by @thomhartmann.skystack.xyz “What we’re watching here is the unraveling of seventy years of American alliance-building. When our closest partners start blocking our bombers from their bases, that’s not a diplomatic hiccup, that’s the world telling us they don’t trust us anymore”

by @garykroeger.bsky.social "I know for a fact that my corrections will not change a single MAGA mind. I do this from a compulsive need to correct misinformation and to offer my Liberal friends (Progressives, Democrats, Snowflakes…) some language to add to the arsenal to defend our ideology"

by @tdorman.bsky.social “defunding the sensors makes it extra easy to tell we’re being conned by Republicans and their Big Ag allies, who insist our water is getting cleaner. That fairy tale is a lot easier to sell without so much pesky data around to prove it’s hokum”

by @lylemuller.bsky.social “Took a trip to the grocery store the other day. “I sat down afterward and compared pre-Trump administration prices with current ones. I calculated that we paid 15% more than we would have at the end of 2024. This is a non-scientific sample”

by @jenrubin.bsky.social 1/2 "Before you get lulled into complacency, understand that the Trump regime is not altering its policy one iota. 'Although Mullin gives Trump a different face at DHS, his arrival doesn’t change the administration’s overarching goal—enshrined into law..

by @50501movement.bsky.social 8 Million People, 3,300 Events, One Historic Day

by @paulkrugman.substack.com.web.brid.gy “The map shows JP Morgan’s estimates of when tankers from the Gulf will stop arriving at various destinations. Deliveries to Asian markets will end this week; deliveries to Europe will end next week”

by @playtyperguy.com "Progressives are latching onto Carlson’s statements that seemingly prioritize the Palestinian people and their suffering, while ignoring what’s barely hidden under the surface: his usual conspiracy mongering about an elite ' other' that controls what we can say or do"

by @petermjuul.bsky.social "it’s critical to understand that this is the way leaders of gangster powers believe the way the world should work. Trump has made his admiration for international gangsters like Putin & Xi clear, & he has made plain that on his watch America will—at best—sit back & watch"

by @joycewhitevance.bsky.social “Renee Good and Alex Pretti. Julio Sosa-Celis and Liam Ramos. Americans and immigrants, mistreated and lied about by our government. After reading the stories, no one should be complacent; no one is completely safe. “Keep saying their names, every day”

by @hcrichardson.bsky.social 1/2 “Americans liked the programs that regulated business, provided a basic social safety net, promoted infrastructure, protected equality before the law, and provided international security, so Movement Conservatives focused on taking power away from Congress..

In what world is it okay for the Defense Secretary to make multi-million dollar investments in defense companies: a) Ever; b) In the run-up to starting a war in the Middle East FT has the scoop: www.ft.com/content/744e... In a functional democracy, he would offer his resignation tonight.

It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.

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by @nberlat.bsky.social "The reason no one is sure how Trump’s promise will work is in part that it’s extremely illegal. The president has no authority to make payments without congressional authorization, and Trump barely even pretended to argue that he did"

by @50501movement.bsky.social No Kings 3 Was Everywhere

by @paulkrugman.substack.com.web.brid.gy “The most important players in that axis are Putin; Orbán; right-wing European political movements like Germany’s neo-Nazi AfD; and, of course, the Trump administration. And unlike Bush’s imaginary grouping, the Axis of Autocracy is a true alliance”

by @thecivicalmanac.bsky.social “Demonstrations remind officials that folks are paying attention. Legislative choices decide whether the government can meet the needs sitting right in front of it”

by @lizdye.bsky.social “the law requires TSA workers to be paid by an act of Congress. Framing the debate as a question of why the president didn’t steal the money faster is like a little old lady tut-tutting at a mugger for failing to snatch her handbag at a reasonable hour”

by @jefftiedrich.bsky.social as the world burns, Preznit Fuckwit blithers about Corinthian columns

by @eduardoelreportero.bsky.social “The Republican Party, which is (still) in control of Congress, is happy with whatever Trump wants to do. Not only has it enthusiastically endorsed his far-right, ethno-nationalist agenda. It is terrified of doing anything that might spark the president’s ire”

by @jenrubin.bsky.social “For decades, Iran has prepared meticulously for what to do if a U.S. president was daft enough to attack: Batten down the hatches, close the Strait of Hormuz, and fire away at Israel and the Gulf allies”

