One way to be safe is to never write an electability take

Okay, now all of the other states with tax cuts on your ballots, do like Missouri and absolutely demolish the latest tactic from the GOP to demolish public goods! www.stlpr.org/government-p...

Missouri voters reject Amendment 5, declining to eliminate state income tax for more sales tax

With Amendment 5’s failure, state lawmakers are now unable to expand sales and use taxes in order to eliminate the state income tax.

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Al Jazeera leads with the facts on the ground: Hormuz blocked, US not currently bombing, Iran dismissive of US threats New York Times leads with Trump's words: Progress towards a deal!

This is in Baltimore but man I want this cheesecake

I cannot emphasize enough times to enough people that Zohran Mamdani was asked approximately 106,437,592,841 times in 2025 if he thought Israel has "the right to exist", to which he replied "yes, with equal rights for all" and all 106,437,592,841 times the people who asked took that as a "no".

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 6d ago

Abdul was asked the does Israel have a right question four times in a row on CNN and he kept saying he thinks Palestinians and Jews have the right to self-determination and they wouldn't accept it as an answer. Makes you wonder what the question actually means!

Republicans are currently denouncing everyone in the Democratic Party as a “communist” and if you think Democrats firing at their left flank will make those attacks *less likely* and *less effective* you should try reading up on the history of McCarthyism

Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com · last wk.

🔴Civilian control of policing 🔴Amnesty for all immigrants 🔴Reparations & tribal sovereignty If Dems don’t start drawing clear distinctions between the Democratic Party and the DSA, Republicans will gladly do it for them. And they’ll use it to define every Democrat on the ballot. 3/3

4yo is playing “Will It Float” at daycare this week & I’m realizing a lot of preschool curriculum consists of classic Letterman segments

when I take the 4yo to the trampoline park, time moves a million times slower. That place is like Interstellar

Apparently I missed Phase 11, and two extra panels - revised the posted to include those...

That "special topics conference" language is really getting under my grill. It reeks of the long history of seeing composition as an extension of and lesser than literature.

They keep telling me media literacy is dead but then I see videos like this and I know it jot to be true

hello lady cardinals! look at my beautiful plumage i have my life together, i swear

The National Archives is shutting down its Chicago, San Francisco & Seattle research facilities. The closures rip public records out of the hands of the people, burying our history behind bureaucracy and darkness. This is NOT how democracy works!

impeachment is not going to happen — the bar is too high — but it just takes a simple majority and a signature to expand the entire federal judiciary.

patrick mcneil (he/him)@patrickryne.bsky.social · 2w ago

Read more about Benjamin Flowers. nominationnotes.substack.com/p/anti-civil...

why are we smashing all the burgers now

As in Iowa. Nobody wants to take this joke of a curriculum when they could just take normal humanities courses so right-wing politicians have to (note the irony) force students to take courses at their ‘intellectual freedom’ centers.

Christopher McKnight Nichols@cmcknichols.bsky.social · 2w ago

Facing low enrollment, Ohio may mandate university civics center courses www.axios.com/local/columb...

David Blight is a legend

Jim Ambuske@jimambuske.bsky.social · 2w ago

"Ours is a beautiful, ancient craft essential for any society's needs for self-understanding. We are equipped with a host of modern methods, but guided ethically by very old rules that no authoritarian political project ought to be allowed to profane." www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbz2...

You might get sick of hearing this but if he keeps doing it I'm gonna keep saying it: this is an unconstitutional impoundment, violating both Congress' Article I spending authority and the 1974 Impoundment Control act, and immediately impeachable.

Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · 2w ago

Trump administration pauses $1 bln in Medicaid payments to California, Minnesota www.reuters.com/world/us-hea...

"sickos on the dark web are trading black market IDs so people can go back for seconds, thirds at the Olive Garden. freaks calling it 'doing a linguini,' makes me sick to my stomach"

The way you win in the South is to build a multi-racial coalition. The South has always been one of the most diverse places in the country; it is why racialized violence during the Jim Crow era had to be so extreme.

Pathologic 2

Testosterone is a hormone surrounded in myths and misconceptions, which the Right loves to use to both demonize trans people as well as to fuel their weird beliefs about masculinity. Today, Jules Sherred dives into the science of testosterone and the reality of the effects it can have on the body.

Pete Hegseth is Obsessed With Testosterone. Here’s All the Neat Science the Manosphere’s Not Talking About - Assigned Media

Hegseth says, "It's well-established science that as we age, testosterone levels, often, naturally drop." But that's not the full story.

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I wonder how much time children’s librarians have to spend fixing torn Flip-o-Ramas in Dav Pilkey books

When I die, I want my body turned into an animatronic. If someone lingers too long at the casket, the corpse springs up & starts talking at them about one of my special interests

There’s a ton of wishcasting about how “oh well once Trump is gone the fever will break and they Republicans will have to do a lot of soul-searching but they’ll eventually get normal again” and I would really like to know how how people think that worked out for the post-Polk Democrats

Sam (ABeardedPanda)@abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 3w ago

Donald Trump *is* the Republican party and has been for the last 10 years and a lot of people really don't want to grapple with the consequences of what that means for the Republican party and the American overton window

it’s insane to me that people can *own* dinosaur bones. Here’s a vanishingly rare object offering scientific insight into hundreds of millions of years of our shared planetary history & it’s just in some asshole’s living room. DINOSAURS BELONG TO EVERYONE

Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · 3w ago

As the battle for dinosaur bones heightens, paleontologists, collectors and auction houses navigate a Wild West market

this is a good thread but I might actually take it further -- I don't think manosphere shit is actually about getting laid, I think it's literally about male loneliness, by which I mean, men addressing their loneliness via homosocial bonding through misogyny

dear feed: I’m actually good on pictures of Mitch McConnell’s face now, thanks

Our biggest national newspapers editors are hacks with low morals, chasing clicks and monetizing their rich audience who loves the status quo. Anyone who hires Soltis Anderson to tell readers "don't forget about Trump voters" during a fascist takeover is not a serious person

Donald Trump is trying to do regime change in the United States. He is trying to end competitive elections and freedom of speech, so he and his billionaire friends can loot us without consequences. He is also a pathetic dying degenerate fuckup who most Americans really dislike. Both are true!

Elizabeth N. Saunders@profsaunders.bsky.social · 3w ago

It can simultaneously be true that the claims are a tired/incoherent rehash, AND it was newsworthy because he said he’s sending the administration in to “work with” states that got hacked. That’s basically announcing interference, or am I missing something?