What were the Democrats up to during the political career of Trump hero William McKinley? They were nominating William Jennings Bryan, three times. Bryan never won—but he succeeded at destroying the Dems’ competition to their left, the Populist Party. There is a lesson to be learned.

Yup.

Spotify is going to enshittify its music streaming service unless its subscribers pay a 50% tax for “premium” service—an extra $6 per month, for non-lossy audio. I wouldn’t mind if the money were going to artists not named Taylor, Beyoncé or Kendrick. archive.ph/q6Yz0

Anyone who uses the demeaning, retrograde “hard R” will be blocked immediately. Be creative and find an insult that is not a slur.

Everyone should call their local bank to ask the branch manager exactly how the bank is protecting your funds from a “DOGE” smash-and-grab theft. NYT report: “FEMA Seizes $80 Million in Approved Funding for N.Y.C. Migrant Shelters” 👇 archive.ph/bWKSl

Oh, noes! Sharing this will make Elon sad! Don’t do it!

1/ “None of this is to invite into [“out” Treasury Secretary] Bessent’s life the scorn the LGBTQ community is facing ... It’s to name him as a collaborator in the dangers his boss is heaping on vulnerable people. No dominant group survives…

I am extremely freaking thrilled to announce that Bad Company is *officially* available for preorder wherever you buy books. (I am linking to Bookshop but buy it wherever!) I worked so, so hard on this book, and it would mean a ton to me if you ordered it. bookshop.org/a/109816/978...

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social We know it is a scheme. We even know the scheme’s name: Project 2025. What’s the strategy to defeat it? What tactics will you deploy to defeat it! Wake the F up. ☕️ ☕️ ☕️

UrbanDictionary.com “Word of the Day” … the editors seem to be sending us a message

I am BEGGING the Washington, DC, corporate media to do more of this. Much, much more. thenewamerican.com/us/politics/...

Elon is a dick.

@artsymarxist.com I saw on the other place that you’re in Twitter’s time-out corner temporarily as well. Elno must have ordered a cyber-roundup of suspected scofflaws who offend the indecent. The time-out is a badge of honor. 🏆

White House Announces Appointment Of Virus As Head Of Pandemic Response

Got dinged on Xitter for my Jan. 7 satirical comment about Greenland. Suspended for twelve hours. Suspended hot satire on Elon’s online cesspit, which white-lists actual Neo-Nazis. The shame! Maybe I can get a pardon from the President—or his best friend, the person who really calls the shots.

NEW: Archived tweets for Gavin Kriger, Musk's 20-something DOGE employee wreaking havoc inside USAID, shows that Kriger has retweeted multiple neo-Nazis including Nick Fuentes, leader of the so-called Groyper movement, and another popular explicit Nazi account recently unmasked by @travisbrown.dev

Told you about liberals and y’all skewered me in the comments. I will be vindicated

Already rampant inequality about to go off the charts so the #RulingClass - who already pay less taxes than the average worker & who hide wealth in untaxable off-shore accounts - can have more tax cuts. USA is not a democracy. It's an #oligarchy - and government of, by & for the #RulingClass.

Elon Musk is terrified of everyone knowing the names of the people who work for him. So do your work.

President Elmo & his teenage minions have breached the personnel file of every federal employee, personal information of every American & confidential information on every gov vendor. How does this end well for anyone? #DemVoice1

Contrary to some info I've seen, 19-yr-old Doge staffer "BigBalls" Edward Coristine did not delete his X account, it's just renamed and is private. Wired reported that govt tech workers had to defend their work to the Neuralink intern in an Office Space-esque scene. / more for Canadians

Several conversations today w people in the key executive departments. And while the particulars are hard to pin down my impression is that the Musk take over stuff is considerably worse than is being presented in the press. By this I don’t necessarily things they *done* yet but the level of …

Don't threaten me with a good time

HAPPENING NOW: members of Get Free are blocking traffic in front of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the main agency where the Trump Administration and its billionaire backers like Elon Musk have been spearheading efforts to implement MAGA’s Project 2025 agenda.

Musk has had no problem naming individual federal employees he thinks should be fired (see article). Now he wants anonymity and zero oversight for his officials who are creating a constitutional crisis. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/fake-jobs-...

Where are the defenders of the US as Elon and nameless private agents infiltrate US agencies, commandeer US servers, steal US data, seize US money, march US officials from US buildings? Who sallies forth from the FBI? The CIA? Congress? DoD? The media? This is a coup—and America appears defenseless.

