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Do this. Up to and including the debt ceiling.

submitted 21 days ago • 7 comments

To apologists demanding, “What would you do, smart guy?” The first thing that comes to mind is, submit a resolution instead and park yourself in front of the cameras demanding a vote from “spineless Republicans” today and just disrupt all other business you can get away with.

submitted 23 days ago • 15 comments

more of this www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

submitted 23 days ago • 202 comments

Hey alright. I'll take it. Let's go.

submitted 23 days ago • 5 comments

Elon Musk's mother moved to South Africa in the year Apartheid was created, and she and Elon left the year it ended. The last Apartheid Prime Minister, a man who refused to testify at the Truth and Reconciliation Committee, was a family friend who stayed at their home. This is not a crazy theory.

submitted 23 days ago • 151 comments

Chuck Schumer telling everyone to remain at their desks while the towers burn.

submitted 23 days ago • 11 comments

All of this from @pastpunditry.bsky.social. The crisis is not legible. Even politically attentive people have no idea - the media are not conveying the scope and magnitude of what's happening. It has to be made legible through political and institutional resistance, not passivity and resignations.

submitted 23 days ago • 48 comments

One thing for Senate Democrats to do is announce they will use every tool at their disposal to block Bondi’s nomination until DOJ appoints a special counsel (ideally with beefed up firing protections) to investigate the widely reported crimes committed this week by Musk and his band of DOGE goons.

submitted 23 days ago • 164 comments

In case it helps someone: The phrase “We don’t do / say that here” is immensely useful in managing people who feel emboldened to try to push boundaries and test behaviour norms in your spaces. It’s a bland statement of fact, doesn’t contain an accusation, and can be used by anyone including peers.

submitted 25 days ago • 27 comments

So many watched Elon Musk get away with blatantly, flagrantly violating global laws and U.S. national interest without any meaningful punishment time and time again - and so many predicted that this is where his unchecked hubris would lead him. Billionaires must not be allowed to exist.

submitted 25 days ago • 3 comments

It is 100 percent their fault. They intentionally shut out AOC in favor of an old white guy with cancer. They turned Harris's "fuck those people are so weird" campaign vibe into standard James Carville pablum. It is their fault. And we are all paying the price.

submitted 27 days ago • 212 comments

The executive orders have a weird way of hacking media attention. They contain nothing of substance but the media covers them because they're easy. We need the media to do the much harder work of sorting out what's actually going on in the actual agencies

submitted 26 days ago • 5 comments

A brutal and spot-on plea to corporate media from @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social

submitted 26 days ago • 3 comments

Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent. Opportunities are everywhere. Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

submitted 27 days ago • 3790 comments

It’s important to know that a lot of productive activity is happening in person and offline, too. Not all of it can be broadcast online, but we’ve had hundreds of people showing up to our trainings, mobilizations, and more. Keep going. Tyranny is eroded by a sea of small acts. Everything matters.

submitted 27 days ago • 2443 comments

It's not not his fault

submitted 27 days ago • 9 comments

I hope people can start to get it. It’s the corrupt and power hungry against the rest of us. Leave behind the paradigms you’ve been fed your entire life. It boils down to a class war with a group of criminals on one side and the rest of us on the other.

submitted 27 days ago • 29 comments

Once in my career I aspired to have a piece, likely an oped or a longer form piece, in The New York Times or the Washington Post. Now, I aspire to publish something in @teenvogue.bsky.social

submitted 28 days ago • 10 comments

While President Trump illegally pauses federal funding from Congress, the Senate must not be business as usual. We do not consent to this lawless power grab.

submitted 29 days ago • 1484 comments

What would I do? Senate, House, DNC & Dem Govs EACH need to have a Rapid React WarRoom staffed 24/7/365. They need to have a rotating Senator, Rep, & Gov on call all times to post video, TikTok, statements & do interviews. Pressers are old, tired & mostly useless. Welcome to 2025.

