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It's been 24 hours…Has even one Republican candidate been asked about their leader being newly accused of a brutal rape abetted by Jeffrey Epstein?

America if the news covered it like those countries Over There

If you're a reporter asking a candidate to denounce a foreign terrorist group simply because he shares the same religion, you are a gutter bigot of the worst fucking kind. Do they ask Mike Rogers to denounce Christian terrorists like Tim McVeigh, Eric Robert Rudolph and Robert Lewis Dear? No? Huh

if western allies of the US actually cared about human rights, they’d be denouncing this depravity

🧵 Here is a timeline cleanser. Karollyn Zepeda and her partner Nate Geminiano were excited when her water broke for their second child in their Outer Sunset home in San Francisco. They headed out to Anza Vista in what looked like plenty of time but got stuck in traffic in Golden Gate park.

Unlike Macklemore, these support acts don’t have big followings and they are giving up their chance to perform to stadiums to push back against censorship, not of themselves but of a fellow artist. Respect.

Hi Dems, don’t think that millions of Muslims - & not just Muslims but anti-racist liberal & leftist Americans - don’t hear the deafening silence from most of you as the Muslim Democratic mayor of New York is being smeared and attacked by the GOP and right-wing media over 9/11.

This whole Hasan Piker derangement fever -- which is a project of conservative media, AIPAC and Third Way -- that we're experiencing initially reminded me of the manufactured freakout over Jeremiah Wright, which forced Obama to disown him. But I think a better parallel is what happened to ACORN.

Here‘s an important piece by Lara Korte, one of the Stars & Stripes journalists fired by Trump and Hegseth for making their Iran war cover-ups more difficult.

When the chyron is answered by the picture

“Republicans warning that Communists are taking over the Democratic Party might first ask why their own administration is so eager to have the government acquire pieces of private companies.” trib.al/4DwGlLh

There’s fresh evidence that the White House hatched a scheme to punish an American state because it didn’t free a convicted felon the president likes. “I’ve never seen anything like it,” a federal judge said. “I’ve never even imagined something like it.” Why isn't this a bigger scandal?

In what context is "Abolish Ice" a radical position? In a context where everyone sees this, and feels confident that this sort of behavior will be punished. In a context where basic accountability systems are in place. An organization that encourages this behavior is impossible to fix.

"We want lower gas prices as they drive us into concentration camps."

I'd be deader than Mitch McConnell if our excellent union health insurance hadn't paid for the operations and the unbelievably costly drug regimen that have kept me alive, with day-to-day good health This contract is a matter of life or death for me. Please support us

Serial killers.

its almost like a political party, when it is on message and in unison, can sway public opinion

“’Centrism’ is just performative compromise devoid of critical thinking, policy, or ideology,” D’Arrigo wrote. “It’s a political vehicle that gives permission to do nothing in service of protecting a status quo that benefits large corporate donors and special interest groups who fund both parties.”

its crazy how one of the only jobs where you can openly espouse the most disgusting gutter racism on-the-clock is “person who makes laws and is in charge of everything”

People would probably like the Democratic Party more if those at the top didn't act like whiny piss babies when incumbents were challenged/defeated

This is a perfect handy- dandy guide to which Democrats need to get primaries

when people ask “but theyre in the minority what do you want them to do” this is a good example of what i want them to do

It has just been revealed that the US has already spent at least $25 billion on a war for Israel that began by killing 100+ schoolgirls and Congress is now voting on… condemning Hasan Piker

The average American family paid $1,700 in tariffs last year, according to the bipartisan Congressional Joint Economic Committee. Few will ever see any of that money back. The refunds will go to companies, if doled out at all. What a joke.

We don’t say it enough on this app: Fuck Bill Maher.

Per YouGov Rahm Emanuel is the 78th most popular Democrat, behind everyone from Michael Dukakis to Barney Frank. He is 12 places behind Harry Reid, who died five years ago. To the extent anything's happening here it's *entirely* media-driven. yougov.com/en-us/rating...

I now have LESS than 2 weeks to reach my goal before I am homeless on the first. Extra money is needed because I found out my housing stipend doesn't kick in for 6 months and without it I can't afford accessible housing and will likely have nowhere to go. givebutter.com/iG0zWz

BREAKING NEWS: Just now, we secured a court order on behalf of our multistate coalition: the judge ruled from the bench that healthcare decisions must stay with families and their providers, not the government. #orpol

Important thread. Read the whole thing. And then... speak out.

More than a year in this has mostly gone as I feared, and in some ways has been worse. But there have been two contrasting surprises: -- The speed and breadth of institutional capitulation -- The courage, ferocity, and resolution of regular people Our strength isn't our institutions. It's us.

imagine the moral black hole it takes to read this litany of stories and the takeaway from dem leadership is "we cant say abolish ice, people will say we're soft on crime, how about we just endorse retraining the brown shirts instead?"

Seeing Zohran instantly getting a bunch of shit done in like a week makes you realize that politicians could always do that on some level if they wanted it bad enough and very few of them actually do.

one takeaway from the grok noncon porn thing is that much of the media just isn't interested in an issue they can't pretend has two sides or that doesn't give them an opportunity to shit on the left. Also it would be uncomfortable to justify remaining on twitter after acknowledging it

billionaires are a policy failure.

Resign. Today

If the vast vast majority of Americans want reasonable gun controls and they can't get passed by the Congress then our democracy is broken. Or to be more accurate, it has been corrupted. The consciences and reason of our DC leaders have been purchased...for a pittance. Stop the $$ to stop the guns.

the house just authorized a $900 billion expenditure for the military. unlike health care and education nobody ever bothers to ask "BUT hoW wIll you Pay FOR It?"

Louis CK has never fully acknowledged his misconduct, and has misrepresented it multiple times—including in his initial apology. In so doing, he has continued to do harm to his victims. Fuck that. Fuck him.

Juan Orlando Hernandez was convicted by a jury of conspiring to traffic 400 tons of cocaine into the United States.

Our carceral system is the product of choices. We should, and could whenever we want to, make radically different choices. #abolish

the scotus tariff case is going to be interesting because we'll finally learn if the supreme court is more beholden to its authoritarian backers or its corporate benefactors

Hey this is cool! whyy.org/articles/ele...

26 billionaires spent over $22 million to beat Zohran Mamdani. Why? Because regular people came together around an agenda that prioritized making life easier for more people. It beat big money. That is how we win.

Cuomo’s closing pitch is just gutter racism against his opponent bsky.app/profile/bfis...

I just donated to my local food bank. If you can, you should too. People are already suffering but next month, in particular, is going to be so difficult.

And this is why you can’t just palm any candidate off on Dem voters. When it comes to the Senate we all suffer. Vet them.