If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
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If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
Already wrote my state rep about supporting this āŗļø
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!
This is a plan for ethnic cleansing. Itās morally horrific and absolutely insane
OMG I would watch this forever!
Cool and enlightening website:
Iām serious. This REALLY infuriates me. @nbcnews.com @cbsnews.com @cnn.com Do your job. You failed to lift this up in 2024. If farmers are hurting, explain why and who is to blame. And remind Americans that we paid BILLIONS for Trumpās first tariff blunder. Itās so irresponsible to ignore this.
Disabled people: RFK Jr. is a dangerous eugenicist who wants people to die. Nondisabled people: DP: Here are examples of his eugenicist policy. NP:... DP: He actually wrote all this out in a book years ago. NP: Hey why can't I get a Covid shot??
The thing about a lot of these never Trump Republicans is that, unlike a lot of institutionalist Dems who think the fever will break and we can all return to comity or whatever, these guys saw the rot up close and know the only appropriate response is to tear them out of government root and branch.
In frustration, I asked a law professor (Michael Libonati), "is anything in the law real?" He replied: "Burdens." That's why Manners' framing here is so important. The question isn't how much has Congress limited POTUS, but how much it has allowed. The burden is on POTUS to prove he's allowed.
Labor Day Weekend at Bernie's
Still my favorite interview of that time youtu.be/rOgduwX2TV0?...
The tradition is to draw the arrival in front of St Peter. How will cartoonists manage this one when it happens?
You there, gay boy, did it happen yet
You better believe I have Kool & the Gang set up to be able to play at the drop of a hat
I donāt know when It Will Happen, but I do know itās going to be extremely funny
any body want to help me plan sneaking around and raising all the flags back up to full mast
okay this is it this is the one that finally broke me
Elijah Wood responds to a fan that said 'Lord of the Rings' got him through tough times š
one of the great conservative moves over the past decade has been to make themselves so unpleasant that their own family members are forced to cut them off, and then use that fact to argue that *liberals* are too uncivil
I know there's a lot of bad shit going on. But I'm high key mad that when this is all over - and it will all end - we're all going to have to get new social security numbers abcnews.go.com/US/whistlebl...
This is the way
It's eugenics it's eugenics it's eugenics.
Yeah, I started noticing it right around the inauguration, even from folks I really hadnāt expected to go there, but lately itās started to get worse. And thatās just what I happen to notice in other peopleās comments!
Chris Kluwe on Gavin Newsom and his treatment of the trans community: www.thehandbasket.co/p/chris-kluw...
Europeans, too. The smug self-righteous comments from them are so tiresome
The Acolyte was better than the majority of Star Wars stuff from this century, by the way.
How wildly ungrateful for the guy whose movies entirely depend on the work of VFX artists
I will remind folks those images of Nazi book burnings aren't burning just any books. They're burning the library of Magnus Hirschfeld; a gay, Jewish doctor who created an institute dedicated to LGBTQ sex education and healthcare. And a man who pioneered gender affirming care surgeries.
How amazing is this. There have been some really impressive advances in disease management recently.
Hi, immunologist here: (a scientist who studies immune & inflammatory processes) RFK Jr is talking absolute bullshit when he says he can āsee in kids faces that they have inflammationā Thatās NOT how immunology works. He is an anti-science profiteer. Start calling him such.
My local grocery just hired an armed guard to check receipts at the door and I was reminded that if you see someone stealing food no you fucking didn't.
So the sandwich guy ... beat the wrap
Breaking: Democrat Catelin Drey just won an Iowa Senate district that Trump won by double digits last year, flipping the seat blue. Republican just lost their supermajority in the chamber.
Well this is terrifying
Oh, it's simple, the Boomers got their $10k college education and their $60k home then decided to pull up the ladders and rip up the roots of the American dream by putting in charge the worst people they could find, such as Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, and Donald Trump.
Back in NYC and catching up on Supreme Court abject failures and... thank God for Ketanji Brown Jackson. I swear she's the lady from the insurance commercial screaming "That's not how it works. That's not how any of this works."
Guy who spent 6 months defunding cancer research while giving himself government grants in between Hitler salutes wants you to trust me bro that in his future youāll be taken care of.
Tech oligarchs oppose the idea of any supposedly undeserving person getting financial help from the government in 2025. But they want you to believe theyāll give *everyone* free money in the future. It doesnāt make any sense, but itās the techno-utopian lie they will keep selling.