submitted 29 days ago • 698 comments

This paradox is the single most important reason why the Democrats must develop and maintain their own media apparatus. If they do not, no one will ever know what good they have done. It will all get buried. See Biden's record for proof. @matthew.flux.community

submitted 29 days ago • 4 comments

Just saying that pressuring senators in both parties to take down Russ Vought’s nomination is a tangible “something” people can “do” to send a clear signal that this has to stop

submitted 29 days ago • 16 comments

This thread is a terrific examination of some of the unanswered questions re: distributed platform management and content moderation. Protocols-not-platforms is very compelling as an ethos/way forward out of the information-monopolies trap we seem to be in, but... geez it's complicated irl.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

He has no vision. He's an idiot and you know it. Don't smartwash him, #BrokenPost.

submitted 30 days ago • 34 comments

Don't smartwash Trump

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

The amount of Beautiful Mind math being done to explain away an obvious Nazi salute is really amazing. It's all backwards, too. You don't have to "know what's in someone's heart" to interpret a Nazi salute, the Nazi salute is there to communicate to you what is in the person's heart

submitted 33 days ago • 96 comments

If we had a functioning DNC (or SuperPACs), they'd be running this FEMA quote on radio ads in disaster-prone red states. Keep it running for months. Let it sink in their heads: Trump will leave them hanging out to dry. Start undermining him, the GOP, and their attempt to screw California now.

submitted 33 days ago • 70 comments

Listen, the most important thing to remember is that when some unimaginable yet preventable disaster unfolds, you're not allowed to blame the Republican presidents who these things keep happening under. Could have happened to anyone.

submitted 34 days ago • 2 comments

If a CEO of any major non-profit capered about onstage & did anything resembling a sieg heil, the (unpaid) board of dirs.would have called an emergency mtg while the CEO was still on the stage. Tesla stockholders should wonder whether Robyn Denholm & the board are fulfilling their fiduciary duties.

submitted 35 days ago • 17 comments

Jan 6 was investigated and largely prosecuted as domestic terrorism. The pardons should be reported and spoken of accordingly. An endorsement of terrorism. Trump sprung his terrorist network - including, by extension, himself.

submitted 35 days ago • 55 comments

If you find that your uninformed personal opinion disagrees with expert consensus on a technical topic, please consider that “all the experts know something I don’t” is a much more likely explanation than “I alone solved a complex problem that all the world’s experts have long been studying.”

submitted 37 days ago • 34 comments

submitted 36 days ago • 9 comments

I don’t know. Maybe you don’t have to platform an unabashedly antidemocratic, authoritarian creep in your paper and allow him the opportunity to sell your readers on raising up an American Caesar. And maybe you don’t do a photo shoot where this loser asshole gets to pretend he’s cool.

submitted 39 days ago • 19 comments

COMPUTER SCIENTISTS: "k" means one thousand and twenty-four STORAGE MANUFACTURERS: "k" means one thousand DISPLAY MANUFACTURERS [thinking hard]: "K" means nine hundred and sixty

submitted 39 days ago • 67 comments

I see the “David Lynch wasn’t all that” posts are appearing. They are in fact wrong because he was indeed all that

submitted 39 days ago • 37 comments

As you watch the clusterfuck around TikTok, consider that, like banning TikTok, there is now enthusiastic bipartisan enthusiasm for eliminating Section 230. Even Dems' policy shops are getting dumb and it's a big problem.

submitted 40 days ago • 20 comments

Maybe I should just make @democracydocket.com’s slogan: “We won’t suck up to Trump.” It seems like it would be a market niche that almost no one else in the media wants.

submitted 40 days ago • 266 comments

"Democracy Dies in Darkness" is kinda like "Don't Be Evil" as a slogan. It's a bit worrying when you choose it, but it's a lot more worrying when you take it down

submitted 40 days ago • 68 comments

Biden and the most feckless Dems sent the bombs to prolong the Gaza war so Trump could (falsely) take credit for ending it, and recklessly banned TikTok so that Trump could be a hero to 1/3rd of Americans by keeping it open More own goals than an entire season of MLS

submitted 41 days ago • 9 comments

I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️

submitted 48 days ago • 333 comments