"Now that I've hit everyone with ruinous taxes, I'll dole some of it back out to my political supporters as welfare payments."

🤷🏿‍♂️I'm OK with all of this? I mean, this is the world that "MAGA for the money" folks wanted: people with more money and more access get better treatment. No one has more money than the Saudis, and no one has more access than Kushner. Leopards eating good! 🐆😋 And anyway, consumers still have choice.

Impeachment isn’t an option, it’s a necessity. I know firsthand the lengths Trump is willing to go in order to silence dissent. Impeach, convict, remove. And if our current leaders won’t do it, they need to step aside for people who will: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo54...

Never forget this: The forces rigging our economy, undermining our democracy, polluting our planet, and stoking hatred are counting on you to give up. Cynicism is how they win. Stay clear-eyed and ready for the fight ahead.

Thomas Massie says the FBI is sitting on information that implicates 20 other men in Epstein's child sex trafficking operation They include a rockstar, six billionaires (including one from Canada), a high-profile government official, a very prominent banker, and a magician

1/ Remove the Regime Convict, Romove, Impeach #DC1122 #RemoveTheRegime bsky.app/profile/flar...

The stakes are too high to wait: we need to impeach Trump now. I’ll be speaking at the Remove the Regime rally in Washington, DC this Saturday. I hope to see you there! @flareusa.bsky.social @removalcoalition.bsky.social

I'm Kat Abughazaleh and I'm running for Congress.

Trump is calling for the six Democratic lawmakers who urged the military not to follow any illegal orders to be arrested, and he’s reposting replies saying they should be hanged and calling them terrorists.

One of the people arrested on September 27 at Broadview was a 70-yo Air Force veteran who was hospitalized with his injuries from ICE assault. First charged w/felony, then misdemeanor. He was going to call Greg Bovino at trial. It just got dismissed. www.courtlistener.com/docket/71489...

Imagine if the most popular channel where people get their information actually provided news and wasn't a propaganda network. We might have universal health care. Instead we have a rapist with nukes who deploys the military against it's own citizens.

Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."

A reminder: The Attorney General of the United States should be the people's lawyer, not the president's personal attorney. The Department of Justice should act to protect the public, not just the occupant of the Oval Office and his political allies.

AI and robotics could give us the means for everyone in the world to be able to eat but instead it’ll be used to cement a permanent caste system.

Bovino is the kind of guy who gets power when people like Obama and Biden try to appeal to Republicans by “getting tough” on immigration, only to have the very weak leash taken off under someone like Trump. Lesson: stop trying to be and appeal to shitty republicans on this core stuff.

So they are just going to keep announcing fake trade deals with China every few months

BREAKING: Social Security Administration chief data officer and whistle-blower Charles Borges has resigned after bombshell report that SSA put highly-sensitive data at risk. He sent out an email to colleagues moments ago. Here is the text of his email shared with me:

It’s a shame Trump doesn’t have the stones to take Putin out in Alaska.

“F*ck ICE, and f*ck the Trump administration. Go touch grass. Get a hobby.” 🔥 👀

Immigration agents told a teenage US citizen: ‘You’ve got no rights.’ He secretly recorded his brutal arrest

If you're going to grovel for money on the back of this horrific recission bill, at least have the decency to blame Republicans instead of "Congress." Democrats didn't vote for this. Democrats aren't taking away your money. Inform the public better if you want donations.

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

We need ranked choice voting. Without it, the 2 party system will continue to deliver shit candidates.

Dems need to stop compromising and start fighting.

AP footage of Senator Alex Padilla being physically removed from Kristi Noem's press conference about the LA @schiff.senate.gov @congresstran.bsky.social Thank you, Senator @padilla.senate.gov

LinkedIn suppresses posts that call out fascism.

I rode my bike to my public library several days a week as a kid and read hundreds of books, sometimes one a day. Books help you formulate new ideas, then create worlds in your mind, they expand your thinking at minimal cost. Another sad day for a terrible president. apnews.com/article/inst...

We don't want, or need, the military in our cities, and we certainly don't need them under the control of the president. Conservatives said for years this is what Obama would do. All they were doing is priming people for this moment when a corrupt authoritarian would actually do it.

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RFK Jr starts having a tantrum as Chris Murphy details how he lied during his confirmation hearing about his anti-vax views

Ariel under the USS Harry S Truman waiting to add another fighter jet to her collection of dinglehoppers.

trying to imagine the reaction to two planes falling off an aircraft carrier with kamala harris as president

New blog post out taking a look at compaction performance in Apache Cassandra, and some major improvements we just made to the storage engine in 5.0.4. rustyrazorblade.com/post/2025/04...

New blog post out looking at Cassandra streaming performance and how it affects your bill: rustyrazorblade.com/post/2025/03...

Banned from the Logic subreddit because I didn't report a bug, stay classy mods.

Trump keeps spreading lies about Social Security. What he isn't telling you is that he's actively trying to dismantle it — firing thousands of SSA employees and shuttering regional offices. Why? To pave the way for privatization so Wall Street can gamble with our retirement.

Shouldn't Mexico and Canada impose tariffs on the US until the flow of illegal weapons from the US to their countries stops?

Creating a national reserve of crypto currency is basically a pump and dump handout to Russia and North Korea. They've been mining and stealing crypto for years. Putting a trillion $ into any of them will pump them up, and then these regimes will simply sell them. Your tax dollars at work.

the trump admin is the solution to the trolley problem that asks why you can't kill everyone on both tracks

The instruments of national power are diplomatic, informational, military, and economic. Trump and musk have kneecapped three of those and it hasn't even been two months. Leaving NATO would achieve the fourth.

About 15 years ago I was in Ukraine for 2 or 3 weeks to meet with a remote team. They made me feel welcome, we ate and drank together, and were always incredibly kind to me. The people of Ukraine deserve peace and freedom, not to be extorted and humiliated on TV.

It's hard for me to understand how anyone could be proud of our country right now.

And made it harder for unions, and stole over a trillion dollars from Social Security to cover a blank check to the military industrial complex that continues to this day!

You cannot claim to be “fiscally conservative” and refuse to support a wealth tax. If Republicans believe in driving down the deficit, as they say, they should support taxing the ultra wealthy. Why does this have to be the burden of working class Americans?

Maybe the most illustrative sentence about what’s going on that I’ve read in weeks.

now would be a good time for liberals to make a massive investment in progressive media. decades of relying on the ny times/wapo/ap/cnn has been a failure and they're now more right-wing than ever. everything is turning into a miniature fox news and liberals dont want to put money into this.

I gave a campus talk last night on Trump's first 100 days for the WUD Society & Politics group. A student asked me if I thought that, at some point, we might start to describe the US as a competitive authoritarian regime. I said that we were already there, it's just that most folks haven't noticed:

I wrote a post about the Klan 100 years ago and how the grip they held on the US seemed impossible to break, but people fought them anyway. And it’s been read by tens of thousands of you (!!!). I guess people want stories of hope right now. dansinker.com/posts/202…