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🚨Here is Judge Boasberg's opinion finding that he has probable cause that the government in CRIMINAL contempt for defying his orders on March 15: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 1 day ago • 132 comments

A basic income lifts people out of precarity, gives them an exit option from bad situations, and allows them to shift to what they want to do, or closer to it. There is a deep-rooted conservative belief that poor people cannot be trusted with comfort or leisure. They must be forced to toil.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

The investment surge that Trump is choking off.

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

“The best way to understand the Trump admin is as a gender performance” is the kind of statement I used to roll my eyes so hard at and yet - it is pretty accurate right now

submitted 10 days ago • 10 comments

This is precisely why I harp on the negative influence of reactionary centrists so often: Exaggerating the radicalism of the left gives voters permission to support the radicalism of the right. If both candidates are deranged fascist liars, why not support the one that's gonna cut your taxes?

submitted 8 days ago • 28 comments

THE SUPREME COURT’S TdA OPINION IS TERRIFYING. Not because it’s wrong, although it is, but because of how comfortable the Court seems in abusing authority to get to what it must see as an institutionally desirable outcome. 1/

submitted 10 days ago • 54 comments

Nostalgia for mid-20th century manufacturing jobs is really nostalgia for strong unions and the wages/benefits/conditions they got, yes. And 1950s life wasn’t actually that good, especially if you weren’t a white man. But also, every other industrialized economy was trashed. Not happening again.

submitted 9 days ago • 22 comments

The future of the Democratic Party should be trans rights and trans Pacific partnerships.

submitted 13 days ago • 8 comments

You have to listen to the whole thing. He’s expressing utter helplessness. “Trump has long held beliefs” “Those are the facts. All I can do is let people know what I’m hearing”. He’s a senior US Senator of the governing party Constitutonally endowed to control trade policy.

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

Womp womp

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

the Trans Pacific Partnership was good and I’m tired of pretending it’s not

submitted 13 days ago • 26 comments

I keep thinking about this in light of all this tariff insanity—republicans feel totally unable to pass a bill like the CHIPS Act, so the only way for them to pursue industrial policy is 50% tariffs on Vietnam

submitted 14 days ago • 6 comments

People don't miss manufacturing jobs. They miss the effects of having 30+ percent union density. And we can build worker power again, with good policies, for the jobs most working class people actually have today rather than hoping mumbo jumbo will make it 1955 again.

submitted 14 days ago • 130 comments

We all see it don't we?

submitted 15 days ago • 61 comments

We don’t have to let Trump wreck our economy with tariffs—that’s a choice. The Constitution gives trade authority to Congress, not the President. Congress delegated tariff powers to the President and we can take them back. We have the bills (one is mine). We just need enough support to pass them.

submitted 15 days ago • 162 comments

This isn’t the usual Chotiner interview where he runs rings around some idiot — it’s something that is, to me, significantly more troubling: a conversation with a clearly intelligent man who has totally released himself over to the Devil, and will not see it

submitted 15 days ago • 7 comments

Good morning. Cory Booker has now been speaking on the Senate floor for 12 hours straight. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/inside-...

submitted 16 days ago • 415 comments

This seems solid. More of this. Show people things are breaking.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

We will not be distracted. We will not be discouraged. We’ve got our eyes on the prize. And we will build the prosperous, free nation for all that we deserve. The time to organize is now. OcasioCortez.com

submitted 20 days ago • 2437 comments

great essay from @prorogers.bsky.social that highlights how the certainties of race are used as a kind of shield against an inner terror. men retreat into them in the face of an unsettled world-- much the same is true, i think, of the current wave of reactionary gender insanity

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

The only way they can truly feel empowered is if they know their enemies are hurting, because they neither want nor can imagine building anything worthwhile, escapist sci-fi fantasies excepted

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

The Good Place Committee needs to be run out of their jobs, one by one, until none of them are left.

submitted 34 days ago • 22 comments

Not hard to understand what motivates Senate Democrats: they dislike controversy, they really enjoy being important, so faced with conflict they find the quickest route to making it go away so they can continue being important. And usually the easiest way to make a conflict go away is to lose it.

submitted 34 days ago • 27 comments

nobody objected to unanimous consensus, and short of an outright revolt in the next few days and the deposing of schumer as minority leader, and ex-communicating of the "yes" votes, you sort of have to assume everyone was on board with this. no doubt many were not but there's no way to be sure.

submitted 34 days ago • 9 comments

I don't want to say the Schumer optics are bad but Gavin Newsom just invited him on his podcast.

submitted 35 days ago • 516 comments