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🐈 One of the most loved stories we’ve ever published
When Kittens Came to My Prison
I had not touched a cat in 15 years when an orange kitten wandered over to sit with me in the grass one day.
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December 23, 2025 at 4:19 PM
🐈 One of the most loved stories we’ve ever published
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BREAKING: My bipartisan BABES Enhancement Act is now law! 👏
This law is about making it easier for parents to fly with breastmilk and breastfeeding supplies, ensuring TSA keeps its employees up to speed with its own policies and more.
Huge win for families.
This law is about making it easier for parents to fly with breastmilk and breastfeeding supplies, ensuring TSA keeps its employees up to speed with its own policies and more.
Huge win for families.
December 2, 2025 at 3:12 PM
BREAKING: My bipartisan BABES Enhancement Act is now law! 👏
This law is about making it easier for parents to fly with breastmilk and breastfeeding supplies, ensuring TSA keeps its employees up to speed with its own policies and more.
Huge win for families.
This law is about making it easier for parents to fly with breastmilk and breastfeeding supplies, ensuring TSA keeps its employees up to speed with its own policies and more.
Huge win for families.
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SNAP is probably the most effective federal dollar we spend in terms of long term domestic economic outcomes.
that isn’t why you should support it; you should support it because it is a moral imperative to feed the hungry.
but it’s why even a growth-oriented ghoul shouldn’t oppose it.
that isn’t why you should support it; you should support it because it is a moral imperative to feed the hungry.
but it’s why even a growth-oriented ghoul shouldn’t oppose it.
October 27, 2025 at 1:21 AM
SNAP is probably the most effective federal dollar we spend in terms of long term domestic economic outcomes.
that isn’t why you should support it; you should support it because it is a moral imperative to feed the hungry.
but it’s why even a growth-oriented ghoul shouldn’t oppose it.
that isn’t why you should support it; you should support it because it is a moral imperative to feed the hungry.
but it’s why even a growth-oriented ghoul shouldn’t oppose it.
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Vance Boelter, a Trump, GOP voting Christian nationalist, was radicalized in part by QAnon, the same conspiracy promoted by Trump and Republicans, even though they knew it had radicalized others to commit violence.
Boelter had a hit list of 70 liberals. He killed Melissa Hortmann and her husband.
Boelter had a hit list of 70 liberals. He killed Melissa Hortmann and her husband.
September 10, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Vance Boelter, a Trump, GOP voting Christian nationalist, was radicalized in part by QAnon, the same conspiracy promoted by Trump and Republicans, even though they knew it had radicalized others to commit violence.
Boelter had a hit list of 70 liberals. He killed Melissa Hortmann and her husband.
Boelter had a hit list of 70 liberals. He killed Melissa Hortmann and her husband.
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I will say that I find it weird that a lot of people are like "this is the moment that will tip us into violence" when a Minnesota politician was assassinated in her home 2 months ago and someone literally shot Trump in the head last year. how exactly is charlie kirk the tipping point
September 10, 2025 at 7:15 PM
I will say that I find it weird that a lot of people are like "this is the moment that will tip us into violence" when a Minnesota politician was assassinated in her home 2 months ago and someone literally shot Trump in the head last year. how exactly is charlie kirk the tipping point
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Political violence disproportionately hurts people with less power, not people with more power. Political violence will disproportionately hurt people of color and women and LGBTQ people. It’s not fair, but that’s the way it works. Celebrating political violence means at best indifference to that.
Political violence is bad. It usually begets more political violence.
Celebrating political violence is bad. It usually encourages more political violence, against various targets.
Campus shootings are bad. They make everyone on campus less safe.
It's bad that what I wrote here is controversial.
Celebrating political violence is bad. It usually encourages more political violence, against various targets.
Campus shootings are bad. They make everyone on campus less safe.
It's bad that what I wrote here is controversial.
September 10, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Political violence disproportionately hurts people with less power, not people with more power. Political violence will disproportionately hurt people of color and women and LGBTQ people. It’s not fair, but that’s the way it works. Celebrating political violence means at best indifference to that.
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every interview with this guy makes me tear up
May 14, 2025 at 2:04 AM
every interview with this guy makes me tear up
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How we beat back the corporate takeover of America:
1. Break up corporate monopolies
2. Continue building union power
3. End Citizens United and get big money out of politics
Let’s keep working to unrig the system.
1. Break up corporate monopolies
2. Continue building union power
3. End Citizens United and get big money out of politics
Let’s keep working to unrig the system.
May 8, 2025 at 10:15 PM
How we beat back the corporate takeover of America:
1. Break up corporate monopolies
2. Continue building union power
3. End Citizens United and get big money out of politics
Let’s keep working to unrig the system.
1. Break up corporate monopolies
2. Continue building union power
3. End Citizens United and get big money out of politics
Let’s keep working to unrig the system.
