"It sounds like Trump is getting ready to carve out exemptions from his deportation regime for agricultural workers. After all, Trump is right—bear with me—that farms have a special need for immigrant labor." ICYMI @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/farmers-tr...
DALIO: “.. I think that right now we are at a decision-making point and very close to a recession. .. And I'm worried about something worse than a recession, if this isn't handled well.” @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
This is how Donald Trump taxes the US economy to death one small business at a time.
This👇
How fast do people forget that Trump's policies toward Iran caused the very nuclear problem he's using to drag America into World War 3. Even worse, there's a presencial link between tariffs and his war plans. So much for Mr. Peace in the campaign trail last year.
Elon Musk has run our government for 80 days. Here's a one minute summary of what he's done:
•••••••NEW••••••• In February, RFK Jr. downplayed the measles outbreak raging through western Texas — calling it "not unusual.” Now he’s claiming the measles outbreaks expanding across the U.S. have reached a “plateau.” WARNING: Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy’s claims..
19. Liberals tend to believe two things about evil. Either it’s not really evil – it’s ignorance, superstition or some other human failing – or if it is evil, it needs no explanation. Anyone can see it with their own two eyes. Pointing it out might actually be insulting to people’s intelligence.
10. And it is applying ruinous tariffs to immiserate anyone who has benefited from those things, which is to say, the entire middle class. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/04/08/t...
1. The president put a 90-day pause on some tariffs in response to the dangerous instability that came out of the bond markets. Other tariffs are still in play, especially the ridiculous 104 percent tax on goods from China and the across-the-board 10 percent tax on all other imports.
The U.S. House of Representatives voted Thursday to pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, a major voter suppression measure that, if it became law, could disenfranchise millions of eligible voters and badly undermine U.S. democracy. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
All four Minnesota GOP Representatives just voted for Donald Trump’s plan to pay for tax cuts for billionaires by gutting Medicaid.
Republicans just passed a budget that guts Medicaid, SNAP, veterans’ benefits, and free school lunches. They swore they'd fix the economy—but this sure as hell ain’t it.
Now for the begging, and the bribes, to get favors from the personalist regime
The acting head of the Internal Revenue Service resigned after the Treasury Department and Homeland Security reached an agreement to share tax data from some immigrants living in the country without legal status. (via @wbur.org)
"If the government can disappear any people it wishes, dump them in a Salvadoran dungeon and prevent any court in this country from providing relief, we all should be very, very afraid."
$721m to help Louisiana protect itself from Natural Disaster, gone Red Rural Recession. www.fox8live.com/2025/04/10/l...
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War hero schools a chickenhawk.
Crockett: It has taken Texas’ largest measles outbreak in 30 years with more than 500 confirmed cases and the deaths of two children for the secretary of health and human services to say what we already knew. The most effective way to prevent the spread of measles is the vaccin
A Delaware judge finds the right-wing network aired false and defamatory statements about Dominion Voting Systems' role in the 2020 presidential election. A jury trial is slated for late April.
Maddow: They cannot defend what they're doing, they cannot commit to what they're doing, but they also can't even reverse what they're doing when they try to reverse it because they are so incompetent, they can't even fail properly
Think about how much of an entitled prick you’d have to be to think calling other human beings “peasants” when you’re the Vice President is an ok thing to do. The world’s worst diplomat strikes again. Also: we don’t borrow money from them. That is nonsense.
NEW: Here's what Democrats must do right now to win in 2026, @marcelias.bsky.social writes.
The Keystone pipeline system, which carries crude oil from Canada to the U.S., was shut down on Tuesday because of a leak that spilled an estimated 3,500 barrels of oil in southeastern North Dakota, government and company officials said.
Effective immediately, the government says it will begin screening immigrant social media for activity that officials think indicates support for antisemitism.
Should have been 0…. @altcdc.altgov.info @alt-hhs.altgov.info @altfda.altgov.info apple.news/ADnx3PqGLSzy...
RFK, Jr.'s mixed message on the measles vaccine is costing lives. The 52 Senators who voted to confirm the quixotic fool as the Secretary of Health share equal blame. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Are you a woman who changed your name when you got married? Congress is considering a bill that could make it much harder for you to vote. Call your rep—this is not a drill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...
From Nov 7:
"The strategic ambiguity about whether or not we live in an autocracy is designed to preserve maximum maneuverability for the regime until such time as they have full control and no longer need to maneuver."
Mike, now seeing this. I would have loved to meet up with you 🙂
“This was an illegal act,” U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis told an attorney for the Justice Department. “Congress said you can’t do it, and you did it anyway.”
In years to come, the people who did this will be the ones who will go to jail.
The worst catastrophes of history are caused by men who are malevolent, ignorant, and have exceptional wills.
Plan to give all of your private tax data to oligarchs. www.wired.com/story/doge-h...
Break down of what small business owners are facing. #tariffs #EconSky
Don't tell me the ignorant and stupid look ignorant and stupid. This putz is solidly middle class, a teacher of children and pillar of his community, who is willing to speak to the newspaper of record about beliefs so fantastical he'd be an outcast in any country whose politics were not insane.
Jesus it gets worse. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/29/u...
The same putz was quoted in the times in response to Signalgate. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/u...
Honestly, no surprise the Black woman in this article understands things. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/u...
How Democrats choose to confront DOGE’s corrupt destruction today will determine whether America recovers—and who will lead that recovery.
The price level increase from all 2025 tariffs so far will cost the average household around $3,800. But the burden will be extremely regressive, with lower-income households taking a bigger hit as a share of their income.
@budgetlab.bsky.social has new analysis out on Smoot-Hawley 2.0. Among topline findings: The average effective US tariff rate after incorporating all 2025 tariffs is now 22½%, the highest since 1909.
The U.S. Department of Education recently told state officials they would not receive nearly $3.5 million in COVID-era, congressionally appropriated dollars for improving student reading and math skills.
A reminder to reporters: Because Trump tariff numbers are made-up nonsense, using the phrase “reciprocal tariffs” is lying to your audience. The phrase itself is propaganda. They are not reciprocal.
I had been reluctant to amplify the theory that Trump's "reciprocal tariff rate" for a given country was based on the dumb calculation: (bilateral trade deficit) divided by (imports from that country) But now USTR has confirmed it. Brief 🧵
More than 600 Iron Range steelworkers out of work as auto industry cuts orders because of tariffs www.startribune.com/iron-range-l...
You have to see this. PoliticsGirl and her husband teamed up with the brilliant Timothy Snyder (author of On Tyranny) and the legendary John Lithgow to create something truly powerful. It’s important, it’s urgent—and it needs to be shared far and wide.
"no modern administration has insisted on this standard before, & the idea that foreigners who are here on valid visas should live under fear that their every political opinion might become grounds for sudden incarceration in Louisiana or El Salvador is inhumane and close to un-American in spirit."
Classic authoritarian politics. Forcing public demonstrations of fealty helps keep others in line.
WEDBUSH: “.. it is becoming crystal clear this tariff/US policy will cause pure chaos to the global auto industry .. “.. the concept of a US car maker with parts all from the US is a fictional tale that does not exist and would take years to make this concept a reality.” $GM $F $STLA
Leah and I released the new Indivisible doc, "A Practical Guide to Democracy on the Brink," after spending the post-election weekend in a cabin feverishly writing, editing, and rewriting. TNR describes it here as "refreshingly blunt." I think it holds up pretty well 5-ish months later.
the "paid protesters" discourse happened in 2017 and R's killed it pretty quick because they realized it was only inflaming the situation (no faster way to infuriate your concerned constituents than calling them fake!). but Elon has the political instincts of Mr Bean so of course he's doubling down
I think there’s probably power in being up against people who simply can’t conceive of anyone caring enough to act without being bribed to do so. It means that they cannot imagine, or thereby prepare themselves for, a driven opposition.
Iran declares its armed forces have readied missiles with the capability to strike US-related positions. This report comes in response to Trump’s threats of “bombing the likes of which they have never seen before” if Tehran does not agree to a new nuclear agreement.
This clear-eyed assessment of the path forward for Democrats is MUST-READ. This isn’t about pointing fingers. It’s about identifying the problem and FIXING it. Please share widely, and check it out:
“The Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine official, Dr. Peter Marks, abruptly resigned Friday, saying in a searing letter that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s aggressive stance on vaccines was irresponsible and posed a danger to the public.”
To win a war they cannot avoid, Chief Justice Roberts and his allies must rediscover their belief in a simple notion: The American president is not above the law.
Rumeysa Ozturk must not be deported. You can't kidnap someone off the street for their political views — this isn't Moscow. She has every right to speak her mind. I've contacted the Administration. I want answers.
1. Remember, you morons, the Internet is written in indelible ink 2. Chief Moron Mike Waltz set the Signal group texts to disappear in 4 weeks www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/u...
The incompetence of this administration is staggering.
The Democrats Need Their Own Project 2025: Elie Mystal Provides a Blueprint Legal analyst @elienyc.bsky.social argues there are ten popular laws, forged by racism, greed & bipartisan complicity, that are ruining America & need to be undone by Democrats thelefthook.substack.com/p/the-democr...
Trump has long insisted that he would not cut Social Security benefits...which has forced the party to argue that the cuts DOGE is making to the programs aren’t actually cuts The latest Press Pass from @cheetah.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/musk-slash...
It should be a firing offense for a CIA director say I don’t know. There is no point in having a head of the Central Intelligence Agency who does not know things. apnews.com/video/senate...
With the White House soliciting corporate sponsorships, there is practically a “For Sale” sign on its annual easter egg roll. That’s a real ethics issue.
I finally read the entire Goldberg piece. Holy fucking shit this is a major, major, MAJOR scandal. Not only was it a dangerous breach of national security -- they're using a consumer app that destroys the texts, thus destroying presidential records! www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Look what happens when a democracy allows itself to have nice things.
So let’s be very clear about this - DOGE isn’t saving America money. It is now among the costliest domestic programs in our history; and certainly the most significant wealth destroying.
“If American journalists flinch at merely calling a centuries-old body of water what it has always been known as, what will they flinch at next? History is full of regimes that began by controlling what people could say.”
👇🏽”That’s not efficiency, it’s cruelty and chaos” @ossoff.bsky.social is really good at this
As veterans lose their jobs and Americans lose their Social Security and benefits, the richest man on Earth makes billions. Musk Is Positioned to Profit Off Billions in New Government Contracts www.nytimes.com/2025/03/23/u...
"The American nuclear umbrella has been the most effective nonproliferation policy imaginable." It's always tempting to mistake a thing working for a thing not being necessary.
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This, right here..
But it tyranny can, and will be overthrown. Again. People are pissed! Not a few people, not just some people. History has shown us that when the Collective is pissed, action is taken. There are more of us than them - it is legal to overthrow a government that has gotten too out of hand.
This is how its done people www.bbc.com/future/artic...
Protests work! Serbian government forced to resign in wake of massive protests www.bbc.com/news/article...
“These are the times that try men souls: the summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country. But he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered,” The Crisis, Thomas Paine
Allowing child marriages. Removing child labor protections. Cutting school meal programs. Forcing children to bear their rapist's children. Voting for and venerating child rapists and felons. Hell is for Children, but Hell is right here, right now.
The Great Firing continues—and the next round of layoffs to the US Forest Service and National Park Service will reveal how much power over public lands the Trump administration will cede to corporations, writes Lazo Gitchos. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Jasmine Mooney is the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. Jasmine felt as if she had been kidnapped — “thrown into some sort of sick psychological experiment meant to strip us of every ounce of strength and dignity.” ICE lied to her, bound her in chains, seized every conceivable…
NEW—Trump’s Agriculture Department has halted HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS of & worth of deliveries to food banks. USDA had previously allocated $500 million in deliveries for fiscal year 2025. This is on top of $1 BILLION cancelled last week for school lunch purchases. Not great for America.
Sanders: Our life expectancy is about four years less than in other wealthy countries. If you’re working class in America, you live 7-8 years shorter than people who are wealthy. Now, why is that? The answer is not just healthcare. But it is the day-to-day stress that working people live under.
FACT: Medicaid covers nearly half of all childbirths in the country, and around two-thirds of nursing home stays. FACT: Roughly 1/5 of America relies on Medicare or Medicaid to cover healthcare costs. FACT: GOP members just passed a bill requiring DEEP cuts to these programs. #SaveMedicaid
I hear you on this. So did mine and I don't know how to help her. It breaks my heart to see her like this.
Openly ignoring and defying the Judiciary. Breaking his oath to preserve and protect the Constitution of the United States. Granting himself unchecked power. This is authoritarianism.
🚨ALERT: Florida Republicans have gone missing! Why are they so afraid to explain themselves to you?
The richest man in the world took over $5K out of this guy's bank account, claiming he was dead. The richest man in the world said he was saving money. He was not dead.
NYT: “The White House did not comment on why the group had altered the contracts data or why it’s now harder for the public to scrutinize it.” The *savings* have been changed and altered — and are nowhere near what @MarshaBlackburn claims they are. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/u...
If you live in NC, call every Republican politician you know. Call every farmer you know and ask them to do the same When money walks , voters talk. Make sure they know this effects everyone in their town and state www.wunc.org/news/2025-03...