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House Rs just passed the budget resolution, the first step in their process to enact a bill that'd kick millions off Medicaid & cut SNAP down to just $1.60 per person per meal on avg while cutting taxes for the top 0.1% by $278k - all while increasing the debt 🧵on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT

submitted 13 hours ago • 450 comments

Huh. Interesting theory.

submitted 2 days ago • 114 comments

Understandably, there will be a significant number of words written about the rise of the AfD and its success, but, all too often, any advances made by parties of the left are waved off. Might it be young voters just want someone, anyone, who offers upheaval, rather than them loving neo-fascists?

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This could apply globally. Reminds me of the quote from The Dark Knight "some people just want to watch the world burn". Those who've been radicalized might well say such language is overdramatic...but they're playing with fire in any event.

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Three things that make the U.S. the envy of the world: 1) Professionalized military with strong norm of civilian control 2) Higher education and cutting-edge scientific research 3) Ability to welcome immigrants and attract the “best and the brightest” All three are under threat.

submitted 4 days ago • 219 comments

This is how it’s done.

submitted 4 days ago • 2907 comments

This is a shameful way to treat our fellow citizens who are public servants. This doesn’t make America great.

submitted 4 days ago • 192 comments

The past ten years has just been the same clutch of morons and apologists insisting that Trump would never cross that line and then shuffling along with him to insist that he would never cross that next one.

submitted 5 days ago • 95 comments

That's true but it's glaringly obvious, and has been for years, that Trump does not consider Ukraine a friend. He has always taken Russia's side.

submitted 7 days ago • 6 comments

Upon receiving the news that four of the City's Deputy Mayors have submitted their resignations, I sent the following letter to @nycmayor.

submitted 8 days ago • 240 comments

You cannot fire so many people and shutter so many agencies and services and not expect things to start to go very bad very quickly. Our job is to highlight not only the chaos and cruelty of the firings, but also the devastating consequences. The public must turn on this madness and soon.

submitted 10 days ago • 797 comments

American institutions—from the media to Congress—continue to underreact to the unraveling of our democracy. Overseas our media would not hesitate to call what we’re living through a full-blown autocratic coup. Here's my attempt at the story they should write: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-trump...

submitted 10 days ago • 82 comments

Ok folks. Time for me to pull my law rank and correct some shit. When a judge issues a civil contempt order, she does not hand it to the prosecutor or AG and say “enforce this if you feel like it.” The judge hands it directly to a law enforcement officer, who has no discretion on whether to serve it

submitted 14 days ago • 16 comments

At some point, the complete radio silence from the three Democrats with the most power to weigh on the Eric Adams situation - Schumer, Jeffries, and Hochul - combined with the fact that two of them come from Brooklyn Dem circles as well, starts to feel a little bit like complicity.

submitted 12 days ago • 33 comments

Adams must be removed. The city cannot sustain being governed for nearly a year by a Mayor who is being coerced by Trump admin in order to escape charges. This corruption poses a real threat to the people of the city. He should have resigned a while ago, but will not. So it’s time for him to go.

submitted 12 days ago • 1781 comments

This is absolutely insane. Musk’s DOGE crew just straight up took $80 million from an NYC bank account!

submitted 13 days ago • 1751 comments

Brianna Keilar: Do you think that calling Elon Musk a dick is effective messaging? Congressman Robert Garcia: Well, he is a dick.

submitted 13 days ago • 1872 comments

‘You Can’t Let This Happen,’ Says Fundraising Email From Sitting U.S. Congressperson

submitted 13 days ago • 310 comments

On the first three weeks of Trump being back in office, at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/donald-tru...

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This upside-down notion—that if an elected politician commits crimes in office, it’s undemocratic to hold them accountable—is a big part of why America is in this mess. No, winning an election does NOT grant permission to break the law. Yes, following democratically enacted laws is democratic.

submitted 14 days ago • 22 comments

Here's the acting head of FEMA just unliterally deciding that Article I is fake earlier today. The Constitution is not in effect.

submitted 15 days ago • 94 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.

submitted 15 days ago • 53 comments

This was my nightmare on inauguration day and it all came true immediately, in ways far worse than I imagined. People simply refusing to see or acknowledge what is happening in front of their noses.

submitted 15 days ago • 8 comments

Someone at the American Bar Association ate their Wheaties this morning.

submitted 15 days ago • 486 comments

SURPRISE!!!! Trump quietly fired head of office that protects whistleblowers: new lawsuit www.alternet.org/trump-whistl...

submitted 15 days ago • 75 comments

Replace one Orange guy in the White House for another. I’m listening…

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The Chiefs can still be named Super Bowl champions if Mike Pence has the courage.

submitted 16 days ago • 453 comments

The United States Senate has confirmed the nomination of Russell Vought to serve, once again, as Director of the Office of Management and Budget. The vote was 53-47. Vought was an architect of Project 2025.

submitted 19 days ago • 107 comments

Cc: senate democratic v leaders

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Asked a seasoned State Dept employee how Marco Rubio has been received so far. "He has a minder, like a Trump campaign minder." A what? "Someone in his office, not of his choosing. [Like with Tillerson], they sent somebody over because he wasn't totally within the fold." 👀

submitted 20 days ago • 103 comments

This is an absolutely remarkable memo — and a betrayal of both the Constitution and the American political tradition. In the US, by explicit contrast with interwar fascist governments, the state is not supposed to be an extension of the personality of the chief executive.

submitted 20 days ago • 215 comments

Breaking from me and @mjsdc.bsky.social : Newly installed AG Pam Bondi sent out more than a dozen memos in a 15 minute period on Wednesday. One of them told staffers to come up with "proposals for criminal investigations" of large companies that have DEIA initiatives. slate.com/news-and-pol...

submitted 20 days ago • 523 comments

The policy lead for CDC's H5N1 response has abruptly resigned. Sources tell me CDC's response to the bird flu pandemic has been severely hobbled by the chaos of the past two weeks.

submitted 20 days ago • 311 comments

"Defying legal limits"....so you mean...."breaking the law"? "illegal" that kind of thing...hmm, maybe use those terms @nytimes.com, huh? The cowardice at legacy media is staggering. Sometimes a spade is a damn spade...call it out!

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You may have heard that Secretary Rubio issued a waiver so that life-saving HIV treatment could continue during the break-up of USAID. It has not.

submitted 20 days ago • 11 comments

1. Yesterday, the Trump admin released a contract laying out more details of the "deferred resignation" offer they are using to encourage federal employees to resign. The deal is MUCH WORSE than it seemed Anyone who signs this contract agrees to resign and gets NOTHING guaranteed in return

submitted 20 days ago • 46 comments

The NFL literally erasing its "End Racism" slogan in anticipation of Trump attending the Super Bowl is... quite something. www.nytimes.com/athletic/611...

submitted 21 days ago • 176 comments

Axelrod and Emanuel need to be ignored at every opportunity. They aren’t built for this era of politics.

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Too many people didn't appreciate just how wonderful, how glorious, it was that the daily news cycle during Biden's presidency was boring as fuck.

submitted 21 days ago • 393 comments

Democrats "should have a war room that operates 24/7 to generate and voice loud and smart opposition to the Trump-Musk onslaught," @davidcorn.bsky.social writes. (In other words...take a cue from the R's playbook.) www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 21 days ago • 27 comments

super bowl ad not even kidding about this, do a super bowl ad about how Elon has your social security number and can shut off your grandma's check at any time

submitted 21 days ago • 162 comments

It is hard to imagine a bigger gift to China than what Elon Musk is doing to USAID right now. It’s the backbone of all democracy aid in the entire world. The other funder remaining now? China.

submitted 21 days ago • 46 comments

The most important thing I can tell everyone that I've learned from being a YouTuber who explains how stuff works is that each and every time I thought "this is common knowledge and doesn't need to be explained" I was wrong.

submitted 22 days ago • 458 comments