Yeah, this squabbling over health-care bullshit is a waste, and they make it worse by voting for judges while the gov't is supposedly "shut down." Their poker hand just got an ace on the turn, and another in the hole, and good reason to believe the river favors them. bsky.app/profile/coac...

I assume the follow-up will be an in-depth investigation into "Women Be Shoppin'," led and co-hosted by Bari Weiss. Just a fuckin' clown-shoes excuse for a newsrag, @nytimes.com. 🖕🤡💩

Page One. @chicago.suntimes.com #ICE @newsjennifer.bsky.social

Good thread. Hopefully Pritzker and others make good on the threat to seek legal recourse, and Bovino and his squad of masked brownshirt cowards are hounded for the rest of their days, bankrupted, imprisoned, etc. No mercy for any of them. bsky.app/profile/jons...

Along with car dealerships and racial slurs, a distinguishing feature of modern conservatism

What if understanding isn’t the priority

America, a metaphor.

Employment lawyer here: the number of male employers who genuinely believe they should be able to sleep with their female employees and pay working mothers less than working fathers is most of them. They genuinely believe that it is an injustice against them that they might face repercussions.

This election suggests something interesting: the massive local GOP losses says the bad Democratic Party brand is salvageable, *if* the Third Way-style accommodationists are boxed out of leadership. Voters want to fight Trump and will support a pretty wide range of candidates to do it.

Tonight's even more proof the mainstream reporters who are still on Twitter are suffering from a brain problem akin Havana Syndrome that is preventing them from accurately doing their jobs. They are being cooked alive by a snuff-focused apartheid algorithm.

As a rather notoriously cynical, curmudgeonly type, I'm actually thrilled to be enjoying the electoral successes this week. I'd love nothing more than to be dead wrong about many of the things I rant about in here. So it's great to see what Tuesday night has wrought so far. Nothing but good things.

Good thread on the Dem redistricting moves, and I'd add that another indicator of the Republicans' collective sense of their impending fortunes is Thune's clear reluctance to touch the filibuster, even with Grampa Walnuts exhorting him to do so on national broadcast teevee. bsky.app/profile/augu...

I wrote a sonnet about scaring my kid about Zohran Mamdani:

this looks like a trick daffy duck would put up to get bugs bunny into "the oval office"

Genuinely curious as to what the over/under is for ordinary citizens standing around and watching these thug scumbags do this for much longer. Once people see they could be next, they react. When the levee finally breaks, it will not go well for these little men. bsky.app/profile/schu...

Hell with it, I'm happy to say it -- I don't know Ed at all, but I've been reading his writing for twenty years or so now, and always enjoyed it immensely. Subscribe to his Patreon. Buy "Chaotic Neutral." Wanting good writers and thinkers means supporting them. bsky.app/profile/edbu...

Not even 24 hours after the Democratic Party utterly sweeps Election Day, four Democratic Senators vote to confirm Caleb Orr as an Assistant Secretary of State. Voting yea were Chris Coons (DE), John Fetterman (PA), Maggie Hassan (NH), and Jeanne Shaheen (NH). Angus King (I-ME) also voted yea.

Any time you want to hand it to Dick Cheney, go talk to a Marine who sleeps under a bridge. Or put your ear to the ground & see if you can hear the ghosts of Iraqi children who are hopefully, right this minute, chasing him into the fire. Rot, asshole.

It's been brewing for a while. The signs are there and the numbers aren't. All that's left is to wait for the holiday retail meltdown. The tech-bros are all in bed with each other (and the regime) now -- last one out is the first one down. [chanting] jenga, jenga, jenga bsky.app/profile/www....

She's endorsed a successor, a 64-year-old up and comer known for thinking outside the box, making a fortune while at General Dynamics, owning a prison, and fighting to guarantee health care is purchasable by all.

"did you even read the article???? the headline is bad but the article is good!!!" buddy if I see a restaurant called Dan's Fecal Stew i am not gonna go in there to see if maybe they printed the sign wrong

There have already been so many videos of this nature, but this one may sum up the situation even more effectively, so that the media dupes cannot ignore it any longer -- this keeps no one safe, this helps no one -- just cells of masked bounty hunters terrorizing toddlers. bsky.app/profile/roya...

I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video. I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children. But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.

Feels like the big 13th step in ridding ourselves of "elite" media dupery is to get them to grudgingly admit that their performative antics are mostly for *each other*, that no serious person not in the industry (but I repeat myself) reads most of the NYT slop-ed bozos. bsky.app/profile/bren...

mr president sir, the pollsters are saying you should drop more diarrhea on the nation youre leading sir

"Walsh": surname, frequently Irish in origin, indicating someone of Welsh extraction -- and anyone who's been to the UK knows that *even now* the English consider anyone west of Bristol or north of Leeds (and *including* those cities) to be uncouth sheep-shaggers. Third-world, indeed.

