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435 isn’t a magic constitutional number. Congress can and should enlarge the size of the House. But it won’t. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/10/o...

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So he’s saying when he was a podcaster he was being paid to lie and invent conspiracies for his listeners but now he has to tell the truth.

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.

We didn’t realize how bad Trump’s Biden-derangement syndrome really is. The first analysis found that he mentioned “Biden” an average of 6.32 times per day. That number has since climbed it’s now just over seven times a day.

X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based. Here’s an “influencer from Texas”

Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged. Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.

JFC

I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.

Shocked, I tell you. Shocked! FFS

We could spend years demanding a list be released, or we could just believe women…

You would think that the 8 GOP Senators who are SO OUTRAGED that Jack Smith subpoenaed their phone records that they want $1 million compensation would bring him in to testify IN A PUBLIC HEARING to explain why he did this. But no, they don’t want to do that. I wonder why?

it is almost as if someone was promoted beyond their ability

“I no longer can bear to be restrained by what judges can say publicly or do outside the courtroom,” Judge Mark L. Wolf writes on his decision to resign from the federal bench. “President Trump is using the law for partisan purposes”:

What the hell are we doing?

Many people who work in health and science are fighting against the Trump administration's politicalization of those issues. Others are running for office. Katherine J. Wu reports:

Politicians can get away with lying to people for quite a while about a lot of different subjects, but they have never been able to get away with lying to them about how much things cost.

This appears to be gaining steam. I hope it happens. Money and our work are some of the only leverages we have right now to stop the steady creep of fascism in our country.

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?"

When is the last time someone wrote an opinion piece on how to get the Republican party back to wanting a functional government? How to get them to moderate? How they need to win back the suburbs?

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Best 3 minutes you will spend on the internet today.

“A curtain of darkness is settling over our nation. And it’s getting ever harder to avoid connecting the authoritarian dots,” Peter Wehner argues:

2nd in line to the presidency, yet consistently has no idea what’s happening in the country

This is relevant again today. The directive just went out. Keep in mind, it’s illegal for the president to use the military as police without invoking the insurrection act.

New: Two federal prosecutors have been placed on leave at the direction of the White House after they filed a sentencing memo describing a defendant as having been part of “a mob of rioters” who “attacked the U.S. Capitol.”

Donald Trumps plan to subvert the midterms is underway From David Graham, on the cover of the next edition of @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Proof that the U.S. government social media accounts are in fact white nationalist propaganda accounts, funded by our tax dollars. You’ve got to see this…

Lock him up!

If you make 130% of the federal poverty level, you qualify for SNAP. A family of four, making $40,560, qualifies for SNAP benefits meaning thousands of Missouri teachers qualify. I’m tired of the bullshit. Most of the people who receive snap benefits work.

The quality of all of our lives have been diminished because Trump, a repulsive intruder, has been in it.

This is a beautiful new locker room at St Pius in Kansas City. They are a private religious school that accepts taxpayer vouchers for partial tuition. Anyway, the kids at the public school down the road from me learn to run track when they go to track meets — they don’t have a track of their own.

If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation. Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net

1. Last week, there were 3 Trump corruption scandals in 4 days that would define any other presidency. Most people are probably not even AWARE of all three scandals. 🧵

Rule of Law Alert: Trump’s authority for country-specific tariffs comes from the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, which doesn’t mention tariffs—but does require a national emergency. An ad showing that Reagan opposed tariffs surely is not a national emergency. (It may be a personal one)

Lifted straight form HER detailed 2016 policy platform. YET HERE WE ARE. STILL SCREAMING 'DO SOMETHING!!'

Sadly, we no longer live in a functioning democracy.

When the president is destroying national landmarks, murdering fishermen, raising prices because he's angry over a Reagan video, and kidnapping parents in front of their crying children is probably not an ideal time to have a lazy, completely incompetent legislative branch perpetually on vacation.

“This is Trump’s presidency in a single photo,” wrote Senator Elizabeth Warren, above a picture showing roof tiles and windowpanes cascading from the facade of the wing, having fallen victim to the excavators’ jaws. “Illegal, destructive, and not helping you.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/u...

I wish people defended smeared victims of sexual violence the way they defend problematic male candidates for office

The New York Times publishes a handy guide to which federal forces are terrorizing us at any moment. This is America, 2025.

They can’t handle the truth.

The government shutdown is especially tough on men, who are losing $1.00 for every 75¢ a woman loses.

There will never be true justice in the world until the rich no longer can buy ‘justice’! Let me repeat: There will never be true justice in the world until the rich no longer can buy ‘justice’. — Impiety