Colm Delaney

When future aliens stumble upon the wreckage of our civilisation they'll conclude "they seemed advanced in many ways, but they completely lacked the capacity to act in their collective best interests."

It’s a stain on American journalism that major media refuse to warn the public that the president is out of his mind.

"The votes aren't there" is cowardice masked as savviness. There has to be accountability for their crimes. The House has a duty to make the case here and if some GOP senators want to weasel out, make them own that vote. Don't let pundits and "strategists" talk you out of doing your damn job.

I'm going to try to do this cleanly. Today's right wing governments are networked to each other. Those networks are well-documented. You can read about them in books. Following the elections in one node of that network is good practice for understanding the U.S. node.

Something that stood out to me when speaking to young Black women in Greensboro who went to vote: They are fully aware of what their ancestors and grandparents did to win them the right to vote and they don't take that for granted. #NCPol #NCSen thepoliticalspectrum.substack.com/p/theyre-att...

Once mass spam texts were made legal, younger donors vanished, leaving a grassroots fundraising machine that subsists on squeezing vulnerable seniors, some of whom give hundreds of times a day. It’s a horrific model. Consultants get generationally wealthy, and the party hollows out its future.

This is actually hilarious 😂 🤣 The man makes some valid points, tho Shark, at home just minding its business, then here comes this stranger

Just as a private equity firm buys out a corporation and strips it for parts, a consultant class is raiding the Democratic Party and getting “generationally wealthy” along the way New from me and @adambonica.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2163...

AOC: "As AI begins to encroach in our society, their goal is to take your cognition away from you. AI's goal is to take your thoughts away from you, your ability to think away from you, so that you become dependent on a machine ... reading books is active resistance"

It's wild how much press Rahm Emanuel gets and the party base does not give a single shit.

as I keep saying, your job (and mine, and everyone’s) is baying in your Democrat representatives ears over and over to demand that Elon Musk be brought to justice for his genocidal crimes.

the routine, pay for play pardons are all by themselves one of the worst corruption scandals in american history!

“It looked like they were killing her,” says independent American journalist Jasper Nathaniel, “The Palestinian youth, stepped up. They ran out ahead, and they started beating the settlers back by throwing stones at them, which is the only thing that allowed me to then run out front and grab Heidi.”

Shooting at a car to stop a shoplifter is not justified. Even if no one was harmed, let alone shooting to death a 1 year-old baby.

Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First https://theonion.com/protestors-criticized-for-looting-businesses-without-fo-1843735351/

I know a lot of people are complaining about the Trump regime's plot to kick a sitting member of Congress out of the country, but more people should be screaming about this. Trump thinks he's a dictator, and he is unless we stop him. Vote against all Republicans. Remind your family and friends, too.

The fears and the hype around the future of AI obscure some genuine benefits that are available now. My latest blog post. www.cdelaney.com/blog/some-mo...

I'm looking to speak with a Constitutional Scholar about the Article VI oath and its role in swearing in new members of Congress. If that's you, or you have someone to recommend, reply here or reach out. Signal: marisakabas.04 Email: marisa@thehandbasket.co

some deranged lunatic is going to storm an elementary school with an ar15 looking for the schools surgical center and the media is going to pretend we have no idea where they got that idea from

I'm sorry but the key priority for the next US SecDef has to be extracting Elon Musk from every single thing related to US military contracting. No Musk company should receive any government contract of any kind from any Dem executive.

I am entirely serious when I say that this should be seen as a moderate position. It specifically and surgically dismantles institutions that did not exist pre-9/11 and assigns their functions much as they were assigned pre-9/11.

Do this and more. More! prospect.org/2026/10/13/t...

Jared Kushner “peace envoy” The dangerous @nytimes.com normalization of Jared Kushner continues. NYT editors insist on framing and using inaccurate & flattering terms for the President’s corrupt son-in-law. Kushner is known to be an anonymous source for NYT access journalists. 2nd graf,A1 1/2

There is absolutely no viable path forward for this country that doesn’t hinge on extreme accountability for everyone involved in this administration. They’re going to whine about politicization and credulous media types will echo them, but the thing is, they’ve committed tons of obvious crimes!

After another shooting and the raid on Ilhan Omar's home, Rep. Delia Ramirez says abolishing ICE isn't enough. She has introduced a bill to "dismantle" the entire Department of Homeland Security.

I’m not kidding when I say that a Ms. Rachel-hosted episode of SNL would shatter ratings. puck.news/druski-to-ho...

After a few more weeks of daily use, I'm finding my Smarter Comments extension for Visual Studio Code indispensable. If you're a VS Code user, please check it out www.cdelaney.com/blog/introdu...

ICE has to be dismantled, with every single incident like this investigated and prosecuted.

Elite impunity is perhaps the single greatest problem in American politics going back to Gerald Ford’s Watergate pardons. These people keep getting away with it. This needs to stop.

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

OK, couldn't resist

a big part of ossoff's rhetorical success is it doesnt contain the compromise and caveats that are a baked-in part of democratic party rhetoric. theres no pretending that his opponent is just misguided or will be pulled back from the edge by "the good republicans." ossoff is saying "fuck this guy"

Some ~personal~ news: After five years, I have been laid off from @the-independent.com. I am grateful for the time I have had there. With that in mind, I am absolutely looking for new work opportunities, especially ahead if the midterms. My email is EMGarcia2009@gmail.com. My signal is emgarcia.85

“Every member of this ethnic group is a criminal who needs to be imprisoned by the state” is just pure uncut Nazi shit

this is my favorite genre of social media post and I am soliciting links or screenshots to your favorites

Shredded wheat is an insane concept. "Yeah I want a fucking log of hay in a box. For my breakfast." Fuck outta here. Crazy assholes.

Today, Oct 4, is the feast of St. Francis of Assisi: the day when you can bring your pets to church for a blessing.

Alll of this. I started my career in construction, working office jobs alongside people who worked trades. Know how many 60-year-old guys I saw working as bricklayers? Doing demo? Zero. How many 50-year-old roofers there are? Zero. One reason unions fight for high wages is because careers are SHORT.

Deal with it. 🕶️

Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good. I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.