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Giant copy of the Constitution being carried down Pennsylvania Avenue.

Amazing sign being held by a small child

This woman can make people follow her into fire.

the government needs to stay shut down until the authoritarianism is meaningfully constrained or Republicans break the filibuster

Pretty sure I say this every Columbus Day, but getting hauled back to Spain for excessive brutality in 1500, just as the Inquisition was really getting fired up, is some genuinely Evil Guys Hall of Infamy material

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin. When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

oh HELL YES

Seriously, Judges *do no do things like this* They don't give their opinion to the media They don't criticize how SCOTUS works This is them breaking the emergency glass, folks www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Robert De Niro: “Now we have a would-be king — King Donald the First. Fuck that. I’m Robert De Niro and I’m asking you to stand up and be counted in the nationwide No Kings protest on October 18th” 👉👉 nokings.org

Yay!

Ladies and gentlemen, we did it. SB 79 has been signed.

I would have gone with “NUTS” but this works too.

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Why it’s adorable!

These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.

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Relatedly, I cannot believe a bunch of YIMBYs managed to get a Twitch streamer to ask Newsom live about SB79 by spamming the chat about it. Never stop posting, folks!

Hearing @connoreatspants.bsky.social say "I don't know what this is, but they're telling me you have to talk about SB79" is easily one of the top 10 funniest moments I've had working on this bill. What in the world, man.

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Rumor is @governor.ca.gov is getting *tons* of pressure from rich donors to veto SB 79. If he caves, we'd be condemned to a permanent housing crisis — and lose 3-5 electoral votes in 2032. Call and tell him you have his back. Our democracy is more important than rich people's views! 👇 #SB79

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@cagovernornewsom.bsky.social sign SB 79! @cayimby.bsky.social is right!

Omg. I’ve never seen anything like this in a judicial opinion:

we need evidence of two things: first, that trump can distinguish fantasy from reality and second, that trump is actually president

Just FYI: Portland as a war zone is horseshit, and deploying federal troops is horseshit.

Americans are getting a very, very hard lesson in participatory democracy. Politics is not a form of escapism. Politics is not a hobby. It is not a game. You cannot escape it. You cannot absolve yourself of responsibility. And you cannot absolve yourself of accountability.

Even if you view the entire political class, regardless of party as your enemy (and there's good arguments to be made for it) any tactician worth their salt would jump at the chance to have a say in their enemy's leadership

If you’re a citizen in the imperial core who reaps all the benefits that entails, you have a moral obligation to ensure that power is used for good! You don’t get to opt outta the trolley problem because you feel inconvenienced by it!

voting is a fucking sacred duty and the fact that people don't treat it with the respect that it deserves is telling. you are not "selecting" an electoral product on the market - you are engaging in a form of mobilization and deciding what your values are

Disney must be given the Target treatment. Boycott and divest.

Breaking: Jimmy Kimmel is the latest late-night host to be pulled from a major network after the comedian made remarks about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, amid pressure from Donald Trump’s administration. Details: www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

This is very bad because newsom previously weakened sb9 at her request for the palisades. Call/email him: cayimby.org/legislation/...

Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.

This is the actual company that can pull the license

Justice Sonia Sotomayor appeared to rebuke calls to target “hate speech” in an apparent swipe at Attorney General Pam Bondi. “Every time I listen to a lawyer-trained representative saying we should criminalize free speech in some way, I think to myself, that law school failed,” said Sotomayor.

this from my piece on charlie kirk is probably the most important takeaway if you want to know why bad faith, right-wing voices in media are treated as just another set of peers

We’re going to need to create an American Health Service to have any rural hospitals at all at this rate.

I think it’s exactly what the district court should do - not as a show of resistance, but because an order like her previous order, based on the factual record at hand, is what the law actually requires.

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

failing to vaccinate children is child abuse and child endangerment.

The last 100 years of US politics

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