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I just got back home to finally sit down and watch the parade footage and it’s 100x more embarrassing than I expected. I totally forgot the weak nations that do these spend decades perfecting them. It looked like if Fyre festival did North Korea.

submitted 6 days ago • 225 comments

Steve Kerr wore a Harvard basketball shirt after the Warriors’ win tonight: “Yes, this is me supporting Harvard. Way to go. Way to stand up to the bully.”

submitted 66 days ago • 1145 comments

Constituents to Chuck Grassley: "Are you bringing back that guy from El Salvador?" Senior Citizen: “If I get an order to pay a ticket to pay $1200 and I just say ‘no’, does that stand up? Because he just got an order from the Supreme Court and he just said ‘screw it’” “I’M PISSED!”

submitted 67 days ago • 1255 comments

"After nearly five hours, he and his wife were released. They are now pursuing legal action. "It's not about the immigrants," his sister, told NBC10 Boston. "It's coming to us Americans, and it's going to go after all of us." www.nbcboston.com/news/politic...

submitted 67 days ago • 1938 comments

Replace ‘Harvard’ with ‘churches’ and he’s onto something…

submitted 67 days ago • 651 comments

Ukraine has destroyed the Russian missile base that launched the Palm Sunday terrorist attack in Sumy. It will also find who ordered the attack and who carried it out, and if they survived.

submitted 67 days ago • 186 comments

I cannot convey enough how grateful I am to the millions of you all supporting us with your time, resources, and energy. Your support has allowed us to rally people together at record scale to organize their communities. All with an average donation of $21. THANK YOU & Pa’lante 🙏🏽♥️

submitted 67 days ago • 1302 comments

Undocumented immigrants paid an effective federal income tax rate of 5.27% in 2022. That means they paid a higher effective tax rate than 5 of the richest Americans…and a higher effective tax rate than 55 mega corporations. So let me ask you: who are the real freeloaders?

submitted 67 days ago • 525 comments

SCOTUS didn’t even have equitable discretion to vacate Boasberg’s orders b/c he was in the middle of contempt proceedings. You have to have “clean hands.” It would be like a drug dealer filing a complaint because he didn’t get paid. Cannon did the same thing in the documents special master case.

submitted 74 days ago • 130 comments

Keep calling your republican senators! Please!

submitted 74 days ago • 46 comments

They are snatching people off the street and sending them away to brutal prisons in foreign lands with zero due process - and they won't even bring them back when they realize a mistake was made. That's frightening stuff for any American who actually loves their country. #StopTrumpsTerror

submitted 74 days ago • 555 comments

Note to editors and producers: If an executive order demands action that is illegal or outside of the president’s authority, then you should not describe it as ordering something. You should say it seeks to achieve some outcome and then note it is illegal or beyond the power of the president.

submitted 85 days ago • 357 comments

NEW: Shortly after Pam Bondi was sworn in Wednesday, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger asked her to drop the Department of Justice’s lawsuit challenging the state’s 2021 voter suppression law, S.B. 202. I warned you, Raffensperger is no hero. He is a GOP vote suppressor.

submitted 135 days ago • 1221 comments

Absolutely. Grind it to a halt.

submitted 136 days ago • 1049 comments

The rush to destroy things like USAID and other agencies before lawsuits can stop them is to make it moot. When our stupidly slow judicial system finally moves to stop them it will be far too late. If all 10,000 USAID employees are home and projects abandoned it’s done. It’s evil.

submitted 136 days ago • 678 comments

Of course it’s a coup. Miss the obvious, lose your republic. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

submitted 136 days ago • 603 comments

We’re focused on feeding our kids. Investing in our schools. Making sure child care is affordable. Regardless of the chaos unfolding in Washington, we’re making Minnesota the best state for kids to grow up.

submitted 135 days ago • 1725 comments

Authoritarian regimes don’t just collapse. They collapse themselves. They push too hard. They create their own enemies. And then—suddenly—they’re gone. Here’s how they accelerate their own demise. 🧵

submitted 141 days ago • 7 comments

LIGHTS OUT META. Meta-wide strike Jan 19-26. Even if you’re not ready to go cold turkey, you can take a week off. Remind Zuckerberg who butters his bread. Share this. Tell your friends and family.

submitted 161 days ago • 10 comments

Capitalism is evolving into open oligarchical authoritarianism. If we do nothing, it will only get worse. People need to get up to speed on what’s happened and where all this is going, form coalitions, and begin fighting back. The clock is ticking. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/understand...

submitted 168 days ago • 15 comments

Here's your latest bird flu update, with everything you need to know about protecting yourself. It's unpaywalled for a couple of days. www.the-sentinel-intelligence.com/p/everything...

submitted 197 days ago • 16 comments

THREAD: In 2023, I received an envelope with no return address. Inside was a flash drive containing tens of 1000s of secret files. It came from a vigilante with a tumultuous past, who'd conducted a years-long undercover operation. He didn’t tell the FBI or his family. He only told me.

