I absolutely love this. Women and Black people are always held to performative forgiveness of unforgivable behavior even when no one has bothered to ask forgiveness! Refusal. It's a politic an ethic.

Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social · yesterday

Q: I’m told that Vivek Ramaswamy left you a congratulatory phone call. Have the two of you spoken? Governor-elect Amy Acton: We can’t normalize behavior like this. It was so beyond the pale, so no, I have no intention of speaking to him. Leaders’ words matter and we need to hold folks accountable.

What I always find funny of the MSM is that when the GOP wins by 1.5% it's a MANDATE TO TRANSFORM GOVERNMENT AND THE ENTIRE CULTURE. When Progressives win by 13 points, it's only a repudiation of certain aspects of the GOP. I know that Dems aren't popular but progressive policies ARE.

god this is incredible

kenofseattle@kenofseattle.bsky.social · 2d ago

Here's Georgia's eight Constitutional Officers before and after the Blue Tsunami.

everyone jokes about libbing out, but let me say: you can hold a radical politic and still celebrate when positive change happens. tuesday was like rescuing a drowning person. we can be happy they didn’t die. joy is fuel that keeps us going, don’t deny yourself of it because you think it’s cringe.

a whole lot of people were like "you may not like the nazi rapist, but he's the special boy who is the only one who can flip maine" and then Some Normal Guy flipped it easily

NPR@npr.org · 3d ago

The result is a crucial victory for Democrats in their push to retake the Senate majority, flipping a seat that Collins has held for nearly 30 years. n.pr/4zqRfnd

The resistance of Minnesotans this winter changed the trajectory of our country and that cannot be overstated.

Hope everyone remembers the Mamdani Prime Directive: Do all the cool shit you can to make folks lives better immediately.

take your moment to celebrate and then PLEASE. go join a group doing base-building organizing near you. the next fight starts today: we have to hold the feet of democrats to the fire and make all of them understand that the people demand REAL structural change and courage

OK, Dems. IF this is as great a night as we're all hoping it will be you folks are going to have to actually DO THINGS in the next two years like A LOT OF VERY GOOD THINGS please attend the Zohran Mamdani school of GET SHIT DONE FOR PEOPLE over the holidays because you will have ONE SHOT

John Ossoff is a superstar but let’s be clear that he’s picked up (and sprinted like a heartthrob QB ) the political opportunity that Stacey Abrams, LaTosha Brown and other organizers made for them with over a decade of work. Don’t forget that electoral tsunamis aren’t made from mobilization alone.

Decision Desk HQ@decisiondeskhq.bsky.social · 4d ago

Decision Desk HQ projects Jon Ossoff wins the GA US Senate General Election #DecisionMade: 7:18 PM EST Follow live results here: votes.decisiondeskhq.com/races/2026-1...

Moderates repeatedly crossing party lines to endorse and publicly vote for Republicans amidst the most racist and disastrous Republican administration in public memory ought to end the argument that’s it’s the left wing of the party that needs to prove it’s loyalty to the Democratic base.

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 4d ago

Josh Turek says he didn't vote for a Democratic ticket, and instead voted republican for several races. And yet trans people are vilified for doing the same to him?

Alex Pretti memorial with "I voted" stickers, including mine.

This is the way. Thanks, almost-rep (!) @bradlander.bsky.social for his as-usual truth bomb. SOLIDARITY IS THE ONLY WAY HOME and that means, among other things, that this rabbi, too, is here for @abdulelsayed.bsky.social in MI (if only I could vote for him)!

Greg Pak@gregpak.net · 6d ago

@bradlander.bsky.social in Brooklyn with a statement about Haley Stevens!

The reason the rich try to suppress protests and complicit media say they're all just "riots" is because they work

Bad + Bitchy Podcast@badandbitchy.com · 2w ago

Never let them tell you how to protest or that you shouldn’t protest. Never let them confuse protests and parades

As always, if you're voting in NYC, please vote for Democrats on the Working Families Party line. The @nywfp.bsky.social is great - and voting on that line sends a big message that you want progressive policies, not garbage centrism. (And your vote counts exactly the same!)

It is also extremely clear that GenAI use by white people is interpreted quite differently from GenAI use by Black people When white people use it, it’s a sign of technological competence. When Black people are thought to use it, it’s because of intellectual incompetence.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌@chanda.blacksky.app · 3w ago

The epistemic double standard is clear: white men are hailed as heroes for taking up this tool that is built through thieving (It’s never just trained on your voice! Anthropic, Claude’s maker, stole my book and many others!) & Black people are under suspicion of not being capable of doing without it

To repeat: “early voting was up 51% in zip codes with a No Kings Vote Early event.” 👇👇👇

Indivisible ❌👑@indivisible.org · 2w ago

Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson: It was the largest early vote activation in American history! Y'all did that. Y'all turned people power into voter power at nearly 3,000 events on Saturday and the results are undeniable. Early voting was up 51% in zip codes with a No Kings Vote Early event.

Also can we stop with the “non White” It’s a Black colleague . It’s very specifically a Black colleague and that is DEEPLY important they want to activate specific social tropes Because when it’s a different person they will be activating different tropes

Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · 2w ago

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

Hospitals love to say that they can't comply with staffing mandates because there's a nursing shortage. But there is no nursing shortage; there's a shortage of nurses willing to work under impossible conditions. www.wsj.com/health/healt...

Nurses Are in High Demand—but They’re Quitting in Droves

The field can command six-figure salaries, but understaffing and persistent violence are pushing nurses off the front lines.

wsj.com

Reupping my piece from August about the police killing of 1-year-old Kohen Wiley in Senatobia, MS, and the community that has fought for accountability to no avail. A horrible case, whose details have only been revealed thanks to independent reporting, especially via @mississippitoday.org.

Black Residents Warned of Abusive Cops for Years. Then Police Shot and Killed a Toddler.

In Senatobia, Mississippi, where police killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley, community members had urged leaders to rein in the police. Are they listening now?

theintercept.com

Mississippi Today@mississippitoday.org · 3w ago

Attorney General clears Senatobia police officer who shot, killed Kohen Wiley Many details of the incident remain unknown, and it wasn’t immediately clear if or when law… https://mississippitoday.org/2026/10/19/breaking-kohen-wiley-death-senatobia-police-officer-use-of-force-attorney-general/

This looks like a rad resource for connecting with neighbors and building our collective response muscles! 😍 "Mutual aid meets needs now. Organizing changes the systems that create those needs. A village does both." www.wecanbeavillage.org/why

Why Rebuilding Community Is a Radical Act

Capitalism taught us to need no one. The village model is how we take that back: interdependence, care, and collective power.

wecanbeavillage.org

ashley fairbanks@ziibiing.com · 3w ago

join me for a secret sunday soft launch of my new website. i would love to get your feedback. www.wecanbeavillage.com

french protests make very clear how much u.s. protests self-restrain and how bizarrely obsessed we are with the fear of being demonized by entities that are demonizing us anyway

I dont want to hear shit about how trans people need to accept "reasonable compromises" puberty blockers instead of hrt for minors *was* the compromise 2 years hrt and hormone testing requirements for trans women athletes *was* the compromise taking more of our rights away is not "reasonable"

Told him that he needs to speak out on this or step down as minority leader.

Greg Pak@gregpak.net · 3w ago

Call Chuck Schumer and tell him to defend Ilhan Omar publicly or resign. (202) 224-6542

Chuck Schumer — one of the most powerful Democrats in the country — has not issued statements to the press or through his social media channels about the administration’s attack on Ilhan Omar, which critics have described as a five alarm fire for the state of democracy in the U.S.

Chuck Schumer Hasn’t Said a Word About Trump’s Attempt to Deport Ilhan Omar

Ethics lawyers say the raid violated the Hatch Act. Schumer has been silent.

truthout.org

Another ICE shooting, in NYC abc7ny.com/post/person-...

Person shot during interaction with ICE agents in Marble Hill

A person was shot during an interaction with ICE agents in Manhattan on Thursday.

abc7ny.com

The US has a long history of suffering and death as public spectacle and the administration has been tapping into that vein of US tradition since their return.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 4w ago

The Pentagon says it will livestream the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan

I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...

Brendan Nyhan@brendannyhan.bsky.social · 4w ago

The news just since I left work: -A planned livestream of an execution by firing squad -Trump basically trying to incite a pogrom against Somalis Nothing mysterious or complicated about what's happening.

I don’t think people understand just how enraged survivors are right now. I don’t think any of these a-holes thought for a second about the fact that a good portion of the population has had their lives derailed by sexual violence. And like Giselle Pelicot, we know the shame isn’t ours to carry.

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JLRay@jlray.bsky.social · last mo.

Among young men, sexism predicts support for Trump among young men. In 2024, Democrats *won economically precarious young men.* Trump won young men who held bad views about sex. In *particular,* Trump won those young men both sexist AND high-socioeconomic status. So... www.ymrp.org/polling