Famously binary systems have 3 categories.

False conspiracy theory: the government is hiding the fact that the Earth is flat True conspiracy theory: my doctors and health insurance company are conspiring yo have my physical therapist torture me with a foam roller

i think if the democrats had dug in their heels and said "this is the epstein shutdown. trump is starving the country because he doesn't want the epstein files to come out" they probably could have ended him. so it was very kind of them to not do that

It's so funny how bigots pretend they're operating from facts when calling out their obvious bigotry is calling out how they're incapable of arguing from facts. Like arguing that trans women transition to get better at sports or that the presence SRY gene is the binary feature of maleness.

"Dems aren't helping Republicans." "But here's a recent time they unanimously voted to help Republicans." "That doesn't count."

"We’re done waiting for Dems to find their spine. We can’t afford a weak & cowardly Democratic Party while the authoritarians invade our cities, terrorize our communities, & threaten our democracy. We get the party we demand, & we intend to demand a Democratic Party that fights.” — @indivisible.org

I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:

They're looking to ban any woman with blood testosterone over a certain threshold, as well as being assigned male at birth. Fun thing abt that is some women have higher blood testosterone levels because their body can't use it and so discards it in higher levels, meaning they can't have an advantage

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Saying you want Democrats to stop acting the way leftists assume they act means you know full well this isn't the first time leftists have been entirely right about the Democratic Party being feckless cowards. If this was the exception Sam would say "don't do it again". But it's not the exception.

There's a world where we all stepped up to feed people on SNAP without the federal government, and realize we don't need the federal government to gatekeep caring for each other. Part of me wonders if that is what these "centrist" Democrats were afraid of, at least in part.

“We’re living in air-conditioned boxes.” Stafford said it halfway through our talk about comfort, isolation, and how easy it is to mistake convenience for a life. He’s not wrong.

The grifters sent this *this morning*

The caucus meeting was just to orchestrate who would fall on the sword but not be up for a vote in 2026.

Important to understand this. There's a reasonable chance that your Dem Senator who voted against it and is acting mad now was in on the play. It's the same reason why they scheduled the surrender for AFTER the election this week. They didn't want people pissed at Dems right before an election.

The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it. Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.

Exactly this — caving for nothing makes all that pain for nothing. Further, them caving lends credence to this being just some political scrum when it’s actually much more fundamental than that! Call those senators, please.

I just made my calls to Schumer and Gillibrand. PLEASE call your senators and tell them NO DEAL without ACA funding. #DidThisToday Find your senators here: reps.fyi

Chuck Schumer and friends. #DoNotCave Red alert. Call these Senators.

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This goes for you taking a sick day. Your boss's deadline isn't your deadline. If they really wanted it done on time they should've hired enough people. The world will in fact keep spinning and the work will get done when it gets done.

OK great, then the poll-obsessed moderates will support the next leftist mayoral candidate rather than trying to tank their candidacy, right?

Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine

There’s a young southern woman on tt doing an experiment: calling churches & asking if they can help her get baby formula, saying she can’t afford it. Of the 30+ she’s called, nearly every church has said no. The ones who said yes were: Black Baptist Churches A Mosque A small Appalachian church

sound on. I’m still laughing

i would not be awed by the geico gecko if i met him or grateful for the money he's saved me on my car insurance. i would immediately step on him

The lesson of "Good Fortune" really makes you think. Taking rich people's money is bad unless it's in Riyadh. Powerful stuff.

So we get in the streets, right?

This is why GOP senators are already refusing to go along with him. This is an immensely stupid plan that will only make people hate Trump and the GOP.

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ben shapiro slides on his well worn hotdog suit yet again

We realized that we needed to recaulk our windows, and in the ongoing saga of a house full of Landlord Specials, the previous owners used caulk as a filler for the windows and they were massively over caulked. It took me 6 hours to remove all the caulk around 1 window.

People also need to be able to pay living expenses from campaign fundraising. Candidates can't pay their rent/mortgage or buy clothes from campaign fundraising, and all but the smallest campaigns become more than full time towards the end. There's no time to have a job. And if anyone but the...

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

Her husband told her that detainees at Broadview had to get up at 5am to get in line for one bathroom. He often peed himself. One time he had to wait until 2pm to use the bathroom. You could only use the bathroom once a day. He said the agents would beat you if you used the bathroom on yourself.

He said that the agents would throw food at them to eat. The agents threatened to withhold food for a week and to beat him up if he didn't sign deportation papers. He said he saw others refuse and get beaten/receive no food. He signed because he was afraid.

Her husband was at Broadview one month and she was never able to talk to him. Not until he was already in Mexico. He had been in Chicago for 20 years. Her husband shared that the numbers of people there were astounding. It just makes me think how many people that are not counted/just disappeared.

He said there was no room to sleep. People sat up, slept on the floor, standing up. He saw many pregnant women there too. The conditions were unbearable. His wife is horrified by his account.

This account also feels in line with some of what other people that have been in Broadview have shared.

making Jacob the stereotypical Bluesky user is the rudest and truest attack anyone has ever made on us

Curtis Yarvin is planning flee the country. Steve Bannon is worried about returning to prison. Don't listen to anyone who says the fascists have already won. The future is not yet written.

We talked about how confusion and frustration can pull people away from solidarity. It’s easy to lose focus when everything feels uncertain, and we looked at what that drift says about where people find meaning in politics.

Who is the "us" in this sentence?

We haven't ruined enough, and everything is on the list.

we now know that it’s not illegal to throw sandwiches at ICE agents, an important development

From Gaza to Ecuador to Britain, repression looks the same because the power behind it is the same. Governments criminalize protest, corporations silence dissent, and people keep organizing for a world that serves life instead of profit.