Rachel Hale, MA

The juice is gone

This morning, I was proud to have joined the Nurses on the picket line at Houlton Regional Hospital. Solidarity forever!

It has always been so obvious that the backlash to MeToo isn’t about whether the abuse is happening but whether people are allowed to want it to stop

It’s the same old same old. Republicans do a tantrum and break the dishes. The Democrats clean it up. It’s an abusive relationship.

Democratic leaders have failed us again. It's time to get new leaders. After yet another capitulation by Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats, it's clear we need new leadership capable of mounting a serious opposition to Trump's authoritarian regime. We're launching our la...

After yesterday’s surrender, we’re launching the largest Democratic primary program that we’ve ever run.

We will not back any Senate primary candidate unless they call for Schumer to step down as Minority Leader.

If you’re as pissed as we are, join this campaign to rebuild the Democratic Party. 👇

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

The failure of the “blue no matter who” crowd to rally behind Mamdani really just lays the reality of that position bare, doesn’t it?

Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

Pritzker: "I sent a letter to Kristi Noem and to DHS leadership asking them to pause all of their federal agent operations for the entirety of the Halloween weekend. I'm asking for basic human decency. I think their response will be revealing. Give the children and families of Illinois a break."

Corrupt and tainted with a thousand vices

Resistance Is Cringe But it’s also effective.

After 2024, pundits brushed off the Resistance as cringe. I submit: Yes, it was. And cringe is good. Cringe, in fact, will save democracy.

CARTOON OF THE DAY 🇺🇸 #NoKingsInAmerica

(From @billbramhall.bsky.social )

I didn't take pics but the feeling of being in a group of people with no visible beginning or end was so thrilling. The opposite of online anomie, and a living counterpoint to the wary, isolated, compartmentalized world the shitheads want to make. It's simple and obvious I guess but it means a lot.

Just a bunch of paid domestic terrorists in Portland, Maine.

somewhere in portland, there's one person, or a small handful of people, who came up with the inflatable costume idea, and I feel like they deserve our immense respect for defining the obvious developing aesthetic of the contemporary battle against fascism

Something maybe worth noting is that all the frog costumes and signs and good-natured memeing came about because a wide spectrum of Americans saw someone in direct, brave confrontation with ICE—getting pepperballed and standing their ground—and thought “that’s awesome. That person is a hero”

They’re teachers, nurses, Mennonites, and Marines. The Trump administration calls them antifa. The No King protests represent a broad popular front. That's exactly why the president's allies are demonizing the organizers.

The No King protests represent a broad popular front. That’s exactly why the president’s allies are demonizing the organizers.

The American right has picked, or more accurately invented, enemies on the left: blue-haired baristas, “Antifa,” Soros. In the interest of equity, I’m declaring war on suburban Golf Guys, electricians with four poorly paid employees, and MAHA moms. That’s fair, I think.

I'm not sure what's going on, but this year's freshman class is giving me ... what was that word ... hope?

They're energized and excited, they're doing the reading and doing it well, they're asking great questions and offering smart answers too.

Is this just me or are others seeing it?

I have to wonder if having more time at home in their younger years was beneficial in any way, and then having a more socially normal high school experience let them bloom

I have to wonder if having more time at home in their younger years was beneficial in any way, and then having a more socially normal high school experience let them bloom

RFK Jr expected to announce that Flintstones vitamins cause gayness.

Gonna pop a Tylenol and look at some trains to see what all the fuss is about.

I find I can’t muster a proper response to either the Tylenol madness or the U.N. appearance. At some point it is just too ridiculous. It would feel insane to offer sane commentary.

October 18 is going to be the largest peaceful protest in American history. This is the land of the free and the home of the brave — but if we want to be free, then we’ve got to be brave. Find your local event: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

This ought to be engraved somewhere.

The thing about Tylenol and autism is that Trump is in the Epstein Files.

OpenAI and NVIDIA announce strategic partnership to deploy 10 gigawatts of NVIDIA systems OpenAI and NVIDIA announce a strategic partnership to deploy 10 gigawatts of AI datacenters powered by NVIDIA systems, with the first phase launching in 2026.

At this point it's a cliche to point out the parallels between the AI bubble and the dotcom bubble but it's fascinating to see AI equivalent of companies buying banner ads from each other. Here it's Nvidia investing $100B in OpenAI which OpenAI will then use to rent datacenter capacity from Nvidia.

THEY DON’T CARE:

1. That Tom Homan took $50,000 bags of cash

2. That their party is protecting all the Epstein pedophiles.

3. That no one is safe from gun violence anywhere.

WHAT THEY DO CARE ABOUT:

1. Punishing innocent brown people for crimes they did not commit.