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Anger. Righteous anger. We need more of it in this country.

submitted 10 hours ago • 871 comments

Trump and Vance act as if the problem is that Ukraine is resisting an ongoing Russian invasion. The problem is the ongoing Russian invasion. If they want to use American power to stop the war, apply it to the aggressor. Abusing the victim is not going to end a war of aggression.

submitted 14 hours ago • 425 comments

He Heels When He Hears His Master's Voice

submitted 8 hours ago • 142 comments

🤯

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

One man should not have this power. Which is why the United States wasn't supposed to have a King. Remember?

submitted 14 hours ago • 30 comments

Ex-WaPo Staffers Slam Jeff Bezos Over ‘Tragic’ Opinion Page Directive ‘Buckling To Trump’: New Yorker editor David Remnick slammed The Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos for refusing to “support diversity” with his new strict editorial mandate and accused the billionaire of “giving up” out of “fear…

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

To my Bluesky Family: I’m continuously updating my YouTube channel below. Recent, actionable explainers on flu surges, bird flu concerns, and every conceivable topic in between. Resharing a new link below: youtube.com/@vinguptaoff...

submitted 12 days ago • 44 comments

This speech by Sen. Angus King of Maine is well worth listening to. I hope at least some of the Republicans listening really heard what he had to say. It’s not too late to stand up for democracy! @hcrichardson.bsky.social Thank you for sharing this in your Substack today. youtu.be/g2ptQFOi9Pg?...

submitted 4 days ago • 23 comments

"When a leader disregards constitutional order (s)he gives up legitimacy and the people have the right to treat him like a robber and thief." -John Locke "This is the most dangerous threat to our Constitution." -Sen. Angus King (Maine) open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

submitted 4 days ago • 13 comments

Lawful, but Enormously Destructive www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

The new DOGE administrator, who the White House only named after media pressure, told associates she did not know she would be named publicly to the position. She’s currently scheduled to be on vacation in Mexico. Meet Amy Gleason. We’ve been tracking her for a bit. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

submitted 3 days ago • 157 comments

"I don't think anybody believes that these people would've been pardoned if they had engaged in exactly the same acts, but had stormed the Capitol, say, in opposition to the president and his policies," says Peter Keisler, former acting attorney general under Pres. Bush.

submitted 5 days ago • 23 comments

Ain’t it the truth?

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

"I think there's real risk of a generation or more of data being lost." - Dr. Michael Greicius, neurology professor at Stanford University, on the damage Trump's cuts to NIH research will do to progress on a treatment for Alzheimer's disease, adding as much as 20 years to the timeline.

submitted 8 days ago • 52 comments

Jason Stanley on the significance of the German far right's historic surge in national elections. "What we're seeing is a gradual alliance of the United States and Russia... the concern for America is, are we now the standard bearer against freedom and democracy in the world?"

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

I joined the Stand with Ukraine Rally on the Boston Common with a message from Americans to Ukrainians: we don't want your minerals, we want your freedom.

submitted 5 days ago • 9 comments

Allegations of a Big Tech company using the threat of federal government intervention to get deals done are extremely concerning. I hope @DOGE will get on this immediately. www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-li...

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

"in crony capitalism, there is always another ass to kiss" www.platformer.news/ftc-censorsh...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Bernie in Omaha in case you missed it! www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRon...

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

With Jane Kleeb's election today, the @democrats.org have all new officers: Chair Ken Martin Vice Chair, CEVP Reyna Walters-Morgan Vice Chair, ASDC Jane Kleeb Vice Chairs Artie Blanco, David Hogg, Malcolm Kenyatta Secretary Jason Rae Treasurer Virginia McGregor National Finance Chair Chris Korge

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

Congrats to Jane Kleeb, Our Revolution founding board member and climate activist, who will serve as the next president of the Association of State Democratic Chairs (ASDC) and Vice Chair of the Party. Well-deserved, @janekleeb.bsky.social

submitted 25 days ago • 3 comments

We can’t let them exhaust us with their endless illegal power grabs. @johnfugelsang.bsky.social and I break down the effort to end democracy and offer some needed hope at the same time in episode 2 of #theoathandtheoffice podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Flirting with Nazism is Nazism.

