I know I read as uniquely negative on here about Zohran's child care wins, but if you read interviews with child care providers the kindest thing they can say is that they are happy for the parents. It will keep early educators impoverished. It's not a socialist path to universal child care.

Been thinking about this in light of this post going viral yesterday - there’s this strange belief that online leftposters hold enough political influence that voicing disapproval will sabotage democrat campaigns, but are irrelevant enough that politicians wanting votes should ignore their concerns

Every time I've had a conversation with someone using the "GenAI will let disabled people create art" argument, I asked them if they were disabled. Each said no. I'm disabled. One of my disabilities affects my ability to use pencils and brushes. Stop USING us to justify your shitty AI. Dickheads.

Can we please quit pretending that Ruben Gallego is some sort of progressive when he's the 4th most Trump friendly Dem in the Senate? This is the second time a major org has done this today and things are kind of too dire to pretend like Gallego has any interest in helping.

City and state police mass arresting peaceful protestors in Minneapolis tonight

Finding out that a billionaire pedophile cult astroturfed the entire anti-trans movement makes me hate liberals who are willing to sell us out all the more. What the fuck do you mean you're not willing to oppose the work of the actual pedophile billionaires who EXPLICITLY made this happen? These

So I’m not gonna share the image, but Trump just shared the Obamas as monkeys and I really don’t know if the general public is ready at all for the fully unbridled fascist government and the level of hate it’s about to unleash alongside massive hits against voting we are about to see.

I guarantee this guy listens to Sic Transit Gloria...Glory Fades before every shift

Organizers have collected 14 lotion bottles, two deodorant bottles, and one AA Battery that detainees have thrown over the fences with notes attached to them. The full story: lataco.com/captive-loti... By Aisha Wallace-Palomares

Swear to god, ICE could just announce they're leaving a city but not leave and the media will just stop covering that city completely even though ICE never left. It's what ICE and the media did with LA and they're doing it with Minneapolis too

It's time for my favorite election day activity: feverishly making a spreadsheet to estimate outstanding votes to see if my hopes are too high or are mathematically set to be dashed. Is it a scientific indicator of things to come? Oh, not at all. But it is a great container for my stress.

There's 486 votes separating Analilia Mejia and former Congressman Tom Malinowski, so I don't want to get my hopes up too high...but here I am with my hopes in the stratosphere.

If I make a joke that's clearly not about politics, I'm doing that willfully. I'm making myself think about something else for a moment, for brain reasons. Riffing with a Trump joke is an act of violence.

The government is murdering people in the streets and Kamala’s plan to meet the moment is a weird out of touch media brand that makes tired jokes on social media.

They made a 67 joke they were over before they even began Doesn’t sound like there are actually any gen-z or progressives involved at all bsky.app/profile/plur...

Me: Okay, let's give this Headquarters rebranding a fair shake. If Harris is promising this will be a progressive outlet then maybe- Headquarters: Here's a video of a 4th most Trump friendly Democrat in the Senate. 6-7 dab the Dew!

This is so weird. It feels incredibly out of touch and completely pointless. The only other post on their entire timeline is about wrestling. Is this a media company? A blog? Are they doing features? Video? Who are the Gen-Z people involved? Does Kamala even know what “progressive” means?

The SAVE Act initially passed the House on April 10th, 2025. Four Democrats voted yea: Ed Case (HI), Henry Cuellar (TX), Jared Golden (ME), and Marie Glusenkamp Perez (WA).

Governor walz capitulated to the federal government in exchange for that 700 ice agent drawdown to allow county and municipal jails to take people directly into ice custody www.startribune.com/mn-ice-drawd...

For those looking at Tom Homan's offer to MN sheriffs -- it's called a Basic Ordering Agreement. In essence, to skirt state law, DHS pays $50 in exchange for sheriffs to hold people 48 hours past their release date. It's not really a contract; it's like a warehousing agreement for bodies.

For all others in Cook County, Girl, I Guess just dropped for the midterm primaries and it is excellent as always.

To close out the Congressional work week, the Senate has a pair of nominations for the day. Currently they are voting to confirm Brian Lea to be a District Judge for Western Tennessee. Lea is an election denier, anti-choice, & anti-LGBTQ+. Based on cloture, this will be a party line vote.

A bizarre number of people have stepped up to defend Julie Le. What you see in that transcript is an attorney who chose to do evil work—deporting people for ICE then moving over to DOJ in early Jan. specifically to fight these habeas petitions—being called to the carpet. She's desperate, not heroic.

A deaf teen was violently detained by ICE for not “following orders”. He couldn’t hear their orders. They denied him an interpreter. Denied him accommodations. This is who they are. They target the disabled because eugenics and fascism go hand in hand.

The problem isn’t that these are bad ideas. The problem is they’re mostly existing law/policy. Want to get serious? At least mandate accountability. Ex: Revoke qualified immunity. Firings. Demotions. Suspensions. Loss of OT. Kicked back to basic training. Or a more mainstream idea: Abolish ICE.

Lots of folks saying “this is good” but no, it very much is not. 1) this is the 4th amendment 2) this is a historical norm at worst 3) this is already required 4) again, at worst an historic norm 5) 4A 6) 4A 7) fine 8) good if enforceable 9) useless 10) again, at worst a historical norm

This document is one of the great political failures of our time. It must be immediately denounced by all people of good will. And it will be a major scandal if any "civil rights" organization gives cover to this capitulation to fascism.

