But at a low smoke point.

Insane framing. It is not "blood libel" to write about the numerous NGO reports alleging sexual abuse of Palestinians in Israeli prisons.

everyone thought they weren’t releasing the DNC 2024 report because they didn’t want to admit palestine effected the election but it turns out they didn’t release it because the 1 person who actually worked on it used chatgpt to fake the report in its entirety

The feds harangued Kat and my family over bullshit charges for a year. They tried to beat her down, bankrupt Kat and her codefendants through legal fees, and a defeat her spirit. They fucking lost. They will continue to lose. Fuck ICE forever. To this criminal gang of a government: stay losing.

One reason I hate death penalty cases is that capital punishment is incredibly stupid and irrational. It's cruel, expensive, and serves no deterrent effect. It's rarely imposed, except against a tiny minority of unlucky defendants—and in those cases, racism almost always plays a role. Just end it.

"They leaked his tax returns, they tried to destroy him." If revealing your official tax returns -- something every single president and VP for forty years before Trump did voluntarily -- could possibly "destroy" you, that is the scandal.

Congratulations to progressive New Deal Dems Rep. Summer Lee and Bob Brooks, and to Democratic Socialist Chris Rabb, for winning their primaries tonight!

Incredible

it’s so fucking dispiriting that Booker et al don’t understand this. a government without buy in from *everyone* doesn’t represent everyone. it’s literally Mitt Romney’s 47% gaffe turned into democratic policy. goddamn desolate out here.

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the T-800 (left) actually did a pretty good job of scaling stairs. and the only reason i know that is i remember watching it on TV (broadcast) with some peeps and one of them leaned over and whispered "he's walking on the balls of his feet" when this scene came on www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSXl...

1. Number of stories about Trump buying and selling hundreds of millions of dollars in stocks in the first three months of 2026: CBS: 0 CNN: 0 Fox News: 0 NPR: 0 PBS: 0 Politico: 0 Semafor: 0 Business Insider: 0

i think it is a solid sign of how fundamentally checked out bezos is from the actual state of american politics that he is mouthing the cliches of 20 years ago as if they are novel insights

thinking again about this post and how oklahoma sends inmates to slave labor camps where not only are debilitating workplace injuries common but also the people who get injured will have their settlement money stolen by the entity that runs the labor camp

it really is a big one that goes forgotten, and again it's not just the cops, it's everything AFTER the cops. it doesn't HAVE to be extortion on this one, cuz as i mentioned, the prison labor. the state gets allllll kinds of free labor from prisoners that they don't wanna give up.

and an excellent way to get a ton of prison labor is to keep common stuff like weed illegal. anytime you see an elected official hard on weed, you check prison labor laws in the area.

3. cops! prisons, and prison labor for the state! this is one people forget about sometimes; any sort of weed legalization impacts all of these in ways none of them like. joe kennedy III straight up admitted to this one in his MA senate bid. and as an ex-CIA person... mmm!

anti-labor. not willing to take on pharma or data center industries. vetoes marijuana legalization. that’s our pragmatic “get things done” mother-governor, folks!

veto season gets ugly when you have a brazenly careerist republican governor and a divided general assembly. turns out it also gets ugly when you have a brazenly careerist democratic governor and a wholly democratic general assembly she arrogantly refused to liaise with all session!

morbidly curious what my estranged dad thinks about this since he himself disappeared and changed his identity for several years to evade both child support and taxes (Because Jesus, somehow) i will not be asking him though

just remembered trump's tax returns got leaked and he said in a debate that he'd close the loopholes because he knows how rich people game the system, then he cut taxes for the rich and is now exempting his family from tax audits. lol.

spanberger putting up olympic qualifying times in the resistlib hero-to-gogirlgiveusnothing.png speedrun

vetoing collective bargaining and retail marijuana legislation *passed by the legislature* is exactly why i was not excited about CIA Barbie having a little garden path to the governor's mansion laid out for her by the party fck spanberger

this is what some of you look like in short sleeve button-up shirts

Can anyone point to a moment in American history where “Instead of prosecuting these people who violated the law to serve their own political ends I think they should face no consequences so we can heal our divided nation” didn’t make things worse