submitted 6 days ago • 8 comments

Abortion bans kill women.

submitted 7 days ago • 9 comments

Nicole shared with me that Medicaid cuts would mean she can’t afford even one month of medication for her son with special needs. I heard so many powerful stories like hers at San Ysidro Health’s El Cajon clinic – and that’s why I’ll keep fighting for Medicaid.

submitted 7 days ago • 11 comments

CRUELTY IS THE POINT: Florida is unleashing harsh new anti-immigration legislation that would require the death penalty for undocumented migrants who commit capital offenses. FL State Sen. Pizzo joins the #KatiePhangShow to discuss the radicalization of Florida politics.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Great essay from @yarotrof.bsky.social on the very long-running Russian crimes against Ukraine, and attempts to manipulate historical memory (again) to cover them up. www.wsj.com/world/europe...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

“Now is the moment to recognize the scale of the seismic change unfolding, and to find new ways to live in the world that a very different kind of America is beginning to create” www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

submitted 8 days ago • 71 comments

Colorado health care providers fear ‘devastating’ impacts of potential Medicaid cuts coloradonewsline.com/2025/02/19/c...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Joining @maddow.msnbc.com in about an hour to talk about Trump’s moves on USPS. What do you want to know?

submitted 7 days ago • 13 comments

This is going well… DOGE Cuts 9/11 Survivors’ Fund, and Republicans Join Democrats in Rebuke www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/n...

submitted 8 days ago • 39 comments

Cuts to NSF expected to be at 50% reduction in force for an independent agency that fuels discovery and innovation. "The NSF budget was $9B, or 0.13% of the total [budget]." This is not about fiscal prudence. This is about killing universities. nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...

submitted 7 days ago • 129 comments

❗❗❗❗ 👇👇👇👇 A MUST hear speech by Gov. Pritzker❗ Gov. Pritzker SLAMS Trump and Musk in closing remarks of State of the State address www.youtube.com/watch?v=hS66...

submitted 9 days ago • 10 comments

“After we’ve discriminated against, deported, or disparaged all the immigrants, the gay and lesbian and transgender people, the developmentally disabled, the women, and minorities. Once we’ve ostracized our neighbors and betrayed our friends… what comes next?” - Gov. JB Pritzker

submitted 9 days ago • 477 comments

Pritzker is a real one. Full text of the speech. www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/c...

submitted 8 days ago • 13 comments

Now, more than ever, we need a leader like Gov. Pritzker, not the clown currently in the White House.

submitted 9 days ago • 33 comments

I covered military aviation for 9 years, and now the intersection of regulation and commercial for four. Aviation is just the thing I do. Flying's gotten safer — and less reported on. Washington crash shows how the aviation beat is fading apnews.com/article/avia...

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

‘Air traffic controllers cannot do their work without us’ www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

www.kcur.org/podcast/up-t...

submitted 9 days ago • 255 comments

"Behind the seemingly scatter-shot opening acts of his second administration, legal analysts see a common goal: to test a once-fringe legal theory which asserts that the president has unlimited power to control the actions of the four million people who make up the executive branch." --Jacob Knutson

submitted 8 days ago • 104 comments

In future generations, when your children and grandchildren look back on this moment, they are not going to ask about the price of eggs. They are going to ask you what you did. Not what you felt. Not what you paid. But what you did. And I want to be able to say I did everything I possibly could.

submitted 8 days ago • 1249 comments

If you ever wondered how a civilized modern country like Germany could have gone so completely and violently insane, you're looking right at it. Shoulda shown up.

submitted 8 days ago • 104 comments

Trump’s Commerce Secretary Confirms Plan to Gut Medicare—and More newrepublic.com/post/191740/... via @newrepublic.com

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

When a mountain doesn’t listen, say a prayer to the sea. Cy Twombly.

submitted 8 days ago • 43 comments

Remember to breathe. #birds

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Trump’s honeymoon may be wearing off. New polls show a majority of Americans say he has overstepped his presidential authority — and hasn’t done enough to address high prices.

submitted 8 days ago • 105 comments