As a fail-safe, House GOP centrists are preparing to launch a DISCHARGE PETITION to FORCE a floor vote on an ACA subsidy extension. Bill is expected to be released on December 9. WOW, we've come a LONG way.....! www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

“'When you see SRG agents clearing the street,... the words for that are facilitating ICE deportations. That is a violation of NYC sanctuary law, + it’s not tolerable. It is not the job of the NYPD to facilitate the deportations of our neighbors,' Lander charged." (via Hell Gate)

Has anyone read any mea culpa's from the people who insisted that using the term WHITE SUPREMACY was not "productive" when addressing this regime? There is ZERO way to ever the U.S. without actually addressing RACISM and WHITE SUPREMACY. These are facts.

@bencamach0.bsky.social published his investigative piece about LAPD shooting at a crowd of party goers. After a long fight for the public records, he found out there was more to the story than what the LAPD told the public and internal investigators. inadvertent.substack.com/p/the-blue-h...

just put the finishing touches on my novel! Inspired by William Gibson, it's the story of a dystopian society where corporations trade cured pork through a vast, interconnected digital web — the titular HAM NET. And now I think I'll reward myself with a trip to the movies

"Since the April election, federal officials have recorded more than 220 meetings with oil and gas lobbyists — more meetings than days. The immense lobbying push was reflected in the federal budget, and continues to shape federal priorities."

This is like Obama’s “clinging to guns and religion” comment, only far more cynical and insulting. Trump’s thinking here goes like this “I know you rubes love your churches and country music so yeah, vote for my guy, he likes that shit too, and that lady wants to take it from you.”

COP30 resulted in "an agreement that does not remotely align with science and leaves millions of people in frontline communities 'exposed to the worst impacts and with few options for their survival,' said @oxfam.org.br ED @vivianasantiago.bsky.social." www.thenation.com/article/envi...

Flint. What they do to Black people they do to everyone And yes this too was part of Black Lives Matter It’s why they were terrified And now …

I laughed, I cried, I learned, and I kirked. Enjoy

"The settlement ... does not involve financial penalties."

if you’re cold they’re cold let your demons in

And while we’re talking about that Oklahoma college essay- can we stop for a minute and think about the consequences of tying grades to free speech? Every person who fails an assignment they attempted will argue it’s a free speech issue. This is how education dies.

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Government actors who refuse to be bound by the rule of law are not morally entitled to its protection.

Trump defends using the R slur, saying he “absolutely” stands by it because there’s something wrong with Walz You can say there’s something wrong with a person without using ableist language. He’s mocked a disabled reporter He’s said disabled people should be left to die He’s a eugenicist

I’ve spent a lot of time in the past 18 months really working to, if you will, kill the neoliberal in my head. as someone with my politics, I’ve been surprised by how much there’s still been to excise. anyway, maybe productivity and efficiency are scams, and redundancy protects human happiness.

The thing about laws and legality is once you reach the tipping point, the fascists rewrite the laws. The Holocaust was strictly legal under German law.

no my brain is fine i got the MRI for my friend

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It is disturbing but it is also as American as apple pie and I wish people would start saying things like "is a slap in the face of our highest ideals" or similar because have you met American history

conservatives basically want to implement the caricature of affirmative action for conservative students. acceptance without meeting qualifications, good grades and degrees without having to do the work.

It’s so wild how the wealthy are destroying the Amazon that potentially has the cure for all the cancers in favor of an Amazon that’s creating new types of cancers

I’m going to get an engineering degree from OU by saying bridges can only be measured in cubits and shekels www.oudaily.com/news/ou-stat...

Focus groups say voters overwhelmingly prefer Democrats who use the slogan, "real Gs move in silence like lasagna."

i’m really digging the new democratic catchphrase “from the window, to the wall”

Me showing an interest in my dog's hobbies

‘A Canada that it would be very easy to target with 500% steel tariffs, or one patriot missile aimed at Parliament Hill,’ he added, rather incredulously,” Time quoted Hoekstra as saying. However, he did not say that. The Beaverton said that.

There have long been rumors that the Skull and Bones fraternity house in New Haven contains the skull of Apache leader Geronimo. A researcher unearthed a letter in 2006 that seemed to corroborate that claim. I found two more letters in Yale’s archives, along with more corroborating evidence.

I'm not even a teacher and I feel confident taking out the highlighter. Red = grammer error Green = tense error Orange = misplaced thesis Blue = too weak, rewrite or dispose Red checks = missing citation

The two longest military occupations in the history of the postwar era (1945-now) are the Israeli occupation of East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza and the Israeli occupation of the Golan Heights. Why would Syrians hate Israel? Well.

what they’re showing is that no institution will support or back a trans woman under any circumstances. as soon as someone makes a threat or kicks up a fuss, we are abandoned, betrayed, left to twist in the wind. what place in society is secure for us, while this is the status quo? what place?

Translation: Pete may well go down for this. But I’m not going with him.

JFC Oklahoma you fuckin cowards. Now every Jesus-freak right-wing student who can't get a passing grade for a bunch of bible quotes masquerading as an essay is going to file a 1st amendment complaint. You gonna suspend the whole Biology department for teaching about evolution? (Don't answer that)

This is all true but 1) under no definition are we currently at war with Venezuela under domestic US law 2) since we aren’t, the initial strike was just as much a murder as the follow up The failure to understand this by a huge range of actors is really driving me up the wall.

Walz on calling for Trump to release MRI results: "Here we got a guy on Thanksgiving where we spent time with our families, ate, played Yahtzee. This guy is apparently in a room ranting. It's not normal behavior. It's not healthy. Has anyone in history ever had an MRI & had no idea what it was for?"

Remember Thomas Jacob Sanford, the Iraq veteran who burned up a Mormon Church in September? Remember Nigel Edge, the Iraq veteran sniper who shot up a bar from his boat in Cape Fear, also in September? Keep track of how differently we speak of them than Rahmanullah Lakanwal.

The old man is not okay.

This would get you, at best, a C in high school sophomore English class.

i used to have a column in @pastemagazine.bsky.social where I wrote about my relationship to sobriety and music , and two years ago when Shane MacGowan passed away i wrote this

Leopards, faces, etc.

Absurd. If you're taking geology and you write an essay saying, "the Bible says the world was created in seven days 6000 years ago so there have never been any new mountains" you're getting a failing grade. That's not religious discrimination, it's grading you on your understanding of the material.

My religion says I don't have to write a paper or take an exam and you have to give me an A

“STRONG FLOOR… NO CEILING…”

Yet another reminder that the very best job in this world is failed college football coach.

This is not life this is hell 😣

Can we get this boosted