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"I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward . . . "
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This is what democracy looks like in Providence, RI #handsoff @indivisibleri.bsky.social @indivisible.org @alexagagosz.bsky.social @fitzprov.bsky.social @tednesi.bsky.social @globeri.bsky.social @steveahlquist.bsky.social @nancyklavin.bsky.social

submitted 5 hours ago • 15 comments

Incredibly moving. 1000s of Lithuanians lined the streets of the capital Vilnius yesterday to honor the four US soldiers killed on their soil. As their bodies are repatriated to the US, their President will be nowhere to be seen, except on a Florida golf course. (📸 Gedinimas Varvuolis)

submitted 1 day ago • 101 comments

A man’s gotta have a code. Trump’s code is that the Saudis are paying him millions to host the golf tournament, so that’s where he is.

submitted 2 days ago • 443 comments

The Lithuanian president showed up to honor dead American soldiers as their remains departed his country. The American president did not show up to receive their remains as they arrived in the US. He had a golf tournament to get to.

submitted 1 day ago • 266 comments

I wonder how many people realize the tariff on auto parts causes car insurance premiums to go up?

submitted 3 days ago • 1304 comments

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

submitted 2 days ago • 894 comments

March saw the third-highest number of layoffs in U.S. history, and 80% of them were caused by DOGE This was before the tariffs It's just...unbelievable

submitted 2 days ago • 557 comments

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submitted 4 days ago • 774 comments

NEW — This AM former HHS staffers confronted Sen. Jim Banks (R-IN) about slashing budgets and staff, per video shared with me by Mack Schroeder, a former Budget Analyst for the Office of the Secretary.  Banks tells Schroeder he "probably deserved" to lose his job "because you seem like a clown."

submitted 4 days ago • 461 comments

You have to see this. PoliticsGirl and her husband teamed up with the brilliant Timothy Snyder (author of On Tyranny) and the legendary John Lithgow to create something truly powerful. It’s important, it’s urgent—and it needs to be shared far and wide.

submitted 5 days ago • 596 comments

Good reason to bump this from last year on the benefits of automated traffic enforcement. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

Republicans in Wisconsin have been silent on the Musk giveaway — but the RNC has warned a group they cannot give ice cream to college students.

submitted 5 days ago • 76 comments

Very confused by all the bad Signal takes. This is not complicated. The person *composing the group* is mainly responsible for authenticating members, because only usernames (initial, pseudonyms, or names) are visible to other group members, *not phone numbers.*

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

Let's talk about this Elise Stefanik situation right quick, shall we @ordinarytimes.bsky.social ordinary-times.com/2025/03/28/p...

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Nobel Prizes by country and year. The dominance of Germany is striking every time. Before 1933, that is. And the utter dominance of America (and the UK) after 1945.

submitted 8 days ago • 49 comments

This is why I love archives. I was reading letters written to Justice Abe Fortas in 1969, begging him not to resign in the midst of a scandal. Strewn throughout were letters from people who heard their pastor defend Fortas. Ten years later, they would all die on the same day, in the same place.

submitted 9 days ago • 10 comments

A very old Soviet joke, from an especially dark time: Foxes are fleeing the USSR in droves. Q: Why are you running away? Fox: The Soviets passed a new law that they’re going to arrest all camels. Q: But you’re foxes! Fox: Yeah, why don’t *you* try proving to the NKVD that you’re not a camel.

submitted 9 days ago • 112 comments

I noted the plaintiff in the case against the military transgender ban that just resulted in a nationwide injunction against it, out of WA state, is Commander Emily Shilling, a Navy fighter and test pilot who transitioned while in the service. glaad.org/transgender-...

submitted 8 days ago • 229 comments

Yesterday, Michael Waltz claimed that he’s “never met, don’t know, never communicated with” Jeffrey Goldberg. Here’s a photo of Waltz standing next to Goldberg during a 2021 event at the French Embassy. The event Waltz attended—a Q&A with a French filmmaker—was moderated by Goldberg.

submitted 10 days ago • 616 comments

🚨NEW: Major development. German newspaper Der Spiegel has found phone numbers and passwords for Hegseth, Waltz & Gabbard in stolen data freely published on the internet. ‼️It includes details of Signal accounts. “It is conceivable that foreign agents were privy to the Signal chat group.”

submitted 10 days ago • 138 comments

The acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration admits he retaliated against the entire population of Maine—mostly newborn babies and their parents—because he thought the state’s governor had been rude to Trump in a White House meeting. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/u...

submitted 11 days ago • 114 comments

What time a plane of kidnapped immigrants left the airport is of the highest national security sensitivity but what time we’re gonna bomb Yemen is totally like not even a thing, yo. Don’t even sweat, bro.

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

#booksky

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Just arrived from Berlin to an empty Dulles airport in DC. Assumed because Heathrow outage. “No,” says my WashFlyer cabbie, the past month has been super slow. “Fewer tourists, fewer business people. This is not normal, believe me.” Says he’s looking for a new job because he needs to pay his bills.

submitted 15 days ago • 555 comments

Jaw dropping ignorance. Witkoff knows nothing. Has no knowledge of the violence that Russians have used to suppress Ukrainians in Occupied Ukraine

submitted 14 days ago • 205 comments

New York’s 21st Congressional District will be one of the most critical special elections of the year. I’m the candidate running to replace Elise Stefanik. Chip in today and let’s bring leadership back to our district: secure.actblue.com/donate/gende...

submitted 14 days ago • 15 comments

NEW: Elon Musk’s X has suspended accounts of Turkish opposition groups, suppressing footage of anti-government protests. So, best we share all the footage we can here! This was last night’s massive demo against Erdogan’s government, which follows the arrest of his rival Ekrem İmamoğlu. 🇹🇷 #Turkey

submitted 14 days ago • 169 comments

We have made remarkable progress in just two months toward un-winning the Cold War, Civil War, and Revolutionary War.

submitted 15 days ago • 13 comments

In December, the Fed projected the US economy to grow 2.1% in 2025. Now they’re only expecting 1.7%. That’s lower than every year in the first Trump administration except for covid. My @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social Chart

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

TIL that Tesla insiders (executives, board members, etc) have sold *1.46 million* Tesla shares over the past 12 months, and bought precisely *zero* www.nasdaq.com/market-activ...

submitted 15 days ago • 149 comments

BREAKING — DHS Office of the Immigration Detention Ombudsman is the latest casualty of a Reduction in Force (RIF), an agency source confirms. It was created by Congress to examine violations of standards and misconduct of DHS officials and contractors related to immigration detention.

submitted 15 days ago • 39 comments

The fight for our democracy is not coming. It is here. When I say that we have months, not a year, to save democracy, I'm talking about this coordinated, relentless legal assault on political dissent. 1/ Let me explain a few elements of Trump's plan: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/u...

submitted 16 days ago • 189 comments

If you can’t afford the DoorDash meal in one payment, perhaps you should be opting for a bowl of Cheerios.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Judge Lawrence VanDyke, a far-right Trump appointee, uploaded a YouTube video as part of his dissent from a new decision upholding California's large-capacity magazine ban. He provides a tutorial, in his robes, on how magazines work, using real guns. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMC7...

submitted 16 days ago • 76 comments