The New York City Controller as a controller is just fantastic.

Trump Take Christmas (well... Sinterklaas technically): www.timesunion.com/hudsonvalley...

The Declaration of Independence specifies 27 grievances with King George III and Britain. Donald Trump and his regime have committed at least 20 of those same offenses highlighted in yellow. #NoKings

if every democrat doesn’t use the “we took freedom of speech away” on every messaging apparatus they have every single day for the next 4 years assume they want to lose

can never forget that Fred Trump spent his later years totally gaga but surrounded by a gaggle of senility-denial-enablers who drove him to a make believe office where a make believe secretary had him sign make believe papers—which sounds cute til you see the sequel & the secretary is Stephen Miller

Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."

People insinuating that Utah Valley University in the heart of Orem, Utah is some sort of radical violent left-wing hive of villainy is the dumbest take I've seen today. That end of the valley is so red it barely knows blue is a color at all.

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Slightly diminish a book A tale of one city

The maddening thing is that we know EXACTLY how to prevent this. Yes, kids should get vaccinated, test, stay home when sick, mask as much as possible. But even without any of that: Better ventilation and filtration in schools can MASSIVELY reduce viral spread, for all sorts of respiratory diseases.

Things like this have been inevitable one big tech companies started making arguments that they can't polls) possibly self police content because there is too much. Hate speech, fake products, fraud, etc., lead to "we can't make our plagiarism machines not assist people in committing suicide"

They're going to spike everyone's energy prices. Your energy prices are going up and it's Trump's fault. Plain as day.

@marcelias.bsky.social: We "need to tell Republicans that if they take 5 seats, we're going to put 30 seats on the table... When people say to me 'don't bring a knife to a gunfight,' I don't even want to bring a gun to a gunfight. I want to bring missiles to the gunfight."

If you’d told me a decade ago that the NYT and WaPo would roll over for a Republican president going full fascist while the Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal went on the attack — and that Bill Kristol was pressing the attack harder than Nancy Pelosi — well, I’d have had you committed.

The @democrats.org MUST air ads on this, and the NOAA/FEMA cuts, before the midterms. We've sat through years of utterly false claims from rupubs about democrats endangering people. When it actually happens like this we can't stop because of "norms and decourum".

On this national holiday, especially with the terrible things going on in our country today, it's important to read Frederick Douglass's speech on the 4th of July. nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stor...

July 4, 2025. I REAFFIRM: “A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may DEFINE A TYRANT, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people" - The Declaration of Independence

I haven't heard anyone put the issue as succinctly as Lander has here. The fight in the Democratic party is between fighters and folders. Any of the folders need to be primaried out of their cushy offices.

Bonus episode of @coreshow.bsky.social with @jonjagger.bsky.social about Clair Obscur? Fantastic. Having it auto play as the next podcast while I'm painting (sadly my walls, not artistic painting)? Even better.

This explains why so many elected democrats, especially those in leadership, are not only not stepping up to the challenge, they're not even in the same vicinity of the challenge.

Listening to @coreshow.bsky.social from yesterday and have this image of Beau and Jon sitting on Scott's shoulders like the proverbial devil and angel trying to convince Scott to buy or not buy a boat in ESO. Not chiming in one way or another but it was a really fun discussion.

All I could think of reading that headline - perfect for Tangerine Palpatine.

Judge me based on my commanders.

This is good but another example of "let's break everything we don't understand (and many things they do), followed by "wait... Not that!". Kakistocracy in action.

This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.

Okay, despite my feelings on Schumer lately.... This one is good.

The richest man in the world took over $5K out of this guy's bank account, claiming he was dead. The richest man in the world said he was saving money. He was not dead.

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.

At a security conference and a panelist said they do phishing simulations two to three times PER DAY. That's bananas and has to be so counter productive.

We are the laughing stock of the world now. And we deserve this for reelecting him after we saw how bad he was the first time.

People should be calling this what it is, which is a crypto bailout. They're cutting cancer research so they can bailout rich, degenerate gamblers bsky.app/profile/ronf...

This is not about government efficiency. This is about government emasculation. It's all one big lie.

How many federal workers would DOGE need to fire to make up for Musk not paying his fair share of taxes? Answer: 677,000. That's 44% of the entire non-DoD federal workforce. Again, this power grab is not about the budget. It’s about politics.

Did Elon's pimple popping incel posse create a backdoor in the Treasury payment system for their criminal hacker friends to get in, or did they directly compromise these accounts themselves? I want every Democrat asking that question in every interview every day.

Oh my god, they just unintentionally wrecked a ton of red team playbooks at the NSA popular.info/p/the-nsas-b...

Senator Schatz, @schatz.bsky.social, rejects idea that Dems should wait for Trump to touch 'most popular' programs to fight. "I'm not going to just wait until they touch the ACA. That's the kind of pundit-brain, poll-tested bullshit that got us into this mess." www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Republicans ran into the room to SHEILD Elon Musk from having to come and speak to Congress. They want their billionaire takeover done behind closed doors. The people deserve transparency. No one elected Elon Musk.

For a photo op & a bragging media post, Trump minions at the USACoE have thrown away millions of gals of #water farmers were relying on for later this year. This water will not be captured, will not be useful for cities or farms or firefighting. It is now lost. www.latimes.com/environment/...

Donold is blaming a plane crash that killed 67 people on “DEI” with zero evidence. He is attempting to use racism to deflect from the fact it is HIS fault. He had just removed 100 FAA senior officials. It’s been 11 days and there are 67 bodies in the Potomac in Washington DC because of him.

What he's announcing is a concentration camp. A deeply illegal, unconstitutional, anti-human rights atrocity. Anyone who supports this is complicit. Anyone in any federal service, military or otherwise, is morally obligated to refuse to carry out any orders related to this deeply criminal act.

Trump doesn't care if the economy crashes and communities suffer. His goal is to force you and your family to accept a lower standard of living while he and his friends get richer. Cutting support for law enforcement, schools, small businesses and firefighters is chaos by design.

I’m just going to say that AOC is the acting leader of the Democratic Party until someone proves otherwise. At least insofar as she is responding to the moment with leadership.

AccuWeather: between LA fires, hurricanes & other weather disasters, the US has suffered $693 to $799 billion in total economic damages over the past 12 mos, equaling nearly 3% of GDP. But remember, it’s the energy transition that’s expensive

I spent most of a decade traveling to authoritarian countries and teaching people how to circumvent internet censorship. I am appalled that this is now something I have to do in the US.

“The guy running the country was actually born in Africa”, is finally true.

It's very easy to manipulate Trump, which is just one of the reasons he's so unfit for office. A few SNL skits premised on Musk being the 'real president' while Trump dotters around is all it would really take for Don to send Musk packing. (Presuming Musk still lets Donald watch TV, that is.)

Whatever happens over the next four years, the democratic party NEEDS a new leader in the vein of Roosevelt, unafraid and not beholden to the wealthy.