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Surprising exactly zero people, "forgive my youthful indescretions committed at age 53" guy recently sponsored a law to get 15-year-olds tried as adults. nashvillebanner.com/2024/07/15/n...

I emailed Patrick Healy, assistant managing editor for standards and trust at NYT, to ask why their story about a House report with new details of rape allegations against the President of the United States included neither those details, nor a single use of the word "rape." archive.is/1s9AM

The NYT story does not even include the word rape. Not once.

Not a big story, it's just the Attorney General working with an imprisoned pedophile to help cover up the pedophile President's crimes conducted with his best friend for 15 years, a pedophile who the President sent, as a birthday card, a drawing of a naked adolescent girl.

Who do I give to to get this in front of as many Michigan voters as possible?

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.

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...

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

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.

Thank you! As I say in my profile: “The truth is not somewhere in the middle.” The truth is not halfway between the plantation owner and the enslaved, nor is it halfway between democracy and oligarchy!

Yes, our current system is “wholly unacceptable”! We need #MedicareForAll Democrats running for office must support it! #m4a Give @kedseconomist.com a listen! www.instagram.com/reel/DeMic8x...

“I was brutally attacked by 50 masked men… they just kept kicking me and kicking me…” Jewish @washingtonpost journalist Heidi Levine describes getting attacked and robbed by West Bank Israeli terrorists (backed by the IDF & 🇺🇸 taxpayers)

Petition to replace the word “donor” with something else for people who funnel *millions*—not to mention $250 million—into campaigns. That’s not a donor—that’s a buyer.

I always have mixed feelings about these images. Yes, it's inspiring to see these college students committed to democracy, but the fact that they have to do anything remotely difficult to exercise their voting rights is enraging. Taking part in a democracy should be as easy as possible.

i’m just so fucking sorry that my muslim friends have to be hit with this despicable racism every single day. it’s not ok and you should not have to tolerate it. this country belongs to all of us.

This is a concerted campaign of ethnic cleansing, occurring over decades and getting worse all the time.

Chuck Schumer — one of the most powerful Democrats in the country — has not issued statements to the press or through his social media channels about the administration’s attack on Ilhan Omar, which critics have described as a five alarm fire for the state of democracy in the U.S.

“The 🇺🇸 can “cut off aid 2 🇮🇱 ” & still very much continue 2 arm them. The only thing that has changed in this scenario is that 🇮🇱 pays 4 it rather than the 🇺🇸 government, but from the perspective of those being starved & maimed in Gaza this distinction matters about as much as the color of the bombs.”

🧵🧵🧵 The NY Times posted a 15-minute video today in which I got to tell NYT what’s wrong with its coverage. They said they saw my critical posts on Bluesky and invited me to do a video with them to air my grievances. Weird, right? I didn’t hold back. I blasted their sanewashing of MAGA extremism.

#Cornell teaches us that when we see something we ALL must say something! It goes for frats, sororities & the @NYTimes.com MSM journalists must step up, in the moment, & call out the #misogyny, #racism & #homophobia we’re constantly bombarded w/ from the President/VP/Congress members/Elites. Enough!

Bernie Sanders, Chris Murphy, and Ro Khanna are coming to Florida to campaign with Angie Nixon floridaphoenix.com/2026/10/12/b...

Unsurprisingly, four days later, mathematicians have weighed in. And the results are equivocally valuable at best. More importantly the dump has flooded the zone with shit, which is precisely in line with this industry’s weaponized agnotology. Now actual scholars have to waste their time on this.

And yet, every single Democratic member of Congress and every progressive organization (except @indivisible.org) still uses X as their primary method of breaking news. The pro-democracy movement really needs to boycott X.

There will be a lot of equivocating about all the times search warrants have been executed on members of Congress for corruption investigations and the like, and it can't be stressed enough in how many ways HSI raiding Ilhan Omar is extremely not like that.

With Ilhan Omar search: DOJ Inspector General report (on Comey's misdeeds): "[V]arious witnesses testified that the Department has a longstanding unwritten practice to avoid overt law enforcement and prosecutorial activities close to an election, typically within 60 or 90 days of Election Day."

