Mum is finally blooming 🌱

everyone please watch pluribus, it rules so hard; when i got a new batch of screeners last month i sent my husband a text saying "i need you to come back from singapore right now so we can watch this" and he was like "haha" and then i made him watch as soon as he landed, still delirious from jetlag

I understand why we shut down American airspace for a few days after 9-11 to avoid a repeat attack but imagine shutting down American airspace to avoid releasing the Epstein files.

This isn't going FULL pelican, but it is at least a half. maybe 3/7th? #birds

Happy to share that the "What's Your Map?" podcast just won a Gold Award for Best Education Podcast from the British Podcast Awards 2025 - you can find a link to the podcast I participated in about celestial maps via: oculi-mundi.com/heidi-hammel

If you just cancel flights, then they're actually not late! Brilliant stuff from Sean Duffy here

When you push people into hardship, you push them into activism. Keep it up, GOP…between SNAP and driving up the cost of everything, you’re radicalizing a voting bloc you’ll never control.

You know why, but it's good more ppl are finding out this is happening.

If you’re gonna cave, cave strong. www.offmessage.net/p/are-we-hea...

Who cares about supreme courts? Michigan —Dems swept 2 seats in 2024, went from 4-3 to 5-2. A GOP justice retired this yr, so now 6-1. Wisconsin —Dems flipped court, 3-4 to 4-3, in 2023. Defended edge last April. Can expand it next April. Pennsylvania —Dems defended 5-2 majority on Tuesday. via

They really stuck the landing on this one.

It’s been 45 days since Adelita Grijalva was elected by the people of Arizona. Mike Johnson is still refusing to swear her in because she’s the final vote for the discharge petition to release the Epstein files.

apropos james watson’s death i had an idle thought today about how stupid race/iq stuff sounds. “buh if your skin is darker you are biologically less smart” is a thing only a dumbass can believe

i think this is a pretty good take on pelosi, who is unquestionably one of the most consequential house speakers in the history of the institution

New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"

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'We Can See Light at the End of the Tunnel' After Election 2025: Today's #BradCast Guests: Heather @digby56.bsky.social Parton of Salon, @driftglass.bsky.social of 'Pro Left Podcast'... FULL STORY, LISTEN: bradblog.com?p=15554

Per independent experts, layoffs last month were over 153K — the worst October in 22 years. Over 1 million workers have been laid off this year, partially because of AI and chaotic mismanagement of the economy. Welcome to Trump's "New Golden Age."

JUST IN: Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announces she will not run for reelection for Congress

It’s okay to be hopeful! open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Yesterday

Sent via their websites to @duckworth.senate.gov and @durbin.senate.gov DO NOT CAVE, Democrats in the Senate!!!

It's genuinely funny to look back now at the shit the media called a "scandal" under Democratic presidents. I believe one of the big hits on the Clintons, for instance, is that they set up a charity.

Calling these goons pathetic losers to their face is an act of patriotism.

There are consequences to obeying a president who rips families apart; who knocks down part of the WH to put up a gold-gilded ballroom; and who withholds food aid while holding lavish parties. The GOP acts like they are the exception. The shutdown is the Dems’ chance to smack them into adulthood.

Remember the time Obama personally caught a fainting woman during his speech — rather than just blankly staring like a sociopath? Character isn't something you tell people about. It's something you live.

Democratic Rep. Yassamin Ansari was outside Mike Johnson's office today holding up a sign that read: "Mike Johnson is starving families and gutting health care to cover up the Epstein files. CHANGE MY MIND."

Narratives--almost all of which are controlled by the Right Wing, since most media are Right Wing--determine the results of elections. upine.medium.com/the-vast-rea...

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Thinking this level of inequality is unsustainable isn’t radical, thinking it isn’t is

Let them eat the Walmart meal deal.

Who are you going to believe, me or your lying bills?

I realize this prediction wasn’t especially difficult. But yes, it got worse. And it will continue to get worse. Vote every god damn enabler out of office.

Brother Warnock lays it plain.

Sarcasm @nytpitchbot.bsky.social

“I don't want to hear about the affordability.” Revolutions have been started over less than the shit this guy says every single day

The man who has never shopped in a grocery store his entire life says prices are down.

Mockler: Who started this new era of divisive politics? Was it Obama? Was it Biden? It was definitely trump. Trump's claim to fame in the political arena was saying that Obama's birth certificate was fake.

NEW EP!!! Ep 946: So Much For The 'Tolerant Right' Our first post-Blue Tsunami show! Dems swept Tuesday—but pundits are melting down. Also: Tucker's Fuentes interview triggers GOP civil war. Ted Cruz suddenly discovers antisemites. www.buzzsprout.com/229/episodes...

When you desperately want to starve Americans:

Mockler: The way that Donald Trump speaks about the democratic party, the way that Donald Trump speaks about people who disagree with him, has normalized his extremist rhetoric. He said that we were gnats who need to be taken care of in front of the military.

Has there ever been a weaker Speaker of the House than Mike Johnson, who just picks up the phone each day, says ‘yes sir’ a bunch of times, then hangs up and does what he’s told? Which is do nothing and lie constantly.

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The DNC didn't win last night; the fired-up Democratic voters did.