California, this November 4th, the whole country is counting on you. Prop 50 puts our elections back on a level playing field, preserves independent redistricting over the long term, and lets the people decide. So return your ballot today. Vote yes on 50.

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

Reposting to read later

The Epstein Files remains the only hostage not released.

Extraordinary news: Joel Mokyr has won the Nobel for his work on the Industrial Revolution. Entirely deserved, though in truth, he ought to win another for his work on the Great Irish Famine, which transformed how we think about Ireland’s nineteenth century and the economic history of catastrophe.

I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.

Here’s last night’s story about Bari Weiss, CBS News, Paramount Skydance, and why the Upper West Side is a lot more than just “Seinfeld territory.” youtu.be/gieTx_P6INQ

My painting GREAT PLAINS STORM

What does it mean for Dems in congress to vote for funding *anything*, when the president can very literally just ignore it. Just go "nope not gonna give em that money," and refuse to spend it where the vote said to spend it? If congress very obviously doesn't control spending, at all, anymore?

All Boys Aren't Blue by George M. Johnson Johnson's brilliant "memoir-manifesto" became the most challenged book of the 2024-2025 school year because it focuses explicitly on growing up while gay and Black. bookshop.org/p/books/all-...

Serious question: What's stopping the State of Illinois from arresting Stephen Miller & charging him with incitement? The Senate didn't confirm him. He's just a guy. At some point, the states MUST use their authority to prosecute, because the federal government certainly will not.

perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.

The guy who is blowing up boats and getting away with it is the same guy who said he could shoot someone on 5th Avenue and get away with it. He told us who he was. And people voted for him anyway.

In order for the United States to become a party to the International Criminal Court and have our officials be subject to trial at The Hague, the US Senate would need to ratify the Rome statute by a two-thirds vote. Let’s start running on that.

Famous words of many Nobel Peace Prize winners.

Did I tell y'all I figured out how to use my mom's phone as a nanny not-cam? I basically call her phone, put it on speaker, put mine on speaker but mute mine, and then if I'm downstairs folding laundry or upstairs working on the computer, I can still hear what's happening in her room #sandwichyears

at least i've never made the mistake of bringing an Ezra Klein to a Ta-Nehisi Coates fight

Donald Trump’s decision to invade Portland on the basis of video from five years ago raises new questions about Joe Biden’s mental state.

"The district also said Roberts completed the employment eligibility form 'and submitted the required documentation.'" And they did a background check on him, and so did the DOE. Sounds like the only way to find out if someone is eligible to work in the US is to see if they're abducted by ICE.

In 16 I heard a DJT fan loudly proclaim that HRC lied all the time, but DJT was honest. I realized then that what this guy was reacting to isn't the substance of the words but the style. HRC spoke like she was filtering her words through the political consultant algorithm, DJT spoke like he dgaf.

A truth I’ve learned since moving to Southern California… Orange County is the Florida of California.

Aaaaah! That's 1200 people disappeared! No nononono. This is not what America is about!

Our work is not done… 📌 Sinclair Broadcast Group is still refusing to air Jimmy Kimmel Live! on its ABC affiliates nationwide. Folks, you know what to do. Google Sinclair-owned networks and channels in your city and act accordingly.

Oh! The new head of the DNC is Ken Martin from the Minnesota Democratic Farmer Labor Party. The DFL is what I've been wanting the DNC to become! I will be watching this- maybe I can rejoin eventually?

This summer we had "months." Now it's "weeks or months." My 10 yo is intellectually aware of what's happening with grandma but also still jealous of the time I spend with her. I love them both so much #sandwichyears

What I love about Ta Nehisi Coates is how he captures so eloquently the deep, seething, rage, the gut level fury of Black People right now. People don't understand what they did, choosing not to take Kirk and his words seriously. They told Black People something. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

Aaaannnnd she just spilled her water jug (with lid and straw but she removes the straw) onto herself for the 3rd time today. 🙄 who is the laundry god? Who do I pray to for this? #sandwichyears #eldercare

Four Black girls were murdered in a church for daring to exist in a desegregated America. Decades later, justice came, because people refused to let the story die. Watch Sen Doug Jones and historian Heather Cox Richardson break it down. History isn’t past. It’s a warning. youtu.be/bccqUo0mZvQ?...

I hope people understand that the anomaly here aren’t the conditions—the conditions are very typical—the anomaly is that they put a number of documented workers from a high-income country in those conditions. This is how people are treated in custody routinely

Great, and to-the-point statement by @joshtpm.bsky.social: "Trump and his movement incite, perpetuate and provide permission for political violence in a way that is consistent, across-the-board, at saturation level in our society." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/we-re...

Nancy Mace isn’t just unfit — she’s dangerous. Her reckless words fuel hate and violence, and she has no place in public office.

In the name of a deceased “free speech absolutist” we are going to honor him by trying to get people fired for their free speech. So GOP of them.

“CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE IS NOT OUR PROBLEM. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people…have obeyed the dictates of leaders…are obedient…in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war & cruelty…jails are full of petty thieves…grand thieves are running the country. That’s our problem.”

Just thinking about how the right made up an entirely fictional left wing character that resulted in so many bomb threats and the like and nobody will face consequences. But people on the left who accurately clocked the victim’s life work lost jobs.

Fucking genuis.

I'll take the arguments against violence seriously when they include Black women. Until then?

The "free speech" folk are at it again. LOL

Even at this stage, mom likes to watch the news at night. Gives me heart palpitations. I can't believe what a cesspool our country has become. 🤢🤮

[the absolute biggest bong hit that has ever occurred] I'm going to turn a TOOTH into an EYE

Whew! Those hospice nurses are something else! It doesn't seem to matter what time I call, they are patient and upbeat about every kind of whatever that has come up for me. Help helps. I'm grateful. #sandwichyears #hospice

"We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent." —Justice Sonia Sotomayor

That fucking hernia. I'm starting to understand that osteoporosis is like diabetes, complicates everything else. If you've got either of those, you have to take serious care of anything else that crops up. The combinations can be deadly. #sandwichyears

I do not know what's next but I know that it doesn't get fixed with an election, even if it's a wave. We have to revisit the original sin of this nation, its betrayal of Reconstruction and all the evil that's flowed from it. Prison, executions, and political interdiction against bigots and fascists.

In the same way you can draw a straight line from the confederacy to the third reich,you can draw a line from someone organizing for free healthcare in Maine to some future freedom that will be won in Mississippi. Not to be cliche buts it’s always been just one war

Capitalist ideology is a virus that has spread everywhere. Everyone having a spoonful of microplastics in their brain is such an apt metaphor and reminder. Once the entire world accepted that one person can own a mountain, a factory, a year or even an hour of another person’s life, we were fucked

Y'know what I do want to hear from Mitch McConnell? I want to hear his list of apologies. I want to hear him admit that the country is on the brink now because Mitch was racist then. And what he's done to change since.

Not enough people know about Homer City. The single largest fossil fuel plant that's being built *explicitly* to power a data centre. This isn't a future projection, or some hollow marketing. This is physical stuff happening right now. bsky.app/profile/keta...

Mom, pointing to the uneaten peas after dinner: "why did you put that on my plate?" 😂

🚨🚨🚨No words, just watch and listen! Holy shit. 1/2