It’s hard to believe but there was a cartoon about an immigrant mouse and it was seen as totally fine and not controversial and not woke because it was an aspirational and nice thing about America that people could come here and find a better life

To be fair, their choices were limited -- it was either that nonsense, or an abject "gee, maybe we *are* an irredeemable fascist bund of ass-sucking ghouls." Again though, anyone taking advice from Ingraham or Mamasmarmy probably gets distracted by jangling keys. bsky.app/profile/moll...

You dumb fucking cow, you're also supposed to bleat something about the 2020 election being rigged. Fake news! Jesus. Imagine being so bereft of basic humanity, you're left with poaching the inimitable stylings of Steven "You Gonna Finish That?" Cheung, official Trump Tweetist and choad enthusiast.

"'They’re spending more money than I would even tax them,' [Mamdani] said in an interview with MSNBC last week." This is the message. Make it clear that these billionaires aren't just worried about losing money. They're worried about losing the ability to exchange their money for power.

Democrats contested all 100 Virginia House of Delegates races. Part of the party’s statewide success is due to the synergies between the legislative and statewide campaigns—even the losing ones. This is a big reason why Jay Jones won comfortably. This is a model the Dems should emulate everywhere

Defeat isn't enough for Andrew Cuomo and his pack of lunatics: defector.com/defeat-isnt-...

Yes. The usual corporate water-carriers are already characterizing it as a referendum on Trumpism and the regime -- and it is -- but it's every bit as much a referendum on the cowardice and inertia of Dem leadership. No more kidnap squads. That's the opening offer. #MeltICE bsky.app/profile/clai...

I appreciate that Trump has always been very upfront about his desires and intentions, and the means he's willing to use to attain his goals. So again, the onus is really on The Democrats to understand that this really is an "us or them" situation, and to act accordingly. bsky.app/profile/atru...

It's against my usual inclination to push anything from corporate media lapdogs and that fucking *thing* in the White House, but the full transcript from the "60 Minutes" debacle the other night is worth reading, just for the endless prattling insanity. www.allyourscreens.com/latest-news/...

The party and its megadonor class could do a great many things that would add political and material value to the party and its base and its putative aspirations. Interesting that they keep choosing the same loser-consultant strategies over and over again. 🙄 bsky.app/profile/jame...

Always a great reminder of who really owns and plays that Mighty Wurlitzer, and always has. bsky.app/profile/dori...

About last night. edroso.substack.com/p/the-pushba...

Is a 62 point lead a lot? because I’m concerned that massive wins of this sort will cause Democrats to learn the wrong lesson that standing up for principles and people and getting votes is more politically successful than spending 50 years trying to make a family of imaginary bigots like you.

I knew that Mamdani had it; he had the people and did the work, and has been the clearest and most lucid in rejecting the untenable current state of things. But the vile, bigoted shit against him was so constant, and I am conditioned to that working better than I want. This feels like an exorcism.

Mamdani has now gotten more votes than 1/4 of the members of the United States Senate did when they got elected. The political power being channeled here is immense.

i regret to say that i have to support this ugly tie photo via @jccoltin.bsky.social

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.

Almost if that whole "Dems need to pander to angry incels" guff was cooked up in some dank consultant boiler room in order to milk their clueless clients out of donor pelf. 😤 Normal men don't merit coverage, so everyone has been made to believe that *all* of us are nuts. bsky.app/profile/sant...

You can start by making good on your promise to move to Florida, fuckface. 🖕🤡💩

The government is closed so if I were AOC I might just move into his office and start sitting in his seat and make him do something about it. Laws don’t matter anymore. It’s apocalypse rules.

In a nation populated by lobotomized goldfish, to a *much* larger extent than any of us would like to acknowledge, that makes sense. We're proud of our collective ignorance, and we're not shy about papering it over with Joy Behar's Mimosa Club, or whatever the hell this is. bsky.app/profile/matt...

The president was asked about a political rival and his answer really was "she's stupid; not like me—they showed me a picture of a giraffe and an elephant and I nailed it first try."

They aren't afraid of Mamdani, they are worried about what he would unleash among VOTERS. That those voters would say: "actually, we're not buying this centrist bullshit you've been shoveling for decades, we want something else." That's what's being litigated in these Dem elites are worried essays.