Michael Crow

Surely if we have to pay for the costs, we will share in the profits?

"Breaking: Sexless, godless freaks leave homes for first time to support socialism"

Enjoy the victory, New York. You did great. #NYC

Funniest part of this is that he’s saying the shutdown is a disaster for Republicans, which seems a touch off message but okay who am I to argue

Elected Democrats spending more time today praising Dick Cheney than Zohran Mamdani is a great case study in abject fucking moral failure.

But that's literally the whole business model! This entire genre of punditry would collapse without it!

For example, they’re searching high and low for “fighters” but y’know Jasmine Crockett just doesn’t fit the bill.

I'm very concerned about my party's popularity. that's why I constantly highlight internal divisions, stir up intrafactional strife, and loudly broadcast and complain about anything allegedly unpopular any party member has done, at any level of government

CULTURE TRENDS SNAP beneficiaries threaten to ransack stores over government shutdown One mother claims taxpayers must feed her children as SNAP benefits face cuts By Alba Cuebas-Fantauzzi • Fox News Published October 31, 2025 2:16pm EDT

So there were some AI-generated videos that purported to show Black women ranting about SNAP benefits, and... Fox News is reporting on this like these are real people. They're not! They're AI!

This is truly insane. Total unreality. www.foxnews.com/media/snap-b...

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social out here doing all the side quests

In hindsight, it was probably a bad idea for voters to put the full force of the US state apparatus and military in the hands of a guy who bragged that he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and not lose any support, and who was also granted immunity by the Supreme Court before taking office.

The Pentagon conceded that in most cases the critical middle hop was Kevin Bacon

That's how you know what a party is, what it wants: watch what it does. (Difficulty for US journos & pundits: impossible.)

Vs. Republicans in Louisiana:

And to be clear, most Dem-leaning pundits *also* discuss the bogieman rather than the reality. They are so far up the ass of DC conventional wisdom that the bogieman is more real than the reality to them. It's more real to *everyone* at this point.

The reality of the Democratic Party -- what its elected officials actually do with the power they are given -- is almost entirely immaterial to US political discourse. Happens off-stage, basically.

Discourse is dominated by a kind of collective hallucination, a bogieman invented by its opponents.

As I've said many times, the most sensible way to determine what the party wants & prioritizes is by looking at what it does when it has power to act, namely, when it has a trifecta at the state level. Take Minnesota:

These are the "moderate whites" MLK wrote about in 1963!

(Check out Letter from a Birmingham Jail.) Nothing changed.

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a man is driving a yellow vehicle that says taylor built ALT: a man is driving a yellow vehicle that says taylor built

By car, we have given up all facets of freedom.

- We frame dependence on cars as *freedom*
- We spend a lot of money monthly on this very individual form of mobility – without questioning it.
- Since ‘everyone’ now drives a car, all the former advantages of driving have been lost for years.

Agree?

Firstly, billionaires are not physically made of stocks, if a billionaire falls down a hole and expires his stock portfolio persists and continues to have value, secondarily, this is why one diversifies one's investment portfolio outside of the stock market, thirdly, okay, let's test this hypothesis

Border Patrol repeatedly punches this man in the head while he’s on the ground in handcuffs.

Also today, an appeals court ruled a federal judge lacks the power to have Bovino explain his men’s conduct on a daily basis.

How dangerous is it really to work for ICE? According to ICE’s own data, none of its officers have been killed by an immigrant in the agency’s history.

According to ICE’s own data, none of its officers have been killed by an immigrant in the agency’s history.

The leading cause of death?

Covid-19

Reports @motherjones.com

Cursed Videotape Kills Anyone Who Swallows It Whole

Cursed Videotape Kills Anyone Who Swallows It Whole

Following your principles wherever they take you—& in particular being willing to break with the social groups with which they were once associated—is a rare thing worth lauding when the principles are good or even just defensible

Pretty standard journalism. I didn't expect hostility — but halfway through the interview, she ended it. Just sign off in the middle of a question. It was genuinely shocking. Before we started, she mentioned that there were some things she couldn't discuss because it's an ongoing legal case. That's normal. I've heard that line hundreds of times. She could have easily said, "I can't get into the details, but here's what I can say." Instead, she shut down.

And she acknowledges that Kat had already told her that she couldn't discuss the case

Once again, so nice to see how ICE goons are helping our communities and keeping our families safe

In fall 2022, ahead of the midterm elections, Garland opted to freeze both the classified documents and election investigations because of what some officials believed was his overly cautious reading of a DOJ policy not to take any public action close to an election. Trump was not even on the ballot and had not yet declared his presidential candidacy for 2024. But Garland nonetheless imposed the freeze.

The selection of Garland as AG and his failure to act was about ten bajillion times more consequential than any campaign strategy decision

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I agree they should’ve done that anyway. In hindsight I think it was almost inevitable that SCOTUS’s anti-anti-corruption campaign would lead to an “actually, Watergate was fine” decision. Maybe if it’d happened in 2022 it could’ve shifted the midterms at least.

"I guess the trouble was that we didn’t have any self-admitted proletarians. Everyone was a temporarily embarrassed capitalist."

John Steinbeck, “A Primer on the Thirties”