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is it good or bad that a billionaire oligarch with close ties to foreign dictators is currently downloading the most sensitive information the us federal government has about its citizens to his own private servers?

submitted 20 days ago • 1098 comments

I really don’t think it’s happenstance that pretty much every remaining institutional safeguard broke down within 15 years of Citizens United

submitted 20 days ago • 257 comments

2 months ago this is what elected officials from opposition parties in S Korea were doing in the middle of the night as their President attempted a coup.

submitted 20 days ago • 21 comments

One of my neighbors [who I was talking to in the laundry room] thought that the inauguration still hadn't happened yet. I'm going to remind myself of this over and over again in the next few weeks, months and years...

submitted 20 days ago • 55 comments

I'm not dismissive of litigation, it's important and should be done and those jumping into the fire to do it very quickly have been doing good and crucial work. But if litigation is your only strategy, for years to come, then you're not an opposition party. You're not a political party at all.

submitted 21 days ago • 22 comments

Do Not Comply In Advance: bossy, already a cliche, implies permission to comply later Fuck You, Make Me: leads by example, directs yelling at opposition instead of allies, easy to chant at a protest or put on a banner

submitted 21 days ago • 95 comments

Fuck this and all of the institutions caving in with not even a hint of a fight.

submitted 21 days ago • 5 comments

trump literally made made cuts to all major airline safety administrations day 2. this crash is easily and inarguably his fault

submitted 23 days ago • 52 comments

Community is the antidote to despair. Happy to host! 🌹

submitted 27 days ago • 1000 comments

As someone who's been doing electoral work since 2008, I can tell you that @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's mayoral field game is the best I've seen yet, including even John Liu 2013. The Left must be ready to rank several candidates, but Zohran is most definitely a contender. youtu.be/RDnwOLZFhyI?...

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

ah, well that’s a perfectly reasonable excuse for helping end American democracy, carry on then

submitted 30 days ago • 39 comments

1. Per settled con law doctrine, state officials can’t be commandeered into enforcing federal law. 2. Noted liberal squish Antonin Scalia wrote one of the two major opinions setting out the commandeering doctrine. 3. The memo doesn’t mention this, because apparently federalism is for losers now.

submitted 30 days ago • 37 comments

I’m freezing… your rent as the next mayor of New York City. Let’s plunge into the details.

submitted 51 days ago • 7 comments

Elon Musk is a good example of how terrible people become increasingly radicalized into the far right simply because the far right is a community that accepts cruel, terrible people. It's tempting to say Elon is going "mask off", but I'd wager Elon didn't know who Tommy Robinson was 5 years ago. 1/

submitted 51 days ago • 72 comments

10 days til the next big holiday 🎁 zohranfornyc.com/donate

submitted 51 days ago • 2 comments

Democrats win, Republicans inevitably go scorched earth. Republicans win, Democrats inevitably become their PR agents. It’s baffling.

submitted 52 days ago • 45 comments

My 7 year old has shooter drills where her table of 5 students works together to move their desks to block the door and avoid the windows, knows exactly what the drills are for, and practice calling 911 on the teachers phone in case the teacher has been shot.

submitted 52 days ago • 76 comments

Praying for New Orleans this morning.

submitted 52 days ago • 139 comments

This shit is so much worse for Democrats than any of the things they scold leftists for doing

submitted 52 days ago • 62 comments

I talked to @nbedera.bsky.social about her devastating research into Title IX offices & new book On the Wrong Side: “There’s this myth men’s lives are ruined when they’re accused of sexual violence—it isn’t just untrue, it becomes justification for giving them benefits to compensate for that."

submitted 53 days ago • 1 comment

Never ceases to amaze me that the Democrats teed up Trump to position himself as the savior of TikTok, which has some 170 million American users. TRUMP: "Biden wants to get rid of TikTok, you know why? Because he has no idea what the hell he's doing."

submitted 53 days ago • 100 comments

MTA tells me even with a New Jersey judge asking for a couple of specific extra explanations from the FHWA, New York is still clear to begin congestion pricing on January 5

submitted 53 days ago • 3 comments

In which the disgraced former governor who passed congestion pricing, comes out against it just days before it goes live, calls for a “study” of ~things~, and has no alternative — nypost.com/2024/12/29/u...

submitted 54 days ago • 11 comments

Floored to receive this beautiful comment from Amy Carter, daughter of President Jimmy Carter. She proudly elevates her father's legacy in promoting justice for Palestine & calls upon everyone to keep that legacy alive. Here's my article she is responding to: www.qasimrashid.com/p/president-...

submitted 54 days ago • 62 comments

It's pretty funny that the world's richest human is also the saddest

submitted 55 days ago • 27 comments

Tesla's software update, welcome to The War on Cars.

submitted 58 days ago • 13 comments

Another expert report finds Israel is committing genocide. Amnesty, Human Rights Watch, and Medecins Sans Frontieres are all agreed. But the West yawns as the Gaza genocide is now just another routine news item, buried on the inside pages www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/gaza...

submitted 58 days ago • 22 comments

Can’t wait for the 2024/2025 baby name rankings to come out, and all of a sudden everyone is Italian. Lots of Luigi M’s/Luigi S’s/Luigi R’s in the future.

submitted 58 days ago • 2 comments

AOC: “Oh, I don’t think we’re witnessing the START of an oligarchy. I think we are fully here.” 🇺🇸

submitted 62 days ago • 1709 comments

What a headline… www.newsweek.com/luigi-mangio...

submitted 64 days ago • 316 comments

Former NYC-DSA co-chair Jeremy and current NYC-DSA co-chair Grace on the Amazon @Teamsters @804_local picket line in Maspeth this morning 🌹💪✨

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

Democrats - “We’re sorry, but this issue that has 90% approval is actually quite thorny legislatively, and it would be hard to get the votes we need in the Se…” Trump - “Yeah, I heard you want a Space Force so we got one of those and let’s make Canada a state!”

submitted 66 days ago • 2 comments

He is 74 and has esophageal cancer!! LET GO OF THE REINS ALREADY

submitted 67 days ago • 74 comments