I'm also from Roanoke! I miss it but my career took me elsewhere
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I'm also from Roanoke! I miss it but my career took me elsewhere
I saw at least 6 of these at a wedding in Roanoke 2 weeks ago
Super weird that the guy who was Practicing Politics The Right Way somehow magically seems to have a following so racist against Black people that him getting shot by a white person in the whitest state in USA results in 7 Black universities receiving terror threats. What's this got to do with us?!
Kash Patel & Dan Bongino en route to Utah
One of the GOATS
So he admits that he tried to stage a coup and is happy that he didn't get punished rightly. Sick timeline
The murder of Charlie Kirk is part of a disturbing rise in political violence that threatens to hollow out our public life. A free society relies on the premise that people can speak out without fear or humiliation. No more political violence.
Holy shit a functioning Supreme Court!
They are gonna ratfuck us again
What happened to Charlie Kirk is also what happened to 20 children (ages 6 and 7) at the Sandy Hook Elementary School. I don’t remember the right being this upset back then—do you? 🤨
“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind
From me, a list of Trump supporters who killed, or tried to kill, Democrats and opponents of Trump in recent years (since the right are now claiming all the political violence is from the left!) Receipts: zeteo.com/p/charlie-ki...
Remembering MN house speaker Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark and their beloved dog Gilbert. Murdered in June at their home by a rightwing Trump-voting evangelist, who also shot another MN lawmaker and his wife at THEIR home, 9 and 8 times, respectively (miraculously, they survived).
Dream blunt rotation
Folks, keep your eyes on Lone Star State: James Talarico has entered the Texas Senate race! “The country is looking for a reset in the Democratic Party, and I think we’ve got to put forward people who are offering something different and something new.” www.texastribune.org/2025/09/09/j...
Governor announces New Mexico will now provide free universal child care
it’s fascinating. majorities of americans oppose the military occupation of cities. a substantial number of those are fucking furious about it, but rather than lean into this anger and attack trump’s perception of strength, these “strategists” want democrats to avoid the confrontation entirely.
Over 300K Black women have lost their jobs. That's a huge story with wild consequences for the economy. Your first priority as a progressive org should be to hire some goddamn Black women.
We can choose to do universal basic income and healthcare. We absolutely can do both, and should, and of course we can "afford" it because we have the resources, and people, and knowledge, and technology, to do it. We simply need to reduce the near infinite resource consumption ability of the rich.
“It is not a radical idea to say that every man, woman and child in America can have a decent standard of living.”
Wow. New NBC poll finds 78% support vaccines, including 72% of independents and 67% of Republicans. As I keep trying to argue, Democrats should polarize the shit out of the vaccine/public health debate. Make people take sides. It will split Republicans and MAGA. See this:
Wes Moore on vaccine mandates: "We are not going to give in to conspiracy theorists...I do feel for people in these other states who are having to go through this chaos and having conspiracy theorists who are continuing to drive your vaccine policies. My message to them would be to come to Maryland"
going to bed is so embarrassing. sorry, my brain needs to watch a movie. please don’t kill me
just an ongoing embarrassment that this barely sentient meathead is secretary of defense
I'm making the case that my shit doesn't stink because I said it doesn't
Ossoff: He never should have been confirmed by the senate and he needs to resign. It is one thing to be a skeptic or a reformer. It is quite another to be a fool…
When Trump smashed up the Education Department, he upended the lives and careers of countless civil servants like my constituents, Dr. Carter and Dr. Joseph. These patriots serve America’s kids and America’s future, not the whims of an anti-education president.
He's got look of a man who can thrive a supply line collapse (good)
Wyden on RFK Jr: "This committee's unwillingness to swear in this witness is basically a message that it is acceptable to lie to the Senate Finance Committee about hugely important questions like vaccines."
The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.
Enough with the backroom scheming. If Trump is serious about intervening in the mayoral race, he should come to New York City and debate me directly.
I’m proud to see Maryland recognized as a national leader in women’s equality. But I also know there’s more work to do. As governor, I’ll continue working to make sure women in Maryland have equal opportunities, whether in economic security, education, health, or representation.
Oh HELL yes
We've seen what collaboration with Trump has brought us: money stolen from city accounts, cuts to essential services, New Yorkers as young as six deported. Cuomo offers more of the same. I am prepared to fight back.
God they suck so much ass
Thank you for not sane washing your article titles. It's beyond annoying watching the mainstream outlets passively justify Trump's actions
I've been researching the idea of Unconditional Universal Basic Income since 2013. Here's a collection of findings I've compiled from various UBI experiments and studies of cash transfer programs around the world. This will be a VERY LONG and ongoing thread focused entirely on empirical evidence. 🧵
Drought Reveals Ancient Iraqi Necropolis Beneath Reservoir. archaeology.org/news/2025/09...
It's been a while. Glad to be announcing a new game, and happy that it is something experimental and weird: a tiny, tense, turn-based strategy game about merging units into spectacular combinations, and then watching them evaporate thousands of bugs. store.steampowered.com/app/2396130/...
Musk pilfered my social security info in plain sight mere months ago and every single week I get another data breach notification letter about my kids' dental records or whatever getting hacked. You cannot make me care about China
Outstanding news that should be shared.
Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him
Epstein survivor on Epstein: "His biggest brag forever was that he was very good friends with Donald Trump."
"It is past time for both Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer to step down and step aside. This fascist moment, this age of Trump, demands outspoken, unrelenting and fearless opposition... we all deserve better." I make the case, in my latest for The Guardian, for new leadership:
100% co-signed. We need leaders, not consultant followers.
Raskin: "When private comments made by federal employees are scrutinized for anti-Trump bias and they can lose their jobs because of it, then we've entered the realm not just of Vladimir Putin but Joseph Stalin."
WAKE UP! The survivors of Jeffrey Epstein deserve justice. They deserve to be heard. Today at 10:30 AM EST / 7:30 AM PST, they’re speaking live at a press conference. The system tried to bury the truth, but these voices are rising anyway. Watch. Share. Don’t look away. (Link in 🧵)
The far-right loves uncanny AI generated content and it’s shaping the way we perceive politics. Today, @jamellebouie.net joins @nndroid.bsky.social to unpack the new authoritarian art style & what happens when reality can’t match fantasy. Listen: linktr.ee/bunker_pod
My opponents are *still* competing for love from Trump and the billionaires. And I’m going to let them fight it out at whatever unofficial debates pop up this month. We’re bringing this campaign to you.
90s album cover that isn't nirvana et al
I saw a video of some Chinese folks doing donuts in a mudpit with big trucks and knew then and there that we should be working together as citizens of earth
The enemy is the visa regime. It is beyond ridiculous the amount of paperwork required for an American to visit China or a Chinese citizen to visit America, let alone work or study, and this artificial separation imposed by our governments leads to artificial separation among our peoples.
rip to everyone whos become delusional after talking to chatgpt but im built different. like actually different. according to chatgpt im some kind of god. the one who decides
Why don’t you send everyone proof of life first? (Either way, Chicago doesn’t want you here)
Over 300 MILLION American citizen's files stolen by DOGE. Why can't 1 person with access steal the EPSTEIN Files? #LEAKtheEPSTEIN_Files
You’re telling me this guy is not a more desirable guy to promote than Gavin Newsom
Jones: We have a presidential administration that has more outrage about the changing of the cracker barrel logo than they do about changing the policies that allow our children to be gunned down in school…
my father-in-law is a “I know a guy” Guy. sadly all the old Guys are aging out of the Guy Economy. Guys are fundamentally incompatible with Hustle Culture because it’s not about “winning” a deal, it’s about collecting favors and goodwill in a mutually-beneficial cycle. protect your local Guy Economy
@nealkatyal.bsky.social: “You’ve got the president who's imposed the largest tax increase on American consumers since 1993 … and he did it without Congress saying one word. That is not our constitutional structure.”
