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I was thinking that maybe, more than 20 years after the start of the Iraq war, media coverage would be more skeptical and less sycophantic No such luck

submitted 7 hours ago • 736 comments

Why did folks stop talking about grocery prices? I just left the store and OMFG…

submitted 13 hours ago • 1214 comments

The Trump tax cut is a massive wealth transfer from the poorest to the wealthiest. Contrast that with Build Back Better, which helped those at the bottom of the income distribution. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 9 days ago • 14 comments

We are beta testing a new feature with the @nba.com. If you click their profile picture when there’s a red border with a “live” callout below, you will be directed to the live content they are promoting. We aren’t trapping you in Bluesky. We want you to use Bluesky to discover what’s happening.

submitted 34 days ago • 48 comments

What a line from Warren Buffett this morning: “Be kind, and the world is better off. I'm not sure that the world will be better off if I'm richer." [applause] 🙏🏼

submitted 49 days ago • 533 comments

Petabytes of critical government research that is marked for possible deletion cannot be archived because of technical and legal restrictions, meaning it is very likely to be lost forever: www.404media.co/nih-archives...

submitted 78 days ago • 191 comments

If only we had elected representatives who, when our democracy is at risk, didn’t ruminate about when the public might “rise up” but stepped forward to lead.

submitted 90 days ago • 90 comments

We are in hell in American cybersecurity. This will embolden and fund DPRK hackers. But the libs are being owned and politics are boring, right? home.treasury.gov/news/press-r... Thanks @ncweaver.skerry-tech.com @briankrebs.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy

submitted 92 days ago • 52 comments

Thousands of US Department of Agriculture employees, including food inspectors and disease-sniffing dog trainers, remain out of work, leaving food to rot in ports and pests to proliferate.

submitted 96 days ago • 94 comments

Take a moment today to read about a few of the young children whom Trump and Musk killed by shutting down USAID. The blame for these deaths falls on them. There will be hundreds of thousands more dead kids before their lethal crusade against foreign aid ends. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 98 days ago • 234 comments

This 👇

submitted 99 days ago • 14 comments

Great fucking job @schumer.senate.gov @schatz.bsky.social @fetterman.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov, @cortezmasto.senate.gov @shaheen.senate.gov. Tell me again how this was worth it, now that the GOP is laughing at you and planning to continue to abuse and humiliate you while destroying the US

submitted 99 days ago • 30 comments

Walz: I think they hate public education because it’s easier to run an authoritarian government if you don’t have a population that knows.

submitted 99 days ago • 932 comments

A typical human story. Acceptance of abuse invites more abuse, even if retaliation can be costly. People are warier of people who hit back.

submitted 99 days ago • 71 comments

Two Republican senators told me tonight this vote shows they can execute the same strategy again — cut Democrats out of the negotiations on a gov’t funding bill, pass it thru the House, and expect Senate Dems to back down and not filibuster it. “We liked it over here,” one said.

submitted 99 days ago • 449 comments

The government-subsidized post-war research university system in the US will likely go down in history as our country’s single greatest contribution to the world. And, for the selfish, likely our greatest source of soft (if not often hard) power. And it is getting torched to the ground.

submitted 101 days ago • 34 comments

Walz: There’s nothing conservative about an unelected South African nepo baby firing people at the VA.

submitted 99 days ago • 204 comments

If you’re in the neighborhood…

submitted 99 days ago • 444 comments

From inside the DoD: “Schumer's bungling over the past two months & creation of this lose-lose scenario is a complete dereliction of his duties. This was the sole moment where they had any real potential leverage to stand up and fight for the Constitution & they completely blew it from day 1.”

submitted 99 days ago • 47 comments

Really glad Democrats saved the fucking filibuster so they could NOT USE IT. Fucking cowards

submitted 99 days ago • 127 comments

Collaborators with the fascists.

submitted 99 days ago • 1750 comments

If you are a Southern California person upset about @schumer.senate.gov ‘s craven betrayal of our country, the theatre his book tour will be at on 3/23 is the Moss Theatre. Their phone number is 310-828-5582

submitted 99 days ago • 557 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 99 days ago • 5875 comments

Cool so what happens if GOP attach a national abortion ban to a CR? You'll vote for that too? 🚮

submitted 99 days ago • 5210 comments

Today the biggest split among Democrats is between those who want to stand and fight and those who want to play dead. House Democrats united to stand and fight. Too many Senate Democrats played dead. We need more leaders from the stand and fight wing of the Democratic Party.

submitted 99 days ago • 253 comments

It was on this day that I changed my party affiliation to Independent. It’s obvious Democratic leadership doesn’t support people like @aoc.bsky.social or have the stones to meet the moment. They very rarely have and that’s why we are here.

