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To my fellow Docs, Nurses and Allied Health Professionals — Rise Up. We need more of us in elected positions. I will have your back, as will many others. This is how change happens. New, sane blood.

submitted 17 hours ago • 52 comments

Got my @stereolabgroop.bsky.social tickets! Missed them the last two times they came through Boston, but this time I can go. Can’t wait!!

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1000 UK artists protesting AI companies stealing their work by making an album of the sound of empty studios. Good for them! Although why via Spotify, which is known to have been filling playlists with fake songs for years now? I hope this gets a physical release someday. www.isthiswhatwewant.com

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Stand up for transgender people now or stand for nothing at all: lindseyadler.substack.com/p/the-urgenc...

submitted 4 days ago • 15 comments

I feel like this is important because it opens up a line of inquiry - Trump is obviously wrong on Ukraine, so maybe we should wonder whether he’s wrong on DOGE too.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Wrote about how easy it is to claim you saved taxpayers billions when you just make shit up. But also how this is the Twitter Files all over again. The dumbest people don't know what they're looking at so it must be a conspiracy www.techdirt.com/2025/02/19/i...

submitted 9 days ago • 36 comments

BREAKING: every goddamn thing

submitted 11 days ago • 12 comments

This is a very concise primer for what’s going on and why. The headline undersells it - it’s important to understand this stuff in order to prevent it from getting worse.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

JUST IN: Another medical horror story in an affidavit from a USAID employee stationed overseas. Says his pregnant wife was not medevac-ed for emergency health care because of directives from DC. Took intervention of a U.S. senator to reverse — but was too late. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 11 days ago • 862 comments

This is an absolutely remarkable memo — and a betrayal of both the Constitution and the American political tradition. In the US, by explicit contrast with interwar fascist governments, the state is not supposed to be an extension of the personality of the chief executive.

submitted 23 days ago • 214 comments

My latest. As journalists and writers, we have a duty to use language that is accurate and describes our current reality. I’m no longer going to talk about DEI/Anti-DEI. Let’s be clear. We are facing racial purges and re-segregation. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

submitted 23 days ago • 229 comments

Of course it’s a coup. Miss the obvious, lose your republic. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

submitted 24 days ago • 617 comments

Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties Speaker Johnson doesn't actually believe this. He knows you know he doesn't believe this. He is saying it because wants to see if the public & the media will let him get away with it. mikejohnson.house.gov/news/documen...

submitted 24 days ago • 156 comments

The NYT asked me to write an op-ed on Musk and the Treasury and then took a pass. I hope it will still get read.

submitted 24 days ago • 188 comments

"I just want to be clear about what's going on here." - @warren.senate.gov www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIHN...

submitted 24 days ago • 221 comments

Super important to read, then take action. #TwoPlusTwoEqualsFour

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Here's something Dems can consider doing right now: Band together and tell Trump and the GOP that they will not get a single vote for any legislation or nominee until he ends Elon Musk's illegal mission to gut our government. My exchange w/Rep Don Beyer on this: newrepublic.com/article/1910...

submitted 25 days ago • 200 comments

At minimum we’re impeaching Scott Bessent for this, right? RIGHT??!!

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Slate [Feb 2] -- Purpose of Trump multiple Executive Orders is to "create Jim Crow for trans people" by "fully disenfranchising them from society on a scale not seen since Jim Crow" (e.g., the legal racial caste system mostly in South from Civil War to 1960s). [by @rikiwilchins.bsky.social‬]

submitted 26 days ago • 27 comments

I'm sorry, but "they took over the whole federal payments system, fired the career staff, and won't let anybody see what they're doing" is not a situation in which you wait for more information. It's a situation in which you assume the worst. There's no explanation for it other than rampant crimes.

submitted 25 days ago • 523 comments

No Chuck, I'm worried about the fact that a deranged, unelected, drugged-up fascist billionaire has taken control of the federal government's payment systems and sensitive data and you're here talking about tomato prices.

submitted 27 days ago • 25 comments

What Elon is doing is straight up illegal. He has no authority to go through line by line and shut off funding to organizations he dislikes. He's intentionally trying to destroy civil society.

