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"Tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage." -- @govpritzker.illinois.gov

submitted 5 days ago • 535 comments

I wrote about moral courage, and what those who have it have in common asharangappa.substack.com/p/fearless-s...

submitted 5 days ago • 27 comments

well it has certainly been an amusing prank to let the worst people alive take over the american government for a few weeks, but I think it's probably gone on long enough

submitted 12 days ago • 102 comments

I think Musk is the kryptonite. No one likes him. I don’t think even Trump, or a good portion of Trumpers, like him. Focus all the negative messaging on him, channel the negative coverage on him. As an added bonus he is super insecure and fragile and he will lose his mind

submitted 18 days ago • 295 comments

With Virginia’s 140,000 dedicated federal workers on my mind, I helped Senate Democrats hold the Senate floor all night to protest Trump’s OMB nominee Russ Vought—a key author of Project 2025 who says he wants to “traumatize” federal workers.

submitted 18 days ago • 69 comments

The worst people you went to high school with are now running our government. They're the people who cheated on tests, bullied the smaller kids, stole stuff from lockers and lied about other students behind their backs. They grew up, stayed awful and became MAGA.

submitted 18 days ago • 101 comments

I know all of us who understand what is happening are experiencing mental health challenges because of that. The only message of comfort I can offer to this community of readers is this: you are correct. What you think is happening is really happening, and is just as concerning as you think it is.

submitted 19 days ago • 1081 comments

The most damaging two weeks in history. The U.S.’s standing in the world, its ability to keep the country safe, the federal government’s fundamental capacity to operate effectively — all of these will take years to repair, if that can be achieved at all. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

submitted 19 days ago • 22 comments

Gaza is this week’s bright shiny object. Pay attention to Trump’s effort to aggregate as much govt power as possible in the WH & convert the civil service into loyalists, while GOP members of Congress watches let it happening without exercising their constitutional power to check it.

submitted 19 days ago • 211 comments

Country music fans mad at Beyonce…. Do you realize it was mediocre white dudes that completely bastardized the genre? You cranked up Jason Aldean and now you’re a “purist?” Sit down.

submitted 19 days ago • 569 comments

I can't tell you how many people told me it was impossible for Joe Biden to remove one guy running the post office

submitted 20 days ago • 115 comments

Not for nothing but everyone realizes that these teenagers and 20 somethings who have complete access to the Treasury payment source code are now #1 espionage recruitment targets for Russia and China, right?

submitted 20 days ago • 2269 comments

Second shoe drops 2nd Complaint filed against FBI purge. This by Federal Bureau of Investigation Agents Association (approx 14,000 members) Privacy rights - public release of names Administrative Procedure Act First Amendment - for retaliation Due Process storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 20 days ago • 250 comments

BREAKING: 14,000 FBI agents sue Trump’s DOJ for illegal retaliatory job termination

submitted 20 days ago • 97 comments

It’s a lesser point but the idea that AI will immediately prove a useful tool for streamlining government is by itself such a ludicrous tell. It’s a separate indicator of the staggering overconfidence these children have.

submitted 20 days ago • 71 comments

what Musk is doing is as close to the government being taken over by a hostile foreign power in our lifetimes, the coverage should reflect that

submitted 24 days ago • 165 comments

This is a hostile takeover of the federal government by a private citizen of unlimited means with no restrictions and no transparency. Welcome to the Deep State www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...

submitted 24 days ago • 1827 comments

If it were legal to fire you, they wouldn't put so much effort into getting you to resign voluntarily.

submitted 24 days ago • 666 comments

There is a massive purge of key apolitical leaders within the government right now, especially at "power ministries" like DOJ and the FBI, that is akin to what Erdogan did in Turkey to solidify his iron grip on power. It is extremely dangerous to apolitical law enforcement in this country.

submitted 24 days ago • 20 comments

Black Lives Matter fundamentally broke these people’s brains. They couldn’t bear the idea that they might have to tell a different story about this country and thus tell a different story about themselves. They hated it, and now they are using everything they have to never feel that way again.

submitted 25 days ago • 90 comments

This isn’t really a settlement; Trump had no case to speak of, in my view. It’s better understood as a nonspecific sort of bribe. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

submitted 26 days ago • 32 comments

Serious question: can the president just spend all his time in office suing people and then use the litigation as a "legal" way of accepting bribes via "settlements"?

submitted 26 days ago • 2154 comments

Schedule F is back - and so are the 1870s.

submitted 28 days ago • 67 comments

This is the stuff they feed the cult to keep them from noticing that the only reason why they wanted power was to stay out of prison, have immunity from prosecution, then use the levers of power to enrich themselves exponentially faster than any group of people in human history.

submitted 33 days ago • 800 comments

Permanent mood.

submitted 35 days ago • 487 comments

Before whatever is about to happen happens: There will be a lot of reporting and commentary about executive orders. Much of that reporting, at least initially, will regurgitate what the White House says the orders do as opposed to what they can actually do based on the text and controlling law.

submitted 35 days ago • 52 comments

"Well, Grant, we've had the devil's own day today, haven't we?" "Yes. Lick 'em tomorrow though." - Grant and Sherman after the disaster of the first day of Shiloh, April 1862. They won the next. Today is one of the bad days in American history. Better days will come.

submitted 35 days ago • 743 comments

“His job is not to wield power but to draw attention away from it.” ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

submitted 48 days ago • 11 comments

Stay focused on protecting norms and institutions and not on the “gulf of America.”

submitted 48 days ago • 334 comments

The inability of the entire legal system — prosecutors, judges, justices, lawyers — to hold Trump accountable will be judged one of the greatest failures of American democracy.

submitted 62 days ago • 587 comments

Bought a cybertruck today. Doing my part to keep President Musk happy.

submitted 65 days ago • 473 comments

Democrats refuse to learn their lesson. Refuse to take generational change seriously. Refuse to spotlight the party’s most effective communicators.

submitted 69 days ago • 753 comments

My favorite part of Star Wars was the scene where the Resistance leaders decide against trying to destroy the Death Star and instead kick in $1 million each for Palpatine's inauguration.

submitted 71 days ago • 110 comments

We could have taken on climate change, but rich people got mad that they had to take a shot and think about pronouns, so we got polio instead.

submitted 73 days ago • 11 comments