The lack of fight drives me nuts “The vote would’ve failed anyway” Make this burning GOP clown car *find* the damn votes. Make *that* the spectacle: “Speaker Johnson holds vote open for 3 hours to protect Hegseth”

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 11h ago

my takeaway is that there wasn’t some conspiracy to keep dems away from the vote, it ultimately didn’t matter because they didn’t have the votes, but people are angry because this was a pretty straightforward post-election test that the caucus failed—and one hopes things will tighten up by january.

chatted with a congressional staffer to clarify what amount this situation was johnson being an asshole vs dems legitimately caught off guard vs making excuses. found this helpful:

Ojeda: We don’t kill people in the Caribbean and just think it’s no big deal. We don’t bomb a school that kills 160-plus little girls and just say that that’s water under the bridge. Crimes have been committed

Keeper of the Heart Wolf Totem 🐺✨❤️‍🔥✨ One of my upcoming pieces in the KILN show at GR2! Art will be available online this Saturday, Nov 14th at 12pm PT via the GR here: www.giantrobot.com I will also be at the opening reception from 6-9pm PT so if you're in LA, come say hi! #art #pottery

To my colleagues at NVIDIA, I owe my family and all of you an apology. I was unfaithful to *borat voice* my wife. My actions hurt her and our children. There is no excuse for what I did. I am deeply sorry. Throughout my life, my family has given me love and support. *end borat voice* They deserve

Massie: "I hope Hegseth addresses the 8 articles of impeachment, and doesn‘t get up and misquote the Bible in Quentin Tarantino fashion and do some pull-ups and call everybody fat and gay. I may have just given you half his speech, I don't know."

Josh Turek and other incoming Democratic senators today in the Capitol (Win McNamee/Getty)

For a certain percentage of people this will have been the first time they will have heard of a handjob parlor. They will then immediately become insatiably curious about the existence of handjob parlors. We call this "the safety brief dilemma".

BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 3d ago

the US embassy staff in beijijng get a very explicit briefing which includes 'for chrissake do not go to any of the handjob parlors near the embassy' and you will be shocked what they do anyway.

It was explained to me at Very Important Government Agency that I'm not actually George Clooney and that slamming Eastern European chick isn't really into plump middle-aged scientists.

Happy Diwali to all who celebrate the Festival of Light🪔🎇

"uncompromised by schooling"

Tippi Hedren having her cigarette lit by a crow on the set of The Birds, 1963

HOLY FUUUUUCK I HAD NO IDEA SABRINA CARPENTER INADVERTENTLY GAVE US ZOHRAN MAMDANI

Herbstreit doing the "this game retroactively proves Bama at #5 is fine" thing. Oh sure man. Move LSU up to #12 for participating

NYT headline: “Democrats have lost touch with the common man: Special Reports from Montana and Louisiana”

@billkittle.bsky.social · 4d ago

100% agree. The Democrats need to hire the best vertical-video producers in the country and fund them to put out a CONSTANT stream of social media Content about the ongoing investigations into GOP crimes + how Democrats are rebuilding America. I am deadly serious about this.

Thor Benson@thorbenson.bsky.social · 4d ago

They've gotta make content! Do well-produced videos about the investigations that people can share

its not just turning point, its jesse watters and greg gutfeld and candace owens and matt walsh. its the entire conservative media apparatus that has exposed the gop for what they are: weird fucking dorks with no redeemable qualities

Nate Pentz@natepentz.bsky.social · 4d ago

"Turning Point is driving us to extinction,” said Gina Swoboda, the former Arizona Republican Party chairwoman who has feuded with the group. “They have become a destructive force in Republican politics.” www.nytimes.com/2026/11/07/u...

Hmm, that's a head-scratcher. Could it be: 1. "The largest theft of labor in human history" that makes “a complete mockery of the idea of ‘fair use'” as one Microsoft exec said in a deposition? 2. Threats to render most people unemployed? 3. Jacking up our electric bills while using up our water?

Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 4d ago

Why does America hate AI? ft.trib.al/zhLTyMv

there’s a guy in my neighborhood with a cybertruck and when he drives by i give him a thumbs up and when he makes eye contact i turn my thumb down. but i’ve done this enough times that now when he sees me he just starts yelling

Always. Always. Always.

Sagittarius A*@sagastar.bsky.social · 5d ago

thats right

There are so many beyond-the-pale things from the Trump era that it’s easy to get desensitized. That said, the decision to mock John Kerry’s Purple Heart was a real window into the party’s future. No depth too low in service of winning power. Trump is the fullest expression of that impulse

Gravy Crockett@bostonjerry.bsky.social · 5d ago

Younger Democrats have never had any reason to have any good feelings towards Republicans at all. They've been nothing but arrogant hateful corrupt assholes for our entire lives. They've never made a single gesture of community towards us. They never "reached across the aisle" a single time.

Younger Democrats have never had any reason to have any good feelings towards Republicans at all. They've been nothing but arrogant hateful corrupt assholes for our entire lives. They've never made a single gesture of community towards us. They never "reached across the aisle" a single time.

Angus Johnston@angus.bsky.social · 5d ago

Lots of the most prominent members of the Dem class of 2026 are now just stating plainly, over and over, that they feel no obligation to perform rituals of civility for odious scumbags. It's a tectonic shift in political messaging, and one with—it seems to me—real policy implications.

Underrated that the 13 colonies voted Dem this cycle lol

Wow

Notthedarkweb@notthedarkweb.bsky.social · last wk.

texas dems are going to declare beto a martyr and give prayers to him for the groundwork he laid in texas

Twitter is for bots who post like they're people. Threads is for people that post like they're bots.

It has its own very weird vibe of “people who are blissfully unaware other people exist & have agency”

The absolute best, the way that they then get loads of replies from people demanding more context.