I can't believe he basically got people to Pokemon Go To The Polls.
The Trolley Opportunity
Kamala Harris warned you and they called her a liar.
what's interesting about this is that it serves the same purpose as trump's rallies ā energizing potential supporters and interested people, creating a positive vibe that builds an affective relationship ā but is so much more democratic in that it is participatory
yeah he's a nazi but the democrats want me to pay more taxes so
genuinely difficult for me to get into the headspace of someone so insanely narcissistic that their response to criticism and dislike is to say "everyone who disagrees with me isn't an actual human being."
The most impressive thing about this campaign is how *creative* they are. Theyāre trying new stuff! Multiple times during the last few months Iāve thought āwow, Iāve never seen a campaign do that.ā Much more of that needed everywhere.
Holy shit. This legit gave me chills. Texas State Rep. Ann Johnson clapped back at GOP members amid Wednesday's redistricting vote. WHITE WOMEN, this is the model. We have more power than others. We are the last to be silenced. We have a responsibility to SPEAK so others are HEARD.
FWIW, "yours for the restoration of the Republic" was a common salutation American fascists gave to each other in the 1950s and 1960s. This is from a 1952 letter by Ohio white supremacist terrorist Peter Xavier. The rest of the rhetoric here might be familiar too.
I actually agree that Democrats should refrain from using most of these. And they already do! When was the last time a Senator said 'heteronormative'? The bigger problem is that orgs like Third Way are reinforcing this false, right-wing narrative. Dems can't stop doing something they're not doing!
That COVID spike relative to other countries is especially insane. We produced the most effective vaccines in massive numbers and then let ourselves get into a ridiculous fight about whether to use them
Star Trek: doing DEI since before there was an acronym for it. But sure, tell me again how Trek has āgone wokeā. Check out our latest #HolodeckDivas ep, Diva Trek TNG: Loud as a Whisper! Links: linktr.ee/divaspodcast #podcast #lgbtq #startrek #representationmatters
This is the energy we need from Democrats right now. If red state Republicans redraw their congressional maps to rig the midterms, blue state Democrats must even the playing field by responding in kind. Tell your governor and legislators in your state to fight back: indivisible.org/resource/red...
Gavin Newsom is a genuinely bad person and any admiration you have for him needs to be directed toward actually good people like JB Pritzker or Andy Beshear.
This would certainly cost more than just giving food stamps to cover the cost of what's in the box.
Sending poor people a box of fresh food a) isn't even a real proposal b) is a logistical nightmare c) has no evidence of efficacy d) makes no sense while cutting food stamps and medicaid Stop laundering these people's dumb ideas into good ones!
White woman puts Mexican flag on her truck to waste ICEās time.
Iām so sorry to say that one of our beloved creatives on #XenaWarriorPrincess, writer Chris Manheim has passed away from cancer. She was a Gentlewoman and a scholar and wrote on all six years of our show. We send all our Xenite love to her husband, Rick. Shine on, darling Chris!
20 Aug 25 -- Bluesky has suspended multiple trans users for anti-J.K. Rowling posts even when they didn't mention threats or violence. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
The irony of the person youāre quoting having a profile pic of a Star Trek character and then presenting such limited possible options is really mind bending to me
The fact that the thing we're calling artificial intelligence *can't do math* and yet we're jamming it into programs that successfully *have done math* for decades, then warning people against using the AI to do math, seems like an excellent summary of where we are.
Democratic Texas state Rep. Nicole Collier has now spent over 24 hours on the Texas House floor in protest after refusing a Republican demand to be placed under the watch of the state Department of Public Safety cnn.it/3V6K7ts
We are outraged and deeply distressed that armed federal agents came onto our campusāmaking arrests on the very ground where, in 1942, Japanese American families were forced to board buses bound for concentration camps. It was a deliberate act of provocation and intimidation.
President Donald Trump said Monday that he will lead a campaign to end mail-in voting, a practice Oregon and Washington have used for decades.
Today is the 20th anniversary of the original posting of "They're Taking the Hobbits to Isengard" If you remember just how deeply viral this was, have you taken some ibuprofen today? youtu.be/2X-AF7fOzW0
This is exactly--and I mean exactly--how Holocaust deniers have long discredited the Final Solution being a concerted effort & high-level order. "The Jews in the camps all died of typhoid outbreaks"
SCA, too. They tend to be good about spreading messages and folks will look out for them.
this is so wonderfully weird, give her all the golds š„
Here's a version that was archived. archive.org/details/60-m...
the Ghorman Dog is all we care about now.
