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Yoshinobu Yamamoto is the first pitcher in MLB history to win 3 games ON THE ROAD in a single World Series.

holding heteronormative space for throwing third way out of the overton window

Things are really bad and rather than just hurting our enemies, we're going to have to help our loved ones friends and strangers, starting with our most vulnerable— to uplift each other, and protect each other, if we're ever going to undo all this trauma and get free.

The Texas governor is threatening to arrest Texas Democrats for refusing to participate in a special session he has called to virtually eliminate representation in Congress for 8 million Texas Democrats.

the US profoundly needs a children's rights movement. children are not property... they deserve opportunity and learning and autonomy and security.... and our country just does not acknowledge this

This is the way. Nice one, @alexwinter.com. 👊🏻💥

Rest in Peace Chuck Mangione. The master of the flugel horn.

"Feels So Good" was everywhere.

Raise your hand if this banger was played in your home growing up. 🎶🎶🎶🎶

YouTube video by MSNBC ‘Madness’: Hayes says ‘the people of Gaza are running out of time’

“This is madness. We are running out of words to describe it. And the people of Gaza are running out of time,” says Chris Hayes on the dire aid situation amid Israel’s war on Gaza.

I can think of 2 times when leading U.S. officials fled Washington in a panic:
August 1814:
British forces briefly capture the capital and set fire to government buildings.
July 2025:
Republicans fear they'll have to vote on the Epstein files, so they adjourn early and run for the hills.

this reminds me of the period in american politics when pundits would demand that any black politician of note — really, any black person in politics with a national audience — “condemn farrakhan”

Columbia functionally returning to its original name King’s College

do you ever stare at the ceiling and think about how the worldwide scientific establishment did the impossible and created a COVID vaccine in under a year and the response of the general public has been to go on an unstoppable rampage to destroy science and scientists

Israel Was Supposed to Sink Zohran Mamdani Will the Democratic Party absorb the lesson?

"Nearly 70 percent of Democrats now have an unfavorable view of Israel, according to Pew. Yet Democratic officials carry on as if full-throated support for Israel were party doctrine," writes @ryuspaeth.bsky.social. nymag.com/intelligence...

Watch this to the end.

He does indeed!!

Now would be a good time for every elected Democrat to declare X an unsuitable platform for public office holders and shut down their account.

Let America Be America Again Let America be America again.

"O, yes,
I say it plain,
America never was America to me,
And yet I swear this oath—
America will be!"

Starting the day sharing my favorite Langston Hughes poem in the family group chat before doing my own reading

poets.org/poem/let-ame...

America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home.

Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.

“Resist much, obey little.
Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved,
Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever afterward resumes its liberty.”

~Walt Whitman

I analyzed more than 100 extremist manifestos: Misogyny was the common thread Gender identity–driven violence is the most common ideological theme across ‘lone-actor’ extremist manifestos in a recent study.

#Misogyny is not just a cultural or emotional problem. Instead, it increasingly functions as an ideological gateway, connecting personal grievance with broader calls for violent extremism.
I wrote about what the @uwaterloo.ca attack tells us:
🔗 tinyurl.com/3wknnt6a

To vote for this bill is to vote to starve and kill Americans, and to saddle those who survive with a mountain of debt and a hotter globe. That is a policy choice. And everyone who votes yes owns that choice.

Where is he? If we stop asking, stop demanding his return, we are complicit in his disappearance.

Black cat facing the camera.

My BIL's kitty Leo.

Two weeks ago today, Donald Trump’s ICE agents arrested me.

Now, he’s threatening to put @zohrankmamdani in a prison camp he’s building in a Florida swamp.

It’s frightening. It’s essential to fight back. It makes me proud of how New Yorkers voted last week – and how we’ll vote again in November.

Mamdani has won in a landslide.

Every Democrat must get behind him now.

"I want to thank all librarians, because you guys are the pillars of our democracy."
— The fabulous George Takei at ALA (yes, it rhymes)

Check out "It Rhymes With Takei."

#ALAAC25
#itrhymeswithtakei

I have literally never seen a graph like this once in all my years of being an election sicko

18-24 always lags, always, it’s just a natural law of politics

and this is the guy they want to throw out of the party?!

Amazingly, some news organizations are still using the term "fiscal hawk" to describe Republicans who are professing concern about the Trump bill adding $3.3 trillion to the debt.

If those Republicans vote for the bill in the end, *at that point* can we stop calling them that?