He’s mad our country is run by crooks and murderers and so am I. I’m no longer interested in negotiating with these people and neither is he.

Bill McKibben@billmckibben.bsky.social · 16h ago

Figuring out why Ossoff is so effective is an interesting task. I think he's mastering a kind of stern dignity that is uniquely compelling in contrast to the clownish cruelty of the other side. I think the other person who's kind of hit on the same thing is AOC, though in a different register

Trump is turning into a centaur. Look at the hindquarters on this thing. (Alex Wroblewski/AFP via Getty)

Read the whole thread.

Ruha Benjamin@ruha9.bsky.social · 12h ago

I’m in DC scheduled to give this talk today. But the organizers flagged slides in my deck that mention racism, structural gaslighting, New Jim Code and other themes that are off limits in the Land of the Free.

As I always say to my students (sometimes with this specific example) you really need to think about the size of the effect and not just the sign. “Do rich people move in response to tax increases?” is not the right question for policy. The right question is, *how much* do they move?

James Medlock@jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 8h ago

A lot of rich guys want you to think that the bar on the right is always going to be bigger than the bar on the left.

This is a big deal. DC fed judge says that DOJ's pursuit (and use) of the state voter files is unlawful, on a bunch of different grounds. And effectively confirms that for the 18 states that submitted files willingly, whoever collected the files at DOJ Civil Rights committed federal crimes.

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Wemby waiting for his microwave burrito to finish cooking

@pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 16h ago

‘Death Looking into the Window of One Dying’, by Jaroslav Panuška, c. 1900.

Trump's suit appears to be part of Jos. A. Bank's Traveler line. The suit is listed as having been made abroad using a wool-polyester-spandex blend. The company describes it as having the "ultimate stretch" and was designed to minimize body odor.

They're partying in military housing while they make the actual troops live on squalid boats and wrecked airbases so their families back home can pay $5 a gallon.

Blue Freedom Quest 💙🌊💙🌊@bluefreedomquest.bsky.social · 8h ago

Katie Miller Throws Wild House Parties After Fleeing to Military Base newrepublic.com/post/216472/... via @newrepublic.com

Aminata Seck has been freed. "I'm just ready to go back to school, get my master's and get this surgery done,” she said. ICE kept her in pain in detention for two months for no reason. www.espn.com/womens-colle...

Kentucky State player released on bond from ICE custody

Kentucky State University women's basketball center Aminata Seck was released on bond Wednesday after spending two months in ICE custody.

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Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 2w ago

ICE snatched up a Senegalese college basketball player with an ACL injury in a Kentucky airport. She’s “in so much pain” and needs surgery, but is being transferred from camp to camp with little more than ibuprofen. www.kentucky.com/news/state/k...

hollywood releasing a bunch of movies about how an insane, radicalized cabal of billionaires are trying to gobble up the world economy approximately 3 weeks after said insane cabal gobbles up the entertainment industry is what historians call a "whoopsy doodle" moment

They cut funding to any research addressing disparity in outcomes to fund their own version of the Tuskegee experiment overseas.

Melody Schreiber@melodyschreiber.com · 8h ago

BREAKING: The controversial hepatitis B vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau is moving forward -- and here are the details on how it will take place: www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

“The elderly man who shot Gonzalez is not facing charges. Gonzalez is now in custody for felony assault.”👍

Nicole Foy@nicolefoy.bsky.social · 9h ago

What a strange story. California woman finds a man, allegedly drunk, sleeping on her lawn early in the morning & sends her dad out to move him. The man wakes up & allegedly assaults the (elderly) dad, who shoots him Turns out the man is off-duty ICE agent David Gonzalez abc7.com/story/off-du...

An asshole with one dollar is his own problem. An asshole with one billion dollars is *everyone's* problem.

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 10h ago

There are many ways in which every billionaire is a policy failure, but the most corrosive and destructive way in which billionaires are policy failures is this: billionaires, despite being unelected and unaccountable, possess the power to control - and ruin - millions of peoples' lives.

It remains very funny to me that there are exactly two places where Francis Ford Coppola will allow people to watch this: In movie theaters or -- the way I saw it -- as an in-flight movie on American Airlines.

Daniel Radosh@radosh.bsky.social · 9h ago

LFG!

If the gangs have to protect the neighborhood why are they paying taxes for the police?

