An emboldened Democratic majority must immediately pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, fight the far-right's redistricting scheme with every power we can summon, and expand the Supreme Court. We need Democrats who are ready for this battle. (2/2)

We can’t nominate any Democrat who doesn’t put Supreme Court reform at the top of their list.

Military contractor Palantir has been paid more than $130 million by the IRS to analyze sensitive federal databases.

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

Cool Dad Raising Daughter On Media That Will Put Her Entirely Out Of Touch With Her Generation https://theonion.com/cool-dad-raising-daughter-on-media-that-will-put-her-en-1819572981/

why is it more necessary to attempt to prop up an industry than warn about the blatant, deceitful marketing campaign going on right now, and the high likelihood of mass data center insolvencies?

Before the charity stream began, content creators from @minnmax.com and @giantbomb.bsky.social weren't sure what number to aim for — maybe $30,000 or $50,000. Within 15 minutes, they raised $58,000 for local food pantry VEAP. Within an hour, $100,000.

i think if you post like this without offering concrete steps people can take to prepare for and respond to interference or without any acknowledgement of the success (or lack thereof) of this strategy then you are basically engaged in voter suppression.

The nazis redistributed the stolen property of deported Jews to the German population. It was called Aryanization. This is no different. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryaniz...

Abolish ICE and fire all agents is the moderate position.

Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com

not the point, but Tillis calling Miller Grima Wormtongue is absolutely d e v a s t a t i n g 😭😂 I can't think of a worse insult

Very important vote. It makes repealing ICE surge funding the mainstream position in the party, with bipartisan support.

Personally I think this is too much money for Donald trumps untrained heavily armed militia

Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.

firing and incarcerating the officers who did this is not enough. ICE is rotten from the top down. yesterday’s murder wasn’t an accident. it was a culture.

And the fact that the government is blatantly lying about it without shame: THAT is also part of the story. Write about that.

Second amendment advocate Stephen Gutowski reposted by conservative Christian radio guy Erick Erickson.

If you're being at all honest, you know that, at this point, "abolish ICE" is the mainstream moderate position.

How many January 6 insurrectionists were armed? Is the position now that Capitol police could have shot them all? Just trying to keep up

Solidarity, particularly across race and class, is Kryptonite for authoritarian regimes. They can only thrive when their us v. them framing is adopted by society at large, and they join as active or passive collaborators with the regime. So the only response they have is to raise the cost of unity

There should be no future in the Democratic Party for any Member of Congress who votes to give more funding to these death squads.

Congratulations to all the bankers, hedge-fund managers, private-equity honchos, tech titans, corporate executives and op-ed writers for backing the man who will do more to undermine the system that made them insanely wealthy than any other presidential candidate in their lifetimes.

You know what a market supported by vibes needs? Volatility

so... are the markets going to like this tomorrow, or..?

The State Department has just banned five Europeans from entering the U.S., falsely alleging they are involved in censorship of American citizens. The only censorship here is coming from the Trump administration. My statement is below. www.state.gov/releases/off...

First Elon Musk at Twitter, now Bari Weiss at CBS. What’s next, finding out others who loudly proclaimed themselves free speech champions never valued free speech at all, and were always doing “speech I like must be widely distributed and cannot be criticized, speech I don’t like must be censored”?

Late-stage capitalism is what's out of ideas, and genAI is the most on-the-nose embodiment of that: slop machines that recycle others' (often stolen) work to make nothing actually new, which self-idolized tech CEOs try to package and sell under the false promise of profit and productivity. No thanks

not to bring the vibe down, but my guess is that after tonight Trump will probably double down on gerrymandering, voter suppression, and intimidation as tactics to disincentivize Dem turnout ahead of next year‘s midterms. (with margins like these, it won’t matter, but it’s a time to be vigilant)

It is just nice for something good to have happened

We did it for you Dick Cheney

Diplomatic Talks Break Down Between Trump, Motion-Activated Ghost Decoration

Unreal. The casual reader of this @nytimes.com hed and subhed will have no inkling whatsoever that Trump's "characterization" is wildly false and that it's a bad faith *pretext.* Time to get better at conveying the fundamentally pretextual nature of these authoritarian decrees already.

Duck you, Trump.

Trump is launching an authoritarian takeover of Portland hoping to provoke conflict in my hometown. I urge Oregonians to reject Trump’s attempt to incite violence in what we know is a vibrant and peaceful city. I will do everything in my power to protect the people in our state.

So top Portland cops wrote & *testified* that fed agents have been "instigating and causing" conflict. They said agents were firing pepper balls unprovoked and "without any apparent warning" When a Portland chief called a federal agent w/ Qs, the agent hung up. www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/0...

# of paragraphs for news orgs to mention there's no discernable need to deploy troops to Portland, Oregon The Guardian: 1st paragraph BBC: 4th paragraph AP: 5th paragraph Time: 6th paragraph Politico: 8th paragraph NPR: 9th paragraph CNN: 10th paragraph NBC: 12th paragraph Fox News: never mentions

Every single one of these clips was taken today in downtown Portland. Portland doesn’t want or need a federal takeover. If Trump insists on sending federal “resources” he can start with funding health care, bridges, affordable housing, and wildfire protection to name a few.

Taken just a few minutes ago outside the ICE facility in Portland that Trump claims is under siege. My message to Donald Trump is this: we don’t need you here. Stay the hell out of our city.

As a Portlander, let me just roll out the welcome wagon by saying fuck off. PDX has been victim of right-wing disinformation painting it as a hell hole, with a lot of buy-in from the liberal media on that front. It's not a wasteland, but none of you bother to check if that's actually true.

In 2019-21, I wrote my master's thesis on why the Russian government pursued info ops--disinformation and propaganda campaigns--against individuals, with George Soros being the primary case study. I hate how relevant it is now.

The same goes for tech. Instead of "AI", I wish people invested in alternatives to the handful of social media platforms--especially YouTube--so that independent creators can actually be independent.

General pattern in regime change: the comedy gets better and then it gets banned.

"To lie so brazenly to [Klein's own] readers and to obscure Kirk’s positions signals that his foremost interest is not to inform but to perform... Klein can cosplay as a serious thinker all he likes, but it’s past time we stopped taking him seriously."