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"I am aware of all internet traditions." “We are all living in the same world. We all deserve a life of peace and happiness. No one will convince me otherwise. Where you have inequality and injustice there will be suffering.”
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Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

No matter how preposterous, the Times headlines nearly every Trump story as if it were written by the White House comms team.

It's pretty cool that Eater put together resources for restaurants about how to handle ICE raids

another great example along with Wired and Teen Vogue of how real journalism these days can be a lot braver at outlets where no one is trying to get in good with the White House press secretary they’re out here with us, reporting on what’s happening to us all, instead of trying to get inside access

Feminism Is For Men Too

There are moments in these deportation fights when I can just FEEL how pissed off they are that I’m Puerto Rican 😂 they want to threaten me with it so bad 😂

ICYMI: I’m leading a constitutional amendment to undo Citizens United. After an election where a billionaire bought a seat as Shadow President, we must ensure our democracy is truly of, by, and for the people — not corporations and billionaire donors. truthout.org/articles/jay...

The Senate just voted on a simple idea: If you make $1 BILLION in a year, you don't deserve a tax handout. Democrats voted yes. Republicans voted no. Republicans are planning huge tax cuts for the rich, but they’re not the ones who need a break — working people do.

all your calls are working, i can't remember a senator *ever* apologizing for a confirmation vote

Short update on the Toronto crash, how Musk's FAA budget cuts will lead to more crashes, and the ridiculous notion that SpaceX will "overhaul" the ATC system. Just more Dunning-Kreuger from another stupid billionaire. balloon-juice.com/2025/02/18/q...

If you’re wondering why I declined to talk to the NYTimes, then you haven’t been following my account for very long. They bear a direct responsibility for the current situation we find ourselves in, and I responded by laying out my position and that I would only talk to @jamellebouie.net

I love how one of the conservative members of the council said that "there was nothing peaceful" about Kluwe's protest...which consisted of getting up on the stage and being arrested (without any resistance). These bravado spouting MAGAts are such weenies. Terrified of the merest harsh word.

hey @mattyglesias.bsky.social, the piece that you link to here — my piece — does not say that “all DEI critics want to reimpose segregation” and i would appreciate it if you didn’t lie to your audience about what my work says.

Wrote about how easy it is to claim you saved taxpayers billions when you just make shit up. But also how this is the Twitter Files all over again. The dumbest people don't know what they're looking at so it must be a conspiracy www.techdirt.com/2025/02/19/i...

I appreciate everyone’s messages of support, I’m trying to get through all my mentions but as you can imagine, it’s been a bit of a busy day :) Remember - peaceful civil disobedience, and no kings, no tyrants. Not ever.

Bernie Sanders on the secret endgame of DOGE: “They want to make the case to the American people that the whole government stinks—Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid— all of these programs that help you. They're terrible, and the way forward is to privatize them.”

“I think there is a real organic hunger from people who want to see their government fighting back against corporate law breaking, and that's what we did at the FTC,” says Lina Khan.

counterpoint: WE DON’T HAVE KINGS IN AMERICA AND I DO NOT INTEND TO BEND THE KNEE TO ONE is a profoundly more effective message than whatever this farting around is, go listen to the great khan of the plains

Elon paying random right-wing e-girls he picked up on twitter to have his kids by IVF is evidence that there is in fact such a thing as western decadence.

This is so antithetical to the English legal tradition that they killed Charles I about it, and then they couped James II

i do not care for this khmer rouge reboot

Conservatives often think they can manage reactionaries. It never works. And yet they rarely learn.

"I called it ethnic cleansing. But when I saw the images of starving babies in Gaza I had to upgrade my language." By Art Spiegelman (Maus) and Joe Sacco www.theguardian.com/world/pictur...

Good evening! New at The Evening Constitutional, the takedown of Bruce Ackerman's theory of constitutional change you've all been waiting for! (Well, a brief stab at it, anyway) eveningconstitutional.net/are-we-havin...

incredible the mental gymnastics folks will do to justify cowardice

I wrote about JD Vance's visit to Dachau today, and how Christians appropriate sites of Jewish murder into Christian penitential narratives: religiondispatches.org/jd-vance-is-...

Good morning to this man, and this man only #bbcqt

This comment on r/fednews really stood out to me. Trump and Musk want people to think they're firing do-nothing "bureaucrats," but they're really getting rid of people dedicated to serving this country and keeping it operational. I hope these stories get told.

in 2009, foreclosure courts were operating so quickly you just showed up with paperwork and they foreclosed. it didn't matter if the bank held the mortgage, if the payments were late or not, if the evidence was false or not. bondi fired prosecutors investigating that prospect.org/justice/2024...

Just in case people don't know the context, this is a policy called splitting the letters, developed by fundamentalist Christians to use feminist and queer language and culture to split the T off and then turn the others against each other. You can watch their 2017 conference planning it.

Scoop: The databases powering DOGE.gov are insecure, and people outside the government have already pushed their own updates to the site to prove it: www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...

no the fuck we are NOT making “LGBQ+” a thing and if I see any of you motherfuckers using that acronym it’s on sight Marsha P. Johnson did not smash in the windshield of a police car for this

These cuts are bad, but it's important to know that there are 60,000 more people at the national labs who carry out these responsibilities.

We were told this was, like, the most dangerous app in the world and a national security threat like no other. And now everyone is like "eh, it's fine"