ENDING A FILIBUSTER TO SAVE THE FILIBUSTER IS THE DUMBEST ASS SHIT I'VE EVER HEARD!!!!

A child rapist is president and we're supposed to debate whether Democrats are too extreme and women belong in the workplace.

Hey, @bennet.senate.gov and @hickenlooper.bsky.social , pay attention.

Congratulations! You lost all credibility. @bennet.senate.gov @hickenlooper.bsky.social

Black American soldiers literally dug these WWII graves. Traumatic. To acknowledge that fact at a cemetery they helped construct is something the Heritage Foundation cannot accept. As Veterans Day approaches, never forget that this country both compels and disrespects Black military service. Always.

Born enslaved in North Carolina, Anna Julia Cooper earned a master’s degree in mathematics from Oberlin in 1887 & a PhD from the Sorbonne. She observed, “The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class - it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity.”

Harry Truman: If it benefits all the people, they call it socialism.

A woman ruined my workplace by Atemisia Gentileschi (C. 1621)

These two headlines tell a most dystopian story about the current state of affairs.

So loss making OpenAI is now begging for US government money to finance its research based on unproven promises of riches to follow at some unspecified date. Is anyone else recalling renaissance alchemists persuading rich patrons to support them because they'd be turning lead into gold any day now?

No more Black or trans staffers. No politics of any kind. The cowardice of mainstream media isn't just insulting, it's *boring.* Now TV is just like any other beauty rag. Why not just kill it quickly? Why the slow-motion pretense?

Douthat writes that 2024, when Harris lost by 1.5% of the popular vote, was "an ideological referendum and progressivism lost." I wonder why he didn't view the 2020 election, when Trump lost by 4.5% of the popular vote, as a far more significant loss for conservatism. bsky.app/profile/larr...

Progressives really hope, and maybe even believe, that there is some magic thing they can hijack to attract conservative voters. The focus on this mythical quest is the central reason they lose.

This right here, this exact sentence, is THE problem in American political journalism. The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.

Are they in a mass grave?

“Walmart was the top employer of SNAP recipients in five states and one of the top four employers in the remaining four states. McDonald’s was among the top five employers of Medicaid enrollees in five of six states and SNAP recipients in eight of nine states.” www.cnbc.com/2020/11/19/w...

If the National Guard is really in D.C. to protect federal property, they should probably have been at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. two days ago

The Trump-aligned Supreme Court is on the verge of gutting the Voting Rights Act, which could bring about a new Jim Crow. My latest cartoon on Pepperspectives. @davidpepperoh.bsky.social davidpepper.substack.com/p/cartoon-tu...

While Michael Bennet does jack shit in the Senate and rakes in the cash from Super PACs, this guy has been suing and winning against the Trump administration. Let's elect an actual fighter for governor, please, Colorado.

Stargazy pie. @victoriagoddard.bsky.social

Trump took office with a Israel-Hamas ceasefire in place, then announced a vision for Gaza as a US-owned resort, with most Palestinians living there gone. Israel restarted military ops in March and imposed famine. Thousands of dead Palestinians later, the Trump admin helped broker another ceasefire.

This is what they're doing to U.S. citizens right now. Imagine what they're doing to immigrants.

“It is so much harder to stand up for a small, nearly frivolous thing. It is far easier, at least in imagination, to stand up for the great things.”

This is crucial for Dem messaging: it's not ONLY that Republicans are evil (they are) and they want you to pay more for shittier healthcare (they do)--it's that they're doing these things *to give massive tax cuts to the richest people in the history of the world*. Connecting the two matters.

Let's get that same kind of effort galvanized behind Black women who lost their jobs this year! NOTE: Black women lost 319,000 jobs between February and July of this year, the only major female demographic to experience significant job losses during this five-month period. white men gained 365,000

The current Supreme Court has unilaterally rearchitected our entire system of Government, and done so to favor despotism bsky.app/profile/saga...

Choose wisely. @bennet.senate.gov & @hickenlooper.bsky.social

Why would Democrats agree to any budget deal when all of it can be overturned by executive fiat?

"Ezra Klein during the Salem Witch Trials would be like, “I saw Goody Proctor getting health care!”" lyz.substack.com/p/anti-knot-...

"...the president is an officer of the Constitution, not a sovereign avatar of the people."

I don’t think any country in the history of the world has ever done anything as stupidly self destructive as what Trump and RFK jr are doing with vaccines.

All they had to do to circumvent the 1st Amendment was outsource the censorship to the oligarchs. The oligarchs have seized control of not only the media but the very platforms and algorithms used to disseminate information itself. www.thedissident.news/the-oligarch...

5/ No, it was this man. His name is David Seligman. And he’s the single most important antitrust enforcer you’ve never heard of. David stands up for regular people before others notice. And he’s running to be Colorado’s next attorney general.

wrote about the “national conservative” vision for america

Who controls the upstream flow, controls their downstream neighbors. It's hard enough to do it between local governments in the same country, imagine nations. See the Colorado River Compact for reference.

Here’s my write up on the most racist decision to come out of the Supreme Court in a while. The court approved of Trump’s racial profiling of Latinos with Brett Kavanaugh saying being harassed based on the color of your skin is “common sense.” My latest in @thenation

did you know universal healthcare is cheaper and gets better results than what we’re doing now?

"We will spend approximately $100 million on new letterhead and websites because Pete Hegseth is worried everybody knows his dick is quite small. Other than that, we will continue to increase our incompetence, fail our veterans, and flush morale down the crapper."

Oof. This captures what I felt that the white supremacists are trying to make happen, but I'd not yet reached that correct dark vision.

I'm proud to pay my taxes so that we fund education, Medicaid, Medicare, social security, research, building projects, and all the big things government does for all of us. Paying for ego driven vanity projects is why government should NOT be run like a business.

AI is a mediocrity machine.

Remember, kids: A real big goal of "AI" is to entirely sever capital from labor, and no, there will be no universal basic income, you can all just starve and die, thanks www.axios.com/2025/08/26/a...

I commented on this recently in one of my ill-advised Lives. I’ve edited here (poorly, I don’t have these skills) but here’s the gist - why capital finds it particularly galling.

“Dearest Agnes: We wander the wilderness by dark. People are playing chess and walking their dogs, and every night I worry I shall not return to you. But I must spare my phone battery now for there are no outlets here. Yours &c,”

I think it’s high time we take back the national narrative. For centuries Americans of all races, genders, religions, and abilities have worked to create a more perfect union, and we should shout from the rooftops that WE are America. Not these idiot white supremacist authoritarians.

"...There is no future, only the past happening over and over."

300,000 Black women have been pushed out of their employment in the last three months. This resegregation isn't just racial, it's also heavily gendered.

"In six months, the Trump administration made that debate irrelevant. It has taken two-and-a-half centuries of tradition, caution, and fear of standing armies and simply discarded it. We are now in territory so uncharted that the" radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-police...