This is dead on. If the Democrats retake the House and Senate--or even just the House--it could mark the beginning of the end of a 50-year Republican project. If they can't? The GOP will spend the next 2 years destroying all remaining guardrails. Most important midterms of our lives, no question.

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A history of the top marginal tax rates on the wealthiest Americans: 1940: 81% 1950: 84% 1960: 91% 1970: 72% 1980: 70% 1990: 28% 2000: 40% 2010: 35% For 50 years, corporate backed politicians in Congress have slashed taxes to line the pockets of their wealthy donors.

F you, Scotus.

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Next up: mandatory loin cloths for men.

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We should take the same lesson and apply it to the criminal enterprise being run by Trump and his family. Then boot them from power just like voters just did to Orbán.

Any American who doesn't feel sick to their stomach today is an evil moron.

Any American who doesn't feel sick to their stomach today is an evil moron.

In all seriousness, one thing that might be worth doing today: Tell your Reps and Senators to call Adm. Richard Correll, the Commander of U.S. Strategic Command, which controls the nation's nukes, and remind him of *his* unique responsibility to refuse an illegal order.

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

have you guys seen the Dutch cover of The Hobbit cuz I hadn't

Generative AI is a tool of fascism. If you use it, you better be prepared to be shamed by people who actually like thinking.

I think the reason AI propagandists are so flustered by the fact that no real writer wants to use their idiotic tools is that they themselves don't enjoy writing. They see it as a boring arduous chore to be avoided, while real writers actually enjoy writing and actually care about the quality of it.

I heard someone say that we should be registering voters at gas stations.

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Someone sent me this.

Wikipedia now has higher standards than all universities

I am going to No Kings tomorrow, but perceive widespread protest fatigue, so how about we at least come up with a new theme for the next one, @indivisible.org ? Maybe No Billionaires? Humans First? Just need some re-energizing out there...

The thing about technofascism is that is coming for everyone... (which is to say that we sorely need technoliberation).

If the SAVE America Act passes, it will be easier to buy a gun in many states than to vote. Just let that sink in. www.youtube.com/shorts/n7QJj...

HOWLING

This is so well done. Devastating, funny, profound.

The President of the United States said I insulted Jesus. You want to know what insults Jesus? Kicking the sick off their healthcare. Bombing schoolchildren in Iran. Deporting moms and babies. Covering up the Epstein files.

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.

Don't know who this quote is from, but man...

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

These times are such that I am downing positive astrological and psychic predictions with abandon.

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We have a finite amount of time to spend thinking while on this earth and I am very resentful of how much of it has been monopolized by the whims of a demented old real estate scumbag

Pew Research Institute (2023): • Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants • Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants • Blue State Minnesota has 130,000. And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration." It's *not* about immigration.

Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

On the plus side, at least she's not shooting them.

Happening Now: Students have walked out of school and are protesting against ICE in Saint Paul, Minnesota

"There is no reason for all of these agents to be armed."

This is stunning. Listen to this in Philadelphia. Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.” Really listen to it.

Please stop and read this statement from Renee Good's wife.

what you clearly see, CLEARLY, is a driver who is spooked by the agents grabbing her door, takes steps to drive away, and is immediately shot as moves her vehicle *away* from the agents.

10,000 people honoring Renee Nicole Good at the site of her murder

The woman killed by ICE today was a poet. She won the 2020 Academy of American Poets, University & College Poetry Prize at Old Dominion University. (And this is Renee from confirmed socials- a photo of a different woman with red lipstick is going around, but that was a classmate.) /

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The National Weather Service used AI to create a forecast for Idaho. Low chances of wind for the nonexistent towns of Cocrerrireod, Orangeotild and Whata Bod www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026...

There is no bottom for them. 😱

It is unfathomable that he/they are still in power.

It's just a bullshit product designed to fuck everyone over except the billionaires. Stop using it.