Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

Proportional Representation is the radical idea that a party that gets 30% of the vote should never have 100% of the power. In most stable democracies, this is already obvious. Why not here?

They’re telling us what they fear. Let’s make their nightmare come true.

Not saying this a part of a real plan, but it’s easy to see how dismissals/acquittals in the Comey and James cases will be spun quickly as more evidence of corrupt TDS judges -> another loyalty test for congressional GOP stooges to impeach them. The evil logic is pretty predictable at this point

We hope it’s obvious to congressional Dems what a weak bluff this is. These threats, whether from this prissy shit or Jabba himself, must be recognized more with each passing day for the empty bluster they are.

Really feels like trumps ultimate goal is to just get so many troops in American cities and hopes that one of them goes rogue and starts shooting

Credulous reporting for credulous people. Trumps goons threaten catastrophe w/ usual heaping helping of MAGA gibberish, but ultimately daddy trump intervenes to bring us back to our senses. 🙄 a decade of this & still so easily played. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/n...

Yes, we are directly impacted by the shutdown. And yes, Dems must stand their ground for as long as it takes. Failure now means a rapid slide into dictatorship. Every day more people are coming out, & the largest nationwide day of protest in US history is just 2 weeks away. Hold the fucking line!

"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that

The right wing propaganda machine is escalating to the logical next step: “they’ll kill us if we ever relinquish power!” We must accept the total destruction of freedom and democracy as their short term goal and act accordingly. The shutdown is the fulcrum, what happens in the streets is the lever

We’ve been saying it for months. We need millions in the streets to stop this. Next chance 10/18.

Time to rip the bandaid off

It’s only a matter of time before Americans wake up to the profound sickness of the 2 party system, a profound lie that reduces a complex, rich & diverse society into a debased duality of tribal war for cultural supremacy. The rot is deeply set. We must bury this illusion to save ourselves

If you wanna see what a techno fascist surveillance state will be IN AMERICA, look at Israel’s collab with corp tech RE Gaza and West Bank. Intercepting, recording & storing phone calls on cloud systems, using AI to analyze, ID & target at scale & RETROACTIVELY justify killings.

It’s important for folks to understand that when Ezra Klein speaks he’s usually talking to Dem party donors. If you’re listening to his podcasts or reading his writings and are NOT a Dem party donor or otherwise not in a position to buy yourself a politician or 3, the message isn’t likely for you.

Disney, Sinclair, Nexstar like dominoes. Who is the next capitulator we think is vulnerable to mass people-powered pressure?

@indivisiblebaltimo.bsky.social @indivisiblebaltoco.bsky.social thinking about sites in woodberry and hunt valley where bullhorns could be in order

The Democratic Party is a coalition that naturally should and wants to be two or three different parties, and we'd all be better off if we had a proportional electoral system that allowed that. The abnormal dysfunctional system that doesn't should not be taken for granted as set in stone forever.

If nothing else, it should be a pretty big red flashing warning that Dem leadership in Congress is hated *by their own voters* to an unprecedented degree. This isn't just normal grumbling. They can't even show their faces at mass protests because they'd be booed and they know it.

In any event, we can argue what they should do but congressional Dems obviously aren't going to. Which is why they're being sidelined, and this will accelerate, while governors and state/local officials take the lead. And they're not sitting around waiting for the midterms.

Every regular tool Congress has, he's already nullified and eviscerated. Legislation, appropriations, oversight, impeachment. He is for all intents and purposes ruling by decree already, the only choice for Congress is to either play along and pretend or rally the people for a radical confrontation.

We're not in a situation where Dems win the midterms and then Congress can hold him in check for another two years, ride it out. That's just not the system of government as it exists anymore. Whether the next Congress will have the ability and political will to fight back is being decided right now.

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This is good: With Trump/RFK destroying CDC, JB Pritzker's officials are exploring the possibility of buying Covid vaccines from manufacturers and distributing them in-state themselves, source tells me. Dem govs must step up and fill the void. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1998...

