Pepper

Low key mischief & mothering.

[Pepper @spiceybinks]

@Ryan_Ken_Acts My best friend said: “I can’t believe we used to just like raw dog it on the subway maskless. I still feel bad about that Uber driver who drove me to a minute clinic when I had the flu at the end of 2019. That poor man.”

[Atul Gawande @Atul_Gawande]

Musk's claim that just 10% of US aid reaches recipients is absurd. @cgdev lays out the facts:
- US gov costs are just 10%
- Rest reaches recipients mostly thru US corps/nonprofits + multilateral agencies
- ~10% goes thru foreign organizations
https://t.co/j0hFoX3r87

[People's City Council - Los Angeles @PplsCityCouncil]

Graffiti spotted downtown:

“The mayor & city council cutting $23 million from LA fire department to give LAPD a $138 raise is CLASS WAR”

[Kevin James @KevinJa52749283]

Steve Bannon confirming Trump’s dictatorship plan

…”you’re witnessing right now a political realignment like 1932”

“I believe that we will destroy the Democratic party as a national institution”

“We will govern for 100 years”
https://t.co/mq9Pd3toZo

[Emily Galvin-Almanza @GalvinAlmanza]

This is one of the most insane pieces of data I've ever seen. Why on Earth would you not want a person whose whole job it is to know about a thing weighing in on that thing?

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Black Widow, a group of dancers hailing from the Urban Theory school in Vallecrosia, Italy, performs kaleidoscope-like synchronized movements.

[📹 blackwidow_official]
https://t.co/1NxCH65eQy

[michael e. v. knight @michaelevknight]

Someone posted: “There is nothing the remotest bit natural about capitalism. The bees are not stockpiling honey to sell at a profit. The trees are not charging the bees to build their hive. The soil is not leasing itself to the flowers. (Cont.)

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Please read this. It's literally been 8 years in the writing.

The first wave of tech disruption of democracy 2016-2024 is over. What starts now is something much, much worse: the age of information chaos.
1/
https://t.co/bsnKnag51p

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

That was a cataclysm. Electoral map wipeout. Senate D practical ceiling is now 52 seats. R's is 62.

Time to rebuild the left.

We are out of touch with the crisis of meaning/purpose fueling MAGA. We refuse to pick big fights. Our tent is too small.

1/ Some early thoughts:

[Really American 🇺🇸 @ReallyAmerican1]

Watch this man BRILLIANTLY explain why Donald Trump's tariffs plan will be a complete DISASTER for hard-working Americans.

🚨This is EXCELLENT.
https://t.co/JtLXAm1qkJ

[Miranda Green @mirandacgreen]

Where did Trump voters get their news? 📰

Yes, there's social and partisan sites, but there is another influential strategy that isn't getting enough attention: Manipulated, pay-to-play and all out fake news sites

I've been covering a mix of those for years. Here's a primer

🧵

[Dave Troy @davetroy]

Many people emailed me to ask how to manage potential financial uncertainties in 2025. I wrote up a brief two page summary; this is not financial advice, but it offers a summary of the risks and how, potentially, to respond.
https://t.co/u9aocCTluM

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

White blood cell wandering between red blood cells and checking for harmful organisms

[Malcolm Nance @MalcolmNance]

LETS GET SOMETHING STRAIGHT.
The American People voted to absolutely make sure LOADS of people would die at Trumps hands.
- Their daughters, their wives, children & their fellow citizens will die from school shootings, pregnancy & easily cured diseases.
-It’s free hunting season for blacks with immunity for white cops.
- Muslims & Latinos will DEFINITELY die in mass deportation roundups/camps.
- Gaza will be bulldozed if not ethnically cleansed.
- Iranians who want democracy will die.
- Ukrainians are dying in droves already.

If you think your family is immune from Trumps dementia & chaos that is coming? Did you forget about Covid?

[Andy Kim @AndyKimNJ]

In 2020 I was one of 7 dems that won a district that Trump won, so I held a series of listening sessions with people who voted for Trump and voted for me to understand their actions. I reread the transcripts yesterday and much of it felt like it could have been said today. THREAD

[Elie Mystal @ElieNYC]

The challenge, after a loss, is to learn something *new.* Most people aren't doing that right now. They're taking in information and trying to fit that within their prevailing world view.

The NEW thing I'm learning is: People do not and will not vote for harm mitigation...

[Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior]

If Dems and other officials do not hold the perperators of past admin crimes accountable *and* tackle the structural issues that made the US vulnerable to mafia state rule, all the Biden admin will be is a brief interlude between aspiring autocracy and entrenched autocracy.

[AGAPE! 🫶 @ATPinDC]

Reposting this graphic of when the red mirage dissipated in 2020. Take a deep breath, everyone, and hunker down.

[Pepper @spiceybinks]

@dceiver @chrisgeidner A friend and her husband voting in Michigan just received their absentee ballots *today*. Nothing they can do. Our system is so f-ed.