Lots of good comments and reassurance here. They are going to try shenanigans but we don't have to let them work. There are not enough ICE fascists to intimidate people at every polling location in this country.

Even cartoon villains aren't as ghoulish as this guy. He literally has nothing that he stands for except power. Gross and Dangerous. His book was also really bad!

Sick of this dystopian tech overlord men with no panache and bad haircuts enabling a pants shitting president and bald hitler wannabe trying to undo things that can’t be undone ass reality we are living. They are so tedious and venal. It’s galling.

Making it make sense: Epstein wasn't a global mastermind. He did not orchestrate a vast conspiracy that led us to today. He was a very rich man with connections to other very rich men. The shared culture of these men is that they have a right to dominate and abuse others without consequence.

Except that's not what's happening? Having a delusional president is terrible and I believe we are all ready to be done with it now.

"They say they're coming to save us from some evil? They're talking about our neighbors who take care of us ... Alex was murdered while he was helping. Mr Rogers said look for the helpers, & right now the helpers have a target on our forehead ... Mr Rogers would be here right now too, so I'm here."

They made the mistake of attacking a winter people in the winter, which gave the rest of the country hope ❤️

Agreed. Time to put up or shut up!

Amazing to live in a country where every day you can watch Republicans gin up issue salience out of nothing but attitude and 4chan posts and a sizeable chunk of people think Democrats' only power is to vote yes or no on bills placed in front of them

Instead of whatever this is, we should have a government getting lots of new homes and apartments built, lots of clean energy built, lots of high speed rail and transit and bike lanes built, human rights for everyone, economic & healthcare opportunities for all, & innovation that leads the world.

Let's do this

I get mad about it every time I Google something, which is a lot. Where's the off switch at least?

There was revolution in the air in New Orleans when the Border Patrol invaded their city - as brave citizens blew whistles, chased convoys, and confronted masked agents of a tyrannical government From Minneapolis to Manhattan, an uprising has begun. A special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/immi...

New in PN: Republicans in the era of Late Trumpism "As Trump’s political standing weakens along with his increasingly decrepit mind and body, his hold on the GOP is slipping. And the underlying political incoherence of the party that has only grown during his reign is being fully exposed."

When masked federal agents rappelled into Chicago, residents stood together and successfully pushed back against federal forces’ efforts to create chaos. Protect Democracy’s Conor Gaffney and Katie Schwartzmann outline the Chicago “blueprint” via @veritenews.org veritenews.org/2025/12/02/c...

"The DOD Manual is clear because the law here is clear: 'Persons who have been incapacitated by . . . shipwreck are in a helpless state, and it would be dishonorable and inhumane to make them the object of attack.'"

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The fossil fuel industry will eventually kill us all and destroy our planet for....money. I am so so sick of people having no care or concern for other people and their futures.

Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.

AI is killing people. We don't have to let companies hawking these products embed them in everything. If you work at a college, your students are already struggling with mental health, and you want to give them this? www.startribune.com/adam-raine-c...

Borders, who owns an insurance company and works as an Elvis impersonator,“I would say that my study on these issues would equal that of many people in the medical field.” Sir, just no. You need many years of training to evaluate research in this way. The devaluing of experts is such a huge problem!

This feels especially bad, like they are gearing up for something. Hunger riots? It's all such a nightmare.

“I find it hard to imagine that we would be having this conversation at all were Platner anything other than a fit middle-aged white guy who dresses like a stock photo of a “real man.’” Straight to the point, as usual from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

So much of "cancel culture" discourse is a re-description of the normal functioning of a democracy and public discourse by people who didn't like the results of one, or both, or how it made them feel.

This is excellent! The developers in defense of their product say "It's a black box we don't know how it works!" Of course you know how it works, you coded the thing, and that means either you can't stop this and it needs to be pulled from the market OR you knowingly built a suicide assistant.

WELL HOW ABOUT THAT "A millionaire levy in Massachusetts has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Hmmm....especially that deed of pardoning all the Jan 6th insurrectionists that violently assaulted Capitol police, even killing one of them!

GOV. PRITZKER: “This is a convicted felon threatening to jail me? He’s an unhinged, insecure wannabe dictator. Come and get me.”

"Trump's 'compact with universities is just extortion... the future of higher education in America requires that every university reject it." Very good from UC Berkley law dean Erwin Chemerinsky. Higher ed leaders should all do so, and donors, unions, anyone with influence should pressure them to.

I can’t think of any reason to completely wreck the ag markets in entire United States other than purposeful sabotage. A fire sale on farmland.

There are many evidence-based crime fighting strategies with bipartisan support among policymakers, law enforcement professionals, and justice reform advocates. Deploying the military isn’t one of them. bit.ly/4neYVD1

This is an absolutely terrific piece from @texastribune.org and reinforces my belief that the best coverage of right-wing cancelations occur at the local level, after years of the national media focusing on threats from the left. www.texastribune.org/2025/09/19/t...

we wrote about this WH tactic recently. they’re asking journalists for expert source names and then using them to look up political donations in FEC records to try to discredit those sources as biased. www.npr.org/2025/08/18/n...

cato institute analysis of murders by political ideology since 1975, excluding 9/11

A hopeful read and ways to help move us toward renewable energy!

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

A very wild time to listen to this episode and observe who is actually doing the canceling and for what

would it shock you to learn that this story appears nowhere on the free press dot com, which decided the campus free speech crisis ended right around January 2025

“If I had capitulated, I would have been a completely frustrated man, because I would feel like someone who has betrayed himself,” MORE STORIES LIKE THIS PLEASE (from @michellegoldberg.bsky.social) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/o...

The people of DC still have one avenue within government to ensure government by the people and that's juries. If DC residents want to truly show their opposition to this conquest then mass jury nullification of arrests made by the federales is the way.

Another reason why I refuse to use AI. This is very, very bad! And Mark Zuckerberg sucks

The "facts don't care about your feelings" lot are some of the most emotionally disregulated people on the planet. EVERYTHING is about these people's feelings and they are so blinkered, segregated and delusional that they have convinced themselves their feelings are empirical reality.

Scary stuff. Letting all the broligarchs own all the water rich, ferile land is such a bad idea since these antisocial creeps have proven they never have the collective interests in mind. On top of all the other stress in their lives, another worry for farmers. For shame

Well this is alarming.

This from NY'S lieutenant governor is maybe the best take on the Democrats I've read yet (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/o...

All 197 United Nations member countries were expected to submit their updated Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), detailing their plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, by February this year. However, only 25 countries, representing ~20% of global emissions, have done so.

Albuquerque. citydesk.org/2025/07/21/a...

Getting rid of PBS is also meant to clear the field for Prager U to be the place for children programming.