With every escalation of ICE and every national guard unit sent to a city I get increasingly annoyed with democrats who still say things like "how's the price of groceries?" Even if grocery prices were rock bottom I'd still hate this administration with every fiber of my being.

As everyone else has noted, the ice stuff is just going to get worse and the dem plan of ignoring it isn't going to get better

Wow it turns out when you threaten stuff and play a bit of hardball, you force Republicans to negotiate with you. Imagine that.

Imagine if instead of doing this with ACA subsidies, they told him they would only give him the funds to fund his government if he resigned and reported to prison for treason against the United States. This stuff is very very obvious.

This is amazing

Today I read a really good poem (excerpt from an epathalion by Tony kushner). It is so exquisite and I was reminded of the time that someone on here said ChatGPT was writing actual good poetry and his proof was an incredibly anodyne poem with basic grammar and meter.

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...

My child is almost 3 and I would very much like him to never have to remember a time when Trump was president so let's get to impeaching, shall we? I would love it if my reps weren't craven chickenshits.

1. This is absolutely psychotic 2. Who the fuck is making this bullshit? I know it's not Trump. Is it his staff? Randos on truth social? Like, what.

They will literally always lose this battle on these terms. The far more sensible thing to do would be to actually be the "adults in the room", something they claim to care about so much, and actually truthfully tell Americans what is going on. They have more than enough reach for that.

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

The whole party has been consumed by the mods of a 2014 incel forum where people talk about shooting up a supermarket because they saw a woman in yoga pants.

I cannot emphasize enough that this administration shouldn’t get 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘦 𝘷𝘰𝘵𝘦 from the Dems until they start obeying the law. Not. One. Optics matter: if you want people to turn out next election despite troops in the streets, then show them it matters. Do your goddamn jobs and hold the line.

This raid is disgusting, abominable behavior, traumatizing children and families in their homes. abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

This is WILD

Also: the groundwork for this was laid by US courts repeatedly excusing cops for smashing into random people's homes in the middle of the night because they didn't care to get the address correct. And in a larger sense, by allowing unconstitutional "no knock" warrants in the first place.

/3 The gulf is between people who see this as brutal and inhuman, and people who see the victims of this as inhuman. The gulf is between people who speak our opposition and people who think that makes us unpatriotic, unreliable, someone to be mocked with sombrero videos.

/2 The gulf is between people who think this is bad and think it is good. The gulf is between those of us who think the government shouldn’t treat people that way and people whop think we are stupid, un-American Marxists to think that.

A series of events: Yesterday after dinner our dog disappeared for about 10 minutes. We knew he was somewhere in our house/yard, but couldn't find him. Did he somehow get into our neighbor's yard, since the barrier we erected was askew? No. He was under our house. 1/

I hope this catches on and becomes his legacy

The proliferation of online disinformation targeted at women, which falsely claims that the most effective forms of woman-controlled contraception are dangerous, is an underrated part of the right’s weaponization of epistemic collapse.

On the shutdown, regardless of any policy debates, I think the top priority needs to be reigning in these recession packages. Congress is supposed to control the power of the purse, where parties generally have to work together and compromise on many things. The idea that the executive branch can

Well it’s not like they were going to get paid, regardless

It is truly abhorrent how little republicans care about the sanctity of human life. The callous way they talk about letting people die or killing people because they don’t look like them or share their beliefs is appalling.

We need clear communication with the people. And if the government won’t meet people’s material needs during this shutdown, the party should. It’s time to use our resources to help others, not just get candidates elected. More food banks, less fundraising.

I genuinely don't understand how Democrats can negotiate to fund the government under these conditions and it is why they should have made addressing recision and unconstitutional withholding of funds the key issue of the shutdown even if not as sexy or popular as subsidies.

I was talking to a guy who spends a lot of time canvassing lower-information voters last night. and he was like “I’ve never actually met someone who cared about all this policy stuff Dems keep trying to get us to talk about. if they voted with Dems it’s because of the same reasons I do”

So Senators *do* understand how denying unanimous consent works. Wish some democrats would give that a try!

If I’m running messaging, the word on the street is that Democrats are refusing to fund a dictatorship. Either Article 1 means something or nobody gets anything.

"no more superficial individual expression"

The ADL thought it could fall in line with Musk and it would stop his attacks on them. Instead, it just made them complicit, legitimized Musk, and ultimately didn’t actually change him at all. This is how fascists work. Greenblatt tried being transactional: for fascists, it only goes one way.

Disagree with the focus on exclusively healthcare, but this is a solid way to communicate that Rs are to blame.

This landed in my inbox this morning and it really helped

This is an excellent book that you should read

It’s actually incredible how wrong Ezra is about “needing” to welcome anti-abortion and anti-trans politicians. Democrats were unable to protect vulnerable people BECAUSE they had conservative lawmakers in their ranks—including one Joe Manchin. Alongside Sinema, he blocked codifying Roe v. Wade

Thanks to fascist voters, pudding-brained non-voters, a broken Congress, and a broken SCOTUS, this rank corruption and authoritarian control of the economy is simply how things work now in the failed state of American. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

At event in DC, Sen. Chris Van Hollen keeps it going with Hakeem Jeffries over not endorsing @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social: if you can’t back the kind of campaign he ran, “don’t ask those young people to show up for other Democrats across the country — that’s the message that will be sent.”

It's easy to see this speech as just weirdly performative, but there's a lot more—and a lot worse—going on here. The meeting & speeches are part of a larger project aimed at promoting the military leadership’s partisan alignment with the administration. How? 1/

For those in the room it is also a signal of power. That they pulled ppl from their jobs on short notice says “we are in control” and we can do whatever we want, whenever. This too creates pressures to conform as makes clear the civilian side is not afraid to flex power & can do so on a whim 8/

Is this not straight-forwardly a declaration of civil war?

Training the military to “quell civil disturbances” is another step toward authoritarianism. Linking it to “the enemy from within” is absolutely terrifying since that was the phrase Hitler used for Jews & others considered undesirable. He doesn’t even hide what he’s doing.

JUST IN: President Trump has told top U.S. commanders that the military would be used against "enemy within."

I live in Los Angeles. My reps are doing nothing. Padilla did attempt something at the start of our occupation by ICE but that seemed to be the end, not the beginning. Show me you are willing to defend this city.

Democrats in Congress must begin calling their republican counterparts by their true names: cowards and traitors. Say it on the floor. Say it in every interview. Get it in the public record so that their kids and grandkids never forget what they've done.

It’s probably a good thing that comedy is going to have a reckoning about comedians pretending they’re dangerous or edgy when their definition of those words is that they whitewash repressive government regimes for money but also make gay jokes

Promising to expand fossil fuel extraction should be treated as the same as climate denial.

As someone trying to find my way back to astronomy this is devastating.

one of my favorite liberal tics is assuming when trump and the GOP talk about "the left" they're not talking about liberals

I love how people are acting like this is Bluesky's idea when once again, every website on the internet is going to either be doing this or geoblocking the state by next month because THE STATE PASSED A FUCKING LAW SAYING THEY HAVE TO

If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.