Will Dickeson

LOL

deflates the hell out of democracy

Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:

From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."

A massive corruption scandal is brewing in Nevada: it appears the Republican Governor's office stepped in to cover for Elon Musk's Boring Company after safety violations caused two firefighters to suffer chemical burns. Even worse? It looks like they deleted evidence of their meetings!

*taps sign*

What makes the new* Liberals attractive to conservatives? Conservatives who are not only racist, ableist, and sexist but who for the last five years have spread conspiracy theories about the great replacement theory and vaccines and ostriches. This is not a flex to attract them, Liberals.

Animal as Newt in Alien.

oh just muppetizing movie scenes: thread

In an age of gambling scandals, this is just another. Prop bets are dangerous to all the sports you love.

Might you have missed some of the depth of Tuesday's results, beyond the big headline races?

I'd been watching roughly 200 races heading into Election Day, so here's a thread of some of what you don't want to skip over!

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FFS

Betty White on the album cover of Straight Outta Compton by N.W.A.

betty white album covers: thread

Great way to frame it. He thinks he's the ultimate a-lister

I think when he put up that portrait walk everyone was so focused on the dumb Biden trolling (Autopen! Har har har!) there wasn't much mention of the whole "Walk of Fame" aspect. FAME. He really thinks being POTUS is like being the ultimate star, not at all about public service.

I am off to turn my street Pastafarian.

The unbearable math of the Trump regime is that they have only made life better for millionaires and billionaires, especially carbon polluters, AI scammers, and crypto frauds. And that is enough to keep them relatively insulated from popular opinion, at least for now.

Chicago residents say kids tear-gassed due to nearby immigration enforcement A Chicago mother tells NBC News she and her 2-year-old were hit with a chemical agent. Many residents say the city wasn’t a “war zone”— until immigration agents swept through.

Heartbreaking: Under Trump's ICE terror, a 2-year-old Chicago girl was tear-gassed while walking with her mom-burning eyes, screams of
'Ouch! Mommy!' This isn't enforcement; it's state-sponsored child abuse.

The next 12 months will be the most consequential for American politics since the 1850s. I don't say that glibly. We warned what would happen and they've done it and more. It appears we still have free elections, and so now they will now throw everything they have at us, a fascist kitchen sink.

Bribes.

Its called corruption.

More like bribes

Bribes. They're called bribes.

I hope the centrists learned a hard lesson last night. No more reaching across the aisle to people who have been spitting in our faces for decades. Run young people, run socialists, run on actionable ideas that seek to make our lives better.

A great day for the golden rule of political analysis: when the right wins it is a resounding ideological victory that humiliates the left and when the left wins it is a precarious fluke that will surely end up humiliating the left. Conservatives are power’s landlords and the left merely tenants

Democrats just ran the table, winning the marquee races -- NJ and VA sweeps, NYC mayor, CA prop, PA Supreme Court -- and lower-profile races in red and purple states across the nation.

If the media you're reading or watching paints this as anything but a massive win, stop reading or watching them.

Tom Morello: A Night of Stories & Music Grammy-winning, Harvard-educated, Rock and Roll Hall of F

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This is the kind of post you can only write when you have spent far too much time marinating in the Nazi broth of Twitter.

we ended up where we are now for a number of reasons, but one was that Dick Cheney realized he could go on camera, lie about saying things he’d previously said on camera, and TV interviewers would just sputter

Accurate.