Oligarchy (noun): A government of and by a few at the top, who exercise power for their own benefit. Their power and wealth increase as they make laws that favor themselves, manipulate financial markets, and create monopolies that put more wealth into their pockets.

Me today (and far too many days).

The US government is now a mafia organization.

Ossoff: "She got her new insurance quote & it's $700 more per month than what she's paying now. She's diabetic. She had surgery a few months ago for something else. She told me she cried again bc she realized she's gonna have to cancel her insurance. She believes she might die bc of a policy choice"

This is an American patriot.

One of my incredible Detroit mentors is lost to me now (dementia), but when I was a new professor, he curated an exhibit @ the Detroit Public Library about the Emancipation Proclamation & the Reconstruction Amendments. I'll never forget him making me repeat every word. Henceforth and forever free.

… and he SERVED ✨

I'm watching Anne With an E (Anne of Green Gables netflix show)...I somehow never read the books nor watched the 80s movie... I AM ABOUT TO SEEK VENGEANCE ON THIS WHOLE DAMN TOWN they are SO MEAN to my girl Anne.

It’s the most wonderful time of the year…

Medicare for All would save $450B a year. Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity. Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall. It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.

I can’t believe how stupid everything is

Hi, here is a book title that had me guffaw #geometry #Euclid 📚

81 years ago, FDR proposed a second Bill of Rights to guarantee every American the right to employment, healthcare, education, housing, and a living income. His words are as relevant now as they were then. Watch.

I have to come clean about something insignificant & I have guilt over I put my beer cans in the freezer for ~20 minutes before drinking them to get them extra cold & now when I go to bars, draft beer doesn't cut it. Like, my beer has to borderline attempt freezing as I pop the can

Sex is cool but have you ever flossed your teeth after eating meat?

Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.

Once again, for the #immigrants babyyyy, New York City Come On And Raise Up 🗽🍎 🇺🇸

AS Goes Virginia So GOES The 2026 MidTerm Elections

Blue states like (checks notes) Mississippi:

Michelet, History of the French Revolution, "Another thing which History will clearly establish & which holds true in every connection, is that the people were usually more important than the leaders..." 1/2

I do think yesterday’s results reinforced the dynamic that while much of the American leadership class is chickenshit, most of the electorate is not

Zohran Mamdani says on NY1 he didn't get a congratulatory call from either Andrew Cuomo or Eric Adams last night. He says he got a congratulatory call from Curtis Sliwa, though.

Sometimes you just gotta look up and marvel about the things that human beings have built together.

Remember: The fundamental issue isn’t the size of the government or how to make government more “efficient.” It’s who our government is for. Should it work mainly for big corporations and billionaires — or for the rest of us?

The Great Gatsby was better when it was fiction.

Can our collective Halloween costume be everyone going outside at 7PM and Screaming For Democracy à la 2020 medical support?

What did people do before SNAP?” They died. Healthcare, vaccines, disability support, education & food assistance are vital to our survival. They’re why the average lifespan isn’t 35 anymore The mark of a good & decent society is whether it sees the value in helping others.

Not my shot but 👍🏻

Not surprisingly, most of the U.S. tariffs are being paid by American companies and consumers — NOT by foreign exporters.

Medicare for All - "That's socialism!" Social Security - "That's socialism!" Debt free education - "That's socialism!" Universal childcare - "That's socialism!" Billions for Argentina, ICE, refurbishing Trump's Qatar jet, and tax cuts for the rich... "That's just how it is."

Priorities.

I have been traveling and today I present to you...the thing I saw in the Frankfurt airport. Is it efficient? Undeniably. Does it probably work better than the normal way? Oh certainly. Produce less of a mess? Probably? But the existence of Condiment Udders gives me a deep, aghast disquiet.

"There are now more private equity firms in America than there are McDonalds." A great explainer about why 99% of us feel crushed by inflation and crashing job markets while the on-paper economy and stock markets continue to grow. youtu.be/T2OHjHPkUzM?...

New York City is not for sale. Our new ad begins airing tomorrow.

the AT&T-->Time Warner-->Discovery series of media mergers were some of the most pointless and disastrous business exercises ever conceived by man so of course we're going to do it again this time it's rumored they want $60 billion to sell this mess to Larry Ellison and whatever's left of CBS

Opinion: Of all the European travel / food shows, nothing beats the BBC's Rick Stein's Secret France episodes. 📺 🗺️ #travel

On the topic of The #Louvre Theft, a 2017 book for readers age 8-12, "The Crims" by Kate Davies follows an extended family of slapstick-level (really bad at their jobs*) miscreants that work together to steal back an object that was taken from them *or really good? It's Heist Season! #kidlit 💙📚

Wut

New York was crushing it with the cooler weather & today it has deceived me.

To drink Amish kefir after buying a random grocery store brand is the funniest first sip. Like, you now know THIS is what it was supposed to be. Pero also...

Imagine that

getting rid of Marc Fisher is about the dumbest thing the WP has done yet — and it's been doing a LOT of very dumb things. And without copyeditors, the opinion section won't just be historically or politically illiterate; it's going for the full trifects. x.com/SegravesNBC4...

"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.” —FDR, 1944

Sorry, can't absorb reality right now...I'm main-lining "The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe" on audiobook as I practice dissociation xoxo,

My upstairs neighbors are having a gathering for Yom Kippur and my nosey 14 year old cat will not come inside because he is listening to the party. I should just let him go up at this point. #yomkippur #cat

Jane Goodall was my first childhood hero, as I loved animals as a kid and was inspired by her story. I still remember the National Geographic specials about her. RIP.