I hope New Yorkers will challenge Mamdani about this. Too often, people feel they need to be absolutely for or against a politician — ignoring their missteps or throwing them out with the bathwater. You can like and/or believe in someone and still challenge them to deliver on their promises.

if you hate or love "maxxing" please be advised that guys my age think it's funny as hell and will shortly be using it approx. 500 times a day. you will be cringemaxxing and despairmaxxing but no amount of cringe & no depth of despair will stop the guys my age from usemaxxing "maxxing." just fyi

I feel like people think "birds are dinosaurs" is a weird fun fact that is "technically true" but I don't know how to emphasize that there are tens of thousands of species of theropod dinosaur on the planet with us right now. People keep them AS PETS. WE EAT THEM.

what I want people to feel, when they look at South Korea and the UK and Brazil holding elites accountable, is that it's possible here too. Elect true leaders this year and in 28, empowered - but also driven by us, the people - to hold the criminals accountable for their crimes. It's possible.

Another thing to add to the Dem platform: all of these contracts were plainly procured through fraud, not one of them will be honored, and all culpable parties will be prosecuted. This isn't a "radical" demand, it's the bare minimum required to re-establish the rule of law.

I feel this way about pretty much all vaccine-preventable infectious diseases. You shouldn't be allowed to dump cyanide into municipal drinking water and you shouldn't be allowed to recreationally spread viruses around shared public spaces.

gonna start a spoiler book club

there's a guy redoing our bathroom right now at the request of our landlord and look it's not that I'm not grateful for the free bathroom upgrade but he took the door off the bathroom doesn't have a door right now

my kitty is better 😭 she was sick this past week and we took her to the vet and we were so worried that this was it because she's 17-18 years old, but now she's back to bothering me and waking me up in the middle of the night and I never thought I would be so glad to be yelled at at 3am by a cat

people who say that all creative endeavor can be replaced with AI probably need to reckon with the fact that all televised sports events with human athletes could easily be replicated by high-definition computer-animated simulations….and yet we don’t do this and no one seems to want to.

every year i make a 'super bowl advertisement' bingo card for my friends. in these trying times,,, here's this year's:

one thing i have noticed is a lot of folks do not seem to understand the difference between a presidential election and 435+ legislative elections. i have seen any number of people say that you could subvert the outcome this november by targeting “swing states,” which does not make any sense.

again we do not really do a good job of explaining how wealthy people like Jeff Bezos are his net worth is $253.2 billion. so he could take one million dollars, and just light it on fire and then do it again tomorrow and again the day after that and then do it every day for 693 years and 8 months

We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”

The commonsense reform to concentration camps is not having them.

"By the end of the two-year period, 94% of participants reported they were housed." A million pilot programs show the same thing: when people are given enough money to afford housing, homelessness ends. Other supports matter, but housing comes first. Not policing. Not moralizing. Homes.

“Did they grow up under a rock??” Yes. And the rock was probably put there on purpose by men who wanted uneducated people to control. This is why we don’t leave any state or county or town behind. Nobody deserves to grow up under a rock. Especially one they would never have the power to move.

NEW: A government attorney who was detailed to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Minnesota is no longer on that detail after telling a judge “this job sucks” and asking to be held in contempt so she could get 24 hours of sleep: www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

After Nixon was forced to resign, Republicans took the lesson not to stop being corrupt, but to demolish shared reality. After Romney lost with scant minority support, Republicans took the lesson not to stop being racist, but to demolish democracy. Once Trump is gone, what lesson will they take?

Jeff Bezos had $75 million to bribe Trump for the Melania movie but cut 16,000 jobs at Amazon and is cutting more at the Washington Post today. And somehow people *dont* want to campaign on the issue of evil billionaires.

