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The press is alive and well up north.

submitted 7 days ago • 106 comments

"The goal has always been clear: destroy functioning government, cripple the nonprofit sector and obliterate the hard-earned bonds and benefits of 80 years of post-war American progress." @guitarwatson.bsky.social www.democracydocket.com/opinion/trum...

submitted 70 days ago • 141 comments

Elon Musk is a terrible president.

submitted 71 days ago • 1681 comments

They have trashed valuable products your tax money paid for.

submitted 70 days ago • 103 comments

This is how autocrats throughout history have endangered the people they govern by erasing factual information vital to health and well being www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

submitted 74 days ago • 808 comments

"Basic democratic principles and checks and balances will be largely undermined, the legislature, law enforcement and media will be robbed of their independence and misused as a political arm, Big Tech will be given co-governing power." www.reuters.com/world/us/ger...

submitted 86 days ago • 213 comments

Here's an idea: instead of quoting Trump's outlandish remarks, quote the RESPONSES from credible folks, like this response to remarks about a "water shortage" while fighting the California wildfires. From www.latimes.com/california/s... and @hcrichardson.bsky.social

submitted 96 days ago • 33 comments

Reminds me. Back in college I was a research assistant for an incredibly astute historian named Daniel Rodgers. A great learning experience. And one of my first assignments was to find him the text of Carter's "malaise" speech - required a bit more work before google and the internet. And my ...

submitted 96 days ago • 17 comments

Yeah sounds like a plan 😂😂🦋

submitted 107 days ago • 271 comments

A personal reflection: “Journalists like myself have a choice: surrender to the fascist mob that wants to intimidate the truth-tellers – or rededicate ourselves to doing what’s right no matter the cost.” www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

submitted 110 days ago • 179 comments

An important point.

submitted 107 days ago • 681 comments

Thanks, Clarence Thomas.

submitted 107 days ago • 230 comments

I’m thinking Democrats would get more votes with a platform of "tax the hell out of the super-rich and give everyone health care" than they got with a platform of "We’re your favorite old sweater from 1995.” The status quo doesn’t sell. Ripping your opponents isn't enough. Do some radical good.

submitted 106 days ago • 44 comments

🤷🏾‍♀️🤷🤦

submitted 107 days ago • 675 comments

Thinking more and more that this may be the most important story of the year -- a denial of service attack on democracy funded by the wealthiest man alive.

submitted 128 days ago • 32 comments

i just emailed NYPD:

submitted 128 days ago • 98 comments

This is a really good thread.

submitted 129 days ago • 0 comments

MSM failed democracy this election. Now Trump will attack journalism in ways that require real courage of the press. Margaret Sullivan @sulliview.bsky.social asks newsroom leaders to back reporters willing to tell ugly truths. #USDemocracy #DemCast #Voices4Victory open.substack.com/pub/margaret...

submitted 132 days ago • 36 comments

TRUMP: I’m going to use the FBI illegally to go after my political enemies! BIDEN: Um, I guess I’ll pardon my son then because fuck that. MEDIA: Biden is breaking norms!

submitted 133 days ago • 312 comments

Call me crazy, but I think Justin Sun, a Chinese national being prosecuted for fraud by the SEC, sending Trump $18 million should be a bigger story The direct enrichment of Trump by a foreign national weeks before he takes office has merited no coverage in the NYT or Washington Post

submitted 134 days ago • 698 comments

If you voted for Trump, you do not support the military or veterans.

submitted 132 days ago • 0 comments

The parts of Build Back Better blocked by the Senate were those which would have directly benefited working people: - Paid + Family Leave - Child Tax Credit - Universal pre-K - $15 minimum wage Instead, Bidenomics was all indirect and through the market: - CHIPS - IRA - Infrastructure

submitted 133 days ago • 46 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 133 days ago • 1065 comments