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From the Department of Education, Medicaid, the CDC, and more - Trump and Elon Musk are gutting the agencies and programs that protect Americans every single day. They are trying to cut off the lifelines that our communities rely on.

submitted 3 hours ago • 19 comments

👇🎯 Today in life under competitive authoritarianism. Once again, I don’t know why anyone expects the 2026 or 2028 elections to be free and fair by any meaningful standard of recent 🇺🇸 elections.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

If you’re wondering why I declined to talk to the NYTimes, then you haven’t been following my account for very long. They bear a direct responsibility for the current situation we find ourselves in, and I responded by laying out my position and that I would only talk to @jamellebouie.net

submitted 2 days ago • 1573 comments

My main issues are with mainstream social media platforms, not the internet. The internet can get vital information and community to people who are isolated and oppressed. It can give them a platform and voice they wouldn’t have otherwise. Mainstream social media has become an enemy to that purpose.

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

No it’s not a distraction, whatever “it” is. It’s all the thing. Fight all the things. Don’t let any of it pass. This isn’t very difficult. Fight. All. The. Fucking. Things.

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

What Brian won’t say because he incessantly covers for the msm is that they’re goddamned cowards who prioritize access over freedom of the press.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Contrast the very public meltdown @jaketapper.bsky.social had over Obama and Fox News and how the mainstream media is shrugging at the AP ban and how media reporting from people like @brianstelter.bsky.social won’t even go there. This is how fascism is enabled via the press in America.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

They are going to interrogate federal law enforcement officers and employees with polygraph tests to try to find out if they are talking to the press.

submitted 2 days ago • 589 comments

AGAIN: If they actually cared about the deficit they wouldn’t also be cutting trillions in taxes for the rich. They think we are all very dumb.

submitted 3 days ago • 418 comments

It's not lost on me that the two Democratic electeds talking consistently to regular people right now are AOC and Jasmine Crockett. Dassit.

submitted 3 days ago • 331 comments

Disgusting toxic trash. Trump is a real tough guy, banging out Truth Social posts from his golf cart at a guy who has fought off a murderous drug-addled barbarian horde for 3 years defending his people from Russian rapists and child kidnappers.

submitted 3 days ago • 636 comments

Feels like Dem leadership is banking on these events destroying the GOP and what might happen instead is that it destroys the Dems. How does the party come back from its utter failure to prepare for and respond to this crisis?

submitted 3 days ago • 30 comments

I've noted some of the procedural things Democrats could be doing in Congress, but this point from @edgeofsports.bsky.social's great piece in the Nation deserves emphasis. This is basic politics, and it's baffling that every Democrat isn't doing it every day. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

submitted 3 days ago • 322 comments

The root that tears apart your foundation begins as a seed of distrust, hate, and blame. The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.

submitted 3 days ago • 845 comments

Abruptly firing people who work in air traffic control is like murdering your own soldiers in the middle of a war. Even if you think things now aren’t working as efficiently as they should there’s no clear path to recovering from this; it’s just a really extremely foolish and dangerous thing to do.

submitted 5 days ago • 117 comments

The phenomenon of “leftist language policing” is 99% a product of centrists whining about it constantly. I almost never encounter it in real life and requests for vocabulary updates are typically non-binding guidelines for formal written documents.

submitted 5 days ago • 259 comments

Last Fall, the Washington Post allowed a right wing group to run a full page ad falsely attacking me for protecting voting rights. Today, Bezos' paper won't accept ads criticizing Elon Musk. Support pro-democracy media. www.democracydocket.com/me-subscribe...

submitted 5 days ago • 637 comments

They experience LIFE through ironic detachment. It’s the inability to perceive reality on the news from tv and movies. The news is just another show. Just more content on the pocket content box. Until it literally smacks Americans in the face they won’t get that this is happening in real life.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

You cannot determine whether you saved or cost money based solely on one side of the ledger. Example: I saved my household $2K by not paying the mortgage.

submitted 6 days ago • 1538 comments

This is a program for teenagers with serious disabilities who are finishing high school and transitioning to their next steps in life. Trump just axed it, effective immediately, in the middle of the night, with no notice.

submitted 6 days ago • 148 comments

the mild, non-confrontational obama formula for inclusiveness was so intolerable to a substantial chunk of the country that they put a outer borough george wallace into the white house. like, what are we talking about here?

submitted 6 days ago • 190 comments

Trump is stomping around the world like a stick-up thug. It’s a disgrace.

submitted 6 days ago • 46 comments

This will not stop for anyone until all legacy media outlets refuse to cover his dog and pony shows. Musk is running the country anyway, while Trump conducts a reality show and treats you like groveling dogs. Have some dignity and self respect and walk the hell out.

submitted 6 days ago • 198 comments

Also deafening and shameful in their silence: our four living presidents, especially the Republican one who should have not been a total coward & endorsed Harris in October. Where are they?

submitted 6 days ago • 40 comments

The university that declares “We are not throwing trans kids under the bus, we are not ending diversity and inclusiveness efforts, and we are not opening our doors to ICE agents” would not only be uniquely heroic but would be doing some strong branding work on the cheap.

submitted 7 days ago • 43 comments

Any press outside of like Breitbart or whatever just never going to WH press briefings again seems like a no-brainer with the AP thing. You’re not missing much and this admin will leak like a sieve anyway, just do journalism instead of Daily Liar’s Theater stenography.

submitted 7 days ago • 23 comments

This is the truth:

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👇🎯 We either decide this or the American experiment is done. This is literally the foundational keystone of the entire Republic. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

They're also the words of a tyrant. We need to decide if he's gonna be a would-be.

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

submitted 7 days ago • 5665 comments

This is fascism.

submitted 7 days ago • 3193 comments

As it turns out, 50 years of FAFO with Ronald Reagan's childish talking points about government & his worn copy of Atlas Shrugged have had deeply corrosive effects on our politics & polity bsky.app/profile/mcop...

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.

submitted 7 days ago • 510 comments