@wyden.senate.gov Akash Bobba Edward Corestine Luke Faritor Gautier Cole Killian Gavin Kliger Ethan Shaitran Call the Capitol Police on them. Have them arrested.

@wyden.senate.gov As noted earlier: Time us if the essence. You have more Constitutional authority over Treasury than Musk. The time to use it is NOW “Now” means Immediately. Tomorrow may be too late.

You are experiencing a version of what we in South Africa experienced.... We called it State Capture. It is devastating and will take decades to correct. You (and us in the Western World) are in for a rough ride.

@wyden.senate.gov You are ranking member of the Senate Banking Committee. You MUST gather the Capitol Police walk over to the Treasury, and demand IMMEDIATE access. Musk has snot-nosed teenagers hacking the US financial system.

China is light years ahead of the United States & this is a great example showing that. The price points between China EV's & American EV's is massive. In China, working class people can afford a brand new EV. In America, they can't. #climate #climatechange

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet: www.404media.co/declassified...

@leecamp.bsky.social mentioned this dystopian incident during his live stream yesterday. It happened a couple years ago. Lee is 🎯💯 If we do not put some very serious guardrails on AI, and soon, AI will threaten all life on Planet Earth. gizmodo.com/gpt4-open-ai...

Are you an escort in the DC area that recognizes this man? If so, I bet Steven would love to talk to you.

The Trump cabal’s new favorite verb is “pause.” They think they aren’t violating the Constitution, federal laws and regulations, and labor contracts if they redefine “permanent cancellation” to mean “indefinite pause.” Fck that semantic fascism. The Constitution has priority over their thesaurus!

As terrifying as it is my god this shit is so pathetic. Dressing up like you're a space marine to go storm the apartment of some random construction or restaurant worker or any kind of job you can imagine. Keeping the real Americans safe from tables of fresh fruit. I'd rather turn the gun on myself.

This headline is accurate if, by “steely and unflinching,” one means “arrogant and mendacious.” www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/u...

When one has a half-trillion dollars one can burn cash commissioning a piece of so-called art he stupidly think is a Great Symbolic Statement but actually is as shallow and tasteless as a middle finger with a booger on it; then use that vacuous, infantile gesture to threaten people. Congratulations!

Maybe Kamala Harris should not have hid to avoid having to cast that tie-breaking “yea” vote in the Senate that would have filled an NLRB vacancy with a Democratic nominee just before the election. #Failure www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump is doing so great that leaders of EU nations are meeting to form a military alliance to defend Denmark and Greenland against the US. France already has offered to send troops to Greenland to defend it. Winning!!! www.msn.com/en-gb/news/w...

News flash: that should have been last years playbook when you were all in on feelies Now that you lost, we're hurtling toward real humanitarian crises, and the playbook has to be full opposition to the entire agenda. What happened to anonymous holds? Delay tactics and filibusters? Make some noise!

This brutal frestmebt of @aliabunimah.bsky.social by Swiss police and intelligence officials is utterly outrageous Thank the gods Mr Abunimah finally has been released safe and alive. Switzerland used to take seriously its self-appointed duty of final defender of international rights. No longer.

Burn. It. Down.

OMFG. If Democrats insist on nominating Fetterman in 2028, they will be the first major party to lose all fifty states. I am old enough to recall the abattoir that was the 1984 campaign, when Mondale won thirteen (13) Electoral College votes. This will be worse. Fckng idiots.

1/ If I had to pick one film to show how reactionary and insane Hollywood is, it would be My Son John (1952). Its scriptwriter. John Lee Mahin said of its director, Leo McCrary, “McCarey was a brilliant man who let the Communists drive him absolutely crazy. He actually went crazy."

SELECT LIST OF IMMIGRANT/DEPORTATION RESOURCES: Immigration Advocates Network (www.immigrationadvocates.org) Their legal directory allows users to put in a zip code and receive listings of nonprofit organizations that provide free or low-cost immigration legal services in their area 1/n #LaMigra

A great nations does not exile its own citizens to validate its leader’s ignorance and prejudice. It would not cleave families in half, or throw children in those families who are citizens to the wolves, just to reaffirm that leader’s stupidity and venomous hatred. SHAME on the U.S.!

Things are going great in Trumplandia. So great that there just was a 3.9 magnitude earthquake in New England. I am ready for the locusts now. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/01/27/m...