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I'm sure someone has considered this already, but at what point does the flurry of obviously unconstitutional executive orders morph from the cruel ravings of a dotty old lunatic into a deliberate attempt to make the courts into another "enemy of the people" that must be destroyed?

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Trump does not plan to protect Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and any other U.S. territory from a nuclear attack. Pass it on.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Your periodic reminder that @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social would have been the best president we've ever had.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

I freaking love this woman.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Other nations clearly see the axis of right-wing authoritarianism as a danger to their freedom. If only we could do the same here in the U.S.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

LOL, the very definition of a conditional ceasefire. Up is down apparently.

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

I have been absolutely terrified from the beginning of the war that this is where we would end up, even if Biden/Harris had won in 2024. We have a chance to do the right thing, but instead we're telling our allies our word is no good anymore. I am so tired of being ashamed of my country.

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

Just a couple of dudes who like sharing secret information for clout.

submitted 50 days ago • 25 comments

Dear Dems: Polling shows only generalized approval of Trump on immigration, but broad opposition to the lawless specifics. If you don't engage on Abrego Garcia and other illegal kidnappings, you only help Trump subsume all that under "keeping out illegals." newrepublic.com/article/1941...

submitted 51 days ago • 44 comments

This is the correct take

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

This is no different than if the government just started cancelling signed & in-process contracts with Raytheon to build missiles or F-35 components because Trump decided he didn't like the political views of employees at those companies. In that case, there'd be no dithering about what this was.

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

Is this a joke? I wish this were a joke.

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

Is Kilmar Abrego Garcia alive? Because the amount of resistance to addressing his being trafficked gives the distinct impression that either he is dead or what they have done to him is so unspeakable that they cannot afford for him to be freed, seen, or spoken with.

submitted 54 days ago • 1361 comments

Free Mahmoud Khalil. Free Rümeysa Öztürk. Free Mohsen Mahdawi. Free Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia. Free Juan Francisco Méndez. Free Elsy Noemi Berrios. Free the Venezuelan men. Free them all.

submitted 55 days ago • 5 comments

Kilmar Abrego Garcia Mahmoud Khalil Rümeysa Öztürk Mohsen Mahdawi ...

submitted 56 days ago • 24 comments

The position of the democratic party should be "you can return him now, or we will come get him when we are back in power, and drop you off at the Hague on the flight home."

submitted 56 days ago • 21 comments

It’s a month since the administration detained and disappeared a green card holder, a lawful permanent resident. We cannot allow this to be normalized or forgotten.

submitted 62 days ago • 784 comments

1000% times this. I see it every day in my students and despite my best efforts it’s getting worse.

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

All those different flags representing so many different people, all coming together to speak with one voice based on our common humanity and righteous purpose. E pluribus unum, baby.

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements

submitted 68 days ago • 1029 comments

Trump’s Ukraine policy is based on fabricated numbers ($350bn). His Russia policy is based on fabricated numbers (majority support for Russia in occupied territory). Why are we surprised that his trade policy is also based on fabricated numbers?

submitted 68 days ago • 17 comments

God they are dumber than a sack of doorknobs. By a lot. A lot.

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

"this worse than the worst-case scenario" might be the perfect encapsulation of the failure of imagination America's leading institutions have brought to their assessment of Donald Trump for the last decade.

submitted 68 days ago • 13 comments

MLB owes its players and its fans their voice on the mass, illegal deportation of people to far-away slave prisons. While baseball players are an exceptionally privileged class of immigrants, they are immigrants, and so are a great many baseball fans. That's to say nothing of basic human decency.

submitted 70 days ago • 4 comments

And, in the wealthiest nation on earth, 50% of households overall—and 20% of America s ages 50+—have no retirement savings. We MUST expand social security, not cut it. Our future prosperity depends on it.

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

In the wealthiest nation on earth, 25% of seniors should not be living on $15,000 a year or less. We should EXPAND Social Security, not cut it.

submitted 71 days ago • 103 comments