The lull in large scale, coordinated nationwide protests since No Kings in June has left us all in an incredibly precarious position.

The political cult of “nonpartisanship” in the US is an enemy of democracy.

Let the insanity of this statement sink in www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...

If you’re ever wondering what the point of multiparty democracy is, it’s primarily to prevent sick freaks like this from ever holding power again.

A Jewish Nazi from Santa Monica. He’s the definition of self-hating coastal elite. What type of psychological damage is necessary to produce a sick freak like this?

Wonder what’s the difference between the “drug addicts” at Union Station and this couch fucker’s mom?

Every Democratic member of Congress should be in the streets of DC saying this dangerous authoritarian escalation must stop. Do they not grasp what’s going on here?

A police force that is not accountable to the community is called an occupying army.

The adamant elite refusal to call bullshit is a big part of How We Got Here. The prevailing cultural attitude for years is you must not, under any circumstances, treat anything as bad faith. You are obligated to find some reasonable idea and engage with that, even if you distort to get there.

Too little, too late. Going further will require a radical shift in perspective not just among dem pols but the dem base itself. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/m...

Catherine Helen Spence, from “Report of Meeting on Proportional Representation, or ‘Effective Voting’, Held at River House, Chelsea” 7/10/1894

Trumps immigration “policy” has always been the bald faced racist scapegoating. Most black people see and know this for what it is because they’ve lived it for generations.

Millions have long since checked out of politics bc they know power never seems to come back to the people despite politicians talking like this. Consider that if you are struggling to understand the persistent, pervasive apathy even in the face of trumps fascist takeover.

The problem with dem’s redistricting counterpunch is that it’s simply too little, too late. That they had to wait until trump was back in power, slashing & burning democracy and public services, building a national gestapo, deploying the military into cities etc etc before breaking a precious norm…

The redistricting battle is a concession that, at this point at least, the GOP still believes elections will matter next year. New districts with more narrow majorities could be especially susceptible in a wave election. Everything depends on the actions taken b/t now and then to protect elections

Federal LE have no business patrolling American streets. The test for dem governors, mayors, county councils is will they allow state and local LE agencies under their control to be pawns in this takeover under a misguided deference to the norms of LE agency cooperation? Record to date is not good.

@govwesmoore.bsky.social appears to still believe he’s in the world of electoral politics “optics” where personal branding/narrative reigns supreme. But Americans are judging dem pols by what they DO in the face of a VERY SERIOUS fascist threat. Actions speak louder than! thehill.com/homenews/545...

Maybe, just maybe, trumps dc takeover isn’t about crime at all, even tho he says it is! I know it’s hard for some to understand this. That someone would say something, but they don’t actually mean it! Almost like they’re using it as an excuse, a PRETEXT, or something. Who could ever know!?!?

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In 2025, seeing the sentiment “it can’t happen here” expressed with more certainty about proportional representation than fascism. America is no more exceptional in its immunity to the most horrific despotism than to the basic electoral reforms embraced by modern democracies throughout the world.

That's exactly what we're working for here in California. Join us to help out! www.prorepcoalition.org/take-action

fighting gerrymanders can seem hopeless, but there is a solution. big moment right now for people to see districting and the two-party system as inherently linked, and a relic of our archaic electoral rules. congress has the power to ban partisan gerrymandering and establish multi-member districts.

It really does seem like there has never been a time when public appetite for this type of reform has been higher. The system has discredited itself, both parties have little support, the people want something new.

What @mattyglesias.bsky.social fails to mention is that proportional representation isn’t just a solution for the problem of gerrymandering. It’s a solution for the 2 party system problem that makes gerrymandering a a thing in the first place. www.slowboring.com/p/proportion...

Now imagine the meetings Schumer and Jeffries have with this same crowd. Might explain a lot about what we’ve seen from dem leadership over the past 6 months.

Politicians everywhere carving out fiefdoms, openly and shamelessly, and they clearly DGAF what you think about it. To them, you’re just a data point to be penned within an arbitrarily defined geospatial unit. This is open warfare among tribal elites, with democracy as the scorched earth.