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If you think the headline is good, you should read the copy.

submitted 5 hours ago • 180 comments

This is quite significant in many ways: the overt thuggery, Trump’s barely suppressed fury at being contradicted by a woman, the governor’s standing up, the total abandonment of the pretense of federalism, the continuing use of trans Americans the way Hitler used Jews.

submitted 3 days ago • 294 comments

Without going all Martin Niemöller here, I do think that it's bad not to speak up for immigrants, transgender Americans, civil servants, women, Ukraine, and everyone else the MAGA bullies are going after. We're beyond picking and choosing whom to defend. It's time to stand up and speak out.

submitted 8 days ago • 265 comments

This is why making contributions to DNC and other Dem organizations is so hard right now.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

We don’t have a Senate majority, but that doesn’t mean we’re going to make this easy for them. I refuse to sit around and let them install the architect of Project 2025 into the federal government without a fight.

submitted 18 days ago • 133 comments

It’s amazing to me that politicians don’t commit to post first on @bsky.app and to engage with constituents here THIS is more powerful than CNN , MSNBC, The Post will ever be. You can broadcast for 9 mins on a declining medium, or engage here and start a real discussion. Which is more powerful?

submitted 38 days ago • 4387 comments

One of things I have heard homeowners say when asked about why don’t they install solar is HOA rules! Could there be state / federal regulation / legislation that prohibits HOAs from doing so?

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

Another key thing: Gabbard has no South Asian ancestry. Nobody in her family does! They’re all just members of this cult & fetishize their version of Hinduism. She regularly blurs this line and lets people misinterpret her first name to imply that she’s a member of our communities, but she is not.

submitted 51 days ago • 23 comments

The ABC News settlement makes zero sense from a legal standpoint. It assumes there is a moral or reputational difference between forcibly penetrating a woman’s vagina with fingers and doing so with a penis. It also assumes that Trump has a reputation that could suffer damage.

submitted 71 days ago • 981 comments

Kevin: " The only thing I would take from all this discussion, and Van tell me if I'm right or wrong: When Republicans lose, we never say we have to have therapy." Sarah: "You just say you didn't lose." Kevin: "I never knew who she was until today."

submitted 75 days ago • 209 comments

Over on the bad site, right wingers are outraged that ProPublica gave Pete Hegseth 3 chances to correct bad information West Point gave them, and Mike Johnson is trying to distract from the $18M Justin Sun gave Trump and the tower the Saudis gave him.

submitted 75 days ago • 7 comments

This is an oligarchy. The founders never intended people to have this much power… EVER Stop the oligarchy

submitted 79 days ago • 1915 comments

UPDATE: Here's an updated version of my recent column that corrects an erroneous photo caption and a refocus AG pick Pam Bondi toward the election lies she told at Philly news conferences and on Fox News in 2020. Earlier posts with the error have been deleted www.inquirer.com/opinion/pam-...

submitted 90 days ago • 17 comments

Is the media really doing this again? No, Donald Trump did not make his personal criminal defense lawyer the number two person at DOJ to "protect" the agency from Trump. Please stop.

submitted 92 days ago • 876 comments

What a strange headline for a story that notes: 1. 2,169 ballots were rejected for no ID. 2. "The voter ID law disproportionately hindered Democrats." 3. "The evidence overwhelmingly shows" that fraud "is essentially nonexistent." 4. The state Supreme Court race was decided by only 625 votes.

submitted 92 days ago • 310 comments

Could not agree with this more. Do not give in to the malignant normality no matter how many others accept it.

submitted 96 days ago • 242 comments

Got mad enough about this that I turned this thread into a blog. Kamala Harris did not engage in overt identity politics. Donald Trump did. It probably helped him. And yet, pundits like Weiss, Stephens & Dowd treat identity politics only as a failed Dem tactic. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

submitted 106 days ago • 125 comments

I tossed my lesson plan today and talked about the election with my class, not to dictate my thoughts, but to get theirs. Here's what I learned from 24 twentysomethings. medium.com/@Brocktoon/n...

submitted 108 days ago • 58 comments

Hello Blueskiers. Here's a thread I just put on Twitter that several folks said Bluesky might also enjoy: threadreaderapp.com/thread/18520...

submitted 116 days ago • 23 comments

Why I'm voting www.nytimes.com/2024/10/28/o...

submitted 119 days ago • 9 comments

Florida Senator Rick Scott is up for re-election in a state with over one million Puerto Ricans.

submitted 119 days ago • 76 comments

I can't stop thinking about the fact that legacy media thinks Trump's McDonald's stunt is bigger news than Milley's comment about fascism.

submitted 126 days ago • 53 comments

Trump’s closing message is a full blown hate campaign against black and brown people. Historians will look back in astonishment that this terrifying reality wasn’t the subject of wall to wall coverage and commentary in weeks leading up to this election. He’s not hiding anything.

submitted 135 days ago • 141 comments

This is untenable for a democracy. We can’t have our rights destroyed by the fine print in thousands of TOS documents that literally no human has the time or capacity to read and that are not negotiable in any way. No.

submitted 144 days ago • 42 comments

my take in the times debate round up

submitted 145 days ago • 155 comments

EVERYONE! The best gov't agency on all of social media is now here.

submitted 145 days ago • 4 comments

When in the course of human events...

submitted 146 days ago • 115 comments

When Jeff Flake was in the Senate he was one of the 2 or 3 most conservative members. This is quite something.

submitted 148 days ago • 68 comments

Hey folks! My doctor is preparing a lecture on Long COVID treatments and is hoping to collect data on LC patients who have tried maraviroc or anti-coagulation treatments. If that's you, the survey link is below. It should take 2 minutes and is HIPAA compliant. Reposts appreciate for reach. :)

submitted 155 days ago • 2 comments