JD Pritzker is one of like five Democrats who knows what time it is and no Newsom is not one of those five. Newsom is attempting to become the Trump of the center-right. Pritzker is ready to go to war
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JD Pritzker is one of like five Democrats who knows what time it is and no Newsom is not one of those five. Newsom is attempting to become the Trump of the center-right. Pritzker is ready to go to war
Decades of conservatives cutting off their family members for being LGBTQ and refusing to lie or hide it. Or disagreeing with the liberal's choice of partner (due to race, gender, religion, class, job). Or becoming pregnant and refusing to marry.
Why are the Dems all so obsessed with "common ground" and "bipartisanship"? Like trying to be bipartisan with a parasitic amoeba
Imagine if this whole article was like "misuse of firearms will lead to felony convictions, loss of your firearm, and possibly a life in prison. Don't shoot people for being annoying, especially kids!" instead of cops threatening felonies for...door knocking. www.cnn.com/2025/09/01/u...
Dry erase marker and writing "I'm Dead!" across those windows would be hilarious
Even as a teenager watching Star Trek Next Generation, I understood some things that I think WSJ is failing to
Now I want to see if there's a "Worst of the Atlantic" Bluesky account similar to NY Times Pitchbot!
Weekend At Bernie's meets Death of Stalin
Platner: No one cares that you pretend to be remorseful as you sell out to lobbyists. Symbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnations do not bring back Roe V Wade. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.
Oh hai @hickenlooper.senate.gov an idea for you
I want someone like Jordan Peele to write this film so bad
Eric forgot "bootlicker" on that list
I hope she gets rammed from behind driving on a highway in New Hampshire, myself
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."
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Wait, no, I got it. For every person you have text contact with who's a Trumper, text them: "Well, I sure am celebrating tonight bc Trump's dead! But I know you liked him so I just wanted to check in, are you doing okay?" Then have ready www.News2TheMax. com headline with TRUMP DEAD AT 79
Oh my God? Apparently then-39 year old Mayor of San Francisco Gavin Newsom was dating a 19 year old? abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=...
Thanksgiving is coming up, so we can all just thank God at our family Thanksgiving dinner that Trump is dead. If it's unknown by then, you must commit to the bit. Act every bit as weird as they do about something they "know in their hearts is true" or whatever. Gaslight, gaslight, gaslight.
“ILLEGALS” MY ASS! Green card holder Rami Othmane speaks out after being snatched off the street by ICE while driving to the grocery store. He’s a documented immigrant and the husband of Dr Wafaa Alrashid, chief of staff at a local hospital. He was locked in detention for 13 days.
They don't, if you spill some rice right in front of this thing
Was it just me or did anyone else spend last night thinking of the film Death of Stalin and imagining JD, RFK Jr, and the other losers going through a similar scene?
The "red tape" is often treating employees fairly, which corporations exploit even further when it's cut
add 100% mail-in or ballot dropoff paper voting!
I know right? So disconcerting when you actually get a person that it throws you off!
God I wish Dems would actually act like this. Or that I were optimistic enough to hope they do act like this.
Does attending a celebration of Labor Day complete with an update on current efforts to unionize as well as bits of the history of capitalists massacring labor in my state count as "prayers"?
With O'Neill (apparently) taking over CDC (if they ever get around to firing Monarez), I think it's worth looking back to Project 2025 and asking what they actually intend to *do* to CDC. So, I went to remind myself today. Here's what's in store:
I can't tell if this is left-lib infighting or saboteurs from outside the US but either way it's getting super boring except for my block button
Newsom launches task force to steal what few belongings homeless people have and disrupt their already difficult and uncertain life. Some of the homeless might be such because their homes burned down earlier this year, in case anyone forgot about the LA fires.
Funny how I didn't mention money whatsoever. I specifically said "endorsements" which the other Dems from the state of NY have been inexplicably reluctant to provide. But you are for some reason putting words in my mouth that weren't there. Interesting.
Well then it should be no-brainer for federal level Dems to endorse the Democratic nominee for the "random municipal race" right? Instead of hemming and hawing and insisting on multiple meetings over the course of weeks.
I heard a This American Life like a decade ago where this same phenomenon (R's publicly saying and doing the opposite of what they confided in private) was occurring about climate change. But I also think there's some push to constantly promote "bipartisanship" bc I see it everywhere in comms
Wyoming actually tried putting restrictions on Coloradans going there in the spring of 2020
I called my governor to ask that my state do this, too!
