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Gonna give y'all some freebie headlines: MUSK DEPARTS, LEAVING TRAIL OF DESTRUCTION, DEFICITS, AND DEATHS MUSK SCORECARD: EMPTY PROMISES, FEDERAL WORKFORCE BRAIN DRAIN MUSK'S LEGACY: CAREER CIVIL SERVANTS REPLACED WITH INCOMPETENT WHITE NATIONALISTS DOGE HARMS WILL PERSIST FOR GENERATIONS

submitted 10 hours ago • 68 comments

Your periodic reminder that immigration "judges" are employees of the executive branch who, despite serving a quasi-juridical function, can be fired at the whim of the president and AG like most DOJ employees. They are not independent Article III judges.

submitted 22 hours ago • 24 comments

Scoop: Nancy Mace's fmr staff tell me they were assigned to create burner accounts to bolster their boss online. “We were congressional staff, and there were actual things we could be doing to help the constituents," one said. 1/ www.wired.com/story/nancy-...

submitted 1 day ago • 349 comments

Marco Rubio, in his current job, took the official actions that led to Mahmoud Khalil and Rumeysa Öztürk being abducted and imprisoned for their speech in the United States.

submitted 1 day ago • 143 comments

It’s not possible for “illegal” immigrants to receive federal benefits like Medicaid. There are no examples of this happening; they just keep lying about it as an excuse to take healthcare from vulnerable Americans. I don’t understand why mainstream media chooses not to push back on this obvious lie

submitted 2 days ago • 107 comments

During the rollout of the COVID vaccines, the lack of testing - combined with a raft of misinformation - led many pregnant women to not get vaccinated. @propublica.org wrote this in 2022, but it's just as relevant now with RFK Jr's CDC changing recommendations for the vaccine.

submitted 2 days ago • 18 comments

Trump is not the most coherent thinker on this, but he’s been very clear. He keeps citing the 1890’s as the peak of American economic strength and what he wants to return to.

submitted 2 days ago • 113 comments

I do think some left model of masculinity is necessary at least as a guide but the promise the right is making is “we will remove the people who have usurped your rightful status from competition by taking away their rights” and it’s pretty obvious why dems can’t offer that bsky.app/profile/pbum...

submitted 2 days ago • 101 comments

The Fed and FTC-the latter being subject of Humphrey's Executor-were both established during Woodrow Wilson's presidency. Roberts' attempt to distinguish them is farcical, and is emblematic of the shameless overreaching of right wing Justices that has only accelerated since Bush v Gore.

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

Instead of simply wishing people well this Memorial Day, here are five concrete policies that will protect servicemembers abroad and on the home front:

submitted 3 days ago • 61 comments

“If the unitary executive theory is subject to exceptions for contexts in which the practical consequences of eliminating an agency’s independence would be too extreme, then it’s not much of a theory.” Today’s “One First” on #SCOTUS’s deeply flawed ruling last Thursday in Trump v. Wilcox:

submitted 3 days ago • 53 comments

The Roberts Supreme Court continues to ignore, upend and overrule well established precedent Reshaping the government by consolidating power in the president-as @leahlitman.bsky.social describes Except for the Fed I guess they’re worried about their portfolios But not so much about democracy

submitted 3 days ago • 46 comments

“Without widespread theft, my industry can’t survive” is an argument against your industry surviving, and is not an argument for allowing widespread theft

submitted 3 days ago • 115 comments

“What we are doing in Gaza is a war of extermination: indiscriminate, unrestrained, brutal, and criminal killing of civilians,” he said. Not an antisemite. www.huffpost.com/entry/israel...

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties

submitted 4 days ago • 173 comments

He’s such a fucking idiot

submitted 4 days ago • 64 comments

A hearty congrats to RFK Jr. and all the fine folks in the MAGA movement who are, as we speak, making people sick, killing people, and spreading easily preventable diseases, for literally no reason.

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

I'm genuinely sorry that Fetterman had a stroke and suffers from depression. But arguing that he has a free pass not to do his job in the name of destigmatizing brain injury and mental health struggles is offensive. If he can't do it, he should resign. If he doesn't want to, he should resign faster.

submitted 4 days ago • 620 comments

Protesters risked being shunned by society to warn that Haiti is running out of HIV medication months after the administration of President Donald Trump slashed more than 90% of USAID’s foreign aid contracts and $60 billion in overall aid across the globe.

submitted 5 days ago • 16 comments

I can't even. How about removing the cap not because of how it plays politically but because it will bring tens of thousands of children out of poverty? Fucking hell. Winning power should be about helping people not running scared of losing power.

submitted 6 days ago • 38 comments

This guy is like one of 4 Americans who actually went and got their REAL ID and immediately they said it was a fake. Just so everyone knows when they toss your ass in a truck it won't matter what passport or identification you have they'll throw it in the street and you're gone

submitted 5 days ago • 366 comments

"In an administration in which the sole goals are valorizing Trump & making him as rich as possible, any official who demonstrates an ability to effectively carry out the business of the govt is viewed w/ profound suspicion. But those willing to learn incompetence & moral obtuseness are promoted."

submitted 6 days ago • 92 comments

everything means the opposite for these people. freedom means your freedom to obey. the first amendment means their freedom to tell you what you can read and think.

submitted 6 days ago • 196 comments

Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.

submitted 6 days ago • 313 comments

This illustrates how the Supreme Court facilitates presidential authoritarianism. By declining to enforce federal laws that bind the president—except for laws it likes—it invites presidents to challenge legal boundaries. Our democracy needs a court that enforces federal law, not one that defies it.

