I judge people on their capacity for being compassionate towards pigeons. If you can’t find a little room in your heart for the ignored, discarded and abandoned, that says everything I need to know about you. #pigeonsky

I love Puffins.

You can’t say you care about the environment and let your cats roam outdoors

Republican voters don’t have to plead with their elected leaders to do what they want as much as Democrats do

Work emails in the middle of the night and on the f@&!ing weekends students 🤝 boomer & Gen X coworkers

Never made sense that the while Democrats were warning us that Trump would deploy DHS as his private storm troopers, they were passing bills that raised DHS funding to record levels.

Just so it's clear for my delegation (@warren.senate.gov @edmarkey.bsky.social @ayannapressley.bsky.social), I will never again vote for someone who helps appropriate a dollar, not one single cent, for ICE or DHS.

Unfortunately at my age I’ve already been through an entire American war cycle waged by a Republican with Democrats who refused to do their jobs in response.

Marco Rubio was confirmed 99-0 by the US Senate one year ago this month.

The performative “I wuv books did you know libraries are FREE🤓 ” people on this app ignite my hater chemicals more than is probably healthy

Whenever someone follows me on this app

I’ve forgotten this sometimes but being able to discover something you like, curate it, and make time to enjoy it *is* intelligence, connecting with art is intelligence, empathy is intelligence, the way of the dullard is to find nothing meaningful in art except for a way to seem snidely clever

It goes into that weird thing that genuine appreciation is somehow considered less intellectual than criticism but everybody is getting trained to be such a cynical unfeeling asshole nowadays that I find the smartest people often are the “hell yeah cool song/drawing/story/video” people

Here is a googly-eyed house #pigeon for your enjoyment

Cold weather and the holiday season always gives me the urge to play Skyrim

It’s such a relief to have primary care that responds to messages, is quick with refills, follows up on test results without having to call a bajillion times, calls back when they say they will, is thorough in their care and looking at your medical history, and listens to you about symptoms

There is something particularly galling about my male colleagues not putting the toilet seat down in the restrooms at A WOMEN’S COLLEGE

And Bernie isn't calling for Schumer's ouster as leader. And Bernie isn't withholding consent as a procedural obstacle to any nominations

Really. You're going to tell us what to do? We're the ones paying the bill. Whose lives are on the line. Who are being abducted and deported. Who keep showing up to fight ICE We are the 7+ million who showed up and then voted Get rid of Schumer. Clean your house, get it in order, then listen.

The model of holding individual senators responsible is broken here. The retirees clearly agreed to take the fall. Which is why the nos should get no credit for voting no unless they move to oust Schumer

It took a courageous Republican bucking his party to give America affordable healthcare and eight cowardous Democrats bucking their party to give take it away.

Remember when they said the reason they caved in March was so they could get a better deal in September lmao

This deal to reopen the government is fucking disgraceful. Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened. This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.

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Nobody in American politics hates their own voters more than the Democratic Party

Don't they understand that demanding control over women's bodies IS authoritarianism?

we got here because - republicans/conservatives are evil - the mainstream media sucks - idiot leftists said theres no difference between the parties - idiot democrats spent more time pandering to the mythical center and the center right than their own base

In addition to the all horrific thing this Republican Billionaire Bill does to Medicaid and health care and nursing homes, it also gives an obscene amount of money to create a massive police state that will terrorize Americans. People need to focus on that as well.

This is on @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social and @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and @ericswalwell.bsky.social and @danielsgoldman.dg4ny.co and everyone else who has aligned with the Republicans on their hyper Islamaphobic shit. You guys are the GOP.

Idk when dems are going to realize that their colleagues are performing when they express doubts about Trumps ideas, not when they're publicly endorsing and voting to advance all of them. Youre being played, dummies.

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Today marks the third anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. What's happened since? A record number of women have been prosecuted. Pregnancy loss is now considered extremely suspicious, even when it has nothing to do with abortion.

Just a reminder that generative AI is theft of labor and intellectual property, uses vast amounts of energy/ water, provides at best mediocre results (if not outright lies or misinformation), actually affects your ability to think over time (mind duh), and is in general a really fucking bad idea.

I saw videos of violent agitators trampling people with horses. Who should I report them to?

I'm sure this was always the case, but the whiplash in political expression by major corporations during roughly the last 3 years has been the ultimate proof that they are completely amoral, and so their support shouldn't be celebrated unless it's instrumentally useful.

I used to live on the island of Kaua’i where a lot of celebrities came. There was a plaza on the island with an organic food store and a kid’s play place. As I was walking from the back parking lot to the store, a small child ran right into me and was quickly snatched by Ben Stiller.

You guys realize it's hard to trust you when every other message I get from the DNC is like "Trump is a DICTATOR. No one is safe if you don't rush $5 now!" and then you post anemic bullshit like this right

Sen. John Fetterman (Pa.) Sen. Maggie Hassan (N.H.) Sen. Tim Kaine (Va.) Sen. Andy Kim (N.J.) Sen. Gary Peters (Mich.) Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.) Sen. Elissa Slotkin (Mich.)

Reminder that seven Democratic senators voted to confirm Kristi Noem and six Dem senators declined to vote either way. She was confirmed, 59-34. The good faith experiment is clearly over, and we need the Democratic senators who didn't stand against her nomination to be loud as hell right now.

Seriously, the knee-jerk desire to shame anyone for having fun is a major reason the Democrats have a bad brand.

I don't think the student should be punished, but Peters ignores a political economy where students on campus are targeting university employees hoping of breaking into conservative media. Which completely worked in this case! Wrote about this a while back. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-hi...

Here’s $20 million advice: find authentic voices who are already in spaces and elevate them organically. Don’t just shut them out because they’re young, or because they’re not using your poll-tested language, or in dead-lockstep with party leaders

One day I would like a researcher to analyze what collectively shitting on the humanities for 20+ years and pushing everyone to STEM has done to our collective critical thinking abilities

the new york sewer rats have finally elected a new rat pope

Tense standoff at the feeder this morning #Birds 🪶

Here’s a cuddly pigeon to end your week #PigeonSky #pigeons #birds