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How the fuck is it even worse today? [kitten GIF to soften blow]

BREAKING: Another immigrant has died in ICE custody, the 28th death in ICE detention in 2026.

Every time I check news after doing work, there's another rape story. Absolutely horrific. My heart is with everyone who has had to be brave about their private trauma in public, and for everyone who has to sit with their own memories stirring every time this happens.

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'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.

Tonight was a good night.

The fact that we've agreed to call these gambling sites "prediction markets" furthers their bullshit. They predict nothing and it's a disgrace that news orgs have partnered with them and pretend they have news value. THEY'RE JUST A BUNCHA LOSERS GAMBLING.

you're goddamn right you guys did

Whomever handed Damon Albarn the Palestinian flag, at the Gorillaz show tonight, you made my night. #Gorillaz #FreePalestine (I dressed up as Tank Girl—from the comic—and it’s been a fucking dream.)

Bolsonaro, Vucic and Orban out, Flamingo and Cockroach Revolutions, French uprising and Iberian housing movements, Nepal and Bangladesh popular insurrection, Iranian and Serbian movements, these too are heralds of the current moment. We are once again in a time of movement and revolution

Ready for something new. Hungry for something better. Change is in the air.

thinking fondly again of the college girl at the donut place, who made a little muslim boy bounce giddily out the door after she told him his donut was free, and who waved me away and said "you're good" when it was my turn to pay and then, when asked if there was a deal that day said "i hate my job"

GOP does nothing but gin up culture wars. Meanwhile: — GOP slashed SNAP benefits to 5+ million Americans, forcing them to turn to food banks. — Trump's tariffs and war spurred inflation, making it more expensive to eat at The Cheesecake Factory. Prices are now ~13% higher than when he took office.

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If you donated to Josh Turek without realizing he was running on a federally funded trans healthcare coverage ban, you can request a refund of your donation here: help.actblue.com/hc/en-us/art...

standing ovation for Peggy Flanagan when she endorses "ripping ICE apart"

She’s adorable.

there’s no such thing as “strategic bigotry.” I know this because there is no amount of money you could pay me to become a bigot. the democrats who do this agree to do it because they’re bigots

The Democrats broadly and even to an extent institutionally turning against trans people in explicit terms is perhaps the most predictable piece of ugliness imaginable, but it still makes my fucking skin crawl. Segregated swimming pools all over again.

The Overton Window is in the basement. Please fix. Please.

This is garbage. It's very easy to say: "My opponent is a creep who wants to inspect your children's genitalia. I think government should mind its own fucking business." Makes me sick that Turek doesn't have the guts or the interest in fighting for the underdogs here.

God, people are such assholes. Instead of helping or even trying to, they just lie & manipulate. I grew up w/extensive emotional abuse & neglect, punctuated by physical abuse. So it feels like the same thing, but now from everyday people. And here comes the ideation. God, this sucks.

We don’t need these suffering mustelidae to be bred and slaughtered, while living in hell, for any good reason. Make these bastions of disease and abuse illegal.

"Utah state veterinarian Amanda Price was focused on the impact on the farm’s owner." Gross. He shouldn't have built a little empire on cruelty. sentientmedia.org/mink-farms/

Here’s something you should know about minks: They have lungs and airways remarkably similar on a cellular level to those of people. They’ve spread flus and infected humans before with COVID-19. Right now, bird flu is spreading on a Utah farm filled with thousands of them… 🧵

There are people, even some trans people, who think that we can give up sports to appease bigots. That if we give up on sports, this all goes away. That is a lie. I have reported on this for years, and EVERY state that passed a sports ban as a moderate compromise has gone on to pass worse.

If you aren’t instantly reminded of the history of forcing indigenous children into residential “schools” and the roll of family separation in the machinery of slavery, you are not looking clear-eyed at the present moment.

the reason you issue preemptive mass pardons is to reassure junior staff who are shitting themselves that they’re safe and they don’t have to flip on you. going to be very important to push back on their validity, which is nil, preemptively also

There.

new york forever. FUCK ICE.

This this this

The pedophile protection party’s president is laundering right-wing conspiracy theories through the most corrupt DOJ in American history. Whenever the news turns bad, this creep reaches for one name: mine. So let’s make it crystal clear. My name has always been Ilhan Omar.

Ossoff: "I encourage all of you to reach out to the Collins campaign to ask him how explains the continued production & dissemination of white nationalist and antisemitic propaganda from his property while he runs for the Senate. It's one of the most shocking developments in GA's political history"

so we learned the russians and the dutch hacked jared kushners phone i am sure we have heard the end of this

New SEC filings show that Mark Zuckerberg is preparing to pay California’s billionaire tax without losing control of Meta. So billionaires can afford to pay the tax? And they won't lose control of their companies or flee the state? Don’t fall for billionaires’ propaganda. Vote YES on Prop 40.

The Russians hacked Jared's phone. Then Dutch cyberspies then reverse-engineered that hack, giving them unprecedented access to his world. Bananas story in @vanityfair.com

Trump’s goal is to intimidate me and get me to back down. That’s not going to happen. I will not be silenced, and I will not stop fighting for my constituents.

this has never felt more true. it's rapists and their defenders all the way down.

One of the most salient aspects of today's politics is how everyone imagines a conspiratorial "them" controlling things behind the scenes. Elon Musk is literally powerful enough to affect the course of the Ukraine war, but he's still imagining faceless puppet masters who need to be unmasked.

Vivek Ramaswamy seeks to take political advantage of the fact that his opponent was raped as a child. But to his credit, unlike many other Republican politicians, he was not personally the rapist in question.