Carly Putnam 🦖

one of several things making me crazy about the latest report on the president being a rapist is that the response more or less comes down to "we knew that already"

“Parliament had turned over its constitutional authority to Hitler and thereby committed suicide, though its body lingered on in an embalmed state.” Shirer, William L. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (p. 331)

A new survey of 1,000 American adults found that the strongest supporters of transgender sports bans are not the people who admire women most: they are the people who hold the most hostile views about women. www.helenwebberley.com/news/transge...

Lula won in part by banning online gambling

I choose to see the upside of this as a great moment for people to learn what a documentary is (hint: this is wrong)

Labor largely supporting the Vietnam War and George Meany not getting behind McGovern caused the split between the left and labor that never fully recovered. Only recently has it regained steam and not because labor won back old white guys. But because the managerial class is unionizing.

If you cross a nervous Rodney Dangerfield with a cornered Hermann Göring, you get a Jeff Bezos.

Aaaaaaaaahahahaha

RIP Walter❤️

if you want to feel renewed, read the comments on the petition.

But China…

So GOP members of Congress are complaining their absurd defenses of the largest #Medicaid cuts in history still aren’t working (there are no cuts, they aren’t cuts because we’re only stopping fraud, ignore the cuts & look at the shiny new rural fund, & the new one here: they could have been worse).

oh dear god

I don't know that there is a definitive line to cross that makes you say, "I live in a police state now" but when masked gunmen can routinely brutalize the public, citizen or immigrant alike, with impunity, you have reached that point.

Hi. I, a trans woman, am the Executive Producer of this show. I wrote the question. He called trans girls men. He has now said it in three different places in the past week.

I keep saying this: Stephen Miller is trying hard to preemptively scapegoat someone ELSE in case the GOP loses Texas. But they're naming him by name. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

It's 10 o'clock in the morning on October the 24th, if you want to know.

Traditionally, naturalization — especially ahead of elections! — has been the one thing that USCIS will not let get eaten by backlogs.

“The student underwent surgery for injuries to his wrist, she said, and was left with bruises and lacerations. Soto said a school resource officer obtained security footage from a nearby grocery store and confirmed that the people who had detained the student are agents with ICE.”

WIRED was the first magazine to cover Theranos and its enticing billionaire founder. There were warning signs even then.

The Ramaswamy campaign not only tried to capitalize on a child rape victim, they did it by using an old homeless woman who—while vile—is in no mental shape to adequately understand the stakes. And did they pay her? Either answer is bad.

Ok, but could we actually get 3 hours of Fielder fucking with corporate America, by dressing Liz Warren up as Babadook. It would be jump scare heavy but fun camp horror.

Vicariously enjoying the giddiness the reporter must have felt when she typed out this headline

It’s gender all the way down.

I’m a Program Officer and scientist at NIH, writing in my own personal capacity, and RFK Jr. is harming the NIH. I look with alarm at the harms he has done to our sister agencies, FDA and CDC, and to public health in general.

found out that my mother in law decided she was aggressively pro trans rights literally by going, I don't know anything about this but everyone who is against trans rights is also against free school lunch, the issue I know and care a lot about, so this must be the correct way to feel about this

they should absolutely give president AOC a peace prize on day 1 just because it might make him literally explode

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the military to remove transgender service members. The Navy and the Marines have been finding ways to keep them. nyti.ms/3W4lNMJ

According to a YouGov/UMass Lowell poll released today, 58% of people would support a law banning online or app-based sports gambling and prediction markets (Kalshi/Polymarket was a listed example).

NEWS: the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders have unionized and the Cowboys have agreed to recognize the union

Does this punk know how many pies my grandma used to bake for RAGBRAI

There's a scenario in which the Supreme Court gets this case in December and three justices involved in Bush v. Gore on behalf of Bush will be asked whether confusion is grounds to reject election results.

The woman asking these questions is NBC's Monica Alba.

This is a lawsuit only in the same sense that any old crazy person can roll up to the courthouse and hand in a napkin scrawled in crayon about how the lizard people are eating their thoughts.

I think Greg is on the mark here, but in addition making the election about the ad, it allows Republicans to make the election about unreality which makes the election no longer around material issues, or actual governance. Instead the election becomes about signaling if you are with MAGA or not.

It sounds like hyperbole to suggest the current administration WANTS measles to become common again but I can’t think of much they’d be doing differently if they didn’t want that. (I think some of them really are eugenicists who legit prefer disease spread to prevention; others just don’t care)

It's way past time to put the brakes on this runaway presidency. This new blueprint from @brennancenter.org shows Congress how, with solutions to end presidential immunity for crimes, check abuses of emergency powers, restore Congress's control over federal funding, and more.