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So many levels of horny
So did Paul Rudd. This is definitely some kind of thing.
8 cops making over $100k each to arrest one man. But your food, water & air are killing you. Your daughter is carrying her rapist’s baby to term & will probably die when it becomes complicated & your veteran son in jail for being unhoused. But at least that Brown guy sitting on a bench is gone.🙄
The funny part is they knew they needed a cover for the rambling 911 call that would eventually be released. Betting it will end up Rudy SA’d a woman and started weaving this lie when she subsequently ran him over.
This is it
Our NRA World: 17yo Georgia gunslinger shoots and kills a 14yo girl while handling a gun. It happens.
I loved my Nikon 35mm digital camera + iPhoto, iTunes + iPod, all run from my iMac in a corner of the living room. Golden years ended when I had so many photos iPhoto wouldn't start and an upgrade to iTunes scrambled my playlists. All downhill from there.
A couple people in D.C. spent the night in custody Friday after writing messages in chalk on a flagpole outside Union Station. The National Guard apparently witnesses the vandalism in progress. (Which is maybe not surprising as one of the people was in a banana costume.)
This is some of the hardest shit I've seen in my life
Don Jr. runs up to him unsure of what to do and all he can think of is to shake his father’s hand because that’s the only way they’ve ever touched and his hand is very cold. www.welcometohellworld.com/the-very-mom...
This is a great thread. And I agree that once we are in election season, we need to unify. Until, then, though people need to be heard and nominees need to show that they are responding.
Great to meet you, JP! Always a pleasure to meet a teacher here in Illinois. Good luck during the school year!
Exactly. Get the fuck out of the way so we can do something about it.
Today my 13 year old and two friends spontaneously traveled by train 40 kilometers to a town with a comic store they wanted to visit. They even switched trains on the way. I love that this is something a kid kan do safely and independently.
I’ve built a lot of agents in my time. We called them “async processes”, “forks”, and “cron jobs”, but yeah, agents.
In the original video, a protester could be heard shouting at ICE, "How does it feel to be locked up?" It's time for ICE to get out of Los Angeles. #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks www.tiktok.com/@cutse90/vid...
🚨 🚨 🚨 Elgin, Illinois. Has Governor Pritzker seen this?! 1/2
2025 Democratic politics is that scene in every 70s movie where somebody gets their car stolen and runs down the street shaking their fist in the air yelling, "Hey, that's my car!!!"
The Hamburgler, obvs.
if we lie enough times that he's dead the new york times has to do a 3 month long barrage of stories over whether or not he's dead
DC arrests and huge amt of LEOs … for chalk? #veterans for democracy www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8BggGNw/
Damn. Accurate.
RFK Jr. rushing to the White House with a wheelbarrow full of beef tallow to save the President
Or, hear me out, you could take the $10 trillion it would cost to get a handful of people situated on the moon and use it to pay decent wages, make health care free, and provide universal day care and still have trillions left over.
Are you prebeared to vote on September 9th?
Whoot! There it is!
House Republicans Want To Doxx Wikipedia Editors Over Bogus ‘Bias’ Complaints Congress has absolutely zero constitutional authority to investigate a private website for its editorial decisions. Zero. None. This is First Amendment 101. Yet House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer and…
BREAKING: Social Security Administration chief data officer and whistle-blower Charles Borges has resigned after bombshell report that SSA put highly-sensitive data at risk. He sent out an email to colleagues moments ago. Here is the text of his email shared with me:
Inhuman. “I don’t have any choice” is a lie.
Honestly a big part of the reason people are struggling to understand Our Current Moment is that they mostly know fascists from Hollywood, where they are depicted mostly as highly intelligent and hyperefficient, instead of the bumbling ignorant clods they actually were.
AP live feed of the CDC walkout in Atlanta. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ7Q...
My rep is Katherine Clark. She does press conferences and sends her floor speeches around on Facebook. Nothing that sticks. She may have called Trump an authoritarian and an existential threat, but I've never seen it. Newsome, Pritzker, Chris Murphy, I see.
Communication is THE fundamental problem that Dems have. Joe Biden passes the IRA and CHIPS acts resulting in a massive increase in manufacturing construction and we see, what, some ribbon cuttings? Press conferences? Meanwhile the country is panicking over the 12 transgender women athletes.
Right? I get nothing from whatever this is
The states are going to have to this. Northeast, West Coast, Illinois and Michigan.
🚨Border Patrol arrested two firefighters who were actively fighting a wildfire at the time. When the other members of the crew asked for a chance to say goodbye, a Border Patrol agent told the crew member “you need to get the f*ck out of here. I’m going to make you leave.”
