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I'm no lawyer, but it seems like discussing war plans in Signal outside a SCIF is maybe just a little bit worse than using a private server to send emails that weren't even marked as classified. But what do I know.

submitted 34 days ago • 1228 comments

Words of Liz Cheney:

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

Jamie Raskin decries the Musk effort to destroy USAID. www.youtube.com/live/stI7ZIb...

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

Hmm, this surely explains why Musk hates USAID so much! (Thanks to @bxl.bsky.social).

submitted 83 days ago • 1 comment

Lots of members who were in town in both chambers showing up to USAID to join locals @beyer.house.gov Connolly, Raskin, and Van Hollen, a couple dozen here now. They will attempt entry

submitted 83 days ago • 96 comments

wapo.st/4jI7On5 This is outrageous and criminal. USAID is a bright spot in our government, with thousands of dedicated civil servants and local hires. This is incredibly sad and shameful.

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

Vice-President, Kamala Harris, showing the world today what integrity and respect for the Constitution looks like.

submitted 111 days ago • 209 comments

One failed attempt at a shoe bomb 23 years ago and we all still take our shoes off at the airport. One failed attempt at violently overthrowing our country 4 years ago and we allow the guy who orchestrated it to be certified as President so he can do it again. Disgraceful.

submitted 111 days ago • 27 comments

I don't where this all ends up, but I don't think a democracy in which only one of the two major parties is committed to peaceful transition of power is particularly sustainable!

submitted 111 days ago • 977 comments

Bravo!! www.politico.com/live-updates...

submitted 121 days ago • 84 comments

Thought of the day…if you LIKE IT give it 💙and plz RP😘😘

submitted 122 days ago • 599 comments

"Biden Sets Higher U.S. Goal Under the Climate Pact That Trump Aims to Abandon" by Marianne Lavelle, @mckennapr.bsky.social for @insideclimatenews.org: insideclimatenews.org/news/1912202...

submitted 129 days ago • 4 comments

Fear of books is fear of ideas. It's fear of democracy itself. Let's ban that!

submitted 144 days ago • 151 comments

Elon, here you go again making false and completely unfounded accusations without providing any specifics. That’s the kind of response one would expect from a conspiracy theorist. What oligarch? What treason?

submitted 151 days ago • 876 comments

The impact of carbon dioxide on atmospheric warming has been known for a long time - this, from Popular Mechanics in 1912.

submitted 151 days ago • 0 comments

Tom Nichols writing last April: By overwhelming people with the sheer volume and vulgarity of his antics, Trump and his team are trying to burn out the part of our brains that can discern truth from fiction, right from wrong, good…1/

submitted 152 days ago • 1 comment

NEW: Porsha Ngumezi is the fifth case we've reported on in which a woman died after not receiving a D&C or its second-trimester equivalent in time, or at all. Her case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.

submitted 153 days ago • 423 comments

Good advice for the next four years.

submitted 153 days ago • 0 comments

…which will be paid for this purpose is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance.” 2/

submitted 160 days ago • 0 comments

Heather Cox Richardson quotes Thomas Jefferson: “Preach, my dear Sir, a crusade against ignorance; establish and improve the law for educating the common people. Let our countrymen know that the people alone can protect us against [the evils of “kings, nobles and priests”], and that the tax 1/

submitted 160 days ago • 0 comments

An Arendt quote, cited by M. Sullivan, seems written for this week’s news: “totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.”

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