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Do all the Tough Guys feel safe yet?

submitted 2 hours ago • 8 comments

Worth a read: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/o...

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

Most of the ideas mentioned in this article—higher minimum wage, free tuition at public colleges, higher taxes on the rich—are not only popular now but were realities in the past, including in NYC, during the booming postwar years, when America was “great.”/1 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 38 comments

Philip Bump is an insightful journalist: wapo.st/44zuWyC

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

Even with all of the important caveats, Mamdani’s win was a blow against the old Democratic way of doing things — and against the old Democrats who run the party. Gift link: wapo.st/44zuWyC

submitted 18 hours ago • 11 comments

ICE needs to be reigned in:

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This thread is worth reading:

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

Taxes should not be cut.

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

This is so so so so corrupt. Why any institution is willing to negotiate is beyond me — why anyone thinks they can make a real deal is baffling. It’s corruption all the way down.

submitted 20 hours ago • 11 comments

University presidents need to hold the line.

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

The news media have normalized a president brazenly lying every day. Decent people are appalled, and that should include journalists, but instead the media have accepted lying as part of the game.

submitted 23 hours ago • 95 comments

Here’s the thing, the right has been exceptionally good in recent years at courting a populist base, mostly through bullshit and hate. When the left tries to make inroads through policies that might actually make people’s lives better, that’s a threat to their new base and, essentially, their power.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

I spent most of today seeking to meet with one of the many victims of ICE raids currently jailed in Downtown LA. While @chrclla.bsky.social focuses its efforts on impact litigation, my team boosts efforts on the ground whenever possible. What I saw speaks to the crisis in LA & beyond.

submitted 2 days ago • 37 comments

www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

submitted 2 days ago • 36 comments

Tweet Storms and Bunker Busters – War in a Time of Trump talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/tweet...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Thread. Because not enough people understand this. Medicaid is a lifeline for pregnant women, children, poor, disabled, veterans and the elderly. If its decimation doesn't impact you now, it will when your senior parents need it. Or your kid serves our country and comes home less than 100%...

submitted 3 days ago • 49 comments

"This isn’t just about Ukraine. It’s about whether borders mean anything, whether alliances matter, and whether the free world will defend democracy, or let it be erased."

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Truly horrified by this order in way that is deeper and darker than I have felt over many truly awful merits decisions.

submitted 3 days ago • 175 comments

“In his efforts to demolish and disappear Black culture and the institutions that support it, Trump has made a loud admission: if he truly believed that Black culture were inferior, he would be leaving it on display and intact. Its mere existence would prove white supremacy.”

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

There are way too many things to be upset about these days, but I believe the destruction of public lands should be near the top of the list: www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

submitted 3 days ago • 16 comments

“Today’s ruling is a massively important one—and a massively worrying one, insofar as it at least appears to reflect the willingness of a majority of the justices to appease a government the behavior of which is increasingly unworthy of any such respect.” www.stevevladeck.com/p/161-the-co...

submitted 3 days ago • 54 comments

A federal officer cannot be “doxxed.” The public has a right to know who is operating in our government, especially if they have the power to imprison someone.

submitted 4 days ago • 714 comments

Mike Lofgren was one of first to diagnose structural collapse of GOP. (Book 'The Party's Over,' 2012. Same time as Ornstein/ Mann 'Let's Just Say It: Republicans are the Problem') Now he argues it's time to use 'totalitarian,' rather than 'authoritarian,' for MAGA era www.salon.com/2025/06/22/a...

submitted 4 days ago • 10 comments

The media needs to focus on the truth.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Harvard must not cave:

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I just want to say for the record that when the history books are written centuries from now, I believe the election of Donald Trump in a free and fair election in 2024 will go down as one of the most senseless and self-destructive own goals in human history

submitted 146 days ago • 1341 comments

Really disagreed with Robert Kagan 25 years ago, about attacking Iraq. Really agree with him now, about attacking Iran. www.theatlantic.com/internationa... Including the last line. On countless fronts, it's a time to be counted. A time to choose sides and stand up.

submitted 6 days ago • 22 comments

Prof Epps (law prof, among his other accomplishments) knows what he is talking about.

submitted 6 days ago • 11 comments

And a jury.

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

And millions of people accept this as normal and not a sign of a significantly disordered personality.

submitted 6 days ago • 260 comments

Grim story on history repeating: Last time it was Japanese-Americans being shipped off to camps in the AZ desert… www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Once again, the great tragedy of the war in 🇺🇦 is that it could be over now had 🇺🇸/🇪🇺/NATO/the G7 flexed its massive economic power, quickly & in full, & destroyed 🇷🇺's economy & ability to continue fighting, back in 2022-23. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

If international relations teaches us anything, if there's a practical takeaway from decades of research, it's this: The confusion and fear generated by uncertainty in militarily-heightened moments is where a lot of bad happens, and responsible leaders should reduce uncertainty where they can.

submitted 8 days ago • 32 comments

This framing is beneath contempt. The Christian right and MAGA launched an unprecedented assault on the civil rights of a tiny minority and successfully weaponized the pseudoliberal establishment - led by the NYT - to provide it with a medical controversy pretext that doesn’t actually exist.

submitted 8 days ago • 85 comments

Our president is a cruel & dangerous joke everywhere in the world, but in the US where our Corporate Media & Centrist Elite treat him as serious person.

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Just because one party is made up of fascists does not absolve us of the responsibility to hold the other party accountable for its inaction, neglect, dismissiveness, or lack of courage and strategy. That means holding Democrats accountable.

submitted 224 days ago • 46 comments

Thoughts on Israel’s Iran Campaign and Donald Trump talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/thoug...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Inasmuch as the Trump admin has any consistent tactical approach to policy, I think they just get up in the morning and say to themselves, what’s the most evil, destructive, and stupid thing I could do today? Then they do it. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/u...

submitted 10 days ago • 49 comments