Once again, I am asking my party to 1) expand the House and 2) mandate that each state be a single multimember district with proportional representation.

If you saw this in some random dictatorship somewhere it would be late night tv catnip. “Tinpot dictator orders mass arrests after botching a vanity project and trying to blame wreckers & saboteurs”

i think it is appropriate for coequal branches to check and balance each other with the tools they possess. one of those tools is court packing.

The world's wisdom traditions honoring the virtue of redemption has nothing to do with who should be elected to the US Senate — at all. Like, please listen to yourselves. Again, if this dudebro was not white and a cisman, none of this would be happening.

Corporal punishment is legal in many US states. So, many Americans are perfectly fine with real visible physical pain to children on purpose. A syringe prick is obviously much less painful and delivers something beneficial to the child.

Good news in CA: @asmchrisward.bsky.social's AB 2222, a bill to help newsrooms retain and hire local journalists, passed out of the Assembly Appropriations Committee on a bipartisan 14–2 vote and added @buffywicks.bsky.social as a joint author. The bill heads to an Assembly floor vote next week.

If most of a country's territory isn't urbanized, it's a rural country.

Like, I dunno, if I were making economic policy for the Democratic party going forward, using interstate commerce power to blow up direct-sales prohibitions for cars would be something I'd really consider working in there. They weren't going to vote for you anyway, right?

I wish the US white left understood that when they say "the world" thinks this or that or "the world is more liberal than the US" they mostly mean "western European countries." Many eastern Europeans consider the US quite liberal!

It's very funny how "America is fundamentally messed up" (true in very deep ways) always seems to be backed up by citing the 17th cent. Puritans, who eventually mellowed out, and not the 18th cent. Presbyterian Ulstermen whose descendants still haven't.

Thank you! Mygosh, *communism* is viewpoint diversity in the contemporary US.

I truly loathe how the illiteracy of the US population is talked about as if it wasn't caused by people and can be solved.

The partisan goal of the Democratic Party should be the destruction of the Republican Party.

USians have an easier time imagining the end of Trump than the urbanization of Wyoming. 🙄

😐 The Calif. governor's race. 😐

On the one hand, hail the strategic genius of Trump 😒 On the other, Russia becoming a Chinese vassal was already the trend, right?

Impeach him, @aoc.bsky.social. Force a vote via Rule IX. Do it tomorrow. Make every member of the House go on the record, publicly. Compel the GOP to own it and broadcast to their voters in no uncertain terms that, "Yes, we think this guy should continue to be in charge."

Americans, and certainly Americans who aren't actively doing things to structurally undermine Trumpism should not be berating non-Americans about Trumpism.

No one on the US right actually cares either way about Iran's nuclear program. Everyone else understands that, right?

Thin Mints are ick. Why are you brushing your teeth while eating your chocolate cookie? Those are two different steps.

I'm not trying to minimize what he did. He's an atrocious person who revels in the misery of others. And one of our two major political parties is completely fine with it. I'm not sure if we have the political and institutional will to break the GOP, because that's what we need to do.

Literally nothing but unavoidable material condition change is going to shift GOP behavior. You want them to change their "hearts and minds"? Build actual cities in their states.

I'd really like to see leadership calling for impeachment and removal, regardless of whether they have the votes to get it done. Same way we called for marriage equality before we had the votes. A leader's job is to lead. If a genocidal threat isn't impeachable, then nothing is.

The singular goal of all future US politics is to ensure Trumpism is defeated and cannot again take root here, and everything that serves that end is to be considered and prioritized. It's a holistic organizing principle, from a Green New Deal to Nuremberg 2 to expanding the court to Reconstruction.

The President of the United States is publicly threatening to commit genocide. For love of country, for the freedoms we cherish and for the values we hold dear, the House must immediately reconvene and vote to impeach Donald Trump. Read my full statement: tonko.house.gov/news/documen...

Anyone in Congress who is not working frantically to stop this will share the responsibility for it.

it's kind of funny how people don't include uncapping the house as one of the reforms that would probably be worthwhile doing

Congress: Social media posts are not votes. Social media posts are not actions. Social media posts mean nothing unless you back them up with votes and actions.

The game electeds play where they pretend to powerlessly observe the actions of the government reveals how broken we are as a society. You're not some especially engaged Trader Joe's cashier connecting with a customer. You're in Congress. Tell us what you're doing about this.

No, for the millionth time, you can't make kids good by not teaching them facts.

So much this. Don't give me "Dems don't have power." They have power. They just haven't marshalled it.

The current 6-day Jeopardy champion works at a housing tax credit agency in New Jersey and for his banter with Ken he just looked directly at the camera and said "New York, California, shame on you, build more housing" and folks when I say heroes walk among us

TFW you are reminded that geographic illiteracy exists in many places. When you say "Korea" Americans are not at all the only ones who assume you mean the country with the current dictator.

People on Bluesky sometimes keep an eye on X and post screenshots of the insanity there. Nobody really posts screenshots of the radicalized normies on Threads declaring US societal collapse is now inevitable ...

term limits feel like a good way to toss the bastards out. but there are always more bastards waiting in the wings. there isn't any shortcut to people making better choices in democracy. trying to get around that generally just leads to worse outcomes.

Literacy is political. There is an illiteracy problem in the US. Every resident of the US is affected in some way. Every resident of the US may have an opinion on the problem.

“…disabled people are actually less likely to drive than nondisabled people and more likely to get around by walking and rolling and taking transit. Car-heavy cities are also disproportionately dangerous for disabled folks…”— @nondriver.bsky.social Don’t use accessibility “as a political football.”

Another day, another non-American baffled at US healthcare, gun policy, and homelessness.

Add 'impeach' to any sign you've got. "No Kings! Impeach." "Abolish ICE and Impeach." "No illegal war! Impeach." "Defend science. Impeach." Impeachment is a clear, actionable goal. Saying "no Kings" is fun but vague. We need to push for the *how.* P.S. Trump loathes & fears impeachment.

So it's being a dumb Yank to be opposed to the US going parliamentary because the GOP, the party of rump rurality and voter ID, would turn a parliamentary majority into autocracy at the first chance it got? Alright. I'm a dumb-dumb. 🤷‍♀️

Pro-rural politics is vulgar *something*. Vulgar Whitmanism, probably.

If there needs to be austerity after Trump (and yes, ok), then use that to get rid of employer-sponsored insurance. It needs to be done, it will be hard to do, so bundle it with the time of hard stuff. Gonna be a time of sacrifice, make the companies recalculate their political economy.