We need a list of local businesses that advertise with ABC 7, they have a lot more to lose. Here’s what I’ve found so far www.reddit.com/r/washington...

Someone sane: corporations should be punished next admin for helping Hitler A free speech attorney: Noooooo

i think one thing people have a hard time grasping is that the central figures of the trump administration are not bad as in "the worst republican blowhard you know," but bad as in "the worst people you have ever heard of." donald trump is a serial rapist whose best friend was a pedophile.

Especially with an electorate that is substantially more socially progressive and less economically populist than the UK one.

Pretty clear that running socialists within the Democratic Party has been the most successful electoral & rhetorical strategy of US socialists in 40 years

Good, but stop using the word "graft". It sounds wonky and technical. "Tom Homan took bribes. Pam Bondi and Kash Patel covered it up. Why? Are they also for sale to the highest bidder? Maybe even foreign governments?"

AND THEN THEY LOST. THEY ALL FUCKING LOST TO REPUBLICANS. IT WAS FIFTEEN YEARS AGO AND THEY NEVER GOT ELECTED AGAIN BECAUSE PEOPLE JUST VOTED FOR THE REPUBLICAN. DO ACTUALLY NOT FUCKING COMPREHEND WHY THAT HAPPENED

And, like, that’s in addition to the clearly impeachable worse-than-Nixon coverup of the Homan bribery investigation. Two—count them: ONE, TWO—worse than Nixon things JUST TODAY.

Important thread.

Dang, that's crazy. Anyway, we moved our annual refugee resettlement fundraiser to Bluesky this spring, after running it entirely on Twitter for over a decade, started with ZERO followers, took our "shrunken" audiences and beat last year's total by $200,000 in a time of massive economic upheaval

I've seen a lot of videos lately of women that are peacefully protesting being violently thrown to the ground by angry men dressed in tactical gear with big guns. It's disgusting and jarring, but can I also point out that the women aren't the ones that look weak or scared.

That would be Channel 7 (WJLA) in DC. Do not get your local news from them!

I genuinely cannot believe that Ezra Klein said we should run pro-life candidates in Kansas, Ohio, and Missouri; three states that recently held abortion referendums where the pro-choice side won!

Kind of incredible how “cat”, while describing a large, not necessarily-particularly closely-related family of carnivores has also immediately brings to mind a suite of distinctive behaviors. For context, “cat” is about taxonomically equivalent to “ape” for humans.

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

This brilliant photo by @staceywescott.bsky.social.

The difference between having ideas that are considered radical and being very into Being Radical is that the former hates the fact their beliefs are marginal and the latter get off on it. Yeah, I don't wanna be a righteous oppressed underdog. Shit sucks. I do want to be the state. I do want power.

Whispers in Zaller (1992): everything is an elite persuasion campaign (Which is to say I completely agree on the substance here—the job is to make YIMBY a shibboleth for urban progressive policymakers, not to build a grassroots electoral coalition to eliminate parking minimums).

People who are “professional dissidents” in a reasonably free country (let’s say pre-2025 USA) are actually not experts on how to organize under an authoritarian regime. They are in fact people who definitionally do not know how to do mass mobilization!

Hopefully this is her FINAL (Failed in New York, Attempted Los Angeles) act

My memo asking for prior documentation of my Nuremberg defense is undermining my Nuremberg defense

ANTIFA BILL SIMMONS: Are we sure Trotsky is good? Look I'm just saying you know great job with the Rex Army in the Civil War. But you're really getting assassinated with an ice pick in Mexico? Getting some real Brad Beal vibes from him House

I can’t be the only person who knows the “correct” pronunciation and just refuses to use it because it is … well, literally “ick”-y sounding.

DMV folks: this includes WJLA (ABC affiliate) Make them eat shit

Charles Koch and rightwing billionaires have funneled money to academics to study polarization over the past ten years exactly because they WANTED political science and elites to focus on polarization being bad—to distract from Republicans being bad. Hoover ran “polarization“ fellowships.

Donald Trump is a feebleminded, frail old bigot with no redeeming qualities, who is unsuited for any office, let alone the presidency. I am superior to him in every respect, as is every person I’ve ever met. Anyone who treats him as a model of virility or statesmanship ought to be laughed at.

DC police and U.S. Marshals violently attempted to execute a warrant near a playground filled with preschoolers, terrifying the children with a totally gratuitous show of force. Oh, and they didn’t get the suspect. www.popville.com/2025/09/erod...

I see state and local Democratic officeholders doing this (not here in DC 😡, of course), but so few federal ones. Sincerely asking, why is that? Vulgar populism says it’s the cost of congressional campaigns, but really? I think you could do pretty big numbers on ActBlue if you did more of this…

I think about this paper a lot

they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by the process of law. they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by violence. the only lever by which they can obtain obedience is fear. do not offer it to them.

I feel this so keenly. People in communities all over the country are showing incredible sincerity and courage in defending their neighbors. Armed with nothing more than their voices and smartphones. Meanwhile those with power and influence are showing there’s nothing they’d risk it to defend.

three years from now, if not sooner, having a track record of standing up for what is right is going to be both politically and professionally beneficial. that's not why we should do it. but it's not not why we should do it, either.

"Multiple execs felt that Kimmel had not actually said anything over the line, the two sources say, but the threat of Trump administration retaliation loomed." They will never learn that capitulation doesn't work. Never

FWIW, state AGs can look into Nexstar-Tegna, too.

San Francisco is one of the most illiberal places relative to its broad perception

It’s wild how every Dem operative / pundit centrist heel turn is premised on complaints about the same things and then amounts to: Hey, what if we did “the groups”, “everything bagel” policymaking, and dubious issue polling, but centristly.

These people are so dumb. You know what always beats a supermajority in a plurality election? A majority. Construct a coalition that gets 75% of the votes, and some political entrepreneur will construct a narrower one that gets 51% of the votes while giving those 51% more of what they want.

It’s amazing how much money there is in pretending that ideological and educational polarization don’t exist

The most dangerous person at a protest for a regime is a priest in a collar.

My god, I said something incredibly foolish on the internet today

Groups like @indivisible.org want you to RSVP so that they can contact you about future events, ask for donations, etc. This is called "organizing" and it's how mass political movements work. Please don't listen to mentally ill people on the internet who think they're in the Red Army Faction.

Cortés sacking Tenochtitlan and denouncing Mexica barbarism

Today 31 Democrats chose to side with Donald Trump over DC. We did not ask for this. It will not make us safer. And fueling this fascist president's agenda is dangerous for our entire country. (🧵)

Adrian Vermule is employed and that alone outweights at least 25,000 normie lib math profs

Calling peoples' employers in a rage because their tributes to Robert Redford weren't horny enough

I’m not saying this should be a first day priority for a new Douglass Commonwealth when we do Reconstruction 2.0, but let’s make sure we take care of this in week one ok? Make sure that Sherman Ave crosses Georgia Ave at C St.

Half of the world’s population is in D. So are most of the Old World centers of plant domestication. The Levant, Iran, India, SE Asia, and the populated parts of East Asia are all in D. You can still eat sad Anglo food if you want. You’d have to be wildly parochial to choose any other option.

"They're politicians, what are they supposed to do? Literally fight in the streets?" Unashamed to say this made me cry.

Today’s Executive Order creating a *nationwide* military “quick reaction force” and setting up an online portal to permit random fascist vigilantes to join soldiers is one of the scariest things I’ve seen in U.S. politics in my adult life. Why is it not getting more attention?

The thing with elite consensus and the cordon sanitaire is that it requires the cooperation of conservative elites! They’re not cooperating! They’re wilding out on defection!