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ALERT: Since Darrell Issa is MIA, I'll be hosting the Indivisible town hall we deserve with Rep. Sara Jacobs! July 27, 4 PM at the California Center for the Arts. Reserve your seats now. These events fill up fast!

submitted 6 hours ago • 9 comments

Republicans want to cut Medicaid and SNAP—so that this dude can have a tax cut. But tell us again how they’re the party of working people. #WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid

submitted 6 hours ago • 101 comments

Orban banned it, so even more people turned out

submitted 6 hours ago • 56 comments

If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029: - $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion - $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million - $8 billion for hiring/retention - Billions more.

submitted 5 hours ago • 525 comments

US Senate Republicans aim to push ahead on Trump's sweeping tax-cut, spending bill reut.rs/4kiblI3

submitted 17 hours ago • 26 comments

Senate begins debate on the BBB today, Time to call your reps. https://www.axios.com/2025/06/28/senate-big-beautiful-bill-thune

submitted 15 hours ago • 17 comments

Jan 6 prosecutors were fired because they upheld rule of law, securing convictions in court with beyond-a-reasonable-doubt proof of crimes against America, and that’s not the job anymore.

submitted 15 hours ago • 20 comments

The guys who have been running Ohio for over 35 years, racing us to the bottom in almost every measurable way - want you to stop looking for the illegal, immoral, insane things they're doing. What could go wrong? #Ohio #Corruption #Cowards #Politics #Republicans #Democrats #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue

submitted 1 day ago • 33 comments

We’ve talked about “Alligator Alcatraz” before. Here are more details. Starting the first week of July, when South Florida’s heat index regularly hits 100°F, they plan to detain up to 5,000 people in tents. No A/C. No real shelter. Just suffocating heat, choking humidity, and swarms of mosquitoes.

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Kansas, I’ll see you on Sunday! We are coming to Wichita because your Congressman refuses to show up & answer your questions.. all while voting to cut healthcare so that billionaires can enjoy another tax break. We’ll be there to listen and tell the truth. RSVP here: www.mobilize.us/frostforcong...

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REP. @maxwellfrost.bsky.social: “THIS IS AN EVIL BILL. It’s going to rip away health care from 15 million Americans, and food assistance from millions — to give tax breaks to the richest, and mega corporations.” #TrumpsTrillionsTransfer

submitted 1 day ago • 98 comments

If it wasn't already clear to folks that same-sex marriage is in trouble with this Supreme Court, I hope the past week has driven that point home.

submitted 14 hours ago • 85 comments

When you know you’re cutting health care for the poor, and transferring TRILLIONS from the bottom to the top, this is what you do:

submitted 1 day ago • 187 comments

It seems to me that Peter Theil is not smart in the way that a lot of men who are smart but vain become not smart - they decide that an unorthodox view makes them sound even smarter and then surround themselves with others dedicated to that view and try to be the biggest fish in that small pond.

submitted 14 hours ago • 20 comments

Fuck Jake Tapper.

submitted 1 day ago • 451 comments

A great, optimistic episode with @hcrichardson.bsky.social! youtube.com/watch?v=UHK7...

submitted 14 hours ago • 23 comments

💯... Yes, we're going to need more heroes like those named here... ... and like you, @sulliview.bsky.social and @anntelnaes.bsky.social would risked their livelihood... ... and many more ordinary citizens who will also stand up and be counted! Thanks to all! open.substack.com/pub/margaret...

submitted 24 days ago • 11 comments

I wrote this in January. (Not this prediction required great foresight) https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/30/musk-trump-bromance?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

submitted 22 days ago • 4 comments

If Trump cuts funding to NPR and PBS, it "would disproportionately harm rural areas and smaller communities, where public media really is a lifeline,” PEN America's @timrichardson.bsky.social tells @sulliview.bsky.social. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 22 days ago • 3 comments

Some excellent local news coverage of the LA protests including these on the scene posts from LA Times reporter @jqwritesstuff.bsky.social ⤵️

submitted 20 days ago • 3 comments

@sulliview.bsky.social aptly points out the contrast between Murdoch/Fox “journalism” where MAGA advocacy is the point, and mainstream journalism, where the pursuit of truth is the core value. open.substack.com/pub/margaret...

submitted 18 days ago • 4 comments

ABC News reporter Terry ‘Moran should come back from a brief suspension. Anything more severe than that would amount to the cowering capitulation we’ve already seen far too much of, including from ABC News.’ Via @sulliview.bsky.social margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/how-murdoc...

submitted 18 days ago • 6 comments

I said earlier today that I agreed with @sulliview.bsky.social that a suspension made sense. This is a gross overreaction from the company that settled a bogus lawsuit with Trump earlier this year. Just nauseating.

submitted 18 days ago • 11 comments

Announcing the first part in a new series on the ethical challenges facing the media industry today. @sulliview.bsky.social‬ @newmarkjresearch.bsky.social‬ www.cjr.org/analysis/new...

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

Small-Town Newspapers Are Dying Because No One Wants to Run Them, by Liam Scott. www.cjr.org/analysis/sma...

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

Excited to read this series on journalism ethics in the age of Trump, AI & Fox by @sulliview.bsky.social & Julie Gerstein. Not sure how journalists can effectively counteract the lies the MAGA media produce, but I’m thinking about it www.cjr.org/the_media_to...

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

"This coming weekend ... Americans once again get together, this time for Saturday’s 'No Kings' day....It’s expected to be the largest anti-Trump protest since the start of his second term, ... rallies in 1,500 cities & in all 50 states." - @sulliview.bsky.social in @theguardian.com #NoKings

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

THANK YOU @sulliview.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

From my column, linked below

submitted 15 days ago • 21 comments

@sulliview.bsky.social: "In the end, it’s up to the American people. Do enough of them care enough about democracy, decency and the rule of law to leave their easy chairs, barbecues and sports-gambling apps to get out in the streets and make their voices heard?" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 15 days ago • 5 comments

🚨 ATTN local journos: We're seeking reporters in five newsrooms — in five different states — to join our Local Reporting Network. Launched in 2018, our program aims to help create vital, investigative journalism in communities where such stories might otherwise not be done: propub.li/4jXgfKi 🧵👇

submitted 12 days ago • 6 comments

You would not drive a car that, just once a decade, accelerates instead of braking. But the AI models reshaping the web are that: "a technology that works well enough for users to become dependent, but not consistently enough to be truly dependable." My latest, on the internet's janky AI future:

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

NYT’s opinion editor tells me the Times was “imprecise” when it announced its ban on endorsements in local elections last year. And they now “reserve the option to make endorsements in the future.” Plus: Musk’s AI and Loomer take on the SF Chronicle— get it wrong. www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...

submitted 8 days ago • 42 comments

‘Too many in the mainstream news media are tiptoeing around Trump, sometimes at the cost of accuracy. Which is supposed to be their highest priority, after all.’ Via @sulliview.bsky.social margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/foxs-pro-w...

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Good @sulliview.bsky.social on breaking the gloomcycle. Hard as that is. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

ICE is attempting to deport an Atlanta-based Spanish-language reporter from El Salvador who has been covering their immigration abductions. He has legal work authorization and a path to a green card. This is pretty obviously an assault on the free press. www.ajc.com/news/2025/06...

submitted 12 days ago • 40 comments

People freaking out about having a socialist in the NYC mayoral residence but OK with having a fascist in the White House.

submitted 1 day ago • 276 comments

“Getting sick in Gaza means entering a system that is itself on life support.... Practically every hospital here has been bombed, pharmacies are empty, and specialized treatment is, for most, all but unavailable.” —Amro Hamada

submitted 13 hours ago • 1 comment

always a highlight of my day to work with @leahlitman.bsky.social to brief our audiences on @legalafmtn.bsky.social and Strict Scrutiny on SCOTUS’ latest chaotic ruling.

submitted 13 hours ago • 3 comments

We need a new generation of leaders who are the voices of democracy, freedom, social justice, & the rule of law. A new generation that gives meaning to the “we” in “we the people.” Instead of fretting over Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic Party should embrace him as the future.

submitted 1 day ago • 876 comments

They can use fake numbers right up until they have to face the debt limit. They can’t fake that number, so that’s where to look. It’s $5 trillion. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 13 hours ago • 19 comments

Who is against these policies? Are people so far gone that they prefer their taxes pay for corporate welfare and massive pointless bombs over education and transportation?

submitted 1 day ago • 247 comments

Posited: it's no coincidence that such contempt for fed district ct judges was shown today (and elsewhere recently) by 6 justices who themselves never served as a district ct judge or trial judge of any kind. Pls discuss. @rgoodlaw.bsky.social @dahlialithwick.bsky.social @mjsdc.bsky.social

submitted 23 hours ago • 2 comments

There were 28 nationwide injunctions against Biden, and the Supreme Court didn't have an issue with any of them. I wonder what changed.

submitted 1 day ago • 43 comments

Litman: The irony of this just spillth over—because the Biden administration was subject to nationwide injunction after nationwide injunction in cases that didn’t warrant it. And they asked the Supreme Court, “Guys, can you do something about this?” The Republican justices declined to do so.

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