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Tim is correct. Again.

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A Hmong American woman who has lived in the Milwaukee area since she was 8 months old was deported last week to Laos, a country she has never visited, and says she is stranded in a rooming house surrounded by military guards. www.jsonline.com/story/news/l...

submitted 21 hours ago • 3 comments

Share the media. The news is compromised. We're starting to boil over.

submitted 23 hours ago • 15 comments

This game is super fun! Great writing. Interesting choices. Good jokes. Tragic moments. And also - without spoiling anything - clear chapter breaks that make this perfect for short sessions.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

I will still remember in 2028 and 2030

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

Even if you agree with Schumer that voting for cloture was the lesser of two evils, he handled this with such total ineptitude, in a way that could not have angered and demoralized Democratic voters more if it had been designed to, that it's impossible to justify his leadership role.>

submitted 1 day ago • 40 comments

These are the senators who collaborated with the GOP. Schumer Fetterman Cortez Masto Durbin King Shaheen Gillibrand Schatz Hassan Peters Don’t let them forget it. No peace for them.

submitted 1 day ago • 4118 comments

Gillibrand either but Schumer owns this embarrassment

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You know, I thought I was done giving money to Democrats. But I’m going to happily donate to whoever primaries these feckless, weak motherfuckers

submitted 1 day ago • 39 comments

Schumer’s book tour starts next week. New Yorkers: streicker.nyc/events/schumer

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

They should do this. I’m a New Yorker. I’m a lifelong Democrat. I vote, volunteer, and donate, and @chuckschumer.com is never getting my vote again.

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Rules for the Senate Dems to remove leader: Just 10 members (20% of the Senate Dem Conference) can call for a meeting of the conference to vote on whether and who shall replace Schumer as Conference Chair and Democratic Leader.

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents 800,000+ federal and D.C. workers (i.e. people directly impacted by a government shutdown), is urging senators to vote no on the House GOP's CR. In other words, AFGE is saying a government shutdown is less bad than this GOP bill.

submitted 1 day ago • 120 comments

So excited to reveal my next book! It's the baseball romcom of my dreams where an analyst given the chance to run an organization comes up against the team's new manager, the man who only ever made her job harder back when he was a player. Pre-order now: www.jennifer-hennessy.com/for-the-ring

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Just boosting this for my mom, who is an artist with Stage 4 colon cancer. I know it's a lot out there - out here - in America. Times are rough, but hearts are kind, and I am grateful for the many fierce and generous people I know. ❤️ www.gofundme.com/f/help-our-m...

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Florida residents! Let's see if we can stop this one in the committee

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#Booksky and #skybrarians, heads up!

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A reminder that if you’re using AI to write your novel or memoir or whatever it is you’re trying to develop, you’re absolutely doing it wrong and missing the point entirely of what it means to make art and tend to and honor your creative self.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

One of the really special things about Sesame Street was always these little art films that were less about teaching a specific thing than they were about instilling a sort of meditative sense of wonder at how the world works.

submitted 1 day ago • 64 comments

Hey there. We're hiring for several new full-time, remote, US-based editorial roles at @salonnewsroom.bsky.social — writers on the culture and science/health desks, an opinion editor, and an audience producer. I'll make a little thread, but here's the main link: www.salon.com/about/hiring

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

Kash Patel wants to criminally charge groups who received EPA grants for climate change projects. You know, like those greedy bastards at Habitat for Humanity. He thinks climate change isn't real, so he thinks these groups have committed fraud. Which of course is fucking crazy.

submitted 3 days ago • 406 comments

New Yorkers: Call Sen. Gillibrand’s office to vote NO on cloture and NO on the Republican Spending Bill. They vote in the morning. ☎️: (202) 224-4451

submitted 1 day ago • 1087 comments

Schumer is acceding to the GOP’s plan to blow up D.C.’s budget by prohibiting us from spending a billion dollars of our own money, forcing devastating cuts to vital services out of pure spite toward our city and its residents. And he doesn’t bother defending his decision to throw us under the bus.

submitted 1 day ago • 78 comments

Here's the thing, this is a great moment to be fucking furious with Democratic senators because THEY ACTUALLY HAVE POWER IN THIS MOMENT and are giving it away instead of daring to take a stand.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

To give an idea of how personally malicious this is, consider the number of Columbia grads who were spies for the Soviet Union but never had their degrees revoked: Morris Cohen, Isaiah Oggins, William Perl, Nathaniel Weyl, William Remington and more. None lost their degrees. Amazing.

submitted 2 days ago • 23 comments

Open AI be like, but if we can't steal work creators produce, we don't have a business! And it's like that's real tough cookies, but uh.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Who is 35 in New York and wants to run for office?

submitted 2 days ago • 526 comments

Honestly. I understand the argument behind not allowing a government shutdown and although I vehemently disagree with it, the reasoning I’ll admit has validity. So GO ON TV AND MAKE THE CASE. Don’t patronize us with the doomed clean CR. Don’t make us parse 3 layers of sources & analysts.

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Jewelry thief calls for weakened theft laws

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CALLS ARE WORKING - it has bought us precious time, but we NEED to keep the pressure up. Tomorrow is the cloture vote. KEEP CALLING: (202) 224-3121 ☎️☎️☎️ Tell your Dem Senator to vote NO on Cloture and NO on the Republican spending bill. Do NOT assume your Senator will be good on this. Trust me.

submitted 2 days ago • 1540 comments

You're not going to get better polling than this. But also fuck the polling. Simple message: Republicans put forward a bill they can't pass. Republicans have chose to shut the government down instead. If they need our votes to pass a bill, we're here when they want to talk.

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If I’m gonna write about politics now, I’d better make it count. www.sfgate.com/politics/art...

submitted 2 days ago • 46 comments

FYI this is an act of desperation. They haven't got shit left. They're going through the couch cushions www.cnbc.com/2025/03/13/o...

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

Okay, long story short: I basically just got an email informing me it is no longer /possible/ for me to distribute Forget Me Knot on Amazon. Obviously, I hate Amazon but that was my backup plan if I couldn't reach enough readers elsewhere bc books are my full-time job 🥲 so, pls share it w/friends!

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"Romance writers and readers are mighty, and with the increased censorship of romance books at every level, it’s up to us to use that might to fight back," says @adibkhorram.bsky.social in our new Shelf Love interview in collaboration with @authorsabb.bsky.social. Read more: pen.org/adib-khorram...

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BREAKING: Hundreds of Jews and allies have taken over Trump Tower chanting “We want justice, you say how. Bring Mahmoud home now!” and “Fight Nazis, not students.” The civil disobedience is spawned by the ICE arrest of Palestinian student Mahmoud Khalil.

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The books they want banned are not porn. They teach children about their bodies, body autonomy, and how not to get groomed. They teach children how not to be sexualized by people in positions of power and authority. Why are those the ones they want banned the most? 🤔🤔🤔

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For the Daily Beast, I wrote about the recent viral video featuring liberal commentator Sam Seder vs. 20 conservatives. www.thedailybeast.com/the-viral-de...

submitted 3 days ago • 46 comments

"The direct inspiration was me, exasperated, trying to come up with a metaphor to explain why voting for someone who promises twenty terrible things to potentially get one good thing might not be effective." - @mikedrucker.bsky.social on writing his super viral piece.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

I think a lot of people who are used to dismissing any dissatisfaction with the Dem establishment as DSA malcontents are missing how radicalized normie lib moms who would have voted for Obama a third time if they could are getting

submitted 2 days ago • 220 comments

the us declaring war on solving problems is one of the best ways i’ve heard of framing how this is playing out

submitted 2 days ago • 34 comments

I don't think it's a coincidence the person with the most courage to take ownership for a failure is also the person I probably blame the least

submitted 2 days ago • 161 comments

The fact congressional Democrats have not hired three dozen D&D rules lawyers with oppositional defiant disorder and turned them loose on parliamentary procedure with the goal of maximum obstruction is such a fucking missed opportunity

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The new McCarthyism proceeds apace. To be clearer than the NYT headline: a Palestinian legal scholar was accused by a shady substack publication that uses AI of being a terrorist & Yale immediately suspended her with no investigation into veracity or due process of any kind. Fun times!!!

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments