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Collins: Do you think someone should be fired over this? Buttigieg: Absolutely… if there’s not accountability for a screw up like this, especially from a president who used to fire people on television for sport, what are we even doing here..

Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor of The Atlantic, said he was mistakenly added to a group chat with U.S. national security leaders about imminent military strikes on Yemen.

I mean very obviously Hegseth should resign, and if it were a Democratic administration this would be quickly be a consensus position.

It’s very discouraging to watch our country slowly re-learn the lessons that led to the end of segregation, among them that people who think they’re racially superior are nearly universally incompetent fools unable to face up to their own deficiencies and putting them in charge is suicide

People who appease authoritarians always wind up being left alone after that, right? That’s how it works? You knuckle under once, and they don’t ask you to compromise your morals again. I assume that’s what all of history and political science suggest, or why do it, right?

Weingarten: When they close an office, it is to try and stop people from getting the benefits. When they change a phone system, it is to stop people from getting the benefit.

Sanders: I will tell you what I think the worst addiction in this country is, the most dangerous, and that is the greed of the oligarchs. Everybody wants to do well. These guys already have billions, tens of billions, hundreds of billions. How much money do you need?

I like these two

The funny part of this is that Republicans in Congress have been pleading for someone in the WH to get Musk to stop talking about Social Security, then Nutlick steps up to make the best ad for Dems yet.

BREAKING: 34,000 people have showed up in Denver, Colorado this evening to see Bernie Sanders and AOC fight oligarchy and authoritarianism.

We expected 2,000 people out in GOP-held Greeley, Colorado. 11,000 people showed up. Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.

Bernie & AOC have come outside to address the overflow crowd... more than 10,000 people here

At Bernie & AOC Fight Oligarchy event at UNC/Greeley, CO

Overflow crowd to see Bernie & AOC at University of Northern Colorado in Greeley

The war in Gaza resumes. www.readtangle.com/the-war-in-g... Isaac Saul/The Tangle's "take" provides considered, informed , and rational reporting/analysis of the tragic consequences of bad leadership on both sides.

⚡️FIGHT THE OLIGARCHY RALLY ⚡️ STARTING TOMORROW. Nevada. Arizona. Colorado. You, me, and Bernie. Dem and GOP districts. ❤️💙 See you there 💪🏽🌞

NEBRASKA CROWD: “TAX THE RICH! TAX THE RICH!” @USRepMikeFlood: “So your proposal to solve (the debt) is tax the rich?” NEBRASKA CROWD: *CHEERS WILDLY* (not sure this went quite as he planned 😬)

This seems problematic

constitutional crisis cubed

Beshear: Bullying is always wrong, and standing up for people is always right. This isn’t an either-or. As a Democrat, stand up for what you believe in. We’ve got to show people that you can stand up for your principles while being there for every working family.

47'sattack on higher education: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/o...

Union of Concerned Scientists: Don’t Let Congress Attack Critical Clean Vehicle Standards secure.ucs.org/a/2025-dont-...

When people talk about "American Exceptionalism" they now usually mean that Americans are exceptionally bad a running a country.

"The reason you should care about this is not that it could happen to you but that it is already happening to others. It is happening to people who, we claim, have rights just because we are human. It is happening to me, personally." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/o...

Erasing everyone in American history who wasn’t a white male.

I had a friend who lives near the Canadian border make a custom request. She wanted to remind Canadians that the vast majority of Americans view them as allies, and know Canada is NOT for sale. We can't let Trump ruin decades of good relations with our Canadian friends. fedupstudio.etsy.com

These are e most important #s for the Dems. They should be tracking all local media and influencers in these states and reposting it everywhere The economic pain tariffs can indlict on red states need to be talked about more than anything else right now. It will flip voters.

RECONSIDER THE MODELS: Stop wasting money based on bad data and travel models (video worth 4:39 of your time) www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_KL...

Trygve Hammer, "...we can turn to something we have in common with a much larger subset or even a strong majority of Minot Daily News readers and other North Dakota voters: a belief that education is important, and reading is a critical skill." open.substack.com/pub/trygveha...

WTF Chuck?

AOC: I think there is a deep sense of outrage and betrayal… just to see some senate Democrats even consider acquiescing to Elon Musk. I think it is a huge slap in the face.

Muskrat is writing his own Bills now. SB21 in Delaware is all about giving him & his tech bros the country on a silver platter. youtu.be/orLlW33lQKs?...

Many hours have passed and I’ve thought about what happened in the Senate some more. And you know what? I’m still mad as hell. I may just repost their names every day until everyone knows them by heart.

Congratulations to @schumer.senate.gov and the others who just played into the hands of an insane dictator who just said it's illegal for cnn and msnbc to criticize him

ICYMI: “Arlington National Cemetery has scrubbed information about prominent Black, Hispanic and female service members and topics such as the Civil War from its website”…in order “to remove all references to diversity, equity and inclusion from its online presence.”

hi

Failure of imagination

Rick Wilson nails it here: