Republicans pretty consistently like progressives more than moderate democrats. We’ve seen this with Bernie, AOC, and on a more local level, with @annaforflorida.bsky.social. Now we’re seeing it with Mamdani.

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 literally never was. I suggested to some other NCMEC Board members when I was there that we should push back on the wrongful use of “groomer” to describe non-pedophiles. The answer, from Rich Kolodziej, NCMEC Board member: “we aren’t here to protect Democrats”.

He looks like his mom was doing kegel exercises while giving birth

Honestly every government and business needs a department of kerning

“I have here a polite but firm letter to Mr. Burns’ underlings who, with some cajoling, will pass it along to him.”

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.” aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

It would’ve been so funny is Mamdani had just immediately launched into the Mario Cuomo “A Tale of Two Cities” speech as a troll

I volunteered for GOTE (get out the enrollment) for the first year and sooo many people were like “I want to get the ACA, not Obamacare.” We should’ve let them enjoy it for a year, then hit them with the truth when they enrolled the next year. Surprise, asshole.

In hindsight, we should have called it the Affordable Care Act for just the first year, then switched it to Obamacare. Too many people still think they’re different things and it’s so frustrating. Democrats really suck at taking credit for all the good they’ve done.

This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

Every time I try to do any research, I become more convinced that SEO should be a felony offense

The Venn diagram of people who worry about healthcare costs and people who vote for politicians who will increase healthcare costs is a circle

I can’t wait for all these kids who use ChatGPT for everything to find out what a blue book is

i really resent the continued assertion that there’s so much anger on both sides, as if the causes of the anger are equally legitimate. we’re angry because masked maniacs are violently snatching our family and neighbors off the street, and they’re angry because we’re calling them out for it.

this is what will happen if mamdani makes bus rides free

Me in 2012: how are there still democrats who support the death penalty? Me now: why the fuck didn’t democrats utilize the death penalty?

"From our vantage point as a fundamentally innumerate body of milquetoast thinkers who are wrong about everything, holding fewer sincere beliefs is the key to electoral success."

Hi all- a friend has a family looking for a missing minor. This is in the Monterey Park, CA area (San Gabriel Valley). Please boost. Thank you!

Can you even imagine how republicans would have reacted if Obama did this

The "factual background" begins with something irrelevant and erroneous. Dallas is not in Oregon, and the Dallas shooting wasn't connected to any ICE protest. If that's enough for the President to federalize a different state's National Guard and deploy them elsewhere, then the power is limitless.

Scott Pelley got a big scoop with the Trump DOJ whistleblower that almost surely was going to be the top story on 60 Minutes this week. But per the NYT, Bari Weiss personally booked Jared Kushner on 60–letting him take a victory lap for the Gaza deal. Pelley’s story was pushed to second position.

If you aren’t willing to let your child be bored regularly, you’re a shitty parent. You are the reason I get stuck in traffic behind UCLA students who can’t survive a red light without watching TikTok. LET KIDS BE BORED.

goddamn is there anything Wikipedia editors can’t do www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/n...

This morning, I was hit in the face by a baton. I’m going to have a pretty gnarly bruise but we need to remember why this is happening: Trump and ICE are rounding up our neighbors, treating them as subhuman, and shipping them off to labor camps in foreign countries. It has to end.

Interesting. Tell me more about these early Xbox meetings.

I know a lot of things are bad but I just got into an uber leaving the airport and it smells like pink starbursts in here and I’m so delighted

Hey @gavinnewsom.bsky.social @governor.ca.gov digital staff, please tell your boss that voters like me (cis democrat in Beverly Hills) will not support him unless he stands up for trans people. In dem primaries, I am a single-issue voter for trans rights.

I don’t understand people who repeatedly lose elections, but keep running for office? Like what kind of invincible self esteem do these people have?

I will never understand why Trump ALWAYS gets the benefit of the doubt, and Democrats NEVER do.

When the Titanic sank, extremely wealthy passengers like John Jacob Astor IV and Benjamin Guggenheim went down with the ship to protect their reputations as gentlemen. Can you imagine if, like, Elon Musk was in their shoes now? He’d be on the first lifeboat.

This passage nearly broke me.

I’m so glad that my cats self-regulate their food intake because I do not have the emotional fortitude to deny them anything. I mean, I’d obviously put them on a diet if needed, but I’d probably cry about it daily.

When I was 11, a friend’s dad told us that he once saw a girl get her toes caught in an escalator and I still think about it every time I’m on an escalator

Trump and this Court are straight up eviscerating the Constitution. Emoluments Congress' Power of the Purse 1st Amendment 5th Amendment 6th Amendment 14th Amendment 15th Amendment 22nd Amendment

In a statement ICE claimed Arias-Mendoza had a number of previous arrests and entered the country illegally at some point. This journalist is not in the business of taking ICE at their word.

Fascism never goes away without armed conflict in the west - Franco stayed in power till he died. Same with Salazar. Hitler and Mussolini would have also. Just a note…

Democrats should never vote to fund a government that's waging war on its own citizens and firing officials *because* they insist on following court orders instead of breaking the law. Let Senate Republicans nuke the filibuster. None of this is normal and it shouldn't be treated as such.

Also democracy is an very fragile thing based on rules everybody agreed to follow. If someone decides simply not follow the rules - entire thing can fall apart.

TBH there is no way to design any system to counteract an executive declaring "I have all power and can exercise it arbitrarily" when a majority of the legislative and judicial branches responds with "that's right." Such a society is too primitive for modern governance and the rule of law.

I expected his second term to be worse than his first term but jfc

"The leadership of the FBI, DOJ, and DHS have proven their agencies are not capable of conducting investigations based on anything other than Trump’s political objectives. Simply put: the federal govt can no longer be trusted, & the Trump admin only has itself to blame." — @justinglawe.bsky.social

It is really funny that Jimmy Kimmel Live showed more moral fortitude and adherence to a system of values than Columbia University

Worrier ethos

One of the problems with heterosexual culture in this country is that it will confuse sacrificing other people’s dignity, rights, and personal autonomy with bravery and savvy, rather than paving the road to fascism.

Democratic consulting firms should not work with any anti-choice candidates. If you’re a democratic candidate, you should not hire consulting firms that work with any anti-choice candidates. It’s that simple.

I was reliably told celebrating political violence was cause for government reprisal and private sector termination.

We really need to find a way to stop stupid people from sabotaging their children’s education