Baby, I’m not flirting, and even if I was, I lack the ability to tell if you’re flirting back.

everybody should read this thread on lynching, the idea and the motivating force and the intended effect

Someone hit my hand with a hammer. (I am someone)

“Medicare for all would save money and lives… we don’t have to keep living like this.”

I got a little worked up talking about all the not-normal things that are happening. Whoops!

#pd

Things are moving quickly, but it looks like these Sen's especially need calls from *constituents* to vote NO on cloture:

Angus King (ME)
Amy Klobuchar (MN)
Jacky Rosen (NV)
Brian Schatz (HI)
Maggie Hassan (NH)
Jeanne Shaheen (NH)
Gary Peters (MI)

Capitol switchboard is 202-224-3121.

KEEP CALLING. PEEL OFF ALL DEM SENATORS YOU CAN.

☎️: (202) 224-3121

Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid.

The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING.

Call retiring Senators too!

Cover featuring a south asian protagonist for R.R. Virdi's The First Binding: a dark haired tan man stands before a precipice overlooking a picturesque town. he wears a tattered blood red cloak and carries a leather sling of books across his back. in his right hand there is a gnarled wizards like staff.

us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

No shit post, just a basic request: if you'd be so kind to help promote the book today with a share/reskeet <whatever they're called here.

Book one of my Silk Road/South Asian lyrical fantasy.

CALLS ARE WORKING - it has bought us precious time, but we NEED to keep the pressure up.

Tomorrow is the cloture vote.

KEEP CALLING: (202) 224-3121 ☎️☎️☎️

Tell your Dem Senator to vote NO on Cloture and NO on the Republican spending bill.

Do NOT assume your Senator will be good on this. Trust me.

THIS IS HOW YOU STAND UP: How about if all places of worship, schools and other public spaces put up signs by their entrances with this simple statement of the law? (This one’s from a Minnesota church).
Suggesting it to my temple today. Will report back.

A great reminder that we should not be relying on the good will of the monied elite. A great reminder that we should tax them more instead.

Per @aoc.bsky.social

And this is why you should fight this kidnapping tooth and nail regardless of whether you agree with Mahmoud.

Log in to your online Social Security account (or make one, if you haven't yet). Go to your earnings record. AT the bottom you'll see how much you (and employers) have paid in so far. It's your money. Elon is trying to steal from YOU.

Opinion | Trump Promised Retribution. Turns Out He Had a Very Big Target in Mind. (Gift Article) It is hard to describe the president’s first month and a half in office as something other than a retribution campaign against the American people.

The sooner that middle-class Americans - especially white church-going ones - realize that they are the target of Trump's hatred, the greater the possibility of restoring democracy.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/o...

Last night I stood up for those who need Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security. Democrats will never abandon the fight to make sure every American has a safe, healthy, and financially secure life. #ISaidWhatISaid

If Russia wants peace, they should end the invasion.

(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.

You are a disgrace.

Don't attend. Hold a post debate-esque spin room while he's talking. Counter each point with facts and stream it live on every single platform.

U.S. Attorneys are not the President’s lawyers. They are the United States’ lawyers. You didn’t pledge an oath to a President, you pledged it to the constitution. This statement alone is reason enough to resign.

Despite the hype, DOGE hasn't found a shred of fraud All they've really got is "spending that Elon Musk doesn't like."

"The goalposts for DOGE have silently moved from finding fraud and corruption to simply pointing out and cancelling government programs that Trump and Republicans simply don’t support." -- @justinglawe.bsky.social

Why Democrats Won’t Throw a Real Punch Faced with existential threats from the right, the Democratic leadership remains timid; faced with demands for justice from the left, it goes on the attack.

An excellent breakdown of why the Democrats aren't going to save America...

DOGE’s Millions: As Musk and Trump Gut Government, Their Ax-Cutting Agency Gets Cash Infusion The Department of Government Efficiency is funded — and acts — like a federal agency. But the White House has shielded DOGE from the rules that govern such agencies, ProPublica found as it examines th...

Important investigation into how DOGE is taking millions of tax payer dollars for itself. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

The notion that Trump's "I'm king" tweet is "just trolling" or "a joke" presents an opportunity to recreate my just-joking thread (porting it over from the Bad Place):

1. I wrote my PhD dissertation on the social function of humor (in literature & film) and here's the thing about "just joking."

Billionaires have been withholding their taxes for years and look where it’s gotten them!

The root that tears apart your foundation begins as a seed of distrust, hate, and blame.

The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight.

It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.

Finished Death of the Author last week. Still thinking about that ending. #booksky

The “what can Democrats even do?” takes kill me… Mitch McConnell might be an evil turtle but goddamn he never let being “minority leader” stop him… elected Democrats can’t even muster like, 1/10th of that kinda spiteful energy