December 6, 2025

If you've ever been to a naturalization ceremony, you know they're filled with people whose palpable love of this country is twenty times stronger than the pinched "patriotism" of any native-born MAGA chud. Just unspeakable assholery.

MacKenzie Scott: *donates $50M every 10 hours° Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"

Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

Has there ever been a prettier dog.

The White House’s insistence on using Sabrina Carpenter’s work and image to promote their crimes against humanity is also them appealing to their base, which already uses technology to try and humiliate and puppeteer the likenesses of women who have autonomy, success, and visibility in public

There is no reason to be polite or decorous about this any more. The current Supreme Court is corrupt. US democracy cannot survive unless it is reformed.

I've posted this a million times, but here is the million-and-first: In 2000, these people were all on GW Bush's "Florida Recount" team: - John "Just Calling Balls and Strikes" Roberts - Brett "Roe is 'Settled Law' " Kavanaugh - Amy "Confirmed 1 week before election" Barrett In 2025 ... they rule

Next week the Supreme Court will hear another engineered case with fake plaintiffs, which presents another opportunity for the GOP justices to blow a hole through what remains of our campaign finance laws—this time, by turning political parties into a conduit for bribes. slate.com/news-and-pol...

"...Newsom has vetoed our menopause bill, not one but two years in a row. But that's OK, because he's not going to be governor forever. And with the way he's overlooked women, half the population, by devaluing us in midlife, he probably should not be our next president either." youtu.be/603NmGNkfqY

Agree with this thread. Worth reading in full. 25 years ago John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and AC Barrett all worked on GWBush's 2000 Florida recount team. What they're doing now is, if anything, more nakedly partisan. Fire-breathing dissent by Kagan, with Sotomayor and Jackson.

Why on earth is any Democrat voting for ANYTHING that Trump wants? EVEN IF there were a valid reason not to be moving on impeachment (and there isn't!) continuing with business as usual puts the sledgehammer being wielded against our democracy in their hands.

I dunno what Hakeem Jeffries is trending here for but I’m sure it’s because he was being a shitbag. Again. So lemme say it just to say it: Any electoral gains Dems make in next couple years won’t matter a good goddamn if this party’s leadership is still in place. Tell your reps to speak the fuck up

Just before Thanksgiving, Yuanxin Zheng and his father went to a check in with ICE, and were both arrested Yuanxin is only 6 years old He was promptly separated from his father and handed to the Office of Refugee Resettlement We are treating this child as if he were a criminal

Heritage Foundation and their ilk aiming to legalize sex discrimination in employment.

Corporate Dem Rep Henry Cuellar & his wife were indicted in March 2024 for accepting hundreds of thousands in foreign bribes. Trump just pardoned them. Hakeem Jeffries is praising Trump’s decision as “exactly the right outcome” & praising Cuellar as “a beloved member of the House.” Ridiculous.😐

Every Congressperson who does not file impeachment articles ASAP, or even just start talking about it, owns everything that happens to the people Trump targets. Their complicity and enablement of his abuse takes the protection of America away from them.

Ellen Swallow Richards was born #OTD in 1842--she was an industrial & safety engineer and environmental chemist. She was also the: - 1st female student at MIT - 1st female grad of MIT - 1st American woman to obtain a degree in chemistry 🧪 - 1st female instructor at MIT #firsts #WomenInSTEM

We can have democracy or we have billionaires. We cannot have both. My thoughts on Silicon Valley's fascist turn and what it means for our future, on @kqedforum.bsky.social with @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social www.kqed.org/forum/201010...

When are you impeaching? www.techdirt.com/2025/11/26/o...

ATTN GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES: The VA sent out an announcement with a link for employees to self-report their disabilities. I wouldn’t do this if I were you. They’ll likely use it to discriminate against you.

I’m old enough to remember when it was a scandal if you didn’t pay social security taxes for your nanny, but not old enough for Medicare

This is why labor laws are so important — and exactly why big corporations spend so much money lobbying against them. It's also why unions are vital — and why we need to support @sbworkersunited.org's fight against corporate greed. Solidarity.

Article II of the Constitution directs POTUS to "take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed" - instead, this administration believes it gives POTUS the authority to violate federal anti-discrimination laws and trample on the 1st Amendment.

if i worked in a White House with an elderly and ailing president who had a hard time staying awake, i would simply recommend against having 3 hour cabinet meetings that are boring af and pointless and best remembered for the fact said president is sleeping on camera

Of all the things destructive to the constitutional order of the United States, one of the worst is wealthy sociopaths feeling entitled to be free of criticism, and the willingness of sleazy lawyers to take their money to enforce that feeling of entitlement.

​Starbucks to pay New York City workers staggering $35 million to settle claims of unstable schedules and arbitrary hour cuts. Settlement lands amid an ongoing union strike with politicians like Sen. Bernie Sanders amplifies baristas' demands for decency and fair contracts.

I want us to hang on to the fact that the people who were murdered were just civilians out in boats, most likely fishermen, who had never even heard the sketchy conclusions of American officials for which they were executed, much less had a chance to defend themselves.

Nazis systematically attacked, destroyed & burned synagogues in Hitler Germany. These actions were not spontaneous but a state-sponsored campaign of terror. Now in the US, we're seeing state-sponsored terror of immigrants as our government invades churches & grabs random people. #ICELawlessness

Remember in May when Trump gave asylum to 17 family members of the Sinaloa cartel after making a deal with El Chapo’s son? And did you know in 2013, El Chapo bribed Juan Hernandez- who trump just pardoned - in exchange for protection in Honduras? I’m sure it’s all just a coincidence.

Normally the creators of beloved children’s cartoon characters would not need to disavow the U.S. Secretary of Defense, but ours is a drunken miscreant, a loutish boor with the dignity and nobility of a counterfeit butt-plug

If immigration judges are neutral and independent as due process requires, then they must be independent from the Executive Branch. We must move immigration judges from Article II to Article I to provide a check on a lawless administration like this one.

Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol made $95 million last year. His workers are striking for the bare minimum. Glad to be on the right side of the picket line with them.

This is what it looks like when billionaires own the media.

Abolish ICE and CBP.

The first federal investigation into Border Patrol corruption and “excessive violence” was launched in 1930; by 1933, every single working agent had been fired. Fast forward to today, the agency's highly sexualized workplace leads to pervasive harassment and assault, as per dozens of former agents.

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Not even a year and they've committed war crimes, while Trump keeps freeing hardened criminals from prison. Everyone who voted for this abomination is responsible.

If Democrats want to regain working people, they must disavow Big Money. They must hammer economic populism — and have a laser focus on the cost of living crisis in America. There’s no way the party can speak for or represent the working class in America if it's beholden to corporate interests.

Everything you do online is tracked, saved, and shared for what feels like a lifetime. But there are some steps you can take to minimize what data is out there. ssd.eff.org/module/how-...

Tech oligarchs have been scrambling for products to retain dominance since the plateau of the home computer and mobile phone. Today, they're forcing 'AI' garbage on us while pushing for mass surveillance and war products, even if they have to make the wars to service them. We can reject this future.

and if you can’t run on that then for fuck’s sake get out of the way and let someone run who can

The president is a political cartoon of corruption come to life, a gaudy grifter who is selling off pardons and lining his pockets, building a golden ballroom and protecting his fellow sex predator elites, all the while regular Americans are suffering and struggling to make ends meet. Run on *that*

We cannot let this be normal. A sitting United States President has called for ‘death’ to sitting Members of Congress. Those who he targets — veterans, intelligence community, federal workers — must stand up and fight.

The New Deal wasn’t built on a promise that there would be “no ceiling” for the richest Americans. Quite the opposite, in fact. FDR knew its politics could only work if he singled out the rich as villains and knew that its policies could only work if the rich paid their fair share in taxes.

No more pretense or excuses. Trump and his team have made the white supremacist foundations of this project explicit and clear. If you enable this you need to face who and what you are. But you can always choose another way. Choose humanity. Decency. Equality. Democracy.

Alina Habba’s parents emigrated to the US from Iraq citing persecution.

Imagine if they just subsidized newspapers and magazines the way they’re subsidizing this slop