I haven't been on twitter in over a year but it seems like Musk has transformed it into a powerful platform devoted to proving he's the most embarrassing person who's ever lived.

can't wait to see this inspiring messaging incorporated into the DSCC fundraising appeals

Right, the answer isn't to abandon the party to these weasels. The answer is to flood the party with people who will take it over and transform it.

Some preliminary points: Trump is unlikely to succeed in a claim for defamation against the BBC (on information available). Even if he succeeded, damages for this alleged defamation would be no more than about £50k, probably less. Even the worst libels, now no more than about £100k. £1bn? No way.

Not going to lie - this is a huge relief, which in itself sort of points to how far we’ve fallen in the last few years. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...

Making problems for future me by setting my up a whole bunch of emails and texts to go out tomorrow morning via Apple’s “Send Later”.

It was harder getting endorsements for Zohran Mamdani from Democrats than them caving to Republicans to mutually strip us of healthcare

Sure we put you through a month of hell, but on the other hand we got nothing for it.

It doesn't actually matter if Chuck Schumer votes for this or not. If he can't keep his caucus unified to protect healthcare for over 10 million Americans, he should resign as leader.

It shows Schumer no longer has the caucus.

Schumer (NY) 202 224-6542 Booker (NJ) 202 224-3224 King (ME) 202 224-5344 Hassan (NH) 202 224-3324 Durbin (IL) 202 224-2152 Ossoff (GA) 202 224-3521 Shaheen (NH) 202 224-2841 Gillibrand (NY) 202 224-4451 Masto (NV) 202 224-3542 Warner (VA) 202 224-2023

Still a classic. And it gets more true every day. theonion.com/happy-monday...

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Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office. If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.

Last night, the Trump Administration sent a letter suggesting Wisconsin should return our FoodShare payments. My response ⬇️

@mattwalshjourno.bsky.social can I ask you a serious question here - the documentary clearly contained a significant editorial misjudgment. It also did not misrepresent that Trump was inciting violence - the congressional review referred him to the DOJ for prosecution for that.

I think in this case, this response is over the top. I also think it should give everyone in Britain enormous pride and faith that we still have media that is accountable to the public if it misleads people. No such thing exists in America.

Not enormously sad to see Tim Davis go. Still fairly alarmed about what happens next at the BBC

lol she got his ass and he knows it

People in Chicago, she seems awesome and you should buy stuff from her.

Literally every dem should be shouting from the rooftops that republicans are giving Americans two choices: die from starvation or from a lack of affordable healthcare.

I know it's far from the top of the list, but one of the most wearying aspects of fighting transphobia is that the people pushing it are often just so, SO ignorant.

This is incredibly hard to read and the idea that it’s done in the name of America is actually sickening. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...

Fun fact: Musk's pay package would be equal to the cost of SNAP (i.e., helping 42 million people to buy food) for TEN YEARS.

The more we learn about Zohran Mamdani's upbringing, the clearer it becomes that he owes everything to his connected, well-to-do parents. by A.G. Sulzberger, Andrew Cuomo, Bill Ackman, and Donald Trump, Jr.

What I find fascinating about this shutdown is that Democrats are almost universally considered by their own side to be overly cautious, centrist, focused on avoiding harm for vulnerable people, and … this is no different - they’re trying to find consensus, compromise, looking for ways out…

A majority of the days the government has ever been shut down, Donald Trump was president. www.howtoreadthisch.art/red-versus-b...

I’m just going to be really blunt here. The majority of people in DC do not like Trump at all. There is no surer way right now to alienate great swathes of their fans than by naming the stadium after him. www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...

The social media platforms were doing the GOP a favor by booting vile bigots off their services. Now that they have largely given up, the bigots are the party's problem. Wonder if they regret making such a stink about "deplatforming."

It’s pretty obvious how this works. The general public are too busy and tired to understand how government and health insurance and trade work. And actual solutions are complicated and boring. Trump’s blunt stupidity looks to those people like he’s cutting through all the guff to *do* something.

Is it good politics to ask the Supreme Court if you can continue starving people?

Eurgh. Are there any shops for anti-social grumpy Englishmen where they’ll just ignore you unless you’re absolutely desperate enough to (shudder) talk to someone?

But totally cool for Qatar to buy a whole ass plane for Trump

Just naked bigotry, they don't even bother trying to hide anymore

Let this sink in. The President of the United States is now appealing a court order forcing him to feed starving children.

It's still so weird to me that the idea of universal healthcare is so political here. It's a given in so many other places, and I miss it. And people don't realize how good it is for innovation. You can take so many more risks when your health and well-being aren't tied to a salaried employer.

Big tough man too scared to say “fuck” while inciting tensions globally.

Launch this man into the sun.

Genuinely this is just repulsive. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/b...

This should get a Pulitzer. It's going to be an all-time classic.

Celebrity Traitors. I have never shouted at the screen more than during that episode. What great telly.

I lived and worked in SF for over a decade, in media and in the labor movement, and never heard a single person refer to Nancy Pelosi as “mom” wtaf

How often a day do you guys feel like just selling everything and going to live alone in a forest to live off berries rather than deal with the world?

If Musk meets all the benchmarks of his new $1 trillion pay package from Tesla he will be paid $274 MILLION EVERY DAY FOR THE NEXT 10 YEARS This is his part-time job

How often a day do you guys feel like just selling everything and going to live alone in a forest to live off berries rather than deal with the world?

‘Trump is against humankind’: World leaders at climate summit take swipes at absent president

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

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