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a lot of people don't realize that many magazines in America today actually date back to ancient times in China. For instance, Politico, founded as "Strange Tales of Court Eunuchs," and the Atlantic, originally known as "Concerns on the Lustfulness of the Young."

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Moyers was the best of Texas and the best of us. RIP.

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Big Balls still hanging in there

submitted 15 hours ago • 159 comments

This is a wonky process but BIG news regarding the Republican budget bill: My staff successfully got multiple provisions removed from the bill. Two key wins: 1) Medicaid provider tax. Striking this means Republicans have to backtrack on hundreds of billions in Medicaid cuts.

submitted 18 hours ago • 87 comments

Senators Demand Investigation Into Canceled VA Contracts, Citing “Damning Reporting From ProPublica” @ericumansky.bsky.social @vernalcoleman.bsky.social

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

Here's a fun thing that a top donor to Andrew Cuomo's super PAC just told me.

submitted 1 day ago • 260 comments

I asked Republicans' pro-DOGE witnesses to explain how Musk and Trump's huge cuts to veterans' services count as waste, fraud, and abuse. Spoiler alert: they couldn't. youtu.be/XnDEVcsBEMc

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

The Fyre Festival endorses Cuomo. Michael D Brown, head of FEMA during Hurricane Katrina, endorses Cuomo. Literally the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory is like yeah we are powered by Cuomentum and doomed women and children

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Trump’s war. Trump’s gas prices.

submitted 3 days ago • 16 comments

Just to be crystal clear: bombing Iran is completely illegal.

submitted 5 days ago • 2089 comments

How your email finds me.

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“I am not accustomed to taking responsibility for my missteps. When I was a military general, if there was a problem in one of my various wars, I would simply blame another nation and then we would go to war with them and so on, et cetera.”

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

I was fervently anti-Trump. Then he bombed Iran on a Saturday night for no apparent reason.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Soto brings home another two runs! Make him an All-Star! 🗳️👉 bit.ly/43rNDDW

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the political lesson everyone should take from Iraq is that you will regret being in favor of this sooner or later and the earlier you were against it the better off you’ll be ignore the media frenzy and stake your position now, it’s the right thing to do and it’s the ambitious thing to do too

submitted 5 days ago • 100 comments

I can’t tell you how much I hate every single person who claimed Trump was anti war despite the mountain of evidence he is not

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

though the Journal doesn't indicate its sourcing, this is the most direct reporting i've seen that Miller was responsible for defying Judge Boasberg's order to turn around the El Salvador rendition flights (Axios said only that he and Noem orchestrated the flights)

submitted 5 days ago • 73 comments

if you just read the headline you'll miss out on details like how this guy is a 29 year old self described nazi

submitted 5 days ago • 16 comments

Nearly four weeks ago, we first reported that Vanderbilt University Medical Center was on the chopping block.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Oh, hey, an indictment that quotes Bluesky posts. Definitely not relevant to any discourse on here lately. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 6 days ago • 27 comments

It was a treat to be a guest on @pocan.house.gov’s podcast along with @repgreta.bsky.social. We shared our thoughts about the “big, ugly bill” passed by Republicans in Congress and its devastating impacts on Wisconsin.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Had some thoughts on the narrative about Bluesky's exaggerated death and supposed bubble

submitted 6 days ago • 32 comments

jfc you simply are not allowed to write for the atlantic if you ever paid attention in a single class ever

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

a reporter points out to Leavitt that Trump says something will happen in "two weeks" all the time and then it doesn't happen 🙃

submitted 7 days ago • 1054 comments

Two weeks in Trump speak generally means never

submitted 7 days ago • 25 comments

For Trump, with the foresight of a mayfly, two weeks from now is the impossible future. (Also as a con artist, he realizes two weeks is well beyond the attention span/memories of MAGA and the media.)

submitted 7 days ago • 7 comments

Happy Juneteenth, Wisconsin! This Juneteenth, as we celebrate the critical progress we’ve made, we also commit to continuing our work to build a more just, more equitable, and freer state and country.

