To run a voting station,I had to swear an oath to uphold the Constitution. May everyone who has sworn that oath continue to honor their oath.
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To run a voting station,I had to swear an oath to uphold the Constitution. May everyone who has sworn that oath continue to honor their oath.
Seeing much debate over Trump’s latest remarks on covid and RFK Jr Some relevant reporting Yesterday: Steve Bannon told WaPo (left) that he wanted Trump to post asap on TruthSocial, and his admin to push on vaccine data Today: Trump posts a TruthSocial (right), demanding more covid vaccine data
Not today, Satan‼️ Got this garbage in the mail a few days ago. Republicans trying to trick California voters into voting NO on Prop 50. Suddenly they care about “democracy”? Please. Vote YES on Prop 50. Don’t let the cheaters write the rules.
Prop 50 is about defending democracy. Republicans already stole seats in Texas without voters having any say. California is doing it differently: we get a one-time shot to fight back, then it reverts to our independent redistricting commission.
We dumped a president for being too old only to elect one who immediately died. You can't say that's not funny
Remember when obituaries would lead with the deceased's name?
Aw, thanks! I loved writing it!
Nobody needs to be morally perfect. But we do need leaders who will fight for the rights of *all* people. The second someone like Newsom or Buttigieg agrees with conservatives that it’s okay to treat *any* group like second-class citizens, they’ve shown they can’t meet this moment.
Sure, and demanding that our leaders overcome bigotry to stand up for human rights *is* working with people. You’re asking an attacked minority to accept bigotry and discrimination rather than telling the bigots doing the attacking that they’re wrong. That’s not power. It’s capitulation.
And we keep telling you that this is the case. You're going to forget about it and want to accept them and play nice. We will be upset at you for that. Furious, even. They are destroying *everything*. And you hateful racist fuckwits are cheering them on.
Really good short article. If you don’t follow @justsecurity.org you really should
Defeat posting you way into doing what exactly?
The Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party voters will cheer on the leopards while their own faces are being eaten.
This, too.
Respectfully, when you use AI to create images like this — or share AI images — you are helping fund the techbro oligarchs who fund fascism. Please stop.
Remember this for when it all comes crashing down and former Republicans claim they never really supported Trump and they were horrified by what he was doing. The overwhelming majority of Republicans are getting exactly what they wanted.
A 76% point gap between how satisfied Republicans are with the country versus how satisfied Democrats are. The largest partisan gap ever. news.gallup.com/poll/694370/...
30 sleeps until we wake up Green Day
apparently this is still Biden’s fault somehow?
If you need a 101 on alt text bsky.app/profile/numb...
Big popular accounts add alt text to you screenshots challenge (impossible).
Voting for Brexit, stopping the small boats – none of it will ever appease those who wage war on immigration | Nesrine Malik
But far too many prominent Democratic leaders have been willing to accept the fascist framing of trans people as second-class citizens with fewer rights. That’s not leadership. It’s abdication.
They did, and I applaud them for it. But it’s not accurate to say “they got nothing out of it.” They stood up for human rights and killed bad legislation — that’s what they got out of it. And in a functional society, that would be enough.
Creative writing prompt: Make a simple press statement about a car accident sound suspicious on at least three different levels.
tomorrow is September all of the sudden which feels unjust
I can't get past Peter Thiel naming his company Palantir aka the magical objects in LOTR used by an evil control obsessed entity for weird authoritarian surveillance state reasons It's like an 80s movie villain who runs a company called SwastikaCorp, like its TOO on the nose
Something my manager told me the other day stuck with me. "The reason people want leaders who will defend gays and people of color is because if a politician is willing to do that, they know they're willing to defend them. Anybody willing to look out for the little guy's got my vote."
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In the intelligence community, they remember the tools used to recruit an asset with the acronym MICE. Money Ideology Compromise Ego For Gabbard, I think it’s all about ME.
I understand and share your frustration, but please point me to all the great things in history that have been accomplished by cynicism, hopelessness, and surrender.