A new collection of Woody Guthrieās home recordings just dropped and it features a never-heard version of Deportee, which he wrote as a protest poem when a plane crash killed 28 migrant farm workers and outlets like the New York Times only named the Americans who were deporting them.
Every woman I know with advanced degrees has dated this guy/met this guy at a party and he has implied how ignorant/stupid she actually was because she didn't recite the History of the Peloponnesian War from memory. And then he's been blocked/avoided by every one of those women.
Is there any proof that these men were āfederal agentsā? The video labels them that but the post notes they were masked and unidentified. Looks like an attempted carjacking, not anything resembling an arrest. They ask for badges and the guy silently puts on black gloves?
A man understandably refused to hand over his ID or get out of the car for a bunch of masked thugs who refused to identify themselves. And when he drove away, they opened fire on him. This isnāt how you do any sort of enforcement when your goal is to uphold the law. This is gangsterism.
I recently went to a McDonaldās where you donāt interact with anyone, you just go to a kiosk and then they put your order on a rack, and the thing that gets me is that nothing on the menu cost less because of it. No benefit for me! Doubt the people in the kitchen are getting paid better!
The CDC shooting didnāt even really register in the news and the details are absolutely insane
Every elected Democrat should be talking every day about what retribution will look like. People want payback. And they arenāt wrong to want it. Tell them how youāre going to give it to them. Be explicit. It will get them to the polls better than a zillion egghead policy promises.
this is not a callout of Daniel but I do just want to lovingly point out that actually it's the 28-year-old Extremely Online woman of color he hired as his Digital Director, and her team of Tiktok Girlies (gender neutral), who are good at posting let us put some respect on Camille Zapata's name
If you tell me to compromise on people's rights for some nebulous greater good I will always say Yours First Then. I am a Black man. That means I am both marginalized and privileged. As a marginalized person encroaching on the rights of others offends me. As a privileged person it also offends me.
Every person who said 'states rights' wanted Black people excluded from public life. Every person who thought it was reasonable sounding and did not know that was being fooled. When they say "no trans athletes" they are setting the stage for no trans people everywhere. It's already playing out.
No. People who think this is insignificant are allowing a Trojan Horse to enter their domain. History shows that when people have said things like "States rights" which sound innocuous, they meant 'segregation'. This is the same. More importantly, trans inclusion in all aspects of life is a must.
This is both an impeachable offense and ridiculously pathetic.
REMEMBER THE FALLEN
This is the way (my favorite are that āchickenā and ādealā and randomly in quotes š¤£)
Today #ICE and Border Patrol descended on the plaza of the Japanese American Nat'l Museum. The very spot where Japanese Americans, including my family, were rounded up and sent to concentration camps with no due process in 1942. The community wasn't having it. Read JANM's statement bit.ly/4oDsjng
Stephen Miller Tears Up As Son Says First 14 Words
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Reminder: Reporters can simply do this, rather than concede the narrative.
āIt canāt all be on the Texas Reps. Weāve got to do our part.ā @ezralevin.bsky.social talks about Saturdayās nationwide protests to fight back against Trumpās effort to rig congressional maps and steal the 2026 election. Find an event near you: www.fightthetrumptakeover.com?SQF_source=i...
Very bad news from Costco. One of the groups orchestrating this pressure campaign is Alliance Defending Freedom, a Christian Nationalist law firm that is hellbent on reshaping US society. The ADF coalition "now turns its focus to CVS and Walgreens."
Wow, wild. Anyway, here's a photo of Atlantic Owner Laurene Powell Jobs having a nice time with Ghislaine Maxwell.
A late night message from Gavin Newsom
Because the point is to terrorize black people.
blithely lying knowing there are zero consequences for lying is a hallmark of this administration
Everyone in DC should just start carrying giant sandwiches around the streets of the city, holding them aloft like torches for liberty.
The NHS are forcibly detransitioning trans kids in Brighton and calling it āmanaged withdrawal.ā Their own impact assessment acknowledges trans kids will be at increased risk of harm as a result, donāt want this, and are likely to just use DIY hormones instead
Hey guys... this is serious please go and opt out NOW!
Anglo-Saxons with West African roots: DNA analysis of 7th century burials reported in @antiquity.ac.uk today reveals long-distance connections reached across continents and cultures. Read about it @science.org: