Trump does presidency via Truth Social – what are Americans missing out on?

US justice department halts funding for human-trafficking survivors

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CNN's Jake Tapper: "This is one of the documents the DOJ released. It’s 100 pages. It’s all black. That’s the transparency we’re getting."

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EXACTLY 👇 THIS !

When the current Occupant of the White House shows you exactly the demented old man that he is, what is wrong with you if you can't condemn it or if you still support him? Also, where is Vance and others who called for people to be fired after the Kirk shooting for far less.

NEW: Experts say the Fair Food Program has helped improve conditions for farmworkers who are vulnerable to abuse and exploitation. But farms and produce buyers across the country have resisted joining. By @maxblau.bsky.social

After Rob Reiner’s murder, Donald Trump used his megaphone not to unite the country but in service of his political grievances, David A. Graham argues in The Atlantic Daily. theatln.tc/kGcmdPjW

Being disliked by people with bad judgment is a compliment.

NEW: A lax regulatory environment has led to the widespread abuse of farmworkers — including threats of violence, stolen wages and forced labor. Experts say the Fair Food Program's reforms could help. But few farms have signed on.

Republicans are scrambling for a next move after President Donald Trump’s humiliating failure to bully Indiana lawmakers into bending to the president’s gerrymandering scheme.On Thursday, Indiana l...

Nobody with clout really seems to care that Trump has apparently scratched the emoluments clauses right out of the Constitution.

What if emotion IS knowledge? @khadijahqueen.com’s RADICAL POETICS makes the case that “poetry exists as a valuable tool for understanding,” not despite its emotional resonance, but precisely because of it. press.umich.edu/Books/R/Radi... @uofmpress.bsky.social #Poetry #Books #RadicalPoetics

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How many times do we need to point this out? By appeasing the far right, you do not weaken it. You strengthen it. While weakening your own position. There's a vast amount of academic research showing this. But Labour will not listen. www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...

"there's a new serif in town"

What could be more conservative than severing all ties to past?

No fair remembering stuff!

To make things worse, a criminal record: ➡️ Destroys wealth ➡️ Creates debt ➡️ Initiates or perpetuates cycles of homelessness ➡️ Decimates job opportunities

The only surefire way to stop oligarchs buying up the things we love is to drop those things the moment oligarchs buy them & that requires changing habits and massive self-discipline. It means going to alternatives that might not be quite as good or convenient. It’s really hard. But there it is.

If you read most U.S. journalism, the fact that most of our sectors (guns, energy, telecom, healthcare, whatever) has been completely broken by corruption and unchecked corporate power just..isn't mentioned. It's as if editors think being honest about this is inherently biased or impolite.

it is similar to the trick conservatives are trying to pull with the birthright citizenship clause. take something whose meaning is absolutely clear from just a plain reading of the text and transmogrify it into something that says its opposite through obfuscation and esoterica

This is pretty cool. I wonder how this might be used to do better climate work — e.g., for addressing emissions linked to buildings, and mapping infrastructure for climate adaptation work? interestingengineering.com/innovation/f...

The Supreme Court will soon hear a challenge to limits on how much political parties can spend in coordination with candidates. And while the campaign finance system clearly needs reform, those choices belong to Congress, not the Court. bit.ly/4oIZsNl

A good run-down of my book and Holman/ Harris, as well as a podcast by my comrade Cloee Cooper called The Insurgence. My one historical quibble is that sheriffs did not become widely elected under Andrew Jackson -- it was not the Revolution, but rather USA empire and populist democracy.

Then why is he giving farmers $12 billion in subsidies to cover for the markets they lost due to his tariffs