And tries to restrict abortion rights even more. Every single plan the Rs field is absolute crap designed only to benefit rich white bigots and should be shot down repeatedly. CALL YOUR SENATORS & tell them stop being idiots.

That part. It is important that you say it should happen. bsky.app/profile/prim...

Every time I write a synopsis for a client, I invariably brace myself for the barrage of questions about what was left out, who was left out, and the themes that don't come across. Synopses are necessary, but nobody likes these oddball creatures :( #AmEditing #Editor #Synopsis #AmWriting

This is what makes these 8 senators unqualified for office in this moment. They're negotiating with a terrorist for things already enshrined in law, and in so doing are emboldening him to greater acts of terror... against us.

American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:

Democrats caved again. Right after the electorate handed them massive wins across the country. 2026 is the year for progressives. Centrist politicians share the same billionaire donor base as MAGA. Therefore, Centrists will always listen to billionaires over voters. Vote them out. No more excuses.

I'm sad, but I'm trying. Happy Saturday! Hope you read/watch/make something spooky today.

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Absolutely sadistic. A Dem Congress should pass a law banning anyone who is currently serving with ICE or CBP from future Fed employment. The Feds should condition all future Fed grants to police depts on blanket refusals to hire ppl who were in ICE/CBP right now.

The things i want to say cannot be said publicly. I want consequences, to say the least

A majority of the days the government has ever been shut down, Donald Trump was president. www.howtoreadthisch.art/red-versus-b...

If you just cancel flights, then they're actually not late! Brilliant stuff from Sean Duffy here

If you're looking for a laugh this evening, the replies here are golden.

Speaker Johnson is officially keeping the House in recess again next week. This will be the eighth consecutive week the House has been out of session. The chamber hasn't met since Sept. 19. Adelita Grijalva, who was elected on Sept. 23, has not been sworn in.

Honestly I want to see Mamdani make a whole video series where he intentionally ghosts real estate magnates’ calls. I want to see him laughing at angry voicemails and listening in on assistants telling O’Leary the Mayor Elect just stepped out oh wait I see him let me just oh nm that wasn’t him sorry

WAKE THE FUCK UP

I'm hard-pressed to think of a non-Jewish Democratic politician who has spoken to Jews with more respect and empathy than Mamdani. The fact that many Jewish establishment orgs are going after him while staying relatively mum on resurgent Nazism is a disaster, both for American Jews and in general.

Surprised he heard about it.

Bless his heart

We're seeing a massive institutional deportation and state violence apparatus being built and it honestly feels like people dont grasp the sheer scale of it and what already is in place. For every horrific video of masked feds kidnapping people there are so many people pushing paper to help.

I have a bad cold so sorry if this is blunt/not clear: If you are going to mention the HHS Report, you have to contextualize it properly for the reader: that it was anonymous, not peer reviewed (not normal practice), widely criticized, etc. Readers don't know the quality of research unless you say!

Basically the Repubs are going: "either no healthcare or no food" in a nation with resources for both

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

I would love for white people to stop acting shocked JD Vance can be as racist as he is with a South Asian wife Any mixed person can tell you it’s very common for mixed kids to have a racist white parent And any nonwhite person can tell you interracial dating doesn’t mean you can’t be racist

HAPPENING NOW: Portland Police Commander Franz Schoening testifies that federal officers on Oct. 18 barraged protesters with crowd control munitions — not because of any violence but because another federal officer accidentally shot tear gas onto the roof of the ICE facility.

this is genuinely terrifying and I just ... the heartiest what the fuck to this nightmare sci-fi garbage torment nexus timeline

"Internet conspiracy theories are now official government policy and the animating force in Republican politics. In short, we are awash in bullshit."

It’s not law enforcement. It’s a deputized partisan militia.

It should be repeated over and over about the Trump agenda: He builds himself a massive gold ballroom while millions of children and elderly may go hungry because his enablers insist the government cannot afford to pay their meager benefits.

If the requirement to keep a democracy is "win every election so the outright corrupt can't tear it all down," then you've already lost.

Was Inspector Clouseau unavailable?

Federal workers are speaking out on how the Trump regime is harming Americans: "We stand here today at a moment of the greatest assault of our lifetimes on our freedoms. The US Constitution is being shredded... We are here to call on Congress to stand up and stop it." youtu.be/uw1KwIBgrCw?...

They are also intentionally conflating machine-learning and generative AI slop to confuse and try to make GenAI seem necessary. Google Maps traffic stuff is machine learning, not GenAI, for example. Auto-correct is too. Don't let them make you lose the thread. GenAI slop is slop.

writing tip: put a creature in it

They are trying so hard to convince you that the party in control of the White House and both chambers of Congress isn’t to blame for what’s coming.

I'd say it's 2025 and we should be well past this, but since we're not: titles like "aunt" and "uncle" are used a lot in BIPOC communities, regardless of whether or not there's actual blood ties. Been calling a ton of women unrelated to me "auntie" since age 3, and got dinged by Mom when I didn't.

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP. Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP. The people who need help are not the problem. It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

I reached out to The White House and asked about its use of AI-generated Halo imagery. White House Deputy Press Secretary Kush Desai just responded to me, and it's insane. I've removed the paywall. Please share and subscribe if you can. www.patreon.com/posts/exclus...

But the other guy had dementia.

“Mr. Speaker, on issue after issue, you seem to be dramatically, perhaps deliberately, uninformed. Why should you be Speaker of the House if you can’t be bothered to know even the most basic information about what’s going on in government? Why should anyone take you seriously?” Someone. Anyone.

Spread this far and wide. This first crack in the armor is important because it gives others permission to speak up. The more this story spreads, the stronger the motivation will be.

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Did you know? About 4.5 million SNAP recipients are babies and toddlers under age 5. About 11.1 million SNAP recipients are kids aged 5 to 17 years, who need food for healthy growth, learning, & development. The federal government has the capacity to continue funding SNAP during a shutdown.

Gallego: "How can I negotiate? The president is in Asia for 5 days. Johnson is basically keeping the House out until January to protect pedophiles. So who am I negotiating with right now?"

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“They’ve got money for ICE and golden ballrooms but not for hungry families” is so easy it’s almost funny

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Saw this on threads and oh my fucking god gdrive is fast again Fuck the forced AI integration