William Blanco

I dress semi neatly for airports because I’m gay, not because the government tells me to or because I’m civil. Also because travel looks can be cute af.

Here are the 8 Democratic senators who just voted to move forward with an agreement to end the shutdown:

Catherine Cortez Masto
Dick Durbin
John Fetterman
Maggie Hassan
Tim Kaine
Angus King (I)
Jacky Rosen
Jeanne Shaheen

Before everyone jumps on the “all democrats are the same” bandwagon remember that it’s easier to remember the few that are allowing this to happen

Bernie Sanders: "What this Senate is about to do is make a horrific situation even worse. So let's be clear what this vote is about. If this vote succeeds, over 20 million Americans are gonna see at least a doubling in their premiums in the ACA."

Love the soy based candle!

Rough trade?

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1

Trickle-down economics was always a sham.

Nothing has ever trickled down.

Text me back!

Are you guys okay? Seriously.

71.5% of ICE detainees have no criminal convictions, according to government data.

Don’t fall for Trump’s lies about targeting the “worst of the worst.”

As Trump's regime terrorizes communities to fill up detention centers, remember that some of his biggest donors are private prison corporations.

Honestly I’m glad we can walk and talk at the same time

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In Chump's Own Words.......

Vulnerable enough to admit this made me feel a little better

"Why not agree to immediate funding, you negotiate ACA funding at a later date?"

"Because Republicans won't negotiate those things! This is the same Republican party that just cut a TRILLION dollars from healthcare. Those are the people we're gonna trust to come to the negotiating table?"

This post that a friend of my partner's shared on FB potentially explains the Kristin Chenoweth thing, and is frightening.

Walmart spent $35.3B on stock buybacks from 2019 to 2024, enough to give each of its 2.2M employees annual bonuses of $2,719.

Last year, Walmart CEO Doug McMillon pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay of just $29,469.

Textbook corporate greed.

There is no moral justification for today’s extraordinary concentration of wealth.

It is distorting politics, rigging markets, and granting unprecedented power to a handful of people.

Closing our staggering wealth gap is crucial to the survival of our economy and our democracy.

WATCH: “That’s a you problem.”

@jwilliamj8.bsky.social & the #Jaam crew react to Snoop saying he’s scared to go to the movies because there was a lesbian couple in a Disney’s “Lightyear” and he didn’t know what to tell his grandson.

Full @thejaampod.bsky.social ep: youtu.be/C4IhbpU0ugA?si

A close-up of a t-shirt with a green EKG graph on a dark background. The EKG shows a complex wave form that shows the signature of Donald Trump followed by a single heartbeat spike, and then a flatline. Above the graph, white text reads "IS HE DEAD YET?".

Perhaps if white smoke comes out at JD Vance's couch might be a sign.

Here to request for super simple recipes like these plz

I’ve seen gimps less subservient than this

I just signed the Election Rigging Response Act to put Proposition 50 up for a vote on November 4th.

The people of California will have the power to push back against Texas and any other state that obeys Donald Trump's demand to rig the next election.

Texas Republicans are redistricting early at the behest of Donald Trump.

The response by Democrats in California to counter-balance is being triggered by a blatant GOP plot to steal the 2026 midterms.

This isn’t a race to the bottom.

It’s a means of avoiding the bottom.

How Gavin Newsom trolled his way to the top of social media Inside the MAGA-parodying strategy that has rocketed the California governor to algorithmic dominance — while annoying leading Republicans.

With an inescapable, smashmouth, all-caps-laden and meme-filled X account, Newsom is holding a mirror up to MAGA — and MAGA doesn’t like what it sees.

The upward redistribution of wealth over the past 50 years has shifted $80 trillion from the bottom 90% of Americans to the top 1%. 

That’s $80 trillion that would have gone into the paychecks of the working class.

The greatest trick of all is trickle-down economics.

The most powerful force in American politics today is antiestablishment rage at a system that’s rigged against most people.

Democrats should ignore the carping of corporate and Wall Street Democrats and embrace Mamdani and other young progressives as the future of the party.

Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you:

Our funding depends on usage.

So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.

I enjoyed chatting with Stephen Colbert on "The Late Show."

My thoughts on how we save our democracy are the same today as when we last spoke on "The Colbert Report" in 2010.

We must get big money out of politics.