I live in Oregon where voting is entirely by mail (it’s great,) wondering if I might book a flight to the ancestral homeland (southern AZ) to join a polling-place adjacent party.

Watching Olympic skating and it looks like Ilia Malinin’s stylist is for sure into some romantasy stories.

A must read👇 After a sweeping, Republican-led review of more than 2 million voter registrations, Utah election officials identified just one apparent noncitizen in their voter rolls — who never voted. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

I will donate to the campaigns of any progressive challengers to these copperheads.

“They’re denying that any of her birth certificates, which are from Laurel, Maryland, her records of immunization, medical records — they’re denying the authenticity of them. It is something I’ve never encountered.” www.huffpost.com/entry/us-cit...

In the Fourth Republic, we're going to resurrect the Postal Service with postal banking, public email accounts, and neighborhood post offices that provide constituency services and free legal advice. It's going to be so good.

With the clear failure of all the 2A types to rise up in armed defense of the people in the face of a tyrannical regime, I think we can re-evaluate the possibly that there is no good reason to own a weapon with a magazine.

Corrupting economic statistics will change our economic reality. Here's how: Tariffs raise prices. Social Security is indexed to inflation. If Trump tells a partisan BLS head to downplay inflation, seniors' social security checks won't keep up. Rigged stats = stolen benefits.

This and Portland’s Clean Energy Fund show it’s possible to strategically tax high earning individuals and corporations…the challenge is moving the funds out quickly enough to drown out anti-tax messaging from “fiscal conservatives” and others invested in individualist narratives.

Hoping dems can eke out a midterm victory and haul all these duplicitous cabinet members into public hearings with clear lines of questioning about how their actions have been detrimental to the nation.

The lavender in the yard is abuzz

This. 1,000,000% this.

Just a random guy selling internationally traded goods here. From my perspective we’re just beginning to see cost impacts of tariffs. While many goods have relatively low cost-price ratios, there’s also a whole lot of shit we buy where the cost increases are 100% likely to drive up prices.

Agreed. We should be proud of the US Ship of State, and I can think of a few mutineers we could throw overboard to increase our pride.

Do they really think they can scare us with the word “socialist” when they are literally sending out men in masks with no warrants and no badges to disappear people off American streets? I know what I’m scared of, and it’s not a socialist.

"Nationally, half of all Black people say that secure bike parking will allow us to ride more often. Locally, in a densely populated city where a quarter of households report losing at least one bike to theft, the figure is sure to be much higher. Secure parking makes cycling accessible."

Fucking right. Now let’s get another 2/3 republican appointed judiciary panel to rule against overstepping on anti-immigrant EOs.

It genuinely sounded like Trump did not understand what his own administration was doing here. In a week where we're talking about Biden's alleged lack of capacity, maybe some pundits could get on this.

I’d like to see some of these career officials refuse to walk out calmly. We need the optics of them being dragged out their office by goons while yelling that the administration is violating the constitution.

One of your investments did not lose a dime today… SOCIAL SECURITY. And remember, it’s the one they want to get rid of… Paying ATTENTION, yet?!

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

Well, it looks like my business now has a cumulative 104% tariff rate on our imports from China.

I've been posting since 2016 (when I first joined twitter) that it would be good for American society if more elites went to prison. Not signed mea culpas, not paid fines, prison.

Interesting, esp in light of the news that the administration wants to move the federal student loan portfolio to SBA.

People need to be crystal clear about something: The requirement that the government ANSWER to a court on the legal basis for detaining someone is literally the core liberty right (habeas corpus). If the government says they don’t have to do that bc “national security,” YOU can be disappeared.

My working theory of the auto pen thing is that Trump is big mad about it because he views signing EOs as his core (sole?) competency as president, therefore auto pen use is a legit dereliction of duty by his predecessor.

This describes our current situation with great clarity:

If we can "avoid a government shutdown" by voting for this CR, then why is the entire Department of Education closed today? Why is USAID closed? Why are hundreds of billions in grant contracts frozen? We are already in the shutdown. And your votes DON'T stop it. In fact, they allow it to expand.

New drop— in stores Tuesday

Just putting it out here: my company now faces 45% tariffs on imports from China. There is effectively zero US manufacturing capacity for most of the components that make up our finished product.

Firstly, they are planning to stop all federal funding for higher education anyway. This is just creating false pretense; remember that the act of protest is not illegal in our democracy. Students: Don’t stop protesting School legal councils: Don’t urge compliance with an unlawful order.

Attention all y’all heading to the feed store to buy chicks:

YOUR FAVORITE WEATHER APP IS JUST A PRETTY DISPLAY OF NOAA DATA Ppl seem to think that "NOAA weather forecasts" means climate-, boat-, or "in addition to my app"-weather. But the weather forecasts *we all use* are made from the NOAA data *we all paid for* Make that part clear when you ⬇️

I love to watch the Super Bowl as an exercise in sinking into the warm embrace of the dominant cultural paradigm. Reminds you how easy it would be to not know and/or care about justice, equality, etc. when provided with bread and circuses.

Headline and lede suggestion: “J6 Apologist AZ Rep Looks to Curry Favor With Trump as He Explores Gubernatorial Run” Rep. Biggs, who fondly recalls beating up childhood neighbor who badmouthed Goldwater, today introduced a bill to abolish OHSA.

It's actually theft of taxpayers money when websites go dark. We paid for that data

An excellent idea.

Ah yes, creating a strong future for our nation through removing childhood nutrition programs and generally defunding public education.

Looks like this whole BlueSky migration is here to stay, so I guess it’s time to start posting and not just lurking. Here’s a snap of a bumblebee in my backyard, summer 2024.