She is not a hero, ally, or even respectable human being. She senses the power shift and wants to be where the winning side is, that's all.

Through every shutdown in history, the government has still provided economic data to the American people. They aren’t doing it this time because the numbers are fucking terrible.

@murray.senate.gov , @schumer.senate.gov , @cantwell.senate.gov This is what the surrender caucus has gotten us. Weeks of suffering, no paychecks, no SNAP for absolutely nothing. @schumer.senate.gov needs to resign from leadership immediately and find someone who can lead the party take his place.

I'll get back to "party unity" as soon as the Senate Minority Leader tells us if he voted for the Democratic party nominee for mayor of his city. I'm tired of party unity only ever running one way.

I just called my Democratic senators and urged them to ask Schumer to step down as leader. He is either incompetent to hold the caucus together or he wanted the vote to go the way it did and is to big a coward to admit it in public. Either way, he is not the leader we need.

This is my thought, exactly. He has to go.

It's ALL about TRUMP AND THE EPSTEIN FILES. #EpsteinTrumpCoverUp

This was not on my bingo card at all.

And lo, a tiny angel appearethed by the food bowl and sayethed unto them, “what exactly is the hold up here?” Photo from my collection, no record of date/info.

This was worth every second it took to read. The entire thread. Most excellent, thank you @rahaeli.bsky.social

I heard there are going to be nationwide 'No Kings' protests on Trump's birthday, so that's fun. Remember, one 10,000 person march is ineffective. Ten 1,000 person marches spread out all over the city is the way to go.

I've been telling friends this for years. They want you trapped in your job working for them with no options to leave. That's one reason why we don't have universal healthcare; when you're health insurance is tied to employment, you'll put up with almost anything to keep it.

To all those who said boycotting Target was a waste of time. It wasn't. Keep it up, y'all!

Just a reminder: Pete Hegseth was Trump's FIRST pick for secretary of defense. This is the extent of his managerial prowess.

This sounds like it could be pretty awful. I’ll wait for the lawyers to review it but it sounds like something the MAGA regime is eager for.

Any politician or pundit telling us to stop advocating for due process for the men in CECOT because it's not "politically expedient" needs to go,

They absolutely should. That was excellent work by him. That’s precisely what making a difference without the majority looks like.

Abrego Garcia should not be in a notoriously inhumane prison. Trump could get him back if he wanted to. But instead his henchman Stephen Miller is back to claiming “the right person [was] sent to the right place.” Disgusting. (2/2)

back of the napkin math on the tariff news estimates that the napkin is coated in gasoline and on fire

Anybody who doesn't believe this was mostly about insider trading and them making more money on the dip is a fool and can fuck right off to the soup lines.

And the money guys all made money.

2/ markets were cratering AND everyone was either begging Trump to stop or telling him to fuck himself. If you see that and your own country is angry and not wanting to cut a deal I'm pretty sure you think: I don't think he can sustain this. And of course he couldn't. Meanwhile tariffs ...

I’m starting to think Donald Trump is terrible at presidenting.

THIS!

"You can also commit injustice by doing nothing." — Marcus Aurelius

The message is: crowd large. Many politicians, administrators, and business leaders, in bowing to Trump, have drawn confidence and comfort from the perceived vibe shift. Events like this puncture that delusion.

Photos from the Olympia WA Hands Off protest. The weather was great. 2 bald eagles were circling the crowd. There were several thousand folks and a lot of great signs. photos are in front of the lege bldg and across to the hall of justice. @clarajeffery.bsky.social

Protest works. It has worked historically and it can work again. And even if it fails, at least I can say that if democracy falls it wasn’t because I wasn’t out in the streets.

"Pervert Hoover" for the win!

The Egyptian pro-democracy activist Wael Ghonim said, "The power of the people is greater than the people in power." This is a checklist of things you can do, probably should do, resources, ideas, ways to move forward. “I just don’t know what to do!!” shouldn’t be something you say now. Here:

It might be the end of the American Empire but nature doesn’t care. We have a bumper crop of trilliums in bloom at the local park. Here we see the trilliums and a skunk cabbage (just for fun). #PNWNativeFlowers #Gardening

readers added context they thought people might want to know: in 2020, a novel virus was killing millions and shutting down entire economies. in 2025, one guy was a fucking dipshit.

This is Yahoo Finance's current after hours market futures. I suppose living out my retirement indoors was too much to expect. If you'll excuse me, I'm going to go scope out the best grocery store dumpsters to stock my pantry.

Poor Elon. He spent all that money in Wisconsin and yet they still hate him.

He is amazing! And good for all the congress people helping out. Thank you @murray.senate.gov and @cantwell.senate.gov.

So tomorrow is "Liberation Day". I'm assuming that's the day they liberate all of us from our money.

BREAKING: DOGE is starting to put together a team to migrate the SSA's computer systems entirely off one of its oldest programming languages in a matter of months, potentially putting the integrity of the system—and the benefits on which tens of millions of Americans rely—at risk.

I heard the orange felon hates this hideous portrait of himself and his demanding Colorado officials take it down from being displayed in their state Capitol. Don’t you dare continue to spread it around. 😏

In all my years on this good earth, I never would have imagined that “Idiocracy” would be a documentary.

Tax the rich.

If you let the executive deport people to a foreign gulag just by pronouncing the word “terrorism,” then expect to be called a “terrorist” soon yourself.

First they came for the Venezuelans, and I did not speak out, because I was not a Venezuelan...

To the 10 Democrats who voted for fascism today: tell them the Base will remember. Don't come asking any of us for a single red cent when you're running for re-election; I'm funding to primary you. Don't ask us for our votes, we're voting you out.

If your senator hasn’t confirmed that they are voting NO on cloture: call them NOW!!!

Vote NO on cloture.

@schumer.senate.gov vote NO. Fight back. The time for appeasement is over.

Extraordinary moment — Nancy Pelosi issues a statement calling on Democratic senators to reject the House funding bill, i.e. to defy Chuck Schumer. "Democratic senators should listen to the women," she says, referring to Murray/DeLauro who want a 1-month stopgap bill instead.

Lunar eclipse is actually viewable here in western Washington. Very cool