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Stop what you’re doing & listen to this!

submitted 21 days ago • 328 comments

If Trump's "new" Ukraine "peace plan" sounds familiar, it was in the Mueller Report. A lot.

submitted 26 days ago • 77 comments

Auchincloss: "This issue about the Maryland man is not about border security or immigration. It's about freedom. Freedom in the US means that if your feet are on American soil, you get to stand in front of a judge on an equal basis to the awesome power of the state and put forward the facts."

submitted 31 days ago • 466 comments

My latest for MSNBC: The makers of TurboTax gave Trump’s inauguration $1M. They just got their money’s worth. "The end of Direct File fits neatly in the predatory economy Donald Trump and his Republican enablers want." www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

submitted 31 days ago • 6 comments

DOGE is a criminal conspiracy to defraud the people of the United States

submitted 34 days ago • 565 comments

I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article

submitted 33 days ago • 813 comments

Constituents to Chuck Grassley: "Are you bringing back that guy from El Salvador?" Senior Citizen: “If I get an order to pay a ticket to pay $1200 and I just say ‘no’, does that stand up? Because he just got an order from the Supreme Court and he just said ‘screw it’” “I’M PISSED!”

submitted 34 days ago • 1265 comments

A super useful thread on what to do now that the GOP has a framework for reconciliation.

submitted 39 days ago • 8 comments

🧵TIMELINE - HHS Under RFK Jr.: Centralization, Corruption, and Censorship As HHS Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr has already fundamentally altered federal public health infrastructure. The following is an accounting of those changes. infoepi.org/posts/2025/...

submitted 42 days ago • 10 comments

Hear, Hear! @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social and @jvl.bsky.social lay out the hypocrisy, stupidity, and criminality:

submitted 55 days ago • 56 comments

A really powerful WWII era "don't be a sucker" piece, that explains how authoritarians have to separate and destroy groups of people so they can take power. I don't usually watch anything this long (22 min) but couldn't stop watching once I started this.

submitted 57 days ago • 118 comments

The author of this piece is an American photo journalist who has been embedded in El Salvador. Reading this piece is frightening and it should be. It's who we are in danger of becoming. time.com/7269604/el-s...

submitted 58 days ago • 824 comments

The first and most important thing to know about last night's Exec order is that it's intended to break current law and allow people throughout the federal gov look at yr tax returns. Beyond that it's intended to compel states to turn over all their data to the fed govt.

submitted 58 days ago • 330 comments

Tonight in her newsletter, @hcrichardson.bsky.social quoting Maine Senator Angus King telling the Senate to wake up. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

submitted 84 days ago • 139 comments

El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

submitted 85 days ago • 1037 comments

The lead prosecutor on the Adams investigation - Hagan Scotten - resigns from SDNY. “I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion [to dismiss Adams charges]. But it was never going to me.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 94 days ago • 237 comments

“No American can be proud of a govt that carries out change in this way. Neither can these actions be rationalized by discussion of past grievances or appeals to efficiency. Everything can be more efficient, but adherence to the rule of law is paramount” www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

submitted 97 days ago • 423 comments

this is the sort of thing you post when you’re ramping up to defying lawful court orders

submitted 99 days ago • 3630 comments

Many are asking: “What can I do now?” Here’s a revised and expanded list of actions you can take, in rough order of importance. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/more-on-what-you-can-do

submitted 100 days ago • 445 comments

From Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities: “NIH slashing the reimbursement of research costs will slow and limit medical breakthroughs that cure cancer and address chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart disease.” www.aplu.org/news-and-med...

submitted 100 days ago • 168 comments

Wait. Have @doge and Elon just been pulling numbers from usaspending.gov ? Then releasing it as if they discovered it ? Brilliant if true. Absolutely brilliant. Fooled me. Very Trump like too. Any usaspending.gov experts out there that can tell us ?

submitted 101 days ago • 1579 comments

submitted 110 days ago • 48 comments

The cats graciously put on a magic show for us last night. I figured out how they did most of the tricks, but I didn’t say anything, because that would have been rude.

submitted 110 days ago • 53 comments

Perfect quote!! This is what we need!

submitted 115 days ago • 0 comments

@liebschutz.bsky.social Thoughts on young adults pursuing an MPH in this climate? Wait and see or forget ahead? My daughter was planning to start in the fall and go through a PhD.

submitted 112 days ago • 1 comment

I couldn’t resist. Free article.

submitted 112 days ago • 120 comments

Yep.

submitted 112 days ago • 60 comments

Outstanding post and sickening at the same time. I hate this Trump regime and their bigoted cult.

submitted 112 days ago • 52 comments

Thanks for the tip, @yolanda7712.bsky.social 😔 The Sicknick family deserves justice

submitted 116 days ago • 3 comments

HANNITY: Why did people who were violent with police get a pardon? TRUMP: Number one, they were in there for 3.5 years. A long time. And you know what they were there for? They were protesting the vote. You should be allowed to protest the vote. You should be allowed to.

submitted 116 days ago • 208 comments

Trump on January 6 insurrectionists who assaulted police: "They were very minor incidents."

submitted 116 days ago • 371 comments

We've now reached the stage where MAGA Christians think empathy is bad and violently assaulting the police is good. I'm not sure where we go from here.

submitted 116 days ago • 57 comments

MUST-WATCH: Daniel Hodges, the Capitol police officer who was crushed by the Jan 6 rioters who pinned him against a wall, came back this week to ensure safety at Trump's inauguration and just spoke at the Capitol addressing the pardons. Daniel, America failed you. 💔

submitted 116 days ago • 141 comments

To everyone asking for more information about my call for a new opposition movement, read this. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/buil...

submitted 128 days ago • 209 comments

The American economy just added 256,000 jobs in December, and unemployment fell to 4.1%. Trump is inheriting one of the strongest economies for an incoming President in generations. And despite destroying our economy in his first term, Trump will try to take the credit for this boom. Don't let him.

submitted 129 days ago • 140 comments

Thanks @fiona-webster

submitted 130 days ago • 4 comments

ABC, NBC & CBS dedicated about 16 minutes of airtime last night to the California wildfires without once mentioning climate change. Since the news failed do it's job, here's a short summary of the role of climate change and wildfire risk: www.noaa.gov/noaa-wildfir...

submitted 131 days ago • 1249 comments

Washington DC traffics in favors. In 2025, the people able to dispense favors will be the same people who tried to seize power by violence in 2021. That fact makes it difficult for anyone in DC to keep moral bearings straight. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 133 days ago • 17 comments

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure and yet no one has the ability, foresight or stomach to do anything about it.

submitted 134 days ago • 0 comments

Read this

submitted 135 days ago • 491 comments