Great - now stop voting for Republican legislation.
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Great - now stop voting for Republican legislation.
Today is the day that many Republicans will march in Labor Day parades despite opposing unions, minimum wage increases, and worker safety regulation. They treat it as though it's just a holiday for eating hot dogs. And for hypocrisy.
I’m looking for a politician who not only fights, we need someone who will EXPAND our hard earned benefits and improve our lives, not just maintain it! We need MORE healthcare, childcare, education, and tax breaks for hard working Americans!! Stop telling us to eat crumbs!
As somebody from NH who served in the state legislature while he was Governor, let me ask - WTF is Chris Sununu doing there? The guy ran our state like a teaparty hardliner, but gets a pass from the media because hes got a mild demeanor. He needs to retire into obscurity, not get a national profile.
#CDC directors going back to 1977 tell the truth about #RFKJr: he is endangering the health of every American. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
I wasn’t super convinced that something was seriously wrong with Trump until he tweeted this
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 so cursed. The right invests in propaganda outlets—think tanks and media—that at least look official. They have a web of them to echo messaging and funnel stories into legacy media. The other side? A jobs program for “Regina George liberals.” Solid reporting, @taylorlorenz.bsky.social
Not only do these people vote, but this is how a some people you know - personally, in your daily life - feel but won't say out loud unless its from behind an anonymous Internet pseudonym.
Not only do these people vote, but this is how a some people you know - personally, in your daily life - feel but won't say out loud unless its from behind an anonymous Internet pseudonym.
Every time history repeats itself, the cost of the lesson goes up.
So, uh ... this is kindof sub-optimal ...
He’s doing this on purpose.
New York’s hottest club is Blame Zohran Mamdani for Crimes Committed While Eric Adams Is Mayor Under Laws Signed by Andrew Cuomo. It’s got everything—corrections officers who aren’t registered to vote in New York City, etc etc etc
This is an intentional ploy to get sued, and advance a case to SCOTUS to completely overturn the last vestiges of the separation of church and state.
One in four Texas schools plan to use a new state-sanctioned reading curriculum infused with Bible stories and created by right-wing groups. This isn’t about improving literacy. It's about indoctrinating children. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/25-of-texa...
There might be a third candidate soon.
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?”
This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Where is the NRA and all the #2A people to cry holy hell about a big government database being used to implement "door to door gun confiscation"? ....
National Weather Service meteorologist applicants are now being asked to pledge their support for Trump’s executive orders. (Image reposted with alt-text)
I spent a quarter century being lectured by libertarians and republicans about how minimal government oversight of large companies was radical socialism and if you mentioned nationalizing stuff like telecom for the public good they'd have a six week embolism
They’re making fun of the media referring to Kilmar Abrego Garcia as a Maryland man as they threaten to send him to Uganda, a country where he’s never lived. They’re simply fucking vile.
been MORE receptive to it. The "quant consultant" problem is real, its tangible, and it drags down the party at all levels. We don't just need big money out of primaries, we need big money out of THE PARTY ITSELF. /end🧵
then like real people. It didn't always work - in fact, it didn't work very often - but it DID work sometimes, and it worked a hell of a lot more than anything in the strategy memos ever did for my fellow legislators - even when they used that garbo on our OWN people who in theory should have ->🧵
Tim Smith lawn signs on Republican lawns next to Ted Cruz and Carly Fiorina signs .. the Repubs knew I was a card-carrying member of DSA, and were fine with it. I was honest with them, focused on anti-corruption (the key plank of my platform), didn't call them stupid, and just generally treated ->🧵
I never did that, and maintained my left-leaning positions. People can smell bullshit, and never caught a whiff of it from me. I even campaigned to the Republican base - with my left-leaning platform and messaging - and guess what? Sometimes it worked. In the 2016 election cycle, I had ->🧵
When I was in the state legislature, I sometimes got memos like this. The results always conflicted directly with the reality I found going door to door in my own district. The advice was always to take the most timid and right-slanted talking points possible, but since I'm fairly left of center ->🧵
the actual communication problem democrats have is this: their most prominent national figures filter everything through focus grouped lines and are incapable of plain speech
“Obstruct, obstruct, obstruct.” “I’m really fed up with Democratic leadership.” “I don’t want to see @schumer.senate.gov sending another strongly-worded letter.“ “I want alternate hearings; profiling a person who’s dying because their Medicaid has been stripped away.” Yes! All of this.