The number of likely foreign intelligence assets serving in senior levels of the US government is beyond alarming. It deserves an immediate response but barring that, at least an epoch of throwing the book at people, even at the risk of overdoing it. Hammer down & fix it later where appropriate.
THIS. Also, I'm not going to pretend our own communities aren't rotten with transphobia but the US isn't the only place where queers keep enabling fair-weather "allies" always in our spaces and faces for the photo-ops, fundraisers and unpaid campaign work but nowhere to be seen when shit gets real.
Trans rights are human rights. Period. End of sentence.
Trans rights are human rights, like the bar is on the fucking floor and yet so many of our dem leaders are still somehow clotheslining themselves on it.
LOUDER
Thinking mostly of Newsom and Buttigieg. But I doubt Schumer or Jefferies would do the right thing.
The Trump administration destabilizing the U.S. at the request of Putin.
And just because he's Trolling Trump doesn't make Newsome a good person. He's a fucking transphobe.
We are told to “vote blue no matter who.” We have the right to expect “equal human rights no matter who” in return. Otherwise, Democrats are just stepping over bodies for power.
Rebellions are built on hope.
Fucking this. Solidary forever.
Man, I gotta get me one of them sky-beds. Must be so much fun…
But it’s precisely *because* we failed to hold members of the first Trump admin (and for that matter, members of the GWB admin) accountable that we are in this mess now. Anyone who isn’t talking about investigations, arrests, charges, and trials should have no place in leadership.
RICO the whole GOP.
Trump and Gabbard are certainly considered "assets" by Russia. But Gabbard genuinely seems to be an "agent" sometimes.
at their core, trans rights, abortion rights, and vaccine rights are actually all the same issue: they’re all about bodily autonomy, and the willingness to concede any of them puts the others at risk.
Hey Mike, remember how in your early 20s your back hurt before you even got out of bed in the morning and your feet were always numb?
one thing no eighty year old man can say is “never felt better in my life”
no matter your politics it’s disrespectful to joke about someone’s death. don’t say rudy giuliani died from driving his car into a wall painted to look like a tunnel and all his clothes flew off in the crash and then a sixteen wheeler semi truck ran over his dick and balls. don’t say stuff like that
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
To be fair, most of them are too busy checking the rubles-to-crypto exchange rates to pay close attention.
I think most people do care. Quite a lot actually. And I think academics care deeply. But I don’t think most people in media care. And I don’t think most Democrats care. And that’s why we’re in this mess.
If I’ve learned only two things from being in union leadership, they are: 1. You only get what you’re willing to fight for. 2. What you fight is who you are. Solidarity.
Thank you, David. I’m real tired of folks expecting me to throw myself under the bus for someone who doesn’t even care.
I suppose we’ll find out the hard way…
Dear Democratic Leaders, If you won’t stand up for trans people and their rights, you’re tellling me you won’t stand up for *anyone* or *any rights* the second they come under attack. You’re telling me you don’t stand for anything at all. Also, they’re *people*. Grow a spine or get out the way.
Medicare for all, paid leave, universal childcare. Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Street’s greed. Getting big money out of politics. Supporting unions and fighting for higher wages. If Dems want to win back working people, this is the agenda they must support.
John Oliver fact-checks Kennedy. PSA- everything coming out of the HHS needs to be fact-checked. Anyone can spout numbers. Here he goes again, as usual. MAHA math ain't mathin'. 🧪 www.youtube.com/shorts/JPzXG...
So many Russian assets in the WH
Tulsi Gabbard is *very obviously* a foreign intelligence asset and I hope we all live long enough to see her tried and convicted for it.
“By shutting down the Foreign Malign Influence Center, Gabbard stripped away America’s shield against foreign meddling. Moscow and Beijing couldn’t ask for a bigger gift.” Robert Morton #NationalSecurity #ForeignInterference #counterespionage
The God’s honest truth. Proud of @maron standing up to fascist propagandists like Bill Maher, and hate filled anti-trans bullies like Chappelle. Chappelle is worse because he was once funny. Maher has always been a hack. variety.com/2025/tv/news...
Yes. The “guys, tone it down with the trans stuff, it’s not polling well” is just beyond stupid. They should be staunchly supportive and ALSO focus more on things like deploying the military against citizens and cost of living. Most Dems know someone trans and want them alive and well and free.
The Toxic Avenger is clearing medical debt as marketing for the movie.
This is awesome of them to do, but also what an indictment of the way things are that it's a valid marketing tactic
Why do you appreciate unions? I’ll start: Weekends off Paid vacations Work breaks Sick leave Paid holidays No child labor Safer working conditions Health care and retirement benefits
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BREAKING: Bernie Sanders wants RFK Jr. under oath. He’s demanding a special Senate hearing on the CDC disaster RFK Jr. helped create. Go Bernie!
Black Hole @konstructivizm.bsky.social Meet Ammonite, the oldest iceberg in the Solar System. Officially 2023 KQ₁₄. In fact, it is an icy hermit wandering far beyond Neptune. Its perihelion is 66 AU, and its orbit is so elongated that one revolution around the Sun takes about 4,000 years.
NEW: Judge Sooknanan now orders the govt to explain why it has failed to meet her 4 p.m. ET deadline to give a status update on the Guatemalan children who are supposed to be removed from planes and returned to Office of Refugee Resettlement custody.
And 100% of Sebs Gorka are lying Nazis.
75% of trump supporters are pimple-ridden incel chodes who live in their mommy’s basement and smell like Doritos and foot fungus. The other 25% are their parents.
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!
The headline should be “Trump announces another unconstitutional illegal order that he has no power to issue.” But now are media carry water for fascists and there’s no objective reality.
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."
🧵 In the wake of numerous reports of interactions with AI chatbots that resulted in deadly consequences, the Center for Democracy & Technology's Dr. Michal Luria says AI firms should stop designing products that pretend to be human.
Remember this every single time they say it's an issue of mental health. They don't intend to do anything about mental health. They view it as something like the weather which you can't do anything about
RADDATZ: One of the things they are trying to do in DC with the National Guard is have them back up local law enforcement WES MOORE: They are picking up trash
Feels like there’s an incredible book ready to be written on this story especially given that all his other claims - which there’s always been doubt about - now have a massive cloud over them. Man was clearly a stone cold sociopath.
Pritzker: "We don't want troops on the streets of American cities. That's un-American and frankly the president ought to know better. This one doesn't seem to. He hasn't read any books. He doesn't seem to understand the Constitution or the laws."
not just that he has no constitutional authority, there isn't even any particular legal or institutional mechanism by which the president can make anyone treat this as anything other than a weird advisory opinion.
He might as well issue an Executive Order that says votes cast for Democratic candidates won't be counted.
Just saw this TikTok from someone in DC.
I hate that the most obviously phony, lying clowns get taken seriously by ANYONE in this country.
Hey LA a great pup went missing on Friday. Keep an eye out for Puma please! Last seen near Beverly and Fairfax/The Grove ❤️❤️❤️
JB Pritzker uses the word "invasion" to describe what Trump has planned for my city, Chicago. And that's exactly what it would be – an autocratic government trying to crush our dissent because we oppose his corruption, cruelty and incompetence. It's what dictators do.
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…
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Don’t. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers.
“The times, places, and manner of holding elections for senators and representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by law make or alter such regulations, except as to the places of choosing senators.” - US Constitution, Art. 4.1
tuesdays with morrie is coming to xbox live
There is a part where the gentleman makes the mistake of resting right as his balls are straddling the fence that I have watched five times on a loop.
anyway yeah he’s pretty clearly dying faster than usual this week, maybe they’ll get it slowed back down, but whether he dies soon or not we need to keep demanding the media stop pretending he hasn’t had visible dementia symptoms for nearly a decade, followed by a recent acceleration in his decline
