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graphic in the mamdani font/colors saying: CALL YOUR SENATORS and TELL THEM NO SHUTDOWN DEAL WITHOUT ACA FUNDING 202-224-3121

Find your senators at reps.fyi or call 202-224-3121

Hopescrolling >>> doomscrolling.

leave me alone, I am Sad About Baseball

Baseball is the worst because my team was eliminated 2.5 months ago and the next pitch might kill me. It is Nov. 1

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.

I like him so much more when he’s pitching for the team I’m rooting against

7 Policy Recommendations for Combating Antisemitism in the United States The surge in antisemitism seen in America today threatens the Jewish community and the nation’s democracy as a whole, and it necessitates a nonpartisan, whole-of-society effort to eradicate hate.

NEW: My CAP colleague Ben Olinsky has written a sobering examination of the surge in antisemitism in America and delivers seven solid nonpartisan policy recommendations for fighting it.

@americanprogress.bsky.social

Sexy Museums in Chestertown reporting for duty 🫡

Rooted so hard for the M’s for you - thank you for giving me the joy and heartache of October baseball and sharing your love of the game and the team with all of us. 💙💙💙

Power is out on Capitol Hill in DC, at least two blocks each way north and south of East Capitol Street at 2nd Street NE/SE

Did seem very infield-fly-esque. Thank you!

All of us after watching this wild Brewers not-a-catch two-force-outs 8-6-2 play (I’m on my 7th rewatch and still trying to piece it together)

It’s a weird time in DC; grateful for some normal weird to balance out, oh, everything else.

Shout-out to the person biking down East Capitol Street two blocks from the Capitol yelling “he makes everything sexual! Everything!”

Endless screaming. Horrified, not surprised.

A hand holds a small book open, showing the right hand page with these words in a handwriting-style block font: Let me say right now for the record: I’m still gonna be here asking this world to dance. Even if it keeps stepping in my holy feet. You, you stay here with me, okay? You stay here with me. Raising your bite against the bitter dark, your bright longing, your brilliant fist of loss. Friend, if the only thing we have to gain in staying is each other, my god that is plenty. My god that is enough. My god that is so, so much for the light to give. Each of us at each other’s backs whispering over and over and over. “Live. Live. Live.”

I will never forget standing in @eastcitybooks.bsky.social leafing through Andrea Gibson’s Take Me With You, getting it wrapped around my heart, and weeping quietly in the shelves. Thank you for sharing your heart and words with us; we will miss you forever.

The left better start figuring out how to weaponize today's decision rather than just (rightfully) criticizing it.

- Go back into Judge Kaczmaryk's court to dissolve all of his nationwide orders.

- Pass gun bans and insist any order applies only to plaintiffs.

President Trump fires Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden President Donald Trump has abruptly fired Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden as the White House continues to purge the federal government of those perceived to oppose the president and his agenda.

This is an absolute disgrace.

apnews.com/article/dona...

YouTube video by Senator Cory Booker Live: Speaking on Trump, Musk, and America’s Moral Moment on the Senate Floor | Senator Cory Booker

In 1957, Strom Thurmond held the Senate for 24 hours and 18 minutes to block the passage of a Civil Rights bill.

In 2025, Cory Booker held the Senate for 24 hours and >19+ minutes to defend freedom & democracy.

Courage over fear; liberty over tyranny. #goodtrouble www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2ut...

18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people:
18f.org

Here’s where you can sign up to be an organ donor. Make your wishes known to your family. My brother is alive today because another family gave us the greatest gift in the midst of their most terrible sorrow.

www.organdonor.gov/sign-up

They’re sold out for both nights, but will be streaming tomorrow’s concert; no matter where you are, bring your aching heart tomorrow at 4:30pm ET and let the 18th Street Singers heal it a little: www.eventbrite.com/e/metamorpho...

An attendee at one of my husband’s concerts years ago told him that the music “shook the dust off [his] soul.”

Heading down for the first of their 20th anniversary concerts and ready to have the dust shaken off my soul too. (And probably cry. A lot.) DC needs this music after this cruel week.

I love this beautiful city with my whole entire heart. 💔

A huge problem right now is that the media is credulously reporting that so many things Trump is doing by EO/edict/OMB or OPM memo is just the end of the matter, that he can do it by fiat.

That is not true.

Would love to understand why every Democrat is not out there every second of the day explaining in plain English that Donald Trump has declared war on cancer patients.

YouTube video by the Mountain Goats The Mountain Goats - This Year (Official Video)

Special thanks to @themountaingoats.bsky.social for uploading a high quality version of the music video for this song today specifically. If you haven’t heard it before, you should listen to it. If you have heard it, chant it like a prayer.

Democracy is something we build each day, person by person, step by step, with our words, our actions, and our beliefs. This is as true on Monday as it was on Sunday; it is fragile, but it is ours, and it doesn’t happen to us, WE create it, we sustain it.

Love and courage.