Tish James lit up the room last night — and her words echoed far beyond the walls of The United Palace. This is a fight for the future.

The Supreme Court’s majority right wing indicated in oral arguments that they think racism is over on the same day that the vice president defended the “I love Hitler” guy, and that the NYT reported that the current administration plans to accept only white, English-speaking refugees.

RIP D'Angelo (1974-2025) 🕊️😔

The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces. This is truly terrifying.

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison. Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

JB Pritzker has also been emphatically placing Trump's mental decline squarely on the agenda. On our pod, he adds a new element: People around Trump are using his decline to manipulate him, so they're less likely to intervene. More Dems should say this. 1/ newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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Kid Rock people think Bad Bunny is a dumb stage name.

Under the Desk News issued a video about the connection between real estate management companies and these "immigration" raids (The Chicago raid wasn't about immigration. Something far more sinister drove it.). I decided to look up what's happening with propery management companies. 🧵 ...

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen... The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

It's a constant narrative (real or performative) to be concerned about support for veterans. As a veteran, I think it is much more helpful to treat the core issues, and you will end up helping veterans anyway. Address homelessness, mental health, disability support, employment assistance (1/2)

My statement is simply this: they're using deadly force on unarmed, peaceful civilians. At some point they're going to kill someone on camera, and I do not know that we can control what will happen after that.

Look I get that it's not sexy that the Florida facility was closed via an environmental lawsuit but Al Capone got taken down by tax evasion. Not everything is sexy!

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

I go back and forth between rage against the police department and heartbreak for this kid and his family

Damn. I'm 49. Hate really ages you

Watching the Lilith Fair documentary has me in my feelings today. Wish we could bring back that energy, community, and hope.

So nice of Hulu to give me advanced notice of them dropping Monumental Sports. /s

I don’t even know what he’s supposed to be doing in the last pic

This glitchy broadcast is driving me crazy. Get your shit together Monumental

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

Perfect

Chilling. Maybe the best example yet of how smartphones are the primary weapon that global authoritarians are using to take over the world.

“You’ve got to do it, Dad." Coming off knee replacement surgery, Chris Strome wasn't sure he could make it to Hershey to watch sons Dylan and Matt play together for the Capitals in an NHL preseason game. A family intervention convinced him: www.nhl.com/news/parents...

So not only is Hulu raising prices but now they’re dropping Monumental so no Caps games right before the season starts. Fuck them! Time for a new provider

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

Evil motherfuckers

It’s Vivian Stephens’ birthday! One of the most important romance editors of the 80s along with Kate Duffy and Carolyn Nichols, here are five books that she had a role in that you should know about.

Vivian is still with us, but has been having health challenges lately. There is a gofundme to help her out: www.gofundme.com/f/support-vi...

If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.

Ouch! Poor Lappy #ALLCAPS

Milano is looking great!!! #ALLCAPS

Romancelandia: even if you don't read dark romance, the new Bsky guidelines should concern you. Disallowed: "Illustrated or animated" depictions of nonconsensual adult content. Why ban fictional depictions of anything? And how will consent be determined from an illustration?

Hakeem Jeffries voted for Charlie Kirk Day but still isn’t sure if he’ll endorse Zohran Mamdani. This is why the approval rating of the Democratic Party is lower than Trump’s or the GOP.

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

lol in case folks haven't noticed, every political and economic attack in this country is perfected on minorities FIRST and then scaled. 🤷🏿‍♀️

Calling political leaders fascists is NOT OK, unless Republicans do it

Recession indicator

Reminder: this Friday, you can vote early for Abigail Spanberger, Ghazala Hashmi, Jay Jones and your Democratic VA House of Delegates candidate! bluevirginia.us/2025/09/virg...

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

I think one of the better, more subtle tributes to Robert Redford's life is the string of utterly iconic female co-stars who've come forward to eulogize him; each of them take-no-shit types like Fonda and Streisand, and every one of them without a single bad thing to say. A model for male behavior

Political violence is evil, killing people is evil, a country with more guns in it than people is broken, and what the government is saying about political violence right now being a primarily leftwing phenomenon is factually, statistically untrue. They are using this moment to rewrite history.

They had kids, too.

I have written and deleted a lot of posts but I keep thinking about how the brutal assassination of Minnesota State senator Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark, and their beloved dog Gilbert in June did not prompt this same level of calls for empathy, sympathy, and flags at half-mast.

The perfect eulogy for Charlie Kirk.

It's noon ET. Have you had a high-protein meal today? Drank a glass of water? Taken your meds? Are you slouching? Gently pull your head up, roll your shoulders back, and slowly rotate your head left and right (3x). Now take a deep breath, and then slowly let it out. Repeat at least five times.