"Republicans will never allow articles of impeachment to be brought to the floor of the House of Representatives, and we know that's the case." This is a flat-out 100% lie from @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and he knows it. Impeachment resolutions are privileged, they can force a vote at any time.

A college student complaining about a grade on a paper is not national news. Not even close. The details have minimal import outside the class itself. Well-funded political activists targeting profs and TAs—in this case because they're trans—with the help of elected state officials? National issue.

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

“Liberty, Equality, Prosperity”

Not coincidentally this is a pretty good list of Most Important Companies to Unionize.

Confirmed: Earlier this morning a photog overheard agents inside the parking garage say “dismissed,” believed to be calling off their planned mass raid. A source tells me they had planned for *hundreds* of agents to flood Canal St. They got flooded instead.

Putting on my helmet and gloves: “going for a walk among the thronging masses. Be back at dusk.”

(I don’t think the macroeconomics of UBI work without steeply progressive tax increases.)

*not* manufacturing crises is *not* an option for regimes that are in fact accountable to the public but in practice conspire agains them. We’re just the right blend of classist authoritarian and democratic.

Headlines like this are extremely dangerous. Because moms of young kids are the people who make the bulk of the vaccine decisions for famillies. And for a lot of them, "reading the news" looks like scrolling past headlines on social media in the spare moments of the chaos of caring for kids.

Because I think maybe it’s not a reciprocal act of politeness, it is a submissive act of prioritizing others’ commerce over my own and others’ interests.

The biggest technological revolution of our lifetime is underway and it's not AI:

Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.

Columbia and Northwestern are the academic homes to the most prestigious journalism schools in the country and they are the two universities that caved to the Trump administration’s extortion demands that are directly connected to the First Amendment. Just gonna sit with that for a while.

calmly explaining why we shouldn't bomb random venezuelan boats to people who argued we should torture random iraqis and then won an election by saying they were against a war they advocated for

Sentimental Value and Hamlet: 2 very different but beautiful films exploring the power of art to heal.

And if you do that, as we must, it's not just pardons that are null. It's everything. No appointments are valid. No orders were real. No laws were validly signed. It all falls into a constitutional interregnum in which nothing he's done counts as legitimate, akin to the South under the Confederacy.

Mass pardons are coming. There will be no accountability without treating those as null and void. And that means a future administration taking an official position that Trump is not the legitimate president right now because he is disqualified by the 14th Amendment. The two things are inextricable.

Every time someone jumps on socials and says there is no point to mass protest days and visible reaction in the streets, share this chart with them. The approval ratings are tanking not just because they're doing bad things but also because protestors won't let people forget it either.

Ask yourself why there wasn’t this level of wall to wall coverage for this shooting wgme.com/news/local/i...

Bringing the war home

I monitored these same sorts of white supremacists for years (to fight them), and let me tell you. You have to CONSTANTLY, aggressively deprogram yourself. Even just, the language. We are social creatures and we absorb the language we're around. Guess what words enter your mental vocabulary

One explanation for economic populism in the US is the recurring cycle of bubbles and bailouts that happens without any democratic input

Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.

this is a story about farming that they have decided to make about datacenters. the amazon rep called them liars directly and they just print it and then return to insinuating all sorts of shit

This is so incredible. You have to see the photos. These workers held the line for THREE YEARS www.publicsource.org/post-gazette...

DOGE did not fail in any way to accomplish its goals. Its goals were never efficiency or saving money. Its goals were to destroy as much of government as possible forever, and to steal data for the Space Nazi. DOGE is fading away like bank robbery gangs fade away after the robberies are done.

Ukrainians getting the Palestinian treatment

best I can tell the public position is still that this is our proposal despite the fact that it was clearly written by Russia but the private position is that it was written by Russia

Article I is practically a dead letter on spending and the President, who is immune from prosecution, is trying to lock up his enemies. But otherwise how was the play Mrs. Lincoln?

I'm pro gossip. Gossip is the start of labor organizing. Gossip is how everyone at an old job I had found out that our boss was fired from being a cop for beating up his wife and her young child. When someone in power condemns gossip that's when you know it's time to gossip.

Sports trade and injury talk is just gossip that we don't call gossip.

This is a wonderful time to support journalists who do the work, don’t fuck sources, and actually have moral clarity.

This hack's partner is the hack at vanity fair who hired his best friend who's the hack who was fucking every source she could while cheating on the hack who was her then boyfriend

All politics is local (online discourse community edition)

Planning? It’s happened! It’s H.A.P.P.E.N.I.NG.

This is such a cool breakdown I can’t believe CNN did something this rad

As a retiring but still sitting member of the House, MTG has the opportunity to read into the public record documents that otherwise could not be released... and would be protected by the constitution's speech or debate clause from prosecution.

What Mamdani has —as much as charm— is trust. Same w AOC going anti Chi, btw.

Part of it is I suspect that Trump sees MTG and Massie and MAGAs fractures are growing with him -38 and he said “fuck it and fuck you GOP” w Mamdani at his side.

"Anti-corruption politics builds coalitions across the ideological spectrum: progressives, centrists, disaffected conservatives, and most importantly, people who have checked out of politics because they think both parties are corrupt," says @adambonica.bsky.social. newrepublic.com/article/2030...

Huge anti ICE rally in Charlotte NC www.tiktok.com/t/ZTrdPrwGD/

In an era filled with tech dipshits who never developed emotionally past the age of 13 & use their wealth to become odious monsters ... ... listen to Steve Wozniak.

NEW: ICE has finally released post-shutdown detention data. The latest data reveals that a full 40%(!) of people arrested in the interior and held in ICE detention have no criminal record; no criminal charges or prior convictions. That is up from just 4% when Trump took office.

The domino meme and the smallest domino is "Craigslist destroys classified ad revenue for local newspapers" and the big domino is, well, everything happening now

Yeah I wish I could convey to people who somewhat correctly say “‘capitalism wants fascism’ is too simple” that what I mean by this is [sorry, not a sound bite] non-hereditary (micro-unstable, “capitalist”) inequality creates a mixture of complacency & neglect…

Fond memories of that time Mike Johnson was president of a local law school that never opened its doors, in part because it was attached to a Baptist college that was losing its accreditation, and in part because it was always a scam from the start

They should invent an exercise you can get while sleeping

There's a very real possibility the choice facing Western democracies is, in political if not economic terms, socialism or barbarism