It's never been mandatory to believe all women or victims. Every single person who came forward throughout the history of MeToo, which started well before 2017, has faced new acts of violence as retaliation from their abusers and the public for upsetting the status quo

also, like, the die for pain was cast a year ago. the pain will continue for, at minimum, another three years. every choice now is between only bad options, and people will suffer no matter what choice is made, and senators cannot and should not be immune to that.

An explanation is needed here.

Congress tells you how to spend the money, you spend it. If you can't get the requisite language and agreements in place for that, you can't open the government in my mind. You can't be party to the executive branch doing wtf it wants.

Can I live in boots? Can I eat boots? If ground beef is up 462% from where it was when I was a kid and housing is up 337%, does it matter that much to me that I can buy more enshittified Doc Martens that won't last the year versus the secondhand pair that's lasted me my entire adult life?

I think a number of press outlets badly want there to be a groundswell of anti-trans feeling, because the ownership/senior editorial of those papers have absolutely cooked their own brains on transphobia. It seems to be largely an elite psychosis!

It's incredible that we let billionaires bloviate about their policy views without throwing tomatoes at them. We know what they want, they want policies that work for a few dozen people and immiserate the other 300 million. Not interested!

Glad I saved this piece for this morning to read and sit with. A grounding and uplifting way to start my week.

it drives me actually insane to have people romanticizing subsistence agriculture as if that's not just playing russian roulette with your family's lives year by year, and that every single one of their ancestors would throttle them for suggesting giving up their email jobs

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.

the harris campaign said the “they/them” ad didn’t sway the election. one of the trump campaign’s top strategists this week said trans rights isn’t in the top five issues for swing voters. when will the press stop talking about us like we’re a liability and start looking itself in the mirror

These guys are constantly saying that Dems need to abandon identity politics and run on kitchen-table issues. They get the most kitchen table-ass candidate imaginable, spend months saying he's secretly radical, then as soon as he wins they say he's secretly moderate.

MAGA Will Rule or Ruin A roundup of the latest developments in America’s authoritarian crisis: How the Trumpists plan to bring down the Republic – and how they might react to electoral defeat. New piece:

It's so cool that when the right person lands a direct hit on ol' Elon he can't stop from lighting up and spinning his bowtie like a carnival game clown

All of republican governance in our lifetime has now devolved to angry white men incoherently screeching—in the halls of power and online alike—that nothing is working and they demand democrats put it back together in the exact way that republicans want or else they’ll start killing more people

don't listen to the inner voice preaching caution. drink the fourth iced coffee and ascend

I think a lot about the leaked signal chat, in which it was clear that folks were claiming presidential backing without any evidence. That’s how our government is running. People lying that they’ve talked to the president.

This connection isn’t articulated often enough.

Very pleased that @rollingstone.com is running an excerpt of WITHOUT CONSENT today, focusing on the making and impact of a 1980 television movie on the Rideout case featuring a young Linda Hamilton and Mickey Rourke.

it’s been quite a time to be on the front lines of the gender war.

“We have rarely witnessed such brutality erupt into public view like it has in Chicago,” writes Michael Woolf, senior minister of Lake Street Church of Evanston. “For me, this is a spiritual emergency, and it means putting our bodies on the line in order to stop deportations.”

BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Mamdani is gonna implement shakshuka law. Everyone gets distributed a delicious pan of simmering tomatoes, onions, garlic, spices, and gently poached eggs, which they get as state-sponsored breakfast.

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

I do really think these folks are underestimating how bad the AI backlash can get if the industry needs a bailout people are still furious about the 2008 bailout and that was almost two decades ago

Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market. This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.

The old constitutional order that'd been held together by norms & precedent is smashed. Victory in '28 by a popular front has to affirmatively put forward a new system of gov't Alternative: Louis XV "After me, the deluge" My piece in @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/the-american...

Good morning! AI is being force-fed to you by a handful of billionaires who will lose a bunch of money if they fail to convince you that you need it. You do not need it 🫶

Republicans got fucking obliterated on Tuesday, and it wasn't just a turnout issue - in NJ, for example, you saw huge swings back toward Dems in heavily Hispanic areas the Trump coalition is not a durable one, and does not show up when his name is not personally on top of the ballot

“shows more feminism”? Ma’am, the only reason you could go to law school at all, let alone work as a lawyer, professor, or judge, is solely due to the achievements of the feminist movement over the last 100+ years.

But they aren't making more conservatives. They stopped making those kinds of guys. The kinds of guys that are emerging are far scarier than even the Ben Shapiros of the world, because they are products of a crisis of legitimacy and economic and social crisis. But that's not a political movement.

Feminists achieved real changes in law, policy, and culture that opened the way for women to participate in public life and not be relegated to lower-paid service industries or stuck in the home. Feminism *gave* women like ACB the choices they enjoyed.

“The imaginary feminists I made up in my head, who demand that everyone be superwoman, even though that was actually demanded by patriarchy” strike again

Title IX's origin is because women weren't allowed to turned away from college and especially medical and law schools. I know sports dominates the understanding around this law but it was an accidental aspect in many regards. A woman being able to go to law school? That was the entire point.

“shows more feminism”? Ma’am, the only reason you could go to law school at all, let alone work as a lawyer, professor, or judge, is solely due to the achievements of the feminist movement over the last 100+ years.

interesting details here about ICE addressing the city government, refusing to fully identifying themselves, then pissing the council off by admitting they were just empty suits wasting everyone's time.

This might be one of the most monumentally insane things a government has done

Great examples of this are @defector.com, @talkingpointsmemo.com, @hellgatenyc.com, and the burgeoning @theflytrapmedia.com!

boy I saw that in person a LOT living there. particularly toxic in an expensive-ass city like DC, you basically can't start a family on staffer wages bsky.app/profile/seth...

The thing that has surprised me the most about Trump II is how many of the most powerful people in the country are cowed losers who sacrificed confidence and self-respect for one higher rung on the ladder.

ryan is right. people HATE hearing this. but it is just a matter of simple incentives. if you want a more representative legislature — and if you want a legislature more resistant to corruption — then you need to jack up the salaries. serving as mayor of NYC should net you a cool 500K *at least*

Don’t think ppl understand the terror the Feds are unleashing on the streets of LA right now. Roving patrols targeting vulnerable individuals. It’s horrible. There’s no one coming to save us except ourselves.

yes. a thousand times yes

1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad 2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices. www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

imagining a university proudly stating they keep mini-bars of free booze on campus to encourage student social development because they were already drinking anyways and not getting sued to oblivion if someone died of alcohol poisoning.

“Shocks the conscience” is a legal term of art. In this case it’s a pretty good description of the typical reaction to these paramilitary goon squads. Shocking.

I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.

a big problem i predict is that many GOPs who have been licking Trump's boot up till now will suddenly say "I've always had a backbone" and people will just believe them. We need to turn the entire GOP to dust, at every level, from your local school board to Washington, or this'll just happen again

I would encourage trans folks especially, but LGBTQ+ folks more broadly, to understand: We are going to *lose* (maybe even a lot) as cases move up to SCOTUS. *and* Every delay & pause, even temporary, is a win. And we will ultimately win. Care for yourself. Care for community. Keep organizing.