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I don't often read things that really re-shape the way I look at things anymore. But, if you read something this week, read this. It captures a number of big picture items I've been thinking about, and ties them together. www.noahpinion.blog/p/this-thing...

submitted 19 hours ago • 9 comments

All this is true. If you don’t use your power, you cede it to the other side. @schumer.senate.gov - ask Mitch McConnell about this @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social @hassan.senate.gov @shaheen.senate.gov @peters.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov @schatz.bsky.social @cortezmasto.senate.gov

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

@schumer.senate.gov @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social @hassan.senate.gov @shaheen.senate.gov @peters.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov @schatz.bsky.social @cortezmasto.senate.gov A yes on Cloture will be remembered as capitulation, not “they were trying to do their job.” Use your opposition power - LEAD!

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much

submitted 4 days ago • 1223 comments

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com "If there's one through line in this administration so far, it's the amassing of power," our columnist David Brooks said on the latest episode of "The First 100 Days," a weekly series examining President Trump's use of power and his drive to change America. Listen here.

submitted 9 days ago • 48 comments

Perfectly said. Heroes are ordinary people. (As @hcrichardson.bsky.social has often pointed out)

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

So how fast can we expect to get to DOGE testimony? They’re playing a legal shell-game.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

What childhood was like before vaccines www.vox.com/health/40268...

submitted 10 days ago • 253 comments

Transgenic vs transgender Rare Earths vs “raw earths” (multiple times in the Zelinskyy ambush on Feb 28) Casual ignorance as an accessory to the king’s new clothes. SMH

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Trump to clear the war to begin deporting Ukrainian war refugees www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

submitted 10 days ago • 52 comments

Hey, fellow Americans, people who voted for Trump! He’s coming for you, too. Not that you’re here to see this… yet.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

I have to say that the Canadians I’ve seen on Bluesky have been absolutely nailing it, with a perfect mix of righteous vitriol and dead-on humor. Makes me love 🇨🇦 even more.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Exactly!

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NEW: Within the EPA is a small program called IRIS, which measures the threat of toxic chemicals. Two new bills pose the gravest threat to the program’s existence since it was created four decades ago.

submitted 10 days ago • 30 comments

I’m lovin’ how Cuban rolls.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

It needed to be said!

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Yes

submitted 15 days ago • 2257 comments

So much failing

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Here I react to the shameful encounter between American leaders and media and the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share. snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...

submitted 15 days ago • 1110 comments

Take note!

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦 ✊

submitted 15 days ago • 464 comments

Trump and Vance needed to create an incident to provide a justification for their pre-planned abandonment of Ukraine now, then separation from NATO in the near future. That’s what that was all about, and that was always the way a second Trump term was going to go.

submitted 15 days ago • 1159 comments

We want to send a message to the world: what has happened today is an absolute disgrace. It is completely un-American.

submitted 15 days ago • 542 comments

No, the meeting did not go badly for Ukraine. It exposed in the most undeniable, unequivocal way possible the pro-Putin commitments of the president and vice president. That was information Americans and allies needed to have clear before them.

submitted 15 days ago • 864 comments

THIS!

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Everyone knows what happened here. Trump can only exist around people he can causally humiliate. Guys lie JD and Rubio. He wanted to do a ritual humiliation of Zelensky and Ukraine but Zelensky wouldn’t accept that and so Trump reacted like a stung bitch.

submitted 15 days ago • 304 comments

Seriously, looking back at Musk, especially over the last several months, I think you have to wonder how drug-addled he is.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

What the actual fcking fck!?! Now let’s see how the GOP stands behind the national disgrace of their “leaders” after this. 🇺🇦

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

#Doge #Musk #Trump have come to roost. My company has a supply chain automation contract with the #VA to provide mail order pharmacy to veterans. Mission critical work. We just received this email @briantylercohen.bsky.social @hcrichardson.bsky.social @timmiller.bsky.social

submitted 18 days ago • 32 comments

Neal: "Look at the alignment. $1.2t here for cuts, but $1.2t for tax cuts. Oh, let me figure that one out. They are going to cut Medicaid to justify what it is that they want to do."

submitted 18 days ago • 410 comments

They’re cutting Medicaid

submitted 18 days ago • 2120 comments

I am the great-grandson of a man who led his family out of the shtetl to a strange land in search of a better life. I am the grandson of the three-year-old boy on that journey. My English name is Marc, but my Hebrew name is Elhanan (אֶלְחָנָן)—after the warrior in David’s army who slew a powerful giant.

submitted 19 days ago • 170 comments

This is insane. If you wonder why some of us think the rule of law is about to fall, it's this. The U.S. Attorney for DC is not "President Trump's lawyer" and its job is not to "protect his leadership" nor prosecute people who "refuse to put America first".

submitted 19 days ago • 621 comments

Congrats to @bsky.app and all the users and team that make it unique ! 32m users is real !

submitted 21 days ago • 992 comments

I hadn’t realised the extent to which Alice Weidel was Nazi royalty. No wonder she and Elon Musk have become ideological bedfellows. Fascinating TIME magazine interview with Weidel about the new alliance between the US and German far right time.com/7260499/alice-…

submitted 22 days ago • 3 comments

Wow. But - will the judicial slap-downs like this make a difference?

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Where you at Dems ? You fighting to get them far better severance or going to ignore them, and all others in similar circumstances?

submitted 29 days ago • 2753 comments

A pair of unidentified hackers are taking a victory lap after they successfully defaced the website for Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency. What's more, they tell 404 Media that anyone with sufficient knowledge of coding can do the same. www.rawstory.com/elon-musk-do...

submitted 29 days ago • 33 comments

This is how it’s should be done, though sad and bad that it had to be done.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Read the letter of resignation from SDNY AUSA Hagan Scotten, Bronze Star recipient, former clerk to Chief Justice Roberts. Bravo! 👏👏👏

submitted 29 days ago • 164 comments