A long way to say, “He lied to the voters.”

Happy Nichelle Nichols’s birthday to all who celebrate!

Once again a reminder: We can have trans rights, bodily autonomy, gender nonconformity, and freedom of expression, or we can have none of these things. There’s no third option.

Your brain is not a computer. Your thoughts are not algorithmic. Don’t let Silicon Valley limit your understanding of your own mind with inaccurate metaphors.

this dumb shit is what i mean when i say this is a purely aesthetic “politics.” yeah man, why can’t we have a fusion of cosmopolitan social democracy and revanchist hierarchies of wealth and privilege? tough question.

“Zohran Mamdani wants people to prosper, even those who didn’t vote for him. Donald Trump wants to execute everyone who disagrees with him. Could this represent a new coalition in American politics?” ME, AFTER SUFFERING A MASSIVE CONCUSSION

Even those who didn't rely on them will feel the pain as insurance premiums are going to jump for almost everyone. The only question is whether Americans will learn from this or not. Whiteness is not a force field that protects you from harm, and white folks ain't equipped to handle what's coming.

A lot of people who claim to be mad today had a golden opportunity to avoid this fate after year ago. It's never been a matter of if all of this would happen. The only question was how quickly would it happen. I hurt for those who relied on ACA subsidies for coverage.

I need those ACA subsidies. My neighbors need food. I’m not going to fault the only party that wants us to have both for only being able to secure the food. Be mad at Republicans. Be mad at your maga family. Use the rest of your energy to give Democrats a majority.

So much lying. First, there *is* a legal mechanism for tapping contingency funds. Second, most important, Johnson cites times when Trump ILLEGALLY moved money around, especially to pay military. Trump won't break the law for hungry people, though. Why?

I'm so sick of discourse from supposed allies about where trans people went wrong. Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.

I'm begging for Trotskyists to add an ounce of Critical Race Theory to their politics.

And look, everything is very scary and awful it's hard not to lash out at the people you feel safe lashing out at instead of the people causing you harm.

The thing that people want from Democrats is for them to have won in November or failing that say something that will make them feel better about the current situation and everything sucks so it's not going to happen.

Just thinking today of all the colleagues who called us alarmists and cranks when we pointed out that Trump was talking and acting like a fascist in 2016

I keep coming back to this essay by Zinn, "The Optimism of Uncertainty." Especially the second screenshot. www.howardzinn.org/collection/t...

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

www.nbcnews.com/world/asia/l... Sympathy. It could happen here, anytime.

Is Andrew Cuomo having a nervous breakdown?

Investing in Confederate monuments. Banning library books. Renaming bases and ships. For all of Pete Hegseth’s posturing about a “warrior ethos” and being “laser-focused” on winning wars, he sure does seem fixated on fighting the culture wars. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

lol

www.theatlantic.com/internationa... Most Israelis, including the security establishment, want no part of this.

“The president cut your health care so he could build himself a golden ballroom” is a pretty easy message to sell

When a sitting Israeli minister calls to “wipe out Gaza,” we cannot look away. This is the language of atrocity, not security. True allies of Israel, especially in the American Jewish community, must demand an end to this war – and denounce the extremists driving it.

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

📌The President of the United States posted a FAKE VIDEO TO THE WORLD of a kneeling Barack Obama being placed in handcuffs, and we are supposed go along like it is just another day. Our press has so completely lost the thread it would be laughable if it wasn't so damn dangerous and disgusting.

What Trump’s rampant criminality says about Democrats.

today's sandwich column reveals my deepest, darkest food opinion secret go ahead, pillory me; i probably deserve it buttondown.com/theswordandt...

www.gov.ca.gov/2025/06/18/w... He’s just all over the place with us, isn’t he.

Clear evidence of presidential cognitive issues that the mainstream press will ignore because they regard it as Trump being silly old Trump

This ugly ass budget doesn’t pass in the Senate if Collins doesn’t vote to advance it to debate and Murkowski doesn’t vote for it in the end—thanks to pork barrel bribery. Neither of them is an ally, and Democrats should hammer them next year over it. We’re retiring them both in 2026.

People freaking out about having a socialist in the NYC mayoral residence but OK with having a fascist in the White House.

What do you call a court that says parents have a constitutional right to prevent their kids from seeing storybooks with gay people at school, but no right to provide their children with access to gender-affirming health care?

www.popmatters.com/the-b-52s-wa... Rock Hall when??

New gig for Tapper?

One solution of course would be to just write it yourself.

Yes, headcanons exist to satisfy a trekkie mindset.

I hope the producers of the Buffy reboot take this to heart.

The judicial order to extend due process to those disappeared to a hellhole El Salvadoran prison, including Andry, a gay asylum seeker from Venezuela, has been appealed by the administration. No one from that same administration will verify if Andry is even alive. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/u...

Don't let them lie to you about Senator Padilla. DHS is claiming the agents DID NOT KNOW he was a senator. He CLEARLY says (BEFORE he is tackled and cuffed) "I am Senator Alex Padilla and I have a question for the secretary."

Feels kinda important to point out that if non-citizens are required to carry proof of legal status, then citizens do too by default. This is absolutely insane.

Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

LAPD when they think nobody is watching