It's sobering, in its way, to realize that there was truly nobody (save, perhaps, his children) who knew him that loved him as a man. He made himself into content, and he died as content, and his funeral is the most content of all. Soundbites to soundbites, bits to bits

News. After the revelation that Tom Homans took a bribe of $50,000, President Teump took a firm line with his cabinet: “Nothing under seven figures!”

Okay LA, you do you.

Rapture theology - that the holy will be beamed to heaven before a period of tribulation - is a concept younger than the steam-powered locomotive. It's neither widely accepted as a Christian doctrine nor widely believed outside the United States.

It’s the aristocracy, it takes different forms depending on is social context, but it’s always the aristocracy, and you must learn to hate it as much as it hates you.

Promises promises.

I’d never seen this one.

Complete and total surrender

Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb. 2025)

I spent two weeks teaching Susan Wendell’s book and one of the main points that she makes is that there are more people disabled by heart disease and diabetes and other such things than by accident or birth. One of the things I added was that queer people suffer disproportionately from them.

The thing that always gets me is how cheaply these little shits can be bought.

Now that Republicans have terrified and trained Democrats to publicly repeat the line that all political violence is wrong, always, I expect them to rapidly shift into saying that sometimes political violence is necessary — for them

When you lay it all out like that...

A Black teen named Kalief Browder was falsely accused of stealing a backpack. He spent 3 years tortured at Rikers & died by suicide A wealthy white man named Tom Homan was caught by FBI accepting bribes. He was promoted to a powerful law enforcement position This is what white supremacy looks like

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

🧵This is a serious use of force violation. The violent attack of this woman must be prosecuted by Chicago/Illinois for violation of state’s rights. I’m going to break this down. You see her blocking the ICE van. Agents violently push her to the ground. Then you see 1 guy target her & choke her.

The defining feature of Trump administration is using the power of the state to help allies and hurt enemies.

...dear Dem politicians & pundits, 1) the sports debate was never a serious issue, it was merely a wedge to launder in anti-trans policies (see: juliaserano.medium.com/trans-people...), 2) they are now going after trans ppl's *rights to exist* – that's where the battle is now! take a side in that!

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Trump is cancelling an annual government survey that measures hunger in America, rather than allow it to show hunger increasing under his tenure. This follows the playbook of many non-democracies that cancel or manipulate reports that would otherwise show less-than-perfect news.

An interesting but also really worrying video that shows that even though the number of people who die "directly" in disasters has decreased significantly in recent times, the number of "indirect/delayed" deaths is increasing in line with the accelerating climate crisis.

“If you are in H-1B or H-4 status and are currently outside the U.S., we strongly recommend that you do what you can to return to the U.S. tomorrow before the deadline.”

Oh no are the dems frozen by a difficult political condrum like "can the president just kill people" it is a tricky one!

Many media outlets hid the full truth of Trump -- his background in organized crime, his Epstein ties -- out of fear, only to be obliterated by him in the end. Had they not self-censored then, they might not be state-censored now. When you hide the truth, you face the consequences.

This soundbite pretty much captures what it's like living in this moment in history

Left-Wing Group Too Disorganized For FBI Agents To Infiltrate https://theonion.com/left-wing-group-too-disorganized-for-fbi-agents-to-infi-1848923025/

Including the guy who literally spilled pharmacy-grade stuff all over his bare hand, which had a cut on it, and was completely fine because he /washed it off/. Super weird! www.hmpgloballearningnetwork.com/site/emsworl... (That also links the actual journal article, but it's paywalled.)

Love to live in a shithole country that can't produce reliable economic data but can blow up random boats in international waters and set aside a day to remember a bigoted podcaster.

FFS. Kansas's referendum was overwhelming in favor of abortion rights, 59.2% vs. 40.8%. But, I'm sure that picking the losing side of the issue while completely alienating your base is the path to a Democratic Senate seat. Ezra can't even "centrist" right, by just following the polls.

35th Ward Alderperson Anthony Quezada just walked up to the scene and grabbed a mask.

"What do you expect Democrats to do!?!???'

Elon got in bed with Trump. In exchange, Tesla got: -Unprecedented brand damage -Global sales tanking -End of carbon credits worth billions per year -End of EV buyer tax credit -And now...this What a great businessman he is. A real genius. #teslatakedown #MuskMustFall

The hyper normalization of extrajudicial murder is accelerating within the infrastructure of the military that is quite quite bad news for when the full weight of the military is turned inward over the coming weeks and months.

Cardinal Timothy Dolan failed to report direct admissions of rape by multiple priests, lobbied against extending the statute of limitations for sex abuse, and moved money off the church books to hide it from victims of sex abuse. In case you were wondering.

A woman protesting outside the ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois, was brutally assaulted by goons who used mace and sting balls on her.

I was reliably told celebrating political violence was cause for government reprisal and private sector termination.

I struggle to believe that the much-feared Disney legal team, a pop culture metaphor for aggressive invincible litigation my whole life, can’t make a stand against Sinclair fucking Broadcasting. Fuck ‘em. Resume the show’s production, put the episodes on streaming, and make it Sinclair’s scandal.

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I also want to add @boltsmag.org to every list. It is a nonprofit magazine that does AMAZING work covering electoral politics from a left progressive perspective.

This man is one of the campaign’s super volunteers, the nicest dude you’ll ever meet, wildly dependable, and apparently capable of taking the coolest photo of 2025.

This absurd overestimation takes place with basically all minority groups. In 2022, Americans thought 30% of the US was gay or lesbian, 29% was bisexual & 21% was trans. They also thought 27% were Muslim, 30% were Jewish & 41% were Black.

Okay I know this is a joke but I did 100% download a backup copy of wikipedia back in February (and you can, too!) kiwix.org

This dude absolutely radiates a vibe of "if you do what you love for a living, you'll never work a day in your life" and what he loves is physically abusing women.

This is an agent of the US federal government, armed for live-fire combat against a modern army, slamming a passive and nonviolent female candidate for the US Congress into asphalt. Then walking away without checking if she has injuries, with his identity concealed behind a black facemask.

Merger approvals really have been a huge area of vulnerability. It’s also the key fault line in the matter of the law firms that caved

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This is hilarious. These people have never run a real business. It is 100% a scam operated by skiled, dedicated grifters. www.wsj.com/articles/sto...

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