Happy Partially Muscled Skeleton Day to all who celebrate. Be sure to let all your screams out and then disappear.

About half of what it was going to cost to fully fund SNAP in November during the shutdown.

This isn’t even the stuff they’re trying to actually stop from getting out.

My daughter just yelled "Open salami!' at a door in a videogame and I think I'm keeping that one

Shout out to everyone completely demoralized about the state of the world who still manages to get out of bed each morning. And shout out to you, too if you’re still in bed. This shit is hard. Talk to your friends and neighbors. They’re going though it too, which is both terrifying and comforting.

Ppl need to understand what's happening here. The GOP response to the shutdown was: You're gonna cave, or we're going to hurt vulnerable people by shutting off SNAP. The Dems, unwilling to let that happen, caved. Having watched that, the GOP is now saying: "Give us what we want on abortion or ..."

C R Y I N G this is so perfect lmao x: www.instagram.com/reel/DQ7cPSf...

I've lived in Canada for twenty years, which you would think means I have good odds of seeing the aurora. And yet, I've missed the majority of them because it's always cloudy out. 🥲 Pacific Northwest problems

81 years ago, FDR proposed a second Bill of Rights to guarantee every American the right to employment, healthcare, education, housing, and a living income. His words are as relevant now as they were then. Watch.

New in PN: Cue the rebellion "The unfortunate conclusion to the shutdown is going to fuel a rebellion within the Democratic Party, one that has already begun but will only get stronger. And despite all the justified disgust now being expressed at Dems, in the long run it will be good for the party"

2025 has just been the year of the centre giving way to the right. The liberals making an austerity budget in Canada, the Democrats giving up unprompted to massive healthcare cuts, Kier Starmer existing. Hopefully people can clue the fuck in on who these folks actually serve.

I have to hand it to them, it's an incredible bit to publicly lose a game of chicken, admit that's what happened, and then spend the next day lecturing everyone about courage and tenacity

This was Schumer's baby. The Senate whip (either party's) has a specific function. The whip cajoles and strongarms party members to vote with leadership. The one person the Senate Minorioty Leader (or Majority) can count on is their whip. Schumer's is Dick Durbin, who voted with the Republicans.

The fact that none of the 8 Dems are up for re-election in 2026 is a pretty good sign @schumer.senate.gov engineered the surrender

Regular reminder that Axios stories saying Dems are about to cave are likely sourced from GOP staffers trying to make it happen. Doesn't mean it definitely won't happen. But it's like those NYT stories that Harvard is considering caving (they haven't). The anonymous source was trying to manifest it.

I didn't get fooled by the fake Sean Duffy quote, but many did—and I can't blame them for it Why? Because surely you've noticed that members of the Trump administration say shit this stupid every single day? Distinguishing yesterday's incomprehensibly stupid shit from today's fake quote is *work*

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

I don't think rich people are insane, personally. I think that's an insult to mentally ill people, who are generally kept from being wealthy by virtue of their condition, which is not a choice. I think wealth, which is, just makes you evil, bc your attempts to justify it make you a monster

I don't think people realize how much a trillion dollars is. Let's say you get paid a million dollars per day. That's a lot, right? If you spend none of it and pay no taxes, you'll have a trillion dollars in approximately two thousand seven hundred (2700) YEARS. No one should have that much.

Sometimes I see people like 20 tweets deep into an argument with Grok. Like, what are you doing brother? You are trying to win an argument with a vending machine.

I knew it was bad, but I didn't realize it was quite THIS bad.

The New York Times is going through some things, although not, regrettably, a woodchipper.

1. In the wake on Mamdani’s win, we’ll see a lot more far right anti-urban sentiment. Here’s a thread on its roots and evolution. The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵

REMINDER: A socialist act by a New Yorker was a major reason why polio was eliminated in the US.

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

I am so stoked for New York today, this is such a huge victory for the working class. My expectations of the Democratic establishment couldn't be any lower, but I still sincerely hope they learn something from this.

The cruelty is the point.

F. Scott Fitzgerald: In my book I invented Gatsby lifestyle as a cautionary tale The president: At long last, we have created the Gatsby lifestyle from the classic novel The Great Gatsby

My kids have been getting into youth fiction as they get older, so I've been stocking a bookshelf for them, and carving some wooden bookends. I've been a digital creature for so long, I forgot how squirrelly it is to try to do lettering with a paintbrush. #woodcarving #bookworm

I know they probably produced this by literally feeding Nazi propaganda into an AI, but the entire shtick is just so... geriatric. It's like they're trying to appeal specifically to the retired Hitler Youth dementia patient demographic.

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Excellent rule for life in general, really. Cops are literally trained to manipulate information out of you. And for all the chatter I see about their nefarious, underhanded methods for this, the truth is, most don't need to bother, because a lot of you volunteer that shit willingly.

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

Continuing to do any kind of creative work in a landscape where shitty companies and individuals are trying to get bots to do it in place of humans is very punk, actually.

A very offline cousin sent this to fam group chat. This story is breaking containment.

I hear the Epstein Ballroom will be illuminated solely by gaslighting.

how it feels explaining early 2000s hipster history to young people

Developing a machine that can sit on a porch and drink some ice cold beers for you so that you can get back to work

The recent history entries read like they were written in crayon by a child from a KKK household

im sorry but if you think “normies” dont care about the white house being demolished for a half billion dollar golden vanity ballroom as the economy implodes then you just arent as plugged in as you think you are

There shouldn't be a single human on this planet, within reach of other humans, who still goes hungry. This is a collective responsibility.

For almost four decades the default democratic position on “what normies care about” is that it is a fixed immovable thing that leaders have no power to change, and that unilateral atrophying of the basic muscles of politics is a big part of How We Got Here.

"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something

Yes, the world is on fire and there are other priorities, but I am BEGGING lawmakers to please finally do what we all know needs to be done, and abolish this disastrous policy failure of a social experiment.

Absolutely great advice for anyone whose work includes interacting with the public online, but also just great advice in general in our current digital climate. We're all just social animals, and our brains weren't built for coping with this kind of vast anonymized communication.

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