These two things are true: 1) Shooting National Guard members is horrific and criminal. 2) So is putting National Guard members in harm’s way to score political points.

When did making kids go hungry become a Christian value?

Today at 4pm ET, @heathercoxrichardson.substack.com.web.brid.gy joins me on Substack Live open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

BREAKING: Republicans just voted against a bill to fund government AND save your health care. Help make sure Americans know Republicans are SO determined to let premiums DOUBLE that they would rather SHUTDOWN the government than work to avert this crisis.

At a profound level, MAGA's immigration policies are simply a way to transfer taxpayer dollars to private contractors whose job is to terrorize the American people. Fundamentally, leaders are using our own money to destroy our democracy.

NEW — A DC National Guard member spotted carrying an M17 pistol, as The Handbasket first reported they would. (Photo shared with me by @publius24.bsky.social)

Remember during the Yalta conference when FDR went on and on about how busy DC's bars were, and Stalin was like, have you seen the lines outside the Moscow bars, and poor Churchill couldn't get a word in edgewise.

If you’re under any illusions about what an authoritarian personality cult the GOP has become, they’re not hiding it:

Why is the media not using their minds about how objectively awful Trump looked and sounded and how much difficulty he appears to have walking??? #trump #russia

Trump standing next to the guy everyone knows tried to elect Trump & exonerating him.

IF YOU SEE AN ENCAMPMENT BEING CLEARED TONIGHT DM us location & what details you have (what police, how many, movements, vehicles) If you see someone being detained get as much info as possible: - legal name - DOB - emergency contact/case worker - where they are being taken (precinct or hospital)

Democracy is dying in America, and resistance begins with language — it shapes what the public sees, and what they’re willing to tolerate. Resistance begins when we refuse to repeat their lies. Words become action. Action becomes power. Truth becomes revolution.

MAGA Friday: No new wars! MAGA Saturday: Ok bombings but no regime change! MAGA Sunday: There’s really no other solution than regime change.

Pope Leo condemns US bombing Iran

KTLA - Narciso Barranco, a father to three sons who are all US Marines, pepper-sprayed and punched in the face by alleged federal immigration officers while he was working as a landscaper at an IHOP. He was then forced into the back of an unmarked car in Santa Ana.

The Orange Arrogant Fascist (OAF) sounds absolutely unhinged in this press conference w the Canadian PM.

Yesterday marked 100 days of Trump’s second term. According to a new Fox News poll, the only recent president with a lower approval rating at this point in office is Trump himself, during his first term. 😬

Bondi continues to make a big deal of the block-long chase to apprehend suspect in Dugan case. She’s got it totally backwards. The far greater threat to public safety is the many criminal defendants w/ immigration problems who won’t show up for court now, thinking they could be arrested and deported

Source at VA tells me an emergency data request went out demanding info any on relationships the 2nd largest Fed department and largest healthcare system in the US has with Harvard. We know there are significant research connections. This won't hurt Harvard. It will kill veterans. They don't care.

I’m not privy to this info directly, but I don’t doubt this kind of thing is happening. The vengeful Oompa Loompa is consistent in targeting opposition in the pettiest of ways.

This is the literal destruction of knowledge. Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases. mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...

60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5

Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble. For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity. What will you do?

This week, as the number of confirmed measles cases rose to 483, the CDC buried a report that would’ve stressed the importance of getting vaccinated. The move was “not normal at all,” one agency staff member said. By @sheinvestigates.bsky.social

🚨🚨🚨 So we're hitting the crisis point, with the apparent defiance or evasion of court orders on deportations and immigration, plus shutting down agencies, cancelling grants, and firing civil servants contrary to existing law. And claims from DOJ that Article II of the Constitution enables autocracy.

While the Russian Useful Idiot in the White House is busy claiming bullshit wartime authority to further his efforts destructing Democracy, just a reminder that everything he has said is a lie & everything that he says going forward will be a lie. As for his enablers, screw them.

Walz: I think they hate public education because it’s easier to run an authoritarian government if you don’t have a population that knows.

From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University. www.chronicle.com/article/were...

Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House. We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication. They own what happens next.

The most important thing to remember both about the anti-trans laws and the arrest of the Palestinian activist at Columbia: They will not stop with trans people and Palestinians.

We've confirmed the US Bureau of Prisons has transferred trans women to men's prisons despite three court rulings blocking Trump's executive order “I’m continuing to be punished for existing. I'm a pawn in others' political games" -Whitney, 31-year-old woman taken to men's prison this week, told us

If Russian troops went back to Russia the war would be over

“But what’s happening in the US is some sort of weird hybrid of the kind of power grabs we’ve seen in the tech industry, combined with a more traditional collapse of democratic institutions. The destruction is far more systematic and dangerous than many realize.” www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/w...

Oh, silly Donnie...just say, "I resign." That will make us happy and stand and smile and applaud. #SOTU

LIVE: Activists call for protests during President Trump's speech to Congress Activists call for protests outside US Capitol during US President Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MBW...

No, you should feel no obligation to watch Trump's speech. That's why God invented transcripts.

SCOOP: Now that Linda McMahon is confirmed/sworn in as secretary, Trump will be imminently issuing an executive order eliminating the Department of Education. I’ve obtained a draft of an email that McMahon will be sending to staff re: the EO and the department’s “final mission”. Here is a portion:

We’re receiving word that General Services Administration leadership are firing more people tonight. Our dedicated colleagues should be eating dinner with their families or putting their kids to bed, not having their lives upended. The public will suffer, too. We stand with all of you.

Seems like Hegseth's Stand Down Our Defenses Against Russia order should be getting a bit more attention.

March 1, 2025

This is dumb (and cruel) for a lot of reasons others have stated but also: It’s wrong to view or measure any of Trump and Musk’s actions as one-offs. The whole point is the agenda is united: It bends toward white nationalism and kleptocracy. These 12 stories are all the *same* story.

And to think we could have had a sane, serious government run by an intelligent person who would have acted in the best interests of Americans, and not Vladimir Putin.

February 28, 2025

A member of Russia’s state-owned news agency gained access to the Oval Office for President Trump’s sit-down with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky – even as the AP and Reuters were barred from the high-level meeting.

We want to send a message to the world: what has happened today is an absolute disgrace. It is completely un-American.

Two men walk, but only one marches. One steps forward into history, the other drags behind, weighed down by the demons of his own delusions. #SlavaUkraini #NAFO #TractorCounteroffensive #StandWithUkraine #PutinWarCriminal #ArmUkraineNow #StandWithUkraine #ZelenskyUnchained #DefenderOfDemocracy

I stand with Ukraine. Every decent person should. It’s not just a strategic interest. It’s a moral imperative. Slava Ukraini. 🇺🇦

We deserve to lose every single ally we have, and at the rate we're going we absolutely will apnews.com/article/zele...