58 Democrats stood up for an important fact today: Charlie Kirk was the victim of a shooting in a country where he, along with other right-wing extremist influencers, have been inciting violence for years. — Kirk is neither a martyr nor a hero, he is a cause.
Live your life in such a way that if you go silent for a few days people don’t start hopefully thinking maybe you’re dead or dying.
Newsom’s Twitter troll is genius because pleading and crying in front of an authoritarian does nothing, but pointing and laughing enrages the authoritarian.
Washington Post: “Is fascism bad? The answer may surprise you” Teen Vogue: “Here are three fun tips you can use this summer to disable an armored personnel carrier”
Dear God, look at the jobs report revisions for May and June! This is not at all the rosy picture it looked like to economists over the past few months.
Aaron Sojourner@aaronsojourner.org · last yr.+73K jobs gained last month (mid-June to mid-July) -258K jobs in revisions of prior 2 months, weak The big picture
I can’t stop thinking about how the Access Hollywood tape came out before the election even happened, yet suddenly we have people concerned that the President might have lied about being a sexual predator who were totally fine with it when he told the truth about being a sexual predator very grim
If they can be destroyed by the truth, they deserve to be destroyed by the truth.
Amy Siskind@amysiskind.com · last yr.I am totally fine with names of powerful Democrats in the Epstein files being named and shamed too. FULL accountability! I’m not here to stick up for any pedophile.
That will tamp down the conspiracy theories
Josh Gerstein@joshgerstein.bsky.social · last yr.BREAKING: Justice Department fires SDNY federal prosecutor Maurene Comey, who played key role prosecuting Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, per @eorden www.politico.com/news/2025/07/16/maurene-comey-fired-doj-00458921
The latest ICE statistics show that as of June 29, there were 57,861 people detained by ICE, 41,495, or 72% of whom had no criminal convictions. So much for the “worst of the worst.”
It’s no longer hyperbole to say we now know who would have turned in their Jewish neighbors to the gestapo.
Not just excess, it’s a system built to keep people hungry so the rich can keep feasting. But the masses are waking up. Powerful video…
Am I the only one totally disinterested in wedding of the 1%?
Which means a baby born in New York to undocumented parents will be a citizen. But a baby born to undocumented parents in Kentucky will not be a citizen. This is madness.
The reason that some will use the Bible to justify the bombing of Iran is because they used it to justify chattel slavery, just as it’s being used to fight for the lives of queer people. The Bible is not a book. It is a mirror. Whatever you’re looking for, you will find. What are you looking for?
NYTimes has a long history of holding conservatives—including its paid columnists, like Stephens here—to absolutely no standards whatsoever, but still worth noting the complete lack of ethics required to not mention how 99.99% of Iran's uranium stockpile was due to Trump withdrawing from JCPOA.
Jason Linkins@dceiver.bsky.social · last yr.Beyond parody at this point; the week these guys picked sex predators and warmongers over your future
If you thought the tough guys hiding behind masks abducting students, farm workers and people showing up for immigration court are bad now, wait until Iran retaliates.
Genuine Question because I Do not understand… so if these men roll up in plain clothes and masks, grab a human being… even a child, and throw them in an unmarked vehicle I am just supposed to look the other way and say nothing ?? Ask Nothing ?
Must be weird, kidnapping __________ people for ICE when, at any moment, your patriotic terrorism might be sabotaged by an unexpected Trump declaration that __________ people are wonderful and an asset to America.
George Takei@georgetakei.bsky.social · last yr.“Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.”
New Yorkers scream out each officer’s lawsuits against them for excessive force and more upon their city, right to their faces while protesting.
for those who still don't get it Nazis want brown people deported, black folk accomplishments erased, women back in the kitchen, LGBTQ back in the closet. Protestors want Nazis gone, preferably back in the hole they came from, because they are aware of the above and want those people to be safe.
Facebook decided to suspend my account because of a piece (below) I wrote Monday about violence which in no way advocates for it (but does point out who is violent in the current ruckus).
The idea that protesters in LA shouldn’t give him a pretext for violence presupposes that he needs or cares about a pretext. If you protesters stay home, then he’s going to keep kidnapping people and use the lack of protests as proof that everyone agrees with him.
Watch the slow motion: it appears to me that the officers discuss the photographer and reporter before the one on the end fires on them (it looks to me like he's aiming at the camera, not the reporter, but you decide)
