Luckily, Sinclair has a helpful database of all their stations, so you can see if they're operating in your area and respond accordingly. sbgi.net/tv-stations/

I don’t expect it will change the outcome but I’m cancelling my Disney plus subscription just the same.

"Funding tax enforcement should be a no-brainer" @sarahcgchris.bsky.social is absolutely right. And yet here we are...

💯 this. It’s cumulative and iterative, and guys like Yglesias and Klein absolutely know it, but it suits them to pretend otherwise.

IRS Enforcement Boost Was Supposed to Last 10 Years. Congress Killed It in Under Three. from @sarahcgchris.bsky.social on the funding the IRS got to FINALLY go after ultra-rich tax cheats and how quickly congress decided to yank that right back itep.org/irs-funding-...

My piece on IRS funding is live!

Despite the narrative being set from right wing pundits all the way to the President of the United States, political violence is overwhelmingly coming from the right

Groypers are white christian nationalists, and Kirk was also a white christian nationalist. They're all fascists, but they disagreed on tactics, with Groypers being more openly racist/accelerationist while Kirk wanted to be seen as "respectable" in the eyes of mainstream America, more or less.

As someone who spent many hours listening to Kirk’s show on AM radio, I would say that he made Rush Limbaugh seem like Walter Cronkite by comparison, in terms of rhetorical tone and empirical rigor. The subtext of every show was “You don’t hate the left enough.”

Here we go again. Just like March @chuckschumer.com and Sen Dems will have a decision to make wrt whether to keep giving blank checks to the Trump regime: will they fight or they just meekly surrender in the name of bipartisanship? My case for why Ds must fight as polls & pol. dynamics favor them.

I would add a ban on sending military to cities without consent of governor and mayor or advance court determination. bsky.app/profile/theb...

Business Insider got it. But I'm supposed to believe that Schumer et al didn't? Nah.

I have lost all patience with the apparently unshakeable conviction that striking a reasonable, moderate pose means assuming the sincerity of transparently pretextual horseshit. Donald Trump does not care about reducing crime in DC. He is testing and normalizing paramilitary deployments in cities.

6 days after Soviet troops invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968, a Prague paper published these “10 Commandments”: ‘When a Soviet soldier comes to you, YOU: 1. Don’t know 2. Don’t care 3. Don’t tell 4. Don’t have 5. Don’t know how to 6. Don’t give 7. Can’t do 8. Don’t sell 9. Don’t show 10. Do nothing’

Last skeet(? bleat?) about the @robflaherty.bsky.social Politico piece: OMFG YESSSS. Epstein IS a kitchen table economic issue. The whole sordid thing's a visceral, understandable proofpoint for how the ultra-rich no longer play by the same rules as the rest of us www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Yes to all of this @robflaherty.bsky.social piece! 8 yrs ago I wrote (for a now-defunct lefty health org) about how obsessively crafting the perfect message didn't matter if we couldn't get our message out in a world where every waiting room was tuned to FoxNews 24/7. Obvi, it's worse now.

Side bar: Mike is a truly impressive candidate with the ability to knock off one of those solidly-Trumpy-but-poses-as-a-mod House Rs. Recommend sending him a donation if you can.

/13 In short, no matter how clear a Constitutional proposition is, whether it is enforced may indirectly rely on the whims of a rich man with a Nazi memorabilia collection.

/6 Institutions like the Federalist Society and Heritage Institute set anti-Constitutional goals and agendas. It matters not that they are based on nonsense: ambitious but amoral legal scholars and professors design rhetorical edifices of gossamer bullshit to support them.

/3 The institutions that support true constitutional propositions being enforceable include law schools, legal scholars, civil rights organizations, courts, and Congress. The norms include honesty, good faith, patriotism, and fidelity to the Constitution.

/2 However, something being clearly true as a matter of constitutional law doesn’t translate into something being enforceable without an operative array of institutions and norms, which are failing in America in favor of anti-Constitutional institutions and norms.

My intro to this was NFIB v Sebelius when the ACA’s individual mandate went from “ofc it’s constitutional” to “ofc it’s not” in conservative legal circles It was instructive for understanding the modern Court’s (in)fidelity to law, precedent, congressional intent, etc, etc

Washington Post: “Is fascism bad? The answer may surprise you” Teen Vogue: “Here are three fun tips you can use this summer to disable an armored personnel carrier”

My most controversial opinion: adults-only weddings are a symptom of American culture’s toxic individualism at the expense of community it’s not your “special day,” it’s the time to reinforce the social support that you’ll need when the shit hits the fan… cause it will eventually.

There have been at least 92 aviation disasters resulting in 224 deaths since the start of the Trump administration. Follow our Aviation Disaster Tracker for more updates on crashes, near misses, and FAA actions impacting air safety.

Last week, there was another near miss as a SkyWest pilot made an "aggressive maneuver" to avoid a B-52 performing a flyover in North Dakota. Neither the Air Force base nor the contractor-operated air traffic control tower in Minot informed the SkyWest pilot of the bomber's presence.

AVIATION UPDATE: Over the past two weeks, the FAA has reduced the mandatory rest period for ATCs from 12 to 10 hours prior to a midnight shift, acquiesced to industry demands to delay enforcement of a rule mandating a secondary cockpit barrier, and loosened regulations for sport pilots.

I don’t know who needs to hear this (politicians and pundits on both sides of the pond) but the so-called trade deal is bad for both 🇺🇸 and 🇪🇺 If US government wants to stop offshoring to Europe, then close offshore tax loopholes, don’t raise prices for Americans.

If the Democrats unilaterally follow the norms for one more cycle, should be fine

If we allow just one more generation to inherit and accumulate untold amounts of wealth and power, we might be able to turn this thing around. It's about to start working.

If this is what they're getting caught on camera doing--to teenage US citizens--just imagine what they're doing that we don't see. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Since we often use shorthand—eg “need 60 votes to pass a CR”—it’s easy to lose sight of the reality: Senate Dems don’t actually have the power to shut down govt, bc Rs could kill the filibuster Instead, Ds are *protecting the device that hobbles their own power* when they’re in the majority

“Even when the group has triumphed in court, Mr. Musk has appealed or filed new cases elsewhere. As a last resort, it has considered shuttering.” To repeat what Brandeis warned: We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.

I am one oversized margarita-in-a-can into this beach day and I am ready to price check how much it would cost to rent a plane trailing “Trump killed Epstein“ along the Jersey shore. 95% kidding

Imagine if we’d been able to delay passage of the megabill by even a few weeks…🤔

Democrats are holding a news conference right now to highlight they want to have a bipartisan appropriations process, but Schumer says "Republicans are making it extremely difficult to do that" by "talking about rescissions, pocket rescissions, and impoundment"

Many of the comments to this were quite good. My own guess is that it’s a combo of wealth inequality + dearth of 3rd places for men + the same reason people in Indonesia know about Andy Byron‘s affair with his head of HR. All hail the algo.

Another data point for the argument that House Dems have been pretty good actually! bsky.app/profile/nyti...

For those Rs convinced/Ds worried that the consequences of the Trump megabill won’t be felt by the public till after the election, skyrocketing health premiums one of several time bombs that will go off well before November 2026

Politico & Punchbowl report House Republican leadership is shutting down the Rules Committee - which is essential for moving party-line bills on the floor - for the week rather than vote on Democratic amendments on the Epstein files. Dems have effectively halted Republican legislation in the House:

Sadly, to date their confidence has not been misplaced.

One more crucial aspect here is that Republicans are confident they can do this stuff and SCOTUS will back them up, but if a D president or congress were to try to do the same, SCOTUS would find a way to block it. (See, e.g. student loans)

This is an excellent thread on what Dems can do and how they have failed to do it, largely in the Senate. And go ahead and block away if objective truth bothers you. (Or for any other reason.)

Excellent recap of floor action during the Senate vote in March

Excellent thread

Good thread but this is the key thing for me: if Democratic leadership wanted to pave the way for the worst version of this administration, what would they have done differently?

We kept the government from temporarily shutting down quickly so the GOP could permanently shut it down slowly.