This all is absolutely our second chance at getting reconstruction right.

I’m physically following them around using my government name telling them to arrest me and they haven’t bothered to arrest me. Also half the US Attorney’s office here in MN just resigned! They do not have a case and they do not have manpower, but their only tool is trying to be menacing.

Just sharing source in case anyone's looking for it www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-... The guy was very meticulous, documented the entire method of training crows

We're about to see like two dozen R incumbents retire. What we do with this cycle will decide if Republican government will be restored in the United States. It's absolutely imperative that we impose capital C Consequences to the members of this administration.

And yes these means nuking the filibuster. 10 min in: 💣 filibuster 12 in: expand Court 15 in: confirm slate of Justices w/o hearings 20 in: expand House, John Lewis Act 22 in: DC statehood 25 in: strip Trump hires of civil service protections. 30 in: break up DHS

this piece has been in the works a while but honestly i could not have asked for a better foil than ezra klein's interview with ta-nehisi coates. klein longs for peacetime--but you don't get to decide when you're in a fight. www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-mu...

scully: mulder you can't seriously believe in this mulder: I'm telling you, glonzo is more than just stories.

To Donald Trump and his administration: If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me — not time or political circumstance — from making sure you face justice under our constitutional rule of law.

the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.

I think it's now possible to make a poli-sci course that equips one for modern political analysis better than most classic theory and has a syllabus sourced entirely from random internet posts. Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...

If this is substantiated every single justice department attorney who touched the filings denying jurisdiction should be disbarred unless they're individually willing to put in a sworn statement declaring that they were told something different and identifying who lied to them about it

To be really clear: The reason members of Congress can't just walk right in is because of the guns. Armed DHS personnel won't allow entry. In other words, DHS is using armed force to *break* laws. Democrats need to wrap their minds around that. Accept that the frog is boiled.

Simultaneously holding the beliefs that Democratic leadership needs to be completely replaced and many incumbents need to be primaried and also that everyone who cares must vote for every Democrat on the federal ballot next year if we have any hope at saving the country.

Trump created the problem. The single reason Iran was so close to obtaining a nuclear weapon is that Trump destroyed the diplomatic agreement that put major, verifiable constraints on their nuclear program.

Talk to me about how, practically speaking, we can destroy the Republican party without giving up on liberal democracy. Talk to me about how we can functionally abolish the Senate and wrest large amounts of power back from the executive. Talk to me about court packing.

my dad read me the hobbit when i was very small and then read me lord of the rings when i was bigger and he still recites the "road goes ever on and on" poem before road trips i love him

A Democratic Mayor arrested. A Democratic Congresswoman indicted. A Democratic Senator tackled and detained. A Democratic State Representative killed. A Democratic State Representative in critical condition. We can all see where this is going.

it is hard to find better examples of the danger of not throwing fascists in jail when you have the chance than Netanyahu and Trump

Judge: But that's not where we live (in a monarchy). We live in *response* to a monarchy.

I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving. There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later. They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.

cops doing crime on camera. as @chadloder.bsky.social has been pointing out all day, this is totally illegal. cops doing crime. on camera. adjust your stupid headlines accordingly.

The American fascist movement appears to be fissuring back into its rival jock and creep factions

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The worst thing about the US collapse into fascism is how fucking *obvious* it’s been, at every step. Second worst thing: the people who told us it was fine, no need to worry, just roll over and go back to sleep, at each and every ominous step.

I know, norms and all that, but the default Dem position should be: We think this is illegal but if the courts say you can do this then we are going to rip the guts out of the entire conservative movement. No more Heritage, FedSoc, etc. All of them lose their tax exempt status.

Fully on board with dems running for office promising to reinstate fired federal employees and jail this administration’s various criminals, but let’s go ahead and add “we will seize by eminent domain any national parkland sold to developers”

🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read. He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:

One of the reasons Democrats should start publicly drawing up plans to hold people and institutions accountable NOW is that you need to give people at least some reason to think that collaboration will be punished and resistance will be rewarded.

Along with all of the other things that this is, it is also the direct & inevitable consequence of the failure to put a lot more senior executive branch officials in jail for a very long time for Watergate, Iran-Contra, torture, & all of the other things in the last 50 years.

It's likely that once the dust settles, the legal conceit will be that Trump hasn't been eligible to be President since Jan 6, 2021 and what happened from Jan 21, 2025 onward is pure constitutional interregnum.

🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave. Tell them: 1. Vote NO on Cloture AND 2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill. Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it. TODAY is the showdown. 🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121

“Bipartisanship” with Republicans means they steamroll over us and get everything they want and we get nothing. They don’t deserve 1 damn vote from us.

NO KINGS NO SLAVES NO NAZIS gets you the three good American wars, in chronological order no less. sounds insane to argue against any of them and yet it is very clear which side you're on

the primary thing that i want in a dem member of congress or a democratic governor going forward is to view the republican party as a collection of fascists and traitors who should be burned alive in front of one another as a warning to the rest of them, and everything else is (somewhat) negotiable

just a reminder to all the non-profit world people who follow me, who will deal with far more malicious asks than this, probably starting with things like pronouns: they will take your funding away even if you do it

Your regular reminder that the US air & water pollution laws passed in the 60s & 70s -- and the elaborate federal bureaucracy created to administer them -- constitute one of the most successful gov't interventions in history. WILDLY successful. The envy of the world.

I want to shift the House to proportional representation in multimember districts in part b/c ideological capture— supercharged by gerrymandering—has led the Republican caucus to the logical endpoint of the party’s anti-government philosophy. They don’t want to govern. And they don’t even know how.

It took the Nazis one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours, and 40 minutes to dismantle a constitutional republic. When the fire starts to burn, every good person better be ready to man a post with a bucket of water if you want to stop it from raging out of control.

Here's what the Democrats should be using as their overarching strategy against Donald Trump: "Trump poses an existential threat to the United States, its people, its Constitution, and the American way of life. We are going to rely the size and diversity of our party to resist him to the utmost."

I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

@jeff-merkley.bsky.social Glad to see you on Bluesky, Senator

It’s like many Democrats can’t quite grasp the way the rule of law underlies ALL of their power, their leverage, their safety. And the only thing underlying the rule of law is the public expectation that the law be followed and the promise of public discontent if it isn’t.

i think that people in the modern era systematically underestimate what the government is capable of. e.g., the supreme court is not gone for generations. it is gone until there is a Congressional majority to reform it.

If we had enforced laws against white collar crime this stupid shit would not be happening. There has been countless opportunities to use the state against Musk and the VC class because they have been openly committing crimes for a long fucking time.

For those keeping track at home, Dems held the floor all night and are still going strong this morning.

JUST IN: A federal judge in Washington says she's concerned that the White House is still implementing the spending freeze that she and a Rhode Island judge have ordered temporarily halted. Judge AliKhan is inclined to issue a restraining order.