What these Schatz posts say to me is that Dem elected officials like him seem incapable of perceiving the right as a *political movement.* The response to Covid mitigation and the Floyd protests was not a spontaneous reaction...it was a right wing backlash organized by a reactionary movement.
Trump goes full Bulworth
I am completely shocked to learn that Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to prolong this war. Who could’ve seen this coming?
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. filling an IV bag from a murky puddle near Trump National's sixth tee. "The president needs parameciums," he tells the assembled media. "It's the only treatment proven to work in real testing." His golf cart is piled high with dozens of dead birds.
It's funny to think about Trump's staff driving him to the golf course and then just parking it (and him) in a garage for two hours to keep up appearances
These people are unrepentant racists but also too cowardly to use the slur they so desperately want to.
This ‘blue states closed schools too long’ narrative is becoming increasingly entrenched in the Polite Center but it’s arguable at best. Republican states had far more deaths during COVID and their students have roughly comparable learning loss.
One reason for Democrats to ditch their reflex to say "You have a point" to the other side is the right wing hasn't had a good point about anything in most of our lifetimes
This is pretty remarkable but not that unusual. A lot of people want to portray RFK as having some Good Points. But no-one is objecting to more exercise and healthier foods. It is the anti-science (and specifically anti-vax) ethos that defines RFK and MAHA.
lol the Atlantic rules
We dumped a president for being too old only to elect one who immediately died. You can't say that's not funny
Probably want to use it to waive the Endangered Species Act and environmental laws.
And do... what exactly? Get the army to build houses?
I have an idea to change the presidential approval rating scale from strongly/somewhat approve/disapprove to what kind of party will you be having when our huge fat rapist pedophile president dies
its interesting to compare this to the scant evidence that "BIDEN HAS PARKINSON'S" had behind it
“Listening to the convicted sex offender’s lengthy interview reveals that she and her interviewer had one goal—to satisfy Donald Trump.” www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
Sorry, what’s the “tension”?
But no matter what they say, pocket rescissions are illegal - and the exact part of the law that they claim *grants* the power actually directly prohibits it instead. However, even if the law did grant them the power, it would be unconstitutional under the LIVA decision. bsky.app/profile/bbko...
GAO is tasked in the Impoundment Control Act itself with adjudicating what constitutes an impoundment. Here's what Circular A-11 used to say about GAO
Enormous impoundment-related changes in Trump/Vought's Circular A-11 update from Friday, which is OMB's guidance to agencies They: -removed the definition of impoundment -said GAO's impoundment determinations don't matter -claimed pocket rescission authority -claimed profound deferral authority 🧵
Thread: this is Russ Vought giving himself permission to ignore Congress and the constitution
I'm surprised they let you get that close.
BREAKING: President Trump leaves the White House this morning
I don't live in Virginia anymore. I have my own issues dealing with Polis and his anti-unionism, pro-landlord price-fixing algorithms veto, and love for oil and gas.
These "philosopher racists" are always bigger on the second part.
CIA moderate is not my preference.
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be
i think the explicit goal of things like PragerU Kids, the attacks on teachers and public schooling, the creation of conservative-specific standardized tests, etc. are all in service of isolating children from any kind of "liberal" idea in the hope that they cannot conceive of any other worldview
Not being Terry McAuliffe is worth 5 points to Democrats.
It's such an "elites having their kids stuck at home with them and hating it"
elites having one instance where they couldn’t entirely circumvent an inconvenience everyone else muddled through radicalized them into rightwing reactionaries
What if most ppl arent actually still seething about an event from five years ago and the only ppl that are are extremely online weirdos and the reason why a lot of our news media & our political class cant see the forest for the trees on this is bc they too are way too online?
Dem Governors should make clear they “cherish our public health system as a pillar of American greatness and see vaccines as a miraculous human achievement” — unlike their foes who indulge “in juvenile conspiracy theories disparaging ‘deep state’ medical professionals.” Good @gregsargent.bsky.social
Because fascism doesn't emerge just out of/rely on racist logics of incarceration and extinction, it also deplores disability. All those perceived as unfit to live in this glorious New America are seen as fit to die; indeed, it is the DUTY of the administration to craft a "fitter" society.
Yep. Eugenics never died, as I teach every student I can.. And when many vulnerable people pointed out how the pandemic had permitted a normalization of certain kinds of eugenicist rhetoric ("its only the sick and vulnerable dying") and that there would be consequences, most people brushed them off.
One thing that the backlash to COVID has taught me is that nobody understands how risk works. The bars opened before the schools because going to a bar is an opt-in activity and going to school is required, not to mention schools being a place where germs are passed around all the time.
Not a good look when you open your piece on birthright citizenship by misquoting the 14th amendment. (It does not improve. It’s really really bad. And the author has been cited by Supreme Court Justices.) lawliberty.org/cutting-the-...
Musk now supporting the deportation of anyone who isn’t white. *Do not* use the term “remigration”. It’s an attempt to normalise Nazi hate.
You cannot tell me that being on X is not bad for you when it turns Senators who had the clearest view on the 2024 election to COVID school closer guys. And again imagine people in 1948 saying that Britons spent too much time in bomb shelters during the Blitz.
Pacific Legal Foundation. Smell that sulfur?
NEPA, the National Historic Preservation Act, and the Endangered Species Act were the tools that made this happen. The Abundance Boys want to gut those laws, including Tribal standing. www.fox13news.com/news/alligat...
They should do it anyway for the environmental benefits.
Whatever, man. He is dismantling environmental laws like you want.
These people act like the Environmental Justice Movement never happened. I hate it.
and the Endangered Species Act for HUD infrastructure, shelters, and single family housing projects, including disaster recovery. It is something Republicans wanted years ago that is now "Abundance."
