Rules is rules

The White House is objectively and demonstrably pro-sex trafficking

As dozens of frog species have declined across Central America, scientists have witnessed a remarkable chain of events: With fewer tadpoles to eat mosquito larvae, rates of mosquito-borne malaria in the region have climbed, resulting in a fivefold increase in cases. https://wapo.st/4paBuuT

please don't do this. MAGA hats are made from an acrylic blend, which will release toxic chemicals when set on fire, potentially harming you and downwind woodland creatures

I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here

Can we circle back to the part where the NY Times never disclosed that they have incriminating information on Donald Trump from sent by Epstein that's been sitting on their email servers for nearly a decade?

Newsom's latest troll 😆

"That is why I will sign the discharge petition right now to release the Epstein files" -- Rep. Grijalva

What Epstein email revelation from today stands out the most to you? For me, it’s that Donald was staring at the young girls in the pool so much he walked right into a glass door.

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This pre-holiday time of year, I REALLY enjoy soliciting recipe tips from community elders. Today’s tip: brown chicken wings to make a richer stock for stuffing. #MedSky

In the most predictable development ever, Mike Johnson is not committing to hold a House vote on ACA subsidies

This deal to reopen the government is fucking disgraceful. Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened. This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.

The 8 Dems who surrendered: @SenAngusKing @timkaine @SenCortezMasto @JohnFetterman @SenatorDurbin @SenatorHassan @SenatorShaheen @SenJackyRosen

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Healthcare is a human right. Democratic Senators should fight for it like lives depend on it because they do.

not enough chatter about how frequently members fly and how attacking airport capacity directly affects them in a way that cutting SNAP does not

How long will we be hijacked by centrists, cowards and Chuck Schumer?

I didn't wear a kilt or a toga to the kilton toga party, but I don't think anybody seemed to mind

Donald Trump claims to be "Pro-Life." Indeed, he was the first sitting president to attend the annual March for Life. But this didn't stop him from conspiring with Elon Musk to kill 600,000 (so far) people, 2/3 of them children. You see, when Elon says we need more children he means *white* ones.

“More and more cabinet members — Rubio, Miller, Noem — live on military bases now, & it's another parallel to Iraq, where the administration lived in the Green Zone. There’s something deeply unhealthy about a society where leaders are literally shut off from the communities that they govern.”

Democrats need to start messaging now to counteract that Trump will try to take credit for any price relief caused by the repeal of his tariffs. SPEAK UP

Her sister wrote my favorite essay about her. She points out that RF would have been famous even if she'd never looked at DNA www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

On average, human waste fully decomposes between 6 and 12 months. For some reason, Watson took 97 years.

James Watson has died. The last direct living link to Rosalind Franklin, one of the co-discoverers of the structure of DNA and a brilliant crystallographer whose work was critical to this discovery. Her data was stolen by Watson, who was a racist, misogynist eugenicist.

On TikTok there's a woman doing a fairly clever social experiment. She's calling churches around the US and asking if they can help her get formula for her baby. She tracks on a spreadsheet which ones say yes. It makes me wish we could strip religious tax exemption from orgs that fail their values.

Buried in the Big Beautiful Bill were changes to food assistance that demanded “any future change be cost-neutral. Translation: no more benefit increases, even if food prices skyrocket.” The result was “institutionalized hunger.” @kristencrowell.bsky.social www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

I had to pull this photo out of the pack. It deserves its own post. "READY ON DAY ONE" is kind of painful. The empty urinals too. Photograph by Charly Triballeau/AFP/Getty.

Divisions come when Dems stop listening to each other & start privileging people who don't have their interests in mind. By that, I mean a press corps that has internalized the idea that Republicans are the only legitimate leaders as well as the idea that Dems must seek their consent to use power.

My type is Kurt Russell, circa 1986

Liking everyone post about Mamdani winning

dick cheney, the vice president who ordered ua 93 to be shot down, then lied to the 9/11 commission about having authority from the president to issue the order, and who burned the contents of his eisenhower building office safe in a weekend fire, has died at 84

Did someone say beveragino?

Solid as a rock

The Republican Party does not care about children.

Pritzker: "I sent a letter to Kristi Noem and to DHS leadership asking them to pause all of their federal agent operations for the entirety of the Halloween weekend. I'm asking for basic human decency. I think their response will be revealing. Give the children and families of Illinois a break."

Poor people aren't the problem.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.