"I sometimes refer to it as conservatives believing they have a right to monologue," @adamserwer.bsky.social says. "They can speak, and you have to listen and like it. But you can't talk back."

Let me turn my phone off cause this type of shit here...

If the Supreme Court just calls balls and strikes yesterday’s oral arguments about the Voting Rights Act was as if Louisiana threw a wild pitch into the stands and the conservative Justices called it a strike and the liberal Justices said you’ve got to be kidding

As Philly’s rate of violence plummets to near-historic lows, police are also solving homicides at the highest rate in recent memory. The homicide clearance rate this year is around 90% — the highest in 40 years.

SPECIAL: We got this conversation up as fast as possible because Tim Snyder's analysis of the Trump administration's agenda and methods is so important. Also: Why No Kings matters, and what’s at stake in Ukraine. This is, if I may say so, a must-watch. youtu.be/qq-V_k3HPLY?...

This is their plan. If the Supreme Court lets them wipe out Black voting power in the South, Republicans will never have to leave power.

slate.com/news-and-pol... I didn't expect @slate.com to go so hard with their cover art but goddamn. Kudos.

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!! The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/

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I see protest discourse is hitting the feed again ahead of No Kings—idk man, go, don’t go, …but if you do go make sure to link up with an org that’ll help you get into longterm organizing and if you don’t go, make sure to link up with an org that’ll help you get into longterm organizing

"a memorandum expanding his administration’s authority" The phrasing you're looking for is that he's suspending parts of the Constitution by decree.

Solidarity is the only way

Feels quaint, almost cliché, to say this about a Trump action, but just for the record: This is all illegal, the President can't simply disregard the laws passed and agencies created by Congress, and both Vought & Trump would be impeached if the Constitution or the rule of law mattered to the GOP.

my main takeaways from listening to the Supreme Court oral argument today are -the writing is on the wall for the Voting Rights Act -the Republican justices are now throwing racist spaghetti at that wall; they'll pass of whatever sticks as the opinion's rationale ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/calla...

I hate watching these white supremacist dullards undo the Civil Rights Movement.

#Pinks #ProudBlue JD Vance thinks this is okay because he was groomed to think rape and white supremacy are acceptable male behaviors. This is how he expects Republican men to act. time.com/7325948/leak...

Oh, yeah, a fine investment. Los Angeles Times reveals $50m loss as it seeks $500m investment pressgazette.co.uk/north-americ...

🧵 This reporting confirms my suspicion on why, based on reporting last week, the CIA's Deputy Director, Michael Ellis, installed himself as the agency's general counsel. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

“Our ability to achieve profitability will depend on our ability to generate and sustain substantially increased revenues.” Slow down there Milton Friedman, I’m having trouble keeping up.

"We are a decade into Trumpism. These Young Republicans have never known any other type of Republicanism....We’re talking about a full generation of Republicans who *only* understand politics in the context of an authoritarian project." www.thebulwark.com/p/all-the-pr...

In this Ohio town, it was tradition: Latin mass, eggs and bacon at Bob Evans, and then back to the church to shoot the priest in the face with a pepper ball. But now the woke mob wants to take all that away.

These. Were. Men. In. Their. 30s. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Remember, brown 13-year-olds are hardened menaces to society, but 30-something Republican Hitler afficionados in positions of power are just li’l guys.

“the protests don’t count if they happen in blue cities.” so, what, they aren’t americans? their voices don’t matter?

the extent to which media elites treat liberal americans as if they do not count in the body politic is a real problem

BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Trump may launch missiles from warships into California this Friday and Saturday as part of what is being described as a “vanity parade” and shut down portions of the I-5 during the No Kings protests meidasnews.com/news/exclusi...

Chief Justice John Roberts has led the Supreme Court for 20 years now. In that time, his Republican-appointed majority has completely transformed America and its politics, with many of its most destructive opinions written by Roberts himself.

Hilarious. Trump is sabotaging this guy daily right before the election with his policy pronouncements and all he can do is plead with voters not to notice he’s a Trump ally. I’m sure NJ voters can REALLY count on Jack to stand up to Trump!

Governor Newsom has issued a response on social media:

Why is the Vice President of the United States so insistent on defending this inexcusable, vile behavior?

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It should be a litmus test for Democratic presidential primary candidates whether they will restore the White House and DC public properties to exactly the way they were before the Palm Beach lounge lizard decided to turn it into Mar-a-Lago meets 1936 Nuremberg.

To be clear, every organization that took this revisionist historian from Princeton seriously last year was just laundering MAGA propaganda. Many of us knew that at the time. Today, this “excellent appointment” is fawning over Trump as demanded.

my man, nobody is "sure to win" against Susan Collins, she is literally one of the most talented & successful Republican politicians of the last 60+ years. anyone who says ANY Democrat is a sure thing in Maine clearly has no clue what the fuck they're talking about other than their own vibes.

UPDATE: Sources tell us that NSA staff are *also* included in being forced to watch Pete Hegseth's "Warrior" speech (that he already forced top military generals to listen to). @swin24.bsky.social

LOLLL more: www.npr.org/2025/10/15/n...

This is really disgusting and horrifying to read. Giuffre writes so well and seems in this telling to feel so much guilt about participating in Epstein’s and Maxwell’s trafficking schemes. I want to tell her: you were a child

Trump is promising secret federal deployments to cities he “won’t name,” keeping Americans on edge. He calls those going in “patriots,” implying only his loyalists are real Americans and dissenters are the enemy. It's authoritarian conditioning.

See this for what it is: *Trump wants to make the military/FBI loyal to him *GOP refuses bipartisan legislation to pay the military *Trump creates a new executive power: that he and he alone decides if the military/FBI is paid during shutdown donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-shutdo...

Musk is having another manic posting day, and today he’s leaning into a Musk classic: disgusting racism. More than 12 posts, reposts, replies in the past 8 hours accusing Black people of being violent criminals who are racist against white people - punctuated by random highlights of his businesses.

So, in high school, a friend’s family had an otherwise nice-seeming South African au pair we brought along to hang out a few times. Until a polite query about how things were in her home country prompted a very casually horrifying rant about how “the bleks” were the root of all problems.

NEW for @washingtonpost.com: Pentagon reporters exited the building in unison Wednesday after turning in their badges, having refused to sign the Defense Department's press policy. @nancyayoussef.bsky.social called it a “sad day for those who support a free press.”

that they left em masse, at least, seems like a good sign

I read the piece. You shouldn't. He dismisses the "No Kings" protests as liberals in blue cities. He invokes Rosa Parks, as if rural white people in the 60s loved everything that the movement then was doing. "We need a movement but not this one" is a core centrist tact these days.

We all know where America first 🇺🇸 came from...

🚨IRS, FBI, Federal Marshals, MPD, DEA, ICE, HLS, and ATF here to “investigate” this woman. Suspicious for being black? The regime has made their white supremacism clear. The time for us to reject it is NOW!

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…