friend shared this it is spot-on from @anandwrites.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...

Corruption and grift everywhere.

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It’s crazy to think about the crimes we’re going to learn about after this regime ends. We’re already hearing about Watergate level crimes every week. Imagine what will come out after it’s over. We’re going to need a full accounting of all that’s been done in violation of the constitution.

Just further proof that the real violence is only being perpetrated by one side, and it’s not the left no matter how much Fox and Stephen Miller stomp their little feet

everyone's talking about how bright and charming zohran must be, which is true, but then you remember the spider-brained cryptkeepers trump's surrounded himself with since '15 and realize a single smile from mamdani must have hit like barbecue spare ribs down the gullet of a 12th century peasant.

Zohran Mamdani just made history by saying on live television beside the President of the United States that instead of housing their own children they're spending money supporting Israel's genocide of Palestinians

added "CDC" to my mute words bc I just can't anymore, y'all it's bad, but many people who understand it's bad now did not understand it was also bad before when it was their guy doing the eugenics, and I just can't with their outrage anymore where was the outrage when it could have prevented this

The CDC is being dismantled by an ex-heroin junkie who would bang dope with dirty needles.

“Even if vaccines were the cause of autism—which I don't believe—I would much rather have my child be his wonderful autistic self and have vaccine protection against deadly diseases than try to withhold necessary vaccines out of a fear of autistic traits." www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

As America says goodbye to a former VP, a man with no actual heart, & until now the most evil MFer to hold the levers of power, Donald J Trump makes Dick Cheney look like a moderate man of peace & grace. This is who America has become. Cheney wasn't evil enough for Trump to even acknowledge

More of this.

Loving this Larry Summers arc where he’s like, wow taking a step back from leadership now that I found out about my own behavior which I have had access to at all times

The Ivy League has always been a scam to protect the wealthy/well-connected. They let in just enough non-elites to keep the charade going. Larry Summers is not unique.

if you move right, the left won't vote for you -- this is simple

Universities never indoctrinated anyone. It’s simply that right wing views don’t survive critical thought or serious scrutiny. And it’s really easy to call everything a conspiracy when you don’t know how stuff works.

Not looking forward to Marjorie Taylor Greene launching Lincoln Project II and instantly getting more money from Dems than every desperate trans person's crowdfunding put together.

Wish more people looked at this.

"impeachment" is the floor - this guy's actions are no different than a mob lieutenant okaying a hit

release the #epsteinfiles

my parents just retired, and they remember the existence of "sundown towns" women have only been able to vote for about 100 years the US has not been a democracy for very long at all

monstrous and good for this woman for doing the right thing protecting these guys. bringing 'get off my lawn' energy in the right way!

Surprising no one, exactly none of the people who’ve spent years rampaging through SoCal school districts accusing teachers of grooming and trying to ban books have a word to say about the plague of powerful men abusing children, nor the propagandists willing to run cover for them.

Look around.

"American girls have to sell sex to the nominee for attorney general of the United States to get braces" sounds like Soviet propaganda

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📍Senator Fetterman had a VFIB—the leading cause of cardiac arrest—he almost died if not for his implanted defibrillator, which can cost $34,000 to over $51,000. Days ago, he also just voted with GOP to gut health insurance tax credits for millions. Hope he has a change of heart.

"Convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein" is a phrase that first appeared in newspapers in March 2011 and appeared regularly from that point onward. it is INCONCEIVABLE to me that this many people were still associating with him!!

Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.

no matter where you go, this will happen.

Thought Joyce Carol Oates had died when I saw her trending but instead she took out Musk.

Joyce Carol Oates is antifa.

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

Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous

Chuck Schumer making deal 🥴

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Elon Musk’s new pay package would feed all forty million Americans on SNAP for the next ten years. He wouldn’t notice the difference but the country would.

2025 has been like that portion of It's a Wonderful Life after George wishes he had never been born and all of a sudden the world is worse for it and everyone is living in Pottersville. That's what 2025 has been: Pottersville.

There's a video of ICE attacking a man in a car, causing him to have a seizure while he's holding his toddler. If I saw that in a movie, I'd walk out because it's torture porn. And yet that's life in American cities

Yeah, we did. We ruined it for misogynists and sexual predators and office lotharios and drunks and lazy loafers who had their secretaries and assistants do their actual work.

Thinking about the Democratic Party’s messaging tug-of-war between “kitchen table issues” and human rights issues, as if they’re not inextricably linked. Affordability IS an issue of human dignity. My right to make a living wage is right there next to my right over to my own reproductive choices.

Une « faillite morale » : au sommet avant la COP30 à Belem, les dirigeants constatent l’échec sur l’accord de Paris

another visual for the trump era scrapbook

So the Epstein vote isn't the only reason Mike Johnson should fear Rep. Yassamin Ansari. More of this, please.

Thinking back to this excellent concluding paragraph from @lioneltrolling.bsky.social's Substack post after Zohran Mamdani's initial primary victory:

of course this is happening.

Speaking at a morning press conference in Queens, the 34-year-old democratic socialist revealed an all-female transition team led by Elana Leopold as executive director. It also includes co-chairs Maria Torres-Springer, the former first deputy mayor; Lina Khan, the former federal trade commission

I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video. I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children. But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.