I’m from Kentucky, if we had compulsory voting, we’d still have two republican senators
not accusing Elizabeth of this, but there’s a faux-savvy take that floats around lefty circles sometimes that if you controlled for voter suppression, the south looks like the north. not remotely true.
November 16, 2025 at 1:47 AM
I’m from Kentucky, if we had compulsory voting, we’d still have two republican senators
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Offering to join the protest as a priest in Chicago and being softly informed that they're only allowing 7's and up to join
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 15, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Offering to join the protest as a priest in Chicago and being softly informed that they're only allowing 7's and up to join
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Eleven states and the District of Columbia have seen double digit increases in the cost of residential electricity over the last year.
In New Jersey, electricity costs are up over 20%.
In DC, that number is over 30%.
In New Jersey, electricity costs are up over 20%.
In DC, that number is over 30%.
November 12, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Eleven states and the District of Columbia have seen double digit increases in the cost of residential electricity over the last year.
In New Jersey, electricity costs are up over 20%.
In DC, that number is over 30%.
In New Jersey, electricity costs are up over 20%.
In DC, that number is over 30%.
Abolish the senate
November 10, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Abolish the senate
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We are a two fed family, so no income for 40 days. I am incandescent with rage about the Dems caving.
November 10, 2025 at 1:45 AM
We are a two fed family, so no income for 40 days. I am incandescent with rage about the Dems caving.
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The democratic socialist future of America will require millions of Leslie Knopes doing the thankless work of the bureaucracy required to provide services to the people. If you think people like her are "neoliberal shills," you're not really a democratic socialist, you're just a cosplayer.
November 5, 2025 at 6:13 PM
The democratic socialist future of America will require millions of Leslie Knopes doing the thankless work of the bureaucracy required to provide services to the people. If you think people like her are "neoliberal shills," you're not really a democratic socialist, you're just a cosplayer.
I need the Jays to wrap this up because I am up WAY past my bedtime.
November 2, 2025 at 3:11 AM
I need the Jays to wrap this up because I am up WAY past my bedtime.
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Has this World Series consistently featured the highest quality of baseball? No. Has it featured the widest array possible of beautiful, weird, specific baseball delights? Yes.
November 2, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Has this World Series consistently featured the highest quality of baseball? No. Has it featured the widest array possible of beautiful, weird, specific baseball delights? Yes.
He’s got a really good liberation theology podcast, fwiw
At Broadview ICE detention facility for Mass today, Fr. David Inczauskis, SJ reveals “tragic” and “devastating” news that a member of group bearing Guadalupe Banner to Mass today, was detained by ICE this morning in procession to detention facility.
November 2, 2025 at 12:17 AM
He’s got a really good liberation theology podcast, fwiw
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“some people abuse SNAP” your soul is rotten
October 30, 2025 at 5:35 PM
“some people abuse SNAP” your soul is rotten
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This is sometimes read as "look 'AI' isn't working". But the opposite is true.
_This_ is what "AI" is _for_. Push down labor power, push down wages, make employment more insecure.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/forrester_ai_rehiring/
_This_ is what "AI" is _for_. Push down labor power, push down wages, make employment more insecure.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/forrester_ai_rehiring/
October 30, 2025 at 12:05 PM
This is sometimes read as "look 'AI' isn't working". But the opposite is true.
_This_ is what "AI" is _for_. Push down labor power, push down wages, make employment more insecure.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/forrester_ai_rehiring/
_This_ is what "AI" is _for_. Push down labor power, push down wages, make employment more insecure.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/forrester_ai_rehiring/
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Following a women-led labor strike in Chicago's garment industry, the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America was a progressive union that broke away from the more conservative United Garment Workers union (UGW). The ACWA pursued what's known as "social unionism."
October 30, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Following a women-led labor strike in Chicago's garment industry, the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America was a progressive union that broke away from the more conservative United Garment Workers union (UGW). The ACWA pursued what's known as "social unionism."