"House Freedom Caucus decides to rebrand after realizing it never really liked freedom all that much anyway"
One thing I ran into during my time in the legislature was exactly how many people think the "Chamber Of Commerce" is some kind of official org or something. Its not - its THE primary business lobbyist in the United States, at all levels. They shovel huge amounts of money for big business. Thats it.
maga pastors are spreading lies by claiming a new Colorado law criminalizes sermons about trans people. Colorado’s anti-discrimination law specifically exempts church teaching! These people should have better things to do than spreading lies and hate.
Children see Donald as a monster and don’t want to believe he’s real. This is what he’s doing to our country.
This isn’t education, it’s indoctrination. The Trump administration gutted PBS and NPR not to save money, but to control the narrative. In their place, PragerU is moving into more classrooms. Already in Florida, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Idaho schools.
Shoutout to this man 👏
ICE agents are not wearing ‘masks’. They’re face coverings. Bandanas. Gaiters. Masks are a public health tool. They’re a form of both resistance and community care. ICE agents wear them to terrorize people & hide their identity. The rest of us wear masks to protect one another.
Republicans fight dirty. They lie. They’re already lying—outrageously—about California’s redistricting plan, with a mailer pretending the League of Women Voters of California is against Newsom’s plan. The League has put out a statement denying this false claim. 1/2 lwvc.org/lwvc-not-aff...
Stop voting for Republican legislation please.
This. If you don’t remember it: NPR read the charges against the King from the Declaration. Enraging MAGA, who thought they were talking about DJT
I'm a progressive and I like him just fine. It doesn't mean I like *everything* he says or does, and it doesn't mean I want him to be President (or not) someday, but I like him just fine just as I like lots of other people.
That friendly "Have a good day!" at the end was great.
Stop voting for Republican legislation.
Probably for all the wrong reasons....
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a democrat who isn't pushing for trump's impeachment is a democrat who is saying, "it's within trump's rights to spend every day consolidating power so he can turn himself into a dictator"
We've reached the point where if we saw a post that Trump was putting up a 20ft statue of Hannibal Lecter in the white house rose garden, we wouldn't immediately know if it was satire or not.
MIT’s NANDA initiative found that 95% of generative AI deployments fail after interviewing 150 execs, surveying 350 workers, and analyzing 300 projects. The real “productivity gains” seem to come from layoffs and squeezing more work from fewer people not AI.
If you want to put back statues and memorials and names of Confederate traitors while tearing down museum exhibitions on slavery because they don't show the greatness of the nation... the nation whose history you're celebrating is whiteness. The kind of nationalist you are is a white nationalist.
The far right hates being called far right, racist, transphobic etc even when they are doing exactly these things The mainstream media loves taking them at their word and centring their claims rather than providing expert analysis or listening to those at the sharp end I wonder who that serves...
In case anyone's confused, yes, slavery was bad.
"Newsom is showing not just that resistance is plausible, but that especially when it's backed up with a plan it pays major political dividends — which hopefully will lead other Democrats to resist too."
My name is Graham Platner and I’m running for US Senate to defeat Susan Collins and topple the oligarchy that’s destroying our country. I’m a veteran, oysterman, and working class Mainer who’s seen this state become unlivable for working people. And that makes me deeply angry.
So, are you going to call this out as a clear abuse of power? Or just more stenography "one side says this, other side says that, WHO KNOWS what objective reality is?!?!" ??? .....
