With genuine shame, recent years in politics have given me my first taste for what it is to have moralised contempt for my opponents. Not hatred, not fear; contempt. There's some core element of the right wing coalition at the moment which seems to me best described as a revolt of the loser men...

Trump Still Polling Well With Working-Class American Pedophiles https://theonion.com/trump-still-polling-well-with-working-class-american-pedophiles/

From my grandfather Frederick A. Pottle's memoir _Stretchers_: It was five-thirty on the morning of November 12 before the last of the main wave of wounded reached Evacuation Eight, and noon or after before the operating room was cleared.

Trump is 30 points underwater. Dems swept the special elections. People know the GOP is responsible for the shutdown. So the Dem Senators pulled out their big guns... and shot themselves in the foot.

No Kings includes Angus

lol she got his ass and he knows it

i think this is a pretty good take on pelosi, who is unquestionably one of the most consequential house speakers in the history of the institution

really important element of this basically total victory is that it puts the fear of god in republican incumbents and may bring the redistricting push to a total halt

there was a time i never thought i could hate a politician more than i hated that guy. in retrospect, very naive of me

Contemporary politicians rehabilitate politicians from previous decades the same way that the Hostel films make the Texas Chain Saw Massacre seem like family friendly viewing.

So close! The correct appellation is "the rapist formerly known as Prince."

Maine! Did you vote yet? ⏰Time’s running out to vote early. I just voted No on Question 1 to save Absentee Voting, and Yes on Question 2 to pass commonsense gun safety laws. October 30th is your last chance to vote early ahead of Tuesday’s election. #mesen

The House will be called back into session as soon as the game ends.

one thing a lot of radicals don't want to grapple with is the the state monopoly on violence exists because the median subject of the state prefers it over the alternative. the goal of the peaceful protestor is to make that person very uncomfortable and willing to reconsider, not overpower the state

Periodic reminder that this scheming half-wit Goebbels isn’t even a lawyer.

RIP, UVA.

/3 I mean, people disagreeing with you from the Left can be frivolous, fatuous, or feral, but being disagreed with from the Left is not the worst thing that can happen in American politics and why the fuck does it absolutely break so many people.

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification. I glanced down at the message. “Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began. So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

What we've been demanding: Threaten to hold them accountable. Just like this.

My Bookshop.org order arrived this morning, but the contents were not quite what I was expecting. My complaint to their customer service follows.

If someone merely acknowledging the humanity of your enemies enrages you, you’re the baddies.

Before us are illegal and unnecessary Republican mass firings, which they will own; behind us, millions of Americans whose health care Republicans attack, and will own. We stand our ground. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Abolish #ICE

On the 18th we need to be vigilant for increased violence and provocation by both law enforcement and counter-protestors, both of which will be used to try to justify more violence and authoritarianism.

MIT rejects "compact" proposed by the Trump administration. MIT prez wrote: it "would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution" and "is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone." orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

No, they should be worried 🤷‍♂️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"It wanted to signal strength. Instead, it’s revealing its weakness. The administration’s need to break the academy is forcing it to make a desperately risky gamble." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Also, and not for nothing, he’s lying

war, war never changes.

jane goodall releasing a video of her listing the people she dislikes and ending with a vague message of hope is so iconic. truly someone i aspire to model myself after

welcome to the Resistance, psychotically violent fascists who tear gas children

There is a gulf in America. I submit it is the gulf between good and evil, or at least not-evil and evil. The gulf is not just between people who oppose this and people who are indifferent to it or reluctantly accept it in support of immigration policy or see it as collateral damage. /1

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later. harpers.org/archive/1941...

Flew home to Maine today. I usually opt out of the millimeter wave scanner, but was feeling tired and thought maybe I wouldn't bother. But then I thought, no. This is how I can resist, today. And lo, I had to wait in line! There were three of us waiting for patdowns. That's never happened before.

a sniveling coward who makes up for his deep-seated feelings of inadequacy by worshipping death, violence and the domination of others — many such cases

The legendary @billybragg.bsky.social opening the Stop Trump rally with Woodie Guthrie’s ‘You fascists are bound to lose’

It is genuinely humiliating as an America to have this sour, cowardly, narcissistic lout represent us and to know that so many Americans applaud conduct like this. Just deeply embarrassing.

Firing liberals over stuff right-wingers get away with every day is truly honoring Charlie Kirk's legacy.

Charlie Kirk once said, "I can't stand the word empathy, actually. I think empathy is a made-up, new age term that — it does a lot of damage." We have a medical diagnosis for people who feel no empathy: we call them psychopaths.

The oldest man ever elected to the Presidency disappears from public view for a week with no explanation and now has very public symptoms consistent with a stroke. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Political violence disproportionately hurts people with less power, not people with more power. Political violence will disproportionately hurt people of color and women and LGBTQ people. It’s not fair, but that’s the way it works. Celebrating political violence means at best indifference to that.

To the women of Texas and medical providers throughout the state: You are welcome here. And your rights are protected here. www.cnn.com/2025/09/04/u...

If you make a slightly inclusive film in a racist society and social values progress over time, then your film will end up looking more racist than one from the same period that only had white people in it but wasn't overtly awful. This also applies for sexism/homophobia/transphobia/etc.

Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it

I have something to tell you about fear and democracy, politics and ultimate reality. I hope you'll stick with me, because it starts in a rather inobvious place.

Judge Xinis: Your clients are *absolutely forbidden* from removing Mr. Abrego from the continental United States. You understand this? DOJ: Yes.

Sometimes Maine does feel like living in a Stephen King story. www.pressherald.com?p=7486072&uu...

This They Might Be Giants TONIGHT SHOW performance of "Birdhouse In Your Soul" from 1990 remains firmly lodged in my noggin thanks to the Tonight Show Band's full commitment and Doc Severinsen's incredible trumpeting... It took an already great song and made it transcendent.

The selective prosecution claim will be epic.