MelloFello

This is how I feel about the state of liberal politics and the Democratic Party right now, de-limbed, no Courts, no House, no Senate, no White House, gerrymandered out of a fair fight, just a few states left yelling, "I'll bite your legs off!"

the most influential donor in gop politics leads an apocalyptic babymaking cult and democratic consultants dont think we should call them "weird."

The biggest thing we need to do is let people know that the protests are FUN. Yelling fuck the man is fun. You will meet fun people. We also need to make them more fun. Bring grills like the French. Bring instruments like it’s Mardi Gras. Give people a reason to spend their weekend in the streets.

I'm having a moment of self-realization 👀

"anti-DEI" FFS stop using fascist-hijacked terminology that normalizes bigotry and conflates popular civil rights reforms with half-assed corporate inclusivity initiatives instead try: "resegregation" "attack on civil rights" "harassment of companies for not being racist enough"

🔥BREAKING NEWS: Two sources have told me that the Department of Veterans Affairs payroll system (VATAS) has been down since Friday. It is operating in 'Emergency Mode' only and will have to resort to straight time cards to get people their base pay on Friday.

“Going to mars” is just billionaire code for “strip the working and middle classes to the bone under the guise of progress”

Think about it. Democracies didn't just appear mysteriously out of the ether.

Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars - defector.com/neither-elon...

They installed the TV... At his request... So he can play video games... In his office... In the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

Opportunity cost aside, what would such a study look like? If observational, what would it add to Denmark's study of *every child born in the entire country from 1999-2010*, which found slightly more autism in non-MMR recipients? If randomized, how long would kids be randomized to no vaccine(s)?

Definitely do not email them lyrics to greenday songs, a cake recipe, your grocery list....Definitely do not waste their time. #PeoplesMovement #50501Movement #NoKings

I mean, the reason why this is the case is pretty simple. Democrats build more generally accessible prosperity via more fair and effective governance, and then republicans loot it for their friends. Rinse, wash, repeat.

All this business I am reading about social security is nonsense. My mom died on 2/18. My dad got a letter yesterday informing him her benefits were ending and he had to repay the February payment because they don’t give a payment in the month someone dies. They know where every dollar is.

Let's just be clear about this--Reagan was not in any way a good president. And without him, we wouldn't be in this whole mess right now. 🧵1/

This is sketchy as hell

As someone who teachers white collar crime classes, it is safe to say that there is no example of corporate crime by a government official more obscene in the modern history of the nation - and probably puts to shame even most famous examples like the Teapot Dome and Credit Mobilier scandals

There are more cases of measles in Texas than there are transgender athletes in the NCAA. Guess which the Republicans are more worried about.

The implosion of the Trump/Zelensky meeting is what happens when you treat all your relationships in life as transactional.

We made people like Bezos, Musk, Zuckerberg, etc, rich. It's only up to us to make them un-rich.

MAHA canceling the flu vaccine is such a stupid own goal. #mask-up

November 2024

EXCLUSIVE (by me, heh) New York Times caught passing off GOP flack as average Black voter www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

BREAKING — I've confirmed the DOGE staffers at SSA. They are Marko Elez (who was previously fired for racist posts and then reinstated), Ethan Shaotran, Nikhil Rajpal, and Gautier Cole-Killian. This is per Social Security Works, a non-profit working to protect/expand Social Security.

All good until the democracy word bc that's falling on deaf ears with half the electorate, they're done with it. If democracy is what's lost, then you've won zero conservatives back. They dont care. There is no constitutional order, we are in a state of anarchy, and with anarchy all the rules of

Russia invaded Ukraine because Zelensky was a referendum on Russian oligarchy and corruption going on inside Ukraine. So Russia tried to reinstate the corrupt structures by ousting Zelensky and taking over Kiev, but Putin had been lied to about the readiness of his equipment and failed miserably.

Pretty cool, but it reminded me of Dazed and Confused, "Marijuana on 1! Reefer on 2!"

I feel like the demand for this stuff is made up in their own heads. "Build it and they will come."-stuff, while that quote was about convening ghosts.

Big win for Big Cancer.

When I heard Musk say this on Tuesday, my assumption was that it was a programming issue. Because I can code and have written to databases and because I am familiar with other examples of default values being misinterpreted. Yet somehow Musk isn't.

Vaccination tourism is gonna be a thing for people with some money. Dying like a midieval serf is going to be the risk for everyone else. I suppose they think this will be a stable scenario that won't have any blowback on them personally.

Kids in history class the last several decades: "Like, whenever are we going to need to use this stuff in real life? Huh?" Answer: Now. Now is the moment we wished you had paid an ounce of attention.

The #1 side-effect of vaccines is adulthood

Executive wants to frame the NIH indirects cut as $4B in savings. But given that NIH returns $2.5 on every $1 investment, this would actually cost US economy a net $6 BILLION (per year!). Not to mention the human costs of wrecking education and research sectors and the communities they serve.

We are in the middle of the most profound crisis of American government since the civil war and our idiotic political media can barely see it. Control of the US has been handed to a totally unelected oligarch whose politics are defined by close association with neo-Nazis and conspiracy theorists

Cannot stress enough how insane it is that Corporate Media spent last decade telling US that people (right-wing agitators & tech oligarchs) who are greatest threat to free speech in US history were free speech warriors. They are using government, lawsuits, hate to crush speech.

No bueno!