You know how in a library no one’s trying to sell you anything? That’s how the internet was.

They said Biden was too old - to deflect from Trump's age. They said Kamala would take us to war - to deflect from their war plans. They said Dems had a pedophile ring - to deflect from their pedophile ring. Now they're telling you elections are being stolen.

Pitch an unnecessary sequel The Seventh Sense

NO NO NO YOU DON’T GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL tell everyone you know www.freetaxusa.com

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." Pretty good advice, right up until he's in the middle of starting World War III. Then, don't wait for the midterms. Interrupt.

State of the Union drinking game: Every time Trump says a word, drink.

We bought Article II of the United Nations Charter with the blood of a hundred million human beings, and less than a century later, it's being sold for nothing by people who don't even understand what they're doing.

Defeating the Nazis was in the same category as changing a flat tire: an untidy business that men were expected to know how to do. - @nealstephenson.bsky.social

@cybelecanterel.bsky.social is making some of the best, most thoughtful, insightful, and CORRECT analysis videos of our moment. you get smarter by watching them.

I bristled at the Orwellian overtones of the "Department of Homeland Security" before it was cool.

GOP: Government is the enemy! Voters: Yeah!! [GOP takes over federal gov't, declares war on basically everything.] GOP: See??

also the venn diagram of people mad they can't understand the lyrics and the people who think born in the usa is about how good america is is a circle

Neat! Apparently I'm a "Progressive American Democrat," not to be confused with an "American Progressive Democrat."

That halftime show was *aggressively* anti-white-nationalist. 👏

When Democrats are back in power, and conservatives voice outrage about something a Democratic politician has done, we are going to have so much "Where were you when..." material we won't even know where to start.

In the 1978 film, when Clark Kent needs to become Superman for the first time, he pauses briefly at a modern unenclosed phone booth - then new - before finding another place to change unobserved. It got a big laugh from audiences at the time! Do today's audiences even understand that moment?

FTFY 😢

Hey Hollywood folks / @lincolnproject.us: The Epstein files are terrible enough as it is - but we can make them terribler. Dramatize a few dozen snippets. Drop them as 30-second videos on social media. Pictures are worth a thousand words, and the public conscience isn't wounded nearly enough.

In our representative democracy, our political leaders are - guess what? - not leaders. They are our representatives. While we're looking to them for leadership, they are looking to us - for leadership. Let's show them what we need them to do, and make sure they do it.

Billionaires employ lots of assistants. Many of them have access to info that could embarrass the billionaire, or worse, if made public. No such person should leak any such info, and especially shouldn't include a Bitcoin payment address to which grateful citizens might send money.

Every day Mamdani comes out and is like "hey guys, I turned off the orphan-crushing machine. Literally just had to flip a switch. Took less than 5 minutes." After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc

We need to stay angry. But staying angry is unhealthy. So once in a while, take a day off. Take two days off. Take a week off. Do what you need to reset: exercise, gardening, painting, knitting, videogames, music, whatever. Whatever you need to be able to come back to your anger.

Tried the dishwashing powder created in collaboration with @techconnectify.bsky.social. Dishwashing-perfectionist wife reports it's the cleanest she's ever seen our dishes. Happy wife, happy life.

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FTFY. So easy to do. Try it sometime, @cnn.com!

After 365+ days of the screws tightening, it's easy for one day of them loosening to feel like victory. Beware. It isn't.

Join the mass call tonight: "Eyes on ICE"

Bravo, @schiff.senate.gov!

It is surprising how much I'm hearing "Fuck ICE" even from acquaintances with whom my interactions before now have been aggressively apolitical.

I need everyone to take their rage and channel it into... more peaceful, lawful protest. Nothing would fill them with more glee than if we stooped to violence. On the other hand, staying cool will make them feel the rage you're feeling. Yes, their rage means we suffer... right up until we win.

Maybe Renee Good and Alex Pretti were just the regrettable collateral damage of an otherwise essential and worthwhile operation. If so, there must be some metrics, some success criteria to tell us whether the benefits are worth the horrifying costs. And those are...? Anyone? Anyone?

Holy shit.

Do you honestly think people in the civil rights movement and other nonviolent movements faced no violence themselves? They practiced nonviolence because it works, because the oppressor wants a shooting war, which is the war it will win

Last we heard from Kamala on this platform was a bromide about MLK Jr. on his day. Before that: a Christmas greeting. And she wants to be president?? Shit is happening, lady. Daily. Some people are stepping up and speaking out. Where are you?

An idea for @governorwalz.mn.gov and the MN legislature: If a law-enforcement officer has failed to identify him or herself in the commission of a suspected crime, any other member of the same agency may be held accountable in their stead, up to and including prosecution.

It’s CONGRESS that can stop ICE and CBP deployment to MN. The Dems (and any responsible Rs?) should introduce legislation and agitate for a vote: “No federal funds may be used for further activities of ICE or CBP in the state of Minnesota, except for their prompt withdrawal.”

Where are the principled resignations from ICE? If they were happening, would we know?

I propose a constitutional amendment: add the sentence "Yes, really" to the end of this text.

Solidarity with Minneapolis this Friday. Don't be like Congress. Take some action.

Today's letter to my senators and congressman (all Democrats): When you read a plea to “mount a much more muscular defense of American democracy,” as you did in my letter last week 1/7

FTFY

I blocked ICE before it was cool.

You have to block them immediately. The full nuclear. They are only here to make folks angry, and that can’t happen if we lock them out.

FTFY

@taffyakner.bsky.social writes about becoming a superfan of the Broadway show Operation Mincemeat. The article itself is some of my favorite writing ever, the same kind of unlooked-for and ever-rarer delight that she describes the show being. I am in danger of becoming a Taffy superfan.

Fun fact! We could be using the $75 billion allocated for ICE on literally anything else! Like essential services that help people exist! It’s almost as if these issues + our priorities have a lot of overlap! Also people definitely can’t afford things if they get shot in the face!