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European Parliament member 👇🏽

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Engraving on the exterior of the United States Department of Justice headquarters.

submitted 12 days ago • 302 comments

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

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Stares in the Amarillo Division of the Northern District of Texas.

submitted 17 days ago • 121 comments

Here’s what we did today

submitted 20 days ago • 3132 comments

We are members of Congress at the Treasury Department. We want to be let in to provide oversight on behalf of our constituents. @jasmineforus.bsky.social @sethmagaziner.bsky.social

submitted 23 days ago • 4327 comments

This is scary but very important.

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Treasury folks: Call FBI Washington Field Office. Report an intrusion into the agency’s system. Let them know what you are seeing. Use a burner phone if you have to. It is better than nothing (screenshot from www.crisesnotes.com/day-five-of-...)

submitted 24 days ago • 42 comments

@wired.com: “6 young men—all apparently between the ages of 19 and 24 who have little to no government experience are now playing critical roles in Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)” & are heading up Musk’s hostile takeover of our government www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

submitted 25 days ago • 298 comments

"Trump is demanding protection money. Pay him, and you won’t be subject to the president using the weight of the federal government to wreck your company. Pay him, and you won’t be subject to ceaseless frivolous litigation filed in Trump-friendly courts."

submitted 24 days ago • 195 comments

One thing for Senate Democrats to do is announce they will use every tool at their disposal to block Bondi’s nomination until DOJ appoints a special counsel (ideally with beefed up firing protections) to investigate the widely reported crimes committed this week by Musk and his band of DOGE goons.

submitted 25 days ago • 164 comments

When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.

submitted 26 days ago • 1309 comments

RONALD REAGAN (1988): We should be aware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends, weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world—all while cynically waving the American flag.

submitted 25 days ago • 1978 comments

Dear community, last time you helped us reach lots of new BlueSky followers. Now that we see that there is an exodus on X, it is important that these people can also find us on BlueSky for all necessary updates about Ukraine. Would you like to share this message, preferably with a quote? Thanks!

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✅ NEW by me: Apple and Costco are not alone in taking a strong stand on diversity, equity & inclusion (DEI). The list of corporate giants pushing back on the 'anti-woke' #DEI backlash is growing in 2025. www.thequeenzone.com/dei-isnt-dyi... via @thequeenzone.bsky.social

submitted 41 days ago • 338 comments

Considering the size and scope of Project 2025, the section devoted to CISA is miniscule — less than 400 words in all. But what that brief section proposes for the agency could have grave implications for the future of elections — and democracy. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/a-l...

submitted 42 days ago • 79 comments

We have teamed up with Mendez & Sanchez to provide free In-N-Out Burgers, free drinks, and other free meals to first responders and those affected by the fires. Please share.

submitted 45 days ago • 257 comments

Welcome to The Contrarian, a new media outlet not owned by anybody You won’t find cozy alliances, half-measures, or false equivalences here. We bend the knee to no one, vigorously challenge unchecked authority and champion transparency and accountability Join our venture at contrarian.substack.com

submitted 46 days ago • 374 comments

SoCal friends: Many animal shelters are overwhelmed from people dropping off beloved pets they can't take with them as they flee. Please consider donating and fostering. Pasadena Humane is one such org. Contact your local animal orgs to see if they need help. pasadenahumane.org/eaton-canyon...

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x X has ~18m daily USA users. @bsky.app, ~1.5m. Is it worth 20 MINS a day to proactively recruit and bring your friends, neighbors,relatives, businesses, anyone who is or could be a user, to @bsky.app? If Bluesky ends up with more users than the others, you destabilize musk, zuck, trump.

submitted 52 days ago • 2894 comments

Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was ProPublica reporter @josh-kaplan.bsky.social. propub.li/3DGXECO

submitted 55 days ago • 466 comments

THREAD: In 2023, I received an envelope with no return address. Inside was a flash drive containing tens of 1000s of secret files. It came from a vigilante with a tumultuous past, who'd conducted a years-long undercover operation. He didn’t tell the FBI or his family. He only told me.

submitted 55 days ago • 905 comments

“The Supreme Court’s chief justice, John Roberts, is now echoing Trump’s demand that people stop criticizing him, his colleagues, and other federal jurists — while continuing to pretend that judges are not political.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 56 days ago • 261 comments

“The abrupt elevation of culture wars echoes the formula Republicans have used for the past forty years to distract from the reality that between 1981 and 2021 their embrace of so-called supply-side economics moved $50 trillion from the bottom 90% to the top 1%.” open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

submitted 56 days ago • 24 comments

Voters are unhappy with a government they feel does not deliver for them. Unfair voting maps are part of why Washington too frequently does not work.

submitted 63 days ago • 36 comments

The DHS Federal Protective Service is ripe for weaponization against political enemies.

submitted 77 days ago • 4 comments

Spanish-speaking communities are uniquely vulnerable to the spread of election misinformation, which often targets their specific sociopolitical experiences and frequently goes unchecked by social media platforms.

submitted 78 days ago • 1 comment

It’s really not left vs right. It’s a class war. The billionaires vs the rest of us.

submitted 78 days ago • 1309 comments

Private prison companies may not create aggressive immigration policies, but they’re the enablers and biggest financial beneficiaries of mass detention. We break down the perverse incentives driving the industry:

submitted 80 days ago • 1 comment

Accurate. Repost if you agree.

submitted 81 days ago • 316 comments

Not used to making the news, but good thing I think if it brings focus to the problem--we're in a real fight, and Trump is trying to cow media; if papers choose "balance" over truth, they're helping to promote authoritarian rule. nypost.com/2024/12/06/m...

submitted 84 days ago • 128 comments

Few Americans have heard of the Federal Protective Service, but if Trump cracks down on dissent, we’ll hear a lot more about DHS’s powerful - and troubled - law enforcement arm.

submitted 83 days ago • 5 comments

Heroes

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Repost if BlueSky is now your primary social media site.

submitted 92 days ago • 561 comments

I've said it before, and I'll say it again. Misinformation is a pandemic.

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I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget

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Lee: When Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was up for confirmation or when VP Harris was added to the ticket, they called them DEI hires. They want you to believe that Harvard graduate with over 20 years of experience is not qualified but Fox personality is qualified to run the DOD

submitted 100 days ago • 1196 comments

It was my honor to get to work in this piece with my brilliant friends @mimirocah1.bsky.social & @dahlialithwick.bsky.social slate.com/news-and-pol...

submitted 99 days ago • 70 comments

20 mostly white private academies, all founded in the 1960s and 1970s, brought in more than $20 million from North Carolina in the past three years alone. None reflected the demographics of their communities. Few even came close.

submitted 101 days ago • 30 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 102 days ago • 190 comments

If the legacy media was doing its job and not sucking up to Trump, this would be a national scandal. “Republicans filed four more lawsuits to stop the counting of certain ballots in the Pennsylvania general election.” www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 102 days ago • 606 comments

NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next. I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social 1/ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 103 days ago • 1168 comments

There is now some hard evidence that X boosted the Trump campaign and suppressed the Harris campaign. What's to stop Musk from doing the same in other countries? www.threads.net/@profsander....

submitted 103 days ago • 336 comments