“My grandfather, who I am named after, stood up to fascist forces in Greece & lost his life doing so. I am resigning to make him & his legacy proud. The nation’s health security is at risk & is in the hands of people focusing on ideological self-interest.” Dr. Daskalakis, CDC immunization director
After showing his guns emblazoned with racial slurs, far-right slogans, Minneapolis shooting suspect displayed a message "Hail Breivik. Hail Brenton." Neo-Nazi Anders Breivik killed 77 in Norway in 2011. Brenton Tarrant killed 51 in shootings at 2 mosques in New Zealand in 2019.
Yeah. There is this sentiment that keeps popping up "If Trump says he can run for a 3rd term, then that means Obama can! What a great match up!". Folks need to get their minds right. Newsome might be helpful, but only if he starts working with other blue state govs.
Shoq is right. By far the most likely future is 30-50 years of this.
This is spot on
And just like that, $450 million of YOUR taxpayer dollars down the drain. All for this cruel spectacle that nobody asked for. apnews.com/article/flor...
Oh Lordy 💙MAGA and Trump is a joke🤣🤣 just for laughs 👏🏽 People are twerking while jeering the police and ice to arrest them 🤣 #DemVoice1 #DemsUnited #ProudBlue
A whistleblower complaint says that the personal data of over 300 million Americans was copied to a private cloud account to allow access by members of the Department of Government Efficiency team.
They do kowtow to donors, but the donors are also dumb
Democrats are dumb, not evil.
“I listened to him for about a half-hour today and I got sick at all the lies he brought up,” he said. “I would appreciate you taking your father’s U.S. Constitution book, read it, study it, make your own lines underneath it, and get Trump out of office!” #Pinks bit.ly/4oVfHrR
www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/08/pete...
we see very clearly in public polling that people in california and D.C. hate the deployments and that americans broadly disapprove of them, but here we have an assertion that the smart strategy is to avoid any discussion of the situation in favor of a pivot to, you guessed it, kitchen table issues.
“This kristallnacht is just Hitler trying to grab some headlines and make you look away from the rising cost of beer all over Germany” - how Democrats sound
In the NIH funding case, Justice Gorsuch (joined by Justice Kavanaugh) claimed that this was the third time in recent weeks that lower courts had "defied" a #SCOTUS ruling. As today's "One First" explains, that claim is not only nonsense; it's enabling a dangerous anti-court narrative on the right:
“They claim to read the same books” is such a multilayered burn, I LOVE it
Donald Trump says he is going to deploy the National Guard to Chicago. This is what weak men do to pretend they’re strong. Stay safe, stand with your community, and most importantly, know your rights:
Video of a scary scene in Adams Morgan last night is making the rounds on DC listservs. The feds (presumably ICE) seemed to be making immigration/traffic stops. When protesters started shouting, one pointed his Taser at them until other protesters tried to deescalate things...
This is so important… Sharon has been tracking license plates on cars driven by ICE agents, and she’s finding they don’t match the vehicles. In other words, ICE is using secret, illegal tactics—just like we suspected. REMINDER: the DMV is not a federal agency. @governor.ca.gov 🧵
It would be very cool if people who a) like the idea of free online tax filing that is not a bait-and-switch from a private vendor and b) support an innovative tool that users loved, would respond to these surveys. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-death-...
today a UN body announced famine is in Gaza. this oped from New Disabled South connects US funding of Israel's starvation campaign to Trump's BBB cutting SNAP as fundamentally American. "The U.S. allegedly has no money to feed its children or the world’s children, but has plenty of money for war."
Perfect encapsulation of the fecklessness of national Dems
Let’s review for a second what the John Bolton raid means and what we can find out about it. 1. The feds apparently got a search warrant. That means they submitted a sworn affidavit that satisfied a U.S. magistrate judge that there was probable cause to believe that there was evidence…../1
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social not just waiving & walking by, but stopping to look in his eyes & take the time to offer reassurance that he too has an opportunity for a better life experience … More Mandanis please
Check this shit! Earlier today, ICE tried to break into private property in Lynwood, California — no judicial warrant, no authority. Acting like thugs, not federal agents. Spoiler alert: Lynwood does not play. This trio of goons got sent packing.
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NYT editors put "Claudine Gay" in "top 5 featured on the New York Times homepage Dec 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 22, 25" While they put Trump calling for Constitution's "termination" on page 15 and his chief of staff's "tyrant" warning on 12 Christopher Rufo openly bragged about the plans:
ok so the times witnessed reporters receiving cash from Adams people three times at mayoral events and sat on it for over a month but couldn’t pass up a hot tip from a neonazi about Mamdani’s unsuccessful college application for long enough to check if the neonazi had already been identified
"Bold departure from political norms"
I've also had to turn off US shipping today. I was hoping it would be okay, but nope. 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.
I love agents. I mean, I call them aync tasks which have been around since multitasking, but, yeah. Good for those guys.
The lonely boy and his A.I. pal.
