Wrecked

Oregon's Merkley holds US Senate floor overnight in Trump protest | Alabama Reflector Merkley spokespeople say he is seeking to draw attention “to how Trump is ripping up the Constitution and eroding our democratic institutions.”

Via @fischler.bsky.social: U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, began speaking on the Senate floor just before 6:30 p.m. Tuesday against what he called President Donald Trump’s authoritarian actions, and remained there Wednesday morning.

this nazi tattoo story has been weird because it has a lot of post-leftist engagement dipshits and unremarkable Obama era liberal speechwriters--normally locked in perpetual war--dying on the same hill to defend white supremacist iconography

new nazi Twitter has cooked many brains

Is the East Wing demolition the most important thing? No. But in the maelstrom it is a potent symbol. And every picture makes me nauseous.

They just straight up resent the idea that a literal Nazi tattoo can be a dealbreaker for someone whose aesthetic they like

Plus if other people are drawing a line in the sand, they must be looking sideways at the Nazi tat defenders for their lack of standards and moral compass. That too is no good

that there are people calling it a purity test to say “pass” about a totenkopf tattoo is pretty wild

I honestly don't think centrists believe anything at all. Just as I don't want to see a "mainstream" presidential candidate who hounds homeless people and abandons trans people, I don't want a "progressive" Senator with a Nazi tattoo. The uprights aren't narrow here. This shouldn't be hard.

A very small kitten, tabby and white, shouting while I hold her up in the air with one hand. If you look closely you can see that both she, and my hand, are covered in dirt. The plant in question is blurry in the background.

Tiny criminal, photographed this morning.

She jumped in the plant and promptly got digging zoomies.

And it’s enabling as all hell.

I think all the time about this interview I did a year ago, where @bartongellman.bsky.social from the Brennan Center told me that, in their authoritarian war games, it was faith leaders who prevented troops from firing on civilians

Mapped: How 6 Billionaire Family Fortunes Fund Project 2025 Unraveling a $130 million web of climate denial, political extremism, and Trump campaign ties.

Who runs America now.

www.desmog.com/2024/10/25/p...

I just cannot take this shit seriously. If you're a senior Labour figure and think that the party's stance is cowardly but are too afraid to put your name on the record saying it YOU ARE A COWARD.

ICE tries it with NYC. Canal Street wasn’t having it.

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ALL NIGHTER: Sen. Jeff Merkley has held the US Senate floor since 6:21 pm Tuesday in a protest of the Trump administration.

Fucking finally.

Leonard Leo making it more difficult to vote in Maine.

www.penbaypilot.com/article/do-n...

this whole fiasco has been a good reminder to update your renter's insurance

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Deserved

The average age of U.S. homebuyers is now 56, up from 49 last year.

In 1981, the year trickledown economics began, it was 31.

confirming trump's judges as people are disappeared and removed to camps and the president is going to get 230 million in taxpayer money from DOJ while he orders more live fire exercises in civilian areas where he is actively deploying soldiers. great "opposition" we've got

I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.

Please someone interview this woman.

Judge rules UC must publicize Trump administration settlement demands - Daily Bruin This post was updated Oct. 14 at 11:30 p.m. A judge ruled Tuesday that the UC Board of Regents must publicize the Trump administration’s proposed settlement demands to UCLA.

The employer has until October 24th to disclose this information.

dailybruin.com/2025/10/14/j...

"How do you expect to win back men...?"

We don't want those men. They are the hot dogs on the floor of humanity and we still have all these nice prepped hamburger patties if someone would just let them cook.

You’ll notice she is signing the indictment papers herself which is unusual and it’s because, her colleagues and MAGAworld fellow travelers say, she is having trouble getting people to work with her on these

Department officials figuring out if they need to recruit for her office

"reprogramming billions in congressionally approved spending" isn't a thing. It's just stealing. Call it stealing.

he’s so cooked. he’s incinerated. he is not fit for human consumption. he is headed right for the compost bin before he makes the house stink. a raccoon is about to start eating him

blessings on this woman

(thanks to @clancyny.bsky.social for flagging that this image is a still from PIX11 footage)

Amen. The purpose of politics is to enact an agenda, not simply to get elected for the sake of doing so.