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“The art of the deal” …..😂

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A crowd of people gathered today outside a Milwaukee courthouse today for an emergency protest to support Judge Hannah Dugan after her arrest. She has since been released. Keep ICE away from our independent judiciary and demand due process for everyone!

submitted 2 days ago • 42 comments

If you needed any further proof that the arrest of Judge Dugan was a propaganda opportunity and a fear tactic, here you go. Nothing about this is normal—it’s authoritarianism!

submitted 2 days ago • 854 comments

Two headlines in the New York Times today.

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At a time when moral leadership has been in short supply in the world — when authoritarians and neofascists are pushing us into darkness — Pope Francis pointed toward the light. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-conscience-of-the-world

submitted 6 days ago • 234 comments

Every single service member and veteran, if they’re being honest, will all tell you the exact same thing: We’d be immediately burned at the stake if we treated classified intel the way Pete Hegseth has treated it.

submitted 7 days ago • 182 comments

This !!! 👇👇👇

submitted 6 days ago • 12 comments

Of course advance information on US combat operations is classified. Pretending otherwise is an insult to our troops, who all know this. The Secretary is unfit to lead.

submitted 7 days ago • 1366 comments

Q: "How do you respond to Governor Newsom?" Sen. Van Hollen: "I think Americans are tired of elected officials or politicians who are all finger to the wind...Anybody who can't stand up for the Constitution and the right of due process doesn't deserve to lead."

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Any politician that is NOT actively making a ruckus (angry posts and “hearings” don’t count) should NEVER expect to or TRY to run for office again

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They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. -FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.

submitted 18 days ago • 482 comments

Sometimes, the Moon passes directly in front of the beautiful Pleiades star cluster in a celestial event called an occultation! This composite image from Spain captures the Moon's visit. These monthly occultations last until 2029, then not again until 2042! Credit: Cayetana Saiz

submitted 18 days ago • 196 comments

More than 50,000 people in Gaza are dead. 114,000 have been wounded — two-thirds of whom are women & children. The entire infrastructure has been destroyed. Much of that devastation has been done with bombs that the U.S. supplied to the Netanyahu war machine. We are complicit.

submitted 19 days ago • 223 comments

When papers like the Times, Post, and Journal diminish massive protests through placement alone, they’re telling readers: “This isn’t that important.”

submitted 20 days ago • 19 comments

Note to MAGA: This is how it's done (when you have respect for our Democracy and aren't violent thugs.) #HandsOff

submitted 22 days ago • 26 comments

Went to the march in walnut creek, figured that a demonstration in berkeley or SF is hohum. My guess is 5 to 10,000 were there. Very spirited. One long time resident said it was much bigger than 2017.

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Absolutely.

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#ProudBlue #MomSky Looking at this sign shows how overwhelming the attacks have been by Trump& Musk. There doesn’t seem to be one part of our lives & Government that they haven’t touched. I’m already seeing videos from rallies & it makes me so proud. #HandsOff

submitted 23 days ago • 15 comments

Trump’s USDA has put thousands of farmers in an untenable limbo, by not honoring their signed contracts. Farmers need the money they planned on and are owed. Last night, Senate Republicans blocked my amendment to protect farmers. It’s not acceptable to abandon farmers this way.

submitted 23 days ago • 188 comments

Unforced errors is something you can reliably set your watch to related to Trump and his meritless stooges.

submitted 34 days ago • 16 comments

Watch @dollemore.com talk to NJ Democratic Congresswoman @mikiesherrill.bsky.social, who is also running for Governor, about her bill to require Elon Musk to submit to drug testing if he wants to continue in his high-level role as a Special Government Employee! www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIAL...

submitted 24 days ago • 4 comments

Lesson 13: "Practice corporeal politics... Put your body in unfamiliar places with unfamiliar people. Make new friends and march with them." There will be chances to practice corporeal politics all over the USA on April 5th. Find yours here: handsoff2025.com

submitted 25 days ago • 67 comments

It’s stunning to me that the New York Times did not put the story on the bloodbath at the NIH, CDC, and FDA on its front page this morning.

