Chris Berry

For the 1st time in US history SCOTUS has more rulings on its shadow docket -- unsigned and with no opinions -- than it has cases where it has heard oral arguments and issued signed rulings. IOW they are hiding their deliberations while stealing our democracy. www.propublica.org/article/supr...

I don't know that there is a definitive line to cross that makes you say, "I live in a police state now" but when masked gunmen can routinely brutalize the public, citizen or immigrant alike, with impunity, you have reached that point.

CNBC: Microsoft offers voluntary buyouts to 60,000 employees www.cnbc.com/2026/10/26/m...

Until the 20th century, only white people could claim citizenship in America. With MAGA, even being a citizen is insufficient to being an American; whiteness is all.

This is textbook white nationalism, with the President looking on approvingly.

The soaring costs of public universities is a political decision. When these schools predominantly served white students, they tended to be free (UC, CCNY, etc.) But as the number of students of color has increased, funding for the public universities has decreased. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/b...

The Lord of the Rings is essentially a series of faculty meetings broken up by several long walks in the countryside.

Muddling through is not good enough. It's kicking the can down the road for the next would-be autocrat to try again and try harder. It can be repudiated as a fundamental discontinuity in legitimacy and its perpetrators punished accordingly or else the democratic death spiral doesn't stop with him.

We'll see how far the attempt goes, even if it will clearly fail. But a constitutional system that sees such an attempt by its chief executive and then leaves him in office has already been shattered. Merely trying is betrayal enough and places him outside of constitutional or democratic legitimacy.

That it'll fail because they lack sufficient consolidation and centralized control does not make it trivial that the president of the United States is trying to steal elections and produce an illegitimate sham Congress. It is open rebellion against the Constitution and morally tantamount to treason.

Folks, I think this Kings team might be bad.

I don’t think it’s a compliment to describe an NBA player as “extremely engaged now on defense”.

The Kings really got fucked on all sides of the lotto reform. They were too stupid or too stubborn to tank last year, so the tankers got the elite talents, and now the Kings are still just bad but will be punished in the lotto for it again.

You know what pissed me off about the Ramaswamy ad beyond the obvious grotesqueries? There’s no EVIDENCE disputing Acton’s life story. There are court proceedings backing up her story. And all Ramaswamy’s got is the (accused) mother saying “nu uh” and somehow that’s enough? FOR THE REPUBLICAN PARTY

The president of the united states comes out in favor of a mother helping their husband indicted for child sex abuse abscond from justice and then trash their daughter as a liar after the fact bsky.app/profile/atru...

bring back shame people shouldn’t think it’s acceptable to go on camera and be this openly racist

republicans’ closing message could not be clearer: they are the party of pedophile rapists

He is remarkably consistent in supporting alleged perpetrators and enablers of sexual violence and attacking their victims

Rethinking my plan to buy cheap opening-night seats and watch from the SN bar. Game 1 was painful to watch.

Aside from a solid stretch in the 2Q, Sacramento has been completely outmatched and outplayed by a Clippers team missing 3 of its top rotation pieces. Feels like watching last year's team. Uncompetitive.

The proposed tax isn’t confiscatory enough.

Shame is dead. So is the Republican Party as a legitimate participant in our self-governance.

So reminds me of @parismarx.com reporting on Musk and why he pushed the Hyperloop and Boring Co. tunnels - in part to throw cities off of developing better public transit options that make people not wanna buy cars or need to take taxis.

the fact that this kind of shit is even possible indicates something is badly wrong with regulation and taxes on corporate acquisitions and debt

Musk’s wealth is a threat to democracy—not just in the U.S. but everywhere. He’s probably the greatest threat to the free world today.

Elon Musk threatens Congress.

Democrats absolutely have to purge this man and his companies from every corner of the federal government at the first opportunity.

I'm not sure how much more blatant it can get that these guys are looting the federal government and then pointing over there and saying "look what THOSE BLACK PEOPLE ARE GETTING AWAY WITH!!!" bsky.app/profile/atru...

Oh look, Pee-Wee Hermann Goring has something he wants to add.

In case you were wondering: this is VERY MUCH still happening. www.thebulwark.com/p/is-the-tru...

1100+ votes in one and 600+ votes in another and over 96% don't have confidence in Vivek/ want him to sell. Don't think I've seen 90%+ agreement on any poll before

the fastest 200 pitches thrown by a starter this season: The Miz the most pitches ever thrown at 100mph in a game: The Miz, 66 the fastest pitch ever thrown by a starting pitcher in the statcast era: The Miz, 105.5mph this is the real life Tungsten Arm O'Doyle, and he might win a world series

"who the fuck are the rays and the brewers" you say well, let's start with a brewer you should all know this is Jacob "The Miz" Misiorowski - he looks pretty normal, right? well... pitches thrown over 100mph this season: The Miz: 1115 every other team: less than 750, as a team

From 1982-2018 the RNC that Rodgers invokes was under a federal consent decree that restricted its ability to engage in "ballot security measures" to intimidate voters. This is why. There is a reason Rodgers talks about Detroit and no other part of the state. Same reason as always.

Tom Emmer is a racist piece of shit.

Remember, when you see reports about Russia launching an operation against U.S. elections to help Republicans, this is the *sixth consecutive* cycle in which this has happened.

If you're backyard is close to water, consider building a frog sauna to help treat chytrid!

Kangz!!!

"whats wrong with the younger generation why is no one having kids anymore" like 5 seconds after they cut all the school buses and fired half the teachers because there's no property tax revenue to fund them anymore

ultimately it's shit like this that makes the decline of birth rates and resulting demographic skewing towards old people self-reinforcing. Greedy, wealthy retired people voting to destroy the funding for public services they relied on throughout their life now that they no longer need them

beyond not understanding that you retain a benefit — growing equity — that justifies continued taxation, what is happening is that these people don’t understand that their mortgage payment included a property tax payment that went into escrow. that, and simple selfishness, is what’s happening here.