submitted 27 days ago • 389 comments

We were all hoodwinked. We were so focused on how awful Kash Patel would be for the #FBI, but at this point it doesn’t matter - unelected, unconfirmed Emil Bove did all the dirty work already. Hope this pushback from inside can succeed, or you can be sure Patel will finish the job.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

It would be nice to see mainstream media acknowledge that every alarmist in their ranks about Trump and his henchmen has been correct, and every single "Let's all calm down" guy--a posture of blasé detachment that is consistently over-rewarded in legacy media--has called it wrong from day one.

submitted 28 days ago • 107 comments

Read this. Spread it far and wide. And for heaven’s sake, @warren.senate.gov @markey.senate.gov @repauchincloss.bsky.social When are Democrats going to start raising the volume about this billion(aire)-alarm fire? These moves MUST be stopped!! thelastbillionaires.com/musk-got-to-...

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

If you cannot call it what it is when all in a week: a government removes every mention of a group of people, destroys information about them en masse, bans their discussion in schools, restricts their ability to travel and starts seizing and refusing their official identification, when will you?

submitted 28 days ago • 44 comments

"DOGE does not have power over established government agencies, and Musk has no role in government. It does not matter that he is an ally of the President. Musk is a private citizen taking control of established government offices. That is not efficiency; that is a coup."

submitted 28 days ago • 135 comments

This is obscene. Caving to nonsense and paying out for doing journalism properly should be the last thing any of these companies do. Every time they do it, they reinforce the “Fake News” canard - don’t they understand that?

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

“It’s never been used in a way to execute a partisan agenda. … You have to really put bad intentions in place for that to be the case.” They’re not trying to govern. They’re trying to break the country.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Hello all cable news: do not broadcast the President of the United States talking about air traffic control. He doesn't know what he's talking about.

submitted 29 days ago • 130 comments

Tulsi Gabbard is not just completely unqualified to be Director of National Intelligence – she is anti-qualified. snyder.substack.com/p/tulsi-gabb...

submitted 29 days ago • 192 comments

Thank you, Marianne… For the good times For your kindness For the great stories For your fearlessness And the biggest Thank You & Fuck Yeah for your incredible & unique contribution to our music & and for always being so willing to join us in performing it! Rest in Peace - Lars

submitted 29 days ago • 6 comments

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/o...

submitted 32 days ago • 1248 comments

sam’s thread helps clarify something for me, which is the underlying theory behind trump’s action. trump does not see himself as a president in a system of shared authority, he sees himself as sovereign, with unchecked authority over everything.

submitted 32 days ago • 167 comments

I see some suggestions, in the reporting regarding the OMB impoundment order, that a mere delay in spending appropriated funds is legal. But that's not really true. The delay OMB has ordered specifically contradicts the Impoundment Control Act. A thread.

submitted 32 days ago • 97 comments

For someone who ran on restoring law and order, he sure seems to be doing a lot of illegal stuff.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 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 32 days ago • 1662 comments

Terrific evening seeing Porridge Radio on their first visit to Boston at Brighton Music Hall last night!

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

So, TikTok is supposedly a national security threat from China, but it seems odd that there's been almost no mainstream press coverage of Trump dismantling the board investigating the Salt Typhoon hack which is an ACTUAL PROVEN hack from China & incredibly damaging. www.techdirt.com/2025/01/23/t...

submitted 36 days ago • 69 comments

Trump’s crypto grifts: Before the inauguration Trump launched two memecoins that created billions on paper for Trump and likely tens of millions in fees for his team and Trump-supported crypto project World Liberty Financial received more funding from Chinese-born Tron founder Justin Sun, my latest:

submitted 38 days ago • 16 comments

Sergeant Gonell @sergeantaqgo.bsky.social sent me this picture. This is his call log. Each call is an automated Dept of "Justice" notification saying "The defendant you testified against is being released from the dept of corrections." Each defendant assaulted him.

submitted 39 days ago • 1921 comments

I’m assuming there was an address after the inauguration. I had lunch instead - seemed like a better use of my mental health. Lots of awful things will happen. Avoid falling victim to “shiny object” syndrome, keep your eyes on the places you can make a difference, and help the people you can help.

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments