Just want to point out that overseas bases with DODEA schools have teachers who haven't been paid in a month. AND, because their health insurance payments come out of their paychecks, they all now have invoices that they *owe* money for health insurance but are not getting paid.

ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections

Boy Mamdani's race is really a vivid reminder that anti-Islamic bigotry is 100% accepted in US public discourse. People don't even bother dog whistling, it's just right out in the open.

on the topic of dick cheney, one thing i’ve always said is that you shouldn’t kill a million people

Pope: God loves everyone

Tradcaths: *screaming, crying, throwing up*

I found it particularly interesting that the article took pains to note these lawyers thought the lower judge was acting unethically and THEN one of them goes to their *family friend* supreme court judge to have a chat; suddenly lower judge recuses himself. Not....not an ethical double standard?

This guy is just permanently stuck in 2012-era Army Captain, huh.

As a military spouse, I am seconding this motion as vehemently as possible.

At some point someone should probably take note that the US Department of Homeland Security has started openly calling for violence every few days

This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don't, dragging them across the line and violently attacking.

If a bunch of people start stealing from grocery stores, some of you absolutely will vote for more cops as Mayors. I wish people would tell the truth...

the way Trump and his administration keep going on livestreams and tv to laugh about this, I can’t really compare it to anything political that comes to mind, only thing that comes to mind rn is a serial killer who writes letter taunting family of their victim.

Yes, yes: women are "nasty," Black people are "low IQ." Next epithet, please.

What's "small" here is John Fetterman, a person so weak of mind and devoid of principles, so used to the lazy grift he switched to after winning office, that he won't even criticize corruption so brazen it has no parallel in American history, the President literally paying himself a fortune.

Once again, one reason Trump says & does whatever he wants is bc every societal institution, including the media, has totally normalized & internalized the idea that the laws, the Constitution, & the international treaties we have signed & ratified simply don’t apply to this one guy. It’s maddening.

Never underestimate the lengths to which men and their allies will go to retaliate against women who tell the world what they did.

Agree

Ew.

I think two things are true:

1. young republicans were always terrible and racist

2. young republicans become openly hitler-loving groypers is in fact a new and alarming development that is worth paying attention to

I gasped out loud.

I don't care that Nuzzi sexted RF2K. I mean, that's disgusting, but the heart knows what it wants. I care that Nuzzi wrote articles about Biden without disclosing that she was in an intimate relationship with RF2K. That's wildly inappropriate.

It's ethics, not sluttiness, that is the issue.

Washington State recognizes Indigenous Peoples' Day which is fine but they don't give anyone the day off which makes people just miss Columbus Day

If they were smart they would've changed it to Indigenous Peoples' Day and given everyone two days off. That's how you win the culture war, baby.

He’s blowing up fishing boats in the Caribbean and invading U.S. cities with the military.

Israel Agrees To Go Back To Killing Palestinians On Less Frequent Basis CAIRO—As part of a historic ceasefire agreement with Hamas following two years of war, the Israeli government reportedly agreed Thursday to go back to killing Palestinians on a less frequent basis. “I...

Israel Agrees To Go Back To Killing Palestinians On Less Frequent Basis

I would vote without question for anyone with the fucking stones to do this while refusing to 1) throw trans people under the bus and 2) fund Israel's genocide

I know this sounds extreme. It is.

I know I sound overly alarmist. I don't think I am.

Trump is enacting a well thought out plan so he and his allies can rule forever.

But it's not too late to stop them. We can peacefully and forcefully mobilize now. We have the power.

Is conversion therapy free speech? Colorado says no. Supreme Court justices seem skeptical.

We've already got so many conservatives passing laws premised on the idea that "gender ideology" is dangerous. Seems very clear that if you let a law like Colorado's ban on conversion *talk* therapy stand, you're inviting conservatives to pass laws banning "affirming therapy"

really can’t say enough about how mike johnson is a sniveling little coward of a man. a bayou-bred pushover with a dignity deficit that would embarrass renfield

No shit I'm furious. I spent eleven years learning to write well about complex topics in ethical ways, often for criminally low rates, because I believe that work's important. It's deeply insulting to see a total dipshit get fabulously wealthy for telling the rich what they want to hear!