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This is brilliant and on point. This is exactly it - the Democrats who will internalize these points and lead accordingly will emerge as the real leaders for the time we live in www.thebulwark.com/p/how-to-thi...

submitted 77 days ago • 40 comments

i honestly have never seen a political leader so thoroughly destroy their credibility so quickly and, on the other side, it is abundantly clear that if anyone can claim a genuine leadership of large parts of the democratic party, it is AOC.

submitted 93 days ago • 490 comments

#GVerse 🚨🚨Holy Shit!! Sen Merkley (D-OR) @markey.senate.gov is so on point here.💥🔥💥The time to take on a tyrant is as early as possible and this continuing resolution bill is the time to do it. Senate Democrats hold the line, don’t capitulate to these fascists. Vote NO! LFG!! Repost!!!

submitted 93 days ago • 16 comments

looking back, AOL had it right. 30 hours of internet per month was the right amount.

submitted 122 days ago • 208 comments

Simple and straightforward "It almost feels rude to our adversaries who’ve spent millions, untold resources... with the goal of pwning the United States only to watch us do it to ourselves like a deranged child gleefully licking a light socket." #Cybersecurity #FeralMusk medium.com/@violetblue/...

submitted 126 days ago • 2 comments

[1/3] The Trump Administration’s Attacks on International Law and Institutions: Public Statement by 16 US Human Rights Experts, Current and Former Members of UN Bodies www.justsecurity.org/107687/state...

submitted 125 days ago • 4 comments

this is the sort of thing you post when you’re ramping up to defying lawful court orders

submitted 126 days ago • 3618 comments

USAID’s inspector general—presumably operating from a remote base in the mountains—has just released a report on the staggering effect of the Trump Administration’s assault on the agency. oig.usaid.gov/sites/defaul...

submitted 125 days ago • 116 comments

gritty has seized control of the federal government

submitted 126 days ago • 198 comments

thank you to Kendrick and the Eagles for making terrible people angry tonight

submitted 126 days ago • 638 comments

True.

submitted 128 days ago • 2006 comments

Trump's CFPB, now under the command of billionaire hedge fund manager Scott Bessent, has halted the Biden admin's rule to ban medical bills from credit reports. It's been estimated that the rule would help improve the credit scores of 15 million people. Some populist, huh?

submitted 127 days ago • 172 comments

UPDATE: Lawsuit filed seeking injunctive relief on behalf of USAID workers! storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 129 days ago • 5 comments

Would be terrible if millions scheduled test drives at Tesla dealers & didn't show up. Sort of like Saul-Alinsky-trained organizers who shut down banks in Chicago in late 1960s by opening bank accounts w/thousands of pennies. Schedule a test-drive here: www.tesla.com/findus/list/...

submitted 129 days ago • 2 comments

My instinct is to make the case that USAID is extremely good, actually. But I feel like it’s more important to say, “What is happening is antagonistic to the foundational document of the nation.”

submitted 132 days ago • 464 comments

Our Litigation Tracker is now souped up with interactive Table. ⬇️ Now tracking 23 cases and expecting more to drop soon. Litigation Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions www.justsecurity.org/107087/track...

submitted 134 days ago • 91 comments

also, knowing that USAID does democracy promotion abroad, to what extent is Elon sending sensitive information about American workers abroad to rival governments and right-wing political movements?

submitted 132 days ago • 89 comments

The logic of the coup that is going on now. And how to resist it. snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

submitted 133 days ago • 345 comments

People have gathered outside USAID HQ for press event with Democratic Congressmen Beyer, Raskin, Connolly and Olzewski and Senator Van Hollen where they're addressing the building's mysterious shutdown today in the midst of the Trump admin dismantling the agency. (Photos shared with me)

submitted 132 days ago • 373 comments

One of my party facts is that according to polls, Americans believe foreign aid is about 25% of the federal budget and on average that it should be about 10%. The actual number is less than 1%. Foreign aid has long been a boogey man of the right, so it's not surprising they're vilifying it now.

submitted 133 days ago • 401 comments

is it good or bad that a billionaire oligarch with close ties to foreign dictators is currently downloading the most sensitive information the us federal government has about its citizens to his own private servers?

submitted 134 days ago • 1073 comments

This NYT piece describes the devastation being wrought in the global health sector by the foreign assistance freeze. Let me say a few words about what this looks like in the sector I work in, often called democracy and governance (DRG). 🧵

submitted 134 days ago • 7 comments

My latest:

submitted 134 days ago • 47 comments

I am actually losing my mind. WHY IS NO ONE ACTING LIKE THIS IS A BIG DEAL

submitted 134 days ago • 0 comments

incredible things are happening on the federal employee subreddit

submitted 137 days ago • 245 comments

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet: www.404media.co/declassified...

submitted 137 days ago • 1259 comments

I did not expect Monty python to be so prominent in my bluesky presence

submitted 137 days ago • 0 comments

USAID official tells me that in addition to DEI materials, the agency’s anti-corruption webpage has been taken down See for yourself: usaid.gov/anti-corrupt...

submitted 138 days ago • 48 comments

Hello BSKY. Give me your hot hot hot takes on the end of times!

submitted 142 days ago • 1 comment