The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted. If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.

Important: House Dem leaders just said Trump's call for execution of Dems has prompted them to contact US Capitol Police and House Sergeant at Arms to "ensure the safety of these members and their families." Treat Trump like an unhinged menace. He's weak and in deep political trouble. Don't let up.

People are complicated. Legislation often involves aligning the complications into a shape that passes a bill.

If you haven’t watched Lawrence O’Donnell today, you need to go do so immediately I gave as much detail about the Epstein vote as I knew, but he has more, and Schumer deserves even more credit than I was already giving him

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Has anyone written about the ways that some online neurodiversity spaces put pressure on parents to homeschool? (And/or to put kids in special education schools rather than mainstream classrooms)?

Let’s be clear: Trump changing his tune about releasing the Epstein Files isn’t about justice — it’s an admission that he and Republicans are going to lose this vote. I’ll be voting YES on legislation to release the files and give the American people transparency.

Article I of the Constitution gives Congress the power to levy taxes and tariffs -- not the President. There is finally a bipartisan movement to reclaim this authority and end the costly and chaotic tariff wars – and we cannot let it die in Speaker Johnson’s hands.

It is so important to not gleefully do the kinds of things that your opponents would claim you do to try to discredit you

its corrosive to the Jewish ability to be a part of society in general if everything around us has this problem.

This is true, that said, I've watched this happen a lot, with BLM and Pride where key organizers or organizations have unleashed unhinged antisemitism and the 99% have just kinda stood by, and as a Jew you're left going "okay but is the person next to at this protest an antisemite?"

Heartbreaking article about institutionalization in Massachusetts: He Died at a School for Disabled People. Decades Later, His Brother Sought Answers. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...

My politics are “we live in a society!” but unironically.

Children are not a luxury accessory or an expensive hobby. They are literally our future.

Sure enough, there had been some confusion. They were referring to a popular meme and having a bit of a joke. I had snarkily pushed back, not knowing the meme. Apologies were made, posts were deleted on both sides. I think "block and move on" is generally good policy but sometimes it's complicated.

Earlier, I read a post here that seemed to be attacking me and, somehow, all men(?). So I blocked and moved on. But then I thought, this is so weird that maybe either I or them might have gotten something wrong? Misunderstood? So I unblocked them, quote tweeted my confusion, got a bit snarky....

Bracketing that at some point I’d like to write about how I think a lot of child safety advice is designed for one-maybe-two kids and creates problematic pressure on people to have fewer kids.

Like, there are a lot of different kinds of “communities” out there and most of them are not idealized, egalitarian communes whose solutions conveniently align with those professed by abolitionists.

Not feeling well. Need to cancel #ParshaChat

Hahaha, I was just joking...don't you get it? I didn't want to actually do the horrible thing I said I would do to you...it was just a joke! Why aren't you laughing at the joke about how you should die? Huh? 😬

This incident has gotten me thinking: On social media, there are *way* too many opportunities to be mean and get more validation than criticism from it.

every time this happens people start going "what about this, huh" and getting suspended too, so may I recommend not doing that at this point everyone should know what the policy is and "I'm going to go right up to what I think the line is and poke it with a stick" is asking to get got

"bluesky will suspend you for anything vaguely resembling a death threat" is maybe the single most consistent moderation policy they have I don't know why anyone is surprised by this one yes, even if it's a reference to song lyrics

If people are moving out of your city because they can work elsewhere more cheaply, your problem is affordability, not remote work.

Last year after the election, I reflected: "When we fight, we win—but sometimes the fight takes awhile." Last night, we saw Democratic victories across our nation. I am so proud of these enthusiastic, principled, inspirational leaders who will continue to fight for our nation, ideals, and progress.

The thing about career criminals is that they get away with it until they don’t.

Grijalva just signed the Epstein discharge petition. It now has the 218 signatures necessary to start the clock that will, in a few weeks, trigger floor votes on the underlying bill to require release of the full Epstein files.

5000 people have signed up to run for office with @runforsomething.net in the last week. Between the election wins & the shutdown fury, we’re taking that momentum in to 2026.

Speaker Johnson has literally said he's "not promising anyone anything." For once, I believe him.

Thread. Let’s keep the focus where it belongs.

WIC was bipartisan. CHIP was bipartisan. The most recent renewal of the Voting Rights Act was bipartisan!

It’s hard to believe now, but Republican politicians used to care about things other than obstructionism, destroying the government, and staying in office. They don’t have to be like this now. It’s a choice they’re making.

Right, we are here because Republicans are trying to hurt people. And also worth noting that the people you're mad at now the outliers in the party at the moment. The larger D caucus is pissed.

Seeing a lot of "why even vote for Dems?" today, when the thing people are upset about losing was literally created, and passed by Dems.

Where I am, for what little it is worth, is that the defectors were in fact defectors, and they blew the political opportunity. But we were not on the verge of extending the enhanced subsidies unless you can think of a way to get *House* Republicans on board.

A lot of people are conflating the ability of senate Democrats, the minority, to inflict political damage to Republicans by holding fast on the shutdown, and their ability to extract immediate and powerful policy concessions.

For anyone trying to write 50,000 words in November, I made a google spreadsheet you can use to keep track. Feel free to make a copy: #Nanowrimo

Folks really do need to understand that there may have been multiple ways to lose this one but there wasn't really a way to win it, because truly winning went off the table until at least 2026 in 2024.

All we need for the actual cloture vote is one single Democrat to change their vote, do not give up now and be so proud of the work we did today! 2/2

I just wanna say that the motion to proceed vote, which is all this Was, had a hell of a lot more dems supporting it before our rapid response work this afternoon. Only eight Dems voted for this, and that is because of how hard we worked in the last many hours. 1/2

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What long form blogs are people still reading? The main one I’m aware of is daringfireball.net

I’ve voted 7 times to reopen the government in a way that holds Trump accountable for his lawlessness and prevents a health care crisis. I’m prepared to work toward a compromise, but this “deal” before us does not come close to meeting those terms. Voting NO. Full statement:

Obviously prejudicial to the outcome

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A3: I think that caring what's true is a fundamental part of caring about people that it's easy to inadvertently overlook in the moment. #ParshaChat

Q3: What's going on here? Why did God need to go investigate? How would the story be different if God had just acted without investigating? #ParshaChat

Q2: What's going on here? Why might God consider hiding God's intentions from Abraham? #ParshaChat