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

This is all nonsense and they know it. They aren’t built for this and never were. They’ve just been around long enough in safe seats to be propped up into leadership. They completely lack leadership though and we’re all worse off for it.

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

These collaborators’ names will live in infamy. Let them never know a moment’s peace for the rest of their careers, and may those careers end very, very soon. I am DISGUSTED by these quislings.

submitted 99 days ago • 2 comments

In a total betrayal of their constituents and our democracy, 10 Democrats just voted with Senate Republicans to give Trump and Musk a blank check to continue their coup. @schumer.senate.gov led Democrats to this total surrender. We need strong leadership, not cowards who cave at any GOP pressure.

submitted 99 days ago • 147 comments

These are the senators who collaborated with the GOP. Schumer Fetterman Cortez Masto Durbin King Shaheen Gillibrand Schatz Hassan Peters Don’t let them forget it. No peace for them.

submitted 99 days ago • 4137 comments

Thank you to the Democrats that held strong and voted against Donald Trump's budget. And my harshest condemnation to Chuck Schumer, John Fetterman, Kirsten Gillibrand, Maggie Hassan, Gary Peters, Angus King, Catherine Cortez Masto, Jean Shaheen, Brian Schatz, & Dick Durbin for selling us out.

submitted 99 days ago • 105 comments

Cloture has met the 60 votes to pass in the senate with the help of at least 9 Democrats: Schumer, Fetterman, Hassan, Cortez Masto, Durbin, Gillibrand, Shaheen, Schatz, and Peters. They sold out our country to Trump and Elon. They're traitors to democracy.

submitted 99 days ago • 229 comments

And if we survive this, they should all be primaried

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

To be fair, Chuck Schumer did accomplish something today. He successfully united all factions of the Democratic Party in opposition to his full cowardly capitulation.

submitted 100 days ago • 137 comments

"Mr. Schumer's stated approach of waiting for Trump to 'screw up' and continue this inexplicable embrace of the slippery slope is wholly inadequate and an astonishing failure of leadership." charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/its-time-f...

submitted 100 days ago • 93 comments

A YES on cloture is a YES for the bill. Do not let anyone play games with you.

submitted 100 days ago • 2303 comments

My latest. Let me know if you agree. Senator Schumer reflects the weakness & complicity of Democratic leaders by agreeing to vote for the Republican spending bill. It's time for new blood that is willing to stand up and fight. thelefthook.substack.com/p/with-democ...

submitted 100 days ago • 242 comments

I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable. Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes. Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.

submitted 100 days ago • 5137 comments

If you vote for this Republican Funding Bill, you are complicit in all that DOGE, President Elon, and Trump does.

submitted 100 days ago • 343 comments

Okay, so, let's take Chuck at his word here. I'm going to try and break this down without cursing, in as plain language as I possibly can; Let's assume that Chuck is right. Let's assume that a government shutdown is what Donald Trump and Elon Musk want.

submitted 100 days ago • 1 comment

@therickwilson.bsky.social has an urgent message for the Dems: SHUT IT DOWN! Watch:

submitted 100 days ago • 1124 comments

Schumer wants us to believe Senate Dems are powerless while literally providing the votes to ensure the GOP agenda goes forward. If a shutdown was better for Trump, the House GOP wouldn't have passed this CR and the Senate GOP wouldn't vote for it. Schumer knows that; he's outright lying to us.

submitted 100 days ago • 82 comments

For anyone who really thinks voters would punish the Democrats for forcing a shutdown, I respectfully refer you to the 2013 Cruz-led shutdown (which failed and got nothing), which was followed up in 2014 with a huge red wave across the Senate.

submitted 100 days ago • 22 comments