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The ideal Chotiner interview subject is an expert who cares deeply about their expertise but feels it isn't understood properly to the general populace and Chotiner acts as an intermediary.
The ideal Chotiner victim, coincidentally, believes that this describes them perfectly.
The ideal Chotiner victim, coincidentally, believes that this describes them perfectly.
October 27, 2025 at 10:45 PM
The ideal Chotiner interview subject is an expert who cares deeply about their expertise but feels it isn't understood properly to the general populace and Chotiner acts as an intermediary.
The ideal Chotiner victim, coincidentally, believes that this describes them perfectly.
The ideal Chotiner victim, coincidentally, believes that this describes them perfectly.
Sleeveless jerseys for all players
Completely fix baseball with five words.
October 26, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Sleeveless jerseys for all players
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Back on the other place, I once tweeted in response to one of those parking lot, car trunk Halloween events. I said oh these make me so sad. Because it means that people without children don’t get to participate in the collective joy of seeing the kids in their costumes. Sad. Not mad. Sad.
October 24, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Back on the other place, I once tweeted in response to one of those parking lot, car trunk Halloween events. I said oh these make me so sad. Because it means that people without children don’t get to participate in the collective joy of seeing the kids in their costumes. Sad. Not mad. Sad.
I have watched enough PBS during the shutdown that I have thoughts on various intro/theme songs of different shows. Nova > Nature > Secrets of the Dead
October 21, 2025 at 10:32 PM
I have watched enough PBS during the shutdown that I have thoughts on various intro/theme songs of different shows. Nova > Nature > Secrets of the Dead
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This would strip *thousands* of DC residents who live in 2-4 unit buildings of their TOPA rights.
TOPA is the first right to buy your home — a key tenant right in DC.
DC residents had NO opportunity to testify on this because it was a last-minute amendment to the bill.
No one should support this.
TOPA is the first right to buy your home — a key tenant right in DC.
DC residents had NO opportunity to testify on this because it was a last-minute amendment to the bill.
No one should support this.
Tomorrow the D.C. Council will take a final vote on the RENTAL Act, which would speed up some evictions and exempt newer buildings from the law that gives tenants first right to buy. Also: CM Anita Bonds' amendment to exempt 2-4 unit buildings from TOPA. Rationale is below.
October 20, 2025 at 11:50 PM
This would strip *thousands* of DC residents who live in 2-4 unit buildings of their TOPA rights.
TOPA is the first right to buy your home — a key tenant right in DC.
DC residents had NO opportunity to testify on this because it was a last-minute amendment to the bill.
No one should support this.
TOPA is the first right to buy your home — a key tenant right in DC.
DC residents had NO opportunity to testify on this because it was a last-minute amendment to the bill.
No one should support this.
New flags! @freedcproject.bsky.social
October 18, 2025 at 6:46 PM
New flags! @freedcproject.bsky.social
I’m reading a book about the Irish potato famine (Rot by Padraic X. Scanlan) and at this point I don’t think the British should be allowed potatoes.
The British Right are just in total freefall into savagery at this point
October 18, 2025 at 11:42 AM
I’m reading a book about the Irish potato famine (Rot by Padraic X. Scanlan) and at this point I don’t think the British should be allowed potatoes.
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washingtonians literally can’t get married due to the shutdown which may sound like a cutesy who-cares issue except that it means those washingtonians can’t get on their partners’ health insurance or make progress in immigration cases to which marital status is relevant, etc
D.C. has issued marriage licenses to more than 64 couples over the last two days, taking over a responsibility usually handled by D.C. Superior Court's Marriage Bureau – which has been closed because of the federal government shutdown. Story for @51st.news: 51st.news/dc-marriage-...
The shutdown closed the office that issues D.C. marriage licenses
The congressional spending fight shuttered the office that issues marriage licenses in the city.
