Their theory is that Dems are going to cave, usually a decent bet. However, October 18th is only a week away. If Dems hold the line for one more week, one of the largest protests in US history will be coming out in support of their fight. This is why Johnson was attacking No Kings: They are afraid.

Million goddamn percent People are fucking sick of being miserable and the more the opposition is defined as “NOT a bunch of angry mean creepy sourpusses” the better

Like I know there are edgelord leftists out there who look down their noses at shit like No Kings but sorry you guys, the more mass protest looks fun and family-friendly, the bigger it gets and the better its chances of being broadly effective

Cartoon by John Deering.

🧵Billionaire Marc Benioff built a tower that dominates the San Francisco skyline like a giant dick. Apparently he aspires to be a giant dick himself. Crime is way down in San Francisco. No need for Trump to send troops and spread authoritarianism.

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This murder is why we still have to say BLACK LIVES MATTER Kingsley Bimpong should be alive.

Palestinian orphans in Gaza marching with photos of their dead parents

Kingsley Bimpong should be alive. If we had public safety responses that cared for individuals instead of only looking for crimes this could have been avoided. Instead, Kingsley paid for it with his life and Dakota County taxpayers will be footing the bill for law enforcement’s indifference.

A library director in Wyoming who was fired two years ago because she refused to remove books with sexual content and LGBTQ themes from a library's children and young adult sections has just been awarded $700,000 in a settlement. t.co/EA5L1kOZfV

One judge compared their district’s current relationship with the Supreme Court to “a war zone.” Another said the courts were in the midst of a “judicial crisis.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

'Gaza did not fail. We did. Gaza resisted when the world expected it to break. Gaza stood alone when it should never have had to stand alone. Gaza endured despite international abandonment, despite governments that funded its destruction and now celebrate themselves as peacemakers.'

Some messages are printed on 18-by-24-inch yard signs or smaller placards; others are drawn ornately by hand on paper or written in chalk. The few who will talk about the signs they created say the urgency of the moment compelled them to act. (🎁link below) wapo.st/4nJqjZQ

i am feeling, i am seeing, i am hearing, i am getting the vibes, that students this sem are better than they've been in years because learning offers a rare haven from authoritarianism, a place to convene, commune, think together, refuel for the fight

One of the only welcome things about this current period in the U.S. is that the "this is not who WE are" stuff might finally be over.

This is good, actually. This is the kind of thing we need to build a pro-court expansion majority.

I would rather fight and fall upholding this kind of Democrat party rather than 'win' by sucking up to think tanks funded by billionaires and bankers. NK Jemisin said it best: No voting on who gets to be human. No asterisks on who gets the dream.

Think slavery doesn't matter today? Wrong. Current Congress members whose families owned 16+ enslaved people now have 4 million $ more than members who did not own slaves. Slave owning = 2024 money and influence 🧪 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

every single dem should be taking notes. this is how you message around trans issues (of note: i believe he is the only cis candidate for office to have trans people consult on his lgtbq+ policy platform)

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in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa

Ill give you a hint, it also had the word "great" in it...

wahoowa, etc.

“Thanks to the solidity of bearded vulture nest structures and their locations in the western Mediterranean… they have acted as [ #archivists], conserving historical material in good condition." A shoe made from twigs and grass is 675 y.o. while a basket in the nest was woven about 150 years ago!!

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If you’re unfamiliar, I suggest reading about abandoned battery manufacturing towns across Mexico and Latin America where battery manufacturing has left the rivers unpotable and the soil and air full of lead and mercury. Once enough people start dying, companies abandon them and rebuild elsewhere.

Remember, this is how much it has cooked people’s brains after like one year. Think of what 10 years of this will do. Think of the brains of kids who will grow up not only unable to spot AI but unable to understand “real” and “AI generated” as two different concepts.

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion. As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

CUOMO COULD NEVER

Shouting out myself (& others) just because

"even if it's AI, it's at least true" hard to overstate the damage this stuff is doing to people's brains. we're gonna be cleaning the slop out of archives for decades

“Both judges stated that the government offered no reason for their detention and that keeping them detained violated their rights to due process.” elpasomatters.org/2025/10/02/e... #HomeIsHere

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US. 𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕. 𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

My column from Monday. Don’t call it “self-deportation.” Two immigrants living in Alabama were detained despite having no criminal records. They were coerced into leaving the country. It reflects an immigration system whose single goal is creating a class of people outside the law.

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door. 

It wasn’t the feds —  it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help. He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Yes, because NYT is a fascist institution

This shutdown is utterly unique in US political history in that it essentially stems entirely from the House majority's total inability to do anything but run in circles trying to satisfy the whims of an unstable, incompetent, self-obsessed president. It doesn't obey normal political rules.

this is the coolest portfolio ever

anybody who's good at history want to tell me if it's good or not to starve your troops

this video is AI generated. the reporter has three arms and people in the background phase in and out of each other, and it comes from an AI sharing account be cautious with what you share these days, friends

These guys have gotten incredibly rich by fleecing the government with subpar tech that was designed for rentseeking rather than performance. A smart Dem agenda item would be to build internal tech capacity. The fact that it would punish these guys is just a silver lining.

21/ Factions of the Western left continue to excuse or romanticize the Soviet Union, framing it as a counterweight to Western imperialism or neoliberal capitalism. In this narrative, the USSR is remembered as a noble experiment, its crimes downplayed as unfortunate “mistakes” or denied entirely.

1/ while it does make me giggle to see a hardcore/death metal band in oregon wearing "soviet straight edge" hoodies, i'm also fed up with weird soviet romanticization. soviet romanticism directly fuels russia's war in ukraine and the spread of russian imperialism. i'll explain why -

This is an absolutely MUST read thread to understand or start to understand that Soviet Union was not a a socialist country at any point of the 70 odd years of its history. Stalin's "socialism in one country" was an indispensable cog in the development of the myth of great Russian civilization

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Since Link is banned, his mutual aid Fridays have gone with him. This was one of the most altruistic things I’ve seen anyone on this site do. In light of this, I’m gonna try to fill the gap. Drop your mutual aid requests under this thread and I will repost them for as long as I can.

Great news, everyone, the Mortality and Morbidity people got fired We're all going to live forever

Microsoft has withdrawn its proposal for a data center in a Milwaukee suburbs after community pushback. After opposition from area residents and elected officials the 244 acre Caledonia project will not proceed.

More. Of. This. Any city that allows a corporation to build a data center will be unlivable within a year of construction.