And off goes the television. Not worth watching the rest of that game anyways.

This is just gross. Monetizing cruelty.

A third Trump-installed U.S. Attorney just ruled unlawful— a strategy to bypass Senate oversight and politicize justice. But accountability isn’t optional. #authoritarianism #DemocraticDecline #ruleoflaw #SteadyStateAssessment

Even for Trump World, this is a shocking outrage. Everything about this—from LEOs threatening, then arresting this citizen (who committed no crime), the judge setting a mind-bogglingly inappropriate bond, then delaying the hearing five more weeks—is legally and morally wrong, and wholly un-American.

Mamdani: "But there is one thing that I will change: I will no longer look for myself in the shadows. I will find myself in the light."

“A government of the people must be transparent. The public has a right to know who’s paying, how much, and for what,” said Hilary Braseth, executive director of OpenSecrets. www.opensecrets.org/news/2025/10...

4 months apart

just found out that about a week ago, while george santos has been in solitary confinement, that he wrote that due to the inhuman conditions he is facing he is now pro prison reform. just unreal stuff honestly

Conservatives have built their own social media platforms, Trump has his own Twitter alternative, his allies are buying major social media platforms to weaponize for their propaganda and influence and we’re still arguing if having a left-leaning social media platform is a bad thing

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

267,000. That’s how many veterans are projected to LOSE their health care if Republicans get their way and take away these health care tax breaks. This is not how we take care of those who served us, and I won’t stand for it.

1/ 🧵 Froggie vs. ICE: The asymmetrical symbol of a failing authoritarian state. You’ve seen the video. An inflatable frog at a Portland protest. Unarmed. Unbothered. Unapologetically absurd. And ICE panics. They fire pepper spray up a frog caricature's ass. The frog wins.

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system. I am not fearful — I am fearless. We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..

Someone should start asking why we’re hearing and seeing Stephen Miller so much all of a sudden.

“People over Papers, a crowdsourcing project that maps sightings of US immigration agents, was taken offline yesterday by Padlet, the collaborative bulletin board platform on which it was built. It’s just the latest ICE-tracking initiative to be pulled by tech platforms in the past few days.”

🧪 NEW STUDY of fracking and drinking water in PA: “Our results verify that unintended communication events can result in widespread contamination of subsurface water sources” The verb “verify” references the 200+ previous studies that also found fracking harms water www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I've been trying to put my finger on why ICE/DHS lies feel so much more outrageous than normal cop lies, and I think it's because they don't lie like cops, they lie like aggressively stupid criminals

Do not give in to despair. Instead, connect with people in your community and find your shared values. Let's dismantle the us vs them mindset. We are all in this together. The future is not yet written! We can make a better tomorrow.

Federal officer blasts chemical spray into vocal but nonviolent Portland protester, video shows The interaction illustrates how federal law enforcement officers do use aggressive tactics against protesters who yell and needle officers but don’t appear to present clear physical threats.

I was a skeptic about the import of the Epstein files. But 3 invasions of cities, one military buildup outside Venezuela, a government shutdown, and so many other things meant to distract have me convinced whatever’s in there is the biggest presidential scandal in U.S. history.

starfleet medical officer here. I can tell you that a 72 hour stay in a medbed indicates a serious and potentially fatal health condition.

If you let your push alerts pile up, they sure do tell a story

ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants

quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

There are many things to say about this choice, but for me the first thing that leaps to mind is that, well, Miami is unlikely to still be habitable in 2100, so it's a great place to put a monument to the man who will do more than any other single being to bring that state of affairs about

I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.

The following is a statement from the WGA on ABC’s decision to pull ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

This is genocidal rhetoric calling people cockroaches. This is exactly the language used in the Rwandan genocide.

We are 8.5 years from Trump’s first executive orders, and journalists still think they’re doing their job by pushing out stories about Trump actions before we get the actual text of what they’re doing based on the narrative White House press people tell them about what will be in orders. Why?

These are the sorts of attacks on experts that resulted in a domestic terrorist firing 500 shots at the CDC just over a week ago. If you stand for evidence based public health interventions, you basically get a target placed on your back by DHHS leadership. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

Anyone who has studied the history of police states and surveillance can tell you invasions like this are a stalking horse. Extreme tactics like this are always tested on vulnerable populations prior to being normalized across society.

"National Guard is not trained in policing actions" "it actually negatively impacts military readiness" "young soldiers and airmen are political props" "This, in contrast, is where we should not have military on our streets, in our American cities. It is absolutely the way that dictatorships run"

I think I can now tell, from this remove of more than 4 decades, who in my high school actually read 1984.

This is so breathtakingly cruel that my soul glitched. I’m never surprised by the depths of depravity, per se, but having to process it still exacts an emotional cost. www.npr.org/2025/08/08/n...

Vaccines are our greatest scientific achievement. This is criminal.

For my money, the Senate Democratic caucus seems to be one of the most serious foreseeable hurdles to any project of constitutional restoration. Not because of a pivotal member or two getting cold feet, but rather a pervasive sclerotic disbelief at what time it is.

Timeline cleanse. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi-A...

If you’re feeling uneasy, it’s probably because we now know we live in a country built on the blackmail of a dead pedophile who is Too Big to Fail, so Congress has to go home for a couple of months to figure out how talk about it without defenestrating the president and collapsing the economy.

The reason you stand up for trans youth is because eventually the government will come for your child's healthcare. Next it'll be antidepressants, birth control, vaccines, etc.

Please gods can we not elect this man POTUS, he's so bad

🌿⛵🌿"Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats." 📖Kenneth Grahame - The Wind in the Willows. #BookWormSat

@tomtomorrow.bsky.social @rubenbolling.bsky.social First they come for the comedians, then the cartoonist. Kings fear being laughed at. We have a funny bone to pick with/without a smile on our faces #Colbert #Kimmel #SethMeyers #DailyShow

Periodic reminder that the reason the Republicans are building palintir based comprehensive databases of all Americans is because they are building a police state and their end goal is the subjugation and murder of millions of humans they see as a threat to their power

I will never, ever vote for Gavin Newsom. Ever, under any circumstances. I don't care if he becomes the Dem nominee, he's still not getting my vote.

This is theft. These reports belong to the American people - they should be easily accessible by all.

Like watching someone dunk Prometheus's flame in a lake.

i've played enough oregon trail to know that baby died of dysentery