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

the destruction of chattel slavery is one of the great accomplishments in our nation's history and the reason conservatives hate celebrating it is because doing so legitimizes the black counter-narrative of the united states

submitted 7 days ago • 180 comments

From The Migration Series, by Jacob Lawrence. Sixty paintings that move and inspire. lawrencemigration.phillipscollection.org/the-migratio...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

'Meredith,' some guys ask, 'why won't you shove AI into Signal?' Because we love privacy, and we love you, and this shit is predictable and unacceptable. Use Signal ❤️

submitted 8 days ago • 72 comments

You could call a press conference!

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Illinois has enshrined protections to meet this very moment. In a time of increasing overreach and hateful rhetoric, it's more important than ever to reaffirm our commitment to the rights and dignity of the LGBTQ+ community. You have a home here always.

submitted 8 days ago • 254 comments

As Trump escalates his crackdown on Democratic elected officials, Democracy Docket is tracking, analyzing and reporting every move. Join a community of hundreds of thousands who support its independent and fearlessly pro-democracy mission. hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0

submitted 8 days ago • 27 comments

Thanks for showing up @repdangoldman.bsky.social and @nadler.house.gov!

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

the lesson of this isn't that tucker carlson is actually good but that you should ask these people basic factual questions instead of bullshit about politics

submitted 9 days ago • 766 comments

The WSJ reported (free link below) that X/Twitter is threatening advertisers w/ legal action if they don't return to the platform. X's hapless CEO, Linda Yaccarino, just gave @sarafischer.bsky.social the lamest responses you'll ever see from a corporate executive. 1/2 www.axios.com/newsletters/...

submitted 9 days ago • 6 comments

Hard to overstate the degree to which there appears to be literally no one in the president's current circle who has any experience, even at a low level, managing ANY kind of national security crisis or even situation. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/thoug...

submitted 9 days ago • 100 comments

I shit you not, people

submitted 9 days ago • 412 comments

one of the ways you know trump is checked out and not entirely in control of his admin is that the spectacle of the olympics and the world cup are the things he likes about being president and his own admin are ruining them

submitted 9 days ago • 12 comments

So I just want to be clear that the gentile President's anti-immigrant goons illegally assaulted and kidnapped the leading Jewish candidate for Mayor in New York City for walking into a federal building for the crowd that is keeping track of The Antisemitism Problem

submitted 9 days ago • 121 comments

All the Republican examples of "violent" rhetoric from Democrats is someone like Tim Walz saying "these people are assholes, you should be rude to them" and all the Republican equivalents are a guy with a top-secret security clearance tweeting "I will personally kill Ilhan Omar with a gun"

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

🎶 And I'm proud to be an American where at least I know I'm free 🎶

submitted 9 days ago • 26 comments

"Unconditional Surrender" is a standard that / requires / long-term boots-on-the-ground occupation and reconstruction. Sure he's a doddering ignorant fool who says shit he doesn't understand all the time, but he put this out there because somebody around him is saying it.

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Despite FIFA's history of shady dealings, I'm kind of surprised they were so quick to abandon their anti-racism messaging for World Cup games in the US. They're already going to struggle to fill US stadiums. And I'd bet that US FIFA fans skew to the left. www.nytimes.com/athletic/643...

submitted 9 days ago • 26 comments

Now that we’ve seen the full Senate text, we can say for certain: either the House or the Senate version would be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history. Each have the largest Medicaid and largest SNAP cuts ever. And each give huge tax cuts to the rich.

submitted 10 days ago • 116 comments

Rs are claiming their bill raises taxes on the top 1%. Up-is-down lie Smith is eliding taxes paid w/ share of taxes paid - but that’s an awful metric Imagine we eliminate taxes for everyone except for Elon, but he only pays $1. His share is 100% - but taxes became regressive & the rich won most

submitted 10 days ago • 8 comments

there are a lot of reasons to not rank cuomo. he's a serial sexual harasser, he covered up nursing home covid deaths, and he would be awful for the mta. but i have to admit i'm not ranking cuomo largely because it would make him so mad if he loses

submitted 10 days ago • 53 comments

looks like cuomo is getting that coveted endorsement from the dead toddlers association of new york

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments