Dear God, please please please make the deeply regretful Trump 2024 voter a media obsession the way the steadfast Trump 2016 voter (and diner patron) was an obsession years ago.

I’m glad @podsaveamerica.crooked.com talked to Stephen A. Smith, and I liked some of his blustery style, but I don’t trust him. He seems like an in-it-for-himself rich guy who would get a kick out of doing a heel turn down the road. Hope I’m wrong and maybe that’s unfair, but that’s what I got.

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I don’t think it’s wrong for people to think strategically about how they communicate even if they’re not Consultants. But if you do that, then you should also put your strategy into operation. Communicate the way you think Talking Heads should communicate. You have agency.

Dear @markwarner.bsky.social and @kaine.senate.gov what time today will you be on TV, doing hit after hit on multiple channels, calling for these men to resign?

If you live anywhere in the state of New York, tell your governor to fire Eric Adams

brian schatz agreed with me that we needed senators talking to reporters *today* about the scandal at DOJ but instead of talking to reporters senator schatz hopped on a plane out of the country without so much as saying a word about a scandal worse then nixon’s Saturday Night Massacre

If you live in New York State and think Gov. Kathy Hochul should remove the corrupt mayor of NYC, give her a call or send her a letter.

Feeling spicy might delete but I used to work with Chuck Schumer's eldest daughter, and when she was getting ready to go to Yale Law she was dissatisfied with her financial aid package so she made them do a three way call (at the office) with her and her dad to push for a better package

A reminder that @fetterman.senate.gov is the only democrat in the senate who voted for this

Who are the representatives for Ye? Why grant anonymity for an anodyne no comment when the fact that of that particular person’s representation of a Nazi is news? www.cbsnews.com/news/ye-supe...

Defying the law. Defying the Constitution. Legalizing bribery. Pardoning cop-assaulters. Criminalizing thought.

I’m not interested in score-settling or any other intra-coalition beef, but those who predicted during the election that Trump would be no worse than Biden on Gaza could do some good by loudly telling their friends/audience that Trump now presents a dramatic new danger to Gazans.

Someone at the American Bar Association ate their Wheaties this morning.

I’d be interested to hear from a Texas lawyer how this pardon would affect the sentence of this suspected child predator. This would typically reduce his prior-record score, which would typically reduce the sentence. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

President Trump pardoned a guy who was ALREADY wanted for a felony child predation charge. Harris County, Texas, had a detainer of some kind for him and a warrant, but the federal prisons let him out. Just re-arrested. Nice going, Trump. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

We are members of Congress at the Treasury Department. We want to be let in to provide oversight on behalf of our constituents. @jasmineforus.bsky.social @sethmagaziner.bsky.social

Please please please do not start using FOIA systems as a form of protest. No one outside of a handful of FOIA officers at most will ever see it, and it'll just clog things up for anyone actually trying squeeze valuable information out of the government.

Hear me out — If parents call colleges freaked about their FAFSA data being leaked, schools may have to issue statements — which would reach a whole lot more families about how warped this is. Organizing isn’t always calling electeds. Sometimes it’s just calling people with a bigger megaphone.

In a disgraceful act betraying millions of their own residents, Iowa, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming all write to oppose birthright citizenship.

Giving access to SSNs, other data on government employees to non-employees like Musk is a violation of 5 USC 552a, and carries with it a penalty of $1000 per person whose data was accessed. We are building a case. Govt employees who want to participate should contact me directly

Thank you, John Roberts, C.J.!

This is the week that everyone in the US realizes that Trump is gonna fuck up their lives in a real, concrete way. This HAS to be the week that elected Democrats back up their talk with ACTION. At the very least, vote against every Trump nominee. Deny unanimous consent.

We all like to yell at the Democrats, but it’s really Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune who are letting Elon Musk and his faceless goon squad make a mockery of their power as leaders of a coequal branch without uttering a peep or lifting a finger.

it begins

MAGA: Pain and Higher Prices

Donald Trump is now promising to make prices higher, because ... reasons.

People are dying because Trump illegally cut off foreign aid. He’s purging civil servants and law enforcement officers deemed insufficiently loyal. He unilaterally suspended Medicaid and froze trillions in funding. All of this is unlawful! And Democrats are … touting areas of bipartisan compromise?

I really can’t wrap my head around congressional Democrats’ response to the past 12 days of crises. It reeks of pathetic capitulation. Trump is asserting dictatorial powers of absolute control over the entire government and the reaction is “we don’t swing at every pitch”? An appalling abdication.

It would be nice to see mainstream media acknowledge that every alarmist in their ranks about Trump and his henchmen has been correct, and every single "Let's all calm down" guy--a posture of blasé detachment that is consistently over-rewarded in legacy media--has called it wrong from day one.

Do Not Comply In Advance: bossy, already a cliche, implies permission to comply later Fuck You, Make Me: leads by example, directs yelling at opposition instead of allies, easy to chant at a protest or put on a banner

Republicans are for He/Him (Donald Trump)

www.cnn.com/2024/09/24/p... This you?

Someone with the time and energy to see it through should FOIA the Trump administration for references to this specific name. Could start to unspool some interesting (extremely creepy) stuff.

To review, the FAA administrator was forced out because of a business vendetta of Elon Musk’s, Trump froze the hiring of new ATCs despite staff shortages, Musk launched an underhanded attempt to hollow out the whole federal workforce, and then the first US airliner crashed in 16 years.

➡️ January 20: FAA director fired ➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen ➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded ➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees ➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years Making America Great Again!

The head of the FAA, Mike Whitaker, resigned on January 20 — one year into his 5 year term — after facing relentless criticism from Musk for not approving SpaceX missions quickly enough. The Senate confirmed him unanimously in 2023. No acting FAA head has been appointed.

Maybe cheap, maybe not. Completely fair for Dems to demand an investigation of whether Trump’s lawless, destabilizing blitz against the civil service, and his cronification of the Pentagon contributed to the accident in any way. Completely.

If a future administration was going to take power on the promise of draconian enforcement of the TikTok ban, the outgoing DOJ could reach a plea agreement with offenders (for peanuts) that would take that off the table. @aywarhiannon.bsky.social @notalawyer.bsky.social @fleerultra.bsky.social

I’m hoping I and others will be able to swallow our anger at the Trump voters and welcome them in as they (🙏🙏🙏) recoil at what they elected. A lot of leftists talk like you cannot find common ground/vote with someone unless you are “in coalition” with them. Bullshit.

It’s worth emphasizing that the Colombia fight was not about accepting deportations. It was that the Colombian president demanded deportees be treated humanely, and not as props for Trump’s performative cruelty. That simple request for decency was enough for Trump to instigate a trade war.

it's not the dumbest thing i've spent 20 minutes on

Donald Trump finally gets to test-drive his long-held theory that he can launch a trade war against any other country without any negative consequences. I love that for him.

The supposedly smart political message gurus said Elon’s sieg heil is a distraction. But I wonder if it might break through to normies. Hmmm.