Just saw @sbworkersunited.org on a picket line in JACKSONVILLE of all places! I’m telling you: the South is ready to unionize! #Solidarity #UnionsForAll

A fucking wooden spoon broke apart in the pot of French Onion Soup I’m making for Christmas. What in tarnation

At a birthday party for one of my son’s classmates and I’m just now realizing I staff so many events that I feel incredibly uncomfortable if I don’t have a job to do

Laws mean nothing if you elect not to pull the few levers of power you have to enforce them

It will take decades to rebuild both the civil service and the foreign service.

Politicians work for we the people. Never forget that, always demand better.

Alternatively, DCA.

It will take decades to unfuckup this country.

Tally turning out! #NoKings #NoDictators #PowerToThePeople

No Kings should be a protests of the systems in place that had inadequate safeguards against this slide into fascism and have quietly rotted from the inside since their founding. Hint: they’re the same systems they protested during the civil rights movement.

Alrighty Tallahassee let’s see what you can do #NoKings

The Guardian piece about Obama scolding corporations for “cutting deals” with Trump completely misses the point. The problem isn’t that companies lacked courage. It’s that we EVER expected them to have any. 🧵1/10 (bear with me on the threads bc I'm delayed in an airport)

Christofascists melting down over Pope Leo is 🌟divine🌟

TIMELINE: - Kimmel makes late-night joke - FCC chair threatens companies running Kimmel - Nexstar throws Kimmel off its stations as it begs FCC chair for merger approval - Disney suspends Kimmel as it begs Trump DOJ to approve Fubo deal FOLLOW THE MONEY👇 www.levernews.com/the-real-rea...

TERRORISM EXPERT HERE: He cannot designate an idea as a terrorist group. There is no org called ANTIFA. There is no leadership or funding path or no membership. Also there is no terrorism law in America. Ask Luigi. He wants to call anyone a terrorist. That’s Fascism. #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

For anyone needing a timeline cleanse, yesterday I had the privilege of adopting my wife’s 5 y/o son to whom I’ve been a stepfather to since he was 11 months old. Feeling on top of the world today!

More pro-death shit from the self proclaimed “pro-life party.”

I have not gotten as many texts asking if I saw "the news" since Joe Biden dropped out

Last year, broken air conditioning systems in Orlando schools led to students being hospitalized with heat-related illness. This year, teachers say: Never again. They’re using their union power to demand safe, cool classrooms.

The only thing I can say about this paragraph is read it. Sit with it. Read it again. @michaelharriot.bsky.social

Sometimes really serious people follow me on here and I really wonder what led them to this abyss

100% this. Dems lose policy debates because they’re always fighting from a defensive posture. It validates the attack lines, and the attack lines are what sticks in the public’s minds.

The media is far more likely to frame liberal-left politicians, like Mamdani, as extremist than they are the President, who has made no attempt to conceal his authoritarian inclinations.

It can be both a distraction and a dangerous moment for democracy

With Trump set to use crime as a fake justification to threaten DC today, media coverage should make one thing clear: At this point his pattern of manufacturing pretexts for militarizing domestic law enforcement has become undeniable. Some thoughts on that here: newrepublic.com/article/1987...

This whole thing screams “chocolate city is too black” to me

Apparently omw in to an active war zone! (taking the metro in to DC, like I have done without issue for the last 3 years)

Just accepted a voluntary bump from a flight with a connection to a direct flight that gets me in 2 hours earlier AND a $700 flight credit. I fear I will be chasing this high forever.

As the Department of Labor considers a rule change that would prevent home care providers from earning minimum wage or overtime, we need to make our voices heard. Learn more. www.afscme.org/blog/a-new-r...

A government-sanctioned "truth arbiter" will soon arrive at CBS. Their role will be to ensure that journalists do not criticize this Administration or express views that conflict with its agenda. This is a betrayal—not just of journalistic independence, but of the public trust. 🧵

School vouchers are a scam to send taxpayer money to private religious schools. Vouchers are also a violation of church and state.

Today we learned Andrew Cuomo is directly coordinating with Donald Trump, even as this President sends masked agents to rip our neighbors off the streets and guts the social services so many New Yorkers rely on. It’s disqualifying and a betrayal of our city.

Love getting a check in notification to check in for tomorrow’s flight while boarding tonight’s. #NN25

The Culinary Workers Union representing 60,000 hospitality workers in Nevada has achieved a historic victory on the Las Vegas Strip. For the first time in its 90-year history, all major casinos on the Strip are unionized.

Gotta say it’s strange that colleges and universities get touted as examples of left wing extremism, yet all these prolific schools are going out with a whimper rather than engaging in any form of civil disobedience to exert their rights. Shameful, really.

The call is coming from inside your office, Senator. www.cnn.com/2025/08/02/p...

Again, Zohran should run with this. Mass print O'Leary's tweet a the caption saying "We're the campaign that replies 'no interest' when billionaires try to make backroom deals with us".

In part 91834 of "Every Accusation is a Confession:" The people who were shouting that FEMA is building camps decided to make FEMA build camps.

Back on Xitter for the time being. Seems like Bluesky is best for engaging activists, but suboptimal for broader education and outreach efforts. Feel free to follow me there, too. Let’s try to bridge the gap between these two sites.

1. Coercive treatment doesn’t work. 2. You can’t arrest your way out of a housing crisis. 3. All of these people are about to get kicked off Medicaid because of his cuts so who does he think is paying?

The institutions did not hold.

Shit like this is why people do not trust Dems. Shit like this is why people say “both sides are the same.” Shit like this is why Democrats lose elections handed to them on a silver platter.

NEW: Sen. Angus King admits he made "a mistake" when he voted Tuesday to confirm Josh Divine, an 35-year-old archconservative with a long record of attacking abortion rights, to a lifetime federal judgeship. “I took Josh Hawley’s advice." www.huffpost.com/entry/angus-... w/ @igorbobic.bsky.social

Notable: Trump UN nominee Mike Waltz was on track to fail by a tie vote in committee, but Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen cast a decisive vote to rescue him. 12-10, he advances to the full Senate.

It’s giving

Can’t believe it took Trump this long to walk into Obama’s trap. h/t to Hillary and Joe for not tipping our hand too soon

Chicago is amassing too much power

Also notable: Trump and Leavitt are saying they told WSJ the letter is fake (per Trump’s post), implying they not only saw it, they saw it ahead of time. And here Vance is saying they never saw it. That math ain’t mathin.

thinking about the dems who said we can't abolish ICE as the Department of Education gets wiped off the map

When ppl talk about “moderate” republicans, remind them 3 of 6 conservative justices on SCOTUS dismantling America were appointed by “moderates.” What we are witnessing is a culmination of “moderate” republican policies. Doesn’t matter how you dress ‘em up; they all wanted this.