One reason why Republicans won't extend expiring ACA subsidies? Koch-backed lobby groups have spent over $1.1M pressuring GOP lawmakers to let 20M Americans' health insurance costs go up. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.

Anyone can become disabled. Anyone can become chronically ill. It’s not a choice. It’s not a moral failing. It’s not something you can “try harder” your way out of. You can be the healthiest person in the world & completely disabled in an instant. It’s a minority group you can join anytime.

The historians and archivists of this president‘s cruelty — I hope very much that they are getting support and practicing self-care. Three more years of this triumphantly sadistic man in the White House 🫩.

Selling out to corporations, letting them poison us, just like we all knew they would.

The Trump administration has nearly doubled the amount of formaldehyde considered safe to inhale under EPA regulations. Formaldehyde causes far more cancer than any other chemical in the air. www.propublica.org/article/epa-...

But freedom for these writers and political prisoners, now forced into exile, is still conditional, and Belarus continues to jail writers for their speech. We join PEN Belarus in urging Belarus to unconditionally release all unjustly jailed writers. penbelarus.org/en/2025/12/1...

To build a powerful movement for peace and justice, ordinary people must first understand that we are in an emergency. Jim Douglass's new book “Martyrs to the Unspeakable” makes this crisis clear.

If one of my kids murders me and my wife with a knife, feel free to focus less on my career highlights and more on the need for better societal supports for mental health and addictions.

Since April, we’ve filed 280+ FOIA requests to expose abuses of power in the U.S. federal government — averaging 1.2 request per day. But we can’t fight this on our own. We need your help! Donate to power our FOIA work today:

There it is! The question Milbank posed then (a decade ago) — “Is this what you want conservatism, the Republican Party and America to be?” — has been answered time and again in the violence-stoking and sadistic affirmative. #MAGA

The "other thing" I was looking for was whether any newspaper ever made mention of the Huckabee/Jared Taylor connection. The answer I found was no...at least no newspaper included in newspaper dot com's database ever made the connection. bsky.app/profile/seth...

We're all just trying to figure out how Nick Fuentes and Candace Owens have managed to become so popular with American conservatives and Republican voters! Again, this was written TEN YEARS AGO.

While searching for something else I stumbled upon this fascinating op-ed from Dec. 2015--ten years ago. It appeared in the Greenville, SC Index-Journal. It matter-of-factly pointed out that Trump was beloved by white nationalists like Jared Taylor. This was BEFORE the first GOP primary was held.

There are SO MANY other ways to effectively fight the the fucking right than screaming into the social media void and making yourself feel as awful as these dickheads actually are. They want to exhaust you here so you feel helpless everywhere else. Fuck them. Conserve your joy, online and off.

As in make it social not anti-social media. Not 🌈 🦄 🦋 but social.

"A woman was seen on the ground screaming and wailing as two other women tried to comfort her." This is 100% my biggest nightmare. It is increasingly dangerous to just *walk* around our cities, and our electeds are mostly asleep at the wheel while kids die. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

I’m with her.

Again I'm just gonna point out that people got fired for quoting Charlie Kirk's own words! Also if we take Trump's post literally then it sounds like Trump is saying that Reiner is dead because he criticized Trump Just saying, this is many steps beyond quoting the dead person's words

She did. She fucking called it three months ago. I completely forgot about that until right now. God DAMN, G.

The top US health director who stood up for #science — and was fired. Susan Monarez is part of Nature’s 10, a list of people who shaped science in 2025. #nature www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Susan Monarez was fired after less than a month as Director of the CDC for holding the line on scientific integrity She is part of Nature's 10 - our list of people who shaped science in 2025 go.nature.com/44p0Hdn

A good ✨ man ✨ . A mensch.

He will always be Meathead to me. Always.

O, horrible, O, horrible, most horrible!

Rob Reiner made some great movies but he was also unafraid to speak the truth, and was one of the public voices who knew you don’t squander your platform, and only got louder about opposing evil fucks as he got older. Legend.

Just seeing this news now about Rob Reiner…

Been ages since I’ve seen RAIN MAN but watching it rn & let’s say I’ve got brains on the brain. The human brain, y’all!—its fragility, its potential for growth & learning, its susceptibility, its conniving & plotting & well, I guess its astonishing everything. #brains #BRAINS 🧠 ✨ #BrainHealth

There is an absolute fucking scandal going down at The New School, wherein at appears that the university is funnelling to a MEMBER OF THE SCHOOL’S BOARD while purging faculty and staff. This should be headline news. x.com/uaw7902/stat...

Wait, so the $1M Trump Gold Card fee is not going to the treasury?!?!! How is this even legal?

Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.

Well anyway it was so good talking about A THOUSAND AND ONE (2023 ) w/ @scarecrowvideo.bsky.social’s Academy group yesterday. #VisionsOfAmerica

NOTE: Trump praises, defends, and pardons members of white supremacist groups. The ones with names, leaders, weapons, and body counts. Let’s unpack this. Read. Share. Subscribe. open.substack.com/pub/cwebbstu...

🦷 💞 🍃 Oral health is critical to #HealthierFutures…as soon as possible please.

I find Thompson to be so admirable & admirably understated — just so much respect for him and not b/c he humiliated someone per se. But b/c Thompson used his poise, intellect, the record—he applied the truth —to prove that FBI shill wrong.

My law firm is litigating 66 voting and election cases in 35 states. This is an insanely large number for this point on the election cycle. The 2026 midterm elections will be a fight to protect free and fair election. I started Democracy Docket to keep you informed. Sign up now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

@carolrosenbergnyt.bsky.social‘s latest here as a gift article. A man, an American, a veteran: Fitz Lee. Rhymes with dignity.

If you want to talk about waste, fraud, and abuse, let’s talk about the fact that major corporations are paying some of their employees so little that they need SNAP just to survive.

Light over darkness. Hope over despair. Wishing Jewish communities in London and around the world a joyful and blessed Chanukah. Chanukah Sameach!

🔥 Probs also made her eyes water, her nasal passages and throat burn, her brain feel woozy, her gut churn with nausea… #woodburning #AirQuality

Russia destroyed 100% of Odesa’s energy infrastructure. All substations were destroyed by missiles and drones. The city has been completely left without electricity, hot water, and heating for over one million people, including all critical infrastructure.

May we always have winter landscapes.

Everyone must vote in the midterms and they must vote Blue. Period. It may be our last chance

“We just continued to walk.”

Take a moment to meet FDA Commissioner Marty Makary. He is the guy who is leading the agency that is working overtime to enrich his MAHA patrons by taking away your kids’ access to vaccines & essential medicines. He’s replacing evidence-based regulation with corruption.

I love listening to Sherrilyn explain things. (Right now on the Amicus pod with @dahlialithwick.bsky.social .) She said the civil rights movement was a democracy movement. Therefore, the backlash that has been going on ever since is an anti-democracy movement. Get motives out in the open.

I secured funding to build the Skagit County Flood Wall back in 2006. Even during the catastrophic flooding we saw this week, that same flood wall protected downtown Mount Vernon. Investments like this save lives and property. We need more, not less.

“I’ve been thinking we should update the kitchen cabinets” okay that’s cool but the house is on fire

Nature giving us a break today. 🙏 #WaWx #PNW #AtmosphericRiver