Whaddya mean a-ha's hit Take On Me is 40 years old?!?!

Love this beautiful essay and its reverberations Tom Cat longreads.com/2025/11/06/i...

This perfectly encapsulates how I feel living in the US. The republican party is an insane death cult, the democratic party is 3 corporations in a trench coat, and the "socialists" are just the completely normal left-wing capitalists you'd find in any of 2 dozen European nations.

Working every day? You all haven't worked 20 days since July, collecting a paycheck. Open the House, 🤡!

*Heavy sigh* WITHOUT CONSENT (November 11, 2025)

initially thought that this was a shadow being projected on his face. didn’t realize he was in blackface

@sarahkendzior.bsky.social has been saying the same since 2017.

UPDATE: Reached out to the Rev. Hannah Kardon, a United Methodist minister who was there that day and has been active in religious demonstrations at Broadview. “They are making it clear that they are scared of prayer … it speaks the truth that what they are doing in that building is evil.”

BREAKING: A federal jury in Brooklyn awarded our clients — 674 immigrants unlawfully jailed by the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Office — $112 million. Could not be more proud to work at @latinojustice.bsky.social and to partner with the talent of Winston & Strawn.

One trillion reasons not to buy a Tesla.

I’d like to take the moderate path, because I’m a history major and I know what the alternatives are.

OBSCENE

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

Gender markers shouldn't even be on passports at all in the first place. They are unnecessary and I'm glad Justice Jackson hints at this. They weren't even added until 1972 when women started to be able to travel independently of their husbands and fathers.

Looking forward to that @nytimes.com article Did Toxic Masculinity Destroy the World?

THIS is the kind of WELFARE that DRIVES ME NUTS

I LOVE THIS

Mood:

I do think yesterday’s results reinforced the dynamic that while much of the American leadership class is chickenshit, most of the electorate is not

Fun to be happy scrolling in place of doomscrolling

🎼If we defeat them here We'll defeat them anywhere It's up to you---

They’ll insist this is a one-off victory — something that can only happen in New York & nowhere else. They’re wrong. New York is the world financial capital — home of Wall Street & billionaires from across the globe. If everyday people can defeat oligarchs here, we can defeat oligarchy anywhere.

The billionaires can buy the newspapers and buy social media and buy attack ads, but they can't buy their way out of how much we fucking hate all of them.

Fun to be happy scrolling in place of doomscrolling

Sobering news for a lot of top Democrats, tonight, as they realize people would prefer they actually fucking do something.

This is correct, completely correct, and anyone doing factionalist division of our big anti-Trump affordability and dignity tent can GTFO

Hearing "There are many who thought this day would never come" and "hope is alive" from Mamdani reminds me of the very best of "they said this day would never come" and the peak of the optimism of the hope era of Obama's entry to the national stage. But now, informed by all we've lost and learned.

Integrity is what wins

The oligarchy came out in full force against Zohran Mamdani's fight for a more affordable NYC. It didn't matter. Let his victory in the face of Big Money serve as a reminder that people have the power.

so it turns out that fascism is unpopular

Socialism!

Good things are possible and we don't have to settle.

Are they gonna block swearing him in???

roses are red big laughs are hearty

Really looking forward to the Speaker of the House claiming to be unaware of the election results.

They aren't complying with discovery because if they did, it would lead to disclosure of materials that establish beyond any doubt James' case on vindictive prosecution. The sanction for noncompliance is that the court accepts this inference. The case should then be dismissed, very quickly, too.

Earlier this year, I met a Croatian journalist who was in the US doing a piece on America’s politics and I asked her what surprised her. And she said, “What you all call the far left is just being normal.”

Jacob Lawrence, "The 1920s: The Migrants Arrive & Cast Their Ballots," screenprint, 1974 noma.org/election-day...

Good.

Andrew Cuomo being cheered at the finish line by Trump, Musk, and Stephen Miller says it all, and he will have the Election Day that New Yorkers find appropriate for such a man.

A 2020 study found that Amazon—which shares owner Jeff Bezos with The Washington Post—is one of the largest employers of people on SNAP.

I tend to favor recipes that end with "eat immediately." cuz that's what I do...

He he heh

I’m going to go out there and tell people that the republicans killed your good jobs and every time they open their mouths I’m listing the wins that local and regional member based organizations delivered and pics of GOP playing golf.

LAPD never misses an opportunity to escalate so they can beat the shit out of anyone who objects.

U.S. Citizen Shot by ICE in Ontario, CA Released From Custody With Bullet Still Lodged In Shoulder lataco.com/ontario-man-... By Aisha Wallace-Palomares and @el_tragon_de_LA

“In my work with the (Nuremberg Trial) defendants, I was searching for the nature of evil, and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy... a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.” - Captain G.M. Gilbert, US Army

My favorite part of Halloween is going around the table and saying what we're all spooky for

According to ICE’s own data, none of its officers have been killed by an immigrant in the agency’s history. The leading cause of death? Covid-19 Reports @motherjones.com