Supporting Mamdani would be great, actually. He's campaigning on a social agenda platform, his social media presence is stellar, and...he got lukewarm endorsements and support from establishment Dems despite winning the literal Democratic Party primary.
Yikes!
Well AFAIK Hickenlooper is going for reelection at 74. Not sure if he's being primaried (I hope so but haven't looked into, it) That crappy budget bill would not have passed if the Dem House members who died in office this year had been alive
IDK if it's from consultants on the gravy train or something more purposeful, but the idea of "bipartisanship" is like an addiction among Dems. I think every single email from any of my Dem folks says something about bipartisanship. Their constituents don't care, but they keep on with it.
The thing about Ashli Babbitt that I kept saying is that, for most of history, most countries would have strung up a bunch of the J6 folks in the capitol steps as a sign. And for good reason. This is what happens when you don’t.
COVID vaccine update: Pharmacies in these states won't give you a shot unless you have a prescription. CVS: CO, FL, GA, KY, LA , ME, NY, NC, PA, UT, VA, WV, DC Walgreens: AZ, CO, GA, IN, LA, MO, MT, NM, NY, OR, SC, UT, VA, WA, WV, WI CVS is not yet offering COVID shots at all in MA, NV, and MN.
Oh, definitely. But a lot of what you're doing online is getting scraped, and it is obnoxious that it's often invisible or difficult to turn off. Depending on lots of people to go deep into their settings menu on everything means most people won't.
Where there's possibly going to be salmonella or a pathogenic E. coli....
Yersinia is the, uh, literal plague. Like, Black Death infectious agent. And is endemic to some wild animal species such as prairie dogs.
"Her patient had signs of what could be a cancer or could be an unusual infection — diagnoses that would require completely different treatment. Ordinarily, she would confirm an infection after sending a sample to the CDC for testing ...the CDC no longer has the capacity to do that"
And it's getting difficult to avoid AI. It's installed automatically on all the browsers, phones, and computers and only sometimes can you sort of manually turn it off. And that doesn't even count if your job requires you to use it for something.
So, my taxes are going to pay for cops that ChatGTP calls to solve "threats", meanwhile my water and power bills are going to go up because AI requires huge amounts of these, meanwhile AI is going to steal my job. Yet, AI is touted as some fantastic breakthrough & I can't opt out. Sounds like shit.
Try being a woman, Sean. Or any nonwhite person. Or anyone who doesn't conform to gender standards. Or any disabled person.
Lookin at you Governor Polis :-( Deaths of Coloradans will be on your hands
Fair!
September 2020: Oh no, how will children learn if they can't interact in person with their teacher??? Who cares if they get COVID it doesn't kill children September 2025:
Seems like Mamdani is giving people new hope. Whereas Cuomo gives the ick
I think we're definitely past the point where this reflects much more poorly on Jeffries than it does on Mamdani. www.nydailynews.com/2025/08/26/m...
So funny these guys thought they got a win. Have I ever walked into a Cracker Barrel? No. Would I have recognized the logo with blurred out letters a week ago? Also no. Do I know whether there are any in my region, and if so the cross streets? Also no.
Beginning to get emails like this from small overseas businesses I've ordered products from in the past. I guess this is freedom.
Maybe we shouldn’t let someone who doesn’t believe in germs and who thinks it’s okay to eat roadkill and swim in contaminated ponds be in charge of our national food safety.
The whole state of Texas just copied Chile's flag, so
I 👏 don't 👏 care 👏 if 👏 you're 👏 bipartisan 👏 with 👏 fascists!
Don't get me wrong; holding a sign on a street corner is fine! But there's probably more you (general you, not the OP) can be doing that's not glorious but it is important! And probably isn't that big a deal, to you. Little pieces help. Buy a meal for someone. Buy a book. Stuff like that.
Or, what resources do you have? Maybe you have a house you own that could be a 3rd space for organizers, and it wouldn't be a burden to provide a little coffee and tea to some young folks who live with roommates, who don't have to shell out $8 apiece to spend a few hours having a pro-union meeting.
Show up and *make connections*. Who is watching city council? Who is paying heed to the wealthiest business owners in your area? Who is setting up mutual aid networks? What skills do you have that you could lend, even if it's only a few hours a month?
Mariam Dagga, a visual journalist who freelanced for The Associated Press and other news organizations and produced harrowing images of the war in Gaza, was killed Monday by an Israeli strike on a hospital. She was 33.