submitted 168 days ago • 894 comments

Now that Joe Manchin is no longer in Congress, I wonder what he’ll miss more - the many times he fvcked over Dems when they had the majority, or the opportunity he’ll miss now to fvck over Dems in the minority. Good riddance either way because it was always average Americans who actually got fvcked!

submitted 168 days ago • 175 comments

I too struggle 🦋💙🦋

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I did all I could over the past year to avoid our nation winding up here. Since we almost inexplicably now have, I refuse to kiss the ring or bend the knee or sell my soul, no matter how many already have or will end up doing so. I refuse to normalize him. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/i-do-not-o...

submitted 168 days ago • 124 comments

"Trade flows were presumed to create peace, existing almost in a sphere outside politics" Stares in 50 years of international political economy 🤷‍♂️

submitted 168 days ago • 5 comments

Republicans don’t actually care about the material needs of their own constituents. Their politics are based entirely on persecuting perceived enemies.

submitted 199 days ago • 5 comments

President-elect Donald Trump has picked Kristi Noem as homeland security secretary, a job that includes overseeing federal disaster management. But some residents of her home state say she bungled the response to catastrophic floods in June.

submitted 199 days ago • 117 comments

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submitted 199 days ago • 4 comments

As we brace for the transition-inauguration media coverage of the second Trump administration, a Twitter/X thread from July 2024 about how "normalization" is justified ... Starts in next reply.

submitted 200 days ago • 40 comments

“The people closest to the pain should be closest to the power, closest to the policy solutions. That is not just a cute saying,” Rep. @summerlee.bsky.social told us.

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Can journalism survive billionaires? This week’s Stop the Presses newsletter asks that question as media moguls bend the knee to the would-be dictator. Read and subscribe for free.

submitted 201 days ago • 10 comments

Remember in Star Wars when Luke respected norms and crushed a very sternly worded letter to Lord Vader and that got him to stop blowing planets up? Yeah, me neither.

submitted 207 days ago • 45 comments

Happy Thanksgiving week, everyone. We’ve been spending the last few days addressing food insecurity across NYC. Shout out to our supporters, small-dollar contributors, and volunteers who make all this happen and help us support similar efforts across the country. I am really grateful. ♥️ Thank you

submitted 208 days ago • 392 comments

In case you missed it, there is a video version of the podcast @maddow.bsky.social did with Richard Engel and Yalda Hakim: youtu.be/VkKRxuyJlyA?...

submitted 211 days ago • 15 comments

🔥 🗣️STURGILL SIMPSON: “This toxic patriarchal energy is an age coming to an end… that energy is clawing for its survival bc it knows it’s dying. We’re heading to something beautiful, we just have to go through some dark shit first. So love everybody.” (H/T @wutangforchildren.bsky.social )

submitted 209 days ago • 612 comments

This is the most important chart published in America this week. (By @dylanlscott.bsky.social)

submitted 211 days ago • 163 comments

Canada's top military commander Jennie Carignan calls out the GOP for questioning women in combat: After 39 years as a combat arms officer and risking my life in many operations, I can’t believe that in 2024, we still have to justify women's contribution to defense and service in their country...

submitted 208 days ago • 1022 comments

NPR’s 2024 Book We Love list is out! apps.npr.org/best-books/#...

submitted 208 days ago • 0 comments

As someone who sends a newsletter to a left-leaning audience of ~385K people my data indicates this is not a widespread phenomena. I’ve a had a handful of people unsubscribe for this reason but overall subscriptions and open rates are up. People are distressed but not giving up

submitted 209 days ago • 203 comments

For a decade, the Western oil industry fought bitterly against a basic anti-corruption rule. ICIJ's #CaspianCabals shows the lengths to which some U.S. oil companies and their allies were willing to go to thwart greater transparency. Read more: https://buff.ly/4hZEV55

submitted 208 days ago • 0 comments

Pay attention to how many people are using the transition to Bluesky to lobby for followers in order to serve themselves and who’s using this crucial moment as a time to start knuckling down and get something done. This needs to be a clarifying thing.

submitted 209 days ago • 31 comments

Keith Ellison likes to say, it's not about speaking truth to power - power knows what it does and why. We need to speak truth to each other. And I would add - to amass enough power such that the many can indeed take on the money.

submitted 209 days ago • 5 comments

Analysis of this election should, at the least, be based on what happened. Free link! Please share. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 211 days ago • 28 comments

The “it’ll be fine, it’s basically 2017” stuff is frustrating, because it isn’t and won’t be. 2017-20 wasn’t fine, and it didn’t feature a White House with no fear of impeachment, criminal charges, or losing reelection. Don’t despair, don’t give up, but recognize what we’re actually dealing with.

submitted 216 days ago • 38 comments

I loathe this if it’s so, but I think in the current broad public mood the allegations against both Gaetz & Hegseth are going to backfire. Both are protagonists of the extreme metoo backlash Trump is leading.

submitted 215 days ago • 19 comments