Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s July 4th 250 speech is America. Period. Take a few minutes and watch this. Historic. ❤️✊🏽 youtu.be/G53Nc5JoehQ?...

would love to see a hostile audit of Freedom 250. hell, would love to see hostile audits of everything even tangentially related to trump. this will produce endless material. you could conceivably bring the administration to an effective halt!

A gentle reminder that "Mount Rushmore" was carved by a KKK-associated white supremacist as a deliberate defacement of a sacred Lakota site, much as the same chud defaced Stone Mountain in Georgia to create a tribute to the Confederacy and white supremacy www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020... 1/x

Instead of asking for people to not use their AC in the heatwave, how about turning off the data centers instead?

the audio is what makes this a perfect 10

new metaphor just dropped

For America's 250th, I read Frederick Douglass’ speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” on the House floor—for the first time in history. His speech endures as a mirror & mandate for us all—to confront our inequities while fighting for an America as good as its promise.

Trump commits fraud regularly. That's meaningless if politicians refuse to do anything about it.

Uber: we can't make money if we have to follow the law Google: we can't make money if we're not allowed to be a monopoly Nestle: we can't make money without using slave labor OpenAI: we can't make money if we can't steal media: should shoplifters be executed?

I'll say again: DC is a truly lovely city, which has gotten all the more beautiful (and functional) in the many years we've had a home here. Right now it's the litter box for whatever corrupt whim comes into DJT mind, from East Wing to Kennedy Ctr to cage fight. Statehood DC, when this is over.

Voters are fed up with leaders like Donald Trump using their positions of power to enrich themselves. A comprehensive ban that prevents the president and lawmakers from trading stocks is past due.

Do you know how much money these fucking Oligarchs have? Mark Zuckerberg could pay to rebuild Gaza himself. THREE. TIMES. OVER. But Palestinians are begging for money for food. Wtf are we even DOING?

Someone explain to me like I'm 5 how it's okay for one person to hoard more wealth than twenty dragons but my friends have to beg for shelter and healthcare.

Every morning since Musk became a trillionaire I have logged On Here, seen good people asking for money to pay bills for things that should be free, and felt a rage I cannot describe.

This is cool. 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵

Schumer funded his govt and Dems voted for his nominees. They won’t use the maximum of their minority power.

Bribery is among the High Crimes and Misdeameanors that are grounds for impeachment. Just saying....

Let's hear it for President Dealmaker, who negotiated and signed USMCA (calling it the “best and most important trade deal ever made"), then ran against it, won, and breached it while asking "who would ever sign a thing like this?' from the same desk where he signed it, and now won't renew it.

Watching the last 7 months of Mamdani going “here’s what your government is doing” and getting cheers for it, going around the mainstream media gatekeepers, exposes the lie of democratic presidents who didn’t try hard enough (Biden and Obama) to do the same. It can be done. You just need the will.

Subtle

One ice cold serving of damnatio memoriae, please... @lollardfish.bsky.social www.startribune.com/trump-banner...

That paragraph is why everyone should be off Substack (which loves and pays actual Nazis ) already and support creators who already left

I think this is the hardest part of it for me. Always seemed like taking care of the city was his priority.

Jaylen Brown was as present in the community as any star you'll find. His efforts through the 7uice Foundation, the Bridge Program, and Boston XChange highlighted the bond he built with the city.

Timely heat wave reminder that if you have a car, is not expensive to get a 24 pack of supermarket brand bottled water and keep it in your trunk and pull over to offer it to people who look like they are having a hard fucking time. Helping also makes you feel a little less helpless

did republicans make gavin newsom say he was concerned about trans participation in sports?

i dont find this difficult at all. i think politicians who say its a difficult issue are full of shit. either all of us are equal or nothing matters. literally nothing.

Please 🤗

The ban is heinous for what it does to transgender athletes. But if you think cisgender girls and young women won’t be caught up in the fallout, too, you are woefully ignorant

love to my trans friends. fuck SCOTUS.

Trans girls are girls. Trans women are women. Trans boys are boys. Trans men are men. Gender expansive people are people. No executive order, federal rollback, or court ruling with ever take that away. 5/

So he's gonna advocate for all people with depression to get four months off for rehabilitation, right? And he's gonna tell RFK jr to fuck off with his quest to limit the medication that Kean is very clearly taking to be functional?

In a sane world (an alt reality) today's dissents would sufficient to warrant Thomas, Gorsuch and Alito's impeachment and removal from office. If you defy the plain words, meaning, intent, history, precedent of a black letter constitutional injunction u are abusing your power and should be removed.

people got mad at me yesterday when i said the dems were not ready to take court reform seriously. 5-4 for non-racial citizenship is not a win, it's a reprieve bsky.app/profile/schu...

Reforming the Supreme Court is not enough. It *must* also be expanded. Full Stop.

My dear lord. lareviewofbooks.org/article/dang...

“Sometimes you must stand athwart history, yelling Are you fucking serious?”

I liked Pride so much better when it was one day celebrated by grass-roots organizations than a whole month ballyhooed by major corporations with rainbow-hued consumer goods, and with hypocritical expressions of solidarity from politicians and cops.

Trump ripped up the walkway between the West Wing and the mansion to replace it with polished African granite carved in Italy. "Paid for by me," he claimed. Except that's not true. Taxpayers paid $689,232, per documents obtained by @michaelscherer.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

crazy to me that rich people have been so successful in perpetuating the lie that the poor are stealing from everyone. they don't have any money. the rich people are the ones with the money! that's who stole the money

Also just in general the ethos of Jackass is that you have to have a sense of humor about everything, that nothing's cooler than confidence, that laughing with your friends after is the ultimate victory. And that we should probably have universal health care.

There's nothing else to do at the reflecting pool but loiter. It's literally the whole reason it exists, it's a public space where people are invited to linger and loiter.

"Fraud" as a trope to explain intended policy failure

they should give gritty a teenage daughter who is always on her phone but is also even more violent

Good. Let's hope for a complete collapse and Musk's eternal humiliation. Better this scam collapse now than after it becomes a major part of people's investments.

THERE IT IS! tysm comrade @mayor.nyc.gov - direct care access fund4youth - call+text line4access help - research2identify access gaps there's a remaining $50M from the campaign promise yet2b dedicated, if we don't count the costs of the new 19+ clinic, but we're only in the 6th month of office.

This fucking guy is the absolute master of publicly supporting progressive policies when it’s not his actual authority and opposing them when he’s in a position to do something helpful. The emptiest suit of them all.

"Trump's 13-Year-Old Accuser"

It’s refreshing to have a justice willing to set the performative collegiality aside and just state the bloody obvious.