I just finished one of the most important books I read all year. Please add The Presidents and the People by Corey Brettschneider to your list. Give him a follow too. @democracyprof.bsky.social

He's already taken someone's Purple Heart

At one point today, there were 283 Minnesota attorneys doing a training on how to file emergency habeas petitions to keep our neighbors from being shipped out of state and held indefinitely. That would be the second largest law firm in the state. And that training was just put together this week.

I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports. And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.” Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

What is the statute of limitations on this?

I don't know why I keep allowing myself to be disappointed by my parents. I truly believed that they - esp my dad, a vet - taught me to stand up against the govt, checks & balances, think for yourself. Now he's defending investigation into the Seditious 6 and the recall of Mark Kelly.

Hey North Carolina! This is one of our Courage Candidates, @kyahcreekmore.bsky.social who is running in NC-05. Give him a follow! You’re never too young to make a difference

No, he isn’t. There is literally no legal means by which he can do this. It’s not presidential power. TPS by law cannot be terminated early, and Somali TPS is not set to expire until March 17, 2026.

BREAKING: Federal judge rejects DOJ's effort to subpoena the names and medical records of children who have received gender-affirming medical care from the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Ready to #ResistTheRegime

Last weekend, my youngest was part of the crew for their high school production of Hadestown. And it once again got me thinking about how long people have been trading freedom for 'security' - and how that security is so often a lie.

Me in the euphoria post-election, settling down to work: Stars are blah blah. "As these bright dreams encounter one another..." Yes, it will likely be a darling cut, but I'm leaving it in for now.

Congratulations to all the Democratic candidates who won tonight. It’s a reminder that when we come together around strong, forward-looking leaders who care about the issues that matter, we can win. We’ve still got plenty of work to do, but the future looks a little bit brighter.

Sometimes, offline, I feel like my house is the only piece of sanity in a surreal reality.

It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.

“Maybe there are more than we think.” Mine for @skyandtelescope.bsky.social

Sometimes I wonder if giving up a steady paycheck was the right call and sometimes I don't.

Watch my supercut of things Mike Johnson doesn’t know. You can see the whole show here: www.youtube.com/live/Ams4OLn...

it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions "Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"

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This is mutual aid, not charity, a community response to hunger & instability when gov safety nets fail. Right now, as 42 million Americans who rely on SNAP food assistance face uncertainty during the gov shutdown, understanding the difference between charity and mutual aid is incredibly important.

Love this so much. As a Georgia resident, after reading One Person, One Vote, (by Carol Anderson), I cried. Push back, California. Push back, USA.

Dementia Don

New in PN: The triumph of bullshit "We’re a long way from 'covfefe' and tumescent hurricanes Sharpied on a weather map. This is an era of lies as policy, where government priorities are based on right-wing conspiracy theories and fear-mongering."

So I just stumbled onto what may be the most awesome soap ad ever. I am now struggling with my basic, uh, thriftiness, combined with my desire to support these guys! @mycluckhut.bsky.social

Watch out, New York, you don't want to become Georgia signed, Georgia resident

Calling a non-relative an aunt is a scandal But accepting bribes, flying on the Lolita express, and sexually assaulting women and children is "just the cost of doing business." ...

During non-midterm years, the House usually takes votes in October. They did even during the shutdown in 2013. But there have been no votes this year since the Friday before Grijalva became the 218th Epstein vote. www.pbump.net/o/remember-t...

A lot of Americans would love to talk about kitchen table issues, unfortunately the kitchen table is being used to barricade the front door because ICE is trying to illegally enter private property to arrest and detain them.

Sorry I refuse to entertain the complete non-existent world where white people don’t know that countless cultures, including some of their own but certainly diasporic racialized ones, call their mom’s cousin’s friend’s sister they grew up with “cousin” and call close women elders “aunt/auntie”

🫢 😳 😧 🤢 🤮 😡 I have an even worse feeling about THIS:

In a shocking reality check, @wired.com is not, in fact, bankrolled by “donations from far left organizations.” We actually rely on an amazing and growing audience of subscribers to support our journalism, so please subscribe to WIRED if you don’t already.

Jeffries: "Do what leaders do as opposed to being missing in actio for 28 days while finding $40b to bail out a right-wing wannabe dictator in Argentina & destroying the historic parts of the WH so he can construct a ballroom where he'll be celebrated like a wannabe king. It's all outrageous stuff."

This man? Not actually related to the Tanners at all, yet they call him "Uncle Joey"

We live in an episode of Veep

Wait, so...we are taking people from teh border to raid our cities? Well that should DEFINITELY fix the leaking boarder 'problem'. /eyeroll

I hate that I can follow her logic for interviewing Dan Brown - it's to have someone an "average" person would have heard of in the story, even if their utility in actual reportage is tangential at best. She's trying to sexy up the news, which doesn't need to be sexy, it needs to be informative.

i cannot believe that “mamdani calls a close adult relative an ‘aunt’ even if they are not literally their parent’s sister” is what counts as a “scandal” these days

"A passion for justice is nothing without action behind it." Heard this in a training session; didn't get the name of the person who said it in their intro but it is so awesome I had to share it.

Rep. Rosa DeLauro: "On the food stamp issue, the money is there! Let them not get away with saying they can't do it. Their political will isn't there to feed the people who rely on the SNAP program which is the most effective anti-hunger program in the USA."

Is it really that hard to leave it better than you found it?!

A middle finger to erasure. More of this, please. Now do Black Lives Matter!

Life is hard when you can't read.

"nearly half..." ??? it's an open book test. www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

Please spend an hour of your life, whenever you have time, with this conversation with anti-extremism expert Heidi Beirich. The majority, and our institutions, still aren't aware of how mainstream white supremacy has become in the modern GOP. thelefthook.substack.com/p/the-mainst...

Inside the Hermitage, the winter palace where Tsar Nicholas II and his family lived before they were executed—in a country where Russians were starving.

A man was arrested for playing Darth Vader's theme music, "The Imperial March," behind National Guard troops walking through Logan Circle. Now the ACLU is suing on his behalf. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Breaking News: Democratic lawmakers in Virginia plan to redraw congressional maps, hoping to hand their party two or three more House seats.

On Threads, the usual suspects are telling ppl about to lose SNAP benefits to just start a garden. As a gardener, I had to laugh. You need at LEAST an acre of land to feed a family of 4. Start-up costs are enormous. But yes, subsistence farming on the balcony of your rental apartment is the answer