Laura J.

Corralling the wealthy back into the tax system is vital not just for the $, but because the ability to dodge taxes severs their connection to the rest of us. It validates isolated-hero myth making while creating a clear goal for the hyper-rich: keep evading any ties that bind to state & society. 1/

Young ‘uns: this stuff happened once a week during Obama’s presidency. Dijon mustard. Moving a bust of Churchill. Inviting a rapper to the White House. Putting his feet up on his desk. They’d scream and cry for days about how effete and snobby and Black he was and how misinderstood they were.

The president has raped so many people that we have a pretty good sense of his MO. Maybe we should think about that.

If you're around baseball long enough you can tell when a team smells blood. The Brewers smell blood.

691 words about Cheesecake. 434 words about rape.

this man is a gotdamned patriot

1. Not sure when a new, on-the-record rape allegation against a sitting president isn’t considered news — especially considering Trump was found liable by a jury in a similar case — but it was ignored by most mainstream media outlets

eh go fuck yourself. "be neutral on [insert interest] when you run and then stick it to the industry when you win" is a time honored way of actually getting things done.

Nothing is permanent. Everything everywhere is always moving, but you have to realize life is a fight for a knife in the mud. We don’t get elections off.

Homepage of the @miamiherald.com with story by @jkbjournalist.bsky.social that mentions rape in the first paragraph. See, it's not so fucking hard. www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

For the fabulously wealthy, paying taxes is pretty much optional. They can borrow against their vast wealth, which is mostly an untaxed capital gain, without paying taxes. When they die, the capital gain goes to zero. And loopholes exist to bypass the estate tax too.

It turns out punishing coup plotters actually is an effective deterrent!

I mean, Arabs invented algebra. I'm sure RFK is still pissed about failing that class.

I know it’s really distasteful and dispiriting and gross to think about, but you won’t understand Trumpist politics or the status of women if you don’t understand that a lot of people aren’t just in denial about the prevalence of rape; they are affirmatively pro-rape.

“they were always like this” yes they were but they didn’t feel like they could say it out loud at a campaign rally and it was better when they didn’t feel like they could do this

The vile attacks on Amy Acton need to be seen in the context of a party that *needs* people to believe women fabricating sexual assaults is common as rainwater. Because it’s pretty much the only way to evade the conclusion that the president is a rapist.

Beyond disgusted by even more rape allegations against the President of the United States. "In total, more than 25 different women...have independently accused Donald Trump of rape, sexual assault, or other sexual misconduct." Report w/ new details: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

I mean another detailed story about the President being a rapist isn’t like the FBI giving Hillary’s emails another whirl or anything.

Will anyone—anyone at all—ask Trump about the rape allegations published in an official report by the House Judiciary Democrats? Or will he continue to escape accountability for his violence?

Subsidized housing is a good thing and we should publicly fund it instead of relying on kludgy, counterproductive market mechanisms that trade broad middle class housing affordability for a handful of means-tested units.

I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.

In case anyone has any doubt that the Republican Party has sold out the United States to dangerous, treasonous criminals…this 🧵 is absolutely 🤯. At this point it is every American’s patriotic duty to vote out every Republican at every level for bringing this broligarch disaster on us and the world.

The powerful executives who cozied up to Trump didn't oops accidentally forget about pendulum swings. They either: 1) Like the fascism 2) Calculated it was here to stay, so going along was savvy 3) Saw no real downside, no consequences when the pendulum swung Crucial to show them 3 was a mistake

It’s late October. People are voting right now. If you cannot deliver a convincing, full throated endorsement of the Democratic nominee in the potentially deciding race for the Senate, stay the fuck off television

It is not just that people need baseball, it is the type of baseball being played. The Brewers are making plans and executing them. They aren’t deterred by assaults or mistakes. They keep their eyes on the ball. They get in their opponents’ heads and make them crack. You might call it metaphor.

Rome has clearly put out word that any clergy who recently appeared with Trump must repent or else. www.archmil.org/posts/a-publ...

If Americans need our little southern recipe for how to defeat fascism it goes like this: - Put people in the streets by standing for popular demands (wages, healthcare, public services) - Do not engage with fascists online - Do not succumb to doomsayers or media-driven narratives - Be happy

Ah man, "the South deserves to be free," always the slogan of the good guy

As I've said, this is either an impeachable offense that Democrats act on or it's a new precedent.

I am a single issue voter, and my single issue is that I want to live in a democracy.

Of course the NYT is platforming the procedural concerns of the fascists while not ontextualizing the fact that they blatantly tried to steal the election by SHUTTING DOWN PUBLIC TRANSIT

Honored to be made a "coastal elite" because I think the more than two centuries in which the White House wasn't a gaudy monstrosity was not in fact an insult to ordinary working people

I’m Moby Dick for Halloween

A recent post by a Nobel Peace Prize winner.

I have very little patience for doomsaying and catastrophizing. The assertion of irresistible power is itself a key element of the authoritarian assault. We must not help them perpetuate it by giving in to pseudo-savvy cynicism and defeatism.

this is fucking appalling. i already knew james dolan (who owns the knicks and madison square garden) was a douche but this is next-level. www.nytimes.com/athletic/771...

Neil Bush, the brother of former President George W. Bush, said this week that he voted for James Talarico, breaking with his family’s Republican political dynasty.

Girls! Stop fighting. You're both pretty..

we gotta bring back shame, man society doesn’t work real well without consequences for being an enormous piece of shit in public

“innovation in insider trading” is another reason why we should ban prediction networks faking polls is bad! you shouldn’t be able to easily make money betting on your own faked polls!

We are better than the horrible people empowered to act in our name right now.

(1/X) It's striking to me how little anyone seems to care that Trump is openly working for Russia now, that he's openly participating in the mass slaughter of Ukrainians. It would be inaccurate to say that he's received less criticism for this than Obama got for wearing a tan suit...