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Pritzker: "He promised he was gonna lower costs & make us safer. He's done none of it. I realize he's only been in office 2 weeks, but it's gotten worse, not better. You think grocery prices have gone down? No, they've gone up bc of what he's threatening or what he's already put in place"

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submitted 36 days ago • 1721 comments

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

submitted 37 days ago • 4414 comments

Here are the options on the table (which are not mutually exclusive): 1. House Dems bring articles of impeachment* 2. Senate Dems play constitutional hardball and obstruct everything 3. State AGs litigate (and prosecute) everything they can 4. Citizens march en mass

submitted 36 days ago • 4930 comments

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/te...

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The Five Stages of Tankie Grief 1. They didn't capture Aleppo 2. They didn't capture Hama 3. They didn't capture Homs 4. They didn't capture Damascus 5. That's not Assad in Moscow.

submitted 92 days ago • 33 comments

In images I never thought I would see in my lifetime, the revolutionary Syrian flag is being raised at the Syrian embassy in MOSCOW. Few things explain the scale of Russia’s military and strategic defeat in Syria more than this.

submitted 90 days ago • 65 comments

With the stunning collapse of its ally in Damascus, and the decisive, crushing defeat it had suffered at the hands of Israel, there will never be a better time for Lebanon to finally dismantle Hezbollah. My latest for @foreignpolicy.com foreignpolicy.com/2024/12/09/h...

submitted 89 days ago • 6 comments

Happy Holidays! 🤣🤣🤣

submitted 89 days ago • 1386 comments

This is great!

submitted 89 days ago • 238 comments

Breaking: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s office says he will go to the floor later today “and ask for unanimous consent to pass the Protect Reporters from Exploitative State Spying (PRESS) Act.” The bill already passed the House. Background here: www.cnn.com/2024/11/21/m...

submitted 89 days ago • 93 comments

the frenzy over the hunter biden pardon is a good reminder that the press knows how to make something a scandal and has decided that nothing trump does is truly deserving of that treatment

submitted 96 days ago • 1072 comments

Well said.

submitted 96 days ago • 110 comments

1) South Korean President declares martial law to try and go around parliament. Protests in the streets begin. 2) Parliament convenes and unanimously votes to negate the decree. 3) Soldiers withdraw and celebrations in the streets replace protests. All in a matter of hours.

submitted 96 days ago • 203 comments

Graham: Some of these articles are very disturbing. He obviously has a chance to defend himself here. But, you know, some of this stuff is is going to be difficult you know, time will tell.

submitted 96 days ago • 125 comments

My current position on the Biden pardon is….are you fucking kidding me? Trump has picked a kaleidoscope of unqualified losers, criminals, and lunatics to run his government as a “dictatorship on day 1” and we need to get into the information war to stop as many as we can right damn now.

submitted 96 days ago • 191 comments

Lee Jae-myung, Leader of South Korea's Democratic Party, live-streamed himself scaling the walls of the National Assembly to bypass military barricades so that he could vote to overturn the President's martial law.

submitted 96 days ago • 937 comments

The Russian ruble in freefall — having breached the 100 barrier despite a 20% interest rate — is a beautiful sight to see.

submitted 107 days ago • 717 comments

I literally think if the trans community were willing to police more of the shitty behavior (which is a lot) we would not be here. We justified all of it. We lied to ourselves and claimed women weren’t seeing dicks in locker rooms (they are.) And now Republicans will do it for us.

submitted 108 days ago • 11 comments

If we really want to defend our progress, we ought to prioritize political pragmatism over ideological fundamentalism.

submitted 108 days ago • 25 comments

This is exactly right. Trump’s big advantage is that he’s playing tic-tac-toe without a pencil but somehow convinces people he’s multiverse time-travel chess.

submitted 107 days ago • 798 comments

The police report on the Pete Hegseth allegations has been obtained by Mediaite and it is absolutely horrific. Link here: www.mediaite.com/politics/new...

submitted 108 days ago • 683 comments

Nothing says "goVerNMenT EfFiciEnCy" like creating an entirely new federal agency to address it. 🙄

submitted 108 days ago • 61 comments

Wow! Bluesky continues to add more than ONE MILLION users every day. That’s absolutely amazing to see!

submitted 109 days ago • 372 comments

This one needs to go away too.

submitted 108 days ago • 6 comments

Me: Twitter: -63K Bluesky: +205K Thank you 🥹💙

submitted 108 days ago • 41 comments

Bluesky> threads>Banging your head into the wall > x

submitted 109 days ago • 400 comments

NEW: More details about Gaetz’ sex trafficking: Gaetz allegedly flew 2 women to New York, paid them for sex: Attorney From Will Steakin: abcnews.go.com/US/gaetz-all...

submitted 110 days ago • 299 comments

If Matt Gaetz DIDNT rape a minor, the GOP would have released the report. Just fyi

submitted 109 days ago • 821 comments

Gaetz is out

submitted 108 days ago • 503 comments

Leak the report. Pass it on.

submitted 108 days ago • 1387 comments

lol. lmao

submitted 113 days ago • 463 comments

Stating the obvious here but if this report cleared Gaetz’s name, they’d eagerly release it in the name of “transparency”

submitted 114 days ago • 196 comments

I don’t even know why I stopped using this in the first place? Good GOD it’s nice to be in a digital space with other real human beings. Can someone give a Cliff Notes of what went down here over the last year? Tea, dev notes, big memes, whatever is best please

submitted 118 days ago • 2772 comments

Should I tell Twitter I’m here? I don’t want to inadvertently cause an influx of all the worst accounts on the internet.

submitted 118 days ago • 5580 comments

The ironic thing about post election chatter is that a lot of the time it’s candidates who lost, underperformed, or underworked who have endless time to go on TV and share their blame story. And for their part, journalists rarely EVER ask if that person actually ran a functionally solid campaign

submitted 117 days ago • 416 comments

Was there today for the H.R. 9495 vote (bill that would have allowed labeling nonprofits as terrorist supporting organizations). Voted no, of course - but I do want to report that the activism DID work and persuaded members. I thought it’d be a lonely NO vote, which we take often. It wasn’t.

submitted 116 days ago • 981 comments

The idea that Bluesky is insular and X is a place for diverse views is a fallacy. X is based on an algorithm rigged to push the views of Musk and others on the far right. Bluesky is open. You can make it whatever you want it to be.

submitted 112 days ago • 359 comments

Good morning and Happy Wednesday to everyone who has helped make Bluesky a welcoming, warm, and fun place! I LOVE IT HERE ON BLUESKY!!!!💙🙏💙

submitted 109 days ago • 1813 comments

This place continues to grow at an exponential rate. If you are new here, welcome!

submitted 110 days ago • 602 comments

Politics 101: Recess Appointments

submitted 109 days ago • 718 comments