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WYOMING: “Thank you, Madam chairman.” “I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.” “Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

Democrats are fundamentally misunderstanding the moment: We're not asking them to be *legislators* right now. We need them to be *politicians.* There's nothing to be done about the legislative situation. They're right about that. But there's PLENTY to be done as politicians.

Everything right now should be understood as gangsterism. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/gangster-p...

Precisely what we warned about when the emails first went out.

Here’s some Richard Hescox art to make your Sunday a little better.

seems like it is a big deal that the unifying ideology of the doge team is neo nazism

I would rather have 7000 year old Joe Biden in 2028 than this clown

every time reggie goes "oh he's found his rhythm now, HE'S FOUND HIS rhythm" the player starts fucking up. please stop using him for things @tntsportsus.bsky.social

elon pulls down on atlas shrugged: the bookcase slides open revealing a vault door with a keypad. he enters 4-20-69: the door unlocks and silently swings open. he steps inside and views rows upon rows of numbered test tubes, each filled with a milky fluid. “soon, my children,” he murmurs. “soon."

The 3pt contest is the only thing worth watching of the entirety of ASG weekend

Yes, we let a rich idiot nobody elected destroy the entire government, but it was that or make rich people pay taxes so that poor people could go to the doctor

Howard Dean did a weird yell

Hochul needs to stop being a coward and immediately remove Adams, a criminal who has made a corrupt bargain with a criminal administration to subvert the process that would otherwise hold him accountable.

An unelected South African has taken control of the US Treasury and is deciding to stop payments on American obligations, in violation of numerous court orders, and admits in the Oval Office that he has done so upon incorrect information, while the President sits impotently behind the Resolute Desk.

THIS FRIDAY is the deadline to register as a Democrat (which you need to be to vote in June’s mayoral primary) gothamist.com/news/if-you-...

The Dems gotta stop acting like Lisa Simpson at the beginning of the episode and start acting like Lisa Simpson right before the second ad break.

folks really need to accept that "lawful" and "lawless" don't matter, what matters is being able to marshal and deploy force (force of capital, the force of arms, the force of a crowd...) none of the people running the country right now give a good goddamn about the law

"It's THEIR government." Thanks, @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social, for making it clear we are utterly on our own.

Politico is one of countless outlets (CNN, NPR, CBS, Semafor, Washington Post, LA Times) that responded to authoritarianism by sucking up even harder to Republicans and once again this is your reward

Love me some Hukporti #knicks

so US policy towards Gaza has gone from arming a genocide to explicitly ethnic cleansing the entire strip and building Trump Towers in its place what a horror we are responsible for as a country

if you’re 25 years old with control of the entire treasury system and you don’t delete every student debt file, you are the biggest loser the world has ever seen

Now the whole country gets the experience of what it's like when private equity buys the place you work

Stats over the final six minutes of the fourth quarter last night: Jalen Brunson: 17 points and 2 assists 5-of-5 shooting The entire Rockets team combined: 15 points and 3 assists 4-of-14 shooting

Well then why the fuck did they just gut enough funding to make me laid off you chunk of sentient gruel