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Students like Emma have been advocating to expand reproductive rights on our public university campuses in Illinois. We’re eliminating barriers to seeking care due to inaccessibility, and I look forward to signing HB 3709 into law.

submitted 25 days ago • 5 comments

I’ll say it again - when any politician uses the ‘I haven’t read that story’ lie about something they knew they would get asked about, the interviewer has a duty to say ‘Okay, in that case I’m going to terminate this interview and you can come back when you’re better prepared.”

submitted 31 days ago • 244 comments

In a short 400 years we went from knowing we were the center of the universe to knowing that we are just one planet in one of billions of solar systems in our galaxy and our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies and I do think we haven't quite dealt with that...

submitted 50 days ago • 207 comments

My theory that most people are simply not very smart continues to pan out daily

submitted 57 days ago • 258 comments

The spreadsheet “names more than 800 firms, assigning them to one of five stark categories: “Caved to Administration” “Complying in Advance” “Other Negative Action” “Stood Up Against Administration’s Attacks” .. or “No Response.” @klasfeldreports.com www.allrisenews.com/p/skadden-st...

submitted 60 days ago • 77 comments

Perhaps an incomplete story, but more people need to understand this:

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

It's pretty hilarious to me that Sen. Slotkin is awkwardly trying to kinda-sorta rebrand herself and the Democratic Party in just about the least committal and vague way she can, and meanwhile, there's Buttigieg effortlessly gliding through conservative media spaces with common sense messaging.

submitted 62 days ago • 48 comments

Even the best politicians seem to falter near the ends of their careers. If only for practical reasons, I believe a great amount of respect is due to those who listen to criticism and understand it’s time to step aside.

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

Special knowledge, a strong sense of justice… In my experience with science and activism, an autistic person in the room is a good sign you’re in the right room. RFK Jr. should put down the pseudoscience and touch some grass.

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

I suggest everyone become very, very familiar with this piece by law Professor @david.noll.org. I suspect you will be referring to it often. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/if-t...

submitted 71 days ago • 454 comments

Happy Constitutional Crisis Day to those who celebrate.

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

And just to be obvious, if this isn’t the moment to use every parliamentary procedure possible to hold the legislative branch hostage until the executive branch is brought under control, then there is no point to having a legislature at all

submitted 78 days ago • 77 comments

You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially burned house. Great job.

submitted 77 days ago • 3153 comments

When a person is abducted, there's a number to call to report & identify. A habeas petition challenging the abduction is electronically filed in that district, by a lawyer admitted in that district, within 30 minutes of the call. Anywhere in the country, 24 hours a day. Nothing else is good enough.

submitted 79 days ago • 84 comments

“We’re finally running America like a business!”

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

Our society’s inability to wrap our heads around nuance and complexity is absolutely the number one thing destroying the country right now. (I blame Trump 2 on that, too.)

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

Promise? 🥺

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

Minority Leader Booker

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

Going on LinkedIn feels like entering the Severed Floor.

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

If you had shown me this picture in a Democratic campaign ad last fall, I would have rolled my eyes at the ridiculous overkill

submitted 91 days ago • 124 comments

At lunch, I heard someone at another table shout “but her emails” and immediately knew to check my phone. That’s how I found out about the Hegseth-Signal scandal. This timeline is so stupid.

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

World’s worst parent and it’s a high bar.

submitted 94 days ago • 2517 comments

Every member of Congress over the age of 60 should pick a young legislator or candidate to mentor and support with the expectation that the mentor leaves office within 5 to 10 years. Stop hoarding power.

submitted 96 days ago • 82 comments

submitted 97 days ago • 9 comments

Every time you see someone powerful acting like a craven coward in the face of this authoritarian menace, let it stiffen your own spine. We are all we've got.

submitted 97 days ago • 1061 comments

Roses are red Violets are blue

submitted 97 days ago • 2567 comments

Byte burning is just as bad as book burning. Arguably worse.

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

She points out that over 60% of injunctions in this century have been issued against Trump (note that I did not fact-check that and it could be a lie), as evidence that…judges are all out to get Trump. Can someone please explain Occam’s Razor to Leavitt? (if it is not too complicated for her brain)

submitted 98 days ago • 136 comments

Very accurate. Video credit: @yonsidelucas.bsky.social

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments

Bravo. These kids are showing more spine and character than a lot of the people they work for.

submitted 99 days ago • 234 comments

New in PN: Playing a bad hand badly "Democrats left themselves with no good options, then justified their surrender on the ground that there were no good options."

submitted 99 days ago • 266 comments

Just because some people have a rotten idea of goodness doesn't mean that the idea of goodness is rotten.

submitted 102 days ago • 15 comments

"The senator ... does now face the perception that his sensibilities are antiquated; that his political dexterity has faded; and, most importantly, that he lacks the vigor to take on Trump," Lauran Egan

submitted 101 days ago • 106 comments

I’ve been thinking the exact same thing.

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

I've been quiet lately for... a lot of reasons. But honestly: Fuck all this shit. Gloves off. Cowards to the back.

submitted 103 days ago • 121 comments

Schumer’s fold yesterday makes me wonder how much pressure he truly put on Manchin/Sinema. Could we have gotten abortion rights, voting rights, and a more progressive agenda passed if Schumer had been tougher?

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

I must commend Schumer on mastering the Susan Collins strategy. Nothing demonstrates your fervent opposition to Trump quite like being very concerned, then voting for the bad thing anyway.

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House. We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication. They own what happens next.

submitted 103 days ago • 5871 comments

Democrats for cloture: Cortez-Masto Durbin King Schatz Schumer Hassan Fetterman Peters Gillibrand Shaheen Their weakness is a cancer on the Democratic Party that needs to be promptly and mercilessly excised. The stakes are too high to tolerate cowardice.

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

Chuck Schumer and the Democrats that voted with him need to be politically destroyed. These are unprecedented times, and we can’t afford this kind of weakness in the party. Annihilate them.

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

This is the most chaotic vote I’ve seen since McCain killing the ACA repeal.

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments