this is such a good example of someone asserting that incivility lives in actions that hurt people, not in questioning those actions

what this shows is that it has always been within the power of congressional republicans to say no to this man, and they must be held accountable for all the times they did not

Trump really has remade the whole conservative movement in his image. Weiss is just like him, a petulant power mad imbecile who can do literally nothing right and gets incandescent with rage anytime she is questioned, but also too much of a chickenshit to fire people to their face

Slow clap for Jeremy Culhane for doing such an indelible impression of Tucker Carlson, you can literally hear it in your head just from text alone.

We've fully escalated from "touching the stove " to "stepping on the bear trap" There's no way out of this that isn't going to cost us a limb.

I know it’s a big ask, but everyone needs to watch more interviews and panels with CEOs. They are so disturbing and repellent but to really face the reality of not only the fact we’re in a class war but the nature of who it is we’re battling, and the future they are authoring, is essential.

having learned that heterosexuality is gay from reactionary streamers, happy pride month to my fellow wife guys (a queer identity)

“This is censorship... This is a demonstration that some of the worst abuses in our time are not confined to kings, emperors, governments … but to a class of companies that have assumed the sovereign affect, and seek to assert their power the same way that some of those despotic nation states do.”

I know people who do a shitload of web scraping without the consent of the people whose servers and personal data are being scraped. And do you know why they do it? To document human rights violations and preserve access to knowledge against repressive governments. Amnesty knew this once.

Reminder that @michaelafortn.bsky.social is running against this local and national embarrassment.

Systemic reporting: often tedious and not always sexy to many reporters—but urgent for the people and voters. We got y’all.

Publications need a stats editor. This is getting ridiculous.

The concept of generations has really done a number on our ability to see the interconnectedness of the past and the present. Framing history in lifespans is so much better.

Part political chronicle, part testimony, part autobiography, Into the Wood Chipper recounts the destruction of USAID from the perspective of a federal worker fed into the DOGE-powered chipper.

After a week of rain and a day full of chores, it's nice to get some time out in the hammock.

Bout to beat the brakes off of some mosquitos

In two sentences, Jared just deconstructed what's happened to country music over the last 50 years.

For the longest time I'd been staunchly on the side of "Let AOC be a legislator." She's damn good at it, and I have zero doubts that in time she'd - if not run the caucus - be its leader in all but name. But that's a path for normal times, and we are in anything but.

will they write an equivalent "James Talarico attacked Ken Paxton for releasing a child rapist, putting release of pedophiles front and center in the race" piece or do they only amplify GOP attacks for some reason?

It’s telling how many of the large news organizations who are flush with money aren’t sending journalists to cover ICE (and now state trooper) violence overnight outside Delaney Hall and the independent outlets with far less financial and insurance coverage are braving it.

And worth noting that the politicians say 'trans' because they can't say f****t, but their supporters hear f****t. Because fundamentally all of this is crippling gender-insecurity from a bunch of oversized manchildren - the worst thing they can imagine, their terror, is being called 'not a man.'

This is a great example of having the will part of conservative masculinity - a guy having an independent partner (who he hasn’t forced to marry) *is* a scandal to them. His inability to get her to eat meat is a failure to impose his will on her, and makes him weak. It’s illegible to us.

No matter the attack line, if Talarico is the focus of the race, he will lose. November needs to be a referendum on Paxton. It's as simple as that.

It’s weird how Trump can go scorched earth on any Republican who advocated releasing the Epstein files and the media doesn’t treat it like a pretty conclusive admission of guilt.

Remember when Bernie Sanders unveiled his plan for free college for all Americans, and everyone said we can't afford it? We just spent more than that amount on Trump's war in Iran.

“It is foolish and a fundamental misunderstanding of the relationship between social movements and institutional power to identify with political leadership rather than view them as a negotiating partner, someone to be held at arm’s length and with feet to the fire”

i don’t want a president who does whatever they want, even if those are things i want them to do. i want a congress who aggressively guards their first amongst equals status and is representative of the people they are elected to represent.

Every time I go grocery shopping, I get to thank the American voter for giving me a reason to grind

Proof that the group chats (and an obscene amount of money) completely wrecks your ability to relate to the world around you.

Nearly 3 million Cubans are experiencing water shortages every day because of a severe oil shortage that government officials blame on a U.S. energy blockade. apnews.com/article/cuba...

Called this back in October

surprisingly...not the same people in charge of those two decisions

again, the 'most Americans can't even afford an unexpected expense' stuff comes from *online surveys by payday loan companies*. it is a publicity stunt *by one of the most exploitative parts of the financial industry* that is nevertheless spread enthusiastically by online communists.

The number of people getting their knickers in a twist about this is ridiculous. DOGE was an abomination, an act of theft of the American taxpayer and of war on the impoverished. So I'll be damned if the right somehow gets to "win" the moniker of government efficiency as a result of it.

Gonna jot something up about Project 2029 today I think but @liberalcurrents.com's goal is unironically to win the ideas primary, and The Reconstruction Papers is our biggest foray into doing so. Support us if you want to help our odds: www.liberalcurrents.com/support-us/

I cannot say this loudly enough: we need everyone to know what is happening at Delaney Hall. 300 detainees inside are on Day 7 of a hunger and labor strike as of today. ICE is beating, gassing, tasing and assaulting protestors outside every night, and it is getting worse.

It's good that universities are making six-figure payouts to people who got fired for their comments about Charlie Kirk, but now the universities need to do some new firing, of administrators who carried out those illegal actions. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/u...

yeah you gotta willie horton ken paxton. have the party committees and super pacs run ads explicitly accusing paxton of covering up for a child abuser. “you love your children and would do anything to protect them. so why would you vote for a man who lets child abusers run free”

(2/2) Hi, I'm James Talarico, and this is ___, chef at ___. Damn, this is some good BBQ, ___! My Republican opponents are trying to distract you with irrelevant lies, like saying that I don't eat meat. What are they trying to distract you from? Well, let me tell you a few things about Ken Paxton."

I'm beyond even thinking it's three-cueing or anything. Some people here just don't *want* to read.

Increasingly brazen defiance by conservative cops of liberal electeds and actual laws over the last 10 years is a very grim omen about how the chaos trump is trying to unleash on our country will play

Ken Paxton is the closest to another Roy Moore as we're going to see, and Doug Jones beat Roy Moore. Talarico can absolutely beat Paxton.

If talarico isn’t running ads within days with some Austin bbq pitmasters talking up how trump’s beef prices are threatening their business he deserves to lose

They stole the internet’s knowledge and all the work that went into it and they want to sell it back to us for a fee. What a business model.

at the risk of oversimplifying, i do not find it especially surprising that a full ten years into the era of donald trump dominating our politics, americans find ourselves angry, bitter, cynical and resentful no matter our material conditions.

Some good evidence of the inherent weakness of gerrymandering bans if you don't have judicial reform. Or just go for a statewide proportional system and take districts out of it altogether.

“your uterus is your castle” is the funniest pro-abortion stance I’ve ever seen

Orthogonal to Bitcoin, but it's funny watching commentators say "woke is being pushed on us" and brain-dead CEOs try to sell anti-woke products, only to moor themselves on the jagged rocks of consumer capitalism. Y'all aren't the majority anymore! You don't have enough demand to sustain your hate!

What if taxing the rich works?

"Prices are too high!" "It's because we're not being paid enough." Folks...