51st.news
October 16, 2025 at 9:39 PM
washingtonians literally can’t get married due to the shutdown which may sound like a cutesy who-cares issue except that it means those washingtonians can’t get on their partners’ health insurance or make progress in immigration cases to which marital status is relevant, etc
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the extent to which media elites treat liberal americans as if they do not count in the body politic is a real problem
October 15, 2025 at 10:39 PM
the extent to which media elites treat liberal americans as if they do not count in the body politic is a real problem
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Once again: this is also happening in DC. Still.
It feels like we’ve been forgotten, maybe because there aren’t huge confrontations to run photos of. But our neighbors are still being taken every day. Routine traffic stops are now done by 12+ feds alongside local police.
Please talk about us too.
It feels like we’ve been forgotten, maybe because there aren’t huge confrontations to run photos of. But our neighbors are still being taken every day. Routine traffic stops are now done by 12+ feds alongside local police.
Please talk about us too.
"Residents in Chicago and Portland are living in a police state where masked armed forces kidnap who they want to kidnap, where they have to listen to public officials routinely lie about what is happening in their neighborhoods." donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...
Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.
October 14, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Once again: this is also happening in DC. Still.
It feels like we’ve been forgotten, maybe because there aren’t huge confrontations to run photos of. But our neighbors are still being taken every day. Routine traffic stops are now done by 12+ feds alongside local police.
Please talk about us too.
It feels like we’ve been forgotten, maybe because there aren’t huge confrontations to run photos of. But our neighbors are still being taken every day. Routine traffic stops are now done by 12+ feds alongside local police.
Please talk about us too.
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I now realize that for my entire adult life, I've had a very narrow conception of what "supporting and defending the Constitution" means. Standing on business when armed agents of the State are knocking on your door is way more important, by a country mile, than anything I did overseas
Border Patrol “attempted to arrest a plumber working inside a Logan Heights home but left empty-handed after the homeowner refused them entry.
The homeowner told agents she would not allow them inside because the warrant they presented did not include her address and lacked a judge's signature.”
The homeowner told agents she would not allow them inside because the warrant they presented did not include her address and lacked a judge's signature.”
Federal immigration operations target San Diego neighborhoods, sparking community resistance
Federal immigration agents conducted operations in Logan Heights and Southeast San Diego on Friday, with community members capturing footage of the enforcement actions.
www.10news.com
October 13, 2025 at 12:01 PM
I now realize that for my entire adult life, I've had a very narrow conception of what "supporting and defending the Constitution" means. Standing on business when armed agents of the State are knocking on your door is way more important, by a country mile, than anything I did overseas
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Sunday reading:
I wrote about the aggrieved extremist who is currently firing thousands of federal workers and ravaging state capacity based on conspiratorial nonsense - and about mainstream media’s infuriating tendency to sanitize Russell Vought and the regime he serves.
This week’s piece:
I wrote about the aggrieved extremist who is currently firing thousands of federal workers and ravaging state capacity based on conspiratorial nonsense - and about mainstream media’s infuriating tendency to sanitize Russell Vought and the regime he serves.
This week’s piece:
We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly
Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout “small government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy
steady.page
October 12, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Sunday reading:
I wrote about the aggrieved extremist who is currently firing thousands of federal workers and ravaging state capacity based on conspiratorial nonsense - and about mainstream media’s infuriating tendency to sanitize Russell Vought and the regime he serves.
This week’s piece:
I wrote about the aggrieved extremist who is currently firing thousands of federal workers and ravaging state capacity based on conspiratorial nonsense - and about mainstream media’s infuriating tendency to sanitize Russell Vought and the regime he serves.
This week’s piece:
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REI is closing unionized stores. So many companies that like to pretend to be progressive remain still virulently anti-union at their core. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/08/b...
REI Co-Op’s Boston location is set to close next year - The Boston Globe
REI said it will close three locations on the East Coast, including a store in Boston, as it launches a new strategic plan.
www.bostonglobe.com
October 9, 2025 at 12:29 AM
REI is closing unionized stores. So many companies that like to pretend to be progressive remain still virulently anti-union at their core. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/08/b...