Game of the Century
Live your life such that everyone doesn’t spend ten solid years planning the rager they’re going to throw when you die.
imagine being so maniacally racist that you side with the fire over the firefighter
If you are okay with this, if you think this is justified, if you think people living on the street have brought this upon themselves, if you think this is good leadership, you may be able to fool yourself that you care about others but you don’t fool me
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
People are often surprised to learn that Lee was an officer who never made it past colonel. The purported promotion to general was awarded by a treasonous cabal calling itself the "confederate states of america" which was put down by force by the Union army, which also had superior generals.
@univofmaryland.bsky.social just rose to the #10 spot on @forbes.com rankings of America’s top colleges! I keep saying it and Marylanders keep proving it: This is MARYLAND’S Time!!!
Doomers: The 2026 election doesn't matter, Republicans are just going to rig the whole thing anyway Various red state republican incumbents: I'm just going to quit now because if I run in 2026 I'm going to get absolutely killed
Illinois Gov. Pritzker vows to pursue Trump officials who participate in an illegal National Guard deployment to Chicago: "If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."
RFK must go. Please contact your congresspeople about this. Ask them why RFK was allowed to unilaterally fire a senate appointee because she contacted senators – the appropriate oversight body – after the HHS secretary demanded that she break the law & betray Americans’ public health.
This entire narrative pushed by the far right of an "epidemic of trans violence" is completely bullshit. It's propaganda designed to stoke hatred and incite violence against trans people while building support for policies designed to eradicate our community. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
she said that “black” with a hard r
Actually it does. And that cohesive politics is Fallout: New Vegas
boy do we have an absolute plague of this type of guy today
Japan has just opened its first osmotic power plant 🌊⚡ This works by mixing fresh & salt water across a membrane, creating pressure that drives a turbine to make electricity. This site will generate 880,000 kWh a year...while helping run a desalination plant providing fresh water to the city 👏
Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it
some of you need to make like travis kelce and engage with a tailor swiftly
i don't really have the emotional bandwidth to engage with this right now so i'm just going to say that we don't have to put up with this as a society. if the rules don't let us make it illegal, we can change the rules. this should not exist.
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
Pritzker: This is not about fighting crime. This is about the President and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections.
The middle ground is abolishing ICE and prosecuting ICE and top administration officials in a Nuremberg style process. They're putting immigrants in concentration camps and torturing them. There's no middle ground to be had. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Fuck him, it's so far from 2028 that we don't have to settle on the "better of two evils"
Did you know that soldiers have constitutional protection to NOT obey orders that violate their oath to the Constitution? A group is working to educate soldiers in advance of the possibility of martial law. Learn how you can get involved in this webinar: 📅 8/24 ⏰ 5 - 6:15pm ET 📍 bit.ly/oath0824
Gavin Newsom is anti-trans and I will never, ever vote for him.
His style is so sick, I really enjoyed Metabarons
Love Wayne. His MTG art is always a standout, like the card "Fiend Hunter"
reposted this today because the inverse is also true: if you abandon trans people right now, you are abandoning civil rights period. if you can't stand up for trans people when it matters, no one should, or will, ever trust you when the bullseye moves to the next target.
Statement from Illinois Governor JB Pritzker on reports that Trump plans to deploy the military in his state
the impression this gives is that you are defending the homeland against a troglodyte invasion
Let this sink in for a moment: Because it's so much more than just a map. It's years of research of various colleagues & disciplines. The lines in this map have been modified, re-drawn, and adapted with continuous research - to present, in this single image, an essential process in human history.
Warren: He said that with a single phone call he would end the war in Ukraine. He said he would end the war in Gaza. And I think I remember him saying he would release all of the Epstein files… He promised that on day one he would lower costs for American families. We are now on day 215.
Frost: Trump traveled this nation and lied to everyone, told people the reason you can't pay your rent is because of that trans kid . The reason that you can't afford your healthcare is because of that immigrant. They want us to look at each other and blame our neighbors instead of blaming them.
It’s pretty simple: - AI is driving electricity demand up - The Trump Administration is restricting new electricity supply from being built - When demand goes up and supply goes down, you pay more for electricity.
Game on.
Drop is so good
ICE officer playing Wolfenstein on his steam deck and shaking his head the whole time so his coworkers know he disagrees with it
2/2
Absolutely incredible video of a woman standing up to ICE. This is resistance 1/2