Just let me get the leak of what the NYPD group chats post about Zohran

Young people in NYC absolutely showed out and there should be 1000 articles and profiles about this. Because we have had to put up with 1000 MAGA diner stories for years now.

Auburn University requires faculty to review courses to comply with anti-DEI law Auburn's provost office posted a web site on how to comply with state and federal DEI mandates on Oct. 31.

Disturbing news out of Auburn University, where the admin is pressuring professors to sign a statement saying they're complying with an "anti-DEI" law and TPUSA is holding a rally and trying to record classes.

I hear faculty are terrified to sign, worried this is a pretense for mass firings.

In addition to be overjoyed that Mamdani won, I'm incredibly relieved that a serial sexual abuser lost.

Once more, for old times’ sake

We absolutely won’t. If it’s close it’s stolen. If it isn’t it’s bc we stuffed the ballot boxes. No R loss is legitimate. Those are the rules now.

There are more of us than there are of them.

Inside TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans From Filing Their Taxes for Free Using lobbying, the revolving door and “dark pattern” customer tricks, Intuit fended off the government’s attempts to make tax filing free and easy, and created its multi-billion-dollar franchise.

The IRS is reportedly not offering its Direct File program next year. Here’s a look back at how TurboTax owner Intuit spent two decades fighting to prevent Americans from filing their taxes online for free:

(Published 2019)

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one last observation: donald trump has never won a majority of the vote and yet the political press treats him like the embodied spirit of the american people. will be interesting to see how they discount mamdani as representing new york if he wins less than a majority.

For the record: I'm not tired of winning.

Dick Cheney did more than anyone else to build up expansive and destructive executive branch powers in the wake of 9/11; he lived to see another president turn those same powers against his own daughter.

He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.

NYC is going to have the world's biggest media-manufactured crime panic in history the second Mamdani is elected. They aren't even going to wait until he is inaugurated. Whether or not you like the guy, you need to start preparing now for the fire hose of disinformation that is about to activate.

Republicans Really Don’t Want Journalists Talking About How They’ve Captured the Courts Conservative judges love talking to friendly media outlets. They don’t like talking to anyone who might actually try and hold them accountable.

Something that jumped out to me about ProPublica's exposé on Paul Newby, chief justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court, was not just the extremes Republicans go to in order to capture the courts but the extremes to *keep the media from talking about it!*

ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

Exactly. Show him his post first. Put it up on a screen. Then ask him virtually any question about any word, phrase, or sentence in it.

But here’s the most uncomfortable truth of all: the parasites that have taken over so much of our country—pantsuited girlboss advertising executives, Skittle-haired they/them activists, soy-faced pajama-clad work-from-home HR apparatchiks, Adderall-addicted dog mom diversity consultants, nasally voiced Ivy League regulatory lawyers, obese George Soros–funded police abolitionist district attorneys, hipster trust fund socialists—are some of the least impressive people in the history of the world. The Uniparty would never have achieved what it has in this country without a great degree of rottenness, of decadence, of torpor, of complacency already

it's utterly wild how the Heritage Foundation president talks about other people

if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops

Aren’t they arguing that Biden’s pardons are invalid bc he had no idea who he was pardoning?? So…

WaPo this week said Trump is at 63% disapproval. Can you IMAGINE the uproar from the press if Harris was that far under water?
She'd have zero room to push any policy preferences. 🤨

Red Trump-style graphic with images of Donald Trump and Andrew Cuomo. At the top it says, "I'm going to pick [Cuomo]." - Donald Trump, 60 Minutes Interview, 11-2-25 Then beneath it TRUMP ENDORSES CUOMO

Congratulations, Andrew Cuomo!

I know how hard you worked for this.

It isn’t such a truly astounding leap of mental gymnastics when viewed through the lens of fascism and white supremacy…

“This isn’t America” when it has been exactly that for almost the entire time.

with that potential who aren’t fed (SNAP, welfare), who are deported (ICE), whose schools aren’t funded or de facto segregated (“school of choice”), receive adequate medical and dental care (lack of universal healthcare), told they’re less than (racism), etc.

I was just reading an excellent essay by @thehumanityarchive.bsky.social when I thought about the “classic” prolife position that we should care for the unborn because they might be the next Einstein…

And in reflection I realized that the ignorance of this phrase jumps over all of the children

The Guardian is hiring for a graphics reporter and data reporter to cover how the US government is deleting and altering important datasets.

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of President Obama and the whitewash brought on by fears stoked by monied interests and then leveraging social media algorithms to push some truly alternate realities.

Corporate money has driven this discourse, and while you can trace it back to Reagan to how we get a SCOTUS that would let that slide, we see the rise of white supremacy in the tea party movement and the bold audacity and “hope”

I hope someone can take Attiah’s term “annihilation culture” and use it to examine this entire era, post-Citizens United.

RFK Jr. Tackles His Father’s Legacy On Food Stamps The Health and Human Services secretary is standing at the opposite end of his late father’s anti-poverty legacy.

RFK Sr traveled the country as a senator to expose malnutrition, drum up support for food stamps.

RFK Jr travels the country as HHS secretary, sees overweight children at airports, says food stamps "poisoning" today's children

New story w/ Senate library material
www.huffpost.com/entry/rfk-jr...

Air Pollution From Industrial Facilities Is Far Worse Than Estimated The Trump administration has put a stop to EPA rules that would have required more than 130 industrial facilities to install air monitors to measure pollution. Millions of people living near these pla...

NEW: About 90,000 people living near larger chemical plants face an unacceptable risk of developing cancer, the EPA says.

New rules adopted last year could’ve cut that number to 3,000 residents — a drop of 97%.

But Trump has halted those efforts.

2022 YouGov survey asking Americans about basic USA demographic information (what percentage of Americans are white, have a household income over $1 million, etc.). The basic pattern in the data is that Americans OVER estimate minority groups (they think Blacks make up 41% of the population, the real number is 12%), and UNDER estimate majority groups (they think that 59% of Americans have flown in a plane, the real number is 88%).

2022 YouGov survey asking Americans about basic USA demographic information (what percentage of Americans are white, have a household income over $1 million, etc.). The basic pattern in the data is that Americans OVER estimate minority groups (they think Blacks make up 41% of the population, the real number is 12%), and UNDER estimate majority groups (they think that 59% of Americans have flown in a plane, the real number is 88%).

Forget about politics & policy, Americans have lots of trouble understanding basic demographic information about their own country. YouGov did a survey in 2022 asking Americans basic demographic questions like what % of the country is white, Hispanic, are transgender, etc. and the results are WILD.

JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.

Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