Truly amazing that any time the democrats have to bite the bullet and do something that ruins countless lives, there's always *just* enough votes to get it done, but if there is a vote on something that would actually improve people's lives, they are always one vote short. Crazy how that happens.

if democrats want to retain any amount of integrity they need to immediately vote out chuck schumer as party minority leader

In a normal democracy, a total collapse of party leadership would result in an no-confidence vote and immediate snap elections to find leaders who can lead

Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.

Gotta say, counting "We got them to agree that a law passed in 2019 is still the law" as a victory is some real learned helplessness

Not that he didn’t already know, but now Trump knows for sure he can roll the Dems every time and there’s no need to negotiate for anything

How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

Since the Democrats worked extra hard to hide who actually supported this, I think the No Kings/Resistance position should be to primary every Democrat unless they publicly call for Schumer's ouster this week Either they go into total rebellion mode, which they won't, or the people will

They caved in March so they could get a better deal now. They’re caving now so they can get a better deal in some indeterminate future. The better deal is always just beyond their reach, but continuing to cave will get them there. And if you don’t agree with that, you don’t understand Politics,

They shut down the government for nothing. Literally nothing.

They're treating Trump illegally firing federal employees like it's leverage, not a criminal act.

i don't say things like this often, as i find them hyperbolic to the point of extreme dilution, so please believe me when I say this is the most severe, graceful dissection of Musk I've seen. Swift, effortlessly deep, like piano wire through tofu. If someone spoke of me like this I’d be abed a week

You cannot separate the current nightmare we now inhabit from the collapse/crisis in how rich, powerful middle-aged men perceive masculinity, especially their own insecurities.

I am once again saying that we saw what wall to wall, panic coverage of a crisis looked like after the Biden debate and there’s no reason Trump isn’t getting that kind of coverage except for class solidarity.

A variation on the story from the other day about how many teens think factual reporting is routinely made up:

Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine

lol she got his ass and he knows it

This is 100% not someone who has been trained to use a gun. He's waving it around nervously. This is insane

Never forget that a Democratic US Attorney’s decision to prosecute Aaron Swartz for downloading JSTOR PDFs contributed to his suicide but AI firms’ decision to download everything ever will be a justification for hundreds of billions of dollars of taxpayer bailouts and legal exemptions.

at prevailing 30 year rates (tho 50 would be higher?) such a loan would be ~1/4 paid off after 30 years lol

40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine. We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...

If James Watson had died at 79, he would be remembered as a genius and a legend. Instead he lived until 97, and will be remembered for spending the final 18 years of his life as an outspoken racist and sexist.

Members of the community argue with federal officers during an immigration enforcement action in the Little Village neighborhood Saturday in Chicago.

A Waukegan councilman was briefly detained by U.S. immigration agents on Friday, and he says the agents drew their guns on him while he was sitting in his car with his hands raised. “My life flashed before my eyes,” said Ald. Juan Martinez.

Mamdani's line that billionaires spent more to oppose his candidacy than he proposed to tax them really says it all. Like a company that shuts down a profitable location as soon as it unionizes. The principle of maintaining control is more important.

if the Times, which has done nothing but help inflate this massive bubble the whole way, is finally printing this kind of shit, you know we’re getting real close to a catastrophic recession

I’m not saying this to look for validation but as a white person raised on the southwest side, this is my city they’re targeting at an intimate level. These children are never going to be the same. They’re witnessing this state violence constantly and it’s deeply unfair to every single one of them.

They're laughing in your face as they steal your money and make you suffer

He has to specify identification because the voter id is something different and far more worrying

Teslas are death traps: "A nearby homeowner who called 911 after she was awakened by the sound of the collision said she could hear people screaming from inside the vehicle — and could still hear screaming five minutes into the call with dispatch, the complaint says" www.jsonline.com/story/news/2...

Yes: it was crystal clear *at the time* that they fully understood they were helping to commit crimes against humanity, and that their media pals knew it very well too. That’s what all the screaming lies, bullshit and crackdowns were about: trying to shitehouse stupid people and the inattentive.

Well that got intense - you can see CBP threatening to mace someone and also threatening to teargas them on 22nd and Sawyer. CPD had about 40 bodies on the north end of the street guarding the feds.

The Washington Post editorial board articles about Mamdani are actually disgusting. It’s hard to surprise me but my jaw dropped when they referred to him as “generalissimo” in the first paragraph.

do you know how horrid and evil you have to be to be in this much pain in public and everyone still hates you

oh so these people do pay attention to who politicians follow on social media, they just don’t care that the vice president follows a bunch of actual neo-nazis

is it better for countries to invest in boring things like transport and energy infrastructure or should they invest all their money in useless chatbots that talk in reddit-voice on the vague and completely unsubstantiated hope that they'll be able to do something profitable one day

Granted, this quote was about colonization, but it still fits here, imo They're willing to ruin the environment, pollute the planet, and spend trillions of dollars instead of actually helping humanity. Giving everyone food and housing is a better use of resources.

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

can someone tell me if this is good

ICE agents in Chicago violently detain a non verbal autistic man for being “non compliant” He couldn’t “comply” because of his disability…they don’t care This is not the first time they’ve gone after a disabled person They target the most vulnerable because it’s an easy way to meet their quota

congrats to everyone for thinking this through before signing very big contracts to put it on every student’s device at the school or university you run

Once in like 1999 I went into a Gristedes to buy some cereal and milk and when I opened the milk fridge a fucking bat flew out, hit me in the face, and flew up to the ceiling (its home, clearly) and when I told the woman at the front she was like yeah, he gets trapped in there sometimes

ICYMI: Microsoft’s charge “implies a more than $12 billion quarterly loss at OpenAI, said Firoz Valliji, an analyst at Bernstein.” That “would mark one of the largest single-quarter losses for a tech company in history.” @jessefelder.bsky.social $MSFT www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

federal agents are back in the skokie/evanston area this morning. this video, posted to facebook about 10 minutes ago, shows federal agents driving through the williamsburg village subdivision amid construction vehicles parked along the road. lots of residents out with whistles.

my man looks like kermit the frog telling his parents he just threw up

schumer wants to bail them out until after the midterms. smart.

update: 5 of 5 board members are DSA cadre, it's a front organization baby (extremely laudatory)