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covid threw into high relief how many working class people are absolutely necessary to keeping society functional, and rather than that sparking a renewed commitment to an economy that rewards such workers, we've seen an elite backlash against even modest increases in their market power

submitted 4 days ago • 143 comments

It’s important to emphasize that Musk and Trump killed these people and not for any particular benefit, but because breaking something that helps people provided a fleeting thrill in their empty lives

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

This times a trillion.

submitted 6 days ago • 214 comments

Sing it from the rooftops: congestion pricing in NYC is an unambiguous triumph. It is succeeding beyond its backers wildest aspirations & none of the second-order effects people worried about have come to pass. It's a pure win. Celebrate it! Talk about it! For once, let's own the f'ing narrative.

submitted 10 days ago • 18 comments

Cuomo and his team are already setting up the excuses he’ll (continue) to use when he sexually harasses City Hall staff. He hasn’t learned a fucking thing, and he doesn’t care. Don’t let him get away with it.

submitted 7 days ago • 51 comments

given the overwhelming number of targets with the trump administration and the republican majority in congress, it is actually bonkers to think that democrats have anything to gain from litigating biden. let the guy disappear and focus on the stuff that is unpopular with voters!

submitted 8 days ago • 196 comments

as someone who lives nextdoor to both supportive housing and public housing, i need people to understand that the best locations for both are going to be the central neighborhoods in a metropolitan area, where there is easy and reliable access to services and jobs.

submitted 11 days ago • 290 comments

1) USPS did not lose $3.3b. It provided a service that cost $3.3b. The Pentagon loses you money, however, every time it accidentally yeets a fighter jet off the deck of a carrier

submitted 13 days ago • 117 comments

The Administration has arrested a judge in WI and a mayor in NJ, and is threatening to arrest federal lawmakers. In any other country we would say the strongman's security forces are locking up political opponents. We need to treat it exactly that way here. www.axios.com/2025/05/10/t...

submitted 13 days ago • 45 comments

"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."

submitted 14 days ago • 632 comments

1) We had outdoor dining for several years in NYC and not only was it glorious but it massively increased business for restaurants 2) The city whose outdoor dining I’m currently enjoying is Paris, where I can confirm it is regularly below 50.

submitted 16 days ago • 22 comments

Brooklyn bus stop ads being replaced with guerilla public service announcements.

submitted 19 days ago • 168 comments

You do not need to be a lawyer to read this sentence: "No person shall ... be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law." (In FDR's words, the Constitution is a layman's document - it's not (just) for the lawyers!)

submitted 19 days ago • 67 comments

The Constitution forbids bribery 3 separate times. So important to the Founders they included two emoluments clauses, and made it the only named impeachable offense besides treason. The Constitution is clear on banning bribery. It's just that Congress and the courts decided to pretend otherwise.

submitted 20 days ago • 67 comments

This is two global elections in ONE WEEK where the conservative candidate trying to become prime minister not only led his party to a big loss but lost their own seat in parliament (!) in huge upsets. We are global pariahs unseen since the end of the Cold War and need stronger domestic opposition.

submitted 20 days ago • 216 comments

He absolutely did vote for that. Trump made it loud and clear during the campaign that is what he intended to do. Voters need to take responsibility for the consequences of their actions.

submitted 20 days ago • 23 comments

Hell yeah! Put this on loop—this wise man speaks for me. 🔥

submitted 20 days ago • 1055 comments

“There’s nothing illegal about it and if they want to make it illegal, they can come take me.” This is the energy I am trying to encourage people to cultivate instead of “they’ll arrest you next.”

submitted 20 days ago • 41 comments

You cannot tell the difference between the Intuit & Treasury spokesperson here Direct File has started small - in order to iterate and improve over time. Basic design principles to deliver good product are being misrepresented as a failure. For more: donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-death-...

submitted 24 days ago • 6 comments

The default Dem position should be that nothing under Trump is valid. Trump didn't honor his predecessors' agreements. He didn't even honor his own trade agreements. He didn't honor Congressional appropriations. He doesn't follow laws. Clean slate. If you rely on him, your loss.

submitted 26 days ago • 94 comments

If we had a news media that wasn't trying to help Trump, this alone would be treated as a show-stopping scandal, even leaving aside everything else DOJ is doing. Will it even get as much coverage as Bill Clinton saying hi to Loretta Lynch did?

submitted 30 days ago • 5 comments

Seeing this chart just as Isee a quote from Musk saying fully autonomous self-driving will be ready this year.

submitted 31 days ago • 256 comments

The NYC council voting for this downgrade was just such an own goal.

submitted 32 days ago • 127 comments

DOGE is a criminal conspiracy to defraud the people of the United States

submitted 38 days ago • 564 comments

“BRING HIM HOME” 🔥

submitted 40 days ago • 619 comments

"Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough." - FDR

submitted 41 days ago • 15 comments

“You don't have to beat people over the head with the fact that Donald Trump is incompetent and erratic and largely brings chaos to every situation he's in” YES YOU DO

submitted 43 days ago • 77 comments

You can tell who the Good Guys are because they're the ones smashing a car window to drag a mother away from her child while wearing ski masks.

submitted 43 days ago • 437 comments

If the agent of an embittered KGB officer somehow won the US presidency and entered into the office bent on destroying the USA in its national influence, network of alliances, and the American people’s quality of life, what would he be doing differently?

submitted 44 days ago • 627 comments

The biggest technological revolution of our lifetime is happening and Trump and the Republicans are trying to make sure the USA will be left behind

submitted 45 days ago • 9 comments

There’s a lesson here for every Big Law firm, university and media company if they care to learn it.

submitted 45 days ago • 7 comments

i have been joking that their plan is for your kids to grow up to work in a textile mill but they are serious

submitted 49 days ago • 967 comments

One Weird Trick to Know If You're Wrong: you're telling people to ignore Mr. Rogers

submitted 51 days ago • 3 comments

Congestion pricing is an unqualified triumph. One of the most immediately, strikingly successful public policies of my lifetime.

submitted 63 days ago • 34 comments

The wealthiest man in the world has fully purchased the federal government of the United States. This is one of the most extraordinary crises in the history of this country and you need to ask whether your elected representatives are acting like it.

submitted 63 days ago • 509 comments

I hope Democrats learn from Merrick Garland’s mistakes and the failure of Obama’s “move on” strategy vis-a-vis Bush era war crimes, and understand that all these people ultimately need to go to prison.

submitted 66 days ago • 21 comments

submitted 69 days ago • 30 comments

Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House. We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication. They own what happens next.

submitted 70 days ago • 5902 comments

The institutions of the American economy depend on the institutions of American democracy; rule of law, consistent regulation, stability, and all the rest. That’s what’s being destroyed and that’s what risks the *entire economy. Saying that out loud shouldn’t (and can’t) be a risk

submitted 72 days ago • 60 comments

If the Democrats can't bring themselves to say "government spending is good, actually" in this precise moment, then they really are cooked and all need to be replaced.

submitted 75 days ago • 181 comments

“Transitioning” from 50 straight months of job growth, a 400% rise in manufacturing construction and the best back-to-back years for the stock market in a quarter century. 🤡

submitted 77 days ago • 1288 comments

Trump just distills the 4+ decades of the conservative legal movement, with all its theory building and so-called scholarship, down to its core essence: a corrupt power grab.

submitted 79 days ago • 21 comments

Extortion, pure and simple.

submitted 90 days ago • 685 comments

It's so weird that Trump foreign policy is indistinguishable from the preferred American foreign policy of aggressive, hostile adversaries

submitted 92 days ago • 4 comments

"They're putting persecuted Christian refugees in camps in the jungle" sounds like something Glenn Beck would accuse the Obama administration of doing and yet now it's a pillar of the Republican agenda.

submitted 92 days ago • 78 comments

donald trump has ordered the IRS to hand over all of your personal information to a Holocaust denier who works for the richest man on Earth, who is a Nazi

submitted 95 days ago • 58 comments

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

submitted 97 days ago • 5559 comments

Pam Bondi and Emil Bove should resign and be arrested by their successors tbh.

submitted 98 days ago • 40 comments

This is like if the mob got to fire every federal agent investigating organized crime bsky.app/profile/make...

submitted 98 days ago • 33 comments