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But it's always like this. Democrats try to do the right thing. They fall short, like humans do. Everyone teams up to shit on them. Republicans don't even bother pretending. They lie, they smear, they destroy lives, they get people killed, & they face NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR IT.
We. Are. Here.
big tech hasn't come up with anything paradigm-shifting and useful since the smartphone in 2008 and I'm tired of all the shit they keep shoving down our throats trying to recapture that high
Getting yelled at on the internet is not what turns people into fascists.
Everyone upset the Acela runs as slow as Japan’s 1970s trains: Amtrak had a plan 15 years ago to straighten tracks in CT & RI. A few thousand wealthy locals killed it, costing us 25 minutes in time savings between Boston and NYC.
Platner: No one cares that you pretend to be remorseful as you sell out to lobbyists. Symbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnations do not bring back Roe V Wade. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.
We’ve got a live one folks
This is great reporting on what's happening in one county in western Nebraska, one where I've spent a lot of time, as people watch ICE raids and deportations in other places and expect it will get to Chase County sooner or later. So much better than NYT-style stories on rural places and politics.
We share this graph as often as we can. #UnionStrong
Remember the Goolsbee Rule, also called the “pathological irony of crisis”: If you lose credibility, your statements begin to mean the opposite of what you say.
The Resolution Foundation is hiring economists! www.resolutionfoundation.org/about-us/opp...
Wages of unionized workers are 13% higher than their nonunion counterparts. But unions also set a higher pay standard that all workers enjoy. In high-union-density states, median household income is $12,000 higher than in low-union-density states. This is why unions are vital.
It's weird how the exact same people who claimed Biden was hiding have absolutely no concerns that the man who is all about dominating every news cycle is not having any public events.
The shrill insistence that we, the Americans whose tax dollars pay these freaks' salaries, are not only not allowed to know who is carrying guns on our supposed behalf, but that we are a danger to society for asking -- this is one of MAGA's most disgusting claims. Unmask every ICE gunman.
I have never seen a federal judge this pissed off.
Texan here. Boycotting with you! 🇨🇦
Americans still don't seem to get it. Canadians aren't boycotting US products because of tariffs or trade wars—it's because the president has threatened to annex Canada. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Illinois’s governor JB Pritzker has called on “all to stand up” to Donald Trump as the US president prepares to launch a federally led immigration crackdown across Chicago www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Here are all the 'Workers Over Billionaires' protest locations in L.A. on Monday
Credit where it's due: Rudy dying to distract from Trump dying is some next level lawyering.
Yes, it's true. Someone did take your job. And your healthcare, pension, wage hikes and life off a single income. It just wasn't immigrants, welfare recipients, queer people or women having abortions. If you want to know who took your money, it's the people with all the money.
This whole thread is just appalling. The hearing arises from the Trump admin conspiring with a foreign country to violate a federal court order in the middle of the night so it can deny due process to children who escaped dangerous circumstances.
Public safety in California is on the rise. Last year, California had the second-lowest homicide rate since at least 1966, decreasing by nearly 12% overall since 2023. We're going to drive that progress forward up and down the state.
Every five years, the Fed Board in DC votes to approve the reappointment of all 12 regional Fed presidents. This is typically a routine matter. But if Trump has enough governors willing to do so, they could decline to reappoint the regional Fed presidents. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/b...
Increasing political pressure on the Fed by half as much as Nixon did, for six months, raises the price level more than 8%. www.nber.org/papers/w32461
HAPPENING NOW: Judge Sparkle Sooknanan holds an emergency hearing as the Trump admin is reportedly trying—imminently—to deport hundreds of Guatemalan children without required process or access to representation. www.courtlistener.com/docket/71240...
this should become a thing, putting up signs like this for every arrest & disappearance in public spaces. it would likely break into lower info, less politically engaged demos and local social media groups
This is worth sharing far and wide. Federal Employees and contractors oral history project. Im not involved in this. Just got the link, idea seems to be to create a record of the assault on the American Repuvlic after Jan 2025. www.fecohp.org
Seems like the basis of a good chant in D.C. Trump hates you Hey hey You won't get Full active pay
GORKA: Instead of blaming an inanimate object, which is the weapon, how about addressing the human being instead? KEILAR: DHS cut funding in July to the Minnesota Dept of Safety and the Hennepin Country Sheriff's Office in July that is the kind of funding used to assess mass violence threats
The far right succeeded in this country in large part because adult men were angry about this supposed theft, and the Nazis learned to channel that rage. "[Marginalized group] stole your sex mommy!" is quite literally their rallying cry a lot of the time.
Telling my kids this is Taylor Swift & Travis Kelce 🦞
Let's also get DC and Puerto Rico* statehood on the agenda. (*Only if they want it, of course.) Let's give all the voters a say in national elections.
This is what should concern us. Republican state legislatures. If you are in one of these, might be a good time to get a copy of your birth certificate or an updated passport. Before delays. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe (R) reinforced GOP power grabs sweeping the country, calling a special legislative session Friday to redraw congressional districts and weaken the ability of voters to pass laws through ballot initiatives. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Eugenics comes for you* all. (It was always already coming for some of us.)