Modern life is basically dependent on nerds you will never meet building software & spreadsheets you will never see What the Trump admin dares to ask is: what if we just shoved as many of those folks as we could find into a locker.
Y'all ✅ You folks 〰️ Youse ⁉️ You guys ❌
Reminder that Congress passed the Genius Act which will allow banks to create their own coins and use depositor money to cover their losses
once again, i'll suggest that perhaps the reason the broad public thinks democrats are weak is that when confronted with situations that demands that democrats loudly and proactively stand up for their values, democrats shirk from the fight
I still can't decide if "class" is like socioeconomic class or like 12th grade, and if "seniors" is like elderly or like 12 grade
One hopes!
And I do mean that literally with stories like this www.khou.com/article/news...
Exactly. Like, encountering ICE is much more similar to Squid Game than taking a subway around NYC and learning about the history of the city.
I also thought blocking was far more effective, and in some cases easier, on Bluesky than on Twitter. So you kind of have to be looking for vitriol on Bluesky
When AI sex dolls hit large-scale commercial markets, Elon really thinks the birthrate will go *up*? And I'm certain that's what some of these clankers want to do, because it would make a boatload of money. Rich men get personal sex bots, poorer dudes get bot brothels.
Masked raids are tools of fear, not freedom. Despite what this administration wants you to believe, they are not about “safety.” They are about letting ICE agents hide from accountability while carrying out inhumane acts.
We could crowdsource this! I thought a bunch of online displays had been uploaded around the pandemic time, not sure if those are still up or what
Is JD looking...more orange? It looks like there's something wrong with his face, as though he had too much spray tan or was given the wrong shade of foundation
True dat
A great sentence but I'm struck by how it would not have made sense a year ago or even a couple weeks ago
They are also trying via a lot of different angles, to cause a deep economic collapse. Messing with the Fed, the tariff business, legalizing banks creating crypto with no guardrails, gutting Medicare, and tax policy that's a reverse Robin Hood
And also. They started with "illegals" but of course there weren't enough undocumented people to justify the new bloated ICE/DHS budgets for, so now they have to move on to visa holders.
We also needed a market for all the industrial chemicals that had been used to make bombs in WWII, alongside the "Green Revolution". But I'm more talking about small veggie farms than large grain or meat farms, which is a whole other discussion about the Farm Bill and such
Like Christians yelling at families going to Drag Story Time? Or like Christians yelling at girls going to Planned Parenthood? Like Christians yelling at trans kids playing sports? Like racists yelling at Black and brown kids for playing at all? Those crazy people?
I saw a guy on Longs Peak (14,000 ft mountain with exposed scrambling in CO) in *Birkenstocks*.
AI does appear to be rapidly accelerating human selection of the fittest…. except it’s doing it by straight-up killing people who rely on ChatGPT to plan dangerous trips, not by improving human cognition like the techbros want us to believe:
Gonna start having our DSA meetings at Cracker Barrel
I work adjacent to some farmers and they often have a lot of excess produce of one kind or another at different points in the season. So much better to give away than throw in the compost! Especially if there's some ideas on how to use or cook them. Ugh on the fat-shaming folks :-(
Chattel slavery was genocide. Transphobia is wrong in all forms. Palestine, Sudan, Congo, Haiti, and Puerto Rico should be free. Please stop debating basic human rights.
I'm sorry. That sounds like a really cool program in every way
And pay a gardener to grow fresh food on school grounds in some of the unused area or during summer. And compost the food waste to create soil for this and kids learn a bit on how to grow food & take extra home....but oops that's commie hippy stuff
Exactly. Generally the more money you have, the "healthier" your diet is, because fresh food and especially fruits and vegetables are way more $/calorie
These same people are actively trying to make it *illegal* in lots of places to provide food for the unhoused!
Like I knew tech bros didn't understand or care about the laws of biology but I kind of thought they mostly knew the laws of physics at least on a basic level? Apparently not
I cannot tell you how many old women over 70 who, like, organize Postcards to Voters and would never write "damn" on them are absolutely livid about the Dem party.
It Could Happen Here is a podcast from Cool Zone Media, that discusses It Happening Here, if you're interested
I miss that account on Twitter that used to write current news of Western countries in the style that Western news outlets used on developing countries. Exactly stuff like this, and referred to England as a "flavor-starved island nation"
If this was happening in any other country, it would be covered as “pedophile warlord sends troops into national capital for no reason”
reading books instead of burning them
Y’all remember all the COVID funding that was funneled into police budgets? I do.