They shy away from details, so they aren't "against" a massive infusion of social housing. Industry is not lobbying for that, so you mostly see things like Section 208 of the Road to Housing Act. It eliminates floodplain elevation requirements, site contamination analysis, floodway prohibitions,
The politicians. They want some youngish people to tell them to ignore environmentalists and civil rights groups. The private sector will save us if we streamline or something. The Senate is eating it up.
Such a surprise to see so many libertarians loving Abundance... Oh wait, the whole thing is an industry project to eliminate environmental laws.
They are proposing eliminating exclusionary zoning (good) and eliminating most environmental laws (terrible).
It caught on with Democrats in Congress. They are currently talking about gutting environmental laws. Some are no longer listening to experts and going to Klein and Yglesias. I have friends who work on these issues in DC.
This is the one Labor Day graph that tells you the actual problem in America. The problem is not that America lacks abundance. The problem is that a handful of oligarchs are hoarding America’s abundance. www.levernews.com/the-labor-da...
Is Nader in the room right now?
Bullshit. When did Nader defund Federal agencies?
I have lost faith in our Constitution and institutions.
This is why I get mad when the Abundance Boys talk about "streamlining" the Clean Water Act. They mean they will ignore pollution like this. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The survey says you have to be under 40, lol. So that’s not even most millennials.
I am a millennial. The cost of childcare has further radicalized me. Our healthcare system is a moral and economic failure. I want a Scandinavian-style welfare state and to tax billionaires into oblivion. Ask me anything.
Disabled people have been warning about this EXACT SCENARIO since 2016 and raising the alarm that if Trump installs a fascist government *this is what would happen* We very literally predicted all of this. None of it is a surprise. People just don’t listen to the disabled so you are caught off guard
Eugenics and the elimination of “weakness” is very literally at the core of every fascist regime that has ever existed. The Nazis were famous anti-science and the very first people they imprisoned were the disabled and chronically ill. This is absolutely classic fascism.
I need the armed National Guard to keep my insurance company from overcharging me by being posted in the insurance company executive suites.
BREAKING: A federal judge has *blocked* the Trump administration from abruptly deporting 600 unaccompanied Guatemalan children — perhaps within a matter of hours — granting an emergency restraining order after advocates called the plan illegal + dangerous. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Congressman Reveals Epstein Estate Will Hand Over Book Containing Trump Birthday Message
These people are in a cult and live inside a batshit alternate reality and are trying to get as many Americans as possible to join them inside it.
If this is true, why is it nowhere else - including Fox News?
Gentrification is what we call it when demand exceeds supply. It is not caused by bike lanes. The answer is not to suppress demand by enshittifying cities, or to justify endangering & killing people outside of cars as a rent control mechanism, but to increase supply.
The US Administration has decided to destroy a top network for clinical trials to test new treatments for children with brain cancer. This is another atrocity that will harm Conservative and Liberal Americans, long after the politicians responsible are gone.
He can only see the world in terms of real estate deals
Why do any of these morons think any type of fried food can be healthy?
The last 2 weeks have seen many articles clearly stating Trump has taken US into some state of authoritarianism, even dictatorship, some by indie journalists, but also, major international media. Today on 1A, Germany’s Frankfurter Allgemeine & Spain’s La Vanguardia. 🧵 www.faz.net/aktuell/poli...
“Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism will stop us all.” - Fred Hampton
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How does he find the time for litigation when he spends so much time debating pierogi vendors and trying to play nude volleyball in Martha's Vineyard (allegedly)?
Da’Realyst Clark kickoff return TD from yesterday. Heisman campaign starts now.
A central rationale "claimed" for the attack on immigrants is that the US is a nation of laws-but we have seen this attack carried out lawlessly, by an admin headed by a convicted felon who has made clear in so many ways that he has no regard for the laws. This is destruction of the rule of law.
These fascists don't care if we live or die.
This game is in Columbus. Big Noon Kickoff needs @murderxbryan.bsky.social not McConaughey.
Bernie in the Times: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...
In some ways Ham-Face is the perfect Trump voter: all his decisions blow up in his face but the explanation is always, you don't understand, the radical leftist Joe Biden made us mad.
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If he comes back, I hope it is with some Noem-style duck lips.
The White House is reporting he is not dead. He just smells that way.
Really looking forward to a somber bagpipe rendition of YMCA
donald trump reemerging on tuesday with a bbl
she looks nothing like him
Hard to believe it is real.
RIP
I hope they nuke this demonic horseshit from orbit
Ms. Rachel has seized control of the military and begin jailing political opponents (DEVELOPING)
Modi said Trump had nothing to do with the ceasefire. Trump wanted a Nobel Prize nomination from him. 😂
No one voted for this.
Is this prohibited under Missouri law? See: "Missouri prohibits redrawing state legislative district lines mid-decade, before next Census. For congressional districts, state law...might therefore be construed to prohibit redrawing lines mid-decade." redistricting.lls.edu/state/missou...
This is like in Peter Pan where the audience tries to revive Tinkerbell with applause. Except, you know, the opposite.
The responses to the question are worthless. This discussion is worthless. You seem to have adopted a conservative frame when we are talking about a group of people trying to eliminate other people's rights. Now, we have to hear more "so much for the tolerant left" from the worst Nazis alive.
one of the great conservative moves over the past decade has been to make themselves so unpleasant that their own family members are forced to cut them off, and then use that fact to argue that *liberals* are too uncivil
It's going to be the weirdest thing watching every news network trying to sell "a nation in mourning" while Kool & the Gang's "Celebration" becomes the new national anthem.
