I have heard people say that Ben Gvir is like the Israeli equivalent to Stephen Miller. Ben Gvir is a violent militant and multiply convicted terrorist who spent decades involved in street battles and has been credibly accused of helping to orchestrate extralegal assassinations and bombings.

Ben Gvir's equivalent in US politics would be literally if the leader of the Aryan Nations splinter group The Order were elected to Congress and given a cabinet position instead of dying in a shootout with the FBI. It's difficult to explain how much of a supremacist extremist Ben Gvir is.

ARREST ICE, NOW! Thank you for your attention to this matter.

"I think if Ted Cruz is your big headliner, you're in big, big trouble... some of the people that were there who were younger... they said they were to see the funeral of CPAC and just confirm that it really was over." @jasonselvig.bsky.social

BERNIE: “The top 1% owns more wealth than the bottom 93%.”🇺🇸 GUY IN AUDIENCE: “WHAT?!”😬 BERNIE: “1 person, Mr. Musk, owns more wealth than the bottom 53%… Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ made 938 Billionaires $1.5 TRILLION richer.” (This is who @MarshaBlackburn fights for)

As Trump strangles Cuba with a blockade, he also justifies letting a Russian tanker through to help them… as Russia helps Iran fight us. (PSA: If you don’t see how badly Trump’s relationship with Putin stinks at this point you have lost the plot)

As the midterms approach, anti-voting forces are likely to take the same kinds of bogus evidence that they seized on in Fulton County, and similarly inflate it into major fraud allegations. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Republican Rep. Monty Fritts says @MarshaBlackburn is refusing to debate him as they run to be the next governor of Tennessee because she’s too “INTELLECTUALLY SHALLOW” 👀 🔥

Q: How do you feel about sacrificing our soldiers in another forever war? MICHAEL WHATLEY: I don't think we are sacrificing our soldiers at all right now in a forever war (13 US service members have died)

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Market Manipulation Monday

There it is bsky.app/profile/josh...

Right on time to manipulate the markets, along with a threat to commit war crimes and terrorize civilians and noncombatants.

One reason why the East Wing resonates with people is that it will be incredibly difficulty, divisive and costly to undo this shit. And in that respect it serves as an apt metaphor for the Trump administration.

President Trump’s ballroom design has rushed toward construction, with little time for public review of this major addition to the White House. Architects say it shows.

RUBIO REFUSES TO SAY WHO TRUMP MEANS BY 'NEW' REGIME IN IRAN

MADRID (AP) - Spain says it has closed its airspace to US planes involved in the Iran war. @apnews.com

He’s a developer with an addled brain…buildings are a sign of power & legacy he understands no matter how mushy things get…it’s literally concrete, no vagaries, known metrics I’ve met a lot of developers over the years, especially old ones, it’s not uncommon for a last hurrah legacy project

It's always been my thought that the strikes last year probably didn't do anything and it seems I'm not the only one. thebulletin.org/2026/03/anal... and now? It's in steel cylinders, you want to bet they aren't in one convenient place any more?

This parent wants better controls for my child's devices, not surveillance state stuff that makes me have to upload my ID to the government.

Hard pass. These "won't someone PLEASE think of the children!" bills are always just Trojan horses for censorship of online speech. First it's "oh it's protecting the kids", then it's banning LGBTQ content because it's not "child appropriate" or whatever. Do not support bills like this, please.

At every protest I have attended, some MAGA person has shouted at us, 'How much are they paying you!' I think they really believe it. They cannot conceive of hundreds of people assembling in our insignificant town in an unimportant state because we believe in something. Gotta be money.

Sign yesterday, I hate him so much I’m doing this for free

I've shared this before, but I've had ICE agents ask me if I'm getting paid while doing court watch. These people simply cannot comprehend doing something to help others. Everything must be a grift.

one of the videos from the occupation that i find most haunting is the one from the woman in west stp who had a doordasher run into her home & refused to give her up. specifically, when an ICE thug says "you don't even know her" in tones of baffled indignation. they straight up do not get it.

Inside the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Era of AI in Music From juicing demos to cloning vocals, AI music tools are creeping into the workflows of top producers, songwriters, and artists. #RollingStoneFutureOfMusic Story: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Seems like something that only the CEO of an AI music generator might think

AI use is “the Ozempic of the music industry — everybody is on it, and nobody wants to talk about it,” Mikey Shulman, CEO of Suno AI music generator, recently said. #RollingStoneFutureOfMusic More: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

FYI about recent history: For decades, US Consular Officers were taught to refused a visa to any woman who, they believed, was travelling to the USA for the purpose of giving birth. In the late 1990's, the guidance flipped and birth tourism became an industry. I don't know why.

"Constitutional Originalists" want us to believe that the Constitution needs to be read EXACTLY according to the words and their meaning when written. "Constitutional Originalists" also want to overturn birthright citizenship on the grounds that planes didn't exist and travel was harder.

This moment, post-No Kings, is a great time to talk about the importance of persistence and diverse tactics in social justice work. We can win. But only if we *sustain* the work in a *consistent* way with a *range* of approaches. Many concrete suggestions & resources in my latest:

And he was a professor of political science at Carleton College. Not political experience per se but he was highly educated.

right? if anything, franken is an object lesson in why you vet the hell out of your candidates even if they seem very fun and shiny, because when that shit comes out, it is still a problem even if they are already in office.

franken here is a particularly funny choice, albeit unintentionally so

Lol come on. Wellstone spent close to 2 decades in MN politics before running for Senate. Extensive community organizing at county level, labor organizing in southern MN, ran for state auditor twice, MN chair for 2 Dem prez campaigns, DNC rep from MN. Not remotely the same as Platner.

Kinda funny to use Al Franken as an example, lol.

I'm inclined to think the way Al Franken's senate career *ended* is the most germane part of that specific comparison. And Paul Wellstone spent 21 years as a professor of political science and community activist before he ran for office, and the Senate wasn't the first seat he ran for.

He was elected into the seat previously occupied by his brother, the President, with his other brother the Attorney General. Yes, it's nepotism -- but also he was not a nobody who got plucked out of nowhere by a marketing team.

while Ted was wildly unqualified and a nepotism moment he was more qualified then Platner, who's never even volunteered for a campaign before I find it deeply worrying that out of office no one can point to one thing he's managed to do or be a part of to make progressive change.

The US Senate is a place for, “already knows how”

It’s laziness. Don’t want to do the work of starting local and building experience. Want to start at the top and sow chaos. He’s another Fetterman and even that asshole had experience prior to the Senate.

I really don't think the US Senate is the place for "he can learn"

one of thing I thought we stood for was "not one hint of Nazi"

there's a conflict in Dem circles over Piker, over Platner, that basically boils down to "Trump means we have to give up everything we stood for and believed in and be terrible if we ever want to win again" vs. "no, we don't"

What's something that experts/practitioners in your field universally agree upon, but that remains a "hot take" among the general public?

Winning a lawsuit for money is often pointless.