The entire fascist plot relies on us being terrified and sad. This is why they’re constantly trying to scare everyone with theatrics. They want you to see him as unstoppable and not as a 79-year-old with severe health problems who will die soon.
www.rawstory.com/trump-infuri... lmao they’re activating them for 29 days over and over so they don’t get full active duty pay
Stiffing your soldiers, I feel like that's something with a little bit of historical precedent if someone were inclined to look into it
📌Are we finally done listening to a party that is telling us out loud “we are all going to die” and then doing whatever they can to kill us? Are we finally done with people like Captain Death himself, RFK Jr., who is currently doing more to intentionally wipe out people than any man since Hitler?
Americans once assumed their kids would be better off than they were. But business professor Scott Galloway says today's economic policies work to enrich Boomers and steal from younger generations.
As an additional point, do we really want to use up a bunch of energy and water to relieve us from the sad duty of figuring out that our friends or clients have died? We're destroying the planet just to relieve ourselves of something that wasn't a problem, and that made us more human.
What do people in cities like Bogotá, NYC, Paris, Rosario, and hundreds more do on weekends? Enjoy the presence of each other. Walk. Bike. Run. Skate. Chat. City leaders everywhere, must understand that streets can have different uses, based on hour, day, season. #OpenStreetsNow
Spotted in DC
Okay, okay, 80%. But that's our final offer.
"Maybe we can compromise with them and only have the secret police in about half the cities."
I just have to say that I am in love with @jamellebouie.net and I am not ashamed.
Most people who are descendants of immigrants have someone in their line who escaped or survived an actual dictatorship or failed state that wasn’t the rinky dinky shit we’re looking at. Don’t embarrass them
trump can issue as many executive orders as he wants, perhaps coverage should reflect the fact that a lot of these have the legal force of a child's wishlist for santa
every day i see hundreds of comments of people spinning elaborate scenarios to explain how trump can control everything and all opposition is futile. a) i think a lot of you need to log off and stop following professional doomsayers. b) i think a lot of you are cowards
Plug-in balcony solar panels could mean cheaper power. But Canada needs to get on board first. Germany has seen boom in balcony solar, but murky regulations mean North America slower to adopt www.cbc.ca/news/climate...
NEW: Donald Trump has profited from the presidency to the tune of billions. This is unlike anything the country has seen before, and it affects all Americans because it means our president may be acting for himself, not us. We cannot let it become the new normal. I explain why in @msnbc.com.
"...this kind of profiteering is changing the conception of what the office of presidency even is. No longer a public servant, its current occupant is a salesman, focused on enriching himself and his family. That is — & has to be – unacceptable, and Americans must continue to speak out against it."
Gavin Newsom trolled Trump with an AI answer about dementia symptoms, then showed Trump doing exactly that on video. “Dementia Don” trended. The guy who’s spent years claiming Biden has dementia now can’t finish a sentence without wandering off a cliff, and it’s starting to stick.
Mayor Brandon of Chicago responds to a question from a reporter if pushing back will make things harder? “Can you imagine if my ancestors would have had the same rationale? Let’s not fight against the Confederacy. Let’s just try to get along, and maybe one day they’ll give us our freedom?”
Finally someone figured this out
“.. I never have seen an instance of an advanced, affluent country with among the finest scientific resources .. under assault, not from small pockets of the public or people who have unusual beliefs, but from the government itself.” @mollyjongfast.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Oh come onnnnnnn
Let me get this straight... Trump gets a chunk blasted from his ear by an AR-15 and completely heals within days, to the point that there is no visible evidence of injury. Yet, he gets massive bruises from shaking hands that take weeks to heal? Sorry, I call bullshit.
My weekly roundup of fresh polling and political data, with some commentary on the elevating gerrymandering wars and urgent need for proportional representation: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/voters-are...
Many thanks to independent journalist Amanda Moore (@noturtlesoup17.bsky.social) for all the footage she captured.
NEW: A week or so ago, one federal agent kept popping up in videos from Trump's violent DC crackdown—so @jsweetli.bsky.social and I investigated. Turns out he's a 26-year-old US Parks Police officer, a lesser known law enforcement unit currently championed by Interior Sec. Doug Burnum. Our report:
This is one of his best videos ever. This is EMOTIONALLY POWERFUL EDUCATION about why his policies MAKE SENSE on a HUMAN LEVEL. Cuomo hates us and hates our city. Mamdani loves us and loves our city. Vote Mamdani, and vote for whomever you have locally who thinks and acts like him.
Trump/RFK are decapitating our public health system, a pillar of American greatness. So Dem Govs should scour every corner of the law for creative new ways to defend their people from this madness. Dems should polarize this debate to the max. Thoughts on this here: newrepublic.com/article/1998...
