"they've always been like this" is always a tempting savvy take but it is just not true that Republican staffers were 100 percent open Nazis back in 2004, or hell even 2014. they just weren't

Democrats manage to reinvent these meme proposals every single election cycle AND NEVER NOTICE THEY DON'T WORK. It's astounding. Biden really did invest hundreds of billions of dollars into Rust Belt economies... and for his efforts was rewarded with searing unpopularity

D’Angelo, the neo-soul icon known for ‘Brown Sugar,’ ‘Black Messiah,’ and ‘Untitled (How Does It Feel)’ is dead at 51. His family states he was ‘called home, departing this life’ on October 14.

Diane Keaton (1946–2025)

#BREAKING A federal judge say she will grant "in part" a request by the state of Illinois for a temporary restraining order against the deployment of National Guard troops into the state. U.S. District Judge April Perry is still ruling and has not outlined the details of her order.

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat. For the crime of … complaining about government policy. Core 1A speech. With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

It's not that I won't vote for Gavin Newsom if he's the presidential candidate. It's that if the Democratic Party chooses him, then they are communicating to me that they actively do not want my vote, and believe they don't need it. I will simply honor their wishes

The doctor makes $200k a year because they charge thousands of dollars more for a procedure than they should. The health insurance CEO doesn’t want to pay it and tries to dump it on you. You fight with the health insurance over *who* pays the high cost and not *why* the cost is high.

the plan? we combat the effects of trump's increasingly unpopular policies by sending americans checks with trump's name on them.

So this was just supposed to be a summary execution, right

Immergut deposed Monica Lewinsky for Ken Starr, was a US attorney under Bush, and was appointed to the bench by Trump during his first term. This is not some left-wing judge.

the equal application of the law is deathly intolerable to a fascist

there is no reason we should engage in negotiations over a budget while this is happening

this is a Trump appointee btw

this is a pogo stick with wheels

@corantus.bsky.social and I involuntarily did this when he delivered the title drop line. Sorry to whoever was sitting behind us

They’re using American tax dollars to fund infrastructure in Argentina because that’s where they’re all going to flee when we kick them out of office

No better illustration of how much of our opposition party thinks social media posting is a substitute for the responsible exercise of legislative power. @schatz.bsky.social is one of the most irritating offenders here, often posting like he’s Mort Sahl instead of a U.S. Senator

It's bleakly funny about how the GOP was able to form a multi-racial reactionary coalition largerly through the sheer power of anti-black racism in this country (and exploiting intra-Hispanic racism too), only to go "wait, we actually hate Hispanics too" at every opportunity

This from @govpritzker.illinois.gov on @cnn.com

Everyone is trying to have a normal Saturday night and the president's top advisor is on X announcing that civil war is necessary

hold on just a second here

What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy

A quick note about money and comedy and power. www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...

i feel bad for bisexuals being constantly asked to condemn bari weis on top of everything else they deal with

Like a few hours before this HUD said they wanted to get rid of all funding to permanent housing projects. Not even for shutdown reasons, just for funsies, to put disabled people on the streets

Democrats should raise those numbers even higher 💪

Two senior Republican appropriators agree it doesn't make any sense for Democrats to agree to a government funding deal unless Trump actually adheres to the deal. The Democratic alternative CR had language that would address this, but the White House came out strongly against.

(Ted Danson voice) Shane Gillis figured it out?

we have some weirdos in this administration but “guy who summons all American generals to yell about manlier haircuts” is a Tim Robinson character if there ever was one

And they’re going to respond by trying to keep him from getting blamed for healthcare issues? As a thanks?

What the United States is actually doing is using its massive military capabilities to airstrike random boats full of Latino people because Stephen Miller is all-but-open fascist who gets a weird semi-sexual thrill out of killing people of color. It's absolutely rogue state behavior

An entire generation of dumbs are getting themselves worked up into a fascist frenzy over inaccurate nostalgia videos they know are complete false and it is terrifying hot profoundly strong these feelings are for them despite being very aware it's fake and bullshit.

he is either (1) stupid enough to not know when his own daughter-in-law and own voice are AI-generated (a risk in its own terms) or (2) someone in the White House thinks they can make money off lying about MedBeds

I've been radicalized against "community" because of this tendency (as exemplified in that silly prisonculture story). Fuck community, give me the bureaucratic impersonal state that will protect unpopular individuals' rights *against* the community.

so are there troops in Portland or is this like when the invasion of Chicago begins every two to three days

If anyone in the Democratic Party had a brain they’d be pulling out all the stops to spin up some offensive litigation to blow up or delay any sale. Everything Trump has done here is egregiously illegal, and TikTok has major US competitors who would surely like to see it die. What are you doing??

This is not a romance. Nobody is "in love" with apps. There are no A.I. boyfriends. You cannot "date" a chatbot. Accepting this framing and treating it as real is tech-industry propaganda. slate.com/technology/2...

Damn sounds like he should have thought about that nine years ago when he got the guy elected in the first place

Does anyone want to take bets on whether this will go better than MySpace

It’s gotta be Chavez-DeRemer, right? Though I’d certainly settle for Doug Burgum, whose only headline is that he made his employees bake him cookies

Yesterday we learned that Trump micromanages the prosecution of his enemies and that the head of his secret police was filmed accepting a $50k bribe in a paper bag. Still, for the editors of NYT, the sanctification of Charlie Kirk, saint and martyr is a bigger news story. This paper is soulless.

Michael from The Good Place going “STARMER figured it out? This is embarrassing”

It is so strange that these people do not get that conservative voters buy into the whole worldview, and are not just really earnest about one specific issue. They say this like it isn’t tried constantly to no avail

Disney has lost 3.7 billion dollars in one day.

Much like Target there are certain things that every middle class politically active liberal has enjoyed using but know they don’t actually need

NoHo Hank doesn’t seem like a great marines candidate to me but what do I know

Respectfully disagree: 1) in fact it is unusual for a democracy w/ this level of GDP to turn authoritarian & so quickly; 2) the weakness of both institutions (congress & courts) and individuals (Schumer etc) is shocking. Would take less than 10 people in congress or 2 SC justices to stop all this.