Glad this story is finally public but also incredible that it is taking media so long to dig up what is essentially open knowledge in these communities rn.

High end wealth inequality allows for shit like this

They’ve laid off so many people that the government is now getting its economic data from DoorDash.

Good morning! Today we are featuring Ed Martin, the U.S. Pardon Attorney who, on Sunday, signed an unprecedented blanket pardon to “all U.S. citizens for all conduct” related to the 2020 fake electors scheme, as well as efforts to expose “fraud” in the 2020 elections.

Ed Martin, who as an Interim United States Attorney sent threatening letters to peer-reviewed medical journals, is now worried about people being silenced by the DOJ. 🤷

This is journalistic malpractice.

The indictment of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu is a textbook example of how hybrid regimes operate: elections continue, but the field is tilted beyond recognition. It’s a sobering signal for Turkey — and for other democracies, including the US - that is under threat. apnews.com/article/turk...

Reminder: we are in this together. Whether you accept it or not, they’ll eventually remind you.

Los Angeles, Chicago. Who can tell the difference? God, what an idiot.

Government, taxes, & regulation are good actually

It’s okay because the Republicans promised to hold this exact same vote in a month

The Government Lawyers Database is live. A lot of people have put a lot of work into this, and it's definitely worth taking the time to check out. What is it? The short is, it documents the good and the bad that government attorneys are doing right now.

We're just going to leave this here...

We're officially live. It's incredibly important to have a real record of how our public servants are behaving and this database will be a powerful tool for researchers, reporters, and ordinary Americans.

Are you a lawyer? Have you been litigating against DOJ or other executive branch attorneys? Did you witness them engage in professional misconduct that has NOT been reported in the news? Do you have the receipts? We want to know! We document it all here, where you can also submit information:

Politico is reporting that the breach at the Congressional Budget Office is "ongoing." “Do NOT click on any links in emails from CBO. Do NOT share sensitive information with CBO colleagues over email, Microsoft Teams, or Zoom at this time,” the email to CBO staff reads.

Fine, I'll do it: Rep. Ro Khanna, a member of the Medicare for All and Congressional Progressive Caucuses who represents Silicon Valley, is the first sitting Democratic congressperson to demand the resignation of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. This tracker will be updated in real time: 🧵

Hi @kaine.senate.gov, Just wanted to let you know that the first thing I did after I got your mail a few minutes ago was to hit "unsubscribe".

מעניין איך כולם בישראל מוטרדים מאד מאד ממוסלמי פרוגרסיבי שנבחר לראשות עיריית ניו-יורק, אבל לא מוטרדים בכלל מליטרל מחבל לשעבר שמבקר בבית הלבן בהזמנת טראמפ.

A progressive Muslim is elected NYC's mayor --> The Israeli government: goes berserk. A literal former Islamic Jihadist is vising the White House at the invitation of POTUS --> The Israeli government: 🙈🙉🙊

@mohaveindv.bsky.social deleted their post blaming the Jews for buying off these Democrats and using our shady Jew money to coerce them into voting on cloture, but not before it was unironically reposted by 400 people. I wonder why they decided to delete it?

For the past few months I and others have been bugging you about holding government lawyers to account. Well, this is what we have been working on. Welcome to GLOW - Government Lawyers Oversight Watchdog!

Had very interesting discussions with other progressives here re the Senate deal. What separates the pros from the cons, I think, is the perception of how far (or not) our democracy has already deteriorated.

The Republican Senate majority is built on minority rule, enabled by unequal representation & the two-party system. The GOP hasn’t won more total votes or represented more people than Dems since the 1990s. They’ve won the Senate in 7 of 13 elections since 2000 anyway docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

It's okay not to be strictly against or strictly for the deal. It's okay to hate the deal but not being able to decide if you hate it enough to hope it doesn't pass.

People who believe Schumer had nothing to do with it are ridiculous.

To be clear: the deal they voted on to move forward last night still needs to be formally voted on in the Senate and House. If the eight are your senators, they should be hearing from you this morning!

idk which possibility is more damning for Schumer either A) he helped orchestrate the fold OR B) he genuinely opposed the fold but was so incompetent that he was unable to stop the splinter group from folding

Asking my Senators to vote for new leadership; either Chuck Schumer cannot whip votes, in which case he's useless, or he is fine giving up leverage for nothing, in which case he's worthless.

Absolutely right here. The old foundation is gone. By dropping the ability to show that the federal government does important things and shouldn't be indiscriminately slashed, they just handed all the keys to Trumpists. We're not getting them back

And he's not some lefty. He's a Reagan appointee who worked for Ford. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/u...

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

What Trump learned yesterday is that it doesn't matter how unpopular he is, it doesn't matter he loses elections, it doesn't matter he loses in courts - Dems eventually surrender to bullying. It's going to get much worse, I'm afraid.

I get why the people most directly personally impacted by the government shutdown are saying things like this but "the entire underpinnings of the country" have *already* collapsed and pretending they haven't isn't helpful

Trump’s pardon attorney Ed Martin claims Trump is pardoning his Georgia co-defendants and other “alternate electors.” Note: Trump’s Georgia co-defendants are charged under state law. The president can’t pardon people for state crimes.

WTF does this even mean?

BREAKING: The First Circuit denied the DOJ’s request to block a district court’s enforcement order that the Trump administration pay full SNAP benefits for November. That doesn’t end things, though. Now, the matter goes back to SCOTUS. substack.com/@chrisgeidne...

Trump just celebrated Schumer's cave by pardoning 75+ co-conspirators including Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, and Sidney Powell, for their efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

Per several reports in Israeli media the former IDF AG is hospitalized following an attempted suicide earlier today. Very few details, but she's apparently conscious and in stable condition.

Cant think of a statement that more epitomizes just how broken of an institution the senate actually is

(sigh)

this is senate dems’ second coordinated “just enough” vote to help republicans and betray house dems of the year, remember

SNAP was funded RIGHT NOW. The Admin is simply lawless, which is why it wasn't paid. Saying that SNAP is part of the deal means the deal was that the admin agreed to follow what is already the law.

agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish

Milk takes longer to go bad than this post.

My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard. We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions. We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.

Minority Whip Katherine Clark puts out a stinging statement on the senate deal. "A GOP budget that spikes health care premiums and everyday costs to fund tax cuts for billionaires is a grave betrayal of everyday Americans. That was true in July. It was true in September. And it remains true today."

Primary all of them