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To my friends in Congress (on both sides of the isle): Take a moment to be angry about this statement that Trump seems to have plagiarized from Putin. Then remember you have power and do something. Here are some options. 1/

submitted 4 days ago • 14 comments

Many charities and humanitarian aid groups will be tempted to ask for special life-saving exceptions to Musk's funding freezes, instead of suing to end them altogether. They should consider what Hannah Arendt wrote about those who asked the Nazis to exempt specific Jewish victims from persecution.

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

In the Soviet Bloc, the Communist Party assigned political minders/ commissars to every school, factory, army unit, etc to ensure ideological compliance and loyalty to the regime. Hiring was based on class background and demonstrated loyalty. Obviously, this is very different.

submitted 11 days ago • 51 comments

If you've got an hour to kill shoveling snow, here's a convo between me and Tim Miller, on Ukraine, the attempted dismantlement of our government, and how Democrats must rise to an occasion that life did not prepare them for. www.thebulwark.com/p/tom-malino...

submitted 11 days ago • 13 comments

What’s the point of being in Congress if you’re not willing to defend the reason Congress exists? Some thoughts here on the options Democrats have to stop Musk and Trump from trashing the Constitution, and why House Dems must hold the line. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

submitted 12 days ago • 7 comments

"First, Democrats have the most powerful congressional opposition to a governing party in modern history. Speaker Mike Johnson can’t spare a single Republican vote in the House right now." Start acting like it? New from former congressman Tom Malinowski: www.thebulwark.com/p/five-thing...

submitted 19 days ago • 43 comments

Oh those constitutional violations? Pfft, those aren’t really a concern.

submitted 19 days ago • 190 comments

NYT reported that the number of potentially affected agents is as high as 6k. The bureau has about 13.7k agents total

submitted 22 days ago • 113 comments

Thank the lord for Private Eye

submitted 32 days ago • 213 comments

Really weird line in one of yesterday's executive orders that sounds like something from a Xi Jinping speech, with its charge that America's global policies threaten"harmonious relations" (a phrase only the Chinese government uses) and its awkward English. Wonder how it got there?

submitted 33 days ago • 7 comments

This is the GOP’s long con on full display.

submitted 35 days ago • 921 comments

This is a beautiful tribute.

submitted 38 days ago • 242 comments

This was Biden's deal, but as much as I hate to say it, he couldn't have done it without Trump -- not so much because of Trump's performative threats to Hamas, but because of his willingness to tell Bibi bluntly, behind the scenes, that the war had to end by Jan. 20. And that's damning. 1/

submitted 39 days ago • 3 comments

Here’s my op-ed: The U.S. has a positive relationship with Greenland, which includes hosting one of our most sensitive military bases. What we should do is not F it up.

submitted 46 days ago • 6 comments

Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was ProPublica reporter @josh-kaplan.bsky.social. propub.li/3DGXECO

submitted 50 days ago • 467 comments

In my last campaign, I knocked the door of a retired firefighter. He said he rarely voted for Democrats, but we had a long, good talk. His #1 issue was that he was paying $5K a year for a single prescription drug. And he understandably doubted I could do anything about it. 1/

submitted 51 days ago • 2 comments

Jimmy Carter was NOT a failed president. Among other things.... wapo.st/4gwS2JW

submitted 55 days ago • 2 comments

Apropos of nothing: one of the billionaires who installed Putin as president found himself exiled and ultimately dead by "suicide." A few others also died or were stripped of their assets.

submitted 65 days ago • 4 comments

WAPO POLL: “.. Would you support or oppose the Trump administration doing each of the following?” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 67 days ago • 191 comments

One of the key new provisions in the CR that Musk just killed would have restricted high tech investments in China such as, surprise surprise, his own plan for a China based data center to develop AI for Tesla cars. www.reuters.com/business/aut...

submitted 66 days ago • 1 comment

Brief thread on how we got here: Since the GOP won control of the House 2 years ago they have not passed a single appropriations package into law. Government has operated at funding levels set by Dems 2 years ago via continuing resolutions every few months. This is not normal.

submitted 66 days ago • 253 comments

Maybe I'm missing something, but building more terminals to export American natural gas primarily to China, while increasing energy costs for Americans, does not seem like a good idea. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/16/c...

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

Not so fast -- the head of VOA can only be hired or fired with the assent of the International Broadcasting Advisory Board -- whose members are in place and confirmed by Congress. Congress passed this safeguard after Trump tried to purge the international broadcast agencies in his first term.

submitted 73 days ago • 2 comments

In late 2013, a colleague @waelalzayat.bsky.social brought a data file to my office in the State Department. It contained photos reminiscent of the Holocaust, cataloguing the bodies of thousands of individual Syrians who'd been tortured or starved to death in this prison and others.

submitted 78 days ago • 2 comments

Strongly disagree. Preemptive pardons would force the "beneficiaries" to live with the stain of implied guilt, deny them and all of us the opportunity to crush partisan prosecutions in court, and set an awful precedent. We should trust the rule of law we're fighting to defend.

submitted 81 days ago • 5 comments

When Russians endorse your pick to run the agency in charge of stopping Russian spies . . .

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments