Josie Duffy Rice

i know we won't, but we have got to understand that a keystone of the republican project is to both categorize whole classes of people as criminal to justify locking them up, or to make them so broken and desperate that lawbreaking is all but certain to happen.

Veteran Georgia Prosecutor Appoints Himself to Oversee Trump Case

prosecutor associations are some of the most powerful organizations, and they get little scrutiny. anyway, this surprises me not one single whit www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...

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Why Elon Musk Needs Dungeons and Dragons to Be Racist The fantastical roots of “scientific racism”

The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Voters Ousted This Pennsylvania Sheriff After He Signed Up to Collaborate With ICE - Bolts A populous, swing county replaced its GOP sheriff on Tuesday after months of controversy over his joining ICE’s 287(g) program. The Democratic winner promises he’ll end the contract.

NEW: Dems easily flipped the sheriff's office in Pennsylvania's Bucks County, a big swing county in the Philly suburbs.

So? The incumbent GOP sheriff had contracted with ICE. His Dem challenger promised to end the contract.

Now he wants other swing-state Dems to look at his victory as a lesson:

Democrats Retain Control of Pennsylvania's Supreme Court with Three-Seat Sweep - Bolts Three Democratic justices on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court have defeated an unusually high-profile Republican bid to unseat them. They secured large statewide victories on Tuesday, following an histo...

Republicans were really hoping to win control of Pennsylvania's state supreme court before the next presidential election.

But Democrats swept 3 seats today.

It's now very unlikely the GOP can win an outright majority on the court before at least 2029:

All the most powerful democrats and republicans either explicitly or tacitly endorsed the same candidate for NYC mayor. that should be a path to victory but instead cuomo was easily defeated, will this prompt any soul searching ha ha ha of course not

i don't recommend either these days tbh

meanwhile, on x

if its any solace blue jays fan, at least you're not american

People on here will post anything. 'Baseball games have 9 innings.' No they don’t. That isn’t true.

he's yelling out names like they're old friends he mistakenly thought had died. and sometimes like they're old enemies he thought had died.

a dodgers fan isn't much better!

can someone tells me what happens the other room is too stressful rn

guys don’t have any agency over childbirth, we have agency over whether or not a backup catcher hits a home run if we just yell at the television more.

being married to an LA sports fan is not for the faint of heart....god's strongest soldiers over here

husband is 100% more stressed about this game than he was both times i gave birth

This is sooooo good

i made a helpful reference

Agree, mine immediately wants me to vote in the poll lol

Genuinely shocking to see better coverage on many things than you see in major outlets

I totally agree and will add that a lot of library systems have it digitally for free, so folks should check and see if theirs does!

For people who can't afford it, check your local library. My library has it through Overdrive.

Marc Lobliner post on X: "Why the hell are we giving food stamps to 40 million people? Does anyone work anymore?"

SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live.

Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps:

* Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled

* Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages

they always want to cut it. but end EBT/snap/wic in full is not generally their position, in part because they want white votes and lots of white people need govt assistance

if you have kids between like 6 - 12 you should get them a subscription to The Week Junior. yes pricey but it's actually so impressive and informative, my son's obsessed with it. (this is not sponsored [obviously] i've never interacted w/ them i just think its a great magazine!) theweekjunior.com

the people who said we were too online and in an echo chamber (and they weren't entirely wrong!) are now even more online and in even more of an echo chamber, thanks to 1) elon 2) countless finely-tuned algorithms

the same people who were like "i can't believe the dems supported defunding the police!!!" (they didn't) have convinced themselves that *end immigration entirely, cut all government assistance to poor, and coalition with nazis* are electorally viable positions

fun to see the "the left went too far!" scolds go WAY too far to the right. matt walsh out here calling for ending poverty assistance entirely. look, republicans might manage to stay in power in '28 and beyond, but they'll have to subvert democracy to do it. it won't be because they're popular.

If you can, please support a local food bank today. The need is urgent.

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