Every time Eric Adams is in the news, I think about this response he gave to the question of what the best concert he ever attended was.

Talk Of Fascism Dangerous, Warns Ministry Of Compliance

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

You guys do yourself a favor and look at what Eric Adams wore to Rosh Hashanah services at the Sephardic Lebanese Congregation

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

"We don’t need an abundance of information. We need the courage—indeed, the audacity—to know absolutely nothing at all."

We're supposed to pretend that we are part of a system, paying in to it, working for it, that stopped paying the supposed benefits to necessitate the system Also culturally, spiritually, materially we get the punishment for this system's failure from the people who have reaped its final rewards

At Broadview ICE facility, federal agents hurl tear gas and pepper spray at protesters blocking vans www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/19/t...

Phil Williams sharing some data…

i often wonder whether the right-wing impulse to swat away or rewrite facts and data is deliberate strategy for gaining power or more of a subconscious defense against the psychological damage one might incur when forced to confront the impacts of rhetoric and policies

We’ve been living through 72 nonstop hours of this exact tweet

Charlie Kirk’s alleged killer scratched bullets with a Helldivers combo and a furry sex meme

Part of the problem w sanitizing CK’s legacy is that it deprives us of the chance to articulate a critical moral point: the sacredness of a life persists *despite* their bad actions. He advocated for a lot of evil, but he was a human being whose life—like all of ours—inherently deserves dignity.

Lord, have mercy.

And here is the US President stating that his "age limit" for "banging" is THIRTEEN. Again, his own words, in public. Is it a 'joke'? Why is it acceptable for anyone holding an office of sacred public trust to 'joke' about raping children? Conservative and Liberal Americans do not accept it.

Crockett: It is so rich that the Republicans believe in small government and this is the biggest government I have ever seen

why is the plural of “human” not “humen”

"My Plea to Democrats: Stop Being Polite, Go Nuclear" Absolute #mustread for Zeteo from former GOP strategist Stuart Stevens, in which he lays out what the Dems must do if they win back the House next year, including defunding the entire executive branch and nationalizing SpaceX.

Apologies! You have reached the end of your free trial period of America

Revoking an entire nationality’s visas is collective punishment and never acceptable — especially in this moment when millions of Palestinians lack equal rights, basic healthcare, and so much more at home, forcing them out of the US is unfathomably cruel. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/w...

This is now two consecutive popes who have loudly stood against fascism and general malfeasance by the far-right -- both elected, in part, by conservative cardinals within the Catholic Church. It's almost as though God is trying to communicate something here.

Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑

they think they can just erase trans joy and trans freedom. they can't. they can make things a lot harder and more painful. but that joy and that freedom is not theirs to take and it is incumbent on all good people to say so.

Chicago keeping art alive:

Unquestionably a war crime. I know we all have fatigue about this, but we have to keep saying it where we can until enough people get it.

who is the best classic rock guitarist and why are you saying names besides “Brian May”?

"Twenty-three Democratic attorneys general now gather on near-daily Zoom calls at 8 AM Pacific, which means the East Coast officials are already on their third coffee. They divide responsibilities and share templates for lawsuits they’ve been drafting since last spring."

"As governor of Texas, it is my job to do whatever President Trump thinks will protect our individual liberties. I can’t think of anything more Texan than obeying a powerful man in Washington, DC, in the name of individual freedoms."

If you see this, quote with a title screen that’s iconic to you.

COME AND TAKE IT 🤠❤️

"Did you not realize what this would be, being f*cking Gestapo? Quit your job. It's gonna be like this every f*cking day you're coming...anytime you try to kidnap people, we are gonna be here!” A rapid responder yelled at fleeing ICE agents in #Kansas. www.thedailypoliticususa.com/p/americans-...

Too much "we're cooked" & not enough "we're not gonna take this shit"

for my fellow alt country nerds 🤠🤓

It's really weird to demand accountability from a NYC mayoral candidate for a deadly NYC shooting rather than the current NYC mayor, an ex-cop who campaigned on a "tough on crime" platform and promptly got indicted for crimes

HAPPENING NOW: a group of New York rabbis are being arrested at a protest outside the Israeli consulate calling for bringing food into Gaza, an end to the war, and return of all hostages @newjewishnarrative.bsky.social

i believe that at 18 every american should be entered into a draft, not for military service, but for one year of mandatory retail or restaurant work

The subway risk chart you've been waiting for (Sawyer County, Wisconsin, is where Sean Duffy is from). Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Here’s the bottom line for what’s going on with Grok - if the owner of the website is putting his thumb on the scale hard enough for the chatbot to turn into Goebbels, you should be deeply concerned about what he’s doing to the algorithm that you can’t so easily see, and what it’s doing to you

Growing older is realizing everything he said was right

Americans have really got to unlearn the propagandist indoctrination that socialism is bad. It means that everyone has what they need, resources are shared, and we care for the earth & those around us. We've been taught to hate it so capitalists can keep exploiting us and working us to death.

Needed this reminder today.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

I just saw this thorough analysis by @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social of print media coverage of No Kings Day. Big takeaway: Local papers and the AP did a great job. NYT, WaPo, WSJ, not so much. Adjust your media diet accordingly. mediaanddemocracyproject.substack.com/p/no-kings-c...

I will never watch a live action remake, you can’t make me.

1/ If Justice Barrett thinks we need to go back to what the Founding Fathers intended, I’ve got news for her. Their biggest concern was avoiding tyranny. So they created 3 branches of gov’t & divvied up the power the people (that’s us) were allowing the gov’t to use to create order for all of us.

Each time a remotely progressive candidate wins office in the US, the rich declare they're going to leave town. What do they actually do? Nothing. A 2016 study found only 0.04% of millionaires move in a given year due to tax increases. Rich people talk to feel important. Please properly tax them.

so this is how it feels when my haters become my waiters at the table of success