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White / male / cis / Episcopalian / born citizen; about as privileged as they get; lawyer. He/him.
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Something that isn't said enough - immigration is a great good for the United States. The xenophobes are doing us a lot of damage.

submitted 9 minutes ago • 0 comments

It's hard to overstate how destructive the reflexive "this is a distraction!" stuff that politicians and commentators and people are always peddling. Everything is happening all at once. That's how authoritarianism works. If you can't navigate and synthesize this, you're not meeting the moment.

submitted 1 hour ago • 47 comments

Counterpoint: Everything the Trump administration does is a threat to democracy.

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

Rand wants *real* cuts to medicade, medicare, social security. You know - those government programs we've been paying for all our lives.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

If they try to arrest Newsom, maybe he'll put some oomph into resisting the fed.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

The other thing about the militarized teams deployed on deportations is that they are increasingly a coalition of the willing that scrambles chains of command across various dept's and agencies (DHS, ICE, FBI, CBP, BOP, etc), creating what amounts to a personalized militia loyal only to Trump. 🧵

submitted 2 days ago • 26 comments

Los Angeles school worker shares frustration over parents having to leave their children’s graduation ceremony because ICE raided an elementary school’s graduation today

submitted 2 days ago • 646 comments

This is a good thing - this is the kind of thing that a good governor needs to be thinking about. I won't support Newsom because he's willing to throw trans people and the homeless under the bus, and people are more important than dollars. And he gave credibility to fascists. But this is good.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Me in @nytimes: “Lindsey Boylan, the first of Mr. Cuomo’s staff members to go public with complaints that he had harassed her, said that whatever gestures he made toward contrition, including his resignation, were motivated by politics. “He knew that it was the way to salvage his future,”

submitted 3 days ago • 42 comments

I'm a long way from Knaresborough, but...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

How about a cage fight with *all* the billionaires?

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

If I follow you And you follow me Won't we both go around in circles?

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

"Y'all are going to die, peasants." "I'm going to go enjoy my top-notch federal government healthcare."

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

OPINION: "Black women in the Delta face disproportionate barriers to cervical-cancer prevention and treatment—barriers that are exacerbated by the ongoing closure of rural hospitals across Mississippi," Mala Brooks writes.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

[Innocuous voice] What? It's AAI.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Please don't elect this dirtbag, New York. Do something different. Hold powerful people at least minimally accountable for their misconduct.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

These people are such a rotten group of liars - people like this have wanted to end Medicade since it was first legislated. Nothing they want more than to destroy it now.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

I'd really rather that some holds were barred.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments