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I hope @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com welcomes you soon to @lastword.msnbc.com!

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Overnight, House Republicans passed a budget that would give huge tax breaks to the ultra-wealthy at the expense of everyone else. Now, it's on to the Senate. Call your senators and demand they do everything in their power to stop this theft: 202-224-3121

submitted 16 days ago • 102 comments

Isn't it about time? #Families #WomensRights #ChildCare #MaternityPaidLeave

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"What's to stop a foreign government, eager to bribe the American president, from quietly dumping money into Trump’s crypto project, effectively making direct payments to the president without public disclosure? Nothing." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

submitted 39 days ago • 403 comments

Cuddling a water sausage.

submitted 57 days ago • 527 comments

Trump is destroying US weather forecasting and research because he dislikes the word "climate": "While the phrase 'climate change' refers to manmade influence on climate via planet-warming pollution, 'climate' in NOAA parlance is simply weather observed over time..." www.cnn.com/2025/04/11/c...

submitted 56 days ago • 659 comments

This. All day.

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An innocent man, picked up by “mistake,” must not be allowed to rot in an El Salvadorian jail. Mr. President. Obey the courts. Obey our Constitution. Bring him home immediately.

submitted 56 days ago • 1872 comments

We found in our recent experimental study that politicians who talk about ending "anti-Christian bias" are often heard by White Christians as promising to stamp out anti-WHITE bias. It's a racial dog whistle, a less offensive way of saying "I'll stick up for White people." doi.org/10.1177/0956...

submitted 56 days ago • 5 comments

Recap: Vance insulted our NATO ally Denmark in bizarre bid to take over Greenland Commander on the ground says his comments did not reflect the working relationship btw US and Denmark *She is fired The mildest pushback against their authoritarian fantasies is enough www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 57 days ago • 119 comments

"I didn't vote for" you did. Sorry. You did. Should have listened to the woke libtards instead of your roided out imaginary friends who told you kids were pooping in kitty litter at school

submitted 61 days ago • 618 comments

Absolutely proud of you all! HUG! So far, 3.1 million protesters counted today — that’s nearly 1% of the U.S. population! Photos are flooding social media everywhere. Still waiting on more numbers to come in.

submitted 62 days ago • 913 comments

cnbc front page just before 3pm on friday 4.4.25 the president himself is off to a golf event.

submitted 63 days ago • 1003 comments

Breaking, per NBC News @garygrumbach.bsky.social -- Judge Paula Xinis in the District of Maryland has ruled that the United States Government must return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the United States by April 7 at 11:59p

submitted 63 days ago • 1476 comments

1) Fox News is for real not showing stock-market ticker during this week's collapse. 2) Its economic news is "strong jobs report." 3) Every time I've checked in today, the coverage has been "illegal immigrants committing new crimes." This is state propaganda, on a par with North Korea or PRC.

submitted 63 days ago • 1271 comments

Eugene Robinson is leaving the Washington Post after 45 years following Jeff Bezos' "significant shift" to the paper's opinion section

submitted 64 days ago • 152 comments

“Donald Trump held a big event in the Rose Garden to slap tariffs on a bunch of Antarctic penguins.” @karijerge.bsky.social @solnatamd.medsky.social open.substack.com/pub/politicu...

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Former Costa Rican President and Nobel Prize winner Oscar Arias said that the US had revoked his visa to enter the country, weeks after he criticized US President Donald Trump on social media saying he was behaving like ‘a Roman emperor’ reut.rs/4iRDMfK

submitted 66 days ago • 266 comments

“Justice does not have a price. Our courts are not for sale.” -Susan Crawford

submitted 66 days ago • 59 comments

“This night was nothing short of a disaster for Republicans. Not only did the myth of the Trump mandate go up in flames, but the GOP’s money man tried to literally buy an election and failed.” @karijerge.bsky.social @solnatamd.medsky.social @leahschade.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/politicu...

submitted 66 days ago • 1 comment

Do you know who laid the foundation for the FDA? President Theodore Roosevelt. Do you know why? Because he read a great piece of literature that exposed the mistreatment of immigrant workers and the disgusting, unsanitary practices in meatpacking plants… The book is called “The Jungle.”

submitted 66 days ago • 687 comments

Booker finally yields after more than 25 hours of speaking 👏👏👏

submitted 66 days ago • 619 comments

Cory Booker just spoke to reporters at the Capitol: "I was very aware of Strom Thurmond's record since I've gotten to the Senate. I always thought it was a strange shadow to hang over this institution. ... It always seemed wrong to me." talkingpointsmemo.com/news/cory-bo...

submitted 66 days ago • 37 comments

It may be breaking, but @booker.senate.gov's voice has never been more powerful. Thank you, my friend, for speaking out for freedom, justice, and the country we love.

