I’ve never seen an American elected official fight so hard to starve people.

This is fun: even if Republicans nuked the filibuster tomorrow, they would immediately have to turn around and negotiate another CR, which would mean calling the House back into session...which would mean swearing in Adelita Grijalva...which would mean facing the Epstein discharge petition.

Ruined it with all their pink, shimmery keyboards and lunch totes and tampons everywhere

The Constitution gives the regulation and taxation of foreign trade to Congress. Congress, through legislation, has given the President discretion to impose tariffs for specific reasons using specific procedures. He does not have carte blanche to impose tariffs by tweet for whatever reason he likes.

She was on a roll, and then...

this looks like a trick daffy duck would put up to get bugs bunny into "the oval office"

Zohran Mamdani went from notching 1% in primary polling to becoming the first candidate in more than 50 years to win over one million votes in a NYC mayoral election. Here's what to know about his meteoric rise.

Hahahaha

The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout: Humanities majors killed on the job market 1) Mamdani- Africana Studies 2) Spanberger -French 3) Sherill - Global History

LMAO he's trying to be Mamdani!

Republicans are coping hard this morning

The Democrats won several VA House seats where winning looked like a pipe dream going into the election. The Dems won these seats because they recruited candidates and actually campaigned. Important lesson for 26--the electorate is pissed--but you can only win when you run. Run everywhere!

@aoc.bsky.social says of Mamdani victory: "A lot of people...are willing to talk about party unity when it serves them, but not party unity when it serves everybody." "We have a future to fight for, and we're either going to do that together or you're going to be left behind."

Is this because Trump starts wandering and gets lost when he’s sundowning?

In other words “it wasn’t me.”

This kind of stuff is like porn

Mamdani should recognize that his election shows that he is wrong on the issues and should abandon his policies and preferences for a bland Park Slope technocratic corporatism. @nytimes.com tomorrow

In a wide-ranging Sunday night interview on CBS News’s “60 Minutes,” President Donald Trump put his desire for unchecked power on full display.

As someone who read Mein Kampf, this sounds like the 2020 Amerikkka version. Jesus Christ.

Doesn't this claim invalidate the pardon? He, personally, is the only one who can exercise this power.

After repeatedly requesting permission and following all the official guidelines, Catholic bishop, priests, sisters and lay people were refused permission to distribute Communion to migrants in ICE detention center, on All Saints Day. A religious freedom issue: www.ncronline.org/news/ice-aga...

Remember, they're currently arguing that Biden's pardons are illegitimate because he signed the actual forms with an autopen. Trump, meanwhile, repeatedly insists he knows nothing at all about one of his very controversial pardons. Never heard of the guy! Sorta seems like a problem.

Trump on Democrats: "They've become crazed lunatics" (So much for toning down the rhetoric!)

Fwiw, it’s nice to have a place to chat during a live event. That was one of the things that Twitter was great for. Before the dark times. Before the empire.

harvard medical school got bombed yesterday and it barely made news

Historical FYI: Nathanael Greene was asthmatic, had a limp and a perpetually infected eye, and was constantly sick. He was also, as Cornwallis wrote, "as dangerous as [George] Washington. He is vigilant, enterprising, and full of resources–there is but little hope of gaining an advantage over him."

Trump posts crazy stuff like this at times where he feels like he’s not getting enough attention and wants people to start talking about him again. It’s deranged, narcissistic behavior.

What and I can not emphasize this enough fucking hell hole universe are we stuck in for all eternity?!?!?

🚨BREAKING: Conservative Texas federal judge DISMISSES lawsuit by Republican Congressmen Ronny Jackson and Darrell challenging California’s new redistricting law without even waiting for California to respond. www.democracydocket.com/cases/califo...

Don't threaten me with a good time, Mark

You can't make this up.

My firmly apolitical mom knows about Vance and Erika Kirk 💀

"Democrats will feed 100 because there is 1 that may go hungry and Republicans will let 100 starve because there may be 1 who doesn't need it."

So there were some AI-generated videos that purported to show Black women ranting about SNAP benefits, and... Fox News is reporting on this like these are real people. They're not! They're AI! This is truly insane. Total unreality. www.foxnews.com/media/snap-b...

This is a great way to keep your state sick, poor, and dumb. WTG!

BREAKING: Oklahoma County Judge Susan Stallings recused herself tonight from presiding over the 3rd trial of Richard Glossip, following an all-day hearing probing her impartiality. She's the third judge (and ex-prosecutor) to recuse since the state announced it would retry Glossip. Story to come.

This statement by JD Vance is no different from the people who claimed it’s “totally reasonable and acceptable” for white folks to not want Black people in their neighborhoods Or to enact covenants which exclude Jews and Italians It’s blatant racism-coming from the very top of the US government

They tear-gassed kids last week.

Guess which one was doing the begging because he desperately needed some bs to try and sell as a “win.”

Please note what happened here. By challenging Trump to pause his terror raids for Halloween, Pritzker forced Kristi Noem to come out *for* continuing to traumatize kids. Polarizing these debates draws attention/forces MAGA depravity into the light. newrepublic.com/article/2023...

public officials shouldn't lie

I put off doing the inevitable…I called my insurance provider. My current premium is $480. It will be almost $900 next year. Thanks, Trump voters.

A former consultant and DOGE staffer is now serving as chief of naval research, the top post at the Office of Naval Research, after Trump booted a decorated admiral from that position. An early, newsy Press Pass from @cheetah.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/scoop-trum...

ICE is nothing but a gang of racist cocksuckers. Sorry not sorry.

1991 was the beginning of what I’d call music’s Long 1994. In this essay I will

Clearing up those "had a stroke" rumors with some impeccable StrokePosting™. Masterful gambit sir!

What a racist, worthless piece of shit this man is. I’m surprised he didn’t get regular beat downs in the Marines.

I would rather live next door to someone who speaks another language than live next door to someone who doesn’t want to live near people who speak other languages. I know nothing about Person A but I know person B is a shitbird.

Note: This is me — I asked this question. You’ll hear me say “yes you have” here — because Johnson was already *directly asked* about one of these instances (when the Presbyterian minister was shot in the head with a pepper ball) in one of earlier shutdown press conferences.