Someone tell the Democratic Party that fascism is, in fact, a kitchen table issue

If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation. Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net

This. This. This. @kenmartin.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social: take note. You organize not by pandering to some mythical center, but by meeting people's needs. This has to be about what people do for each other. Not what your pollsters and consultants advise. Get to work.

this motherfucker has broken fucking EVERYTHING and we cannot and should not be merciful about picking up all the fucking pieces after he’s done

Has anyone started calling the Epstein Memorial Ballroom yet?

"In the two years since the state started charging a 4% surtax on incomes over $1 million, the effort has created a $5.7 billion windfall, with the surplus being used to fund bridge repairs, bolster literacy programs and address the transportation system’s budget deficit." Taxing the rich works!

I don’t have the energy to post these days but just go ahead and assume that I’m generally upset, troubled, put out, and otherwise pissed off about pretty much everything

Something I learned from my public health days is that an easy way to improve health broadly in the U.S. would be to simply increase funding for SNAP so families could buy what they want. Too long we've restricted SNAP because of ridiculous ideas about what lower income people should eat.

The lying is getting more insane by the day. You cannot strengthen Medicaid by gutting funding for it. And you can’t lower premiums by stripping out subsidies. Johnson knows this. He’s hoping the media never calls him out on these truly insane lies.

"How do we get back the men we lost to Trump, Andrew Tate, and the Proud Boys?" Please do not bring those weird ****ers over here. We have kids over here. I will call Child Services.

I would actually put up this sign

"How do you expect to win back men...?" We don't want those men. They are the hot dogs on the floor of humanity and we still have all these nice prepped hamburger patties if someone would just let them cook.

Lowest homicide rates for cities over 500k: Honolulu San Diego San Jose El Paso NYC Boston SF

ICE is now the 13th largest military in the world on its own. Never ever accept the lie we cannot pay for Universal Healthcare.

Last year I reimagined the work of 30+ artists to feature Moe Syzslak. Recreating famous painting was a fun challenge! I’m gonna share some of my favourites the rest of this month. Here’s Claude Moe-net.

I think one of the saddest things about being a millennial is remembering a time when technology was advancing in a way that made life better and easier and more exciting instead of actively, intentionally worse

saw this in Boston

After all these years, & a politics degree, & decades trying to teach it, & about 3 million mistily-grasped texts, I’ve finally accepted that it’s a 10 word phrase from a superhero movie that most precisely expresses my political beliefs: “I don’t like bullies. I don’t care where they’re from.”

I really love how in England they have modified No Kings to No Tyrants out of local sensibilities whilst in Ireland they are all like NO KINGS, do I stutter.

Not being even vaguely sarcastic: At some point, a journalist needs to ask Johnson “you regularly claim you have no idea what your own government is doing. If we take you at your word, how are you so poorly informed, and do you this level of ignorance should disqualify you as speaker?”

First good SCOTUS news I've heard in months

London AND New York having Muslim mayors at the same time would mentally break a lot of people who deserve to be mentally broken. I'm just sayin

What is shocking is when the nonlinear gets circular. I was listening to Woody Guthrie recently and came across what seemed to be very spot on satire of MAGA (Mean Talking Blues), only to realize it was anti-fascist.

books should have an anti-acknowledgements section where the author talks shit about all the people who fucked them over while they were trying to write the thing. not bc I personally want to write one but bc I love gossip

This heartfelt and meaningful statement by Portland resident and author Cristina Breshears on another social media platform bears reposting here. I don't think the intent is to idealize Portland but to remind all of us what is important and why. (Posted here with permission.)

Can’t prove a counterfactual but I do sometimes wonder where we’d be if they had just stuck with “these fuckers are weird as hell” for like a few more weeks

I hate profiles of conservatives who are worried that their country is changing and would welcome profiles of liberals and leftists who are afraid of same thing from the opposite direction and treated their concerns the same kind of reflexive deference

Kavanaugh Stop

MAGA and its agenda are *wildly* unpopular, and media are hugely out of touch for not saying so. Politicians who tap into this reality will thrive, and media outlets that reflect this truth will earn enormous audiences.

“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”

The guy who keeps invading cities and bombing foreigners whenever he feels like it and keeps dangling invasion of Greenland, Canada, Mexico, and Venezuela didn’t win the Nobel peace prize this year

if blue state governors and mayors aren't already thinking about the reliability of various police forces nominally under their control, they should start immediately

McGovern: Republicans love to advocate for more work requirements for poor people… Let's have a work requirement for Republicans to show up to congress and do your god damn job.

It doesn't make any sense to conceive of due process as a right that individual people can have or not have at all tbh. Bad framing from the start. Due process is a restriction on the government's actions, and by definition it applies to either everyone or no one.

what if I told you that taking accountability for your actions was traditionally considered a load-bearing feature of masculinity?

I don’t really mean this sarcastically: if this isn’t what you voted for, what, specifically, were you voting for?

Way to tell the world you’re a moron incapable of complex reasoning and nobody should be listening to your opinions in the first place.

Thanks Carl!

US conservatives under Obama would sometimes wistfully post training footage of Russian special forces, like "look at what the real manly countries are doing instead of our woke baby military" and then all those VDV guys got annihilated within the first 3 days of the Ukraine invasion

"[A]gents engulfed my car in tear gas, smashed my driver-side window, and pepper-sprayed my face.... I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. No explanation. No charges. No apology. One day, I was just told, 'you’re free to go.'" #KavanaughStop

It's a theory the same way gravity is a theory

www.gocomics.com/mikeluckovic... An appropriate cartoon for the day CD

Kavanaugh stop

"Republicans run the entire government but can't keep it open" That's it. That's the whole story.

Saudi state money is often difficult to avoid in a general sense, since it is everywhere in the investment stratum and not always obvious from the outside, nevertheless "don't take money directly from people who murder journalists with bonesaws" is a personal rule that's easy enough to follow

Banning federal LE from wearing army camo should be a top priority for dems…

I mean yes this is funny, but the fact that these unconstitutional stormtroopers are so directionless that they literally stand around waiting for random nonwhite delivery guys to bike past them is just pathetic. No mandate, no mission, no clue. Just racism.

It should be referred to as a Kavanaugh stop.