RIP Margaretta D'Arcy, pictured outside the Dáil, June 2025, aged 91. [pic: Rose Comiskey]

There is a post circulating on Bluesky encouraging the moving of a frozen turkey straight into a pot of hot oil. We are combating this misinformation the best way we know how - through the power of dance music.

What I’m getting out of this is that Franklin Graham also has a pool boy

Today, after the Coast Guard lifted a ban on swastikas and nooses as symbols of hate, and after President Trump called for the execution of members of Congress, it is time for every American to decide. Who will you be? Here is Burt Lancaster as Nazi era judge Ernst Janning in Judgment at Nuremberg.

Trump has found a terrifyingly effective way to eliminate bad news: delete the data. From hunger and poverty stats to foreign investment numbers, federal agencies are being gutted—making it harder to measure the impact of his policies. @crampell.bsky.social reports:

Don't recall this kind of greeting for President Zelensky, a democratically elected leader who does not dismember his critics.

"...while the raids continued, the flow of information about them did not." From @geoffhing.bsky.social and @jillcastellano.bsky.social www.themarshallproject.org/2025/11/15/d...

Jimmy Carter’s peanut farm says hi.

This is real. A government agency calling Americans performing their democratic right of protest “imbecilic morons.” This Trump regime is a poison and never should have gotten power. A total disgrace.

Every technology problem is three social problems in a trench coat

Never smile at an Epstein file. We explore greed, exploitation and toxic apathy, through the pens of Benjamin Slyngstad, Bob Englehart, Dave Brown, Jeff Danziger, Joel Pett, Kirk Walters, Megan Herbert, Michael de Adder, Patrick Chappatte & Peter Broelman www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/20...

BREAKING: Steve Bannon offered Trump’s MAGA movement as a shield for Jeffrey Epstein - outlining a coalition to “stave off Time’s Up for next decade plus,” in return for strategic and financial support @bylinetimes.bsky.social /1 bylinetimes.com/2025/11/14/s...

Yesterday’s executive order is about 10 months later than expected but on target to do exactly as predicted. It will fully reverse protections enacted under Biden, and resurrect church-run, faith-based systems like we used to have before public social services. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.

DOJ asking for a 1 day sentence was insulting enough — this is a complete affront to the justice Breonna Taylor deserves.

The U.S. government sent an appalling $31 billion of taxpayer dollars to Israel to support their genocide in Gaza. We’re exploring how it could be spent in the United States instead of war. Comment to share your ideas of how to spend billions of taxpayer dollars at home.

JD Vance owns a company that buys American real estate and sells it to foreign investors. They specifically target Americans in crisis to buy their property for less than it is worth.

once again I'm begging and pleading with someone in the press to draw this obvious connection between trump/epstein and trump's precision defunding of programs that assist women who are the victims of domestic and sexual abuse

If you have tenure at Texas A&M and aren't maliciously emailing the president a dozen times every day to ask if you can say this or you can say that, then what's the point in having tenure?

The Trump administration is poised to approve a new Pfas “forever chemical” pesticide ingredient, putting the nation’s food and water supply at more risk from the dangerous compounds. The substance would be sprayed on corn, soybeans and wheat. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The October jobs report flew on Epstein's private jet

“Inconvenience is when your DoorDash shows up late or your pizza is cold, not being asked to find a new place to live in one of the most challenging rental markets in the country.” @jordanphickey.bsky.social on the luxury student dorms decimating affordable housing in college towns @inthesetimes.com

Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This holiday season, give Jeff Bezos and Amazon the gift of zero dollars. 🥰

From Covid to this in five years (not to mention school shootings), I don’t know how we think educators can continue on like this. Public schools have long served as our duct tape for a failing society but that failure is maybe too great for this tape to hold.

Excellent observation

Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment

When the shakedowns just start happening in public. $NVO

Jesus I see what you've done for others

“Meta internally projected late last year that it would earn about 10% of its overall annual revenue – or $16 billion – from running advertising for scams and banned goods, internal company documents show.🚨🚨🚨

If your government thinks the Pope “doesn’t know what he’s talking about” when he defends migrants’ dignity, the world should see the warning sign. The US is no longer leading on human rights. It’s suppressing them.

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

I don't know what will happen in NYC tonight, but I do know that regardless of outcome, any number of public figures, celebrities, politicians and institutions that oppose Mamdani have done so with a level of rhetorical ugliness, racism, and dishonesty that should neither be forgotten nor forgiven.

There is some sad irony in McClatchy shutting its DC bureau the same day that Dick Cheney died. That bureau (then Knight-Ridder) did some of the best, most skeptical reporting anywhere in the run-up to the Iraq War. And they took a lot of shit for it at the time. www.cato.org/commentary/q...

A stat we don't talk about enough: Newspapers have lost 77% of their jobs over the last 20 year, more than any of the 532 other industries tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

can’t tell if my antidepressants aren’t working or if they just weren’t built for this. like, zoloft was introduced in the 90s it barely needed to work then. if you got sad you could just buy a house.

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Instead of asking the Speaker of the House if he has a view on <critical separation-of-powers QOTD>, maybe reporters should start asking him if he reads any newspapers or otherwise informs himself on those matters to which we might think the Speaker of the House ought to be paying attention?

Wait, did they edit an interview? Did they not air every second? I heard that’s grounds for a multimillion lawsuit

Home Depot would like immigrants abducted to the camps, and they would also like this to not affect their business. This is the sort of Kindergartener-level magical thinking every large company is engaging in at the moment, especially mainstream media.

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reminder that Hitler never wrote a new German constitution, never "officially" changed the government he just closed the legislature and ruled alone, against the law, until he was stopped

I am certainly no seasoned strategist but I am a little skeptical of the political wisdom behind building a giant golden ballroom and sharing a dozen photos of a renovated marble bathroom at the very moment that millions of people are losing access to healthcare and food.

2 federal judges ruled nearly simultaneously that Trump must continue to fund SNAP using contingency funds during the government shutdown. One gave them until Monday to tell the court whether it will “authorize at least reduced SNAP benefits for November” and set a timeline for doing so.

"As the press becomes more subservient and less independent, the first-hand knowledge needed to even stage a fight to get our mojo back is a whisper in the ether," writes @briankarem.bsky.social. That's why veteran journalists who know how abnormal this all is need to be extra vocal.

"ICE is all but extricating itself from the process...while effectively turning immigration enforcement into a service industry; a continuous, privatized, & largely unseen system capable of moving detainees 100s of miles overnight while operating w/out direct federal presence." @dell.bsky.social

Trump claims ICE agents are in constant danger. The data tells another story. Records show that none of ICE’s agents have ever been killed by an immigrant in the agency’s more than two-decade history. Instead, the leading cause of death by far among ICE officers is COVID-19.

Eric is a Missouri congressman. He is quite literally dependent on the federal government for his paycheck, his housing, and his free healthcare. He’s a tax recipient.