15 November 1919 | A Czech Jew, Hanuš Jiří Kohn, was born in Plzeň. He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 28 September 1944. He perished in #Dachau on 24 January 1945.

Trump is having his DOJ pay himself and his friends millions of dollars, and Republican Senators put a $500k payoff to themselves in the shutdown bill. They’re stealing our tax dollars while telling you the mom on SNAP wanting to buy a box of cookies for her kids is the problem.

Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:

Companies should be required to explain why they can’t pay living wages, and why taxpayers need to subsidize their profits when they force their employees to rely on SNAP.

Christ on a crutch

Important to remember that on top of the fascism and incompetence, everybody in the Trump admin is also stealing everything they can as quickly as possible.

To recap: -@MarshaBlackburn @SenatorHagerty + other senate republicans tried to enrich themselves with taxpayer 💰 -We called them out. So did some Republicans. (Even @RepJohnRose) -They both now say they won’t take money (shame works!) -0 @Tennessean mentions of any of it

Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500. And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?

“This should be a nuclear bomb, it shouldn’t be a Wednesday.” - @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social

Btw Musk also went to bat for him even after this allegation was known. And let's be real his nomination only died cause everyone hates him not because of this scandal

Layoffs since April: Amazon: 30k Intel: 25k UPS: 20k Microsoft: 15k Meta: 3600 Target: 1800 Charter: 1200 Paramount: 1000 Rivian: 600 xAI: 500 Add Verizon to the list. They just laid off 15,000 and then their stock went up. Your reminder that the stock market isn’t the economy

The entire American experiment is based primarily on the mindless pursuit of wealth resulting in a culture of artifice where unremarkable people who were born or lucked into extreme privilege are treated like kings by armies of sycophants all rushing to the same trough?

Emily, this entire thread is simply emphasizing that we have Moved Beyond the Need for the New York Times. There is simply no way to reasonably defend their last decade of utter professional and ethical depravity.

Black units fought for this country at a time when they could return home and be lynched for wearing their uniforms. This is what this country has never dealt with: racism. Plain and simple.

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

REPUBLICAN Rep. Chip Roy: “Self-serving, self-dealing” WASH POST on the shameless @MarshaBlackburn & @SenatorHagerty money grab: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202... (The @tennesseannews has still not covered our senators stuffing their pockets with millions of taxpayer dollars)

No surprise here: Conservative Problem Solvers Caucus Democrats exist to undermine the Dem Party in the name of “bipartisanship,” to advance a GOP agenda. Notice how they never get Republican Problem Solvers to cross the aisle for Democratic priorities.

“We had to give the dictator what he wanted so that we could protect a super-majority requirement in the world’s least representative legislative body” is a wildly anti-democratic statement. Neither the US senate nor the Democratic Party has proven itself capable of preventing tyranny.

William Golding from his 1962 essay “Fables” on the intended meaning of his “Lord Of The Flies”.

I’m pretty sure Trump is in the Epstein files

Rep. Thomas Massie says the House parliamentarian has assured him that the signatures on the Epstein discharge petition are locked in and cannot be removed. The petition has to “ripen“ for 7 days of Congress being in session. Then a vote, unless Trump & Johnson have a new trick.

AOC: How can we, as members of congress, Republican or Democrat, vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people? That is what this legislation does. In fact, Senator Graham said he was going to seek well over $1 million from the American people, from this.

"That is why I will sign the discharge petition right now to release the Epstein files" -- Rep. Grijalva

Just imagine what "[victim] spent hours at my house with him" would do to literally any other political career

The Speaker of the House shut the chamber down for two months to block the release of the Epstein Files and the president is huddled in the Situation Room of the White House to formulate a plan to keep them from being released, and I don't know why you crazy libs think there's some kind of cover up.

new meme

Yikes

I'm genuinely not sure these folks truly understand what's coming. Some are just predatory sociopaths selling the country for scrap off the back loading dock, but a lot of them really do believe they're building a Utopia.

BREAKING: House Democrats just released emails in which Jeffrey Epstein wrote that Trump had "spent hours at my house" with one of Epstein's victims — among other messages that suggested Epstein believed Trump knew more about his abuse than he has acknowledged. tinyurl.com/5yj3dfpx

Democrats on the House Oversight Committee have released several emails from the estate of convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein that refer to President Trump. n.pr/4p7hqKa

WATCH: “Every Republican voted to keep a payola provision to send millions to individual senators bank accounts. IT’S CORRUPTION.” The @MarshaBlackburn @SenatorHagerty payday WILL be in the funding bill. Truly obscene & shameless even for them.

There’s actually an obscure state law that says that if you’re a white guy who went to Harvard and you can say “nothing can be done” in a snide tone while posing as a pragmatist, the New York Times is legally obligated to publish anything you write

Former President Barack Obama boarded an Honor Flight filled with veterans of the Korean and Vietnam wars that had just touched down from Madison, Wisconsin. #VeteransDay #ProudBlue Video credit: badgehonorflightwi/IG

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there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all

Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was ProPublica reporter @josh-kaplan.bsky.social. (Published January)

We’re watching Joyce Carol Oates slowly torture a Boer to death in real-time

Anything short of calling for Schumer to be replaced is performative outrage designed to mollify you

Right, the answer isn't to abandon the party to these weasels. The answer is to flood the party with people who will take it over and transform it.

Okay man. Call for Schumer’s ouster as senate minority leader or this post means nothing.

Some thoughts on the CR/minibus. 1 The Dems negotiating with Rs were not freelancing. They coordinated with Sen Schumer. A few were ready to give in on day one, others worked to maximize appropriations wins. Those voting for the 'deal' are the ones furthest away from electoral consequences.

There are a bunch of people up at the top who have mistaken their insulation from the cruelties of life as a form of wisdom

Ghislane Maxwell is a person that should never be free again... this account of Epstein and Maxwell victims is truly awful www.wbur.org/onpoint/2025...

Oh, and as if the bill wasn’t bad enough, the GOP slipped a nationwide abortion ban on the CR. So is that gonna go through as well?

To be clear: the deal they voted on to move forward last night still needs to be formally voted on in the Senate and House. If the eight are your senators, they should be hearing from you this morning!

Whether it's Joe Lieberman going MAGA or Tim Kaine caving in on ACA, both vice-presidential nominees turned out to be assholes.

We have had enough winning. by Senate Democrats

Cowards die many times before their deaths, The valiant never taste of death but once.

Tim Kaine (VA) John Fetterman (PA) Dick Durbin (IL) Maggie Hassan (NH) Catherine Cortez Masto (NV) Jackie Rosen (NV) Angus King (ME) They do not support the concept of a fundamental right to healthcare. They sold the American people out. They must be primaried and stay gone. Chuck Schumer too.

Durbin is trash. Yes, lots of great stuff in the past. Sure he’s a decent guy. But he’s pure trash now. Important to see that the bulk of Team Cave is made up of people who are retiring.