My stance on doomers remains consistent and it is that I think running around publicly shitting your pants in fear all the time is shameful

“Write the news as if your very life depended on it. It does!” Heywood Broun, born on this day in 1888

This stage of capitalism in a nutshell

The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.

The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.

> @samsteindc.bsky.social

Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged. Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.

Just in time for the holidays!

It is simply irrational and unfair to ask that men behave in some kind of moral manner. Women, on the other hand, just don't seem to exist at all.

I’ve been circling around this idea for awhile but didn’t have the skill to summarize what others have now done extremely eloquently: Proposing the concept of misinformation exposure as a social determinant of health. Read on if you’re interested.

Our current system is designed for nepo baby pedos who rely on disinformation and brainwash. For every one billionaire who fucks off because we transitioned toward something better, there would be thousands of non-pedo millionaires with great credit racing to seize the opportunity and fill that gap.

I just want to remind folks that the current state of things are because people are greedy. That is all. Goodnight!

I’ve been busy today. Someone’s gonna need to sum up for me.

tbh, the scope of criminality described in barely-literate text and the scale of how many people involved are both genuinely really shocking to me

“The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.” Elizabeth Cady Stanton, born on this day in 1815

In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes. The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last. The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes. Why? It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.

Corporations & hedge funds exacerbated the housing crisis by buying up available housing to turn it into higher priced rentals. The average age of a first-time home buyer, for those who can do it, is now 40. To complete the wealth transfer, 50 year mortgages will turn homeownership into to tenancy

Marines in Fallujah were not masked. The insurgents in Fallujah were masked

“There’s really no such thing as the ‘voiceless.’ There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.” — Arundhati Roy

We had fucking congressional hearings over Mortal Kombat.

When one voice joins another, things change.

Stop being pantywaists and just fight

In Chicago, DHS refused to pause the raids and arrests so kids could go trick-or-treating without the risk of getting tear-gassed or subjected to violence. Meanwhile, DHS agents in Los Angeles celebrated the holiday by conducting raids while wearing horror movie masks. Sadism as public policy.

I often think about how Cheney wanted revenge for what happened to Nixon, and how we live in the ruins made by that dream.

"Then I despair. . . . I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always." Andre Malraux, born on this day in 1901

The job of a good message isn't to say what is popular. The job of a good message is to make popular what we need said. MAGA and Madison Avenue have known and exploited this. But it also very much applies to campaigns for good. www.weekendreading.net/p/bringing-a...

Congratulations/I'm sorry

I’m too tired for this game!

We’re doing this again? #worldseries

It is kind of funny that these assholes spend so much time talking about The Founders this and The Founders that and at least half of the time if you actually look at what The Founders said, they were like "for the love of God do not do that shit" torment nexusass constitutional interpretation

Evil.

Here is a comprehensive list of why people on SNAP, are on SNAP: 1. They need food assistance. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

Sadism is a form of addiction. And like all addictions, it's never satisfied. Sadistic individuals acts' of perpetrating pain, suffering, and death increase both in frequency and magnitude throughout their lives.

When I saw this, my first thought was, "The governor is essentially asking for a ceasefire. This is an American asking the federal govt for a ceasefire of their attacks so kids can go trick-or-treating." The regime is waging war on American communities. This is not normal. This must stop.

The result? A fragmented public consciousness where competing realities coexist, each self-reinforcing and resistant to correction. When truth is no longer a shared foundation, power shifts to those who control the most compelling narrative - no matter how detached from reality it is.

They're making it as clear as they possibly can that they intend to abandon the constitutional order and democratic elections and rule through force. They're preparing for their physical safety from the civil unrest they expect when they overthrow the government.

"These aren’t separate issues, because tackiness and tyranny go hand in hand. Yes, Trump has terrible taste and probably would even if he didn’t have power and, thanks to that power, wealth. But the grotesqueness of his White House renovations is structural as well as personal."

Maybe all the real journalists can set up a kind of CBS-in-exile…

Pretty weird that the Republican Party talks a lot about protecting Christians from unseen forces and how our country is based on Christian values, but when there are hungry people to feed and sick people who need health care, Jesus Christ is suddenly a radical commie.

Then go ahead and be apoplectic.

Missouri: $2.5 million Argentina: $40 billion

"Politics is not just about power and money games, politics can be about the improvement of peoples lives, about lessening human suffering in our world and bringing about more peace and more justice." U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone, who died on this day in 2002

A president who can tear down 1/3 of the White House can tear down the entire White House. A president who can steal $230M from the treasury can steal $1T from the Treasury. We have both legalized and tolerated Trump’s crimes, so they will only get bigger.

The “conservatives” couldn’t even conserve the White House.

The use of "surge" here is so fucking grotesque. Trump is using Iraq War language against the citizens of his own country.

The fourth plane.

Think about this a lot more than thought tv show would

If the National Guard is really in D.C. to protect federal property, they should probably have been at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. two days ago

It was such a well-known phrase someone built a t-shirt line of it without my knowledge. That Trump ran a mafia state was basic, well-known information that for some reason people are pretending they only learned just now. It's like watching people with mass amnesia recover, but too late to matter.