Lucas O’Connor

Oregon Trail and Number Munchers were required. Carmen San Diego was extra credit.

Very much this, and would add the nonprofit industrial complex; eg I gave @ppact.org $50 twenty years ago and they've spent at least 25x that by now on scammy fundraising mail to me. I got a "FINAL NOTICE" predatory fundraising letter from them just this month. The rot is so deep and so wide.

Among the reasons that it's worth it to pursue impeachment over and over is that the overwhelming majority of even very engaged voters don't and can't keep track of them all, and a handful of tracker accounts on social media is not actually a sufficient stand in for the Congressional Record.

The silver lining of this horseshit is that it's kicked me in the ass to accelerate my transition away from google products

Would even venture to say that this is the funhouse mirror version of what passes for a Sister Souljah moment with this deranged regime. To them, it will of course be proof that ICE isn't political.

One of my core mental healthcare activities is texting absolutely all my anger at the spam texts fake-signed by James Carville

They want the power to do anything and the responsibility to do nothing, and there's no limit to how many people they're willing to kill in pursuit of the fantasy

This is correct and I will keep saying over and over: This is what the caucus wants. A fundraiser not a fighter. Because the majority of the caucus wants their jobs more than a fight.

AOC won her primary at 28 and was famously protected from attacks by the same rw goons given her age

Old enough to remember when the big primary night lesson was that insurgent progressives absolutely must spend a bunch on tv

Including, somehow, the generation that lived and drove it in the 90s.

It's amazing how much of SD's budget deficit disappears without the tens of millions paying off lawsuits over police behavior. Yet the 'tighten your belts and live within your means' crowd never seems to talk about that part.

This era of all the evil billionaires diving deeper into sports teams has such perfect 'Walter White buying A1A Car Wash' energy.

Yesterday Mayor Mamdani endorsed a bill to force Amazon to employ its own delivery drivers, rather than outsource the work to subcontractors. The Prospect can report that Amazon's lead lobbyist on that bill is Chuck Schumer's daughter Jessica. prospect.org/2026/08/11/m...

Not the immediate point, but if you imagine for a second that President Gavin Newsom would take these away from them, I’ve got a bridge to sell you.

Multiple sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln have attempted to go overboard as the carrier's deployment stretches into its ninth month. 🔗Link to article in comments ⬇️

I don't understand why people like this read books at all when they could just skim the wikipedia article. They don't want to read or think, they just want to have a general notion of the book spoonfed to them.

ICE said this spring that it had apprehended more than 16,000 people in San Diego County since President Trump’s second inauguration. Community volunteers have been stepping up patrols in the region to track ICE activity.

I suppose when the NYT created the position of "canon editor" to "lead a new department tasked with developing 'canon and signature lists,'" it was really only headed one direction www.publishersweekly.com/pw/newsbrief...

the lesson of tonight is that everyone needs to lock the fuck in for @peggyflanagan.bsky.social

Thinking among other things tonight about Missouri and Kansas smacking the crap out of right wing nonsense at a time when Gavin Newsom and his acolytes are doing everything in their power to not only defeat a *one-time* billionaire tax but also block any new taxes forever.

Sigh

Medical science. Can and should be pushing on *access* but I would literally be long dead with the cancer treatments available 40 years ago.

I've seen coverage in the past of her pursuing these things framed as proof that she's unserious but it's always seemed like exactly what to do particularly *because* every other elected and babbling head thinks it's beneath them.

It's an honor to receive the the sole endorsement of @californialabor.bsky.social, representing 2.3 million California workers organized across more than 1,300 unions. With labor in our corner, we will fight and we will win for working people.

It can't be overstated, the impact on all these lefty wins of Mamdani being successful at governing. So many people have been given the proof and permission that voting for what you actually want is not a protest vote or irrational or unserious, but actually a viable approach to voting and governing

On August 11, Minnesotans have the opportunity to say no to the status quo in Washington that’s working for billionaires and corporations. www.startribune.com/us-senate-ra...

Yes. There's a group of registered Democrats who rose to prominence around 'it's the economy stupid' and now reject anyone trying to fix the economy. This group wants a broken economy as an issue to run on, and by extention only want to/know how to be out of power.

And you just know the least embarrassed person is the one who actually did it

After 9/11, the U.S. didn't reach 600 casualties in Afghanistan until mid-2005, nearly four years into the war

Exactly what I would expect from her, sadly

Just another shill for Big Rake

Hey, look. Peralta's ERA went down today, so what are we even worried about?

The bulk of the Dem establishment wants to represent a base that doesn't exist, then they wonder why they keep losing.

Imagine a world where the party apparatus didn't keep making itself toxic throughout the primaries and, having not aggressively alienated such a huge swath of its own base, was thus in a position to come in strong for the general.

"Stop criticizing us or will keep murdering people" is just a jaw-dropping thing for a government official to say.

Democrats need to do this because it's what's happening. Trump officials are not only behaving outside the law, they're behaving as if they'll never be subject to the law. Dems must introduce friction to slow them down: Start announcing that blanket pardons for uncharged crimes will not be honored.

This is the only way in which cashless businesses have some merit

No hell too hot. www.sunjournal.com/2026/07/13/i...

Say what you will about libraries, but they would NEVER put that comma in there

Reposting this today for no particular reason

NEW: He was picking up a work crew to take them to construction site at 6 a.m. on Tuesday morning. ICE showed up. And now this small business owner, the father of three American citizens, is dead. www.thebulwark.com/p/he-lived-h...