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This is for @gtconway.bsky.social Five things I did last week. 1. Took too much ketamine 2. Danced onstage with a chainsaw 3. Ignored my new baby momma 4. Laughed at my own jokes. 5. Neglected all of my children except for the one I use as a human shield.

submitted 16 hours ago • 355 comments

Here’s my prediction for DOGE: Whatever minimal amount of money it may possibly save in the short term will be far exceeded by the ultimate cost of fixing all of the problems it creates. It’s already an epic failure.

submitted 14 hours ago • 119 comments

State media watch

submitted 15 hours ago • 6 comments

Five things I accomplished last week: 1. Sued Musk & DOGE (repeatedly) 2. Got Musk blocked out of Treasury 3. Sued Trump (repeatedly) 4. Helped persuade SCOTUS to leave anti-Trump injunction in place 5. Got booked @theweekendmsnbc.bsky.social Join us at 9 AM ET Sunday morning to discuss!

submitted 17 hours ago • 336 comments

"There is a rule in politics never to ascribe to malignity what one can explain through incompetence and stupidity. This approach has become difficult to sustain in the case of the Trump administration. But there is another possibility: Both explanations operate simultaneously."

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Clowns. 🤡 But clowns wielding flamethrowers, to quote one of @sykescharlie.bsky.social favorite lines.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

These guys are idiots.

submitted 4 days ago • 66 comments

Nothing to see here, just 750 of the most preeminent political scientists in the country expressing urgent concern over 47's blatant disregard for the rule of law and the constitutional order (including my high school friend Elisabeth Anker)

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

It's not even sleight of hand, it's blatant and obvious yet MAGA eats up the bullshit and calls it delicious year after year.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

That’s the ticket. Show up in court, with your Bar licenses on the line, and answer a judge’s pointed and specific questions on how this deal went down.

submitted 5 days ago • 543 comments

There is a reason we have kept all this personal data about YOU compartmentalized, and run by extremely boring and fastidious bureaucrats who seek neither fame nor fortune. Because you are not going to enjoy the alternative.

submitted 5 days ago • 12 comments

Not exactly a feel good story but worth the read.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Ironic that Trump built his political rise on birtherism, only to install a non-natural-born citizen as President.

submitted 5 days ago • 13 comments

This Presidents’ Day, I’m thinking about the system our Founders helped create, one with strong checks and balances. I can only imagine what they would think today.

submitted 5 days ago • 15 comments

You cannot determine whether you saved or cost money based solely on one side of the ledger. Example: I saved my household $2K by not paying the mortgage.

submitted 6 days ago • 1538 comments

This article about a tragically unsafe sawmill in Alabama sounds reads like an allegory for what's coming to the whole country in 47's America.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

No one describes a bank robbery as a cash withdrawal. Same applies here.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

“There’s not much inside Trump’s head besides a putter, a cheeseburger, a porn video, and somebody else’s credit card.” - @timobrien.bsky.social

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I would argue that anyone who is incapable of honestly answering “how many children do you have?” is not overly transparent.

submitted 7 days ago • 21 comments

We got a Costco membership for the first time in our lives today. They asked why & I said because treat your workers well, you value diversity, & you didn’t cave in to authoritarian demands. He said: “We’ve been getting lots of folks saying that, thanks for joining.” Who needs a gallon of ketchup?

submitted 7 days ago • 2190 comments

Please stop believing we don’t owe each other anything. We owe each other so much! We owe each other love, equity, understanding, community, compassion, and much more. Don’t let this toxic hyper individualism cut you off from humanity. We’re all connected. We all need each other.

submitted 7 days ago • 37 comments

If you’ve ever taken the oath to uphold the Constitution, this is the time to live up to it.

submitted 8 days ago • 919 comments

I love it when MAGAs that think they "won" if you block them. Nah, dude. If you'd actually won an argument with me, that would mean I learned something from you and I'd follow you. What happened is you proved you're so irredeemably obdurate that there is no point in ever talking to you again.

submitted 7 days ago • 53 comments

So good

submitted 7 days ago • 75 comments

As a journalist who covers extremism at the local level, I think it’s a mistake to view Trump’s Napoleonic statement as solely about presidential power. Consider if it’s interpreted as a wink and a nod for any extremist to act outside the law to “save” the country as they see fit

submitted 7 days ago • 479 comments

One enduring problem with the American electorate is how millions of people convinced themselves the government plays no role in their economic situation except to tax and to hinder them while giving money to undeserving people.

submitted 8 days ago • 107 comments

Utter failure to grasp what we are facing www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/u... 1. People lack the framework to recognize an attempt to overthrow the constitutional order 2. The lack of elites acting like point 1 is true makes it illegible. Without Ds behaving as if it's a crisis, it's not a crisis.

submitted 7 days ago • 119 comments

Accidentally firing hundreds of critical nuclear safety employees will probably end up being the 685th most dangerously incompetent thing this administration does.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Way to go, Tucson 🌵💪🌵💪‼️

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

A total humiliation to the Justice Department. Like a big patch of shit on white golf pants.

submitted 8 days ago • 27 comments

Says powerful man who voted to give the unqualified drunk the job

submitted 9 days ago • 7 comments