Eruanion Nolaquen@eruanion.bsky.social · 9h ago

the Gangs out there need to start showing up at ICE raids....

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

When someone is a true degenerate malefactor it can be pretty hard to keep up with all the different kinds of misbehavior they're either committing or proximate to.

Abby Vesoulis@abbyvesoulis.bsky.social · 11h ago

SCOOP: Rep. Max Miller's girlfriend of nearly two years was just indicted by a grand jury on three charges, including grand theft. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Repeating my sotto voce refrain that I think we are very soon going to have to deal with the plain (but seldom spoken) fact that police are simply not under the control of the political leadership who command them on paper.

George Pearkes@peark.es · 12h ago

I hope Mamdani clarifies whether NYPD support for this action was at his direction or if the NYPD acted on its own; if the latter, why do they have that latitude and what is being done to reign in a rogue agency?

Rightwing billionaire takeovers of most traditional and social media, NYT standing alone as a monopoly in the American liberal economy…the media situation is so dark

I turned on CNN a handful of times over the past couple days. Literally 9 out of 10 of the segments was them criticizing Abdul El-Sayed.

I’ve been saying this for a couple of years now. The French get it. Several other countries have done it in the past few years. So why don’t we?🤔

In case you were wondering whether or not local cops were gonna stop ICE when they show up at polling places in blue cities, the answer is a resounding no

Lex McMenamin (they/them)@lexmcmenamin.com · 13h ago

last night eyewitnesses saw Oscar Belgal — the man shot by ICE with his 5 year old in the car — discharged from the hospital into ICE custody, with feds speeding off as NYPD cleared the roads for them of protesters. his attorneys don't know where he is; he's seemingly been taken out of NY state.

“Although [Mr. Belgal] was initially hospitalized, it appears that ICE moved quickly to transfer him out of the hospital to an unknown location—raising grave concerns for his health and well-being.” from @maketheroadny.bsky.social’s habeas petition filed today

ICE shot a man in New York City; his lawyers can’t find him

The agency claims Oscar Belgal "weaponized his vehicle” against agents in the Bronx, prompting them to fire seven shots at his car.

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I will never, ever consider my audience when making art. You are a disgusting flesh piano I manipulate to make the noises that please me. That’s the Rob Delaney promise.

Bugs, Yaoist@bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · yesterday

maybe i'm old fashion but the coolest thing about video games is being taken to new worlds that i hadn't thought up and experiencing something exciting that the artists behind the game want to show me

finger still on the pulse of the voter less than 30 days out

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 14h ago

Trump: "We needed a heliport. Two things they wanted at the White House. They wanted a great heliport. Very important, because we land a lot of big helicopters. The biggest. And they always wanted a ballroom."

And not for nothing: Lisa Cook’s economic expertise: studying how lynching impacted the wealth accumulation of Black People.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 15h ago

BREAKING Politico: Trump has just established a committee of inquiry to investigate whether Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook made "false statements in connection with one or more mortgage instruments" — his latest effort to remove her from the central bank.

when the racist trillionaire with a breeding cult and a child porn bot is funding your opposition you should say something about it

🗽LOLGOP🗽@lolgop.bsky.social · 19h ago

I ask again, why are national Dems letting Elon "quietly" fund these races? We have two test cases. 2024 when Dems didn't make his money an issue. And 2025 Wisconsin, where they did. Guess which time they won by double digits?

One thing that Ossoff does - thank god - is COMPLETELY abandon the weird liberal wisdom that you should never say your opponent’s name. He says “Mike Collins” about 30 times in this clip, not “my opponent” or some such, and the directness make his attacks exponentially more brutal.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Ossoff: "If John Lewis were marching today from Selma to Montgomery, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club"

Of course the Trump Savings Accounts for kids turns out to be scam. In effect, "our president is helping rich donors offload overvalued stocks onto children, who are forced to hold the stocks for five years whether they want to or not." www.rawstory.com/trump-accoun...

Trump rigs kids’ piggy banks so billionaires can dump falling stock on them: analyst

A quiet change to President Donald Trump's namesake savings program for children amounts to a gift for billionaires, according to an economic analyst.In an article for The Bulwark on Thursday, economi...

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As tiresome as it is to hear Andy Burnham saying "innovation nation" over and over, it's arguably even worse to hear this talk of industrialisation. We have great, valuable export industries in the arts, TV, the BBC and higher education. All are being filleted; thousands out of work, and what for?