Let me fix that for you: Texas A&M is limiting how instructors may discuss gender identity and race in classrooms in an assault on academic freedom unseen in America since the Red Scare.

First of all, a 15-year-old is not "barely legal." The age of consent in Florida is 18. So sexual behavior with a 15-year-old is rape. Megyn Kelly is VILE trash for saying otherwise. And Megyn Kelly is confessing to having insider information about what Jeffrey Epstein was up to but stayed silent.

If you haven’t seen this SiriusXM video in which Megyn Kelly excuses Epstein and others for rape by stating that they weren’t sexually abusing eight-year-olds, only 15-year-olds, save yourself the time. It’s vile.

The fact that the estate released files that implicate Donald Trump, files that the DOJ/FBI have, proves that Pamela Jo Bondi and Kash Patel are actively involved in a criminal cover-up.

AOC: "It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give 8 senators over $1 million a piece & we're robbing people of their food assistance & healthcare to pay for it. How can we vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people?"

Important public school news.

This is what a New Era looks like.

There were 13 elections last night for a statewide office. Democrats swept all 13. That’s 1 in NJ. 3 in VA. 2 in GA. And 7 in PA (all judges, retention and regular). They won 12 of the 13 races by double-digits, with margins up to 24%. The only other race, the tightest, they won by 6%.

Trump is ordering Republicans to end the filibuster? Yes. YES!! Dems will never have the balls to do this unless Republicans do it first.

They are an important part of the big tent that the Democrats need to build to win in red states, purple states and across the country

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

Walmart, McDonalds and Amazon are the largest employers of people who require SNAP assistance. The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income. They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive. Wanna fix fraud and abuse? Fix that.

Dick Cheney did more than anyone else to build up expansive and destructive executive branch powers in the wake of 9/11; he lived to see another president turn those same powers against his own daughter. He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.

With all these extrajudicial boat murders, we have a president who is not only an adjudicated rapist, but also an unapprehended serial killer.

From the union statement in the story below:

Yes, in a general election, I would vote for ANY Democrat right now. I said ANY. I'm sure in 1930's Germany there were liberal "purists" who sat things out with angry arms folded. Look how that worked out for everyone.

I think the name for China’s form of economy is “State Capitalism.”

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So Trump doesn’t know who he’s pardoning? Sounds like this ought to be a major congressional investigation.

TARA JAYE FRANK, on the Department of Labor’s rebranding of America’s workforce: .. a “total erasure of Black and brown people, and the removal of women as equal contributors to the economy.” @tarajayefrank.bsky.social @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/posts/taraja...

That’s by design. Billionaires monetize rage bait, and it has the added bonus of keeping us fighting with each other while they rob us blind. But one day soon, all the anger from the culture wars they’ve cultivated to distract us from the class war will be turned on them.

Republicans who are still today living in the world that actually ended several decades ago.

The name applied to “Chinese-style economic policy” is “State Capitalism.”

In 1932, the Soviet Union utilized food shortages as a means of coercion against the Soviet Ukrainian population. Called the Holodomor, it was a man-made famine used for political purposes, much like what Republicans in Congress are getting ready to do to fellow Americans.

The top three things Jesus was on about were feeding the hungry, healing the sick, and welcoming the stranger. Rich men have convinced so-called Christians to starve the hungry, gut health care, and deport the stranger to enrich themselves. It’s astoundingly anti-Christ.

This is what I know about Republicans: they don’t want us to have healthcare or food. They don’t want us educated. They think people are only worth as much as they can produce in GDP. They don’t like gay people or trans people.They treat women with disdain. I would never vote for a Republican.

"Today’s Trumpist revolution has more in common with the authoritarian revolutions of the last century than with the liberal revolution of 1776. Its spirit is not 'let facts be submitted to a candid world.' It is far closer to 'Il Duce ha sempre ragione.'" www.thebulwark.com/p/il-duce-ha...

the democratic party’s basic problem is it has almost no control over how its message reaches the ears of voters, especially outside of presidential election years. but rather than devote serious time, attention and cash to that problem its consultants and pundits want to fight factional battles

When asked about Russia’s war in Ukraine, ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, DeepSeek, and xAI’s Grok all regularly cite Russian propaganda www.wired.com/story/chatbo...

We never needed a list. Women came forward and named their abusers. It doesn’t matter to people who don’t believe women in the first place. And these women will never receive justice under this regime. When you talk to voters, talk about the Trump taxes (tariffs) and the Trump recession. Economics.

Imagine if we did this but instead of paying people to racially profile and terrorize communities and grab mostly innocent people we did it for teachers

The amount is meaningless — less than one day of salary. But the principle is important: once the armed services are paid by the oligarchs, they become a private militia, and we no longer have a country. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

These days when someone says "I'm a Christian" I hear "I'm a racist and a bigot." A lot of us do. If I were Christianity, I'd consider this a big problem.

The "pro-weed" gun case is a trap for lefties. Yes, it's hypocritcal to take away guns from people who use weed, but not people who abuse alcohol. But the way to deal with that is to DECRIMINALIZE WEED, not expand gun rights. My latest in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...

BREAKING CBS News reports Trump plans to upgrade the East Wing bunker, the Presidential Emergency Operations Center, which serves as a secure shelter and communications hub for the president and key personnel during emergencies. WHAT EMERGENCIES MIGHT THOSE BE? www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/u...

“The people of Chicago are not acting like Democrats engaged in normal politics. They are acting like a dissident movement in an authoritarian system. Elected Democrats everywhere could learn from them.” www.thebulwark.com/p/we-will-te...

Donald Trump is too simple-minded to realize that when he brags about the White House's tacky new Caesars Palace Ballroom being "privately funded," he's admitting to taking bribes from influence peddlers, millionaires, and corporations that want something from him.

“.. It was not immediately clear where the funding for the jets came from.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...

What an appropriate comment, Shauna.

There should not be a farmer bailout. However, when it comes, there should be a farmland bailout to protect against agri-business consolidation of land holdings in order to limit monopoly power - as with any industry. It should be noted that farmers made a bet with full disclosure about a Trump win.

Take a picture of yourself at the No Kings rally. Print it. Put it in a frame. Your grandchildren will speak about you for generations to come. You took a stand against fascism. You stood up for democracy. 

I’ve been saying this for years. Something positive about facing the current crisis of democracy? We can rebuild better. We can learn from this attack on democracy and move forward.

Well, this is horrifying, @masslive.bsky.social.

huh, wonder what this was about

Trump and Vought are now breaking both sides of spending law. They’re illegally not spending where the law requires them to spend, and they’re illegally spending where they don’t have the money to spend. What we have is an appropriations king. Spending “deals” are meaningless under that setup.

All of this, in violation of the Constitution.