look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry

Durbin is trash. Yes, lots of great stuff in the past. Sure he’s a decent guy. But he’s pure trash now. Important to see that the bulk of Team Cave is made up of people who are retiring.

Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.

My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard. We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions. We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.

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Every few weeks we gotta make posts like this”call your dem reps to tell them to not vote to allow Lord Killdude to shove people into a volcano” and then the dem reps go “we’ve made an amazing deal where Lord Killdude can have his volcano so long as he promises not to shove people into it”

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

All day, many of you have been asking for a Cheney obituary from me. Get ready:

“He doesn’t have a mandate” are you fucking kidding? Dick Cheney died the day Zohran is elected he has the mandate of HEAVEN

Came here to say this, but Jamelle Bouie has this covered. 👇 When the Democratic tent includes candidates like Spanberger and Mamdani, there is no crisis, or fight, for the party. IT’S A COALITION, NOT A POINT ESTIMATE.

I am no longer employed so I'm not blogging Zohran tonight but I can just repeat exactly what I said in June :-) he won on the back of a pro-migrant, pro-trans, pro-working class campaign. and also: Dem pundits are full of shit

Inbox— next cover of the New Yorker: “Mayor Mamdani,” by Edel Rodriguez

Had to share this from twitter just because

But let's not take any lessons from his campaign. That would be too smart.

It can often feel like there's a whole lot outside our control. But if there's any kind of election in your town today, that's a way to make a meaningful difference in your state or local affairs.

Cheney was a principal architect of the contemporary US dystopia. Cops rolling around in armored vehicles? Cheney. Immigration black sites? Cheney. Ubiquitous warantless surveillance? Private corporations profiting from war, disaster and incarceration…

It’s truly tragic how many of these US war criminals like Cheney never face justice and die in their peacefully in their homes in their 80s and 90s. I want to be happy he is dead but I am not. The million people he killed didnt get the luxury to die how he did.

Dick Cheney did more than anyone else to build up expansive and destructive executive branch powers in the wake of 9/11; he lived to see another president turn those same powers against his own daughter. He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.

especially enraging because of course there is absolutely nothing wrong with using an autopen, but there is in fact something wrong with pardoning someone as a quid pro quo and not even knowing who it is. also what the fuck with the ridiculous hat.

A name tag on Boston police officers might seem like a small change. But Mayor Michelle Wu said it's especially important now, given the prevalence of masked federal agents conducting immigration enforcement.

I'm an optimist on journalism's future, but efforts by Dems to confuse people about what's a trustworthy source of information and what isn't are an anchor around the neck of our industry. TikTok has been a better source on the broad outlines of the Israel/Palestine conflict than legacy US media.

Teen Rogue is perfect. Incredible. Actual genius. They have to do this. (I'd prefer a co-op model, personally, not someone monied hiring everyone)

Cheney died. Don’t celebrate too hard, the Bluesky mods are salivating at the opportunity to boot you for experiencing too much joy.

“The data showed that some large-caliber civilian rifles delivered a blast wave that exceeds what the military says is safe for the brain, and firing smaller-caliber guns repeatedly could quickly add up… indoor shooting ranges designed to make shooting safe inadvertently make blast exposure worse”

So many people were detained extrajudicially, were tortured, or died because of Dick Cheney. You can't get to the danger we're in now without everything he did. The weapons he helped forge are ones we need to take away from U.S. presidents forever.

This kind of thing happens more often than you'd think. The rich and powerful can skip lines and get the vital care they need. But it is striking to see it all play out on social media.

This is a week from today! Get it while it's hot!

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A tale of two compacts - great piece by @gipperfish.bsky.social on the Mutual Academic Defense Compact versus Trump's Compact: academeblog.org/2025/10/30/a...

Begging people to understand how big of a deal a net 40-point shift against Israel among your base within two years is for the Democratic Party

Between this and the Louvre prosecutor describing the suspects’ statements as “minimalist” while bragging that they had worked on the case over a weekend it’s an absolutely incredible week for Frenchness

happy halloween from samwise gamgee and frodo baggins! cloaks vests and shirts handmade by grandma, lembas bread by fig newtons corporation

Turns out Trump's "Defending Women" executive order is not, in fact, about defending women's health. It has led to the removal of of a lot of crucial information about women's health. This just out in a peer reviewed article by Patricia Homan and Susan Short. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

“ICE does not provide the opportunity for individuals to decline or consent to the collection and use of biometric data/photograph collection” www.404media.co/you-cant-ref...

this man is a true poster

I’m not going to take the turkey out of the freezer until it’s defrosted.

Despite over 70 years of gop propaganda, Americans actually like big government services — because it makes their lives better. Democrats should stop operating like the gop’s anti government stance is popular, and instead go pro government outside of health care and education.

It’s interesting to ask: did Thiessen know about this? If he did, why didn’t he, after some initial minutes of understandable mortification, protest that he wanted to be fact-checked, so that he could make his columns stronger? Can you imagine not saying that, after a bit of pain?

This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.

don't have a lot left to say about the Nazi tat discourse other than the general observation that when some say they oppose "moralism" they mean they oppose self-indulgent or otherwise unprincipled appeals to faux-morality and when others say they oppose "moralism" they mean they oppose morals

exhibit B: bsky.app/profile/kyle...

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

Trying to share this quote and the link to @tressiemcphd.bsky.social's excellent column in the same post is not working for me - link in next post. But as usual, brilliant all the way through.

What needs to be more widely conveyed, as 404Media does, is that violation of privacy is the primary use case of Meta products at large. By egregiously representing these scenarios as outliers of otherwise handy "human-centred" tech, MSM actively participates in this predatory paradigm.

Always a joy to see my Women’s Health students do class presentations on books by my colleagues like @kateclancy.bsky.social and @ratnagiri77.bsky.social

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Jesus fucking Christ ACAB forever

“A survey by Israeli’s public broadcaster on Sunday found that 48 percent of Israelis believed Israel had become a “U.S. protectorate.” Only 29 percent disagreed.” In Shift in Relationship With Netanyahu, Trump Says ‘I Will Decide’ What Is Right for Israel - NYT