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Maddow: 88% of the country says no, no, he cannot defy a supreme court ruling. Only 9% say yes he can. And you know, it's not the same thing. But I should mention that 9% is also the proportion of Americans who told yougov this week that they have a favorable view of the black plague
April 25, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Maddow: 88% of the country says no, no, he cannot defy a supreme court ruling. Only 9% say yes he can. And you know, it's not the same thing. But I should mention that 9% is also the proportion of Americans who told yougov this week that they have a favorable view of the black plague
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When I started as a law professor, I never taught the crime fraud exception to attorney client privilege, but now I teach it every semester because --gestures all around--all of this. 🫳🎤⚖️
PSA from your friendly neighborhood public defender: adding your lawyer to a group chat does not make it privileged. 🧵/x
April 21, 2025 at 2:50 AM
When I started as a law professor, I never taught the crime fraud exception to attorney client privilege, but now I teach it every semester because --gestures all around--all of this. 🫳🎤⚖️
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it's important this go as viral as the original story for morale purposes if nothing else. despite the image they project these people are NOT unaccountable. consequences CAN be forced. focused anger and outrage MATTERS.
April 20, 2025 at 11:46 PM
it's important this go as viral as the original story for morale purposes if nothing else. despite the image they project these people are NOT unaccountable. consequences CAN be forced. focused anger and outrage MATTERS.
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NEW: By a 4–3 vote, the Wisconsin Supreme Court upholds Gov. Tony Evers' creative "veto" transforming a two-year school funding increase into a 400-year funding increase. Evers crossed out words, numbers, and hyphens to rewrite the law—legally, it turns out. www.wicourts.gov/sc/opinion/D...
April 18, 2025 at 3:08 PM
NEW: By a 4–3 vote, the Wisconsin Supreme Court upholds Gov. Tony Evers' creative "veto" transforming a two-year school funding increase into a 400-year funding increase. Evers crossed out words, numbers, and hyphens to rewrite the law—legally, it turns out. www.wicourts.gov/sc/opinion/D...
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I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article
April 16, 2025 at 2:30 AM
I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article
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Very informative chart from Washington Post
April 11, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Very informative chart from Washington Post
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All TWENTY FOUR SEASONS of “How It’s Made” are streaming on HBO. You’re welcome.
April 9, 2025 at 3:48 AM
All TWENTY FOUR SEASONS of “How It’s Made” are streaming on HBO. You’re welcome.
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I think my irl friends are all getting sick of my "I'm just a cute little brat who needs constant validation please tell me I'm pretty" schtick but this was the personality I developed to combat my suicidal ideation and now I don't want to die anymore so fuck it we ball
April 9, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I think my irl friends are all getting sick of my "I'm just a cute little brat who needs constant validation please tell me I'm pretty" schtick but this was the personality I developed to combat my suicidal ideation and now I don't want to die anymore so fuck it we ball
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I love paying TurboTax a few hundred bucks every year to figure out how much money I owe the government, which the government already knows, but won't tell me because TurboTax pays legislators to keep the government from telling me. 😻
April 8, 2025 at 12:06 PM
I love paying TurboTax a few hundred bucks every year to figure out how much money I owe the government, which the government already knows, but won't tell me because TurboTax pays legislators to keep the government from telling me. 😻
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If a future Democratic trifecta wanted to float a trial balloon on expanding the Supreme Court, they should expand the lower courts to the point that their appointments in red states are the majority. And scrap the convention of giving the senators of a state a say in who gets nominated.
April 8, 2025 at 2:44 PM
If a future Democratic trifecta wanted to float a trial balloon on expanding the Supreme Court, they should expand the lower courts to the point that their appointments in red states are the majority. And scrap the convention of giving the senators of a state a say in who gets nominated.
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There's a vast gulf between trans and cis understanding of what it means for a trans sex worker to say she needed to sell sex to pay for surgery.
We read that the same as if a diabetic said they needed to sell sex to pay for insulin. Cis people still see our medical needs as frivolous, a choice.
We read that the same as if a diabetic said they needed to sell sex to pay for insulin. Cis people still see our medical needs as frivolous, a choice.
Oh this does not seem to demonstrate the claim made. The only way you could think that is if you're prejudiced against the woman you're interviewing.
April 8, 2025 at 10:15 AM
There's a vast gulf between trans and cis understanding of what it means for a trans sex worker to say she needed to sell sex to pay for surgery.
We read that the same as if a diabetic said they needed to sell sex to pay for insulin. Cis people still see our medical needs as frivolous, a choice.
We read that the same as if a diabetic said they needed to sell sex to pay for insulin. Cis people still see our medical needs as frivolous, a choice.
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We wouldn’t be here if SCOTUS had allowed the January 6th trial to go forward as scheduled.
April 8, 2025 at 5:14 AM
We wouldn’t be here if SCOTUS had allowed the January 6th trial to go forward as scheduled.
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Protesters started reciting the Lord’s Prayer in a Tennessee House committee, as lawmakers narrowly advance a bill denying undocumented kids an education.
April 7, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Protesters started reciting the Lord’s Prayer in a Tennessee House committee, as lawmakers narrowly advance a bill denying undocumented kids an education.
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here’s a curse word free version of “look it up” as requested by countless teachers and librarians 🥰😘
April 7, 2025 at 8:35 PM
here’s a curse word free version of “look it up” as requested by countless teachers and librarians 🥰😘