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submitted 2 days ago • 43 comments

Young voters really don't like Elon Musk. His unfavorability is 54% with all voters. 67% with voters under 30. Feels important for a party that needs to win a much bigger share of young voters.

submitted 2 days ago • 91 comments

Kash Patel should never be allowed inside the FBI. He is perhaps the most dangerous of all the Trump nominees. He shamelessly wants to turn the agency into Trump's loyalty police. I'm going to Senate floor at 4pm to raise the alarm for my Republican colleagues.

submitted 2 days ago • 122 comments

The quickening pace of corruption - the brazen use of the White House to enrich himself and his friends - is stunning. Soon, before we know it, government will no longer serve us at all. It will just be a mechanism to enrich billionaires loyal to Trump.

submitted 2 days ago • 82 comments

Remember, everything is part of the same story. They need to destroy our democracy and crush dissent because letting billionaires take over the government in order to steal from us isn't popular and a functioning democracy wouldn't allow it.

submitted 2 days ago • 42 comments

The reason there are a lot of court orders telling Trump he can't do things is because he's been doing a crazy huge amount of illegal shit in his first three weeks in office. This isn't rocket science. It's basic physics - action and reaction.

submitted 10 days ago • 172 comments

I'm holding a citizen meeting in West Hartford to talk about what I'm doing and what people can do to fight back against Trump's seizure of government for the billionaire class. 1/ Unfortunately, we've maxed out the space, so here's a 🧵 on what you can do.

submitted 14 days ago • 184 comments

To me, it's simple. I'm not going to vote for or expedite a single Trump nominee while this constitutional crisis persists and deepens. That's just a component of real opposition, but it has to be the starting point. No complicity. Fierce opposition.

submitted 17 days ago • 698 comments

I have news for you - we aren’t taking over Gaza. But the media and the chattering class will focus on it for a few days and Trump will have succeeded in distracting everyone from the real story - the billionaires seizing government to steal from regular people.

submitted 17 days ago • 249 comments

Murphy: "We need to act like a real opposition party in the middle of a constitutional and democracy crisis. That means we should not be moving forward nominees or legislation in the Senate. Ds should not be giving votes to nominee or legislation in the Senate until Rs get serious about this crisis"

submitted 17 days ago • 2610 comments

Why does China get lighter tariffs than Mexico or Canada? Why is USAID - the agency countering China's global influence - being shut down illegally? Follow the money. Musk and his SV bros will do anything - even pledging allegiance to socialism - to make $$ in China.

submitted 18 days ago • 225 comments

Focus on the "why" when it comes to the closing of USAID. It's all about corruption. Trump gets to pretend he's saving money to justify his giant tax giveaway to his corporate friends. Musk takes control of foreign policy so he can do favors for China - where he makes his $$.

submitted 18 days ago • 155 comments

It’s hard to overhype how dangerous this moment is. This a naked attempt to seize government by the right wing billionaire class so they can steal from the American people.

submitted 19 days ago • 337 comments

Russian government leading the effort to get Tulsi Gabbard confirmed. "We've got your back, Tulsi", says Russian TV. Trump's nominee for top State Dept job is a Uighur genocide apologist who also thinks America should deliver Taiwan to China. China and Russia LOVE Trump term 2.

submitted 19 days ago • 67 comments

These people are trying to destroy U.S. power is the world with wildly unhinged allegations and you have to ask why this benefits them? What will China or Russia give Musk and Trump if we hand the world to them?

submitted 19 days ago • 86 comments

Trump deliberately plunged the FAA into chaos as soon as he took office. Musk pushed out the FAA Administrator so the agency was leaderless, Trump fired the entire safety advisory board. He bullied staff to accept buyouts. Not a surprise the tower was “not normal”.

submitted 22 days ago • 138 comments

The mess of Trump’s attempt to seize power and shut down the government in one chart.

submitted 22 days ago • 108 comments

Egg prices are way up. Medicaid and cancer research are shut down. Just what people voted for.

submitted 25 days ago • 167 comments

The freezing of federal grants, the firing of all inspector generals, the immunization of political violence - does everybody not see what’s happening? In a blitzkrieg, Trump is trying to collapse our democracy - and probably our economy - and seize control. Call it what it is.

