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Watch that. And then tell me how we replace Schumer with her

Conservatives, after all, consistently win elections with their disciplined focus on dull kitchen-table concerns and scrupulous avoidance of distracting rhetoric about atrocities, scandals, and malfeasance.

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Trump v Anderson was every bit as wrong as Plessy or Korematsu.

I have reached the 'make Arnold noises' phase of my day. Here soon, my boredom transition will be complete and I will openly start singing my answers in operatic style at anyone who asks me a question.

We can build walls or we can be more ambitious — and build something better, stronger, and more just.

I hate my brain. I have had allergy sniffles ALL DAY and guess where the allergy med was? That's right, untaken in my pocket. Just kill me.

See, stuff like this just makes me want to actually post all of my weight loss journey pictures, shirtless and all, just to weed out the weak-willed.

I am sick to death of the worst humanity has to offer trying to use the awesome power of the state to kill my neighbors.

This needs to be said louder and more frequently (and preferably in Republicans faces)

republicans hate america and they spit on the graves of the dead bsky.app/profile/laja...

I get why a distinction between "America" and "the Trump regime" may seem immaterial to many Europeans. But Trump's domestic political weakness is something Europe can exploit, which in turn strengthens the hand of opposition within the US. Plus, the distinction is *extremely* relevant stateside.

I'm glad she didn't because her last few years were marked by intense physical pain and mental distress, but sometimes I really wish my mom had made it another decade. I really think meeting our little Anya would've been the highlight of her life. I miss her ferociously. Love you mom.

at this point if you haven't gotten illegally denied entry to a detention center as a D congressperson you really got to get that on the schedule

Great feedback, team. Keep it up.

Genuinely insane we are living in a world where the Danish have to deploy a battlegroup to protect themselves against America. Makes my blood turn molten, honestly

Acting Field Director David Easterwood.

I am once again encouraging all of us to do our part and Bring Back Shame

This dropping within 48 hours of Nadella having another freakout is 🤌

when I talk to my European friends my stance isn’t “sorry”, it’s “I hate that motherfucker with every bone in my body and will do everything in my power to achieve a world in which he spends the rest of his life in a prison cell”

Lotta of folks learning the gun was aimed at their own heads the whole time: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/u...

This post by @pkrugman.bsky.social on "Sundowning" is worth reading. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/its-sundow... Agree with this conclusion:

it seems too obvious to even keep pointing it out but if you have ever had experience with an elder relative sliding into dementia you are familiar with the ways they repeat the same nonsensical anecdotes

I will never get over the fact that the Republican Party chose as its standard-bearer, and this country elected as its President, quite possibly the worst human being on the planet.

Quite the statement from the Prime Minister of Poland

We are, of course, stuck with presidentialism in my or your lifetime. But when democrats take power back from the fascists, the platform needs to be institutional reform. There are lots of things to be done, with normal legislation, to fix our broken system. They better be ready to go. Immediately.

New York City's congestion pricing is a resounding success — reduced traffic, improved air quality, and millions raised for badly needed infrastructure upgrades. From @gurleygg.bsky.social: trib.al/eonwhV8

The Founders (rightly) thought financial corruption was so concerning they banned it in the Constitution three separate times: the two emoluments clauses, and the only named impeachable offense besides treason. Starting in 2017, America decided it just kinda didn't matter anymore, whatcha gonna do.

The condescending arrogance of shit like this cuts me to the quick, because groceries are almost laughably expensive right now. Part of why I decided to lose weight was to save on food costs!

“I sometimes wonder why journalists are so nice to the people who want to destroy them.” My free Stop the Presses newsletter.

This tracks with my experience of both things and is well stated.

To me "dooming" is "things are going to get worse and never better again so there's nothing we can do to stop it" and pessimism is "things are going to get worse before we make them better again"

This is awesome and I want approx. 1000% more of it. Wrench religion and patriotism out of the right's wicked, twisted fingers. Some of us yearn for a chance to reconnect to such things without being tainted by association.

Ossoff: "There's a wickedness to the program. I don't know, pastor, where it is in scripture that it says deny care to the sick, take from those with the least to give to those with the most, violate the house of worship to hunt down the refugee. Where in the scripture are those lessons taught?"

yes, both centrists & the admin (&, tacility, ice thugs on the ground) bought the 'post-liberal' narrative - that no one *really* believes in it anymore they thought we'd cower in the face of violence & don't have an answer for liberalism's resilience newrepublic.com/article/2053...

This is, in my opinion, not only the correct moral/ethical/legal position but also the correct political framing. Everyone can see the agency is out of control; everyone can see that it is constantly violating human rights. "Scrap it and start over" is the moderate position.

Why can't we have AOC or this guy in Schumer's spot? Sigh.

Mamdani: "I am in support of abolishing ICE. What we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist. We're seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some kind of immigration law, but instead what it's doing is terrorizing people."

When the bubble bursts expect a lot of “you refused to adopt it” talk

Microsoft CEO says AI “risks becoming a speculative bubble unless its use spreads beyond big tech companies and wealthy economies.” Brother you’re the one building this dogshit, we’re three years and hundreds of billions in, how have you not worked it out? www.ft.com/content/2a29...

Sometimes I feel like Viggo Mortensen in 'The Road', waching something enormous and majestic burn to the ground (a forest in his case, the country in mine) and being wholly unable to do anything other than watch. I'm not quitting but I am watching something imperfect but beautiful being lost.

Love that our options are the continued ruination of literally everything they shove this shit into or a global financial catastrophe. Hope every single one of these assholes gets what's coming to them.

This guy is frighteningly good at comms.

Mamdani: "I'm trying to inspire amongst New Yorkers a sense of faith and belief in what government can do, and it's very hard to do that when they look at masked agents and see them as another face of a similar government"

cutting ICE's detention budget ~60% as compared to what they'd get out of a CR and legally restricting them from shuffling funds across budgets are substantive improvements, even if they're not enough, which murray herself is very clear about.

HUGE NEWS for trans people: We have the latest minibus, including the bill to fund the Department of Health and Human Services and it looks like there are no restrictions on gender-affirming care for transgender people. docs.house.gov/billsthiswee...

school being canceled because the president sent armed thugs to harass and imprison the populace for voting against him should be the biggest domestic scandal in american history

Hey everyone. 218 on the button today which is good because I was sick to get to 217 and pyrrhic victory is not the kind of thing I'm after. All things being equal, I'd rather be home playing Against the Storm. All my love. Be good, be safe, love thy neighbor.