A reminder that if you are called to be part of a jury in a political prosecution you have a right to refuse to convict on the grounds the prosecution is unjust. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Ladies and gentleman…the next mayor of DC

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Democratic party leadership has been on autopilot for ten years, they weren't losing to fascism, fascism isn't popular enough for them to lose to fascism, they were allowing it to fill the void where their leadership should have been. Tonight we're seeing that we have other options. They should too.

As the cold reality of Cuomo’s defeat sets in, this is a moment for centrists to ask themselves: Have we lost touch with the common voter? Get out and spend time in the tattoo parlors and dispensaries. The drag shows, community gardens and outsider art galleries where Real New Yorkers congregate

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Hey Jerome, I have an alternate theory for why Microsoft and Amazon are laying off engineers - they massively overhired 4 years ago. fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IHLID...

A bad idea, expressed badly. Just absolute word salad from Jeffries on a softball question he knew was coming. I know who *isn’t* the future of the party, that’s for sure.

Hyperreality at the grocery store

🚨‼️As of yesterday KOSA is at 64 cosponsors with @vanhollen.senate.gov + @kim.senate.gov - who claim to support LGTBQ+ rights but are clearly okay with supporting legislation that’ll censor us off the internet- newly signed on. You know what to do: www.stopkosa.com

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you've been doing a really good job with that boulder, just want to say, exemplary stuff, we all really appreciate it. we've actually got a bigger boulder to roll up a steeper hill in the next fiscal year, it seems right up your alley

Will CM @cmbrookepinto.bsky.social demand that DC Police turn over footage from their raid on USIP at the behest of DOGE? She chairs DC Council's Committee on Public Safety, which oversees MPD. If Pinto won't defend DC from Trump while she's on Council, why would she as DC's Delegate to Congress?

I don’t actually agree with “vote blue no matter who” so whatever. But I don’t wanna hear it when some leftist dems are insufficiently enthused about a conservative nominee.

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I got a bunch of phishing attempts to an email address only ever used to order a print from FedEx Office one time last year. Hmm

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I know a glass cliff when I see one

The evidence that the Epstein files are really important is...that the Trump admin is doing lots of things that have nothing to do with the Epstein files? This is begging the question. It's conspiracy theory logic.

SESTA/FOSTA backfired miserably. The UK's age verification law backfired miserably. The TikTok ban is backfiring miserably. So of course @blumenthal.senate.gov has decided now is a great time to revive the terribly written Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) which will ... spoiler... backfire miserably

“Constant Contact” is a bizarrely threatening product name

i’m a believer in ineffective altruism. i think that everyone in america should be issued a vga to s-video cable adapter and a bale of hay

oracle is a legal department which, as a side effect, produces ISO 9000-compliant variations on open source projects. if you buy any of them you will eventually receive a lawsuit threat which will bankrupt your company

Congressional Democrats voted today to sell out Washington DC and their constituents, as numerous Dems backed bills advancing the Trump takeover of DC. After meeting with our Council and saying nice things, @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and leadership *declined* to whip a No vote on the bills

The tougher questions we're apparently unprepared for--what if the shooter was trans? What if he was Black or undocumented? Would that really justify whatever group punishment Trump wants to unleash? Is such a proposal even thinkable when the shooter is a white man?

Want

Two things can be — and are — true here: Bowser is not the champion DC needs in this moment, and The Washington Post has become a Trump rag. A newspaper that actually cared about the city in its name would not publish such an inflammatory, bullshit headline.

Well I hope at least Mayor Bowser gave everyone an example of what not to do

if you are against protecting trans rights, know i am against you

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The posts are fine, I just wish Newsom was a decent person with beliefs beyond his own self interest. Can’t lead a fight against fascists when you share their belief that marginalized groups (trans kids, the homeless) are unworthy of humane treatment.

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People insisting masked thugs grabbing people off the street is a distraction from “Epstein files” have completely lost the plot

lol

abolish the senate.

the point of course is to weaken the supreme court, which is very literally your enemy and an enemy of your constituents and democracy itself. and lay the groundwork for future fights you can win to neuter conservative control of the courts. but that requires thinking past the next election

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what are those battles, exactly? look. i know it makes some people on here mad when one screeches about how useless these folks are but to be quite honest a track record of failure in most human endeavors leads to changes in personnel and approach. that's life

Anybody else feel like taking a few days to crumble into dust

the main qualification i’m looking for in congressional leadership is “hates elected republicans so much you want to send them all to prison but will settle for driving them entirely from power for a generation”

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How come the “centrist” Dems who cite polls to justify right-wing policies aren’t linking arms to resist ICE in LA right now?

not to be the flyspeck nyt copy as if it's the most important thing guy, but seriously wtf is this?

Interesting study. Developers were slower with AI tools even when they thought they were faster. Full paper metr.org/Early_2025_A...

we told you the Supreme Court sucks

There's a lot of calling Crémieux an academic and Chris Rufo a journalist going on in this news story accusing a man of misrepresenting his identity

A national abortion ban is closer than you think. The Senate bill could close one in four abortion providers nationwide. As we saw with Roe, a right only on paper is no right at all