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Barnstable County Assembly of Delegates, Harwich Housing Authority. Views my own. Cape Cod, NYC, Spence, skating, cats, Mets, wine.
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This is a shameful way to treat our fellow citizens who are public servants. This doesn’t make America great.

“There’s the America I know and love—and then there’s Trump’s America. I will keep looking for signs of opposition, from wherever in the world there are pro-democracy humans who see and reject what’s happening here.” www.americaamerica.news/p/rooting-ag...

Superb piece by my friend @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social about supporting foreign criticism of Trump's America. It's not unpatriotic of us to feel this way. It's a rejection of fascism and an endorsement of the need for freedom around the world.

Wow my congressman @keating.house.gov was just on CNN! He almost never does TV. That means foreign relations are in trouble because that’s his specialty.

Great game. With all the crap The Donald has pulled with Canada lately I’m not as crushed as I would have expected

has a single mainstream journalist acknowledged that it was a massive media failure to treat project 2025 as a closed issue just bc trump lied a couple of times about not supporting it

Tiger is such a disappointment

If you’re ever in public while high on ketamine, this DEA pamphlet suggests you might want want to wear sunglasses, even indoors. www.dea.gov/sites/defaul...

"Ukrainians have shown that fear of Russian domination is a powerful motivation, at least in Eastern Europe. Perhaps their spirit will, at this darkening hour, infect their neighbors to the west, who will prove themselves worthy of their freedom."

I’m pretty sure on the warning label it said do not operate heavy machinery.

When you consider that the men who orchestrated the gutting of reproductive rights knew it’d kill untold numbers of women and nevertheless worked really really really hard to make sure those rights were taken away and those women killed, I’d say they should definitely be seen as having a body count

Just gonna repeat my own preference that it's not great to make fun of people for being addicts or alcoholics but when the person doing a kill spree on the federal government is actively hallucinating on stage at a political conference, mocking is almost mandatory.

They need to post a warning before Stephen Miller goes on camera. It’s more scary and repulsive than footage of a slaughterhouse

The President of Ukraine has a higher favorability rating with Americans than the President of the United States. www.cnn.com/2025/02/19/p...

Bad public policy leads to poor outcomes for pregnant people. Abortion bans make pregnancy riskier. And the leading cause of death for pregnant and postpartum people is homicide. Most often at the hands of an intimate partner and most frequently with a gun. Guns also make pregnancy riskier. 1/2

He should be our messenger.

The Teamsters union is as decentralized as the country. Like the median voter, most Teamsters aren’t closely following what Sean O’Brien is saying. The press should ensure they know how he’s selling out members to cozy up to anti-worker politicos & bolstering the power of bosses.

This makes so much sense

Good. Canada is doing a better job of standing up to The Donald than the GOP.

"They're putting persecuted Christian refugees in camps in the jungle" sounds like something Glenn Beck would accuse the Obama administration of doing and yet now it's a pillar of the Republican agenda.

If you were wondering if there is a word to describe how the United States is currently being governed, why, yes, there is: kakistocracy!

Lina Khan is on MSNBC right now and I had no idea she was so young. Impressive!

The Times spoke to people being trapped inside a Panama hotel after deportation from the US and the individual stories of horror are almost too much to bear www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

All top level Dems need to do a united presser every day and highlight every crime committed by a pardoned January 6er. Hang them all on Trump. They also have to highlight every nightmare story his DOGE cuts are creating. They have to personalize every narrative. Every day.

I sincerely doubt any journalist of color I know would be allowed to write "I didn't know this important aspect of US history and read the Wikipedia summary of it to catch up" in a prominent newsletter read by every important person in the nation's capital

I am not making this up: Republicans have introduced legislation… to increase your bank fees.

they really thought they could stop theater kids by threatening them with negative attention

Do us a favor and arrest a Member of Congress for telling people what their constitutional rights are. Go ahead and try it thug. bsky.app/profile/acyn...