Can we have Stephen Colbert back now?

We need to REFORM the Gestapo. We'll require them to fill out DAILY TIMESHEETS to hold them ACCOUNTABLE.

If Democrats win power in 2028, their agenda is going to be DOA at the Supreme Court. The time for them to build support for Court expansion is now. This is their opportunity. If they wait until 2028, it’ll be too late.

Democrats Need to Talk About Supreme Court Expansion Now

The party already blew one chance to build support for meaningful Supreme Court reform. It cannot afford to make the same mistake again.

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All this talk of "getting even" or payback or whatever. It's not "getting even". It's enforcing the law. Say that. Correct that. Don't fall into that trap. There's absolutely no reason to.

And for God’s sake: follow Mamdani’s lead and have someone with charisma who seems normal (Ossoff? AOC?) go on Instagram and TikTok and explain how every passed policy will improve people’s lives. Passing good legislation isn’t enough. You have to EXPLAIN VERY CLEARLY WHAT IT DOES

Molly Knight@mollyknight.bsky.social · 7d ago

1. nuke the electoral college so every American’s vote counts equally 2. Ban Congress people, White House admin from trading stocks 3. Non-partisan redistricting. End all gerrymandering 5. Automatic voter registration for all U.S. citizens, who will then be sent mail ballots.

That’s the thing. DOGE didn’t dot any i’s or cross any t’s. They ransacked the govt illegally, destroyed careers, got many people killed, then burned all the documents on the way out the door. Demanding criminal investigations — including of libertarian-god-king Elon — is the moderate position.

House Democrats are in the fight to bring government back from the brink of authoritarianism. We will shine a light on President Trump's quid pro quo, coin-operated, pay-to-play corruption and renew American government as an instrument for the common good.

"Now is not the time for-" i'm gonna stop you right there, it's the time for EVERYTHING

This affects education beyond the state of Texas. The Texas state Board of Education has deep influence on what goes into textbooks that are used nationwide.

Now this is what I'm talking about!!

How I am monitoring the results

Chuck Wendig@chuckwendig.bsky.social · last wk.

How I am monitoring the results

The 20 biggest donors this cycle have spent $2 BILLION on the midterms, the overwhelming majority of which has gone to help Republicans. In the entire 2008 cycle, the last before Citizens United, total billionaire spending was $16 million. We must get Big Money out of politics.

Brutal.

Remember that we were told that it was an immense scandal when *former* President Bill Clinton met privately with Obama's Attorney General Loretta Lynch. But now the current president is ordering his own AG to initiate prosecutions against the president's political enemies right out in the open.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Trump: "She should be removed from the ballot and prosecuted! But [Blanche] is going to make his own decision. Todd, please make your own -- okay, he said yes."

The fact that the president's doctors are giving him the dementia test over and over again -- tracking his decline, most likely -- and that the president keeps bragging about having to take that test should be a five-alarm fire.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w ago

Trump: "You know, the first question -- they have a lion, a snake, a giraffe, and a bear. And they say 'which is the snake?' ... by the time you get to number five a lot of people are left out on the road ... I get no credit for it."

One thing Trump has successfully done is cowed a lot of people into thinking they can't call for meaningful accountability for him and his cronies because it would be "revenge" or "political" and therefore illegitimate. Absolutely essential to reject that

Elon's apparent cutting off of Ukraine's Starlink access underscores the dangers of the U.S. contracting with an unstable Nazi. There is no way a deranged civilian (or any civilian) should have that much power over an ostensible American partner.

is there anyone thinking/writing about the actual mechanics of disentangling the US government from elon musk?

This 👇

NYT reports that the Republicans' leading donor is a neo-Nazi www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/u...

Inside Elon Musk’s $276 Million Midterm Rescue Mission for Republicans

The world’s richest person has quietly become by far the biggest known midterm donor, trying to save Republicans’ Senate majority with some of the largest donations in American political history.

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If Trump just takes money appropriated by Congress for a specific purpose & seizes it to use it for an entirely different purpose, what is the point of having a Congress or appropriating money for anything? I’m sure the Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins must be concerned.

We need a party that starts out with a sense of its own convictions: Good government, an equitable and just society, zero tolerance for dictators, capitalist vultures, and foreign genociders. This is basic human morality and people are showing right now that this is what they thirst for.

My “bond markets are functioning in an orderly manner" statement has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my statement.

Mohamed A. El-Erian@elerianm.bsky.social · last mo.

The IMF issuing a statement to reassure the public that bond markets are "functioning in an orderly manner" is highly unusual—and risks raising more questions than it answers. #economy #markets #bonds #yields

His vocabulary is so limited it’s like reading a transcript of Koko, the gorilla who knew sign language, if Koko were a white nationalist

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.

I recommend people read this to get a sense of the president's grave cognitive impairment. Trump is either unwilling or unable (or maybe both) to answer the questions he's actually asked, so he just rants and raves while the interviewers do their best to provide structure to his random brain firings

Netanyahu has killed plenty. His coalition and Hamas are in a lurid embrace. They need each other to maintain power and authority and to hold the mass of sane Arabs and Jews -- and the necessity of a shared future -- trapped between them.

Procedural hardball is disruptive, but makes perfect sense from a radical perspective. The whole question is whether there’s a good basis for radicalization. Given [gestures everywhere] the answer’s clearly yes. www.offmessage.net/p/the-new-ra...

The New Radicals

Democrats need to be the uncompromising ones now.

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Is that a threat, @wired.com ?

NYU Langone is paying the government $8.5 million in addition to ceasing gender-affirming care for minors. Cowardly loser shit.

Eliel Cruz@elielcruz.com · 2mo ago

They keep dropping these on Friday afternoon for a news dump. www.justice.gov/opa/pr/doj-s...

every argument that trans allies should withhold their vote from Talarico would also have told abolitionists to shun Lincoln, equal rights advocate to avoid LBJ, and gay marriage proponents to oppose Obama