Topher Brennan (he/they)

The other thing is that even if you want to have kids they can be expensive. My spouse and I are planning on trying for a second but put it off a long time because of stuff like the cost of daycare. Strong argument for a generous child allowance (+ antipoverty reasons) bsky.app/profile/opin...

wint @dril drunk driving may kill a lot of people, but it also helps a lot of people get to work on time, so, it;s impossible to say if its bad or not,

just realized the dril drunk driving tweet also works for regular driving

Potentially confusing though because they may wind up literally on the lam soon.

fucked up that this is all just landlords swatting their own buildings to get rid of all the working class residents so they can raise the rent or sell to a developer who'll flip them into high end condos or w/e

like it's a real estate scam! it's a fucking land grab! a fire for the insurance money!

They're flailing, I think. Tons of what they're doing has no hope of working out well in the end.

I think this is wrong. But no 2026 midterms, or refusing to seat the new Congress, would be my personal “go home with your shield or on it“ point

Thinking for yourself, going against the grain, having principles are currently an enormous liability in every part of public life. The way to succeed is to be the kind of person who believes exactly what your boss tells you to believe, has no core ideology, and turns a blind eye to evil on command

We need to have solutions for the Collaborator Problem: the way the fascist takeover of all our institutions has led to the promotion of soulless, facile, subservient mediocrities filling vitally important roles across the breadth of our society

It's not just med school—we need to fucking fix the medical residency system.

And TBH in the long run probably let nurse practitioners do more, as a roundabout way of being more like countries where you can call yourself a doctor after 6 years of postsecondary education vs. 8 in the US.

You're not the good guys in this scenario if you're going around this website telling people not to write image descriptions because a computer can read them. That's the whole damn point of image descriptions. So people who rely on their device reading to them can know what people posted.

thank you brett kavanaugh!

This is assault with a deadly weapon. It’s time for blue state AGs to start prosecuting ICE agents for state crimes like this.

Kinda undermines the idea that she is somehow a moderate center-left person EXCEPT for Israel and pretending lefty campus disdain for her is a 1st Amendment issue.

Do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed - the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress.The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

25A requires two-thirds of the House and so is arguably harder than impeachment. Though I do think at some point sufficiently egregious behavior (like trying to order protesters shot) could get him forced out by extra-constitutional means.

Maybe??? There's a chance he dies in office but I can also see him living another decade thanks to the wonders of modern medicine. And I don't think a recession alone would be enough to get him forced out.

"Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia" should be how Democrats begin every single comment to reporters these days.

Oh god, reactionaries can't even find soft butches hot without being weird about it.

Tweet from @laura_n_rod Text: A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them. Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area. Photo: shows a federal agent in a truck pointing a gun

Another incident of federal agents pointing guns at Chicago area residents.

It appears that an agent of the regime tried to murder an American woman for documenting the regime's activities. The regime needs to be forced to decide whether they will protect the shooter, and if the answer is "yes", it needs to be the biggest story in the country.

Perjury? The charge needs to be attempted murder. I realize there's a reluctance to create a potential confrontation between state and local police on the one hand vs. the feds on the other, but if the feds are going to protect a violent criminal, make them actually do that. bsky.app/profile/galv...

This is just embezzlement and needs to be prosecuted as such. bsky.app/profile/pear...

“No money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law.”

Regardless of what you think should be Democrats' 2028 strategy, as someone who lives in California it really sucks to have a governor who transparently does not care about serving his constituents, and instead only cares about running for president in 3 years. bsky.app/profile/lgbt...

Just as a reminder, Bondi’s origin story in Trump world is that she said she was going to investigate Trump University, Trump sent her a $25K check and the investigation disappeared. She later became Trump’s personal defense lawyer. So yeah, don’t challenge her integrity.

This is a @brianbeutler.bsky.social point, I think, but Garland was careful to a fault not to coordinate w Biden, not to jump on Trump cases too fast, etc - even appointed special counsel to probe Hunter.

His reward: Republicans just insisting Biden/Garland coordinated and targeted their enemies.

Two years ago today, Hamas carried out a horrific war crime, killing more than 1,100 Israelis and kidnapping 250 more. I mourn these lives and pray for the safe return of every hostage still held and for every family whose lives were torn apart by these atrocities. In the aftermath of that day, Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Israeli government launched a genocidal war: a death toll that now far exceeds 67,000; with the Israeli military bombing homes, hospitals, and schools into rubble. Every day in Gaza has become a place where grief itself has run out of language. I mourn these lives and pray for the families that have been shattered. Our government has been complicit through it all. This must end. The occupation and apartheid must end. Peace must be pursued through diplomacy, not war crimes and our government must act to end these atrocities and hold those responsible to account. These last two years have demonstrated the very worst of humanity. We must answer it by modeling the very best: a relentless pursuit of our higher ideals and an unwavering commitment to universal human rights.

Zohran Mamdani’s statement on the second anniversary of October 7th.

The problem is that while the scandals are reported, the TONE of the reporting and the reactions does not comport with the thing being reported. There were exactly two times in the Trump era where the tone matched the offense: Charlottesville and Jan. 6. And both were huge disasters for Trump.

Iran-Contra is extremely illuminating as a disanalogy. Iran-Contra was an attempt to do an end-run around Congress' prohibition on funding the Contras. Today, the Trump admin would just fund the Contras and dare anyone to try to enforce the law. bsky.app/profile/whst...

The notion that Bari will be "running CBS News" is slightly misleading. What the reporting suggests is that Tom Cibrowski, a guy with normal qualifications, will be doing that. Bari will be Emperor Ellison's Vader-esque enforcer, outside the chain of command, intervening at will.