Sanders: The American people do not want this country to be an authoritarian society or an oligarchy. We have our differences, that’s what democracy is about—we argue it out. We don’t throw people who disagree in jail. We don’t intimidate the media. We don’t send ICE agents to shoot people.

This is incredible. Sound up.

You may be living in an absolutely racist country when 13-year-old Black boys are tried and sentenced as adults, but white dudes who *are* adults are called "kids" by JD Vance to shield them from culpability.

@angrystaffer.bsky.social How many women have to testify under oath to the sexual assaults and name names, before someone listens. Can’t that take the place of releasing the Epstein files?

F ABC News. F Disney. We stand with Terry Moran.

Screw ABC News. Terry Moran was fired for telling the truth...something that's a rare commodity now in journalists who work for all of the corporate-owned, spineless, mass media news organizations in the United States.

At some point we have to acknowledge that a large number of Republicans are just dumb as fuck. They have no worldview other than what Dear Leader says. That’s frightening.

There’s so much GOP cope happening today. “At least Wisconsin approved voter ID so libs can’t cheat” Wisconsin has required voter ID since 2015. You spent millions of dollars and got your ass kicked for a rule that already existed and that fundamentally changes nothing.

“White House officials took the unusual step of ordering a stop to the background check investigations after they deemed the process too intrusive, sources said” It’s a fucking background check. It’s SUPPOSED to be invasive.

Maybe dem reps could hold their own state of the union on the Capitol steps. Steal the spotlight. Let members like AOC, Jasmine Crockett, Max Frost, and the DNC make remarks. Norms don't exist. Buck them.

AMANPOUR (with face in hands): “Never have I ever ever ever seen anything like it… the president and VP were taking all the Putin talking points.” Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGolFp-...

Could not agree more. The Prez & VP are shameful, embarrassing Putin puppets & a disgrace to our country. 🤮 #SlavaUkraine 🇺🇦

If you were as embarrassed as I was by the meeting in the Oval Office today, you can email the Ukrainian Embassy in the US A small gesture to express our embarrassment, outrage and solidarity. Got these email addresses from their website: [email protected] [email protected]

An AMBUSH!!!

NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent. “It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. “A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.” @kyivindependent.com

Zelensky: Putin broke the ceasefire. What kind of diplomacy, JD, are you speaking about? 🙄Vance: I think it's disrespectful to come into the Oval Office and try to litigate this in front of the American media.

These absolute morons are going to destroy the United States. If you’re in favor of the US leaving NATO, you either don’t want the US to succeed, or you don’t know wtf NATO does. Worth noting that Mike Lee voted to expand NATO in 2022.

Thank you, Governor Pritzker for speaking the truth with courage!

This period under Musk/Trump feels like early February in 2020—when a terrible thing was happening with breakneck speed, and the people paying close attention were hair-on-fire about it while the rest of the country carried on as normal.

So, the Pro-life party shuts down aid to starving children around the world. Stops aid that prevents maternal death. Stops aid that provides condoms to stop the spread of AIDS, and children end up orphans. They care nothing about lives. Just power and $$.

#Voices4Victory #ProudBlue OMG! WE REALLY DO LIVE IDIOCRACY. For real, a congressman, Earl L Buddy, introduced a bill to acquire Greenland & rename it Red, White & Blue Land. I can’t anymore with this timeline. www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

Rep. Nancy Mace: "The government should not do business with rapists, sex traffickers, or Peeping Toms." Oh, she just wants to elect them and appoint them in the government.

Dear price of eggs Trump voters, Not only aren’t they any cheaper, there’s an actual shortage because of the raging Bird Flu we’re not getting any public information about because the food safety & public health agencies responsible for that shit have basically been shut down. Bravo.

This is fine. We’re fine. Everything is fine.

On today’s episode of “if Obama” If Obama fired over a dozen inspectors general in the middle of the night, the media would have (appropriately) excoriated him over the illegality and absolutely tanked his approval ratings Trump does it, and CNN calls it a “shakeup” Shameful.

This is how you say “go fuck yourself sideways with a porcupine” in inspector general speak. Going to be interesting to see how the administration responds

Now, if only this, in the bigger sense, meant anything at all.

I’ve never seen him actually laugh and show joy. He has an obnoxious smirk or a sarcastic cringe look when degrading someone, but not a laugh of amusement at something genuinely funny.

There absolutely will be an election in 2028. Conditioning yourself to believe otherwise is obeying in advance. Don’t do that.

x X has ~18m daily USA users. @bsky.app, ~1.5m. Is it worth 20 MINS a day to proactively recruit and bring your friends, neighbors,relatives, businesses, anyone who is or could be a user, to @bsky.app? If Bluesky ends up with more users than the others, you destabilize musk, zuck, trump.

Damn! How did our country get this so wrong? Kamala should be Madame President-Elect!

I mean come the fuck on already

I’m happy for the Biden family. This has been a long and undeserved nightmare. May they find peace these holidays.

So glad to hear President Biden pardoned his son, Hunter. I’m sure the universe is full of exploding MAGA heads!

Imagine you’re an employer and a prospective employee had sexual assault allegations, and you had an email from his mother calling him an “abuser of women.” What would you do? Apparently, many Senate Republicans would make him Secretary of Defense.

Nichols: You have the makings of a not so slow motion authoritarian takeover of the United States government. And people ought to be really concerned about this.

Wishing everyone a wonderful holiday!

So let me get this straight. If you apply for a job at a grocery store, you have to undergo a background check. But, if you apply to be Director of National Intelligence, you don't? Got it.

When your relatives start arguing at Thanksgiving, calmly grab your favorite serving bowl of food like you're going to the kitchen to refill it, and just don't come back. Quietly escape with your favorite food. This has been survival tips with Jen.

President Biden appointing 61 Black LIFETIME judges during his time in office is a serious flex. He understood the damn assignment.

Republican Jesus. From the Book of MAGA.

When I was a child, I learned that the Constitution didn’t apply to people like us. I said the Pledge of Allegiance from inside a barbed wire camp, the words “with liberty and justice for all” wholly meaningless. But I did not give up on America. I’ve spent my life fighting for its ideals.

I think it speaks volumes that right wingers criticize bluesky for being “liberal” and “left wing”, when it’s really just that hate speech isn’t allowed.

For me, the thing that knocked the wind out of me with this election is that I dared to believe America would get it right THIS time, that America was ready for a Woman President. It hurt having that blind faith in neighbors, friends, and strangers smacked out of me. Dammit, America. 😞

Starting a phony transgender bathroom debate and hiding behind the guise of “protecting women” to distract from your attempts to push through the confirmations of alleged rapists, sex traffickers, and fraudsters at the highest levels of government is peak Republican Party.