The humiliation of having to hike the stairs, like a peasant.

"Hey fellas I've got a brilliant idea, how about I pick an unnecessary fight with a hugely popular guy whose only job is to make people like him and laugh and who, at the end of it, didn't do or say anything that anyone should be offended about? "How do you think that will go for me?"

Since inauguration day, Trump's approxal has gone underwater in all 7 swing states, plus Texas - which, together, represent 100 electoral college votes. Source: Owen Winter, data journalist, The Economist.

This leads to the well-known Bacon-Carradine Paradox, wherein * all movies have Keith Carradine in them * Kevin Bacon has been in a movie with every actor * but no movie has both Carradine and Bacon acting in it.

I have a question: The US SecTreas Scott Bessent (& Bureau of Fiscal Service) control the flow of USG $$. Given the lawlessness of this administration, if the President wanted to ignore a shutdown order, couldn't the SecTreas/BFS keep the government fully operating, defying Congress?

Well, there it is. Sinclair is digging in for a fight, so please help push back -- find stations in your area, watch their local news to see what ads they run, then write those advertisers to tell them you're boycotting as long as they're on a Sinclair station. List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/

Winner winner chicken dinner

Trump: "The MMR I think should be taken separately. This is based on what I feel."

God call your office.

New: The Trump family is now worth an estimated $10 billion, having nearly doubled its net worth since last year’s election. @danalexander21.bsky.social, @kylekhanmullins.bsky.social for @forbes.com

The @washingtonpost.com story on Tylenol & autism leaves out a MAJOR 2.5M sibling-controlled study of children in Denmark, which "found no evidence that acetaminophen use during pregnancy was associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD or intellectual disability." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Only 1 person in the whole study went from identifying as trans to not identifying as trans. The 1/5 number came from youth going between the binary and non-binary spectrum. This headline and post are misleading on purpose to fit the economist's editorial bent on the political issue.

The President cut $1T from health care budget in March, in his One Humungous Awful Bill. Tens of millions of Americans will lose health care, starting in January, because of it. We can't allow this to happen. Shut this government down.

I am ready to repeal the 2nd Amendment, just as soon as everybody else is.

I will not whitewash the white supremacist that was Charlie Kirk. For someone so young, what an embarrassment of hatreds he left us to excoriate him with. Essay: Speak Truth of the Dead www.feministgiant.com/p/essay-spea...

Roy Cohn's three rules, that all evidence is, Trump lives by: 1. Attack attack attack. 2. Never admit to anything. Deny Everything. 3. Never admit defeat. Always declare victcory.

One thing here is critical. Democrats should only negotiate/talk whatever directly with Trump. Not Thune or Johnson. They're just Trump's messengers. Third tier members, at best, in the MAGA organization. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

this is the second impeachable offense worse than watergate that we have read about *today*

so the president just tweeted out an offense worse than watergate, we all realize that right?

ICE denies using excessive force in Broadview, Illinois. Never mind the videos…

Hey Critics - I know the "return to the moon" is an important race and all, but how about the race to provide child care to all, regardless to income? We're also getting our asses kicked there. New Mexico is making strides! 49 states to go! abcnews.go.com/GMA/Family/n...

Corruption of justice at the very highest levels, right out in public. Senator John Thune, how can you allow America to spiral down the drain like this, when you have the power to stop it?

Republicans in Congress can stop this any time they want.

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

Charlie Kirk took the most repugnant white Christian nationalist zealotry from the places it festered in the odious margins and moved it to the Trumpian mainstream. Speak ill of him. It is the truth. www.feministgiant.com/p/essay-spea...

dems could win in red states if they ran unapologetically on raising taxes on people like george soros and colin kaepernick and bill gates to pay for universal healthcare and a 4 day work week

Let's go, Toffees! #LIVEVE

Clearly calling out OldBoysClub & White Supremacy bsky.app/profile/mona...

If we are to win the fight against fascism in the United States, our fights must be more than just those of white men against a white supremacist regime. www.feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-...

Press warned to back up as DHS police take lawmakers were taken away in zip ties, among them Comptroller Brad Lander and 10 other state reps including Bobby Carol, Marcela Mitayanes, Julia Salazar, Emily Gallagher, Jabari Brisport, Jessica Gonzalez Rojas,... story TK

Zip-tying officials doing oversight, like a completely normal country.

There are rumors that Jimmy Fallon is beginning to realize why he hasn't been banned yet.

It's not just the authoritarianism — it's how shameless, how *gleeful* this administration is about it

A month from today, we will gather for the largest peaceful protest in American history. The only way to protect our freedom of speech is to exercise our freedom of speech. Join your local event to make it clear there are still NO KINGS in the USA: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

Matt Damon's Final Revenge

the kimmel thing is bad but as long as they arent rounding people up indiscriminately based on race, building concentration camps and talking about eradicating those they deem sexual deviants, i think we’ll be ok

When freedom is under fire you can count on me to ramble and mutter incoherently.

"It's the writer's job to tell society what it pretends it doesn't know." - @monaeltahawy.bsky.social (pictured) in front of 30 Rock in NYC, Sep 14, 2022. Artwork by Jenny Holzer. For @karenattiah.bsky.social

If you don't understand how they're able to do something like that when they do something like that hey baby that's fascism!

St Mary’s Hospital in NE Georgia is closing its labor and delivery service, citing Trump’s Medicaid cuts. Women going into labor will now have to drive an hour plus to deliver safely. Way to go, GOP.

The Republican CR which continues to screw Americans on health care will come down to whether 8 Democrats will flip to vote for it.

Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide. As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire. End the genocide. Ceasefire now.

Hey people. Stop being so damned surprised that Jeff Hiller won the Emmy - none of us who watched Somebody Somewhere are deeply surprised and we’re all super glad for him.

Menopop! Today--my online course on Menopause in Popular Culture begins at 7pm Eastern.. There's still time to register: www.eventbrite.com/e/feminist-g...

I think we can all agree that Charlie Kirk, more than anyone, represented the very best of the Republican Party.

Political purges are going on. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

JD Vance: “Charlie Kirk never said Black women do not have brain processing power to be taken seriously. He never uttered those words.” Charlie Kirk: “Joy Reid, Michelle Obama, Ketanji Brown Jackson — you do not have the brain processing power to otherwise be taken seriously.”

Do any astronomer friends know the story behind the radio telescopes on Ruth Negga's Prada gown at last night's Emmys' Red Carpet? I don't think it's Parkes or Effelsberg (and there are two).

I've been thinking about political violence, purges, and censorship in the United States and the thing about that is tens of millions of Americans are going to lose their health care this year unless Democrats shut this government down.