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I mean, there's nothing left to say at this point. Lisa Murkowski & Susan Collins are national embarassments, & Article I of the Constitution has failed completely. At some point, we need adults who swore oaths to act like it, & it seems like we don't have any of them left. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

Again, a total failure of all civil society groups right now. Every one of them, cravenly failing to speak out & waiting for someone else to do it. Wall Street CEOs. Fortune 500 CEOs. University presidents. Religious leaders. Total collective action failure while democracy dies.

submitted 14 days ago • 6 comments

They’ve called armed federal officers to the scene. We aren’t dangerous. We are here to represent our people. To defend public education. This is an authoritarian regime. You cannot block members of Congress from entering the Department of Education.

submitted 16 days ago • 1400 comments

if you were an unreconstructed segregationist from jim crow alabama, what would you do differently than this administration with regard to civil rights enforcement?

submitted 18 days ago • 545 comments

"All elections are rigged and Democrats don't exist" is the kind of paranoid delusion that once got you shunned from society and maybe committed. Now it gets you retweeted by the defacto president and the adoration of thousands of other cultists.

submitted 18 days ago • 176 comments

Republicans ran into the room to SHEILD Elon Musk from having to come and speak to Congress. They want their billionaire takeover done behind closed doors. The people deserve transparency. No one elected Elon Musk.

submitted 18 days ago • 526 comments

If this happens - and if Musk et al get control of BLS - then all economic bets are off. I can’t say it any more plainly than that.

submitted 19 days ago • 154 comments

How long will that take? Months? Years? When most people see someone robbing a bank they call the cops. You are not up for this moment. Where is the urgency? GO OVER THERE AND DEMAND ENTRANCE. Lock yourself to the doors. Throw a fucking FIT.

submitted 19 days ago • 15 comments

First post is a scoop: The “DOGE kids” and their confrontation with USAID on Saturday. w/ @jasonleopold.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 20 days ago • 3 comments

The workers were emailed by a little boy with no legal authority who interns for the richest Nazi in the world. It is an absolutely insane development and the social copy doesn’t come close to conveying it.

submitted 20 days ago • 96 comments

I hope he is reminded every waking moment and haunted every night as he sleeps that he is directly responsible for this. He chose short term GOP electoral benefits over the country

submitted 21 days ago • 18 comments

NEW: WIRED has identified six young men—all apparently between the ages of 19 and 24, according to public databases, their online presences, and other records—who have little to no government experience and are now playing critical roles in Musk’s DOGE project. By @telliotter.bsky.social

submitted 21 days ago • 965 comments

This is a coup

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

How is there not a single Democrat Senator or Representative who has stepped up over an entire weekend where Elon Musk is clearly unwinding American democracy inside US govt buildings???

submitted 21 days ago • 135 comments

I think Americans, blessed with relatively stable government for a long time, assume there is someone, some adult, who will step in and make things right before the President does anything REALLY bad. There’s not.

submitted 21 days ago • 730 comments

a coup against the law and constitution

submitted 22 days ago • 10 comments

it is honestly kind of striking to me that the founders were basically on target re: “things that could end our republic”

submitted 23 days ago • 215 comments

i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

submitted 24 days ago • 2306 comments

NYT reports an air traffic controller’s seat was empty at DCA last night www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...

submitted 24 days ago • 304 comments

Imagine if Trump got hold of the Supreme Court’s docket and said, “Y’know what, I already know how I want all these cases to go. I’m just going to go ahead and decide them myself. The people elected me to rule, so I’m gonna rule.” 1/2

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

As cases start that will head to SCOTUS, a reminder that during the Biden Administration, the court ruled that the President -- any President, in theory -- did not have the power to: Regulate greenhouse gases. www.bbc.com/news/science...

submitted 26 days ago • 74 comments

I’ve gotten shit for saying this in the past, but the reigning conservative attitude is playground bully. Not just mean, but juvenile. Adults should be embarrassed to partake in it. And I think at least some of this behavior is influenced by internet culture, which is dominated by actual children.

submitted 26 days ago • 36 comments

We just had this whole election cycle about how inflation is the unforgivable political sin, which no other widely felt benefit can counterbalance, and it’s discarded two days into the new administration.

submitted 32 days ago • 220 comments

The White House ordering DOJ to drop pending prosecutions is a breach of the department’s traditional independence that would be an earthshaking scandal under ordinary circumstances.

submitted 34 days ago • 142 comments

Just a reminder that you don't have to welcome his supporters into your homes, your social settings, your polite conversations. You don't have to understand their point of view, or even acknowledge they exist. You're perfectly justified in ostracizing them all. Choices have consequences.

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments