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People who claim Zelensky was at fault yesterday and should have been more “diplomatic” or “respectful” are either deliberately propagating the Trumpist attack line – or they fundamentally misunderstand what the Trumpist project is and who is now in power in the United States.

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Like she did for others, @joyannreid.bsky.social elevated me. She was the first cable host to have me on as a subject matter expert. She’d reach out personally when news broke that’s in my wheelhouse, always thinking of ways to include me. She helped me find my voice, my lane.

submitted 7 days ago • 44 comments

It’s extra important for your GOP senator to hear from you right now if you’re in one of these states. Call your senators and tell them to vote NO on Kash Patel’s nomination for FBI director: indivisible.org/resource/cal... Or send an email to your senators: act.indivisible.org/sign/demand-...

submitted 13 days ago • 43 comments

This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

submitted 14 days ago • 8254 comments

“We’re not going anywhere. What’s more: we’re expanding.” Nearly a dozen of Minnesota’s foremost experts on gender-affirming care collaborated on this beautiful op-ed in today’s Strib. No paywall.

submitted 16 days ago • 171 comments

Hey NYTimes — now you’re lighting the beacons? NOW?!? After months of “Sauron: Avatar Of Evil… Or Extreme Uniter?” thumbsucker reporting you’re screaming what we’ve known since 2015? Fuck all the way off.

submitted 22 days ago • 3216 comments

After plans stalled for a new dam in the Czech Republic, eight beavers saved the day seemingly overnight. “At this point, nothing that beavers do surprises me.” www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...

submitted 23 days ago • 35 comments

NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE full access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.

submitted 30 days ago • 6191 comments

This is what democracy failing looks like. No, really. It looks like this. You hardly notice it go by. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 30 days ago • 27 comments

Homan went on CNN to complain that ICE’s attempts to arrest Chicagoans has been hampered by the people’s knowledge of policy—largely because of the city’s “Know Your Rights” campaign. Fascists rely on your compliance. On your ignorance. They depend upon your fear. Disappoint them.

submitted 34 days ago • 166 comments

I and many others warned that the anti-CRT, anti-DEI propaganda campaign that so many embraced or down played was always about creating the narrative for and paving the way for a larger attack on civil rights. We are here.

submitted 39 days ago • 47 comments

Love the Mel Brooks/David Lynch friendship so much

submitted 46 days ago • 27 comments

Huge gratitude for our neighbors, Mexico and Canada have sent fire fighters and army to help us.

submitted 51 days ago • 952 comments

When I was 23, the house I lived in burned to the ground. I was asleep, and got out with nothing but my pjs and my roommate’s dog. When you lose your house it is not about the sofa or tv. It’s the concert t-shirt you bought with your best friend, and the last letter your grandfather wrote you.

submitted 53 days ago • 213 comments

This is highly disconcerting. WaPo editors killed an editorial cartoon that mocked Bezos and other tech oligarchs. Will the Post respond to this? Democracy dies with accommodation. anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...

submitted 58 days ago • 383 comments

“This is an enormous heist. They’re just backing the truck up to the government in front of all of us. A massive bailout to the crypto world.”

submitted 87 days ago • 1 comment

We MUST keep vaccines. have you written your Senator to let them know?

submitted 79 days ago • 376 comments

soon-shiong is pulling the elon musk strategy of fighting bias and standing up for “free speech” by censoring everything he doesn’t like and openly simping for donald trump

submitted 81 days ago • 190 comments

the clear sign that they just don’t see these kids as real people is the endless concern over hypotheticals and the indifference to the reality that actual children are more likely to kill themselves because of these bans

submitted 89 days ago • 488 comments

Two stages of writing: 1) This shouldn't take too long 2) Oh no

submitted 89 days ago • 579 comments

Sens. Warren and Blumenthal are asking Biden and Defense Sec'y Austin to issue a policy directive restricting the federal gov't from deploying troops domestically. The senators say taking the step now could make it costlier for Trump to use the military against protesters. tinyurl.com/3d7b7pmc

submitted 91 days ago • 37 comments

A lot of people think everything will work out if we just play by the rules but don’t seem to recognize that rules only matter when everyone agrees to follow them and, well, that isn’t our present reality.

