Our hearts are with the service members harmed today and their loved ones. Our soldiers and our communities deserve better.

Have we ever heard anything ever again about Charlie Kirk’s shooter??

National Guard troops don't sign up to be used as political pawns. They sign up to serve their country, not needlessly deploy to American cities to pick up garbage. These two soldiers should be alive right now and at home with their families for Thanksgiving. I'm furious.

An 18yo US citizen, surrounded by eight masked, armed agents of the state, taken into custody, not read his rights, not offered a chance to contact a lawyer, proof of citizenship ignored, handcuffed so tightly he later required medical attention. Profoundly, profoundly anti-American shit.

First Secretary of Defense you could defeat by painting a tunnel on the side of a boulder.

Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Street’s greed. Getting big money out of politics. Strengthening unions and fighting for higher wages. Medicare for all, paid family leave, universal childcare... This is the progressive populist agenda we need in America.

If you’d just serve the people instead of the donor class, you wouldn’t need the donor class. A million $20 donors beats one $10M donor every time.

The Tar Heel State has an open Senate seat and partisan voter registration is the key to securing a Democratic victory. Join @FieldTeam6.org on December 6 as we register new Democrats in Durham! #Voterizer social.fieldteam6.org/s/LCXjpqVv

Maybe putting a dozen narcissistic poser Fox hosts in charge of sprawling federal agencies with millions of combined employees and vastly important responsibilities with enormous power wasn’t the greatest plan.

The EPA is moving forward with approvals for pesticides containing “forever chemicals” as an active ingredient, dismissing concerns about health and environmental impacts raised by some scientists and activists. Here’s what to look out for:

Remember that before the list there was war between House of Koch and House of Trump. After the list there was peace. Do the math. The most logical conclusion is a deal where Kochs got to pick Trump’s nominees, using Federalist Society as camouflage for a transaction.

Trump is gonna mess around and organize this entire country for the resistance. Unintended consequences can be brutal.

SCOTUS be like, "well did he murder them in his official capacity?"

ICE/CBP is in Durham NC today. Kids stayed home from school; parents stayed home from work. It is awful and terrifying, and community is mobilized and ready, which opens my heart. If you can, please donate to carolinamigrantnetwork.org and/or www.siembranc.org, who is organizing the response.

Larry Summers has learned his lesson. by Susan Collins

I think Americans are realizing that democracy is a participation sport, and the the government is ours if we want it to be. I feel like we got complacent and hoped some other third party would do the work for us. Seems like we have to learn that lesson every generation.

The Bari Weiss Newsmaxification of @CBSNews is a sight to behold, and marg brennan seems content to go right along with it

“Lots of people will actually die,” @zekeemanuel.bsky.social warns now that Obamacare subsidies are set to expire at the end of the year. “Republicans have had 15 years since the passage of the [ACA] and haven’t come up with a replacement.” #Velshi

Facts

Post-Trump Reform Requires Reinvigorating American Democracy talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/post-...

Broadview.

Indiana mid-decade redistricting news.

To be very clear - questions of whether Epstein provided compromising information on Trump to Putin - which then in turn explains Trump’s dangerous subservience to Putin - is back on the table.

Thank you to NYC Comptroller @bradlander.bsky.social for his leadership in demanding answers from Spotify. Stop paying for or using Spotify until they stop running ads that help ICE recruit more agents to infringe our rights and terrorize our communities: indivisible.org/cancel-spoti...

Do political science profs have to explain to their students that, for most of American history, it was actually borderline unthinkable that elected officials and their spokespersons would constantly talk like trashy reality show contestants?

Feeding Americans: too expensive. Rebranding the Pentagon to stroke the ego of small, weak-minded men: worth $2 billion.

At the same time the NY Times was hyping Hillary Clinton's emails, it had a reporter with emails from Jeffrey Epstein that were highly damaging to Trump. The more NYT apologists try to minimize this the clearer it becomes that they don't understand why much of the public doesn't trust legacy media.

This is a story of a massive Trump cover up but it’s also a story about total elite impunity, how the wealthy and powerful operate with a set of rules totally unrecognizable to the rest of us

Things to know about Epstein hugger Ken Starr: prosecuted Bill Clinton for lying about consensual (if inappropriate) sex, got fired from Baylor University for doing nothing about an on-campus rape epidemic.

I think we need to start visualizing the Trump Presidency ending, and socialize it. For it is the right thing to do for the country and the American people.

Jeffrey Epstein to Lawrence Summers (both of whom are very bad people): “i have met some very bad people , none as bad as trump. not one decent cell in his body. so yes- dangerous”

If **Jeffrey Epstein** thinks you're a evil and demented sociopath, the odds are overwhelming that you are, in fact, an evil and demented sociopath.

Facts don’t care about your feelings

So on Epstein, the Democratic position should be "Trump should resign." If you are a Democratic elected, practice saying "We demand the president's resignation" in front of a mirror as many times as it takes until the dry-heaving that comes from having a phobia about actually doing politics passes.

Growing list of reasons Trump should step down: - Cover up of his involvement in notorious sex trafficking ring - Unprecedented corruption, self enrichment - Tariffs are historic, unprecedented abuse of power - Illegal desecration of most important global symbol of American democracy

Here's the full Summers email, btw.

Not that anyone has any free brain space to focus on the future of the Republic this morning. But I put together this short piece on how to figure out which Senators should be purged from Congress. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-s...

Clark: So what are we doing here today? You have already voted to dismantle medicaid, the largest health care program in America. A program that covers 40% of all births in this country. 40% of children in this country. 40% of disabled people in this country.

This is why you do not make deals with terrorists.

McGovern: Republicans are literally subsidizing an entirely different country instead of keeping families in North Carolina or Minnesota or Texas or Indiana from going bankrupt if they face emergency hospital bills.

DoorDash?

This seems like the most straightforward and also basically accurate message.

Cutting 30,000 jobs at the VA, which will put veterans' services at risk. Firing federal workers across government, many of whom are veterans. Gutting SNAP & Medicaid, which millions of veterans need. Our vets defended us, and this is how the Trump regime is repaying them?

@sanders.senate.gov: "We have already had 15 Republicans in the Senate defy Trump and say, 'Release the SNAP funds.' So I think that if we had held firm, it would be the Republicans who would yield. That was not the position of these 8 Democrats."

Really cant understand how badly the Dems messaged this fold. The easy out was to say "we never expected Trump would illegally starve children and when SCOTUS stepped in to illegally help him we couldn't put kids at risk."

@lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com you think being a Senator is hard? Las Vegas had airport issues... and 55000 people will DIE because of cuts to Medicaid. And more will suffer without health insurance. Tiny violins for Senators who threw health care under the bus. Not so hard, really, if they had spines.