The more you know ... The 4-year running average for the global temperature anomaly is forecast to break the Paris Limit of 1.5°C over the 1850-1900 pre-industrial baseline on November 17, 2026. We'll be covering the moment. Stay tuned!

People are discussing how Halloween candy is so terrible these days. A reminder that alot of the candy we eat is made with women’s prison labor. Russell Stover’s factory in Kansas busses in 150 women a day via a convict leasing program to staff their candy factory.

The US economy is underpinned by prison labour. Almost 2 million Americans are in jail, with over 1 million in State facilities. www.themarshallproject.org/2024/02/03/f...

🚨 “The US military is the world’s largest institutional consumer of fossil fuels & 1 of the largest sources of environmental destruction.” Thanks @shilpichhotray.bsky.social @abbymartin.bsky.social 4 tying these 2 issues together & @climatenews.bsky.social 4 clarifying the stakes. It’s time to act!

In 1868 Louisiana elected first Black congressman. He was never seated In 1875 Louisiana elected second Black congressman. He served just one term It took 114 years for Louisiana to elect another Black member of Congress And now Roberts Court wants to wipe out Black representation across South

I'd add that there are lots of Republicans actually taking money from Elon Musk, and they are rarely or never asked about his more radical/racist statements.

“That’s the problem, Mike. It’s not just that you hired half the Third Reich to staff your congressional office, and you have promoted neo-Nazi content online,” Ossoff said. “It’s that you’re robbing your constituents to subsidize your donors.” talkingpointsmemo.com/fivepoints/s...

I ask again, why are national Dems letting Elon "quietly" fund these races? We have two test cases. 2024 when Dems didn't make his money an issue. And 2025 Wisconsin, where they did. Guess which time they won by double digits?

“In April 2026, SCOTUS effectively ended the Voting Rights Act (#VRA), opening the door to an all-white Congressional delegation from the South.”

"As a Quaker organization, we believe that all people have 'that of God' within us." "We hold in the Light all who have been killed, including more than 1,000 Israelis killed on October 7 and more than 75,000 Palestinians killed in Gaza over the last three years."

The fascist monopolization of US media, intent on ending what's left of democracy on behalf of billionaire mobsters, was finalized by a Democratic-appointed SCOTUS justice.

A Democratic Party that refused to use its power to deliver for the working class ended up being a delivery system for Trump. If Democrats win power and once again do the same thing, they will be a delivery system for an even worse version of Trump - pass it on.

Abolish the CUPD katemanne.substack.com/p/that-time-...

"If you set up a machine such that any question you put in will lead to an answer coming back out…you are setting up a view of the world and of knowledge that says, 'All questions have a discrete, knowable, objective answer,' and that's just not true and has no place in education." ❤️😍💯

“At the same time, men in tight-knit groups feel considerable pressure to show loyalty to other group members, which may lead to ignoring bad behavior committed by their peers.” Here’s a thought…shut down the Greek system.

WSJ tracks how many local cops are getting rich arresting a single migrant. www.wsj.com/us-news/immi...

🚨 Come on @schumer.senate.gov and @dscc.bsky.social get behind @angieforfl.bsky.social She’s got this!

“What we are seeing now is a complete explosion of these melt rates, leading to the disintegration of glaciers. They’re really just falling apart" Europe's glaciers are accelerating even faster on the road to oblivion www.theguardian.com/environment/...

AI safety expert Timnit Gebru says tech leaders are promoting greatly exaggerated claims about "superintelligence" and "existential risk" as a way to distract from the real threat — their own unregulated companies.

From Lina M. Khan: “Much of the commentary from the executives suggests they currently operate in a legal vacuum….In fact, their business practices — including how they develop & deploy their technologies — are already subject to longstanding laws.” Use them!! www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/o...

“…what we need to demand from universities far and wide is clear: Cease to be a place where sexual assault is often subject to less punishment than protesting and plagiarism. Cease to be a place where the consequences for sexual-assault victims are often greater than for the perpetrators.”