Single issue voter here. And this is the issue.

Halle Berrrrrrrrrryyyyyyyyy, HALLE BERRY

The effect of this on our communities is incalculable. My small, beloved neighborhood grocery store closed this week, saying too many of their regular customers have disappeared.

More than 80 percent of the immigrants arrested in D.C. during the surge in federal law enforcement this year had no prior criminal record, newly released federal data shows, even though that crackdown was portrayed as targeting violent crime. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

I have come to the idea that we have to collectively, brutally, ritualistically kill Target just to show capital that we truly aren’t fucking around.

The issue here is that “criminal” doesn’t hold the same evocative power for people when they’re picturing the people Trump pardons, the political power of “crime” is due to what people picture “crime” and who they envision a “criminal” to be…

The legal, media, and academic institutions capitulating to an authoritarian ordering payments for favorable treatment are damning themselves to irrelevance. They are destroying their institutions. They will be — and should be — shunned for failing in their most basic purposes for existing.

to keep functioning, a society must discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

“You’re right, I’ll do some homework now….” from Chotiner is serious horror movie stuff.

"These aren't the sort of people we're supposed to be arresting," they say about the white Brits without criminal records, as opposed to the Brown Latinos without criminal records that they ARE supposed to be arresting.

And yet we are supposed to pretend as though these judges are apolitical once they are confirmed.....

People are always like real job stability is in medicine or the law, but the most secure job is actually white guy writes op-eds about how he’s sick of the minorities.

Everything wrong with political journalism in one graf. This is not a policy proposal that exists but that doesn’t matter, what matters is that someone “won” by asking it bsky.app/profile/larr...

It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!

evergreen

Charles Allen will be introducing emergency legislation to revise the DDOT/DOB streatery regulations before they are implemented to lower the cost and add more flexibility

"Trump is a fucking idiot who gets rolled by anyone who's nice to him" theory remains undefeated, putting someone like Mamdani in there is like having Randy Johnson sub in for a 5th grade Little League game

donald trump endorsed zohran mamdani before chuck schumer lmao

trump is saying nicer things about mamdani than schumer has

This nurse from Maryland was on one of the recent flights to Ghana transferring third country nationals— under a still undisclosed agreement with the U.S. Certainly, she is not “worst of the worst.” Certainly her treatment in Ghana does not reflect solidarity and concern with fellow West Africans.

Absolutely incredible; after shooting Marimar Martinez 5 times and arresting her on claims that she rammed them and pulled a gun, prosecutors have now moved to dismiss ALL criminal charges against her and her codefendant.

the gulf between the swift brutality with which places like harvard treated students protesting genocide and the endless, endless latitude those same institutions have given people like larry summers tells you everything you need to know

Man, CBS must feel really stupid right now! Just kidding, CBS wasn't settling a lawsuit. They were paying a bribe and they knew it.

can bad prose be sexually transmitted

women are always saying “lord grant me the confidence of a mediocre man.” ok well he did. now what. is the world a better place? look at what you’ve wrought.

It's so obvious that when people say they didn't want Kamala to run on identity politics, they really mean, "She shouldn't have been a Black woman."

epstein emails released and everyone coming out as a pedophile to defend donald trump

It’s these assumptions “ANY woman could disregard professional ethics and fall in love,” and “ANY guy would date a teenager if he could,” that really undergird a lot of the rape culture people recoil at when spoken plainly.

It's mathematically impossible to have any less juice than this guy

Gianmarco has a whooooole joke about this www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu6C...

The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.

Here it is, from @clairewillett.bsky.social

"This could take down Democrats, too." I know. And I frankly wouldn't give even an itty bitty damn if it implicated every Democratic man in Congress, every Democratic hopeful for 2028 and every Democrat who has even thought about running for office. Down with the sex predators, wherever they are.

"This woke Me-Too bullshit has gone too far," said the former Harvard President and Secretary of the U.S. Treasury to the billionaire pedophile sex trafficker in a private email that the Justice Department under both parties kept secret for years

Be careful what you share, Ivanka. Some of us actually read the rest of the story.👇

We have utterly failed as a society when we cage people and are smugly certain that we never need to revisit those decisions. There are so many people dying in prisons who do not need to be there. Today, there is one less. Love and light to you. I'm sorry we failed you.

“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”

Bartels did a study 20+ years ago looking at how much a member of Congress' record coincided with their constituents' views, broken down by income. MCs are a lot more responsive to their wealthier constituents. Think about whom SNAP and flight delays affect. www.russellsage.org/sites/defaul...

Every sector of the 🇺🇸 economy & polity is exactly like this. Ronald Reagan & his lazy, selfish, juvenile talking point & his acolytes’ worn copies of Atlas Shrugged have done untold damage to our politics & society.

“Biden officials worried that attaching their names to a recommendation to limit American support for Tel Aviv would hinder their future career prospects, the former senior official said, ‘which is in itself appalling.’”

Well this is so cute

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

I do not think all anti-Zionists are antisemitic, but anti-Zionists who label Zohran Mamdani a "Zionist" simply because he condemned swastikas drawn on a Jewish day school in Brooklyn are in fact antisemites.

Imagine having a kid in this daycare who watches as their teacher is bodily dragged away by masked goons.

Tonight's even more proof the mainstream reporters who are still on Twitter are suffering from a brain problem akin Havana Syndrome that is preventing them from accurately doing their jobs. They are being cooked alive by a snuff-focused apartheid algorithm.

There are so many people who've had a hand in this historic moment, but one person I'm so grateful for is @lindseyboylan.bsky.social. Your courage and your conviction opened a door for so many people and so many futures, and this is one amazing reality you had such a vital role in making possible.

Hizzoner is a Gooner!!! #NYCisRed