Toxic feedback loop has kicked in: Trump's propagandists tell credulous reporters that occupying cities is good politics for him. Media echoes this as self-evidently true. That reinforces Dem instincts not to engage. My exchange w/ @monicapotts.bsky.social on this: newrepublic.com/article/1993...
Prominent Fox hosts -- including Maria Bartiromo, Jeanine Pirro and Lou Dobbs -- privately sought to help Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, according to newly unredacted documents in Smartmatic's lawsuit against Fox, per the WSJ. www.wsj.com/business/med...
Yeah. That's not going to help. Lot of people trying to spackle sheetrock while the tornado tears up the house.
...as being sufficiently inspirational to get us through.
Maybe, maybe not. I think we need to start thinking big around changes to the structure of the US. The Conservative movement is dug in. There won't be a return to normalcy without gunfire and massive upheaval. I don't see minor adjustments to the old system...
The youngest panelist dropping the most knowledge — @adammockler.com makes the case clearly in defense of @gavinnewsom.bsky.social & @barackobama.bsky.social in under 35 seconds
Privileged is OUT EVERYWHERE ✨ go listen 💃🏻
The question has been "how can we tell these masked government thugs from people pretending to be masked government thugs?" and the answer isn't just "we can't" but that not being able to tell is the point. Republicans want to encourage & activate independent vigilante kidnapping & brutality squads.
I know left leaning Democrats that I would consider "small c" conservative. "There is a set of rules that got us to where we are and if we honor those rules, we'll do well." Baseball has a lot of unwritten rules. Find a lefty that plays honorable baseball and you'll see what I mean.
Once again, posting this 2023 article. This was the plan all along. “Trump will unleash the vast arsenal of federal powers to implement the most spectacular migration crackdown,” Mr. Miller said, adding, “The immigration legal activists won’t know what’s happening.” www.nytimes.com/2023/11/11/u...
they told her. to remove. the sticker.
Thinking back recently on how Trump managed to take over the GOP, I was struck by the tidiness of the analogy to 2025 Dems, their ripeness for a takeover, and how it'd behoove them to not remain in denial about what's afoot as long as pre-Trump GOP leadership did. www.offmessage.net/p/at-least-h...
I’m sorry but I’m still stuck on Grammarly marketing a service to students to psychologically profile professors and rewrite work based on the results and it’s barely made a splash. However effective, even the attempt is just anti-learning. It’s cultivating sycophancy, not thinking.
Former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull: “When you see Trump with Putin, as I have on a few occassions, he’s like the 12-year old boy that goes to high school and meets the captain of the football team. ‘My hero!’ It’s really creepy.”
"courtesy flush" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Watch D.C. residents chase federal agents out of the Columbia Heights neighborhood. Meanwhile, we spotted FBI and Homeland Security agents appear to respond to a *fare evader*. @premthakker.bsky.social reports. zeteo.com/p/watch-prem... youtube.com/shorts/99A29...
one of the great things about these kinds of videos is they're a demonstration of one important thing: voters work off vibes more than anything like this one guy who talks about how the city needs big change, rent needs to come down, the MTA fares are too high... and he's for Cuomo
"I don't want to hurt you, stop fighting back, you're hurting yourself" is literally the language of an abuser. One of the most banally horrifying things about this administration is that there is no subtext, no dog whistles, no need for interpretive work. It's all just explicit racism and cruelty.
Ultimate test of rich Gen X. You probably had a color TV, too, ya jerks.
holy shit this is a helluva ad from the Democrat running against Joni Ernst in Iowa. worth every second
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TX state troopers are arresting activists away at the Capitol. No crime. Just protesting the unlawful detention of Rep. Nicole Collier. Republicans are hellbent on silencing voices twice over: first by redrawing maps to erase voters, & now by arresting anyone who dares to resist. #WeveHadEnough
🧊🖕✈️ NOT FOOLING ANYONE 🤨 FIRST Avelo painted their planes white in order to 👉hide their shame👈 over flying humans around in chains for ICE. NOW Signature Aviation in Seattle is 👉covering their logo👈 on the equipment servicing those same planes. 👀
I don't really want more than a few lines at a time as there will almost always be errors that I have a hard time seeing.
This is where it truly shines for me. I code all day, but I rarely need to write bash scripts, github actions, or any of a number of other small special purpose bits. I know it something works, but I just don't do those things as well or quickly as LLMs. For daily business logic...
This is a good example of what I’ve started calling “normalsauce democratic comms.” It sucks. The whole genre should be sent out to sea on a rickety boat. If your messaging is identical to what you would’ve said in 2017, you are failing and you ought to know better.
UPDATE: I called Steve and asked him if he wanted to delete his post calling for the murder of my husband and me or should I have people call them all day and he hung up on me so I think that means he wants people to call his business all day.