Has to be understood as a threat

We need full electronic voting oversight and reform. This should be a priority of every elected official who cares about democracy at all. Otherwise, that's the ballgame.

Every single blue state AG should be launching an investigation into how Twitter is facilitating the American neo-Nazi movement.

Liberals when candidates defend trans people: "We can't do this, it's too unpopular." Liberals when candidates have a nazi ss tattoo: "it's ok, not all candidates are perfect." Do y'all hear yourselves?!

Also, THIS IS HOW ELON MUSK DESTROYED POLITICS. People look to the social media in-group to figure out how to behave. Musk bought Twitter and made the in-group a bunch of literal neo-Nazis with violent racist and anti-Semitic viewpoints. US politics turned on a dime.

this is the neo-nazi who is stalking me btw

There are prominent, open Nazis who are followed by the Vice President of the United States and that fact and those people have literally never been reported on in a major outlet. It's an insane state of affairs built entirely around denial.

What's "small" here is John Fetterman, a person so weak of mind and devoid of principles, so used to the lazy grift he switched to after winning office, that he won't even criticize corruption so brazen it has no parallel in American history, the President literally paying himself a fortune.

a live look at the demolition of the White House's East Wing for Trump's ballroom

Here's who @scottnover.bsky.social and I have confirmed so far. All right-wing bloggers and influencers who * agreed to the press restrictions refused by established reporters * are known for soft-touch treatment of the Trump administration * will now get special access to the "Department of War"

Awful: Trump's $230 million shakedown from DOJ can be paid to him confidentially at first, without the public ever finding out about it until later, Rep Jamie Raskin tells me. Raskin will formally demand full communications between WH and DOJ on this. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2021...

Correction on the arbitration issue I reported on yesterday: SPOG and the city's negotiators reached impasse on the arbitration issue (the city wants to make it easier for OPA to demonstrate misconduct in arbitration, SPOG opposes this). That's going to interest arbitration.

Bruce Harrell just stared at me directly in the face when I raised my hand, looked around, and called on David Kroman from the Seattle Times.

The city's accountability bodies won't get subpoena power, something they've been seeking since long before OPA and the Office of Inspector General existed.

How the hell is “under 80 and never done Nazi stuff” such an impossible bar for politicians to clear?!

Does seem like there’s a non-zero chance that the shutdown never really ends and that Congress has already abolished itself.

I'm imagining going back to 2000 and telling my high school self that in the future, juggalos are an unalloyed force for good while Harry Potter is financing the rise of global fascism.

cc: @governorferguson.bsky.social

More than a decade ago Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s deputies carried out immigration raids. Now hundreds of departments are partnering with ICE. AZ Latinos see Arpaio as the beginning of what playing out nationally. “They did the experiment, and basically now they’re implementing it at the national level.”

The judge wrote that school libraries are “loci of intellectual freedom,” and emphasized that students must be free to “inquire, to study and to evaluate, to gain new maturity and understanding.” www.advocate.com/news/pentago...

The Treasury Department instructed employees not to share to share photos of the demolition of parts of the White House’s East Wing

my mom worked for the state of Texas for decades and we were not allowed to email her work account for any reason because it would be public record due to her role. if a bunch of kids could understand that how can the governor of the state not?

Why I hate unitary executive theory with a strength of 10,000 suns. Turns out having a President who exercises total control over hiring and firing creates perverse incentives for people to commit to one man over a democracy.

We are 20 days into the Republican Shutdown — health care costs are skyrocketing and federal workers aren’t getting paid. What is Trump doing? Building his gold plated ballroom. apnews.com/article/trum...

BREAKING: new racist Republican groupchat has been leaked to Politico featuring texts from Paul Ingrassia, Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel. Ingrassia’s texts include vile pro-Nazi & racist messages targeting Black people, Chinese people, and Indian people.

Remember April 2009 when about 250,000 people took to America’s streets in Tea Party rallies and the media was like “oh man, the Dems are in trouble?” Approximately 28X as many people took to the streets to protest Trump yesterday. Didn’t even make the NYT front page.

When ICE stormed through Santa Ana, CA, panicked calls flooded into the city’s emergency response system. Recordings obtained by @propublica.org captured the terror residents felt as they watched masked men ambush people and force them into unmarked cars. / Story by @davidmcswane.bsky.social

everyone: we don’t want kings rightwing media: this is a confusing protest line, no one is claiming trump is a king the entire trump administration:

Not a single mention of this across the Sunday shows as far as I could tell

Russ Vought set out to ensure a second Trump term would not be hampered by checks and balances: “I don’t want President Trump having to lose a moment of time having fights in the Oval Office about whether something is legal or doable or moral.” By @andykroll.bsky.social, with @newyorker.com

This story is extraordinary even by 2025 standards. Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, made a deal with Bukele and agreed to renege on informant agreements in a years-long DOJ investigation into MS-13, totally undercutting credibility of such agreements. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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“I’m not gonna have somebody out here dressed like this,” yells the cop.

white house has joined bluesky click here to block all official us government accounts instantly bsky.app/profile/did:...

If you were wondering how fascism and authoritarianism work... The dictator’s enemies are imprisoned, and his friends are freed and able to do crime. Case in point.

"House slave." Think about this for a brief moment. Think of just how fecal and vicious a man has to use such a term in this context. This is leadership by the absolute worst of us, the most vile trash that we could scrape from the gutter and elevate to govern a nation.

CA governor Gavin Newsom vetoed both of the major AI bills on his desk that Silicon Valley meaningfully opposed—one making it illegal for bosses to use AI to fire workers with no oversight, one requiring chatbot sellers to ensure their products do not harm children before marketing to them.

This is how The Boston Globe chooses to frame the kidnapping of a local teenager.

2017 conservatives: dumb libs think words are violence 2025 conseratives: words are literally violence omg bsky.app/profile/atru...

More federal agencies than was originally known had access to Flock's data. More information just keeps coming out.

Extraordinary NEW story: We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. @nicolefoy.bsky.social w/ photos by @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social

This entire article is, unsurprisingly, kicked off by Brett Kavanaugh and includes this: "A spokesperson for Kavanaugh did not return an emailed request for comment."

Among the Education Department’s new appointees is Lindsey Burke, the lead author of Project 2025’s education section. She envisions dramatic enrollment declines for public schools: “We’re going to have a lot of empty school buildings.” By @megomatz.bsky.social @jsmithrichards.bsky.social

The Central Park Five—whom Trump wanted executed for a crime they did not commit—were 14 to 16 years old.

I wrote this a year ago: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Feels quaint, almost cliché, to say this about a Trump action, but just for the record: This is all illegal, the President can't simply disregard the laws passed and agencies created by Congress, and both Vought & Trump would be impeached if the Constitution or the rule of law mattered to the GOP.