You know what would be a great way to celebrate Mamdani’s historic win?

Donate to a food bank. Give to community fridges. Call and check on your disabled or elderly neighbour and see if they need groceries.

SNAP still hasn’t been funded and people need help now.

I just had a vacation for the first time this admin and that is exactly what happened 😪

me to me, often nowadays

Oh wow, yes (and still utter “inevitable preggobelly” whenever i see this imagery…too often). And IIRC @robinmarty.com had its constructive counterpart of sorts: stock images of humans w/heads experiencing pregnancy, abortion care etc. Free for newsmedia‘s use!

Web’s 2.0 era def had its positives.

This is a staggering amount of money. It’s bigger than the Department of Transportation spending on all infrastructure. It’s bigger than all of the federal R&D done for both the military and all federal science agencies. Disgusting.

This isn’t just wasteful. It’s theft from our movement. Every dollar that goes to these operations is a dollar not going to real organizers, real campaigns, and real people doing the "strategic organizing" and "fearless advocacy" that these scam PACs claim to be doing.

if you're trans or black or muslim, everything you do is considered political, but if you're a christian terrorist, you're just an apolitical part of The System (derogatory)

Opinion | Parsing ICE’s mixed-up, hard-to-believe assault claims ICE officials keep touting a 413 percent increase in assaults on officers to justify officers masking their identities.

I asked ICE where the “413% increase in assaults” justification for its officers using masks came from. They didn’t answer. So I dug into it, and what I found … did not boost their argument.
Gift link: wapo.st/4l7a1ch

Ok. We need to stop playing this game. Do not report this without front-ending the fact that they are at this point just making shit up.

Happy “I can maybe do that unless the Supreme Court drops an opinion in a case I’m watching” season to all who observe

This Skrmetti thread (and then some) is now in article form btw bc I had more to say about the Supreme Court's bullshit

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/skrme...

bsky.app/profile/audr...

Get your war on 1 #1 A three panel comic showing a white clipart business man having a phone conversation with a Black clipart businessman sitting at a computer. Panel 1: White man says "Oh yeah! Operation Enduring Freedom is in the house" Panel 2: Black man says "Oh yeah! Operation Enduring Our Freedom is in the motherfucking house! Panel 3: White man says "Yes! Operation: Enduring Our Freedom to Bomb the Living Fuck Out of You is in the house!!!

There is actually a very accurate historical document of the post-9/11 vibes.

A clipart comic called Get Your War On.

Click on through:
www.mnftiu.cc/2001/10/09/w...

Guess it’s time to crack open the history books again.

ICE has been taking the position nationwide that its field offices, and the detention cells therein, are not facilities "operated by or for [DHS] used to detain or otherwise house aliens," on the argument that the facilities are "processing areas" and therefore not covered detention facilities.

i am reposting this not because i'm a nyc constituent but because i'm an atlanta constituent and can read writing on the wall

NYT headline: How the Transgender Rights Movement Bet on the Supreme Court and Lost Here's the inside story of the case that could set the movement back a generation.

This framing is beneath contempt. The Christian right and MAGA launched an unprecedented assault on the civil rights of a tiny minority and successfully weaponized the pseudoliberal establishment - led by the NYT - to provide it with a medical controversy pretext that doesn’t actually exist.

“DEI” wth a hard R

I keep saying this, but it's unfortunate that this clear work of investigative journalism is tagged as "opinion" placing it in the same category of incredulity as Megan McArdle

See this is what I mean. Mississippi is a state with a 40% Black population. African American candidate Mike Espy garnered nearly 45% of the vote in the 2020 General Election for the U.S. Senate.

Why isn’t there a 10 yr Dem plan for organizing Mississippi? Why concede the state w/a 40% Black pop?