Once day a major outlet will manage to write about the rise of misogyny as a unifying ideological project in the American right without a viscous little aside about how it’s actually all women’s fault for buying “male tears” mugs in 2015.

TOP TEN NOVELS IT’S MY TIME!! Birnam Wood Stone Butch Blues Parable of the Sower I Who Have Never Known Men The Handmaid’s Tale The Neapolitan Novels 1-4 (sorry to cheat) Pachinko Beautyland The Sellout The Grapes of Wrath

Gov. Gavin Newsom portrays himself as a resistance leader—though in his budget proposal, he is once again attacking Medicaid funded home care that helps disabled people live independently. My latest for @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

5,000 faculty members at Penn State have won their union. That includes all full-time and part-time faculty across multiple campuses. The union says this is the largest public sector win in 50 years.

Roots is a bicentennial jawn so in 50 years we went from groundbreaking miniseries watched by the whole country to banning copies of the book

I used to feel a little bad that The Onion is about to surpass WaPo in print subs and stopped promoting the membership as a direct foil until today they came out with “Do POOR BABIES deserve DIAPERS???” so therefore

Women having cars that they can get in and drive is also a scheme to undermine Dobbs. What are we doing here.

It can’t be said enough how infuriating it is that Comstock continues to haunt us from the 1870s

You're about to see headlines saying abortion pills can't be shipped. THAT IS NOT TRUE You can still get abortion pills by mail to all fifty states. Some providers will switch to miso-only, some will ship both mife & miso. I got into all of this when the federal court ruling first dropped:

#BREAKING: Full Supreme Court *grants* stays pending appeal in mifepristone case; preserves nationwide access to remote/mail dispensation of the drug. Only Justices Thomas and Alito publicly dissent.

There are approximately 2.8 million trans people in the US. That means FOURTEEN PERCENT of American trans people have moved across state lines in the past 18 months.

guess who’s a juror again…………..

Spanberger (D-Langley) is vetoing collective bargaining rights for a broad swathe of VA public sector workers. It's an immense betrayal to a core part of her coalition, in a moment when they're under attack. She didn't even offer amendments but a "substitute" bill that would've delayed til 2030...

Seattle is one of the many places that transgender Texans are resettling after fleeing their home state.

"What fixing the FAFSA shows, even if it took much too long, is that administrative burdens are not inevitable. Barriers can be removed or lowered, when consistent advocacy and political will lead to needed legislative changes, and smart hard working public servants are given...support."

Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary.

my first house in baltimore didn’t have a back porch and my second one does and it’s a 100% quality of life improvement

hot damn we got jeffries reconstructionposting

I was in the federal courthouse in suburban Maryland for a hearing yesterday in the civil case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. The case is deep in the procedural weeds at this point, but it continues to produce moments I've never seen in court.

do any of you weirdos have jury duty tomorrow? i do!!!

Mississippi Republicans won’t pass a new congressional gerrymander for 2026 but almost certainly will for 2028. MS is 38% Black—the highest of any state—but they want to remove the only Black Dem to elect 4 white Rs. They’ll gerrymander 2/3 legislative supermajorities & the Supreme Court map too

So many people are ready to do this work: to train the staff, to do the construction, to drive the buses and vans. We need the money. That means tax increases across the board and shitloads of federal money. A New Deal.

We need the Green New Deal and we need an Aging with Dignity New Deal. Massive public works funding for: health aide and nursing education; building retirement communities and assisted living facilities; retrofitting homes with ADA showers/toilets/ramps; massively expanded transit van infrastructure

Indeed the media instead framed this phenomenon as a huge problem rather than as a policy success, putting a lot of negative attention on e.g. fast food prices and other areas where rising working class wages caused inflation in consumer prices.

The suggestion that cultural puritanism is to blame for public dislike of Disney Adults is so laughable it really distracts from how absurd the rest of this is. Modern Disney is just Puritanism hollowed out by capitalism, an endless vista of frictionless, meaningless experiences sold at a premium.

BAN THE PERVERT GLASSES

On this day in 1985, the city of Philadelphia went to war against its own citizens. I wrote about it for @teenvogue.com back in 2020: www.teenvogue.com/story/histor...

My DC people: have you seen this cat wtop.com/local/2026/0...

mine are exactly the same lol. i love big to medium size post-industrial towns.

happy you met your out of network deductible and exhausted your FSA at the same time day to all, being mentally ill is expensive

totally normal to sit in your car in front of your house crying to “can’t hardly wait” by the replacements, right?

In America, losing your health insurance can be worse than losing your job, especially as you age. This is an intentional recession and a sentence to misery and death.

"One study found that increasing the number of people who receive SNAP benefits by 5 percent could have prevented nearly 32,000 suicides over 15 years. And a $1 increase in minimum wage has been linked to roughly 8,000 fewer suicide deaths over a decade."

In #Maryland ’s #Baltimore Harbor, data from a floating trash trap wheel that collects up to 500 tons of litter and debris each year was used to support a statewide ban on #polystyrene foam products, implemented in 2020, and a citywide ban on #plastic bags, implemented in 2021. #Goodnews #pollution

There are two kinds of people on Bluesky: the ones who have a fun time talking about music and making jokes because of a prompt and those who use it as an opportunity to complain. Which one will you be?

Almost 50% of Arizonans who had SNAP benefits have been kicked off of the program since last summer thanks to Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill”. This is an excellent article on the cruelty, which of course is the point.

Means testing access to public benefits programs remains a rolling obscenity, another grinding obstacle to achieving basic dignity in a country where the wealthiest experience an existence so free of friction that they openly disdain the idea of communal responsibility.

70% top marginal tax rates

no one has nominated “gasolina” for most millennial song yet but i only speak the truth

The Tommyknockers by Stephen King (1987)

i booked my tickets to hong kong and the philippines :) it’s happening :)))

i’m at a restaurant in west philly and listening to penn students talk about how 26 is an “old age”

hey so when aoc inevitably announces her run — if i see a SINGLE mf step out of line when it comes to RIDING for this woman, you are simply not serious about restoring our fifty-year-old democracy that was just murdered this week — rest in that knowledge

the fast food chain white castle is older than italian unification

What is it about political service that people think it should be unpaid

It’s telling that Alabama took 14 years to implement Brown (you MUST desegregate) and < 14 days to implement Callais (you CAN eliminate Black districts if you call them Democratic, but you don’t HAVE to).

This is the man Bill Ferguson is running against. Please vote for him instead Baltimore. Enough is enough

Nebraska is using an algorithm assessment tool to cut Medicaid home-care services for people with disabilities, without explaining how or why. @nhelp.bsky.social's Elizabeth Edwards “A Medicaid agency cannot evade their responsibilities through the use of an algorithm” healthlaw.org/news/nebrask...

all this nation-wrecking shit just to keep black people down, it’s objectively crazy