submitted 26 days ago • 1281 comments

Sen. Cory Booker has shattered the record, brought the BEST trouble, and redeemed the dream of America. Massive thanks with all our hearts and greatest appreciation @booker.senate.gov

submitted 26 days ago • 85 comments

The CDC Has Been Gutted. -the scale of this is beyond stupid and it's execution beyond mean. This is an epically dumb own-goal that will cause far more harm than its paltry savings could ever offset. www.wired.com/story/cdc-gu...

submitted 26 days ago • 8 comments

what booker is doing very well is making clear the difference between moral persuasion and legislative power. Democrats have the ability to harness the former, if not the latter, and while it's taken longer than I would have preferred, I'm happy to see it happening.

submitted 26 days ago • 8 comments

Senator Booker: What kind of man is in the white house that makes fun of the disabled, who lies so much that the fact checkers lose count, that minimizes the pain and the suffering

submitted 27 days ago • 1085 comments

HELP! I'm being inspired against my own will! I'm feeling seen! I'm uncovering hope under layers of cynicsm! Who is this spokesperson for a self-reflective party that is committing to fight back, and what does he think he's doing??

submitted 26 days ago • 187 comments

"Don't become like him. Be an American that says I look to the future. Yes, things are scary right now. But we can overcome." MORE. OF. THIS. 👏👏👏👏👏 #CoryBooker

submitted 26 days ago • 24 comments

The Wisconsin statute is plain. You cannot offer anything of value to any elector to dissuade or induce them to vote. Period. It prohibits the same with respect to going to the polls for a particular candidate. There’s no innocent explanation for what Musk is doing now to get voters to the polls.

submitted 26 days ago • 93 comments

Cory Booker will break the record for longest Senate floor speech at 7:19 PM EDT. Fewer than 2 hours from now. The record is held by Strom Thurmond, who was arguing for segregation. GO CORY, GO!

submitted 26 days ago • 535 comments

The U.S is the wealthiest country in the history of the world. We should not have the highest rate of child poverty of nearly every major country on earth. We should have the lowest. It's time to end this international embarrassment & create an economy that works for all.

submitted 26 days ago • 696 comments

Wall Street Journal editorial board: "Our worst fears about Mr. Kennedy are coming true..." www.wsj.com/opinion/rfk-...

submitted 28 days ago • 1298 comments

It is long past the time that leaders privy to advance information should be allowed to financially gain from that knowledge. Ban Congress from stock ownership.

submitted 29 days ago • 13 comments

Just in case you missed this from Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker: "Bullies respond to one thing, and one thing only: a punch in the face."

submitted 28 days ago • 644 comments

Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p... Dr Snyder. Yale Prof. Some practical guidance on confronting the threats to a free and lawful society.

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

Dear Canadian Friends, We’re sorry. Please know that most Americans did not vote and do not support the lunacy that has broken our relationship with your fine country. Know that we are with you and look forward to when this nonsense is over. Signed, An American friend

submitted 29 days ago • 158 comments

Wow -- Fox News abruptly cuts away from the hearing right as Crow is castigating administration officials for not taking responsibility for their failures

submitted 33 days ago • 583 comments

📌Please stop calling this “SignalGate.” It cheapens the high crime here. Military lives were (and are) in danger because of these reckless morons, who are criminally out of their element in their positions. Our troops deserve better. WE deserve better.

submitted 33 days ago • 16 comments

“Elias Law Group will not be deterred from fighting for democracy in court. There will be no negotiation with this White House about the clients we represent or the lawsuits we bring on their behalf."

submitted 37 days ago • 1369 comments

@chrislhayes.bsky.social: Sen. Schumer understands political strategy. And he is right that that type of resistance worked eight years ago. But it just seems that now is the time to break glass. It's not the time for politics as usual.

submitted 39 days ago • 149 comments