While Trump's assertion that "a whole civilization will die tonight" represents a discrete threat of genocide against Iran, the fact that it comes from a U.S. president, while Congress does nothing, actually represents a broader civilizational collapse — whether he follows through or not.

New Short Takes! @rhartholder.bsky.social, Katrina Kimport, and @kellyodonn.bsky.social discuss @rebeccaggrant.bsky.social's Access: Inside the Abortion Underground and the 60-Year Battle for Reproductive Freedom!

AXIOS: “.. Massachusetts is the first state to mandate insurance coverage of vaccines even if the federal government stops requiring it.” @axios.com www.axios.com/2025/09/04/m...

Raskin: In any event, if he really cared about public safety in DC… he would not have pardoned 1600 insurrectionists and violent cop beaters on his first day in office. 

states would be well within their rights at this point to legislate standards for how law enforcement officers identify themselves and impose criminal penalties on violators. if the feds think that dressing up like Proud Boys is essential to their mission, let them litigate.

And everyone, when evaluating James Carville's winning advice, please consider what Gavin Newsom's anti-trans swing has done for his numbers:

The fight going on in the Democratic Party right now is not between hard left, left and moderate. It’s between those who want to fight and those who want to cave. And Team Fight stretches across all ideological aspects of the Party. Misread this at your own peril.

Chuck Schumer has demonstrated that he does not understand how to lead an opposition party. This vote is an affront to the millions of people across the country who are fighting like hell to protect democracy.

By censoring information about the LGBTQ community, the administration has erased critical health information that impacts everyone. Trump cannot rewrite scientific facts because he doesn’t like them. We're taking the Trump administration to court. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/12/m...

I’m not interested in podcasts from a Governor playing footsie with fascists.

The through line from Dobbs to “making it a misdemeanor for a health care provider to administer a Covid vaccine.”

Excited to see all of the pro-repro and pro-LGBTQ rights OpEds coming from the Post in the coming weeks! I’m sure that is what Mr. Bezos intends to do.

For decades the left focused myopically on federal elections while the right laid the groundwork for controlling the government by taking control of state legislatures and courts. The ground game is in the states. Run for school board! Run for town council! Run! That is how we take back power.

HAPPY FIFTH ANNIVERSARY to Susan Collins saying Trump learned a “pretty big lesson” from his first impeachment. thehill.com/homenews/sen...

i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

The only two groups that I've seen who deeply understand the spiritual peril we are in: Black women and Jewish women. I'm talking about feeling it in the cells, our bones. Like, making emergency exit plans. I'm not trying to be hyperbolic, just saying the truth.

Decades of confirmation hearings where women testify to abuse and sexual violence, only for the men in question to rise to higher positions of power, is a perfect encapsulation of why more victims don’t come forward.

When Texas said last week that its Maternal Mortality Review Committee wouldn’t examine any pregnancy-related deaths from 2022 and 2023, the state essentially admitted that women’s bodies are piling up faster than it cares to investigate them. Me in MSNBC:

Pro-democracy reforms would not only grant the District of Columbia representation in Congress, it would protect the LGBTQ+ community in DC from the whims of bigoted out-of-towners like Mace.

I am finding it quite unbearable to watch Sarah McBride bear the grotesque attack of her colleagues with so much grace. I know it is what we have been taught to expect of trailblazers, but I am increasingly struggling to accept this.

We need Plan B and Med AB in our medicine cabinet to protect ourselves and help people in our community if there is a national ban. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/19/h...

Trump continues to outdo himself by picking the most unqualified & dangerous cabinet members in modern history. Amid a public health crisis where 1 in 3 women face near-total loss of abortion access — he placed RFK Jr., an anti-science conspiracy theorist, in charge of safeguarding our health care.