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

Phang: It’s time for federal judges to acknowledge that they have lifetime appointments—and that should give them the courage to uphold the rule of law, but also to put some damn teeth into the court orders they’re issuing. it’s time that we start seeing action from the judiciary. Grow some balls

submitted 6 days ago • 881 comments

i have one additional thought, which is that overturning humphrey’s is a good example of why the “history and tradition” test is incoherent and designed to produce specific, conservative outcomes. (cont.)

submitted 6 days ago • 26 comments

i think it is bad that high level public officials do not respect the offices they hold or the public they are supposed to serve

submitted 6 days ago • 434 comments

I talked with MSNBC about my campaign, our approach to politics, and why we plan to only raise the amount of money we need, but not a penny more:

submitted 6 days ago • 36 comments

“It’s absurd for anyone to insinuate that this president is profiting off of the presidency,” @PressSec said, before Trump headed to his golf club to dine with 220 people who bought his memecoin, which generates fees for a Trump business entity.

submitted 6 days ago • 79 comments

I keep getting asked if it’s legal to spend our campaign funds on food drives or our high school public service grants and the answer is YES. It is. Politicians and Democratic organizations need to use their coffers to help people NOW and fill in the gaps that Trump has created.

submitted 7 days ago • 82 comments

Legitimately the most impactful thing I did through campaigning? A school supply drive. Being a good person should always come first. Admirable work.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

happy for Khalil of course but i must say, "lawful permanent resident not charged with any crimes, imprisoned by president's stormtroopers for having forbidden opinions about US-abetted genocide, briefly allowed to touch his child" is a hell of a thing to find oneself feeling joy and relief about

submitted 7 days ago • 30 comments

Bluesky doesn't allow longish videos but you can watch a clip: www.linkedin.com/posts/alexis...

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

There are many impactful parts of Coe's statement in this video. But something she said about complex figures from history is a good lesson to absorb for anyone looking back in time with fascination: "Complexity isn’t a liability—unless you’re cherry picking with an agenda." A Thread: 🧵

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Important to remember this is medical care ordered by one’s doctor now being denied because the government doesn’t agree with your doctor. From the Freedom Party.

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

Cannot be said loudly or often enough: the bill House Rs are considering passing tomorrow would rip health insurance and food assistance from millions, leaving the poorest households worse off - to partially pay for tax cuts that most help the richest - while increasing the deficit by trillions.

submitted 7 days ago • 42 comments

"I care about social cohesion and social solidarity, which is why I tried to convince white people in Ohio that Haitian immigrants were eating their dogs." Naturally, Douthat does not challenge him at all on these lies.

submitted 7 days ago • 98 comments

this is with no exaggeration a david duke line

submitted 7 days ago • 330 comments

turns out the GOP budget bill adds so much to deficits that it will automatically trigger cuts to Medicare (not just Medicaid). Older voters unlikely to be happy about this when word gets out democrats-budget.house.gov/news/press-r...

submitted 7 days ago • 62 comments

This is—it bears repeating—ethnic cleansing and a war crime. It feels utterly pointless to say, and roughly equivalent to screaming into the void, but the United States should not be supporting or providing any aid to a state that has ethnic cleansing as a policy position.

submitted 8 days ago • 107 comments

Hope you’re paying attention. Being classified as a criminal for being an ethical consumer is absurd and it’s coming and you better start listening when we say yall need to help us push back on this with your whole chest and stop the puritanical bullshit. Forcing us to work third party IS NOT better

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

It’s not about protecting women, it never was. It’s about excluding trans people and enforcing gender norms And it’s making public places hostile for trans women, intersex women, butch women, women who had a mastectomy, bald women, women with facial hairs, any women considered not “feminine” enough

submitted 8 days ago • 6 comments

POTUS: On the one hand, I'm going make unfounded accusations of genocide against your country. On the other hand, if you offered me an airplane, I would take it.

submitted 8 days ago • 34 comments

The passive “is destroyed” here quite obscures who is doing the destruction of “social solidarity”

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

“who are Republicans spending time with online and what do those people believe” is a story that the media has completely ignored for years and we might be in a different place if the public was actually aware how many of those people are outright Nazis

submitted 7 days ago • 31 comments

The current budget bill is an atrocity and out-of-touch leaders like Chuck Schumer laid the groundwork by voting for the CR. Appeasement and complicity do not work. When you bend the knee, they’ll break your leg.

submitted 7 days ago • 469 comments