Ok one more video. the most beautiful fluke I've seen. edited for EXTRA BEAUTY!!!

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We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com. We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans. washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

So touched to see a gerrymandered district fight like hell for @aftynbehn.bsky.social. TN District 7, message your friends and make sure they have a way to the polls before they leave town for Thanksgiving. Everyone votes this time.

"At the world’s summit, America is overthrowing America." Lydia Polgreen on how Trump is destroying the US status as a world superpower status all on his own. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...

It's shocking.

How should we consume the news in an era when billionaire oligarchs have smeared muck all over formerly reliable outlets? That's an important question, since staying informed is an important part of belonging to a democracy. Pass this on to your less-informed friends-- substack.com/home/post/p-...

Zohran Mamdani doesn’t make me, an American Jew, feel unsafe. Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.

Now that’s a lede. Story by @taracopp.bsky.social and @michelleboorstein.bsky.social. Read here: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Iowa City, socialist hellhole www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...

Question for #polisky: Can anyone point me to a short video that outlines the key democratic themes in the Declaration of Independence? Not the history of it, but the ideas in it. (1/2)

Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged. Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.

We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community. The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution. Don’t give up the ship.

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.

How should we consume the news in an era when billionaire oligarchs have smeared muck all over formerly reliable outlets? That's an important question, since staying informed is an important part of belonging to a democracy. Pass this on to your less-informed friends-- substack.com/home/post/p-...

So Harvard is keeping this guy, but Claudine Gay had to step down over ginned up plagiarism accusations and bad-faith accusations of anti-Semitism. Got it.

I realize it's less urgent, but these same resource diversions are leaving us largely undefended against financial fraud, too. Not to mention that any fraudster who gets caught can feel pretty confident about a presidential pardon...

The Pentagon is withdrawing hundreds of National Guard soldiers from Chicago and Portland, Ore.

Deportations actually _increase_ housing prices because they shrink the construction industry. The reduction in new houses being built swamps effects from lower demand

“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938 zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context

Tax the rich. Billionaire tears not pictured.

DeLauro: The president went to the supreme court to deprive kids of food. Unbelievable. And now wants to deny their parents healthcare.

Adelita Grijalva heading to DC to be sworn in after waiting for 7 weeks https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/arizona/adelita-grijalva-heading-dc-to-possibly-sworn-in-waiting-7-weeks/75-6675933f-4f72-4fbe-90b6-4dbbd05ba274 

This Veterans Day I want to acknowledge the Black veterans of WWII who fought fascism and nazism and came home to fight for civil rights and democracy here. New research shows Black veterans were critical in securing the voting rights currently under attack. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

I'm sorry, it was always going to be the Dems who ended the shutdown. Because the Rs -- especially Trump -- were happy to starve people to get their way. Dems cared about suffering. Rs enjoyed it.

Absolutely. The far right took over the GOP through the long process of taking over local and county organizations and the left can do the same. It’s not an instant fix but it actually works.

Donald Trump just said he'll ask the Supreme Court to freeze SNAP payments AGAIN. His message to the 42 million Americans who rely on SNAP? Eat dirt.

See this? This is a case to potentially be concerned about!

68% of SNAP users are children or older/disabled people. Another 20% are families with kids. The remaining 11% is the only category the GOP leadership wants to talk about. Media: when they do that, do your job and cite this chart!!!

#NoTrillionaires Fund #SNAP

AP reporter Regina Garcia Cano looked into a few of the men killed in Trump's extrajudicial strikes on Caribbean boats. "They were laborers, a fisherman, a taxi driver. Two were low-level career criminals. One was a local crime boss who contracted out smuggling services" apnews.com/article/trum...

A cleaning woman showed up at the wrong house with her husband. Someone inside shot through the door, striking 32-year-old María Florinda Ríos Pérez de Velásquez in the head, killing her. The Indianapolis suburb is called Whitestown.

Fact-Checking Claims About Zohran Mamdani https://theonion.com/fact-checking-claims-about-zohran-mamdani/

We need this to penetrate public consciousness. Sooner or later they come hat in hand to govt. They will tell SNAP recipients to “get a job.” To billionaires peddling an idea no one needs, they open the coffers filled with our tax dollars.

Blue nights #art #oilpainting

Read this thread. This is what @katmabu.bsky.social was protesting, and why she repeatedly says getting beaten up by ICE outside is nothing compared to the torture and crimes being committed inside Broadview. These thugs must be held to account.

This is almost too painful for satire

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

NEW: Judge Ellis will be issuing a preliminary injunction against federal agents in Chicago - a more permanent version of her earlier temporary restraining order.

I'm hard-pressed to think of a non-Jewish Democratic politician who has spoken to Jews with more respect and empathy than Mamdani. The fact that many Jewish establishment orgs are going after him while staying relatively mum on resurgent Nazism is a disaster, both for American Jews and in general.

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

Let us remember who Dick Cheney really was. Me for Zeteo, with 🧾: zeteo.com/p/dick-chene...

She's a hero.

"Smiling like Mamdani" needs to become a meme. That man can beam like nobody's business.

To our NYC friends, I want to say: Welcome to the feeling of having a great mayor!!!

Maybe they should also run some editorials about how X is out of touch and an echo chamber.

this strange feeling you're experiencing this morning is optimism. hang on to it, we've got a long road ahead to the midterms next year, this is what will get you there.

Very much this.

Republicans thought they had a permanent hold over young men. They didn't. Spanberger wins men 18-29 by 14%, Sherrill by 10%, and Mamdani by a stunning 40%.