Apparently I’ve said something controversial by arguing that the future model for the Democratic Party are charismatic candidates who advocate for populist positions while never backing down to right wing intimidation campaigns. How is this even up for debate?

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.

Yawning at the limited government folks warning that a democratic socialist mayor of New York is an existential threat, but who remain guardedly optimistic about an authoritarian president.

Being undiagnosed or misdiagnosed isn’t just an oopsie-doodle. It delays treatment, kneecaps our self-understanding, and can even reinforce unhealthy shame cycles, self-criticism, and maladaptive coping strategies

why it's almost like there's a concerted assault on informed consensus by extraction class owned media conglomerates to replace what was left of U.S. political journalism with lazy controversy hounding infotainment and right wing and corporatist agitprop

I was laid off from Teen Vogue this week, alongside multiple other phenomenal team members. At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.

they had chance after chance to walk out in solidarity with April and now look where we are

You can't make this up.

As it becomes more and more apparent that the nazis do not have the numbers to counter the population non kinetically, they will opt for the full kinetic contact version of interactions, and that will mean people die. The government is going to murder civilians before this escalation is done

New York Times editorial board has compiled "a list of 12 markers of democratic erosion." www.nytimes.com/interactive/... This is what "not the odds, but the stakes" was all about. During the 2024 campaign, those 12 markers could have been in place and operating to guide news coverage everywhere.

Exhibits C and D

This is why Gavin Newsom is a non-starter for me. Sure, he's "a fighter" who's landed a few good punches on Trump, but that's not the same thing as a leader. A real leader doesn't fight back against an authoritarian takeover by using the most vulnerable as his shield.

Just read a short story I had forgotten I’d written and it made me cry. Is that good or bad lol

A big legged woman????? It ain’t no activity you beating a big legged woman in!!!!

Survivors — and family of survivors — of Epstein and Maxwell's abuse are urging Mike Johnson to swear-in Adelita Grijalva: "Every day you stall is another day survivors are denied justice, and the American people are denied the truth. Swear in Representative Grijalva and let democracy speak."

The print version of @theonion.com is worth every dime.

Release the Epstein Files. This is a huge deal. Virginia Giuffre, a survivor, is the one who named Andrew as one of her many rapists. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

Exhibit B

October is the best month and I’ll fight you if you say otherwise

Moms, get your alone time however and wherever you can. Some places even have nice big windows to look out of while you eat your breakfast.

Diversity doesn’t weaken unions. Racist bosses like Vance using racism to divide workers by race so they can exploit them weakens unions. All this stuff is arsonists complaining about the temperature in the building they set on fire. bsky.app/profile/diew...

The people yearn for (democratic) socialism (this one will make you cry)

Do some of you remember how I said a few months ago that the fascists aren't having fun? They still aren't, lol. Their parties [when they have them] SUCK. They make bad art. They aren't funny. They CRAVE Leftist popular culture & resent the fact that they do. They aren't actually having fun

Entirely manufactured food shortages and starvation can only be enforced at the barrel of a gun. The fascists are waging a grey war against the population, and it's going to get people killed very, very quickly. This will come to be seen as an act of mass murder on a historic scale.

Welch: "This has nothing to do with the shutdown. The law requires and the funds are available to continue SNAP right now without any interruption. So that is a decision the president is making on his own to allow people to go hungry."

I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice. This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.

oh just straight up gutter racism!

Elon Musk does not understand fiction www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv... bsky.app/profile/sund...

Really excellent @tressiemcphd.bsky.social this morning on Platner: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...

Custom made double breasted uniform great coat not alluding to any historical period in particular surely

ME: Finally watched "FishFucker" THEM: You mean Guillermo del Toro's Oscar-winning "The Shape of Water"? ME: That's the one

They let you print anything on anything these days I swear to god

@theonion.com gets my pain

And I would like to challenge this person to get a real job

A stat we don't talk about enough: Newspapers have lost 77% of their jobs over the last 20 year, more than any of the 532 other industries tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Your ability to eat should not depend on your productivity Your ability to get healthcare should not depend on your productivity Your ability to get housing should not depend on your productivity Saying “be more productive!” To those who are struggling devalues human life. It aids fascism.

centrists will tell you to your face that we all need to abandon identity issues, and focus on kitchen table issues instead and yet when a leftist candidate runs a generational campaign based on kitchen table issues, it's the centrists weaponizing identity politics to smear the leftist.

The government shutdown has put SNAP benefits at risk for millions of Americans. Travis Peters, an urban farmer in Detroit, is giving out free produce tomorrow 'If it's getting tight, my food is free. Don’t even sweat that'

My dad sent me this

It is pathological how much I love a canceled appointment. I’ve had two today and I feel like I’m fucking high as a kite

Meanwhile Bill Lee of Tennessee says “fuck them kids” and refuses to dip into the state’s huge rainy day fund to help the poor. Even though his favorite book tells him he should.

This is amazing. And it’s truly the stuff of nightmares.

A Republican Congress is functionally the same as no Congress.

It’s fun to look at this ai slop nazi propaganda and then remember what these guys actually look like. This isn’t what they (or america) looks like and far from loving america, this is an expression of severe self loathing bsky.app/profile/geof...

Lately I've been telling people who pay me for talks to donate my fee to the St Louis Food Bank. These are hard times. In 2025, St Louis had a horrific tornado, a loss of federal aid, and now new SNAP cuts. Help St Louis folks eat and donate here: stlfoodbank.org/give-funds/

As Toni Morrison said, "the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work." But she also reminded us never to lose our capacity to be shocked. Part of my conversation on @ayman.msnbc.com earlier today.

Discovering MST3K on select weekend mornings on the Sci-Fi channel as a teen, 1998 or so. So nerdy, so funny. They spoke my language like no one else. I started taping episodes on VHS because I couldn’t believe what a treasure I had found.

This is adjacent to where I grew up. It’s fashy AF all around. Active Klan presence.