For you to understand how much the world has changed, in the 1970s as a second grader we were REQUIRED to watch the TV show adaptation of ROOTS. REQUIRED. www.knoxnews.com/story/news/e...

The reason people keep doing crimes for Trump is that you get rewarded for doing them, congratulations to Colorado's Dem governor for making sure we get more people trying to overturn elections on his behalf bsky.app/profile/kyle...

in a way, isn’t causing men to crash out before she’s even done anything just proof that Lupita is perfect for Helen of Troy

194 people killed by US military boat strikes. No trials. No public evidence. Ever. Some were fishermen. It took 20 journalists 5 months just to name and identify 13 of the dead. This isn’t a drug war. It’s the blatant execution of poor people. #USDemocracy #Pinks apple.news/AFeRtpmL6Qba...

This is a form of psychosis. These people will burn the world if they have their way.

This is going to be one of the hardest parts of governing for the administration.

a lot of people have moved on from the fact that Russia has been waging a war of ethnic cleansing against Ukrainian civilians for almost half a decade at this point

A thing Congress should have, as many state legislatures do, is compulsory attendance where you have to ask to be excused and disclose a good reason for why you should be.

TN eliminated only majority-Black district AL, LA eliminating majority-Black districts SC planning to oust only Black Democrat since Reconstruction MS planning to oust only Black rep GA planning special session to eliminate majority-Black districts This is what return to Jim Crow looks like

Genuinely this is the moment where it's very clear that without explicit protections, conservatives will seek to eliminate minority success and achievement at all levels. I don't care what polls well. We either affirmatively support living in a multiracial society or we don't.

I don’t know if we can stop Trump from stealing ten billion dollars. But I do know that on day one of the next admin, all Trump - Trump family - Trump organization - Trump business assets can be seized.

I will just say that white men can be totally normal colleagues and then when you remove everyone around them and replace THEM with white men, and hand the group an agenda of increasing the fortunes of rich white men while leaving everyone else in the cold, the picture starts to look...different

These people better eventually be prosecuted for violating their oaths.

coachella deserves to be yeeted into the sun for this

Remember a few months ago when “AI uses too much water” was broadly derided as ignorant and false? They can literally steal water and not even pay a fine, while residents are told to cut back. It’s an industry built on lawlessness.

Trans rights are human rights and this administration is an abomination of hate and greed.

The real message of Frogger is the dangers of commuting in a city that doesn't have reliable public transit.

My friend who used to say the final stage of corporate greed was demanding to be loved is never, ever proved wrong.

part of me believes that if every American could have a gap year in which they experience functional mass transit, including high speed trains, it would transform the way we get around in this country inside a generation

A few Dem Senators are (still!!) occasionally voting yes on Trump's nominees for lifetime federal judge positions in the name of their "qualifications" but these people are not qualified! securing a nomination from Donald Trump is disqualifying in and of itself! ballsandstrikes.org/nominations/...

If, eventually, there is a freaking Civil War*, these bozos will be remembered as not being up to the challenge of being a teeny bit assertive. *I wouldn't welcome it; but I don't say that in jest. We are on a path. No one knows where this will end up.

“The revealed preference is their core voters actively enjoy being taken for a ride by the most obvious scam artists you’ve ever seen, as long as they validate their morbid pathologies about race and gender as they do so.” www.liberalcurrents.com/respecting-r...

Harris/Walz would’ve won if those fucking establishment consultant hacks had just gotten out of the way and let them say “These freaks are weird!” every day for three months and you’ll never convince me otherwise

Better cars are like better cigarettes. We stay dependent, they sell more. #UrbanTruth

I like science Bluesky. People in my replies discuss that it would be more fuel-efficient to catapult Chuck Schumer out of the solar system than to yeet him into the sun.

Not gonna argue about Graham Platner any more. If Maine puts this guy in the Senate, it’s on them and I won’t forget it.

weak as shit party digs its own grave

Needing to win by 4 points nationally to get a bare majority in the House of Representatives due to partisan gerrymandering is (1) unfair, (2) a sign of America’s democratic backsliding, and importantly (3) doable.

I appreciate this, but I don't think a lack of policy ideas is really the problem. We know how to push back against car-centric development. It's just that most Americans have been marinating in pro-car propaganda their entire lives & cars have made them selfish & sociopathic.

I was really not worried about the hantavirus until this administration started saying more and more forcefully everything is fine

Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

this looks quite bad but i'll believe it when they stop putting people like him in office bsky.app/profile/left...

It is wrong and criminal for government agents to kidnap someone, send them to die in a concentration camp, and disappear them, regardless of immigration status. But it's still worth noting she has a green card. The government doesn't even pretend this is about deporting undocumented people.

There was a quote that said something like Black people worship a Jesus who knows what it's like to be lynched, while white people worship a Jesus who will forgive them for being part of a lynch mob.

here’s the thing about taxes like this, coming from someone who isn’t remotely close to “own a second home in NYC” but does very well compared to most people: they don’t matter you get a big tax bill, you go “ouch! that sucks!” you pay the tax bill your life changes in no material way, the end

At this point, solving climate change is cheaper than not solving it -- not only on some grand 50 year time horizon, but tomorrow, today, immediately. Soving climate change *is* affordability. Maybe Dems should tell voters about that.

Time to restock our respirator masks.

The White House will prioritize the “neutralization” of groups it considers “anti-American, radically pro-transgender, and anarchist.”

All I have to say about this moment is it's a good thing dynamite is harder to come by than in the 1950s and 60s. To be clear: not a threat. I can barely use fireworks 'cause I like having 10 fingers and also my dad was hit by an illegal firework in the 70s and put a certain fear in us.

People liked to speculate about Biden not actually being in charge. But here's Trump actually TELLING us that he doesn't know what's being done in his name.

do any religious texts mention golden idols anywhere

In March 2025, the Trump admin made a tantalizing offer to coal-fired power plants, chemical manufacturing facilities and other factories: Their operations could be exempted from key provisions under the Clean Air Act. All they had to do was ask. And ask they did. What happened next 👇

One side is like “can we disenfranchise all the Black voters by this weekend” and the other is like gotta follow the rules that govern the rules that control the rulebook

I want an agenda making media platform that is unabashedly pro-democracy.

It’s hard to sell elections as a solution to the problem of courts overturning voter will… in an election. “Vote harder (so they can maybe overturn those votes if they don’t like them)” is a sales pitch whose only response is either apathy or violence.

Free energy from renewabled will change society. The regions and nations that get there first will have massive economic advantages until the rest of the world catches up. Even on a small scale, homes with solar panels will protect the household from elevated and volatile fossil fuel prices.

I was listening to the last Cory Doctorow podcast and he referenced that Australia has so much solar they are offering 3h ours of free electricity electrek.co/2025/11/04/a... and Pakistan also has a great solar capacity www.theguardian.com/environment/...

would be a mistake to think of this and the other Memphis-related news item as completely separate stories

There is no clearer case for the necessity of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 than how quickly southern states moved to eliminate Black-majority districts and dilute Black power after SCOTUS eroded Section 2. SCOTUS’s reasoning was immediately disproven by reality.

I don't really think we talk enough about how this country is run by people who are willing to endure pain as long as you endure more. Trump didn't even fucking want to be president. He still doesn't want to. He inflicts that pain on all of us out of schadenfreude.