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Hi, BlueSky. It's Hillary. I've joined up here to help get the word out about an important election in Wisconsin tomorrow, and other ways to defend our democracy against those who think votes can be bought.

submitted 28 days ago • 7396 comments

Sure, the termination of US funding for RFERL could be a massive gift to the enemies of freedom, but it could also be a great opportunity for the EU to establish a publicly funded pan-European media company, leveraging RFERL’s existing human capital and infrastructure.

submitted 44 days ago • 5 comments

Really wish folks would have looked up "social dominance orientation" when we still had the chance to prevent this sh*t.

submitted 50 days ago • 19 comments

Read Aaron’s thread and his replies to various folks to get a sense of what DHS can and cannot do here regarding Mahmoud Khalil, a recent Columbia grad who helped lead the Gaza encampment and was detained by ICE today.

submitted 50 days ago • 4 comments

so glad the genius in charge of the other currently-crashed website wants to next apply his skills to air traffic control

submitted 49 days ago • 5 comments

Only in America could a Ketamine-infused South African oligarch call a navy captain, astronaut and sitting US senator "a traitor" for supporting our allies and standing up to Russia...

submitted 49 days ago • 3635 comments

THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Stanford University have developed a dual-antibody treatment that remains effective against ALL SARS-CoV-2 variants by targeting a less-mutable part of the virus. This breakthrough could lead to longer-lasting therapies that OUTPACE viral evolution. 🧪🧵⬇️

submitted 50 days ago • 589 comments

A dictator doesn’t ask for ammunition, he would have taken the ride! Like Viktor Yanukovych

submitted 63 days ago • 9 comments

We are one news cycle away from Trump giving military aid to Russia.

submitted 68 days ago • 384 comments

So far, Trump’s art of the deal is to give Russia whatever it wants in advance while asking for nothing from Putin. At the same time, he has tried to extort Ukraine for mineral rights. Once again, he seems not to know or care who America’s allies and enemies are.

submitted 71 days ago • 87 comments

After #SCOTUS blocked Biden's student loan program, he attempted to achieve similar results through a program based upon a different statute. That's not "defying the courts" any more than Congress did when it relied upon the Commerce Clause, not 14A, to enact Title II of the Civil Rights Act.

submitted 78 days ago • 12 comments

submitted 78 days ago • 1 comment

Purging dissent in the security services and giving loyalists power is something we instantly recognize in other contexts.

submitted 79 days ago • 402 comments

If you work for the federal government and have information about what’s going on at your agency, please contact me via Signal at juddlegum.47 or use the QR Code below. I'm especially interested in speaking to people who work for the CFPB. I will maintain your anonymity.

submitted 80 days ago • 51 comments

1/My statement on learning through news reports that my #securityclearance has just been revoked.

submitted 79 days ago • 309 comments

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submitted 81 days ago • 99 comments

So what happens when Musk has total control of the labor and budget numbers and can make them say whatever he wants or just disappear? What is the backup for understanding the state of the economy? Or will it be like Russia and China, making things up?

submitted 81 days ago • 32 comments

What can the opposition party do? Like, actually do, right now? Five concrete things the Democrats can do to fight Trump:

submitted 81 days ago • 11 comments

Acting DC US Atty Ed Martin MUST be investigated by ethics authorities It looks like he was on both sides of the same 1/6 case! We explain in our letter to the Office of Professional Responsibility 👇 statedemocracydefenders.org/wp-content/u...

submitted 81 days ago • 32 comments

We were just denied entrance into the EPA after asking to meet with a DOGE representative. More to come.

submitted 81 days ago • 3683 comments

This is a start but, to be clear, still nowhere close to maximum obstruction. No UC, on anything. No unrecorded votes, on anything. No waiving rules, on anything. Fight even on adjournments. Quorum calls every time you can. Make every dilatory motion in the books and new ones you just made up.

submitted 82 days ago • 62 comments

Tesla's sales are sliding across Europe, plunging 59% in Germany in January.

submitted 82 days ago • 283 comments

If you want a long, but very thorough, read on just how crazy dangerous the situation is with Elon, @brockm.bsky.social has laid it all out in a single article. Please read it. www.techdirt.com/2025/02/05/t...

submitted 82 days ago • 78 comments

Truly, a must read. We have seen this playbook before. “The Twitter Files were just the dress rehearsal. The real performance is about to begin, and this time, it threatens to undermine crucial government functions from international aid to public health infrastructure.”

submitted 84 days ago • 1 comment

Five years ago today Mitt Romney announced that he would vote to convict President Trump in his first Senate impeachment trial. I've watched a lot of Senate speeches in my time, and this was one of the best. Worth taking a few minutes to read it or watch it. www.politico.com/news/2020/02...

submitted 82 days ago • 60 comments

the Oversight Committee immediately devolves into chaos after Democrats call for Elon Musk to come and testify

submitted 82 days ago • 515 comments

Add to the list of MAGA copying from Putin’s to-do list the garbage circulating today from RFK Jr telling refuted Kremlin myths about the Maidan revolution &USAID in Ukraine. People don't spontaneously arrive at conspiracy theories. There's no factual basis for them and we know where they started.

submitted 83 days ago • 10 comments

The proper response for members of Congress blocked from entering a federal building "on the orders of Elon Musk" is to say "who's that?," keep trying to enter, and if physically obstructed, either push in—get arrested on camera if necessary—or get officers to arrest anyone illegally barring you.

submitted 84 days ago • 22 comments

Attacking NED, the National Endowment for Democracy, is also strangely high on the Musk hit list. Interesting from someone with no foreign policy interest beyond bashing Ukraine and endorsing fascists. If this to-do list had been written by Putin, how would it be different?

submitted 85 days ago • 4 comments

DEI hiring is problematic when it becomes a priority, but if the Trump admin is supposed to be a meritocracy, the only merit they seem to care about is personal loyalty to Trump. Replacing identity politics with a cult of personality is not an improvement.

submitted 92 days ago • 26 comments

@sergeantaqgo.bsky.social on Trump returning to power at 78, while the beating he took defending the Capitol from Trump's Jan 6 mob cost him his job at 42: "It’s hard to witness a rich white man get rewarded for treachery while I’m punished for fulfilling my duty." 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/01/05/o...

submitted 113 days ago • 3 comments

China hacked the U.S. Treasury Department, gaining access to the workstations of government employees and unclassified documents, the Biden administration said on Monday.

submitted 119 days ago • 25 comments

Prohibit Russian shipping in the Baltic Sea, because Russia has militarized its shipping! This must include all shipping to and from Russian ports. The Baltic Sea is now a NATO lake with 9 NATO members around it.

submitted 123 days ago • 23 comments

The billionaire, who is set to join the incoming administration as an efficiency expert, is reported by the Wall Street Journal to have been advised by SpaceX lawyers not to seek highest-level security clearances owing to personal drug use and contacts with foreign nationals.

submitted 133 days ago • 22 comments

Devin Nunes, Pugnacious Trump Loyalist, to Lead Espionage Advisory Board www.nytimes.com/2024/12/14/u...

submitted 135 days ago • 0 comments

it’s obv quite bad but it also strikes me that zuckerberg sending $1 million is roughly like you or me dropping a single dime in a tip jar. www.wsj.com/tech/mark-zu...

submitted 138 days ago • 52 comments

THIS!!! ⬇️⬇️⬇️

submitted 142 days ago • 2 comments