ICE has been holding a disabled double amputee named Rodney Taylor in a camp for a year. He’s been in the US since he was two years old. It’s all he knows. When they detained him, they denied him access to new prosthetic legs. His health is declining.

authors of a certain fandom where the canon takes place in the 1980s, please I am begging you to stop having characters say or think the word "landline" in your fanfics. just say phone

heads up for anyone who has already blocked Neil Gaiman. if you previously followed Neil before finding out he had assaulted multiple women, Bluesky might still have you set as following him. you can either fix that manually since he has reactivated or with this tool: cleanfollow-bsky.pages.dev

This goes to my longstanding soapbox: everything is a disability policy from housing to health care to urban planning to mass transit.

it's the RAND Corporation's fault, primarily, that insurance became how we pay for medical care it's staying that way because private healthcare is making people very, very rich dental care being an entirely different insurance thing is mostly because the ADA lobbies for it to make more money

we’re never going to be free of GamerGate and I’m going to be angry about it for the rest of my life

Happy Caturday from Astrid, who can’t possibly get sillier.

I wanted to shout "Yes" and "Amen" at virtually every line of this @volts.wtf and @michaelhobbes.bsky.social discussion. I flagged one particularly important section, but the whole thing is essential. www.volts.wtf/p/all-about-...

Two Bohemian Protestants with disagreements about the appropriateness of defenestration in Prague have a gay romance, that is called a yeeted rivalry.

Just a few months ago, a child in the US developed the most feared complication of measles (subacute sclerosing panencephalitis) from an infection they had years ago when they were too young to be vaccinated. I hate to think about what is being unleashed by this virus as a future tragedy.

The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll

It’s hard to believe in 2026 people are still asking “did you mask before covid?” As some kind of gotcha. When things change, you adapt. When you learn, you change your behaviour. If I had known an N95 could prevent illness this effectively, I would have worn one sooner!

ohhhh my god Gimli you think we should go via the mines of Moria? should we tell everyone? should we have a party? should we invite the Balrog

Rowling: you know why the children today don't like harry potter? Barker: oh this is going to be good Rowling: it'ss becausse they've fallen out of love with liberalisssm Barker: ah haha ha Barker: oh MAN ha ha Barker: i knew it was going to be good Barker: i didn't know it was going to be THAT good

’Tis bitter cold, And I am sick at heart.

The New Deal is one of the best things this godforsaken country ever managed to put together, and Republicans have been wanting to gut it ever since. I think this is specific, targeted hate, not just a brainless drive for real estate value

All the pundits who were outraged at kids missing school in the early days of the COVID pandemic are welcome to speak up ANY TIME NOW

The official account for the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games 2026 posted a new video announcing Connor and Hudson as torchbearers! It’s officially official 🙂‍↕️ via milanocortina2026 on tiktok

A reminder that GenAI exists solely so that CEOs don't have to pay creative and skilled people for labor. And it's up to us as consumers to generate as much backlash against this shit as humanly possible.

There's no moving forward as a country without a cleansing moral fire. There is going to need to be a leadership that embraces that reality, whether Dems like it or not

The double cognitive load of a) the President is deranged, and nobody in power acting he's deranged is stressful, and b) there are millions of Americans who get their news from media sanewashing the President, so they don't *know* he's deranged, so they think *we're* deranged, is ... fun.

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Man, if I stumble into making tens of millions of dollars I hope I have the good sense to shut the fuck up and build a bunch of libraries and fund food banks so when I check out peoples first response isn’t “So, that asshole’s done.” The bar. It is SO LOW.

If you have “sincere concerns” about trans athletes in sports, all it means is that you have given yourself a rationale for your bigotry that you sincerely believe exonerates you for aligning to a far-right tactic for marginalization and exclusion.

These two just deadlifting American society right now

This slogan adopted by Kristi Noem, "One of Ours, All of Yours," is taken from the Nazis, who retaliated for the killing of an SS officer by murdering all the inhabitants of the Czech village of Lidice, apparently none of whom had anything to do with it, and razing the village to the ground.

your honor, I love them :’)

a rather significant portion of the founding was based on “no guys like Donald Trump in particular” they really specifically wanted to avoid this type of know-nothing demagogue

If there is any justice in this world, ICE won't exist long enough for it to be possible for them to *put in* five years of service

i’m sorry but the people who think literally everything is a distraction from the epstein files are sincerely not grasping how normalized the abuse of teen girls actually is and it’s the same abuse that leads to ice agents shooting a woman in the face and calling her corpse a fucking bitch