Still processing the inanity of this cave, like, "We're going to make Republicans go on record that they want to destroy the ACA." You mean the motherfuckers who radicalized in opposition to it & voted to repeal it, like, 22 times? You're finally getting them on record? Really impressed over here

The International Olympic Committee is set to ban trans and intersex women from competition. This is despite the fact that for 20 years, the IOC has allowed trans athletes to compete and only 1 has ever competed and none have ever won a medal. www.the-independent.com/sport/olympi...

Remember 25 years ago when a photo was taken of a fed pointing a gun at a crying refugee child and the image was so shameful it dominated the news cycle for a year

fuck it, you know what? I've decided I deserve to destroy part of a historical landmark to build a needlessly huge ballroom too

liberals and conservatives alike talk about defunding the police and decarceration as if these are extreme, radical, unthinkable ideas— but truly what is more extreme, radical, and unthinkable than what's happening *right now* in our police state.

not the point, but obviously they should have gone with "Progressive group MoveOn calls on Schumer to move on"

fuck it, you know what? I've decided I deserve a trillion dollars too

I love when people tell batshit stories about their kids to express their own politics "my child overheard a parent saying their kid needed to change because they crapped in their pants but thought they said to raise the capital gains tax and had an aneurysm and fucking died" wow that def. happened

Also just because it needs to be said executions have never in the history of ever lowered crime

I'll get back to "party unity" as soon as the Senate Minority Leader tells us if he voted for the Democratic party nominee for mayor of his city. I'm tired of party unity only ever running one way.

New data shows that the CCRB retroactively doctored public data for more than 10,000 misconduct allegations against NYPD officers. hellgatenyc.com/ccrb-whitewa...

The thing about the "I voted against this" position Schumer is taking is that either he is trying to mislead Dem voters by implying he didn't support reopening right now, or he has no control over his caucus.

"Oh gosh, wow, 8 rogue Dem senators, the exact number of votes Republicans needed to reopen the government, voted yes. I, Chuck Schumer have nothing to do with that" is such obvious BS.

Like… people want affordable groceries, housing, and healthcare, *And* they want their friends and loved ones the be alive and safe and free from persecution. These are not mutually exclusive ideas. They are in fact bound up together.

Though Trump’s pardons can’t extend to state crimes, I think it’s worth pointing out the message being conveyed: Trump’s allies are alleged to have stolen data from state voting systems in an effort to help him overturn an election he lost. Now he’s pardoning them for it. bsky.app/profile/anna...

this is *exactly* the same idiocy as when Musk killed 2FA because he said most of the emails don't get a response. that's the point!

Wish I could say something more weighty than "clown shit" but this is clown shit, not serious legislative maneuvers from the Democratic Senate Whip. Durbin's big ask is a pointless symbolic vote, even if it passes (it won't) Speaker Johnson said the House will never take it up.

man you just got voted a pay package that will make you the richest human being who ever lived and you're spending all your time obsessing over getting owned real bad on the internet elon really is the face of the billionaire brainworms crisis that is Online

Enough is enough. Contact your Democratic senators TODAY and tell them to call for Senator Schumer to step aside as Minority Leader. We desperately need new leadership in the Democratic Party.

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I have so much contempt for Schumer but his defenders who insist that he’s actually a master tactician who’s working for us are arguably even more contemptible

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this is the trump guy urtext

the problem is that we understand perfectly well how the senate works and it just doesn't

Like I fucking said.

My colleague calls Congress "the complaint department for capitalism." Every 2 or 6 years, we make believe 'we the people' choose our leaders, & we can call customer service hotline (Congressional switch board) to lodge complaints. All while real bosses actually billionaires.

Not a single senate Democrat should be politically safe from this day forward. Not one

This has to be the demand - not just a unfocused "fuck the cavers", but a focused demand to replace Schumer with someone who has already proven up to the moment. I will be making regular calls to have Schiff and Padilla demand this, and the more of us that do the more real it could be.

no matter what the circumstances, democrats are always saving their energy for a mythical future situation where they will do something good

Trump just celebrated Schumer's cave by pardoning 75+ co-conspirators including Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, and Sidney Powell, for their efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

Can’t wait for this news cycle

no one has ever been better than chuck schumer at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory

the angry base has been right and the savvy "calm down" caucus has been wrong every step of the way for the last 10 years

Call them: Schumer (NY) 202 224-6542 Booker (NJ) 202 224-3224 King (ME) 202 224-5344 Hassan (NH) 202 224-3324 Durbin (IL) 202 224-2152 Ossoff (GA) 202 224-3521 Shaheen (NH) 202 224-2841 Gillibrand (NY) 202 224-4451 Masto (NV) 202 224-3542 Warner (VA) 202 224-2023 Fetterman (PA) No Point

These are the senators who are about to vote to destroy us by caving on the shutdown for nothing in return. You can call and leave a message since it's Sunday, and try again tomorrow when they're open at 9am.

Chuck Schumer is a freaking shande every day. Grow a backbone dude. Our people have dealt with millennia of hatred and pogroms and genocides. You can deal with Donald Trump and the Republicans when people's food and healthcare are at stake.

cat betta have my money

ME WHEN JOYCE CAROL OATES SAYS SOME DUMB OLD LADY SHIT: Crying Snipes with gun meme ME WHEN JOYCE CAROL OATES LETS ELON MUSK HAVE IT WITH BOTH BARRELS: Legolas and Gimli meme

"would you date yourself" obviously yes, why do you think I advocate so passionately for research into cloning and discovering parallel realities and developing malfunctioning star trek transporters

Dear god.

If anything this understates it, because the Trump administration is now telling states to claw back benefits already provided, which is administratively a nightmare and also illegal. 🧵

A "modest margin" when Mamdani beat his next closest challenger by 8 points in a three-person race. Trump won by just 1.5% and it was played off as a seismic realignment of American politics and culture.

if you are food insecure for both the humans and pets in your household there is a tool called Pet Help Finder that can help locate pet food banks nearby and other free or reduced price assistance and supplies for pets. no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

NYTimes can't even excuse this misrepresentation away as a subjective characterization in an "opinion" piece. It's in a straight news story in the "Politics" section, presented as if it's an objective fact.

it's very simple: I will vote for whichever candidate promises to fund research into creating a perfect copy of myself for me to date

sorry but I think it's loser bullshit when someone says they hate hearing about other people's dreams. we go through nightly immersive hallucinations that manifest aspects of our innermost psyches into perceived alternate realities and that bores you?? grow a sense of wonder you tedious fucking drip

lmao 🤌🏾 'An “alienated view of the world”! Not by, like, trying to pay rent or having an insurance claim denied—no, no, it was probably the Foucault you read in 2003.'