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If Russia wants peace, they should end the invasion.

submitted 1 day ago • 646 comments

Fun Fact: Senator Slotkin is giving the Democratic response to SOTU from Wyandotte, Michigan. Wyandotte is the name of a breed of chickens. Subtle dig at Trump over the price of eggs or coincidence?

submitted 1 day ago • 298 comments

How many times has he said "nobody has ever seen anything like it" or words to that effect? We must live in the most novel era of all time.

submitted 1 day ago • 511 comments

What he said about Social Security payments has been repeatedly debunked - so the question isn’t whether he’s lying about this, the question is why. What is this a pretext for? He and the GOP have long shown interest in going after Social Security. What are they going to try?

submitted 1 day ago • 3292 comments

All this business I am reading about social security is nonsense. My mom died on 2/18. My dad got a letter yesterday informing him her benefits were ending and he had to repay the February payment because they don’t give a payment in the month someone dies. They know where every dollar is.

submitted 1 day ago • 579 comments

Rep @algreen.house.gov always keeps it real! @ministter.bsky.social looking for him right now to discuss!

submitted 1 day ago • 147 comments

Trump, who has ejected the Associated Press from White House events because they won't call the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America & who today called for criminalizing student speech at protests claims to have brought back free speech in America

submitted 1 day ago • 125 comments

been thinking a lot about the media reaction to Biden's first debate performance compared to its response to fascism

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

We have a puppet of Russia as President. What an utterly disgraceful, shaming, abhorrent moment for this country.

submitted 5 days ago • 35 comments

Heads up, Floridians!

submitted 16 days ago • 8 comments

Hey @JDVance, and @elonmusk, and @realDonaldTrump it looks like the Auschwitz Memorial wants to educate you. STOP LYING TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.

submitted 16 days ago • 828 comments

Thank you.

submitted 16 days ago • 8 comments

The Richest Man in the World Says We Can't Afford Any More Cures for Cancer talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/nih-a...

submitted 16 days ago • 127 comments

The first challenge to the Trump 2.0 administration heads to SCOTUS: "If you’re interested in rooting out waste and corruption, you want someone like Dellinger in place. So, Trump’s insistence on firing him is telling." open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

submitted 16 days ago • 39 comments

TONIGHT: @ejdionne.bsky.social joins @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com on The Last Word. Tune in!

submitted 16 days ago • 24 comments

TONIGHT: Senator @amyklobuchar.com joins @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com on The #LastWord. Tune in!

submitted 16 days ago • 41 comments

"Law and order" in the Trump era: if you bow down to the head of the U.S. government, he may help you - whether you're awaiting trial for sex crimes in Europe or doing time in the USA for physically assaulting police.

submitted 16 days ago • 514 comments

This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

submitted 16 days ago • 8253 comments

BREAKING: DOJ refuses to provide Judge Chutkan with any numbers regarding last Friday's firings. DOJ also refuses to make any commitment regarding what "personnel actions" the seven agencies at issue — OPM, Education, Labor, HHS, Energy, Transportation, Commerce — might take in the next two weeks.

submitted 16 days ago • 76 comments

But the media will report it as the death knell for all challenges to Trump’s power grab.

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

Here’s a description of the rejected ad. Does anyone have the actual copy? It should be disseminated widely.

submitted 16 days ago • 359 comments

Today (2/17/25) at 11am Judge Tanya S. Chutkan will conduct a TRO (temporary restraining order) hearing in a challenge to the constitutionality of DOGE under the Appointments Clause (Art II, §2, cl 2). I’ll try to live-blog here for @lawfare.bsky.social . You can also phone-in yourself. ... /1

submitted 16 days ago • 61 comments

I appreciate @donmoyn.bsky.social summing up the DOGE fiasco so succinctly. "Don't fire the guys taking care of the nukes... don't fire the guys collecting the money... don't fire the guys keeping the planes in the sky." donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doge-misma...

submitted 16 days ago • 48 comments

Big, growing crowd just west of the U.S. Capitol protesting Trump, Musk and DOGE on President’s Day. “Hey Congress, grow a spine,” they shout, gathering for a rally around the reflecting pool.

submitted 16 days ago • 366 comments

Abruptly firing people who work in air traffic control is like murdering your own soldiers in the middle of a war. Even if you think things now aren’t working as efficiently as they should there’s no clear path to recovering from this; it’s just a really extremely foolish and dangerous thing to do.

submitted 16 days ago • 117 comments

This is absolutely chilling. A glimpse of the totalitarian state to come.

submitted 16 days ago • 47 comments

Skeet thread. Or the abridged version: They platform Nazis because they want to platform Nazis. Not because the First Amendment compels them.

submitted 16 days ago • 11 comments

The VP of the US responding to a journalist. What a great role model for our kids.

submitted 16 days ago • 2547 comments

www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

submitted 16 days ago • 274 comments

"Most cases are in school-age kids, and 13 have been hospitalized..." www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

submitted 16 days ago • 897 comments

This is Washington, D.C.

submitted 16 days ago • 42 comments

Buffalo, NY. youtu.be/irinTeQHES0?...

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Kansas City. youtu.be/DH7nLT2S8xM?...

submitted 16 days ago • 14 comments

This former US Atty supports the courage of Danielle Sassoon, the acting US Atty in SDNY, who put service ahead of self & refused to let politics interfere with prosecutions. True American hero. Thank you for your service, Danielle. You are the best of us. Who's with me?

submitted 20 days ago • 267 comments

#medsky#pedsky#idsky#immunosky 🧪 In the midst of all of the scary headlines recently, I thought I could take a moment to share a bit of good news: for the first time in history, a malaria vaccine with >90% efficacy seems to be within reach! Here’s why that’s a really big deal for EVERYONE 🧵

submitted 20 days ago • 443 comments

We’re not going to call it the Gulf of America. Some thoughts on the latest episode of “The Jim Acosta Show.”

submitted 20 days ago • 1139 comments