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Every Dem in Congress could snd should go to the closest GOP districts in their state and do this for the next month

submitted 2 hours ago • 1 comment

Exactly why I've been writing, podcasting, and damn near screaming about using the right language. The mainstream media is failing us SO badly right now. Stop. Calling. This. Shit. DEI. This is (re)segregation. This is racial purging. Cleansing Black people from positions of power.

submitted 6 hours ago • 29 comments

I want to see city halls full of rumpled retired people ready to skeletonize a recalcitrant congressperson in 30 seconds, all across America

submitted 15 hours ago • 26 comments

Last night's Pentagon massacre is much more than realized. Not just firing the black CJCS and first woman CNO but all the senior JAG officers and hiring a man who just joined 3 different crypto firms tied to Kushner and Thiel as Chairman. I did a deep dive into it open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

submitted 12 hours ago • 1144 comments

One way to say things are great is to make sure no data exists that show the opposite. Hence the attack on collecting data on infants and mothers.

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)

submitted 15 hours ago • 1277 comments

www.propublica.org/article/doge...

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

Thank you @aoc.bsky.social.

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

Hochul is one of the few Democrats who has grown in strength and spine since the election.

submitted 3 days ago • 34 comments

BREAKING: A Ninth Circuit panel DENIES the Trump administration’s request to limit the nationwide scope of a Seattle court’s injunction that blocks Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship. The panel included two Republican appointees, and one Democratic appointee

submitted 3 days ago • 26 comments

NYT, folks. Embarrassing shit.

submitted 3 days ago • 118 comments

The cruelty. bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 3 days ago • 53 comments

Dear third-party voters, you’ve been awfully quiet. What’s up? What’s the game plan for the next 3 years and 11 months? Asking for 75,017,626 friends who did the right thing because we wanted to avoid all of this shit!!!

submitted 3 days ago • 1403 comments

Illuminating interview.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Jim Acosta: I think the AP should consider whether or not to sue the administration… and the rest of the press corps should start seriously considering whether it’s worth sending everyone into the Oval Office, onto Air Force One, or into the briefing room.

submitted 4 days ago • 1888 comments

Imagine being rich enough to do anything you want and choosing to take food and medicine from starving children to give yourself even more money.

submitted 4 days ago • 1926 comments

George Orwell would be having a field day

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

submitted 4 days ago • 772 comments

So "woke" means helpful information, basically

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Maybe I wasn’t clear about this. I wanted more egg and no plane crash, not many plane crash and no egg.

submitted 5 days ago • 609 comments

The UK has a shadow cabinet - political positions within the party that isn’t in power - and so should we. Plus, we need weekly press briefings led by @petebuttigieg.bsky.social on the state of the union. Business-as-usual time is over.

submitted 5 days ago • 893 comments

“Big Journalism’s leaders need to think hard — and fast — about whether they are just presenting facts — the latest developments — or actually getting the nightmarish reality across.” Just so, @sulliview.bsky.social margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/four-essen...

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

It's annoying how clearly this is going to play out. They gut the FAA. Therefore, the FAA can't do its job well because it was gutted. Therefore, they say "The FAA sucks, we have to privatize it." which is what Project 2025 wants to do. They're manufacturing the crises for their end goal.

submitted 5 days ago • 1092 comments

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

submitted 5 days ago • 2288 comments

The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?

submitted 5 days ago • 2403 comments

RFK being an addict isn’t the issue — no one better understands drug misuse than a former user. RFK being a fanatical pro-life, queerphobic, mental illness-denying anti-vaxxer, ‘nutrition huckster’ and conspiracy theorist is the issue. www.motherjones.com/politics/202... @annamerlan.bsky.social

submitted 6 days ago • 241 comments

This means nothing. Useless. Empty words, zero action. Boycott his events. Refuse to cover his photo ops and propaganda signings. He’s addicted to coverage and hates being ignored. Until you band together and do something, these statements are utterly pointless & pathetic.

submitted 7 days ago • 528 comments

History buffs will know that every authoritarian leader eventually converges on some version of: "I am the state. I can not break the law, I am the law, the law is instantiated in me." Our march to authoritarianism so far has been excruciatingly by-the-book. Hitting every beat. No surprises.

submitted 7 days ago • 345 comments

The NYT “Is Birthright Citizenship REALLY Constitutional???” op-ed is the conservative legal movement in a nutshell: “Sure, the law is X, but what if it weren’t”-style academic backfill for conservative policy advocacy. Dogshit writing, fantasyland analysis, embarrassing for everyone involved.

submitted 7 days ago • 51 comments

At a bare minimum they could… tell voters what is going on. This is as about volume as it is message or procedural tactics. Every Dem in Congress could act as statewide officials who travel and engage across their states to tell people what they’re doing and pin it on local Republicans. Not hard!

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

So gross. He can afford a babysitter ffs.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Michael Roth - @wesleyanuniversity.bsky.social (my alma mater) - slate.com/life/2025/02...

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

The sheer absurdity of it all.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Had to endure reading Ross Douthat’s excruciating NYT interview with Marc Andreessen for work, and it was a bleak reminder that our system grants obscene power and wealth to the most emotionally stunted and cerebrally bankrupt people. The way we allocate political and economic influence is a farce.

submitted 7 days ago • 8 comments

Obviously

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Helpful!

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 7 days ago • 5664 comments

If the Trump administration ignores court orders, judges have a range of options available to ensure compliance. Here are some of the most powerful tools at their disposal:

submitted 7 days ago • 34 comments

There was a purge yesterday at the National Parks Service and we need to be screaming about it. Historians, these are our public history colleagues!

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

Penn has always wanted to be the nation's leading university and it finally is -- in chickenshit cowardice I guess when your most famous alums are Donald Trump and Elon Musk you have a legacy to live down to www.inquirer.com/education/un...

submitted 7 days ago • 54 comments

To Mitch McConnell, who will never read this: You made a few decent votes because you're retiring, so you no longer have to please your master. You get no thanks from us. You could have ended this long ago by voting to convict him. Now, rot in hel, because that's where you've dropped us all.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Lawyers are so close to calling the unregustered and incommunicado detentions by the correct term: enforced disappearance. My and Dr. Leal’s Dec. 2024 article in the Journal on Migration & Human Security shows this long and intentional history (including Gtmo): journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

The FBI should just arrest a DOGE person for compromising national security. They can do that. No White House permission needed. The FBI doesn't require such high-level permission to make arrests for obvious crimes. It would be like cops getting permission from the mayor to arrest bank robbers.

submitted 8 days ago • 27 comments

Even worse incompetence: they accidentally fired, then apparently today un-fired, hundreds of the people who manage America's nuclear weapons.

submitted 8 days ago • 1614 comments

They’re doing project 2025, just like we said they would

submitted 8 days ago • 1245 comments