“It is ... really hard to get your head around the raw hubris of the majority. They really will be destabilizing the operating structure of the entire U.S. government. Why? Because they believe they have a better idea about how the past century should’ve been done." @debpearlstein.bsky.social!

These outrageous conditions are unconscionable

Priorities.

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

What a factual and critical reframing of an absurd question.

Every race. It’s basically been every race. Governors. Mayors. Long-held GOP dog-catchers. School boards. Water boards. Flipped a dungeon master in a rural Iowa D&D club. State senators. State reps. A janitor in Duluth. State justices. Three GOP Uber drivers. Just everything.

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Amazon just announced 14,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $40M last year. UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year. Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M. This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

New 20 just dropped to commemorate the Trump presidency

Yet Trump ignored every step, acting unilaterally through executive order, bypassing oversight, and ordering demolition as if he were a monarch. The result: the people’s house, altered without the people’s consent.

This is what No Kings Day felt like 🐸🐔🦄🐿️✨ “Tʜɪs ɪs ᴡʜᴀᴛ Dᴇᴍᴏᴄʀᴀᴄʏ ʟᴏᴏᴋs ʟɪᴋᴇ!“ 🗣️✨ This country belongs to the people. #StandTALL 🚀🗣️ (Prints at www.Nikkolas.Art)

This is what solidarity looks like. Together, we will win.

The war zone in Portland is out of control.

No Kings, Indianapolis!

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in. Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators. The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

wizard frog is insane

this piece has been in the works a while but honestly i could not have asked for a better foil than ezra klein's interview with ta-nehisi coates. klein longs for peacetime--but you don't get to decide when you're in a fight. www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-mu...

"The ambiguity is calculated. They never said, “We are declaring a dictatorship.” Instead, they spoke in terms elastic enough to give cover." poignant point, Dr. Greenberg

Remember that this is what the Trump-Republican big, ugly bill was all about. It's Robin Hood in reverse. Why would any Democrat vote for a continuing resolution that greenlights this regime's cruelty?

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Einsteins theory has been proven.

The VA is down 600 doctors and about 1,900 nurses so far this year, the first time the agency has seen net losses in years. At several facilities, more than a third of the positions for doctors are unfilled. By @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social @vernalcoleman.bsky.social @ericumansky.bsky.social

An excellent piece for deeper understanding of autism and the danger of false theories

Viewing political violence as infrastructural: "Kirk’s death cannot be dismissed as the act of a lone individual. It is the culmination of a political ecosystem that cultivates hostility long before blood is spilled."

And non-violence works, from @chenoweth.bsky.social: "between 1900 and 2006, campaigns of nonviolent resistance were more than twice as effective as their violent counterparts." "Violent insurgency is rarely justifiable on strategic grounds." 5/ www.ericachenoweth.com/research/wcrw

This is a Melissa Hortman appreciation account for the next 24 hours.

Jack White is a badass.

Greenberg: "America belongs to all of us—not just the powerful, the wealthy, or the loudest voice in the room. For too long, the rules have been rigged by those who want you to believe government is the problem—so they can sell it off, piece by piece, to their donors and cronies." #PoliticalEcology

"MAGA leaders aren’t revolutionaries. They are opportunists in patriotic drag. They rage against elites while cashing donor checks, dodge taxes while preaching sacrifice, and stoke chaos to consolidate control."

Kristi Noem must resign. She has deported a four year old with cancer, detained a U.S. marshal, and arrested two members of Congress. She’s lost the confidence of the American people. ICE must stop terrorizing our communities.

What they aren’t showing on Fox News

Yeah, stick to football, bro. 🤣🤣

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

The effective Boston University's Medicaid Policy Lab's analysis of Medicaid and PEPFAR cuts www.impactcounter.com

"state power doesn’t only reside in laws or institutions. It lives in classification systems—in who gets counted, how they’re labeled, and what those labels allow or deny. ... It anticipates risk, assigns suspicion, and creates a framework in which dissent becomes deviance."

Bondi was a registered lobbyist for Qatar, earning $115,000 a month. #corruption

Today in life under competitive authoritarianism

Proposed cuts to #NIDILRR would take the US backwards and reverse hard earned gains on #disability rights

This means that *anyone* can be an enemy of the state.

"The power to name is the power to erase." Thanks @zavaletas.bsky.social "Let’s not pretend this is an isolated case. It’s not. García wasn’t the only one. Others were swept up the same way—disappeared by decree, deported without due process, labeled without proof." #resist #handsoff #anthro

So… this was supposed to be about Paul Revere’s ride, but the Senator just unloaded about the Trump administration and its Republican enablers. Far more newsworthy than I expected. (You can probably see me shifting to “crap, this was not the interview I prepped!” but the result was memorable.)

The possibility of abduction by a sovereign and imprisonment abroad is one criterion that separates democracies from dictatorships. The Declaration of Independence called the British king tyrannical for transporting Americans, “beyond Seas to be tried for pretended Offenses.”

Number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills or illness-related work loss: Australia 0 Canada 0 Denmark 0 Finland 0 France 0 Germany 0 Iceland 0 Ireland 0 Italy 0 Japan 0 Netherlands 0 Norway 0 Portugal 0 Spain 0 Sweden 0 UK 0 United States 530,000 There’s a lesson there.

More consequences of sledgehammer approaches to law enforcement that harm lawful permanent residents who care for vulnerable people #disability #handsoff #justicematters

"And while this is happening, Republican lawmakers stand by, nodding in unison. They parrot the talking points. They vote the line. They’ve become a kind of Greek chorus—watching the tragedy unfold, offering commentary, but taking no responsibility for the blood on the stage."

An astute anthropological take on the symbolic aspects of this authoritarian regime Americans are facing #anthro

Trump is stealing from the middle class to enrich the 1%. It’s the Reverse Robinhood. #tarriffs

#JAMA viewpoint on unprecedented threats to VA research Fihn SD, Atkins D, O’Leary T, Kizer KW. Veterans Affairs Research Under Threat. JAMA Intern Med. Published online March 28, 2025. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2025.1270. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... #vha #healthservices