The central problem at the heart of all of this.

apparently i am Just Not Having It anymore, and it feels kinda good

This is a wild thing for the guy who started Amazon, an unprofitable entity for most of its early existence, to say.

what do you call it when the president steals an unfathomable amount of wealth from the treasury and then declares it illegal to investigate him

this is a masterpiece

A story about KY GOP Senate nominee Andy Barr: In 2019 he got mad at AOC and demanded she come to his district to visit a coal mine. She said yes, which he didn't expect, so he withdrew the invitation. Then it turned out there were no working coal mines in his district. Because he's an idiot. 1/3

If you're a Democrat and you confirm someone who refuses to unequivocally say "Joe Biden won the 2020 election," you should lose your job.

I’m not sure why this isn’t being mentioned more, but: IRS policy for 50 years has been that the sitting president & VP get audited every year, in an effort to reassure the public they’re not corruptly abusing the office to enrich themselves.

I think the reason I've been a little ambiently mad all day is because January 6th rioters are statistically the most likely group of pedophiles in the world and they clubbed a guy to death and they're going to be rich from the tax money that I give to the country I live in.

They arent DATA Centers. They will be Military guarded Crypto mines.

The stories & photos from today’s voting rights marches in Alabama deserve to be seen by people who weren’t able to stand there in person. If this piece moves you, please share it widely & help make sure these voices aren’t lost in the noise of a crowded news cycle. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

BREAKING: The judge in the $1.7B slush fund suit has dismissed the case, but she says THERE IS NO SETTLEMENT OF RECORD. As I said earlier, the media must stop reporting that this slush fund is a settlement. It's just plain THEFT. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NEW: The top lawyer at the Treasury Department just resigned. Even though he clerked for Clarence Thomas, perhaps the $1.7B heist was probably too much. Also note the Times (right) and the WSJ (left) refer to it as a settlement. The judge found IT IS NOT A SETTLEMENT. 1/

Ah this is beautiful. Finally everyone is setting aside their differences and reaching across the aisle so that we can finally give crypto currency the legal legitimacy to fuck us all over.

A NYT reporter once lifted whole paragraphs of an article I wrote at Roll Call and when I posted a side-by-side on Twitter with the note like “what you read in the Times today you could read in Roll Call four days ago,” she slid into my DMs to say “why are you nice to my face but mean to me online.”

What a useless statement.

Raskin talks a big game about the 14th amendment and never follows through. Completely useless.

Former Senate staffer Gabe's observation here is correct. We're going to see a lot of really strongly worded statements from elected Democrats today. Be on the lookout for how many of those include an actual action item. Unfortunately, it will likely be very, very few. bsky.app/profile/sena...

The second best part is that a Democrat leadership, including Hillary Clinton, complain about this on social media, just like us. No proposed legislation for punishments or limitations that this could ever happen again. No assurance that this isn’t the new normal. Just “vote Democrat!”

Mayor Mamdani is the best thing to happen to Democrats since FDR. It infuriates me that the centrist Democratic stink tank, The Third Way, chooses to attack Mamdani when they could be working with us to defeat Republicans. www.thirdway.org/memo/ten-rea...

Mamdani: I cannot help but think of the words of our 40th president, Ronald Reagan. He famously said, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are 'I'm from the govt & I'm here to help'" I think nine more terrifying words are actually, "I worked all day and can't feed my family"

They're stealing billions of your money to pay off violent right-wing psychos while doing everything in their power to spike gas up to $5 a gallon, make groceries into a luxury and hand the country over to the oligarchs who want to permanently replace you.

the president is raiding the treasury to put your tax dollars into this mans personal checking account as a reward for what hes doing in this picture

Musk v Altman JUDGE: The jury has sent a question and the answer is no, the death penalty is not "available for both sides" please return to the jury room and limit your consideration to civil damages.