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Zero harm and ample upside in Democrats calling for impeachments and a special prosecutor. The VP, the Secretaries of State, Defense, and Treasury, the DNI, and the NSC were all involved in the grossly negligent disclosure of specifics on combat operations.

submitted 8 minutes ago • 16 comments

the single most consequential thing that naive ‘orange man bad’ heuristics would have mislead you on is probably Operation Warp Speed, and since he retroactively went anti-vax and appointed an essential oils crank to HHS, it’s not even that big a miss.

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

Progressives: "Pursue our good policy agenda, it will win you an election!" WRONG Moderates: "Want to win elections? Pursue this bad policy agenda!" ALSO WRONG Basically nobody: "Pursue a good policy agenda, because policy outcomes don't really effect elections" CORRECT

submitted 2 days ago • 21 comments

Only 17% of people thinking Elon is a drug addict is a real growth opportunity for discourse generation. How do we get journalists asking the white house about his drug consumption? What is Trump's take on his ketamine usage?

submitted 3 days ago • 19 comments

rfk jr's attitude toward anyone or thing that gets sick is "if he dies, he dies."

submitted 5 days ago • 840 comments

Anyone seen any info/response from DC officials on this? @maustermuhle.bsky.social

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

to be clear, USIP staff spoke to MPD prior and then called them to report DOGE as trespassers and when the cops showed up they instead held the door open for Musk’s thugs.

submitted 6 days ago • 77 comments

to me the most disturbing fact about DOGE’s raid on the US Institute of Peace is that the local cops helped them.

submitted 6 days ago • 242 comments

It's happening again...

submitted 6 days ago • 16 comments

One of the most important things for Dems to do for long-term viability as a party is elect as many pro-housing local leaders as we can, especially in states projected to lose population - then empower them to build fast.

submitted 6 days ago • 14 comments

New NBER paper shows dramatic effects of NYC's congestion pricing in contrast with a set of control cities: A large reduction in travel times on roadways—average speeds increased by 15%—combined with a substantial reduction in vehicular emissions. www.nber.org/system/files...

submitted 7 days ago • 14 comments

This is appalling for the mistreatment, the arbitrary refusal to honor a valid visa, and the contempt of court, but on top of that: We do not have enough transplant physicians. They are worth more than their weight in gold. The Trump admin just deported one solely out of bigotry.

submitted 7 days ago • 21 comments

NIMBYs will fight tooth and nail against ANY zoning change to allow new housing, no matter how little it will change existing neighborhood look and feel; so advocates should just ask for what they actually want.

submitted 9 days ago • 7 comments

Anyway I just sent a fax to my senator. faxzero.com/fax_senate.php

submitted 10 days ago • 196 comments

People who don't pay much attention would think we're crazy to state that a core project of the current conservative movement is to disenfranchise women.

submitted 11 days ago • 8 comments

Really happy to see this new Econofact memo out that explains why deportations could actually increase crime and that they certainly will not decrease crime. econofact.org/can-heighten...

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Trump's own former chief of staff warned the country about this exact thing, at great risk to himself, and the New York Times imes ran it on A14 and buried it

submitted 11 days ago • 20 comments

one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much

submitted 12 days ago • 1217 comments

I joined @freedcproject.bsky.social on Capitol Hill to talk with senators about allowing D.C. to spend our local dollars on our priorities - on public safety, education, and more essential services. We must prevent a catastrophic cut to DC’s budget in the continuing resolution.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

my latest: whether or not this is a constitutional crisis, there ought to be no question that our constitutional order is rotting from the inside out

submitted 12 days ago • 100 comments

This chart seems to suggest that something is going wrong in the United States, specifically. (www.ft.com/content/7568... )

submitted 12 days ago • 101 comments

Not lost on me how funny it is that Trump put a 10% tariff on Canadian electricity and it was good and based but when Doug Ford put a 25% export tax on electricity it was an evil attack on America’s basic security and freedom that needed to be retaliated against.

submitted 13 days ago • 14 comments

This, @fetterman.senate.gov, is one of the many reasons I'm asking as your constituent to vote against the dirty CR. (Another reason is the tariff validation hidden in it.) It's not a clean CR; it does more than move dates. Voting "yes" is endorsing the lawlessness and chaos of the Trump admin.

submitted 13 days ago • 12 comments

Tell your senators to stop the CR. Even if it were clean! Which it’s not!

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Today I published a story about the Trump admin moving away from Housing First, and I wanted to offer a few additional thoughts. I’ve been covering homelessness for a long time, and I do think HF advocates need to reconsider some aspects of their advocacy /1 🧵

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Yes this is true: Dems seem to be pairing rhetorical moderation with procedural hardball, and I am very appreciative of the latter

submitted 17 days ago • 5 comments

Really galling that Republicans censured Al Green after embracing the disruptions from MTG and Boebert last year. Republicans are such unprincipled jerks and should not be allowed near power — need to vote out as many Republicans as possible in 2026

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

I've been thinking a lot about that bumper sticker which says "everything looks like a conspiracy theory when you don't understand how anything works" and folks it's pretty obvious to me that the people in power right now have absolutely no desire to understand how anything works.

submitted 18 days ago • 230 comments

Imagine DOGE opens your mail and finds your household electric bill. To eliminate this cost, they burn your house down without warning. Then they total up the bills that, as a homeless person, you will never again pay. On its website, DOGE boasts about the money it has saved you.

submitted 20 days ago • 101 comments

Seems like why the meeting imploded was more like "Trump is senile and has lost all impulse control and JD Vance is pickled in online fash propaganda" www.semafor.com/article/02/2...

submitted 23 days ago • 228 comments

Budgets are statements of values. And what we're seeing is that House Republicans value ripping food and health care away from millions of Americans in order to partly pay for tax cuts for the rich.

submitted 26 days ago • 13 comments

Don’t pass $4.5 Trillion in tax cuts and ever come at me again that we can’t have this.

submitted 26 days ago • 13 comments

House Rs just passed the budget resolution, the first step in their process to enact a bill that'd kick millions off Medicaid & cut SNAP down to just $1.60 per person per meal on avg while cutting taxes for the top 0.1% by $278k - all while increasing the debt 🧵on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT

submitted 26 days ago • 752 comments

[Silence.]

submitted 27 days ago • 314 comments

until they can identify what DOGE is and who runs it, the messaging should be that it’s a criminal enterprise

submitted 27 days ago • 16 comments

Elon Musk is stealing your tax dollars and putting them in his own pocket

submitted 27 days ago • 17 comments