"except in extraordinary and unusual circumstances" is a big enough loophole for a family of elephants to walk through. www.huffpost.com/entry/democr...

NEW: since last year, a pair of "highly trained" feds have been involved in an array of incidents attacking crowds with chemical weapons. We used public records and open source analysis to identify Edgar Vazquez and Michael Sveum, alongside some other members of their tactical team. Read more:

Masks might still be OK in "extraordinary and unusual circumstances," Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said. No, masks are never okay. www.huffpost.com/entry/democr...

Note: this is not an endorsement Mark Warner (D-VA) just got a new primary challenger named Mark Moran. Mark is a banker & was a S1 contestant on HBO's FBoy Island. His campaign site is pure 2000s internet kitsch. Also he supports abolishing ICE & Medicare for All, & lowering the drinking age to 18

Having watched multiple iterations of this, armed dudes at polling places aren't the biggest threat. You know what I think is? (That has actually happened in multiple places) Cops going door to door to demand if residents are 1) citizens and 2) if they voted in select neighborhoods.

The election denial movement relies on propaganda and urging their believers into action based on genuine belief that they are in the right. People saying "there aren't enough ICE agents" are kinda missing the point. The point is to get people to distrust the results of the election.

The fascist resolution HJ Res 142 is current being debated by the House. I'm assuming it will get a vote this afternoon as well. For details as to why it is fascist, check out this thread by Free DC.

This is Duckworth's 9th yea vote for a Trump nominee, Durbin's 26th, Hassan's 46th, Kaine's 38th, Kelly's 34th, Shaheen's 53rd, & Whitehouse's 17th.

explain to me, very slowly, like the dimwitted child you must think I am, how body cameras or ICE cooperating with cops would have prevented any of the many, many, many law enforcement murders committed by both ICE and cops over the years which were already thoroughly documented on video

““Take a look at Detroit,” he said. “Take a look at Philadelphia. You go take a look at Atlanta.”” He’s been pushing this Black cities shouldn’t run their own elections line for ten years now...

I can absolutely see Chris Jones (editorial page editor for the Trib & Chicago theatre critic) losing his mind over this. The parentheticals in the post sure do sound a lot like his writing style. Honestly, just happy someone treated him & the Board with the lack of respect they deserve.

Actually, I do get it. Our culture is structured to protect abusers and men who want to be the Great Man in the narrative. When these sorts of men encounter a subculture that behaves otherwise, it enrages them. They appeal to the broader culture's misogyny, & construct opsec as hysterical.

Next witness to testify is Marimar Martinez, a U.S. citizen and Chicago resident who was shot five times by CBP agents in October and was later charged with assaulting the agents who shot her. The U.S. Attorney's Office dropped those charges six weeks later.

Martinez ends her testimony with this: "If there's not justice for the people, let there be no peace for the government."

This is the stuff that marks someone as a danger. Not even just that he intends to sneak back into an organizing space where he’s been told that he’s unwanted; the need to publicly brag about it, and make sure everyone knows. You cannot do collaborative work with someone who only centers himself.

Can comfirm from MN, as can anyone who lives here, that not a THING has changed except little Bovino isnt peacocking around the streets anymore. And there hasn’t been a third high-profile murder of a white person yet. But the gestapo attacks haven’t stopped. At all! bsky.app/profile/jyse...

HR 7148 passes 217-214 Dems voting yea are: Sanford Bishop (GA), Ed Case (HI), Jim Clyburn (SC), Joe Courtney (CT), Henry Cuellar (TX), Sharice Davids (KS), Don Davis (NC), Rosa DeLauro (CT), Bill Foster (IL), Jared Golden (ME), Josh Gottheimer (NJ), Jim Himes (CT), Steny Hoyer (MD), ->

🚨 House passes bill to end the shutdown and punt on DHS funding, sending it to Trump Vote is 217-214. 21 Ds vote YES. 21 Rs vote NO. All of government is funded through September EXCEPT DHS, which is put on a 2-week until Feb. 13. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

I love following Bring a Trailer because every once in a while a listing carries the aura of 'and it thirsts for more!'

Again, not going to live post through the HR 7148 vote, but just want to say that if Tom Suozzi votes yea for this even after expressing 'I'm sorry if you got mad' remorse for HR 7147, I am going to need someone to primary him starting tonight.

The Democratic primary in Texas is now one month away! March 3rd will be the first chance to remove the most fascist Democrats from the House, including the 6th most Trump friendly Dem, Vicente Gonzalez. The clock is running out and to stop fascism we need to kick Gonzalez out of Congress.

The Democratic primary in Texas is now one month away! March 3rd will be the first chance to remove the most fascist Democrats from the House, including the most Trump friendly of them all, Henry Cuellar. The clock is running out and to stop fascism we need to kick Cuellar out of Congress.

theatrics. AG bonta is not enforcing CA nondiscrimination law, because if he did that he'd be committing to enforcing CA nondiscrimination law for trans people, which he refuses to do. he is accusing CHOC/Rady of... violating CA mergers and acquisitions law.