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Volunteer for Eugene McCarthy, 1968. Using Bluesky to stay informed. Few posts, occasional replies. Oregon. Go #RankedChoiceVoting !
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TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

submitted 7 days ago • 2290 comments

This is nuts! Seriously nuts.

submitted 11 days ago • 30 comments

And then there were 3. ICYMI: The FEC needs 4 commissioners to make enforcement and policy decisions. When I was removed from office without cause and without a replacement, I warned that the FEC could lose its quorum. Now that's happened. No cop on the money-in-politics beat, Day 1.

submitted 13 days ago • 11 comments

Ahoy, Sara Nelson, the president of the Association of Flight Attendants in an article musing about a general strike. @flyingwithsara.bsky.social

submitted 20 days ago • 9 comments

The next “tea party”, again. This energy is real

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

So. I wrote a dissertation on how economic crises can lead to the breakdown of authoritarian regimes. Here are three key point to keep in mind as you watch the news this week 🧵

submitted 38 days ago • 74 comments

Oil executives turn on Trump. Why? Tariffs raising the costs of steel and drilling. $50/barrel oil policy makes drilling unprofitable. Trump chaos makes investment planning difficult. ”Drill, baby, drill’ does not work with $50 per barrel oil." www.cnbc.com/2025/03/27/o... #energysky

submitted 48 days ago • 3 comments

We dug through past cases of information leaks by the rank-and-file to see how they were usually handled. Spoiler alert: People often go to jail.

submitted 50 days ago • 2 comments

This clip is very much worth watching. Aaron's summation is necessarily condensed (Ratcliffe repeatedly tried to talk over Ossoff), but the senator's cold, righteous disgust is intense.

submitted 50 days ago • 48 comments

Even Jen Psaki is putting Chuck Schumer on blast!

submitted 58 days ago • 17 comments

British Columbia pulls rebates for Tesla chargers

submitted 62 days ago • 1 comment

Leader of the US Flight attendance union calls on workers and their unions to prepare for general #strike as US (public service) workers stripped of bargaining rights by Trump portside.org/2025-03-11/w... Image if that happens, it being accompanied by protests and boycotts around the world....1/2

submitted 62 days ago • 3 comments

BREAKING: In a recording obtained by @propublica.org's Eli Hager, acting Social Security Commissioner Leland Dudek portrayed his agency as facing peril, while also encouraging patience with “the DOGE kids.” Much, much more here 👇 www.propublica.org/article/reco...

submitted 63 days ago • 37 comments

Don't see this every day: Utah state senator announces he's leaving the Republican Party to join the state branch of Andrew Yang's Forward Party.

submitted 68 days ago • 2 comments

The things for Dems to ask for before any votes for appropriations: 1) compliance with past federal laws before any new appropriations law 2) Elon Musk out of government 3) only a 1-2 month funding bill to ensure Trump has to come back to Congress regularly and thus Congress can ensure compliance.

submitted 73 days ago • 18 comments

Listen to the reaction when GOP Rep. Keith Self (who just won his district near Dallas with 62% of the vote) utters “the DOGE program” to his packed town hall today. m.youtube.com/watch?v=z1Rn...

submitted 74 days ago • 59 comments

This "was it an ambush" thing is a big stupid distraction from the fact that you can watch Trump get incensed as Zelensky badmouths Putin. Just watch.

submitted 74 days ago • 7 comments