"In short, if Trump and Kennedy are going to divide the country over public health, Democrats should polarize the living heck out of this debate as well—but on *their* terms." YES
The other thing is, in a time when Donald Trump has won two presidential elections I simply don't believe that a candidate has to do this sort of too clever by half triangulation to win! If you're not good enough at politics to avoid throwing your own constituencies under the bus then don't run
Dershowitz, once a lawyer for Epstein, aiming to break a key foundation of the modern press that if successful will curtail journalism’s ability to hold the powerful accountable.
@driftglass Your wonderful governor
How cities can handle this. “Our police are the best in the nation. Let them work.”https://apnews.com/article/trump-democrats-crime-ap-norc-poll-8ffcf69792b80f1e1aaed892d4253b50?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=share Democrats see crime as a major problem. Their party is struggling to address it
hey I was thinking what if we outsourced our economy, health care system, world standing and just about anything else you can think of to a malevolent, addled dementia patient on death's door, that would be fun right
They have Guard units picking up trash in D.C. playgrounds, disabled veterans waiting months for care, and a vice president lecturing _some other_ politician to show due gratitude to the country. Wretched, despicable people.
Worth thinking about how Chris Van Hollen, hardly a ultra left-wing firebrand, has accumulated a ton of credit over the last few years from the growing pro-Palestine constituency of the DP by simply 1) Demanding that there be justice for Shireen Abu Akleh, 2) Demanding that US law is adhered to.
LAPD choppers are a malignant nuisance. They're harbingers of surveillance, operated *continuously*—yet the city's own data show they raise stress, impair cognition and burn 100,000s of gallons of gas. The best part? there's no evidence they deter or reduce crime at all. It's time to ground them.
F–– yes. I know that state law impedes substitution with drone flights. Still: just as a ton of meetings could be phone calls, a ton of long, loitering helo flights over L.A. seem like they could be drone flights.
Just saw someone refer to Cheryl Hines as The Marvelous Mrs. Measles and 💀💀💀💀💀💀
bit horrifying when you realize that the target audience for scammy ads like this is basically the median voter
The more Trump talks shit about other cities the more cities have each others back. Like I'm a New Yorker defending LA. If he has me defending Boston I'm quitting and moving to Montreal.
Well, so much for the idea that a grand jury would indict a ham sandwich. apnews.com/article/wash... Prosecutors fail to indict sandwich thrower in Trump's Washington public safety operation
Holler it from the rooftops! Chicago ain’t having it! Hey Dems, this is how you do it! 💪
📌 City department of law are directed to pursue every legal mechanism, to resist unconstitutional efforts & hold them accountable 📌 Demands Trump stand down from deploying the military in Chicago 📌 Chicago PD not to wear masks or collaborate with ICE on patrols, arrests, or immigration enforcement
I stand with Chicago. I stand with Mayor Johnson. 🚨 NEW: Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson just signed an executive order to resist Trump’s federal invasion and occupation of the city. Details in 🧵
⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️ 🧵 The refusal of Jewish refugees by the United States primarily occurred during the 1930s and 1940s, particularly in the context of the Holocaust. Several key events and policies contributed to (cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
Roll that demoralizing bean footage
Susan Collins like to decorate her home with alarm bells and red flags, which make her feel festive in the winter months
More and more farms all over the country are collapsing and failing because of labor shortages. This is going to hit our shelves very soon. Not high prices. Absence of food.
Feel like it's worth periodically reiterating that "conservative" is not a protected class. Being a minority puts you in a protected class. Hating minorities just makes you a dick. There is no moral or legal requirement for any organization to have some minimum number of dicks.
The thing about de minimis threshold is that it's used not only by giants like Temu and Shein and fast-fashion-loving consumers but also by SMEs on both sides of the border. Friday's US threshold removal disproportionately impacts small businesses. www.cbc.ca/news/busi...
“[Lisa Cook] was very vocal in a field where many people are sceptical that race and gender matter,” said Claudia Sahm ... “If you stand up and say it out loud, there’s a target on your back.” on.ft.com/45FGL6Z
I don't know state Rep. Don McLaughlin (R-Uvalde), but I sent him this email. I thought someone should say it and didn't now who else would:
I’m sure this isn’t surprising but I was never at the cool table. I was always at the nerd table cause that’s where the good people are. And I’ll die at the nerd table.
Bro, include the www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Electric vehicles reach tipping point in China, surge to 51% market share
“[Bill] Pulte got his job in the administration about three years after his wife, Diana Pulte, donated $500,000 to a super PAC backing Trump. The donation was channeled through a Delaware shell company, ML Organization LLC, that Bill Pulte controlled.”
“I don’t have any choice” says the kidnapper.
Timestamp this - there will be ICE and NG deployments around the midterms to “keep the polls safe” with the intent of making non-white citizens think twice about showing up to vote and running the Masked Goon Guantlet™️ to the polling stations.
“Large millennial man seeks Star Trek economy” is roughly 80% of people on Bluesky either literally or philosophically
Washington DC calls Bullshit.
Daniel Rubio 