More than half of the country lives in cities and yet every political ad has to go country and "heartland."

When Jesse Jackson was born, he couldn't register to vote. When Jesse Jackson died, he was eulogized by a Black president & vice president. The man kept hope alive even in death.

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For years on my old blog I published the names of servicemembers who died in Iraq & Afghanistan. No other outlets were. These are the first 4 Americans to die in the Iran War. Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35 Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42 Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39 Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20

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A Democrat just flipped a 🔴 Arkansas state house seat - and it wasn’t close. Alex Holladay ran in 2024 and lost by two points. He just won by … 27. In Arkansas. Run everywhere, friends. Run everywhere. 💙

Tell all your IL family and friends to vote for Juliana Stratton

everything about this is so unspeakably evil and rage-inducing, but the fact that a non-zero number of Republicans believe Ayatollah Khomeini and Ayatollah Khamenei are the same guy makes me want to S C R E A M

meanwhile, war rages on at home.

Five members of the US Men’s Gold Medal Hockey team have refused Trump’s White House invitation. Four of them are from Minnesota. This is how you resist. You don’t participate in misogynistic locker room talk. You don’t disparage other members of your sport. You don’t visit fascists.

Mostly I’m just embarrassed

If there was one thing I wish everyone would understand, it is how our definition of “religion“ is itself Christian.

Each Olympic host country faces the daunting challenge of how to stage a closing ceremony more perplexing and impressively weird than all the ones that came before.

The Olympic closing ceremony parade docent outfits tonight are even more perplexing than the opening ceremony silver sleeping bags.

Many disabled and chronically ill people are demonized for not working full-time jobs, when the truth is they can be forced out due to inaccessible policies. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

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I’m tired, hoss.

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This men’s long program is *stressful.* I think everyone needs a do-over tomorrow. #FigureSkating

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we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

I think we should put an end to the storyline of “you’re being told this to trick you away from paying attention to that.” It’s its own form of conspiracism that doesn’t alleviate the core issue of *crafting conspiracies to make sense of things that are confusing and overwhelming*

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

The idea of a bill rendering people deportable for following religious law should make every Jew ill

NEW: ProPublica went inside the detention center for immigrant families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of what comes next.

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kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them

Of course the cretins who pretend to care about waste think nothing of taking 14 planes to Italy on the taxpayer’s dime. 🤮

AWFUL news tonight. This blesses the “mandatory” detention in the 5th Circuit without bond (and little chance at habeas) of every undocumented immigrant who originally entered across the border, no matter how many decades in the past. It will fuel ICE’s push to transfer people to Texas immediately.

Here's a basic fact: most conspiracy theories tend towards antisemitism. Yes, that one. Mmm hmm, even that seemingly harmless one. Flat Earthers? Moon Landing Truthers? Antisemitism. Q-Anon? 9/11 Inside Job? Antisemitism.

It’s weird how the White House can just blame a “staffer” for the racist post as if just any low level flunky can pretend to be the President of the United States at any random time.

Jeff Bezos' wedding last summer cost somewhere around $50M. That, alone, could have saved all 300 positions cut today at The Washington Post for a year. Of course, he wouldn't have to choose. He could do both because he's worth $250B, which is nearly the GDP of New Zealand.

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Yes. There are millions of things to rightfully hate about Donald rather than reverting to schoolyard taunts about diapers.

The journalism we need give.propublica.org/campaign/748...

Dr. Nick Riviera must have turned them down.

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Just our government attacking children with chemical weapons at a peaceful protest.

We need to shut down the word "performative" until we can figure out what the hell is going on. Of course adopting symbols of protest and resistance is performative! Performance is a core strategy for mass movements!! That's why the call them demonstrations!!!

This is so obvious that it shouldn’t need saying, but the reason people across the country are outraged with what’s going on in Minneapolis is that *they can see it*. That means filming, it means press. If you’ve got someone with a big audience on your side, that’s a resource to use!

A terrifying and infuriating thread about the bullshit happening at the NIH.

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I find it disturbing when our government calls peaceful protests "riots", protesters or murder victims "left wing terrorists", or members of an opposing political party "enemies of the state" or "traitors". It's even worse when the media amplifies these statements as fact. It's downright un-American

The Trump regime doesn‘t value or protect due process or freedom of the press, which means absolutely no one is safe.

More of this, please!

"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me." --Homan in February "Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely." -- Tom Homan in March "I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room" -- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman

FWIW, this should be a law in every state and probably federal as well - release into safe circumstances close to where they were detained.