submitted 66 days ago • 909 comments

Congratulations to Wisconsin’s newest Supreme Court Justice, Susan Crawford! The voters spoke loud and clear: Wisconsin is not for sale.

submitted 66 days ago • 97 comments

Feel like maybe @booker.senate.gov read The Sirens’ Call? Or at least he got the gist!

submitted 66 days ago • 117 comments

Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble. For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity. What will you do?

submitted 66 days ago • 973 comments

Senator Cory Booker -- nearly 23 hrs into this -- is more coherent than your average elected official speaking (while seated) at an average legislative hearing. Even if you haven't been watching all along, dip in for a moment -- he is making considerable sense: www.c-span.org/event/us-sen...

submitted 66 days ago • 589 comments

“Any time that Strom Thurmond and his kind can be pushed deeper into the dustbin of history, it is a good day for America. The fact that it happened during the presidency of the modern Strom Thurmond, Donald Trump, is a bonus.” @karijerge.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/politicu...

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

🔥 Neguse absolutely dog walks Newt Gingrich during a hearing about "judicial coups" today

submitted 66 days ago • 658 comments

There are lots of new details about Cory Booker's speech in our TPM writeup about his record. He set out to do this about a week ago. He brought on a former staffer who led a team that helped him fill over a dozen binders with 1,164 pages of material. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/cory-bo...

submitted 66 days ago • 20 comments

“In this democracy, the power of people is greater than the people in power.” -Senator Cory Booker

submitted 66 days ago • 1 comment

do you think Cory Booker can make it for 3 years and about 10 months longer?

submitted 66 days ago • 874 comments

Okay now Sens. Cory Booker and Chris Coons (a Yale Divinity School grad) are literally just having a lengthy discussion of scripture and the Bible on the Senate floor right now. Religious left: still a thing.

submitted 66 days ago • 240 comments

"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥

submitted 66 days ago • 1018 comments

Senator Booker: What kind of man is in the white house that makes fun of the disabled, who lies so much that the fact checkers lose count, that minimizes the pain and the suffering

submitted 67 days ago • 1077 comments

what booker is doing right now is an example of what i mean when i say things like “we need more ambition right now.” there is room in american politics right now for people with ambition to take big stands and reap the rewards. he’s doing it!

submitted 66 days ago • 529 comments

There’s no reason to go to this thing.

submitted 69 days ago • 218 comments

This is exactly what his campaign tariff policy promised. He was promising to destroy the market & the economy. But most campaign reporters didn’t comprehend that.

submitted 67 days ago • 96 comments

Go Cory Go!

submitted 67 days ago • 309 comments

Hi, BlueSky. It's Hillary. I've joined up here to help get the word out about an important election in Wisconsin tomorrow, and other ways to defend our democracy against those who think votes can be bought.

submitted 67 days ago • 7339 comments

At least 2 faith groups are represented at the Trans Day of Visibility Rally happening on the National Mall at the moment — Interfaith Alliance Bend and Bend the Arc Jewish Action — and Bishop Elizabeth Eaton, head of the ELCA, issued a video message to mark the day: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba52...

submitted 67 days ago • 4 comments

🏳️‍⚧️ Transgender Day of Visibility I am in awe of the courage it takes to live authentically when transgender, nongender-conforming, and nonbinary people's rights are being threatened. Join me in fighting for a world where everyone can live with dignity and without fear.

submitted 67 days ago • 15 comments

Absolutely chilling interview by @chrismurphyct.bsky.social in the New Yorker. Their strategy is to break the institutions that serve as pillars of our democracy — media, judiciary, lawyers, Dems’ ability to raise money & mobilize volunteers — to ensure we can’t win elections. We must stop them.

submitted 67 days ago • 28 comments

Pushback works, part gazillion: "Here are the facts: DOGE moved forward with plans to close multiple field offices. Then, without public notice or explanation, they reversed their plans. Now they are trying to pretend like they were never planning to close the offices." popular.info/p/how-the-so...

submitted 67 days ago • 920 comments

"The problem with a delayed response is that the more power leaders with authoritarian tendencies accumulate, the harder it is to mount an effective resistance. The opposition is thus more likely to succeed if it acts early..." www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

submitted 67 days ago • 784 comments

@karaswisher.bsky.social: "Every accusation is a confession with these people... Elon is exactly what they claim to have hated with George Soros. But he's explicit and right in front of you buying elections."

submitted 68 days ago • 139 comments

Just in case you missed this from Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker: "Bullies respond to one thing, and one thing only: a punch in the face."

submitted 68 days ago • 641 comments

JFC. 🧐

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

This is a great article by @ericreinhart.bsky.social that summarizes what I have been posting for years. I have brought up examples such as the German Medical Association and German doctors, the Tuskegee trial, and others. All of these are mentioned here—and more.

submitted 88 days ago • 4 comments