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“Putin is tired of this whole thing,” Trump said on Fox News. “He’s not looking good. And he wants to look good.” In reality, it is Trump who is tired of “this whole thing,” Trump who’s not looking good, and Trump who wants to look good. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 37 days ago • 107 comments

"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work. snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

submitted 52 days ago • 394 comments

20 ARMED men bust into your home. They claim they’ve got a search warrant. They make you stand in the rain w/your 3 daughters in their underwear. They seize your phones, laptops, your cash life savings. The suspects listed on the warrant? They don’t live there anymore. kfor.com/news/local/w...

submitted 57 days ago • 1481 comments

The Worst Person You Know Just Made Some Great Points

submitted 57 days ago • 1321 comments

Trump just asked a journalist to lie for him on national TV. 📢 We can’t normalize this. We won’t stay silent. Join the resistance on May 1st. www.FiftyFifty.one #50501movement #PeoplesMovement #FiftyFiftyOne #ImpeachTrump #MayDay #May1 #StopTrump #ItsACoup @polrev.bsky.social

submitted 57 days ago • 170 comments

One of two things is happening. They don’t understand what’s happening. They want it to happen. Pick your poison

submitted 77 days ago • 199 comments

Fareed is right. Corruption is the point. www.cnn.com/2025/04/04/p...

submitted 80 days ago • 41 comments

I try to avoid politics in my teaching, but he'd fail both my macroeconomics and international business courses. This is going to be a disastrous natural experiment in economics. And it's not like we haven't been down this road before.

submitted 84 days ago • 10 comments

🎯 Chomsky nailed it years ago. The privatization playbook of the vulture capitalists is so obvious.

submitted 86 days ago • 16 comments

Yep

submitted 89 days ago • 759 comments

How to successfully navigate Trumpian politics, ask, ‘is this a distraction to take away from corruption?’ And then look for the trail of money, or the grab for power.

submitted 91 days ago • 25 comments

………..

submitted 91 days ago • 70 comments

It's not uncommon for principals to put things together for a president's final sign off. Presidents are busy. But you can't read these texts and not get the strong sense the actl commander in chief isn't really part of the convo, not literally or figuratively. Out to lunch. Weekend at Bernies vibe.

submitted 92 days ago • 377 comments

Blinks in unemployed...

submitted 92 days ago • 233 comments

Updated flyer for our Town Hall coming this Saturday, March 22nd! Let's show up in big numbers and show Jared Golden that our voices matter! Golden has refused to meet with us even though this is a critical time in our country. We will be collecting statements and passing the information on to him.

submitted 98 days ago • 1 comment

If I had made a bet on this, I would double it today.

submitted 100 days ago • 815 comments

I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable. Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes. Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.

submitted 104 days ago • 5135 comments

Gutting the Department of Education will impact everything from internet access to school buses. Let’s not make it harder to learn.

submitted 105 days ago • 1375 comments

It’s totally unacceptable, Elon Musk is giving Trump political operation ANOTHER $100 million as he giggles with a chain saw and cuts staff, veterans, and needed services. This is NOT what our founding fathers envisioned, an oligarchy in all but name.

submitted 106 days ago • 516 comments

Measles outbreaks are back. Grocery and gas prices are up. Bird flu is spreading. All our allies hate us. Air travel is getting unsafe. The stock market is tanking. The government is about to shut down. And he’s only been President for six weeks. This is just the beginning.

submitted 116 days ago • 261 comments

My take on Trump and Vance’s Oval Office meltdown, for the AM crowd. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/five-dispa...

submitted 116 days ago • 1 comment

NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent. “It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. “A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.” @kyivindependent.com

submitted 117 days ago • 1296 comments

If you’re siding with Vladimir Putin, you’re wrong.

submitted 120 days ago • 1416 comments

People laughed a few days ago when @jamellebouie.net said we might not have flu shots next year, but:

submitted 119 days ago • 371 comments

Fun fact: An actual “doge” was an oligarchic ruler of medieval Venice — appointed FOR LIFE by a cabal of insiders, totally unaccountable to the people or anyone but a tiny group of fellow super-wealthy elites.

submitted 120 days ago • 255 comments

😳 this dude ran the FSB [KGB]!

submitted 120 days ago • 485 comments

We dare Mike Johnson to give that answer at a town hall in front of his constituents

submitted 120 days ago • 2294 comments

Guess who’s getting a new FAA contract to help privatize air safety? Elon Musk. He’s cutting the FAA and everything else in government — and carving it off for himself. THE WHOLE THING IS A MONEY GRAB

submitted 120 days ago • 222 comments

I posted this longer version on X #Emails2DOGE cc: [email protected]

submitted 123 days ago • 1098 comments

If I had a band or a label, I would do a punk cover of "No More Kings" from Schoolhouse Rock. And then I would gather a bunch of people to write a whole album of next-generation Schoolhouse Rock songs, with songs about Social Security and Medicaid and NOAA. I am not kidding in the least.

submitted 126 days ago • 416 comments

3rd day in a row on the golf course while Musk runs the country. He didn’t even know yesterday that the head of the Social Security Admin resigned, and didn’t know SpaceX employees were working at the FAA/DOD, and claimed Medicaid wasn’t being cut when it’s being cut massively.

submitted 126 days ago • 1205 comments

"North Carolina senator Thom Tillis told people that the FBI warned him about ‘credible death threats’ when he was considering voting against Pete Hegseth’s nomination for defense secretary."

submitted 126 days ago • 598 comments

What Wendy said…👇

submitted 127 days ago • 3 comments

It seems almost unavoidable at this point that we are headed for a deep, deep recession. Just based on 200K+ federal firings & pullback of contracts, the March employment report (to be released April 4) seems certain to show bigger job losses than any month ever outside of a few in 2008-9 and 2020.

submitted 127 days ago • 1024 comments

It's annoying how clearly this is going to play out. They gut the FAA. Therefore, the FAA can't do its job well because it was gutted. Therefore, they say "The FAA sucks, we have to privatize it." which is what Project 2025 wants to do. They're manufacturing the crises for their end goal.

submitted 128 days ago • 1049 comments

Richest man in the world muses about Jailing reporters, nothing to see here

submitted 128 days ago • 2273 comments

The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?

submitted 128 days ago • 2349 comments

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/16/w...

submitted 129 days ago • 871 comments

This cartoon by @mluckovich.bsky.social is getting banned on Twitter. Because of course it is.

submitted 129 days ago • 668 comments

Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.

submitted 131 days ago • 2634 comments

If you’ve already started calling it the Gulf of America instead of the Gulf of Mexico, you should have no trouble with someone’s preferred name and pronouns.

submitted 132 days ago • 300 comments

BREAKING - Elon Musk slated to win $400 MILLION govt contract to make "armored Tesla" -- after $38 MILLION SpaceX contract yesterday Musk's plan: -- Shut down parts of the govt investigating him -- Claim that he's stopping government spending -- Give himself all the money