20 Lessons on Tyranny: by Timothy Snyder / read by John Lithgow @politicsgirl.bsky.social #PoliticsGirl #MTN #PRO-DEMOCRACYNETWORK #PRO-DEMOCRACYCOMMUNITY #Bluecrew #MeidasMighty #WeFightFascism youtu.be/cXR5HLodsT8?...

it is impossible to imagine any Pentagon lawyer blessing this action. The concept of hors de combat—literally, out of combat—is a fundamental aspect of the law of war that prevents harming those disabled from combat. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

One thing about the Biden admin. is that, two or three levels down, there were tons of smart, focused, pro-social people doing great things that never rose to the level of a headline. Conversely, an enormous amount of the damage Trumpies are doing never makes the news.

Why do Republicans keep trying to mess with health insurance? Democrats are "winning" on this issue of decency, productivity, family finances, and hospital survival. But real people are losing in all too real ways, unless they're rich. My latest @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/three-dumb...

These are open boats with outboard motors, and a range of perhaps 150 miles. There is no way any of them could head to the US.

41 minutes of watching two shipwrecked men trying to flip a boat and signaling for surrender/help before firing on them again reminds me of the 9.5 minutes Derek Chauvin knelt on George Floyd’s neck, in that it’s an agonizingly long time to be killing helpless people who clearly posed no threat.

Everyone of these lawyers should be disbarred

FBI Director Kash Patel: "When you attack our nation's capital, you attack the very being of our way of life. This FBI and this DOJ stand here to tell you we will always refute it and combat it." Donald Trump pardoned over 1,500 rioters who attacked the U.S. Capitol...

All the Americans shot in the water during World War II after their boats were sunk, were viewed as enemy combatant by the Japanese and Germans, who killed them. There was no dispute that those were war crimes.

When away for months filming on location I always take the pups with me so they can be on set or in my trailer. When gone less than a week on promo-junkets they stay home w/ family members so they're not alone in a hotel room all day. How can I not to miss Mabel, Trixie (a/k/a Bat-Mite) & Millie?!❤️

This week on the #podcast! @normornstein.bsky.social @mindyromero.bsky.social @uscprice.bsky.social @sorendayton.bsky.social @ceciliwake.bsky.social @lorenraeds.bsky.social Listen now: www.buzzsprout.com/1073332/epis...

If you're in the White House press corps, still showing up to your job every day and not saying anything as Trump attacks your colleagues -- almost always women, I'd add -- then this is on you as well.

Watch this till the end, truly powerful by one who knows. It is clear that this was flat out murder on the high seas. We need to see that whole video. Hegseth and Trump are holding it back because they know what it shows. contrarian.substack.com/p/venezuela-...

*after hauling a few 45lb checked bags, a rollaway carry on, and a personal item off the airport shuttle, over the curb, and onto the various checkin/security counters, scales, and belts, and finding my gate* You what this place really needs? Preflight workout equipment.

This is so utterly demeaning to women who are not able to breast-feed. What a monster he is.

admiral Bradley might well be someone who has had exemplary service in the military. But this is a war crime. And he ordered it.

this “i am something of a soybean farmer myself” shit from bessent is fucking hilarious

The lying is seriously getting more absurd by the day. Up is down.

Here I disagree with Paul. John Boehner was a decent and honest human being who cared about his own institution. Mike Johnson is none of those things.

Ossoff: "This is so much deeper than the politics. What does it say about the moral condition of this Congress that the thing that has them all tied up in knots is a very simple question: Should people's health insurance premiums go up double or triple? This is a policy choice."

Jamie, sue them for $17 million!

5/5 Years and years later I’m cleaning out my mom’s home They've all passed. I miss them so very much but that Ivy? It’s still growing! I went outside and collected some cuttings to keep wherever I end up. I’ve got it in this pot, waiting for a new home. *End*

Marjorie Taylor Greene claims she shared with Trump death threat she received that he incited, and his response was "extremely unkind"

Duckworth: "It is a war crime. It's illegal. No matter how you put it, it's all illegal. I've been shot down behind enemy lines. Under the laws of war, you are supposed to help render aid to that individual ... you're not allowed to go back in and kill them."

Not only is ICE snatching hard working people who are trying to earn a living, they’re taking their money too? A witness recorded ICE agents taking a cash box from a taco stand in La Puente during an operation where four people were arrested.

@normornstein.bsky.social Just listened to your latest podcast words matter and it was great!

@normornstein.bsky.social Just listened to your latest podcast words matter and it was great!

ICE fired a munition at Rep. Adelita Grijalva as she demanded answers during a raid in her own community. No warning. No accountability. Just armored agents treating Tucson like a war zone. If they’ll fire at a Congresswoman on camera, imagine what they do to everyone else. Sick MFers.

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Boston's Mayor Wu playing with Yo-Yo Ma at Symphony Hall

This is a very good read for the situations we find ourselves in currently.

The bottom 90% lost a collective $79 trillion in wages over the past 50 years. Why? Because the top 1% ate up an increasingly larger share of the national income — so that $79 trillion flowed to them instead of the working class. The greatest trick of all is trickle-down economics.

A federal judge on Friday ordered the grand jury transcripts in convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's trial be unsealed. www.axios.com/2025/12/05/j...

I haven’t been able to form a sentence in like 10 minutes

The Golden Age.

This is too much.

If you believe a president who pardons drug dealers is fighting a war on drugs I don’t know how to help you…

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Yes ma’am 😂

Live. Laugh. Love. I have places to go, people to see!❤️ I’ll see y’all before Christmas ✨🎄 Happy Thanksgiving to all 🙏

Spot on by Bruce Wolpe theconversation.com/trumps-attac...

That’s the first eight from South Carolina!

American Gestapo

Must read from @jilldlawrence.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-admi...

I just re-watched The Princess Bride for the umpteenth time. A perfect movie. Thank you, @actualrobreiner.bsky.social

Adam, unfortunately I think you know the answer. They are all moral cowards.

No he can’t

Worth reiterating that what Trump tried to pull off with Halligan would, if successful, neutralize the Constitution’s appointments clause and allow him to install an endless series of insane and unqualified prosecutors without a single Senate vote. slate.com/news-and-pol...

And not a word from them when a monster who helped finance Hamas gets a corrupt bargain from Trump