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If you are a member of the DC Bar, please watch this video and VOTE for Diane Seltzer for DC Bar president. If you are not a member, please share with others who are.

submitted 3 days ago • 52 comments

Today was a victory. Today was necessary. Today, "April Fools" meant something different. We can't let up. Onward.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

The Democratic base, the good people of this country, have been looking for anything to give them hope. I've shouted out Al Green for standing up, against the party leadership, for us. Now I do the same for Cory Booker. People are watching, noticing, and feeling seen. You know. We NEED this.

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

It's not only that the Democratic Party needs Al Green. We, the base, need Al Green. Every single Dem should follow his example. Good Trouble.

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

To be very clear: yes, it is this easy. This energy coming from State level Dems is THE energy.

submitted 64 days ago • 1 comment

Endlessly infuriating that the "noble" move for civil servants facing illegal and authoritarian orders is to just give up their seat.

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

there's this weird trend on here that wants to downplay the civic memory of American anti-fascism for godforsaken reason instead of harnessing it as part of the American civil faith

submitted 95 days ago • 40 comments

So, we now finally have the argument used in the Executive Order for how birthright citizenship is not REALLY apart of the Constitution, and... It's the "parents are not subject to the jurisdiction thereof” lie. Thanks John Eastman, the Heritage Foundation, and everyone else. You know who you are.

submitted 96 days ago • 1 comment

The truth about the ERA is that even if both Biden and the Archivist pushed for it, it will head to the Supreme Court (and die). There is a reason that the GOP fought so hard for SCOTUS seats. If you install a loyal majority, it's checkmate. SCOTUS reform is genuinely required to save the US.

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

DOJ has released Volume One of the Jack Smith Report to the media, from which a public link is now online.

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

ATTN: THREAD: The loyalty interviews have begun in DC. As someone who has direct experience with this, I have a couple of recommendations for all federal workers. Please share this widely, and with any federal government employee you know. 1/

submitted 103 days ago • 558 comments

As expected. But what I find particularly disturbing is the admonishment of Trump's damage to the legal system, while also recommending he receives no actual punishment. You can re-read the reasoning below. But nonetheless, the President being so shielded from the law is still fundamentally flawed.

submitted 106 days ago • 1 comment

Ah yes, the security of the free world depends on America taking land from a NATO ally by force. Totally sane and rational thought.

submitted 109 days ago • 53 comments

Today, I recommend that everyone spends some time to read the Final Report of the January 6th committee. They have worked to provide the public with the truth, and now, with the endangerment of all, we owe it to them and future generations that it stays alive. www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...

submitted 111 days ago • 1 comment

"If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's, but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other." —President Ulysses Grant, Sept. 29, 1875

submitted 111 days ago • 0 comments

This a prime example of "sanewashing," how legacy media is bolstering Trump's insane actions. It should be unthinkable. It should be the cause for firings at CNN.

submitted 123 days ago • 1 comment

Democrats must be ready for a fight. Because a fight is coming our way. At this perilous moment, the country needs the Democratic Party to be bold. It's time to listen, to learn, to grow, and to fight—harder than ever before—for the values that unite us.

submitted 124 days ago • 63 comments

NEW: The guardrails of our democracy are being taken down by the very people who insisted they be entrusted to build them — even before Trump takes office. @marcelias.bsky.social outlines why he believes we are on our own.

submitted 126 days ago • 14 comments

The precedent set today should upset every American who believes in our democratic form of government. It appears that from now on no major legislation can be passed without the approval of the wealthiest person in this country. That’s not democracy, that’s oligarchy.

submitted 127 days ago • 99 comments

Christmas isn't worth oligarchy.

submitted 127 days ago • 1 comment

How do Dems build up their own alternate media? By having elected officials DO INTERVIEWS with them that end up getting clipped and played on networks. Like ours on Fox tonight. My 1st question for every elected Dem: How many podcast interviews did you do this month?

submitted 128 days ago • 322 comments

Senator Chris Murphy argues in an interview that Trump’s attacks on democracy are an emergency, and that Dems cannot let his profoundly unfit nominees and cowing of the media become seen as normal. https://newrepublic.com/article/189548/shocker-chris-murphy-may-not-democracy-much-longer

submitted 129 days ago • 29 comments

We cannot win if voters get their news about Democrats from Republicans. Our party needs to show up everywhere if we want to beat the GOP’s edge and reshape the information environment. That means deploying great communicators to deliver effective messages – everywhere.

submitted 132 days ago • 279 comments

i'm moving away from a two column/week pace in favor of a single extended argument. here is this week's.

submitted 130 days ago • 236 comments

Good news:

submitted 129 days ago • 0 comments

This is another direct attack on the Constitution. U.S. Const. art. I, § 8 cl. 7. "[The Congress shall have Power . . . ] To establish Post Offices and post Roads; . . ."

submitted 130 days ago • 0 comments