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Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer are the two leaders of their party now. And they appear to be mainly watching as Trump and Musk mount an all-out blitzkrieg on the government, the rule of law, and democracy. Why are they bringing a teaspoon to a gunfight, asks @davidcorn.bsky.social?

submitted 1 day ago • 152 comments

The social media dunking without shutting down the Senate until Musk stops breaking the law is just social media dunking. This gap between words and actions now is a historic failure of leadership while Republicans torch the constitution.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Fantastic piece by @adamserwer.bsky.social of the resegregation of America under Trump.

submitted 4 days ago • 28 comments

This gift link should work: wapo.st/41qBKwR

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Jocelynn Rojo Carranza is a casualty of Trump's America, @robynelyse.bsky.social writes: www.wonkette.com/p/jocelynn-r...

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

The anti-CRT/DEI/WHITE movement predates the American education system. But don't take my word for it... Read the primary sources Hurry up. It might be illegal soon.

submitted 8 days ago • 10 comments

I keep seeing this. Guys, their literal job is to figure out what to do. They are not helpless even if they are not the majority. I really hope we can stop treating some of the most powerful people in the world as helpless and without sentience.

submitted 9 days ago • 250 comments

This is what democracy looks like. Happy to have stood with my fellow New Yorkers today at Union Square. #50501

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

Adams must be removed. The city cannot sustain being governed for nearly a year by a Mayor who is being coerced by Trump admin in order to escape charges. This corruption poses a real threat to the people of the city. He should have resigned a while ago, but will not. So it’s time for him to go.

submitted 12 days ago • 1780 comments

If you understand that apartheid was an economic system first, and a brutally violent system of social segregation second, you'll understand how Elon Musk is trying to update the principles from his homeland, and bring about a neo-apartheid system in the US. My latest in @thenation.com

submitted 13 days ago • 128 comments

At least three dozen Democrats plan to take over the Senate floor all night tonight, for 30 hours, to oppose Trump's budget office nominee, Russ Vought. “He’s the architect of the dismantling of our federal government,” said Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii). www.huffpost.com/entry/democr...

submitted 21 days ago • 212 comments

I have news for you - we aren’t taking over Gaza. But the media and the chattering class will focus on it for a few days and Trump will have succeeded in distracting everyone from the real story - the billionaires seizing government to steal from regular people.

submitted 21 days ago • 251 comments

This @washingtonpost.com story is so important that I'm gifting it. These people appear to be operating totally illegally and outside the Constitution -- and they know it. wapo.st/40LVERn

submitted 22 days ago • 340 comments

In case anyone is into definition, what happened this week is an administrative coup. Trump and the broligarchs are refashioning our government to be of, by and for the billionaires.

submitted 26 days ago • 4 comments

"We have no visibility into what they are doing with the computer and data systems," one of the officials said. "That is creating great concern. There is no oversight. It creates real cybersecurity and hacking implications." www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

We are watching Project 2025 come to life. Thankfully, pro-democracy groups are fighting back in the courts and winning. @democracydocket.com's 17-person team tracks these lawsuits so you don't have to. Support their work. www.democracydocket.com/member-me/

submitted 28 days ago • 356 comments

Needs to be understood in tandem with the IG Firings, and as a whole chapter of Project 2025--strip oversight entities of authority. Disable security cameras before robbing the bank. Trump Seeks to Paralyze Independent Privacy and Civil Liberties Watchdog www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/u...

submitted 32 days ago • 40 comments

The big-money right-wing push to upend the Constitution—and kill birthright citizenship

submitted 33 days ago • 20 comments

Don't conflate "wildly corrupt kleptocracy" with "conservative government. Ron DeSantis runs the former.

submitted 33 days ago • 50 comments

“Do not obey in advance. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do.” T.Snyder.

submitted 34 days ago • 5 comments

Civil rights groups and 18 states sue to stop Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

submitted 36 days ago • 25 comments

The Governor of NC has called for a GOP Supreme Court candidate to concede after I revealed for @propublica.org that Jefferson Griffin was trying to overturn his election loss by seeking to toss 5.5k military ballots--which is exactly the same way that Griffin has voted in the past. #ncpol

submitted 37 days ago • 26 comments

We cannot rely upon resistance, we must clearly and consistently utilize engage in refusal. Authoritarians rely upon our capitulation to succeed.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Fed up with Meta? Avoiding Instagram or Facebook isn’t enough to stop Meta from harvesting and profiting from your private information. Here’s how to limit Meta’s ability to monetize your personal data.

submitted 40 days ago • 777 comments

On Monday Donald Trump takes control of the federal government and will weaponize DOJ. To protect democracy, the Department should dismiss its current voting cases so they aren't weaponized against the very people they are trying to help. Please watch and share. www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-il...

submitted 41 days ago • 67 comments

Take a few minutes to read @julito77.bsky.social excellent piece about Bad Bunny www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

Nearly 70% of rural Illinois residents live in a child care desert. One parent drove 100 miles a day to drop her son at child care, head to her classes in the opposite direction, then do it again in reverse. She spent $600 a month on gas alone. w/ Capitol News Illinois

submitted 45 days ago • 33 comments

Leaked GOP list outlines plan to cut $479B from Medicare: Politico www.rawstory.com/medicare-cut...

submitted 46 days ago • 47 comments

More than 100 years after its initial review that blamed Black men, the Dept. of Justice just released its report on the 1921 Tulsa race massacre The report says the attack “was so systematic and coordinated that it transcended mere mob violence”

submitted 47 days ago • 483 comments

Meta is ending its diversity, equity and inclusion programs, known as DEI, the company said, becoming the latest company to pull back from such practices in the wake of pressure from conservative critics and customers.

submitted 47 days ago • 115 comments

Jimmy Carter said he not sticking around for whatever 2025 has. 😩 Rest in peace, sir. Job well done.

submitted 58 days ago • 2 comments

Last year, when I was at MSNBC, I did a 10-minute deep-dive into RFK Jr's anti-vaxxer role in the measles outbreak that killed dozens and dozens of kids in Samoa. I hope every Senator voting in his confirmation process for HHS knows about this crucial and awful story:

submitted 98 days ago • 1047 comments

NEW: Private schools across the South that were established for white children during desegregation are now benefiting from tens of millions in taxpayer dollars flowing from rapidly expanding voucher-style programs, a @propublica analysis found. www.propublica.org/article/segr...

submitted 100 days ago • 190 comments