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Donald Trump does NOT want you to share this footage of his pathetically tiny birthday parade crowd.

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Enjoying watching Trump's military parade on BBC and France 24 because it is a wonderful embarrassment for Trump. As the French commentators point out, the American sodiers don't know how to march & don't seem enthusiastic about doing so for Trump. /1

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Some thoughts about the military parade in my hometown of Washington DC today -- specifically, the route. Military parades in DC are quite rare. But when they happen, they have always begun, symbolically and geographically, at the Capitol and moved outward. 1/

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Walz announces that Rep. Melissa Hortman is dead as a result of a "politically motivated assassination"

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MAJOR BREAKING: Governor Walz has announced that Democratic Rep. Melissa Hortman is dead after a "politically motivated assassination.” Trump owns this political climate. 100%.

submitted 1 day ago • 63 comments

This is the latest on the shootings in Minnesota of two lawmakers and their spouses. The Governor just spoke and the news is absolutely heartbreaking that Rep. Hortman and her husband are dead and Sen. Hoffman and his wife are fighting for their lives. Shooter is at large and had a manifesto.

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law enforcement officials say they made a proactive check at Rep. Hortman's home after a lawmaker who lived nearby was shot and found a "police vehicle in the driveway with emergency lights and what appeared to be a police officer at the door coming out of the house." He was actually the gunman.

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FLAG: A Minnesota mayor says two state lawmakers were shot in their homes early Saturday. Mayor Ryan Sabas of Champlin says state senator John Hoffman and state representative Melissa Hortman were shot, and that Hoffman's wife was also shot.

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www.mprnews.org/story/2025/0... #NoKings

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California Senator Alex Padilla was physically assaulted by federal law enforcement and detained for attempting to attend DHS secretary Kristi Noem's press conference in LA.

submitted 3 days ago • 60 comments

When it comes to the debt, the GOP needs to learn that tax cuts are just as irresponsible as spending increases. My @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social Chart

submitted 11 days ago • 15 comments

No warrants. No names on uniforms. No visible faces. No organization name on the vehicles. No license plates. This is what I imagined life in the darkness of the Soviet Union to be like.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

1. A transgender man was detained in South Carolina for using the restroom that Republicans want him to use. Officers allegedly hurled slurs at him for doing so. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism. www.erininthemorning.com/p/trans-man-...

submitted 17 days ago • 96 comments

staffers are still cleaning up the Kristi Noem mess after she got gutted/filleted by @chrismurphyct.bsky.social this is A MOMENT. #MustWatch 🧢 @trumpfile.org

submitted 38 days ago • 1395 comments

OMG what a story! @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social takes us through the dirty heartbreaking story of how a pill that costs 25 cents to make enriched pharma execs and bankrupted the people who needed it — including him www.propublica.org/article/revl...

submitted 38 days ago • 6 comments

After the brutal reality of dealing with student papers in the ChatGPT era finally hit me, here are a few tactics that I've found at least somewhat effective in getting students to do their own writing: 🧵

submitted 39 days ago • 27 comments

For some reason I'm having trouble telling these two pictures apart.

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

It’s only getting much play in the trade/transport niche press. But pretty real product shortages beginning in mid-May or so are already locked in. They’re maybe a thousand miles out in the Pacific Ocean. Modern trade takes place in gargantuan container ships. There are very detailed records …

submitted 49 days ago • 185 comments

My latest for @liberalcurrents.com We need to stop listening to commentators who spent a decade being arrogantly wrong about the fascist threat www.liberalcurrents.com/trump-alarmi...

submitted 53 days ago • 69 comments

@amyklobuchar.com & @smith.senate.gov, what did Trump/Musk do to Americorp tonight? My cousin found out at 6 PM that their kid was on a plane and arriving home at 10 PM because their job was cut.

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Total federal spending is up +8% in 2025 year-to-date on April 9 over 2024. The illusion that the fed govt is tightening its belt is contradicted by its own real-time expenditure data. Admin spectacularly hammering some things but raising spending elsewhere. Was -7% just after Inauguration Day.

submitted 66 days ago • 26 comments

This is a dynamic right out of my book #Strongmen... And here is my Lucid essay on autocratic backfire: open.substack.com/pub/lucid/p/...

submitted 66 days ago • 24 comments

When I used to try and gently explain the world we were rapidly headed for, people thought I was being paranoid. Or worse, they would try and explain why I was wrong as if it was obvious and I was subtextually just having a hard day, and would feel better in the morning.

submitted 71 days ago • 14 comments

One flight attendant recalled being told: “‘If a fire occurs in the cabin, if we land on water, don’t check on the immigrants. Just make sure that you and the guards and the people that work for the government get off.’” By @mckenziefunk.com

submitted 71 days ago • 87 comments

The admin officials talking about using tariffs to return manufacturing to the US a.) do not know anything about trade, b.) do not understand how tariffs work, c.) do not understand how global supply chains work, d.) do not understand what a modest percentage of overall output, trade or jobs...

submitted 72 days ago • 63 comments

It appears this is the fourth worst back to back day for the DJIA in American history with a two day combined -8.65% loss, only trailing the 1929 crash, 1987 Black Monday, and the 2008 crisis.

submitted 72 days ago • 142 comments

“In 2012, in Arizona v United States, the highest court in the land ruled that “as a general rule, it is not a crime for a removable alien to remain in the United States”. Got that? Not. A. Crime.” From my new Guardian op-ed:

submitted 73 days ago • 140 comments

Disgusting behavior. The only silver lining here is that the military sees this. The more he treats them like trash, the less likely they will be to do stupid shit like invade Greenland.

submitted 73 days ago • 3 comments