I’m so tired of lazy nonsense like this. The democrats are responsible for their lack of coherent governance in the face of fascism. The republicans are responsible for imposing the fascism.
Showing the endangered leader of an invaded country my hats
Beyond gaudy.
quick comment on this is that i wish more people had a working knowledge of how the american political system actually worked in a nuts and bolts way. like, division of power and authority.
97% of teachers pay for their necessary classroom supplies out of their own pockets, spending an average of $895 per year. They can write off only $300 of that on their taxes, while billionaires can write off their entire cost of their unnecessary private jets and yachts.
Trans rights are, in fact, human rights. Pass it on.
A guy wore a Nazi shirt to a baseball game in DC.
Please stop voting for Republican legislation.
Democratic Governors, you have to play hardball. Red states can't function without your economies. They clearly want to F around. It's find out time.
A fascist takeover of an American city. An economy buckling under the weight of tariffs and chaos. A Project 2025 contributor in charge of government data. We break down the week’s biggest stories on a new Coffee Klatch. youtu.be/KpT7AGkHAQo
Trump's troop deployment in DC has made people scared to go out to eat. Dining is down almost 30% www.opentable.com/c/state-of-i... That's pretty MAGA!
Some of those who work forces.....
Secret White House spreadsheet ranks US companies based on loyalty to Trump. So...free market??? www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
Paging Jake Tapper…
Ive been saying this since the silly news broke - she will NEVER open herself up to discovery on this topic (or any other, really) by filing a lawsuit.....
Please stop voting for Republican legislation.
Imagine if they’d had sandwiches. 🥪
That I'd have served 10 years in legislative elected office, undefeated after winning 5 elections. I had absolutely no ambition to get into politics until many years later.
Stop voting for Republican legislation, please.
the two young women just waiting for their Ubers while this unfolds behind them really captures the complete ludicrousness of this situation
"But SpaceX has most likely paid little to no federal income taxes since its founding in 2002 and has privately told investors that it may never have to pay any, according to internal company documents reviewed by The New York Times."
"After the 2015 jailing, Davis became a frequent speaker at events hosted by religious right groups." I also have to point out the financial incentives here. You get rich for being a famous bigot in America. And that's not why the bigotry metastasizes, but it's why it matters.
Mamdani on Cuomo: "I don't need to do much to make the governor appear extremely dislikable."
She'll never sue him and open herself up to discovery on the topic......
Parking a bunch of military vehicles outside Union Station is extremely weird.
“Countless unreported sexual assaults in Mar-a-Lago. What did these geniuses expect when they put me & young girls in the same room?” —Donald Trump
REPORTER: There's new reporting that Russians have hacked into computer systems that manage US federal courts documents. Do you plan to bring it up with Putin? TRUMP: I guess I could. Are you surprised? They hack in -- what's what they do
Stop voting for Republican legislation and stop trying to be "bipartisan" .. this isn't the time for that .. if they're on our side, like .. by accident .. so be it, great, but going out of your way to "reach across the isle" right now is SERIOUSLY missing the moment. For real here - read the room.
Are any of your reporters going to ask him, directly and plainly, if he recognizes this as an abuse of power to push a strictly partisan agenda?
Someone tell the government I am more afraid of rich people than poor people.
If you're left-wing and poor, then you're a failure and envious of wealthy people. If you're left-wing and of means, then you're a hypocrite and a "Champaign Socialist". See how that works?
When Hasan Piker bought a $2.7 million house in LA for him and his family to live in, critics said he wasn’t a real socialist because it’s too expensive. When Zohran Mamdani rents a $2,300 a month apartment in NYC, critics say it’s too cheap for him and he’s not a real socialist. It’s all bad faith
Hopefully the family can finally get some closure.
The remains of an Antarctic explorer lost in 1959 have been found
Placing the national capitol city under de-facto martial law is something a fascist dictator would do.