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"As a for-profit company, Amtrak fails ... spectacularly. As a government agency, created half a century ago to carry out a public purpose recognized in law and in Supreme Court rulings, it is a spectacular success worth celebrating, supporting, and building up."

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

Democrats are dead wrong about the public's perception of this sort of thing. Most people don't see resistance to tyranny as annoying or dishonorable, they see it as strong. When Dems hold themselves to an imaginary higher standard, they look weak. Exert. The. Power. You. Have.

submitted 19 days ago • 3 comments

but actually: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 19 days ago • 26 comments

Their names: Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran.

submitted 20 days ago • 7 comments

The second Trump administration is already a catastrophe for US democracy; an orgy of illegality, bulldozing of the administrative state, corporate capture of government, and raging bigotry. @marisakabas.bsky.social captures it in this clear-sighted report. www.thehandbasket.co/p/musk-frida...

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

@kenmartin.bsky.social, however much is going on behind the scenes, the visible response from Dems as a whole - some exceptions - has been too quiet by several decibels. I would like to see consistent messaging on 1) The effect of tariffs. I got a 10% tariff on my heating oil now, at -9F. 2) This:

submitted 21 days ago • 12 comments

NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE full access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.

submitted 21 days ago • 6202 comments

The NTSB says it will no longer email news outlets or reporters with notifications of upcoming press conferences, including those on plane crashes in Washington and Philadelphia. Instead, all notifications will be made on X. We're filing a FOIA to find out more about the change in policy.

submitted 21 days ago • 658 comments

Attn: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent granted representatives of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency full access to the federal payment system!

submitted 21 days ago • 337 comments

Exactly. I hope everyone is connecting the dots here.

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments

"Fascist and authoritarian governments are always more fragile than they let on," says @amandamarcotte.bsky.social. Trump is "using shock and awe" because rushing through as much as possible is "their only hope." On the pod, Amanda is so good on Karoline Leavitt: newrepublic.com/article/1908...

submitted 24 days ago • 57 comments

Think Trump's Tyranny Can't Be Opposed or Stopped? Think Again www.commondreams.org/opinion/soci...

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

⚡️ US suspends Ukrainian refugee program after Trump's immigration order.

submitted 26 days ago • 12 comments

Just resharing this excellent diagram from TUMI (the Transformative Urban Mobility Initiative). Cycling, pedestrians and buses are all very efficient ways to move people in cities. But nothing moves people more efficiently in a 3.5 metre wide lane than trains.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

⚡️ 'Stupid, illogical' — Zelensky blasts Ukraine for relinquishing nuclear arms without strong security guarantees.

submitted 26 days ago • 8 comments

Call your Democratic Senators tomorrow and tell them to put down their work on nominations until OMB withdraws its power grab on appropriations. No more nomines go through. None.

submitted 26 days ago • 70 comments

Everyone should be aware of the line that has been crossed in the Trump trans military EO. No longer is this about "evidence," "science" or "protecting kids." Now, explicitly, black and white, it's about trans people being "liars," "dishonorable," "false." It's a big step towards very bad things.

submitted 26 days ago • 120 comments

🔴Nigel Farage Says He Is ‘Open to Anything’ When It Comes to Replacing NHS With ‘Insurance-Based Model’ It’s the latest hint that Reform UK would privatise the NHS bylinetimes.com/2025/01/27/n...

submitted 25 days ago • 62 comments

Terrifying stuff. Our current News and Journalism is mostly not fit for purpose. Byline Times should be coming into its own right now. People need to know who they can trust

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

That’s how fascism starts, destroy the independent knowledge base. We have experience with that here in Germany. (Btw. I’m looking for a postdoc.)

submitted 26 days ago • 4 comments

"Trump and his allies’ vision is an egregious abuse of real history and the new Constitution it forged in the 1860s. If they succeed, then Grant has surrendered to Lee at Appomattox."--David Blight 🗃️ www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

I am begging the national media to start taking this seriously. Stop buying the claims that the framing of "temporary" or "pause." They are altering the review processes of federally funded scientific research from merit-based peer review processes to political screening by ideologues.

submitted 26 days ago • 179 comments

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service. “Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

submitted 26 days ago • 1664 comments

youtu.be/wZ5wOGseB4M?... All of their innovations are about obtaining power so they can charge us more.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

A fantastic interview with Canadian Scientist Katharine Hayhoe about solution aversion manifesting as science denial. A logically and emotionally intelligent perspective. www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks...

submitted 29 days ago • 5 comments

“I think disinformation mobilizes because it speaks to some aspect of somebody’s truth – whether that is an emotion they feel based on an experience or memory, whether that is a particular perception they have, whether that is a true piece of information that plays on fears.”

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

The new White House has already deleted dozens of environmental justice websites and reports. Worry not, they’re all backed up on various independent university websites. eelp.law.harvard.edu/tracker-type... 🧪🌎

submitted 32 days ago • 70 comments

Members of the Cyber Safety Review Board were informed they have been dismissed pursuant to a DHS order disbanding all advisory committees. The board had been in the middle of probing the Chinese hack of U.S. telecoms, a review that now is in limbo and possibly terminated.

submitted 32 days ago • 7 comments

The Budde sermon, and Trump's reaction to it, distills nearly everything I've written about for the past decade. MAGA believes they define the only true version of Christianity in America. A Christianity that sees Trump as white Christian America's savior, and all other Christianities as dead.

submitted 31 days ago • 41 comments

This should be essential reading for white Christians. Still i worry that Pavlovitz is a hack.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

Looks like some people are deliberately trying to recreate the dark ages.

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments