So the Epstein vote isn't the only reason Mike Johnson should fear Rep. Yassamin Ansari. More of this, please.

Update: the mass firings will continue until anger at HR decisions to focus on non-political issues subsides. bsky.app/profile/maxt...

Readers in Arizona, Michigan, & Georgia! Your senators have been getting a LOT of dedicated pressure to end the shutdown, without fixing healthcare. If you have a minute, go ahead & give them a call! Their job is to respond to constituents & they're mostly hearing from GOP voters rn.

There's no Alt-Text, so here: A US Congresswoman sits at a folding table in a marble hall. A large oaktag(?) sign hangs off the table. It reads: MIKE JOHNSON is starving families and gutting healthcare to cover up the Epstein files. CHANGE MY MIND

Turns out, caring about people/giving a damn IS popular.

BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Open AI is one of the "donors" for the Epstein ballroom. And here is their reward from Trump.

Yet again socializing loss and privatizing profit.

Socialism is not "when the government does things" anyway. Capitalism is literally grounded in the state doing shit for the capitalist class

"To build our machine god, we will need more capital then we could possibly ever earn" always seemed like a losing bet to me.

And the masterful gambit of narrowly winning an election mainly because of inflation and then enacting failed 19th century economic policies that amount to slamming the "RAISE PRICES" button.

That is, conservatives completely overplayed their hand. Fascist consolidation takes years, and nearly always has a trade-off in the social contract of security for less liberty. They expected riots to enable that trade-off, didn’t them. They also shot themselves in the foot regarding tariffs.

There’s a theory in a branch of philosophy that what breaks through misinformation isn’t truth, but reality. It’s fine and dandy to digest conservative media, but when it starts impacting your life, that’s another thing entirely. Conservatives going full mask-off with their bigotry didn’t help.

Perhaps the reason for the most hope is that the public seems to be rejecting the Republican news environment prevalent across virtually all media. Voters aren't falling for it, as overwhelming as it has felt to watch our institutions fall. They can handle the truth!

The entire pundit class has convinced people for so long that their “analysis” was somehow necessary and valuable when in reality it was just a con game to manufacture consent for bias-confirming “strategies” that only benefited the capitalist class and guaranteed pundits career security.

(*Astronaut meme*) They never did.

Republicans running anti-trans hatefests lost and Zohran Mamdani is a hugely vocal supporter of trans and other LGBTQ rights. That is MASSIVELY important to look at and run on. Roll around in all this & soak it in. This is the good shit, & it should be celebrated. And then it should be Built on.

Our current medical establishment all said the opposite was true. Full article: www.newscientist.com/article/2502...

For @msnbc.com I wrote about how Tuesday's election gives Democrats the blueprint for overcoming Republican anti-trans attacks and how thus should settle all the talk about throwing trans people under the bus. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

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Imagine if the American people could vote to release the Epstein files... Big Margins. Massive. Huge. Best scores.

Mamdani: My message to I.C.E. Agents and to everyone across this city is that everyone will be held to the same standard of the law. If you violate the law, you must be held accountable.

this looks like a trick daffy duck would put up to get bugs bunny into "the oval office"

you might not have believed Virginia Giuffre but it's pretty clear the British Royal Family did

The fact that powerful people and media machines are still trying to smear Virginia Giuffre (even after her death) shows how dangerous a survivor’s truth really is. This is why so many survivors don’t name names. They see what happens to the ones who do.

Calling my Sens now [alt text: Image reads "A Democratic Senator should hold a filibuster by reading Virginia Giuffre's entire memoir on the floor" above the cover of Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse & Fighting for Justice, Virginia Roberts Giuffre; a pic of young Giuffre is on the cover]

“Epstein offered many of the men in his circle sex with the females he and Maxwell trafficked-both girls and women. I know because I lived it.” -Virginia Giuffre

“They can say they didn't know he was raping children. But they were not blind. (Not to mention the fact that many prominent people were still associating with him years after his conviction.)” -Virginia Giuffre

Damn, this IS a great idea! We can’t let Virginia Giuffre, or what she endured, be forgotten. And we will not let her be…

25 glorious minutes of Lina Khan & Heather Cox Richardson www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ydxk...

And not just to spite the tech bros, but to help consumers! In addition to her anti trust work, her FTC enacted policies like click to cancel so companies couldn't hassle customers into keeping service they didn't want. Maybe a small win, but more of that!

For those who don’t know, Lina Khan gave tech bros hell AND her ass to kiss when she was FTC chair. She was busting monopolies left and right. Gave Amazon and Meta the finger too. This is an EXCELLENT addition to his team.

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani revealed an all-female transition team led by Elana Leopold as executive director. It also includes co-chairs Maria Torres-Springer, the former first deputy mayor; Lina Khan, the former federal trade commission chair... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Speaking at a morning press conference in Queens, the 34-year-old democratic socialist revealed an all-female transition team led by Elana Leopold as executive director. It also includes co-chairs Maria Torres-Springer, the former first deputy mayor; Lina Khan, the former federal trade commission

Lina Khan — former Chair of the Federal Trade Commission Maria Torres‑Springer — former First Deputy Mayor of #NYC Grace Bonilla — nonprofit sector leader  Melanie Hartzog — expert in city budgeting Elana Leopold — expert political strategist

For those who don’t know, Lina Khan is John Wick/Baba Yaga to Wall Street and billionaires

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is playing chess and making really good moves. Tapping former FTC chair Lina Khan for his transition team has put fear into Wall Street. They absolutely loathe her John Wick approach to antitrust cases. She’s brilliant and unyielding. Great pick!

While not directly related, this shenanigan got my brain motoring again about how the next sec of ed needs to include curriculum about mis/dis information as well how to read understand and vote in each states election system. These ppl who know how to write for teens could be very beneficial here

Young women are fed up!

They misspelled "Teen Vogue will focus on 'career development, cultural leadership and other issues that we want to matter more to young people than saving democracy.' " Also, using the focus-on-your-chores-and-poetry-and-don't-worry-your-pretty-little-head thing on that audience? Seriously? 🫠

This is the kind of thing which makes me think better things are possible.

I hope the takeaway from tonight is that most people really hate this shit and want it over with. It would be nice if leadership from both parties, especially the leaders of the ostensible opposition party, to process that and act accordingly.

more than anything i'm glad zohran won because all the worst people i know are so mad about it

The tides are turning in the Deep South. Democrats just flipped TWO seats and shattered the GOP supermajority: proof that no place is beyond change when people rise up and vote for progress. 💙 #BlueWave

This needs alt text, but holy shit. #alttext

Omg.. c'mon media, when you ask "Why did the president pardon someone who he claims not to know", and they answer, "I haven't seen that." The follow-up is "Well now you know, so what do you have to say"? This is just ludicrous. "I don't know" is basically "I dont care".

This is how I feel about the Proposition 50 result.

Bucket List: to live in a country where the head-of-state cannot defy court orders.

This is like every single one of your favorite teams playing at the same time and actually so far pulling it off. Elections, the most important sport of your life.