submitted 92 days ago • 372 comments

In honor of Jimi Hendrix, who would have turned 82 today, I wrote something for PBS about his incredible sense of style. He helped define not only the sound but also the look of a countercultural movement. www.pbs.org/wnet/america...

submitted 96 days ago • 97 comments

This thread is incredible…

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Democratic candidate Derek Tran has defeated Republican Michelle Steel, flipping CA45 from GOP control

submitted 97 days ago • 68 comments

The word of the day is “kerning”

submitted 98 days ago • 12 comments

Derek Tran has declared victory over the hateful, corrupt Michelle Steel in #CA13! That guarantees a House that’s at least no worse than it was for Dems than before the election, making it that much harder for Trump to jam through nightmare legislation.

submitted 98 days ago • 4 comments

He did it! Congrats to Derek Tran!!

submitted 98 days ago • 779 comments

We’re not going back.

submitted 99 days ago • 1300 comments

But, but, but…Pat Soon-Shiong’s daughter said his nixing of the LA Times’ Harris endorsement was because of Gaza war support. Hmmm. It’s almost as if it was about something else 🤔

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When I was a child, I learned that the Constitution didn’t apply to people like us. I said the Pledge of Allegiance from inside a barbed wire camp, the words “with liberty and justice for all” wholly meaningless. But I did not give up on America. I’ve spent my life fighting for its ideals.

submitted 99 days ago • 625 comments

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Organizer: Ok but what are the political realities needing to shift that'll allow us all to drink from cups that are full?

submitted 100 days ago • 1 comment

New #JWST image just dropped 🔭🐡🧪

submitted 100 days ago • 141 comments

One thing I find interesting about the echo chamber complaint is that an echo chamber just won a presidential election. Put aside the convo of whether it’s “good” or “bad” for a moment. The far right has devoted enormous resources + time to building echo chambers & loathes spaces they don’t control

submitted 101 days ago • 1646 comments

There have been a lot of times where I feel like we need to have honest discussions on the left about what has worked and what hasn’t, share observations without judgement, but it feels like there isn’t much space for it. I think it’s holding us back. I wonder how and where we can accomplish that.

submitted 101 days ago • 2103 comments

A Trump-appointed judge just struck down a Biden rule expanding overtime pay to 4 million working people. It's really surprising how little media coverage this has received. Trump faced no real questions about this issue during the campaign. 1/ (link) newrepublic.com/article/1886...

submitted 102 days ago • 387 comments

HR 9495 passed the house. Last week they needed 2/3 of the house. Today they needed a single majority. HUGE SILVER LINING: ur calls worked on changing many votes: Nov 12: 145 Nays Nov 21: 184 Nays That’s a gain of 39 votes. It still needs to pass the senate. You know the drill. CALL UR SENATORS!

submitted 102 days ago • 1 comment

trump is not invulnerable.

submitted 102 days ago • 176 comments

AOC comes out swinging against a Nancy Mace for targeting Sarah McBride. "They're doing this so that Nancy Mace can ... fundraise off an email. They're not doing this to protect people. They're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kinds. And everybody should reject it. It's gross."

submitted 103 days ago • 578 comments

YOUR CALLS WORKED!! Adam Schiff announced he will now vote NO on HR 9495. Thank you to all who called. And please call Rep. Schiff and thank him for voting no. ☎️ 202-224-3121

submitted 102 days ago • 1 comment

“Preachy females” is not a slip of the tongue - it reveals a fundamentally sexist, reactionary sensibility that undoubtedly shapes everything Carville has to say about the world. And yet, ostensibly liberal media keep presenting this old crank as an oracle whose wisdom we are blessed to receive.

submitted 103 days ago • 47 comments