of the campaigns that won huge tonight, should probably call this emerging movement East Wing politics.

The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.

AOC is just SO GOOD. “At the end of the day, I don’t think that our party needs to have one face; our country does not have one face. It’s about all of us as a team together, and we all understand the assignment.”

AP calls Maine's Question 2 on adding red flag law to existing yellow flag law as Yes, passed, with 56% of votes counted. "Yes wins. AP race call at 9:55 p.m. on Nov. 4, 2025." #YesOn2 #Maine #MEpolitics #RedFlagLaw

MAY ALL TYRANTS FIND THEMSELVES STOMPED ON BY BADASS BARE-BREASTED WOMEN FROM HERE ON OUT

What we know, 10:20pm —VA Dems flip Gov, LG, *and* AG —BIG Dem gains in VA House —Dems win NJ-Gov —Mamdani wins —Dems keep PA supreme court —Larry Krasner & Bragg win — GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices —JD Vance’s half-brother loses Cincy —Dems sweep Orlando council —ME anti-mail vote measure loses

Looks like the Dems will pick up 12 seats in the VA House of Delegates, which will go from 51-49 to 63-37 D-R. That's an honestly shocking result.

You love to see it

Never forget: there are things worth fighting for

Promise?

Ghazala Hashmi will take the Lieutenant Governorship in Virginia. She's the first Muslim woman to hold any state office in American history, and she'll lead the oldest democratically elected assembly in North America.

BLOODBATH (Spotsylvania County, Virginia would elect Robert E. Lee's Ghost to Dictator for Life if they had a chance)

WHOA. Via @decisiondeskhq.bsky.social, it looks like Democrats just flipped BOTH *statewide* Public Service Commissioner seats in Georgia. That seems...significant.

Made a pork shoulder ragout over cheddar polenta for family dinner tonight. Veggies incl: onion, celery, carrots, bell pepper, cherry tomato, sweet potato, butternut squash, and baby Yukon golds.

Gutted for that GBBO elimination.

i’m gonna beat Paul Hollywood with a stick

Hi my beloved bloomfies

I’m wearing THE gay bloomfies shirt today!

I suppose that "Truth is blinding" is a clever enough advertising tagline for the Oedipus production newly arriving on Broadway, but "A motherfucking great play" is, come on, sitting right there. Do I have to do everything?

Turned 8lbs of chocolate into brownies last night:-)

today absolutely necessitates a large iced coffee beverage to have any hope of being tolerable.

:-/

PS vacay booked for next month... counting the days until i will turn off my brain for a week of desert relaxation

If this was a script it would get rejected for being too fantastical.

Wedding DJs can, in fact, be too creative.

Happy wedding day, Bailey and Andrew!

The photo: The comments you will laugh at:

Same doctor, new office… the lobby of this one is… much less gay. And much more “elevator music saxophone version of KC and Jojo’s All My Life”… dislike.

-100! (Actually 102) 🥹

Guy who wants to stick chips in our brains doesn’t know how cook a pop tart

I'll cautiously say I've noticed more skepticism about AI in the corporate world and it's mostly because people's coworkers are creating extra work for them. They don't have the vocabulary to describe it yet but it's basically the "Why should I read what you couldn't be bothered to write" thing

E g. The food bank here in San Diego buys bulk quantities of rice for a fraction of supermarket costs and re-packages it themselves in consumer-sized packages for distribution. Your money there goes much, much further than an in-kind donation. (In kind donations and volunteering are still good tho!)

I have been thinking about this part nonstop this is also about Melania not giving a shit about the role of First Lady. what’s she doing in that East Wing? nothing? of course he thinks it’s free real estate. of course he thinks the domain of wives can be trampled on to build more personal power

Checks out

Okay guys seriously. It’s time to let Platner go. The Reddit posts, black people dining out, THEN what he said about women and alcohol, THEN a Nazi tattoo, AND NOW I’m seeing anti LGBTQ posts. Come on now. This isn’t about “purity politics” this is what we condemn on the other side. Be serious.

Visiting my… cat niece?

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