Holly

I volunteered for GOTE (get out the enrollment) for the first year and sooo many people were like “I want to get the ACA, not Obamacare.”

We should’ve let them enjoy it for a year, then hit them with the truth when they enrolled the next year. Surprise, asshole.

In hindsight, we should have called it the Affordable Care Act for just the first year, then switched it to Obamacare. Too many people still think they’re different things and it’s so frustrating.

Democrats really suck at taking credit for all the good they’ve done.

This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.

Ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee Bennie G. Thompson said in a statement “Mobile Fortify is a dangerous tool in the hands of ICE, and it puts American citizens at risk of detention and even deportation.” He also said “ICE officials have told us that an apparent biometric match by Mobile Fortify is a ‘definitive’ determination of a person’s status and that an ICE officer may ignore evidence of American citizenship—including a birth certificate—if the app says the person is an alien. ICE using a mobile biometrics app in ways its developers at CBP never intended or tested is a frightening, repugnant, and unconstitutional attack on Americans’ rights and freedoms.”

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people

www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

Every time I try to do any research, I become more convinced that SEO should be a felony offense

The Venn diagram of people who worry about healthcare costs and people who vote for politicians who will increase healthcare costs is a circle

I’m gonna need college professors to Hold The Line here for my own personal amusement

I can’t wait for all these kids who use ChatGPT for everything to find out what a blue book is

i really resent the continued assertion that there’s so much anger on both sides, as if the causes of the anger are equally legitimate. we’re angry because masked maniacs are violently snatching our family and neighbors off the street, and they’re angry because we’re calling them out for it.

A cat is seen riding a bus. They are standing up and have their front paws on the back of the front seat.

this is what will happen if mamdani makes bus rides free

Me in 2012: how are there still democrats who support the death penalty?

Me now: why the fuck didn’t democrats utilize the death penalty?

The Partisans Are Wrong: Holding No Sincere Beliefs Is the Way to Win “Moving to the center would enable Democrats to confront [Trump] more aggressively and effectively because voters would see them as credible.” — Fr...

"From our vantage point as a fundamentally innumerate body of milquetoast thinkers who are wrong about everything, holding fewer sincere beliefs is the key to electoral success."

Poster with a photo of a young woman of mixed Asian and Hispanic ethnicity with long black hair. She is wearing a light colored long sleeve top. Text of poster says: MISSING MINOR LAST SEEN 700 BLOCK N GARFIELD 10/15/25 9PM. CONFIRMED SEEN AROUND WILCOX VIA COMPO DENNY'S AROUND 10:30 PM 10/15/25 WEARING LIGHTBLUE JEANS, TEAL LONGSLEVE WITH DARK BLUE (NAVY) HOODIE WITH WORD EAGLES PRINTED. BLACK ADDIDAS AND GOLD NEGLACE SHES VERY SMART AND MAY APPEAR TO LOOK OLDER ASIAN/HISPANIC 5FT 7INCES 140 LBS. BROWN HAIR AND EYES WITH LAVENDER COLOR BRACES sto 2023 IF YOU HAVE SEEN TO HAVE ANY INFORMATION, PLEASE CALL DAD (JOHN) 626-234-3409, MOM (ROSA) 626-709-0005 OR MONTERY PARK PD 626-573-1311

Hi all- a friend has a family looking for a missing minor. This is in the Monterey Park, CA area (San Gabriel Valley). Please boost. Thank you!

Can you even imagine how republicans would have reacted if Obama did this

The "factual background" begins with something irrelevant and erroneous. Dallas is not in Oregon, and the Dallas shooting wasn't connected to any ICE protest.

If that's enough for the President to federalize a different state's National Guard and deploy them elsewhere, then the power is limitless.

Scott Pelley got a big scoop with the Trump DOJ whistleblower that almost surely was going to be the top story on 60 Minutes this week. But per the NYT, Bari Weiss personally booked Jared Kushner on 60–letting him take a victory lap for the Gaza deal. Pelley’s story was pushed to second position.

If you aren’t willing to let your child be bored regularly, you’re a shitty parent. You are the reason I get stuck in traffic behind UCLA students who can’t survive a red light without watching TikTok.

LET KIDS BE BORED.

Wikipedia Volunteers Avert Tragedy by Taking Down Gunman at Conference

goddamn is there anything Wikipedia editors can’t do www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/n...

This morning, I was hit in the face by a baton.

I’m going to have a pretty gnarly bruise but we need to remember why this is happening: Trump and ICE are rounding up our neighbors, treating them as subhuman, and shipping them off to labor camps in foreign countries. It has to end.

Interesting. Tell me more about these early Xbox meetings.

A lot of kids were taught to read that way, sadly. There’s a fascinating podcast on it called “Sold a Story” - highly recommend.

A rare momb coddils moment!

I know a lot of things are bad but I just got into an uber leaving the airport and it smells like pink starbursts in here and I’m so delighted

Also fwiw I have time to volunteer

I’m in 51! Thank you so much!

Brett, do you have any action-alert type things you recommend subscribing to? I’m a relatively new Californian so would love advice

They simply aren’t as smart as you

Oh god. I have seen this unfortunately and you are so right.

One of my progressive clients from 2016 became a maga nut, even.

Thank you so much for providing all this info — I had no idea until you posted. I’m a cali resident and will call the governor’s office. Are there any other calls I can make as a resident to help?

Worse yet, she didn’t write that. She stole it.