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Merkley had a pretty effective day. Or will have, if you make this go viral.

submitted 5 hours ago • 44 comments

"Mamdani doesn't have enough experience." Folks... let's be fucking real. The last four NYC Mayors were Eric Adams, Bill de Blasio, Michael Bloomberg, and Rudy Giuliani. If you're going with the experience critique here, it's time to take a nap and try again tomorrow.

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

submitted 1 day ago • 49 comments

It’s true we don’t have a “vaccine” for HIV, but we *do* have an injectable long-lasting HIV prevention drug that was supported by NIH research dollars and approved by the FDA literally days ago. So stupid to back off on vaccine research when we’ve made so many promising breakthroughs recently.

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

A good friend is about to get mRNA therapy for Stage IV lung cancer. The idea that this heroin dealing, roadkill-eating probable rapist gets to condemn thousands to die in the decades ahead because his worm-addled brain is shot through with conspiracy is really too fucking depressing to contemplate.

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

No money for Medicaid or SNAP or museums or schools or sidewalks or gun violence prevention or art or libraries. Always money for war.

submitted 3 days ago • 636 comments

Why do we pretend Donald Trump isn't a demented danger to society? In Florida, the Baker Act is a way to involuntarily commit those who are mentally unstable and a threat to others. That's Donald Trump. Forget the 25th Amendment open.substack.com/pub/lincolns...

submitted 5 days ago • 27 comments

ICE just abducted a leading contender for the New York City mayorship for asking to see a warrant. I need everyone to understand that they are not a law enforcement agency — they are Donald Trump’s secret police.

submitted 8 days ago • 42 comments

This is like playing Taylor Swift's "We Are Never Getting Back Together" at a wedding.

submitted 11 days ago • 209 comments

Obvious point: Most of the undocumented immigrants who are being rounded up are better Americans, in the ways that matter, than Donald J. Trump.

submitted 11 days ago • 63 comments

Oh no! It just started raining in DC/Virginia during Trump’s Military Parade. 😅🤣😂

submitted 11 days ago • 74 comments

It’s true, as many have suggested, that if they can do this to Sen. Padilla, they can do it to others. I’d only add that they already have been doing this to others. A mass deportation regime, sooner rather than later, becomes contemptuous of civil liberties and basic decency.

submitted 13 days ago • 165 comments

House Democrats need to bring articles of impeachment against Kristi Noem, while Senate Democrats need to bring that chamber to a fucking halt.

submitted 13 days ago • 337 comments

Reminder that seven Democratic senators voted to confirm Kristi Noem and six Dem senators declined to vote either way. She was confirmed, 59-34. The good faith experiment is clearly over, and we need the Democratic senators who didn't stand against her nomination to be loud as hell right now.

submitted 13 days ago • 194 comments

The state of California needs to arrest the DHS "security" forces for assault and every Democrat in the U.S. Senate needs to sign onto a campaign to impeach Kristi Noem. Right fucking now.

submitted 13 days ago • 256 comments

In the past week, a union leader has been arrested, a U.S. Rep charged with a crime, a U.S. Senator violently handcuffed, and reporters shot with rubber bullets and detained. There is no ambiguity. This is a regime operating as an authoritarian. Americans who believe in liberty must oppose it.

submitted 13 days ago • 390 comments

I ran an experiment, simultaneously posting articles on Bluesky and X, and then testing to see how many people actually clicked and read them. The numbers on Bluesky are higher, both because the X algorithm downranks journalism, and because Bluesky attracts readers, not just shitposters.

submitted 16 days ago • 927 comments

Same.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

I am not a big “engagement” person. I am very happy with Bluesky because I follow knowledgeable political scientists, historians, legal scholars, journalists and all-around smarties here, all of whom help make me smarter. And I don’t have to wade through Nazi sewage to see their posts.

submitted 13 days ago • 17 comments

One not-so-secret aspect of the attempt to occupy Los Angeles and other "blue" American cities? Not enough manpower to do the job. Trump and Miller are counting on your fear and obedience to do the work for them. Troops and total police officers? Not nearly enough. So speak out and march peacefully.

submitted 14 days ago • 6 comments

submitted 15 days ago • 5 comments

You can see why MARINES are necessary.

submitted 16 days ago • 99 comments