submitted 25 days ago • 545 comments

Look, Trump is trying to oversaturate us with nonstop chaos so we can’t react meaningfully to any one thing. But Friday's global stop work order on almost all U.S. aid is dumb and murderous. You need to know about it. 1/ A short🧵on this evil.

submitted 25 days ago • 184 comments

Today in Northford we were joined by small farmers from across Connecticut as we announced the passage of a new fund to help New England growers with losses due to extreme weather. A big deal led by @rep-rosa-delauro.bsky.social.

submitted 25 days ago • 4 comments

It's always about using violence to advance his power. Trump pardons people who commit acts of violence in his name; he subjects people he doesn't like to increased threats of violence.

submitted 30 days ago • 57 comments

A visual to show how the billionaire donors (and their spouses!) got better seats than anyone else including Trump’s Cabinet nominees.

submitted 31 days ago • 38 comments

My stomach is churning right now as I’m reviewing images for my floor speech this afternoon on the violent felons Trump pardoned. Here’s David Dempsey beating officers with a flagpole. He got a full pardon and is being let out jail. We can’t let this feel normal.

submitted 31 days ago • 59 comments

Its not a gaffe. It's back to back, clear as day Nazi salutes. And how does this not make sense? Did we not just watch the campaign Trump ran? Have we all not seen the antisemitism in MAGA? Feels like this is all we should be talking about tomorrow.

submitted 32 days ago • 163 comments

For real oligarchy (the richest handful of citizens running the country for their personal enrichment) to survive, the billionaire ruling class needs state controlled media. Here's the first no apologies play - Trump wants to use government $$ to give him control of TikTok.

submitted 33 days ago • 30 comments

TikTok tucking itself in with Trump. Twitter under control of the White House. Facebook making major changes to placate MAGA, doing PR campaign to align w Trump. Does everyone not see what’s happening here and how terrifying this is.

submitted 33 days ago • 57 comments

He canceled the outdoor inauguration because the Mall was going to be empty and totally embarrassing and all he cares about are the tech bros and the ruling class billionaires and so it’s better if they are the only ones in the room anyway.

submitted 33 days ago • 9 comments

It’s a metaphor for the next 4 years. The weather made it worse but it was going to be an embarrassing crowd no matter what. So he cancelled it because of his ego. But the billionaires will get the indoor seats - and the regular people who paid thousands to come get screwed.

submitted 33 days ago • 7 comments

This year, with so much at stake for Democrats, it’s really important we make the right pick for DNC Chair. For me, Ben Wikler is the clear right choice.

submitted 37 days ago • 19 comments

They need to raise the debt ceiling to pass their massive tax cut for the super wealthy. So the message is: we will only rebuild California if our billionaire and corporate friends get their money. Unreal.

submitted 40 days ago • 70 comments

Just leaving the State Department where President Biden delivered his final foreign policy speech. Between the rebuilding of our alliances, the defense of Ukraine, and the historic commitment to lead on climate, there is much for POTUS to be proud of.

submitted 40 days ago • 11 comments

"It’s like déjà vu all over again. A private equity firm acquires a hospital operator, piles on debt...and pockets a hefty dividend before walking away. Left behind are struggling hospitals, vulnerable patients, and, eventually, bankruptcy."

submitted 40 days ago • 21 comments

After running its dozen hospitals into the ground - bedbugs, mold, dirty water - the private equity backed Prospect Holdings is filing bankruptcy. So that its filthy rich owners can keep their vacation homes and yachts while patients suffer. Disgusting.

submitted 40 days ago • 6 comments

He said he would use the military to "deal with" his political opponents. He said he thinks Democrats are the biggest national security threat to the nation. That's what he said. You can choose to believe he's lying. But what if he wasn't?

submitted 40 days ago • 16 comments

Finally got around to reading this important @dkthomp.bsky.social piece on American isolation, a topic I've been warning about for years. I'm convinced our nation's salvation depends on reversing our growing collective social isolation. It's made us unhappy, anxious and pugilistic.

submitted 40 days ago • 10 comments