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It's not a splashy oped in the NYT, but please, I did 16 years of legal and historical research to understand the legislative intent and historical/political motivations for the Reconstruction Amendments. 28 pages, ungated, written accessibly for smart lay audiences. 👇

submitted 1 day ago • 26 comments

Please understand me when I say that you cannot talk yourself out of criminal charges. You can, however, talk yourself into them. "I invoke my rights to silence and counsel and will not answer questions without my attorney present" is the ONLY thing you should EVER say to a police officer, EVER.

submitted 1 day ago • 42 comments

If you are looking to do your part in saving democracy, I highly recommend you buy and read ONE book: Howard Zinn’s a People’s History of America. It’s a MUST read. It’s not for the faint of heart, but we are at war for the soul of this nation & you have to be hardened to face the fight READ IT!

submitted 2 days ago • 711 comments

Trump is SHUTTING DOWN all 8000 EV chargers at federal facilities These EV chargers were already bought, paid for with our tax dollars, installed, and operational THIS is what real government waste looks like And what does Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, think of this?

submitted 2 days ago • 342 comments

These shameful attack ads from Elon Musk and Brad Schimel are a fraud from start to finish, even using an obviously incorrect photo that they falsely claim is Judge Crawford. Wisconsinites shouldn't trust a single thing from these guys. www.jsonline.com/story/news/p...

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Maybe corny but it was helpful for me to hear Henry Rollins saying "this is not time to be dismayed, this is punk rock time, this is what Joe Strummer trained you for... You can be thunderous in your own life, to the eight people around you. That rubs off... Goodness is viral"

submitted 3 days ago • 215 comments

Call today to let your Congressman know what you think about Elon Musk’s DOGE and its slash-and-burn cuts to the federal workforce and vital government programs. Leave a message if necessary. YOUR CALLS REALLY DO MAKE A DIFFERENCE! ☎️

submitted 4 days ago • 61 comments

This is how our government has been corrupted: 1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office. 2) Elected officials rewrite the rules in the donors' favor. 3) Donors make a huge profit. 4) Repeat. For the sake of democracy, we must get Big Money out of politics.

submitted 3 days ago • 305 comments

Stop mass deportations with this one simple trick: wapo.st/41apYFB (gift link)

submitted 5 days ago • 102 comments

#25BooksIn2025 #4 One Summer: America 1927 by Bill Bryson. What starts as a fun Spirit of St. Louis and Babe Ruth romp through a long-lost America, ends on an ominous turn with chapters on eugenics and Sacco and Vanzetti. Still highly recommended. Written in Bryson's easy, accessible style.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

AI when forced to confront a man's love for his beautiful transsexual wife

submitted 8 days ago • 12 comments

This country has seen some bad moments in the 61 years, 5 months, 16 days I’ve been on this Earth. But it has never, ever before come close to the supertoxic level of stupidity, mendacity, narcissism, nihilism, and moral apathy that threaten to destroy it today.

submitted 9 days ago • 2761 comments

I'm working the polls at 6am on a -10 degree fahrenheit day in a primary with a <10% turnout. Trying hard to keep the embers of democracy glowing.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

This feels so relevant right now.

submitted 10 days ago • 173 comments

This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”. This is a manifesto against disability. This is the language of eugenics.

submitted 9 days ago • 850 comments

from “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler

submitted 10 days ago • 386 comments

Here’s a better peace plan for Ukraine. “Russia, you’ve already sustained twice as many casualties as the US did in ww2. Leave Ukraine or suffer four times more, and collapse as a country in the process” Done

submitted 10 days ago • 607 comments

Fuck them.

submitted 10 days ago • 6 comments

ATTN FEDERAL WORKERS: I’ll say this again: download all your SF-50s, performance evals, and your eOPF. Now. Print hard copies. And make sure you file an informal grievance with your supervisor within 15 days of any adverse action. Here is a template: www.muellershewrote.com/p/informal-g...

submitted 13 days ago • 326 comments

“We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American eagle in order to feather their own nests,” President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, January 6, 1941

submitted 12 days ago • 107 comments

NEW: Wisconsin's next major election is already here. The race between Brad Schimel and Susan Crawford will determine the balance of power on the Wisconsin Supreme Court. My latest, on the big picture and the state of the race. Let's recombobulate: www.therecombobulationarea.news/p/wisconsins...

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

A fine point.

submitted 13 days ago • 52 comments

One thing Democratic leadership could do right now is to name an alternate HHS secretary--someone to provide ongoing public updates and health information. And do it for other departments too. Start showing voters what a Democratic government would look like--press conferences, speeches, all of it.

submitted 13 days ago • 558 comments

Precisely.

submitted 13 days ago • 10 comments

House Republicans unveiled their budget plan this week. Here's the summary. Step 1: Take billions from health care and kids' food. Step 2: Give the money in tax cuts to the rich. Step 3: Profit.

submitted 13 days ago • 106 comments

Let's just be clear here. McConnell, in refusing to even give Merrick Garland a chance for an up or down vote in 2016, set the stage for this shit. (Setting aside his decades of other awfulness.) Don't stan for him. He knew what he was doing. He bought the ticket. Fuck him.

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

Spoiler: we are officially on the wrong side, America. So shut up about what your (great) grandfather did in World War II, he would be ashamed of us right now.

submitted 14 days ago • 5 comments

Great advice from Dan Froomkin. Share it with your family and friends.

submitted 14 days ago • 11 comments

This is what they mean when they said they wanted to "run the United States like a business"--strip it of everything of value and make off with the money.

submitted 14 days ago • 11 comments

So interesting…

submitted 14 days ago • 70 comments

“You can’t negotiate and end to the war without Ukraine, ya jagoff.”

submitted 14 days ago • 359 comments

Please stop with the generative AI. It's garbage, theft, making us less capable. Image by www.nobodyssweetheart.com

submitted 14 days ago • 33 comments

Hey, I'm an environmentally conscious person who drives a lot of miles. I should be the prime audience for a Tesla. I wouldn't be caught dead in one. You'd think that the Tesla board of directors would sack a CEO who's working full time elsewhere shitting all over the brand.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

All members of Congress swore allegiance to the Constitution. They didn't ask just Democrats to defend America against all enemies. The house is on fire, y'all. I'll do everything I can to extinguish that flame, but I am begging my Republican colleagues to remember their oath.

submitted 15 days ago • 98 comments