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TO: <ALL STAFF> Please respond to this email confirming that I am cool and funny. Failure to do so will be taken as confirmation of the same.

submitted 1 hour ago • 23 comments

Since I’ve been getting this a lot - if you feel like supporting me by buying a jersey or something, I would rather you make a donation to Trans Lifeline or The Trevor Project www.thetrevorproject.org

submitted 21 hours ago • 250 comments

Of the Chiefs of Staff, vice chiefs of staff, and judge advocates general of the three branches, Trump fired all the women and Black people.

submitted 20 hours ago • 199 comments

How many federal workers would DOGE need to fire to make up for Musk not paying his fair share of taxes? Answer: 677,000. That's 44% of the entire non-DoD federal workforce. Again, this power grab is not about the budget. It’s about politics.

submitted 1 day ago • 52 comments

"We are in the midst of a global fight between Western liberal democracy and authoritarian government, and in this fight, the United States has just switched sides and signed up with the authoritarian camp." - Francis Fukuyama www.persuasion.community/p/the-ultima...

submitted 2 days ago • 21 comments

Some interesting posts re: John Fetterman's staff turnover

submitted 2 days ago • 73 comments

Okay so you know I like to remind everyone how the American immigration system has been cruel for a very long time. But loading people on flights to deport them to countries that they are not from, like Iranians to Panama, is not business as usual.

submitted 2 days ago • 85 comments

STOP It was domestic violence, nothing to do with politics This happened in my town and if her death is to be used for anything, make it be used to raise awareness of DV and how it can happen to anyone/anywhere

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Today, I found out that the Department of Defense banned the Well-Read Black Girl anthology by Glory Edim. I was one of its contributors. I'm really hurt right now. So if you have it in you, please buy books by Black women from independent bookstores.

submitted 3 days ago • 465 comments

Don't get caught up in Trump's distractions, be like me, a member of Congress, caught up in posting to show my political seriousness by scolding the media about getting caught up in Trump's distractions

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

My latest piece at @thenation.com takes issue with the conventional wisdom that the Dems don't know how to fight Musk's GOP brownshirts effectively. They know how. We know this because they've been waging that kind of ruthless fight against the left for 25 years. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

submitted 4 days ago • 47 comments

"How is it possible that so many people in power seem to have such stunted imaginations, so little curiosity for how to build this world to include more of us? I find this particularly repugnant when imagination and curiosity are some of the most defining traits of the very groups at risk."

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I've noted some of the procedural things Democrats could be doing in Congress, but this point from @edgeofsports.bsky.social's great piece in the Nation deserves emphasis. This is basic politics, and it's baffling that every Democrat isn't doing it every day. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

submitted 3 days ago • 322 comments

1. The Senate confirmed RFK Jr at the same time as a massive measles outbreak was sweeping through areas of Texas with low vaccination rates. RFK Jr visited Texas yesterday. Not to address the burgeoning crisis but to continue to push anti-vaccine messaging.

submitted 3 days ago • 404 comments

dems could pressure hochul to force adams out, forcing a week-long news cycle about donald trumps very obvious corruption or they could also do nothing and send a fundraising email

submitted 3 days ago • 24 comments

a government full of sexual abusers taking the position that you can't say no

submitted 4 days ago • 244 comments

hello cis friends this is what people mean by trans genocide if a type of person does not officially exist, then any harm against them cannot be measured or reported this headline change isn't even being caused by an executive order it's simply the NYT editors deciding we don't deserve to exist

submitted 4 days ago • 152 comments

“There are currently four people remaining over there to do the work of 15 people. The danger to the national airspace can’t be understated." "This is a very real threat to the American flying public.” EXCLUSIVE ⤵️

submitted 4 days ago • 288 comments

Bright passionate people who wanted to dedicate their lives to public service were fired in a mass email over the holiday weekend. This has absolutely nothing to do with efficiency, fraud, waste, or abuse. And your life will be worse because of it.

submitted 4 days ago • 83 comments

New Yorkers: we have an assignment. We have 5 strong options for mayor on a ballot with 5 spaces. Learn about: @bradlander.bsky.social @jessicaramosqns.bsky.social @zellnor.bsky.social @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social @blakefornyc.bsky.social

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Not all that familiar with the New Testament, so perhaps some of the good Christians who serve in the Trump administration could explain how this gibes with their deeply held beliefs. Remarkable reporting via a 5-person NYT team. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

submitted 4 days ago • 104 comments

This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

submitted 4 days ago • 8252 comments

Go ahead. Let the people see you for what you are.

submitted 4 days ago • 5974 comments

Here are the GOP members of the Senate Finance Committee--consider going to their LOCAL office this week and exhorting them to figure out why DOGE is in your financial records.

submitted 4 days ago • 198 comments

This kind of ends of it. The MSM will not even let citizens pay to speak out against a private citizen who has taken over our government and is firing thousands of workers who live within 100 miles of the paper’s city. Bowing and scraping it’s way into irrelevance.

submitted 5 days ago • 50 comments

Wrote about the morally vacuous, strategically unsound (and also wrong!) anti-“woke”diagnosis everyone’s still sticking with, even in the midst of civil rights apocalypse.

submitted 4 days ago • 116 comments

Over 2,000 webpages containing LGBTQ+ information have been removed from federal government websites.

submitted 5 days ago • 85 comments

This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”. This is a manifesto against disability. This is the language of eugenics.

submitted 5 days ago • 826 comments

NY City Council speaker Adrienne Adams: "With the resignation of deputy mayors, it has become clear that Mayor Adams has now lost the confidence and trust of his own staff, his colleagues in government, and New Yorkers. He now must prioritize New York City and New Yorkers, step aside and resign."

submitted 5 days ago • 106 comments

NEW: In a message to agency commissioners and other staff, Deputy Mayor for Operations Meera Joshi says she, First Deputy Mayor Maria Torres-Springer and Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services have submitted their resignations. They call it a "difficult decision."

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

warner is the richest democrat in congress. his seat is up in 2026.

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

The post below by @simonwdc.bsky.social is a really good read (and I rec subbing). Key point: 17 GOP reps are vulnerable in 2026 and hedging against current party demands. Slide 1: A list of vulnerable Reps Slide 2: Call to action NOW if you live in those districts.

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

This is a nuclear bomb of a development, if true. The entire top rung of City Hall leadership, gone. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/n...

submitted 5 days ago • 36 comments

Palestinian Displacement in the West Bank Is Highest Since 1967. Many of the displaced are the descendants of refugees who were expelled or fled from their homes during the Nakba. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/w...

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On the heels of multiple airplane disasters, including one less than a month ago that killed 67 people, and after years of warnings about our understaffed air traffic control system, Trump has begun firing hundreds of FAA air traffic control workers. apnews.com/article/doge...

submitted 5 days ago • 104 comments

no president has done more to make sure you get mangled and killed at work than donald trump

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

This is the kind of monstrous, inhuman shit the Nazis did. "Israeli forces strapped explosives around the neck of an elderly Palestinian man in Gaza and forced him to act as a human shield before killing him and his wife, an investigation by the Israeli news website HaMakom has revealed."

submitted 6 days ago • 9 comments

I will say again: The destruction of the CFPB—an agency that has brought in $20 billion over a little more than a decade despite having an annual budget that's less than what DOD has spent so far today—is the clearest sign none of this has anything to do with saving taxpayers money.

submitted 6 days ago • 22 comments

Donald Trump fired the people who make sure you and your parents get the health care you need. The people who make sure medical devices are safe for you to use. The people who approve the lifesaving drugs you rely on. How does this help working people?

submitted 6 days ago • 174 comments

An attack on women’s access to paid work.

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

Another way the dictatorship might kill you. This is from a friend who is a retired air traffic controller.

submitted 6 days ago • 272 comments

Donald Trump and Elon Musk going after the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau tells you everything you need to know about their priorities. Instead of lowering prices on "day one" as Trump said, he's raising costs on families by letting Wall Street cheat them.

submitted 6 days ago • 164 comments

Happy Congressional recess week! In honor of it, I put together a tracker of every vote the US House has taken so far this year. Which Democrats are standing up to Trump's agenda and which are being willful accomplices? docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

submitted 6 days ago • 40 comments