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"Hochul is dithering about whether to use her powers. AOC, in contrast, exercised her 1st Amendment rights to inform her constituents about their 4th Amendment rights. In doing so, she showed that the administration is tyrannical. She also showed that it’s weak — if you’re willing to confront it."

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"In a Friday night purge, Donald Trump—America’s often ramblingly incoherent ceremonial commander-in-chief—fired three of this country’s top generals and admirals, the latest assault in weeks of efforts to install loyalists at top military and security posts." www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/king-donal...

submitted 21 hours ago • 4 comments

For the first time since 2002, Israeli tanks have been deployed to the northern occupied West Bank as the Israeli government ordered the military to prepare for an “extended stay” in refugee camps there. 🔴 LIVE updates ⤵️

submitted 21 hours ago • 15 comments

Usually when states go to court alleging federal coercion in violation of the 10th Amendment there is not a literal video of the President doing it.

submitted 2 days ago • 129 comments

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submitted 2 days ago • 17 comments

This by @gilduran.com is as efficient summary of the method in Musk's chaos as I've seen. www.theframelab.org/elon-musk-do...

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

American Pundits: It was an exuberant and controversial gesture of uncertain significance… Actual Fascists: It’s a Nazi salute.

submitted 2 days ago • 25 comments

Working toward the Elon

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Trump to attempt to illegally end USPS’s status as an independent agency

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Cool cool cool

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Elements within Israel's gov't “itching” to return to war on Gaza in an effort to "eliminate" Hamas, even though that goal is “not really attainable”, says Colin Clarke, from the New York-based Soufan Center think tank. 🟥 Read analysis: aje.io/fjrsiw

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

Canceling the measurement of economic impacts from climate change doesn’t make those costs — approx. $2 trillion for the U.S. economy this decade — go away. Instead, it will likely push them onto citizens. New, from @abrahm.bsky.social @propublica.org

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

My warmest greetings go out to the wonderful people who built their careers sniffing out “Ukrainian Nazis” under every stone in Ukraine for tasty headlines that fueled Russian war propaganda on this-is-why-Ukraine-must-be-dealt-with, only to get Nazi salutes normalized in their own country.

submitted 3 days ago • 84 comments

I’ll keep pushing this line of analysis because I’m increasingly convinced the clearest path out of this mess is for Dems to adopt a relentless anti-corruption, anti-inequality, anti-oligarchy, pro-democracy platform. The Dem leadership hasn’t realized it yet, but they’re now a reform party.

submitted 3 days ago • 86 comments

The Bernie Plan

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Sean O’Brien: let’s not bicker over who fired who

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Most of the people quoted here are Republicans afraid of death threats from their own party leader. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

submitted 4 days ago • 298 comments

JD Vance is so nauseatingly unlikeable that he’s literally dragging down the AfD’s approval rating

submitted 5 days ago • 273 comments

NEW: CISA has frozen all of its election security work; the agency is also reviewing everything it’s done to help state and local officials secure their elections for the past eight years. www.wired.com/story/cisa-e...

submitted 9 days ago • 21 comments

Awful: Internal USAID memo instructs employees to refrain from talking to the media about cuts in assistance to the most vulnerable or they may get fired, WaPo reports. Trumpworld knows this is a big political problem for them. Keep the focus on it. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/1915...

submitted 9 days ago • 303 comments

See here's how to do a headline. fortune.com/2025/02/13/e...

submitted 10 days ago • 248 comments

RFK Jr. confirmed. There goes the health of our nation.

submitted 10 days ago • 799 comments

I mean, Jesus Christ, can you people even hear yourself? I'm about to die of secondhand embarrassment just reading this crap.

submitted 10 days ago • 556 comments

Correct. No one "made" the MAGA return happen except the people who actually voted for Trump and the officials who turned a blind eye to him. They have agency and responsibility for their own actions and they alone own the results. Don't dare blame their victims.

submitted 10 days ago • 42 comments

RFK jr. was just confirmed as Trump’s Health and Human Services secretary, so resharing this oped on how avian flu—which is already looking bad thanks to lack of regulation of our industrial food system—will almost certainly get worse under Trump’s anti-science admin

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

Trumpism’s anti-DEI agenda has nothing to do with legitimate criticisms of DEI

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

This is an absolute scandal. Trump and Marco Rubio abandoned American workers and their families abroad, delaying waivers to provide for their safe return to the United States. As these civil servants lost their possessions, housing, and money, Elon Musk was slandering them with bogus accusations.

submitted 11 days ago • 136 comments

A coalition of news organizations said in a court filing that video exhibits from a Jan. 6 riot case had "disappeared" from a government platform that provided access to evidence used in court.

submitted 12 days ago • 1187 comments

i am going to put a finer point on this: executive orders are not laws. and they certainly are not royal decrees. they are interpretations of existing law for the purposes of enforcement. the fact that so many people are treating them as laws is actually driving me a bit insane.

submitted 12 days ago • 424 comments

Just got a tip from a guy at the FAA. You'll never believe who is still getting new government contracts while all the contracts at the Department of Education and USAID and other agencies are being nuked from orbit.

submitted 12 days ago • 672 comments

Defund SpaceX. It should survive on its own.

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

Once again, I am here from Poland to tell you that predicating your response to a rule of law crisis on fear of how your opponents will frame your resistance is as ineffectual as it is solipsistic.

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Be warier of people whose take on politics is that everything is very simple while you are mistakenly trying to make it complicated. Dumb people who want to feel like smart people insist everything is Simple. They need to feel like they have all the answers and if everything is Simple, they can.

submitted 12 days ago • 8 comments

"I do think there has to be accountability. Congress has the power of the purse, of course. And we have oversight responsibility. And we’ve been vigorously using both of those powers." - Mike Johnson, May 2024.

submitted 12 days ago • 50 comments

Services supporting victims of online child exploitation and trafficking around the world have faced USAID and State Department cuts—and children are suffering as a result, sources tell WIRED.

submitted 13 days ago • 28 comments

the “administrative state” in practice is a lot of very hard working, practically anonymous people doing the thankless work of making this country run and a drug-addled dipshit is slandering them in order to steal our money for himself

submitted 13 days ago • 161 comments

One thing that’s difficult to get people to really grasp is that impoundment is both lawless and actively undermines the basis of democracy. It’s one of those areas where rule of law and democracy are extremely closely aligned, the only area where it’s closer would be election law itself.

submitted 13 days ago • 34 comments

I talked to the lovely and intelligent @greenwell.bsky.social about how much what Elon Musk and the DOGE goons are doing resembles the private equity playbook: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 13 days ago • 8 comments

It's important to remember that any principled effort to remove fraud from America's public life would start with an all-out push to prosecute and imprison Elon Musk. There is no bigger fraudster alive today.

submitted 13 days ago • 52 comments

"No I dont think the ceasefire is going to hold...Trump's comments are designed to provoke Hamas to violate ceasefire to give Israel a pretext to resume bombing of Gaza...What motivation is there for Hamas to resume the ceasefire if the inevitable outcome is Gaza being ethnically cleansed"

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

This BBC study on the inaccuracies of A.I. for news is must-read for tech and media www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/...

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

They would not proclaim such executive powers for "the president" if they believed President AOC could, in 2029, decide to unilaterally cut the defense budget by hundreds of billions. They are working to neuter free and fair elections. You can bet on it.

submitted 13 days ago • 18 comments

This is a good way of putting it. Democracy requires bureaucracy and fixed rules; since collective decisions can be made only occasionally, the system has to be on autopilot most of the time. A system based on personal hierarchy and domination can rely more on command and less on administration.

submitted 13 days ago • 12 comments

Curtis Yarvin’s lunatic fantasies are being used as a blueprint by President Musk

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

If it happened there

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments