In fact my biggest problem with Democratic leaders is their unwillingness to directly confront the right wing threat.

No doubt this has occurred to other bystanders as well, but it would seem that a handful of billionaires dropping $150 million into a single state's election in an attempt to defeat a wealth-tax initiative just about makes the entire case for a wealth-tax initiative.

Newsom rejecting the billionaire wealth tax is one thing. Supporting the billionaires' poison pill alternative which would ban taxes on assets permanently, end any chance to fix stepped-up basis, & could be used by an enterprising lawyer to invalidate vehicle fee or other tax changes is another.

Newsom Backs Measure That Could Invalidate Billionaire Tax

The California governor opposes the proposed levy on ultrawealthy that goes before voters on Nov. 3.

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“Ingrate Zelenskyy who keeps blowing up refineries and making things more complicated for the president ahead of the midterms.” 😂 Zelenskyy is trying to defend his country against Russian aggression, but it’s all about Trump, right? You can’t make this shit up.

The most likely "jihad" in America right now is one led by Christian Nationalists against the rest of humanity.

These so called anti socialists are sure all about getting a government check.

Anyone can have a hard life and I'll not default to poking at those who don't make it. But if you look around and think the right response to you not making it is to make it harder for people busting their ass to get anywhere rather than busting your own, then fuck off all the way into the sun

Well done, Gillian!!! Your work matters SO much— to the people who have suffered on these flights and deserve to have their stories told, to the people who may NOT be deported because fewer flights take place, and to those of us who are sick of the cruelty that is being done with our tax money.

also, this shit is just run-of-the-mill segregationist ideology. the substance of keeperman and rufo's discussion is identical to the infamous line from the trial judge in loving v. virginia

The amount of Amazon workers relying on SNAP and Medicaid has nearly tripled since 2020 — while Amazon’s annual profits soared by over 550%. It’s the same story everywhere: corporate profits are at record highs, while workers’ share of the economy is at a record low. We must unrig the system.

This is a bad ruling for all of the reasons Justice Jackson’s dissent make clear. But as both the majority and dissent point out, it’s not likely to have major effects *this* cycle because we’re inside the 90-day NVRA purge window.

The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.

Eli Valley@elivalley.bsky.social · 2w ago

Boasting to the world of his mass terrorist atrocity:

US military rolling out (and lint cleaning) a Ted carpet for an adversarial communist dictator. Yeah, I would have told my chain of command to suck a dick and waited for Captains Mast. Absolutely disgusting.

Keeping that journalism accessible takes a community of supporters. Membership is one way readers help sustain the work.

I was deputy M.E. at the WSJ when Murdoch took over, with a similar “editorial independence board.” Within 4 months, our top editor was gone, replaced by a loyal Murdoch deputy. That board raised a quivering objection, but the deed was done. If the Ellisons own CNN, they’ll do whatever they want.

"...when winds at jet-stream level blow much harder or in a different direction than winds near the surface — vertical wind shear — the [hurricane] chimney tilts, the core vents, and organization fails. El Niño manufactures exactly that shear." www.elninolive.com/impacts/atla...

El Niño Atlantic Hurricane Season 2026 — El Niño 2026 Tracker

El Niño's wind shear historically suppresses Atlantic hurricanes — 1997 went famously quiet. But Andrew hit in an El Niño year. The 2026 season, explained.

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Finally the male equivalent of period tracking has come to the Project 2025 Regime.

We cannot recover from this level of sadism without purging the root of the evil. There cannot be "common sense reforms" when the point of immigration enforcement has long been cracking down on the crime of existing as an immigrant. westvirginiawatch.com/2026/09/18/r...

ICE is using migrant kids as ‘bait,’ a Texas lawyer says • West Virginia Watch

Attorney Alexa Sendukas represents many unaccompanied children in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody and tries to reunite them with relatives in the U.S. She has started to see a startling ta...

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Transphobes: Trans men are women Also Transphobes: I like to beat women

Many American workers don't know the reference, but they do understand 8 hour workdays and legally mandated safety protocols. AI can be abused by its makers just as employees can be abused by their employers - and they WILL *given the latitude* to do so.

Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social · 4w ago

The owners of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory self-regulated.

Our health care system in America is disgusting. A clear indication that our government doesn't give a fuck if we live or die.

Don't let the bigots set the agenda for the nation. Don't try to meet them halfway, or justify your stance. Don't dignify this as something worth debating. Dismiss them as hateful weirdos whose obsession with this issue automatically disqualifies them from polite company and political leadership.

Succession Logan Roy: You Are Not Serious People

ALT: Succession Logan Roy: You Are Not Serious People

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They’re this close to sieg heil-ing and they’re still being called activists

Kate Allen@kateallen.ft.com · last mo.

Police are facing growing questions over how up to 500 masked activists dressed in black brought parts of Dover to a standstill on Saturday. Authorities have been accused of failure to act, intelligence failures and being ‘caught on the hoof’. www.ft.com/content/f244...

If you don't know who Liz Oyer is, she's the terminated federal employee currently suing for wrongful termination over Mel Gibson (sorry if I don't have the description of the suit exactly correct). "Most transparent govt in history", IF you can read through redactions of the entirety of the form.

Liz Oyer@lawyeroyer.com · last mo.

Yet another layer of the Epstein coverup has been revealed. This one involves Ghislaine Maxwell’s prison transfer, days after her private meeting with Todd Blanche. youtube.com/shorts/QqKua...

I'm just utterly disoriented by any democratic staffer that is smart on media reform the party hasn't had a coherent media reform strategy in 50 years, which culminated in the right wing and their corporate friends building the biggest and most effective propaganda machine in human history

fun part if you ask me: higher ed institutions in secular democracies are the closest approximation of a 'marketplace of ideas' as you are likely to find this side of a global revolution and a lot of people who claim to like that idea do not seem to love its results

Darren Dahly@statsepi.bsky.social · last mo.

To think that we live among idiots who think that "elite institutions" have been "captured by leftist ideologues" lmao

Imma just gonna drop this here.

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · last mo.

GOP Rep James Comer just admitted on Fox that small donors are giving to Trump's super PAC rather than to GOP candidates. Trump keeps telling his supporters that GOP let him down. This is the result! GOP lickspittles really getting their comeuppance now. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2151...

You do not beta-test voting rules on a live federal election. Voters are not test subjects and ballots are not a pilot program. If you need “real-world evidence” to find out how your rule works, you’ve just admitted you don’t know what you’re implementing.

Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com · last mo.

The republicans just suggested if the judge makes the USPS rule optional - not mandatory - for states, that she let USPS reject non compliant ballots for the states that choose to voluntarily participate. The judge asks “do a test run on this election”???

The feminist movement was never a threat to men. Secure men have always understood that. They stood beside women, fought for equality, and some proudly called themselves feminists too. If women having equal power feels like oppression to you, feminism isn’t the problem.