“Trump has exploited this cynical societal construct and completely shattered boundaries that seemingly used to exist. But he couldn’t do so without pliant partners in the corporate media who have allowed him to operate under completely different rules than other politicians — especially Democrats”

by @profgalloway.com “Maria Petrova highlighted that the insurance companies are saying that they’re not going to protect against this type of liability, because if they had known Big Tech was intentionally breaking the law, they couldn’t have insured them. “I think this is a big moment”

by @terrymoranabc.bsky.social “Of all the things Trump failed to foresee, his own character may be the most dangerous variable of all. Wars require leaders who can look honestly at what is happening, tell the truth to their allies, and make hard decisions for reasons beyond personal vanity”

by @thebulwark.com “How can members of Congress—yes, even Republican members of Congress—read that & not think: What the hell about us? We need to get back to town, hold hearings, have debates in depth on the floor, & vote on various measures on the war in general and on ground troops in particular”

by @phoebesaid.bsky.social “For years, Larson has traveled back and forth across the border visiting friends and family without incident. “‘The harm being done by the Trump Administration is akin to something like a civil war, the way that this is tearing apart cross-border friends and families’”

by @artcullen.bsky.social “We would prefer not to know what is wrong when our state leads the nation in cancer. When the data suggests you are polluting the river with nitrate, which causes cancer, the legislature cuts off the funds for monitoring rivers. No data, no problem"

by @paulkrugman.substack.com.web.brid.gy "If you look at the plans or ideas that are being bruited for using ground forces now, and that’s clearly the next step here, well, yeah, you can seize Kharg Island, although hanging onto it could be very expensive, but then what?"

by @liberalcurrents.com "the lives of tens of thousands of Afghans who were awaiting approval to enter the United States legally are jeopardized. At a shadow hearing in Washington, D.C., on Feb 11, witnesses testified that over 60,000 Afghans are stranded in about ninety countries around the world"

by @joycewhitevance.bsky.social “Sometimes, the truth just stares you in the face. This is one of those cases. Just like Trump made up claims of fraud in 2020 to try to turn his loss into a win, he’s making up claims of fraud now to try to stave off disaster in the midterm elections and beyond"

“if one wants to speak to that Exhausted Majority and draw them onto your side of the political arena, would be to find a way to essentially moderate the political discourse in a way that sounds more familiar to them than what they’re seeing right now or what they hear right now from both parties”

by @jdickerson.bsky.social “Asked about the October No Kings protests, Trump told reporters: ‘I’m not a king.’ A flat denial with nothing underneath it. No life’s work to point to. No resignations, no surrendered power, no Cincinnatus moment. No prior act, no record of restraint”

by @garykroeger.bsky.social “The party in power has no doctrine short of a Doctrine of Belief in paternal leadership that will make them feel good. (C)andidate Trump told them he will make America First by focusing our resources on THEM and not expensive foreign wars and nation building”

by @johnbyrnester.bsky.social “2.5 million Epstein documents remain hidden. Reps. Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna say that violates the Epstein Files Transparency Act. “The administration that promised to expose the Epstein network is now the one protecting the file”

by @jefftiedrich.bsky.social No Kings 3, fuck yeah

by @anntelnaes.bsky.social No Kings Day

by @johnbyrnester.bsky.social “This is what the end of local journalism looks like. Carr threatens to pull the licenses of any broadcaster that tells the truth about Iran, and in the same week hands the keys to local TV to one of Trump’s friend”

“Iowa needs to ramp up its offense. We must start with what we do know, and what we can do, including a statewide public health campaign to raise awareness of free water testing for the 7.6% (300,000) of Iowans who depend on private drinking water wells. Small municipal water systems need help, too”

by @robertleonard.bsky.social “300-350 locals gathered in Indianola this morning to protest the MAGA regime. The woman on the left above told me she is part of a group of Valley High School alumni who are working hard to make sure that fellow alum Ashley Hinson doesn’t make it into the Senate”

by @douglaswburns.bsky.social “In Carroll, the protesters were met with far more honks of approval than disparaging shouts or gestures from passing motorists over the roughly hour long late-morning rally. “‘There were less fingers,’” said former Carroll County Attorney Barry Bruner, a Democrat”

by @lylemuller.bsky.social “Rev. Deborah Coble, pastor at North Liberty First, referenced Palm Sunday, when Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey. “‘He was showing us that you don’t defeat the empire by using the empire’s weapons. You disarm it with stubborn resilience, love'”

by @joycewhitevance.bsky.social “Today, we put Donald Trump and his cronies on notice that we are coming for them at the ballot boxes and that we understand how this democracy works and who holds the power. By showing up, we show that we are not afraid”

by @rcsmitheco.bsky.social "Unfortunately, this crisis will not be confined to the energy sector. Ever since 1973, the rulers of the Persian Gulf have actively diversified their economies by moving into sectors such as energy-intensive commodity production, as well as high-value service industries"

by @eduardoelreportero.bsky.social “Tehran’s incentive to back down is minimal. It probably calculates that the only way to prevent future attacks is to demonstrate how much damage it can inflict in response. And there is nothing the US can do about this unless it puts boots on the ground”

by @nberlat.bsky.social “We prefer not to believe that the people who made the movies we love were telling us ‘genocide is cool.’ But Wayne very clearly said genocide was cool in 1971. It seems likely that that’s also what he was saying when he played Ethan in 1956”

by @citizencohn.bsky.social “Big debates about how to reform health care reliably start once the problems of the status quo have become impossible to ignore, and once the battle scars from previous debates have started to fade. Typically the cycle takes about two decades”

by @anneapplebaum.bsky.social “Hungary, although a tiny country in Central Europe, plays an outsize role in the imagination of the American & European far right: MAGA & its international wing understand that the Hungarian election, the most important in Europe this year, could mark a turning point”