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i hope other elected dems are taking note - this is where the bar is now. get out there and do something. put your own ass on the line for us.

submitted 8 hours ago • 31 comments

Boston Accent Tech News

submitted 9 hours ago • 7 comments

I know we're all happy that David Brooks is calling out Trump, but this paragraph about universities - holy shit. "They're so progressive that they exclude half the country but they only admit the children of privilege who go on to professional lives that reinforce the current fascism." Bro what

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

I want to teach an honors course called “Every Regulation is Written in Blood” and just teach the young everything that had to be put in place to make the safe, clean American life they take for granted

submitted 11 hours ago • 53 comments

this whole administration is like when they shut off the containment unit in ‘ghostbusters’

submitted 11 hours ago • 260 comments

I had an exchange with the City of Hartford's Department of Development Services during a budget hearing tonight that was absolutely infuriating. After a year of massive failures in defending tenants, the city has improved NOTHING. We are a city of 75% renters and leadership doesn't care...

submitted 8 hours ago • 2 comments

This is the right sentiment from Chris Murphy. Now it needs to be followed up with some actual tactical risks, like fully committing to procedural hardball in the Senate to slow down the MAGA agenda.

submitted 11 hours ago • 2 comments

After federal troops forced a fugitive slave named Anthony Burns back into slavery in the 1850s, one Bostonian wrote, “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.” The abuse of power radicalizes people. We are seeing that now.

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

You know the only reason he got out so fast was a reporter live posted about this for hours. And, a large amount of public pressure. Every time someone gets grabbed, there has to be a robust public response immediately.

submitted 10 hours ago • 127 comments

This is good humanitarian work and good politics and it's how Dems need to move: be pushy; don't compromise; show up; put yourself on the line as needed. The perfect counterpoint to Murkowski complaining about fearing repercussions.

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Are you scared? Because the Fourth Circuit is scared.

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They got Mister Softee chopped and screwed.

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

This is the Fugitive Slave Act all over again.

submitted 13 hours ago • 1 comment

Democratic Governors and legislators need to be thinking seriously about how to support and coordinate the refusal of their residents and institutions to pay federal tax. The administration is moving to impoverish states and nonprofits, and if that happens, further steps toward autocracy get easier.

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

Hi, no. No. Two things can be true at the same time: the courts do not have the power to save us and it is good actually when a judge cleadly, unequivocally states that this is a constitutional crisis and that basically human rights are at stake

submitted 14 hours ago • 3 comments

Anybody who has read a lot of appellate opinions will tell you that this is a quantity of commentary that is very much optional. In other words, they said this because they wanted to.

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

Probably time for a critical rewatch of Cheech Marin's "Born in East L.A." (1987).

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

EVERYONE: “if they deny due process to non-citizens, they can and will deny it to citizens too” SMUG IDIOTS: “I would simply show my birth certificate and clear it all up!” [ICE kidnaps a U.S. citizen] [shows birth certificate to judge] [judge shrugs] “sorry, can’t help u”

submitted 16 hours ago • 8 comments

Real talk: I actually love to be exactly between the reggaeton speaker and the salsa romántica speaker at the beach. It doesn't even matter. This is the democracy I want. Piña coladas and pinchos and Medallas and people of every shape, color, and age in easy, laughing community.

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

This is why I think Newsome will get the '28 nomination. These are the pillars of the Democratic establishment.

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

Sharing more afternoon reading. 1) What does Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 say? That there is a lot of cautious and intentionally slow process involved before the gov't can withhold fed funds due to discrimination by "race, color, or national origin."

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

What is the particular magic that makes my home town pick the absolute worst mayors?

submitted 14 hours ago • 2 comments

I'm going to go through the "HHS passback" in this 🧵. This is what the White House sent back to HHS, based on HHS's guidance. It's Trump's budget plan, though can still be changed. To start off, they call to eliminate Head Start, which helps fund free pre-k and learning programs for poor families.

submitted 19 hours ago • 19 comments

En cuestión de playas, Whitman > Thoreau, every time.

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

I really need elected officials to understand if they are not willing to be brave for their constituents, they can simply not be elected officials anymore.

submitted 19 hours ago • 3 comments

meanwhile, prominent pundits continue to deny that there the administration adheres to a segregationist ideology

submitted 22 hours ago • 288 comments

I've said this before, but I don't see how this is different from "I stole one dollar from each of 10,000 people, and none of those dollars individually either meaningfully changed how much money I had or meaningfully harmed the person I took them from, so what's the big deal?"

submitted 19 hours ago • 5 comments

The way New York Dems are careening toward Cuomo is just a miniature version of the way I see national Dems sliding inexorably toward Newsom.

submitted 19 hours ago • 2 comments

I ... do not feel sorry for you. Do better or quit your job.

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

im sorry to be so divisive and partisan but i dont think the government should be inventing a criminal history out of thin air to justify sending someone to a concentration camp in a foreign country

submitted 21 hours ago • 274 comments

Beach percussion

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

A reminder that there is no human being in the United States whom it would be legal to disappear to a Salvadoran prison without due process of law.

submitted 1 day ago • 192 comments