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hard not to assess yesterday's brutal takedown of schimel & not feel at least a small flicker of optimism can't get comfortable tho

submitted 26 minutes ago • 0 comments

Going to enjoy spending very real and meaningful time doing what I can to make sure that Bradley loses even worse than Schimel

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

New, from me: Elon Musk is the biggest loser in Wisconsin. His brazen effort to buy a state supreme court did not just fail - it undermined his image of political kingmaker. This is the clearest indicator that voters are angry with Trump/Musk agenda. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-bigges...

submitted 19 hours ago • 63 comments

hard to believe an elon musk product fell apart and exploded at the finish line

submitted 18 hours ago • 28 comments

ty for stepping up when it matters, WI

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

Seven polling sites in Milwaukee ran out of ballots due to "historic turnout" according to city election director. More ballots are being printed and on way. Very important to remind voters that if they're in line when polls close at 8 CT they get to vote. Do not leave. Please spread the word

submitted 20 hours ago • 88 comments

congrats to federal dems on continuing to learn and do absolutely nothing while being trampled under fascist boot

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

And, to be clear, it's almost certainly happening because the base has been screaming for action from elected Democrats. This isn't "relax, they've got this." This is "keep yelling, it's working."

submitted 22 hours ago • 53 comments

look, folks, I think that's as good as it's gonna get. let's go out on a high. abolish the senate.

submitted 21 hours ago • 26 comments

Damn, game hasn’t even started and Booker’s already over 25 from the floor

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

In his 1957 filibuster, Strom Thurmond said "Negroes ... are not so well qualified to vote as are the white people.” A Black senator just broke the record Thurmond set with that speech. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/cory-bo...

submitted 21 hours ago • 373 comments

in good company here, also a fun reminder to extend another thx to petrusich for guest-editing an essay for HB’s ‘A Year’s Worth of Memories’ series once upon a time

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

this is good and huge props to booker for saying it but it's also kind of funny that it takes the equivalent of the russian sleep experiment to get a democratic senator to admit this out loud

submitted 1 day ago • 24 comments

vote in the wisconsin state supreme court election today so that elon musk has the worst night imaginable

submitted 1 day ago • 58 comments

"AI generated images are trash and the people that use them are also trash" is a hill that I'm very willing to die on, actually

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

This pointless stunt by Cory Booker is accomplishing nothing but drawing attention to the Trump administration’s wrongdoing and delaying the work of the Senate and energizing the Democratic base and, wait, hang on, let me come in again

submitted 1 day ago • 278 comments

“The truth is that a tattoo identifying Tren de Aragua does not exist,” she told me. “Tren de Aragua does not use any tattoos as a form of gang identification; no Venezuelan gang does.”

submitted 1 day ago • 236 comments

Imagine being able to do this Oh, wait a second

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One of the defining feelings in American life, for decades now, is elites doing plainly criminal shit and nothing at all happening as a result. It is deranging in a way that virtually nothing else is. Media fixates on perceived street lawlessness but shit like this matters much more in my opinion.

submitted 2 days ago • 284 comments

New, from me: Hegseth is using an K-12 education exec order to purge books about MLK Jr. and Jackie Robinson from the Naval Academy library. It's not just the whitewashing of US history; he is infantilizing the leaders we expect to go into battle. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/infantiliz...

submitted 3 days ago • 48 comments

👀 e&e news, which is owned by politico, just broke the massive story that trump is withholding disaster aid. you can't read e&e's version of the story though. just politico's. so you can't share the reporting if you want to avoid giving their owners ad revenue and clicks. sigh.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Seriously -- he's broadcasting plans to violate state and federal election laws, in support of his quest to sway a state Supreme Court election. Arrest him. Yes, even though he's really rich. Arrest him.

submitted 5 days ago • 233 comments

all of this fond reminiscence of daytrotter, la blogotheque, black cab, etc may or may not bode well for something i’ve been quietly assembling…

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

there are a lot of milquetoast cowards in this admin who are practically begging for the richard spencer treatment someone should oblige them with emphasis

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Is the bombardment of AI animation slop bringing you down? Can I offer you a Reset in this trying time? 20+ artists and animators contributed to this indie music video, and I'll be shouting each of them out below [THREAD]

submitted 6 days ago • 11 comments

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submitted 6 days ago • 107 comments

The purpose of the deportations we have been seeing has not been to fight antisemitism, but rather to use antisemitism as a beachhead to eventually do away with foreign students altogether, using Jews as a pretext for a non-Jewish political agenda.

submitted 6 days ago • 80 comments

“We preface everything with an admission that our opponents are right and somehow we’re losing the messaging war. We don’t understand why this isn’t working.”

submitted 6 days ago • 55 comments

read this defector.com/it-is-what-i...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

submitted 7 days ago • 1944 comments

The "Is it a constitutional crisis yet?!" discussion is so absurd: Of course you can construct increasingly esoteric definitions for why this current moment doesn't meet your exact criteria yet. But meanwhile, this is where we are: Masked agents of the states abducting people for writing op-eds.

submitted 7 days ago • 46 comments

These notes from universities aren't just useless and cowardly, they're actively dangerous at this point! Your university isn't a "community" if it's allowing people to be abducted off the street because of an op-ed. Real answer is to reallocate all university resources until the student is freed.

submitted 7 days ago • 37 comments

I don’t understand how you can watch a video like the Tufts one and not view ICE as an irredeemable agency that is attractive for violent white supremacists to work at.

submitted 7 days ago • 17 comments

sex scenes have been on point lately, & mary was the perfect add on bass. new single rips. hard cosign/blessing. sexscenes.bandcamp.com/track/nothing

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments