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I think the remarkable thing about Cory Booker's speech is that much of it is a good speech. He's not just filling time, he's using time while the spotlights on him.

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Super glad Schumer decided to interrupy Cory Booker's inspiring talk about John Lewis to announce he'd broken Thurmond's record. He asked if he could ask a question—and Booker said no, acknowledging it was the one time he could do that. Schumer did it anyway. Sounds about right.

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Just so everybody understands, Booker has been speaking cogently about the issues the entire time and Strom Thurmond famously spent hours reading from the encyclopedia, because segregationists were and are dumbshits

submitted 3 hours ago • 171 comments

I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:

submitted 1 day ago • 9611 comments

Please read the second chapter of my book about Hollywood misconduct & enabling, Burn It Down. I put the chapter on Rudin up front because .. this is a thing the media & Hollywood have done for 30+ years. Talk about how Rudin "has changed" & is "a different man" www.harpercollins.com/products/bur...

submitted 4 days ago • 25 comments

Aber, a W&M alum who investigated Russian spies, found dead under mysterious circumstances. I hate that instead of mourning and waiting for clarity my mind goes straight to “oh so Putin has free reign here now too” www.newsweek.com/jessica-aber...

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

Always good when the authoritarian leader decrees who is and is not Jewish.

submitted 20 days ago • 260 comments

ATTN DEMS: this is the way

submitted 20 days ago • 3 comments

If we can "avoid a government shutdown" by voting for this CR, then why is the entire Department of Education closed today? Why is USAID closed? Why are hundreds of billions in grant contracts frozen? We are already in the shutdown. And your votes DON'T stop it. In fact, they allow it to expand.

submitted 20 days ago • 153 comments

Have y’all noticed that #instagram is forcing you to watch new reels without scrolling? If I go to comments and then go back, sometimes I’m suddenly on a different video #meta engagement numbers are in such a freefall, they futzed with the code to fake them 🤣

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Rally and March for Drag to the Kennedy Center! #ProtectDrag

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Tonight, ABC World News with David Muir played a clip of RFK Jr saying “We have measles outbreaks every year” with zero correction. They just broadcasted his lie with no added context or fact check. It’s journalistic malpractice.

submitted 33 days ago • 41 comments

This is a letter I did not want to write. There is a WWII-era saying: “If there’s a Nazi at the table and ten other people sitting there talking to him, you got a table with eleven Nazis.” If you voted for #Trump, you are a #Nazi. brandy-schillace.medium.com/the-letter-b...

submitted 40 days ago • 13 comments

Per @propublica.org: "Neither the CDC nor states are investigating deaths or severe maternal complications related to abortion bans." www.propublica.org/article/texa...

submitted 40 days ago • 2 comments

This is how the hostile takeover of our government and armed robbery of our money is going. One month in and they're completed 1/3rd of the Project 2025 agenda. www.project2025.observer?utm_source=w...

submitted 41 days ago • 13 comments

It is honestly ludicrous how much New York Shit has now become everyone's problem. The president (convicted felon, corrupt) strong arming mayor (indicted on felony corruption) into carrying out his immigration cruelty via DOJ quid pro quo worse than Watergate. Democratic primary is in months.

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Musk's censorship algorithm on Twitter reduced our audience by about 95% since he bought it. So we moved over to blue sky. Help us build another great following right here where the skies are clear and the water is fine ;-) Please do Follow Retweet & repeat

submitted 49 days ago • 147 comments

Saying "don't worry, they'll stop it, our scientific research is valuable and profitable and important to tuition-paying students" suggests you've misunderstood that it has been an ideological project all along. The humanities were all those things too! It was never just about profit and loss.

submitted 51 days ago • 6 comments

BREAKING: Federal judge temporarily blocks Trump administration from implementing anti-trans Trump orders that would stop trans-related medical care in federal prisons and lead to trans inmates’ transfers. This followed a hearing in DC earlier today. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 56 days ago • 62 comments

No one elected Elon Musk. As Donald Trump allows Musk to access people’s personal information and shut down government funding, Republicans in Washington will also own the consequences. We must do everything in our power to push back and protect people from harm.

submitted 58 days ago • 3461 comments

For a photo op & a bragging media post, Trump minions at the USACoE have thrown away millions of gals of #water farmers were relying on for later this year. This water will not be captured, will not be useful for cities or farms or firefighting. It is now lost. www.latimes.com/environment/...

submitted 60 days ago • 357 comments

Nicole Shanahan, Sergey Bri's ex-wife, has a billion dollars and she's going to use it to try to shake down senators who oppose RFK Jr's nomination. Hit the phones, don't let up. www.politico.com/news/2025/01...

submitted 61 days ago • 4 comments

Can’t stop reading this paragraph over and over. open.substack.com/pub/newmeans...

submitted 64 days ago • 387 comments

I understand this point of view is apparently unpopular outside of DC but actually we do need a functioning federal government (and many federal workers, maligned as our nation's elite and deep state, are actually overworked and underpaid) www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

submitted 67 days ago • 3 comments

One thing about me is that I will fight Nazis until I’m six feet in the ground.

submitted 68 days ago • 4389 comments

Countries who aren’t part of the World Health Organization: - Liechtenstein - The United States Countries who are part of the World Health Organization: Literally everyone else

submitted 69 days ago • 263 comments

@calm.com why don’t you play nice with Sonos now? Ruining bedtime routines for parents all across the country…

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

Bhattacharya has gone under the radar but would be a disaster. He spread disinformation about COVID, opposed lifesaving public health measures, and encouraged mass infection. As Trump’s NIH head he plans to cut research on vaccines and infectious diseases.

submitted 75 days ago • 9 comments

Meta is deleting links to Pixelfed, a decentralized, open source Instagram competitor that has had skyrocketing signups in recent days: www.404media.co/meta-is-bloc...

submitted 78 days ago • 220 comments

Billionaire Bezos dined w Trump & the richest man on Earth, President Elon Musk. This is a lay up for Democrats. You need to rinse, repeat, & hammer the message of how Republicans represent the 1% who are stealing the country from the rest of us. Don't use kleptocracy or oligarchy. Keep it simple.

submitted 102 days ago • 164 comments

Musk’s wealth in 2012: $2 Billion Musk’s wealth in 2024: $447 Billion Bezos’s wealth in 2012: $18 Billion Bezos’s wealth in 2024: $249 Billion Zuckerberg’s wealth in 2012: $44 Billion Zuckerberg’s wealth in 2024: $224 Billion Minimum wage in 2012: $7.25 Minimum wage in 2024: $7.25

submitted 103 days ago • 158 comments