America is not a free country.

Agree with all of this* *Except about the part that the NPR reporter is usually solid

Every blue state governor should be maxing out the size and resources of armed agencies that they have reason to believe they will be more loyal to them. Maybe they are (it’s not the kind of thing you publicize), but if they aren’t they need to be. State DOJ agents, IG office agents, etc etc

Bulwark people, right again because they know what fucks with the GOP the most.

You say that's not realistic? Fine. Ask for reductions of exec power. Eg: 5/

Does anyone think that if D's succeed in getting Trump to restore Medicaid cuts *they* will get credit form voters? B/c that's delusional. 3/

Dems are willing to help Trump avoid an unpopular shutdown if he will stop doing the things that are going to make him unpopular? AYFKM? D's should *want* ACA subsidies to lapse and R Medicaid cuts to hit. Voters need to see what Trump is doing to them. 2/

My take: toxic anything is a problem.

Are they going to be allowed in the supreme Court?

America isn't a free country anymore.

The WaPo's opinion page, reminding you to cancel your @washingtonpost.com subscription. Please do that for them!

NEW: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to an aid program.

No take from chatterton Williams about right wing circles freaking out about bad Bunny, like he did bluesky and a supposed Klein freak out? (which was a figment of his imagination)

Every accusation is a confession, evidence #44,775.

Such a lie. They got aid not trade under Trump I. They voted for aid again, not trade. The true welfare queens are in the sticks.

The story of 2024 is this: Trump had a plan to destroy American government called Project 2025, which had, literally, not a typo, a 4% approval rating. He lied constantly and said he wouldn't do it. Then he entered office and immediately implemented AN EVEN MORE EXTREME VERSION OF IT.

The US isn't free anymore.

The press doesn't see Mario as one of them or as someone with clout to elevate them. So this is a non story to them, even though it's equivalent to the Jimmy Kimmel near firing.

They kept Telegram on their App Store even after it was used as an organizing platform first for ISIS and then for murder Nazis

LOL no. Journalists are the stupidest most gullible profession.

Before rescision, one could be fooled to think that @npr.org did the right's bidding for the federal money. No more. NPR is doing fascist propaganda for the administration _for free_. Think about that and reassess whether you want your money to go to people who do that.

If that were indeed their only message, it'd be better than what they're putting out. It's the party of redundant synonyms apparently, and if it's the party of hate, evil, and antitrump, that seems like more than one message. Can a party with one or more messages be dead? Maybe it's a Halloween post

And what ended up revealing is that not one legacy outlet managed to handle the lie properly. They all repeated the lie credulously and even used it to "fact check" Harris. Not one journalist admitted being wrong, much less be disciplined.

Just naked and brazen corruption. All states represented by Democrats in the Senate. Time to stiffen our spines and demand that we only fund a government that obeys the law.

it makes me incandescently furious that roberts invented the idea of banning coercive conditions on funding to kill medicaid expansion and refuses to do a single thing about the fact that the trump administration's entire deal is "coercive conditions on funding"

Yes! But also, it gives cover for the universities to say no if they actually want to.

Pathetic privileged asshole. Make jokes about the condition of women and slaves there, and see how easy that is.

New @rfunkfordham.bsky.social report on the 15th anniversary of Citizens United. The evidence is now clear, in part through Rachel's research, that CitUtd has: -increased the influence of billionaires -reduced state democratic performance -made state governments more rightwing -increased corruption

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Hey the fascists at @politico.com : thune's constituents are ALL of South Dakota. You're thinking of the word "base," unless of course you mean to say Democrats aren't citizens.

The war in Ukraine would have ended if trump was President!

“A shutdown will be bad and also we will be able to do so much good because of it but it’s bad and it’s democrats’ fault they’re hurting you but also they are so weak they gave us unlimited power but we wouldn’t do the good things unless they made us.”

If there was a poll about the shutdown that was like "60% of voters blame Democrats" we'd get wall to wall news "analysis" saying the Democrats must immediately capitulate or face electoral ruin, but when we have the opposite (like we do now) the media doubles down on efforts to blame Democrats

Is the path back to power confrontation or cooperation? Jon, @timmiller.bsky.social and @davidfaris.bsky.social discuss the Democrats lack of coherent plans.

Tim Walz: "My god, we've got the White House threatening investigations and jail time because an escalator stopped? Walk up the damn stairs!"

"I'm not breaking the law officer, I'm writing the rules!"

What does a Bad Bunny fan look like? And is that supposed to be different than an NFL fan? How so?

“Trump is a mad tyrant, destroying the country and handing its government over to countless malignant little cronies and corrupt underbosses, and the result is that America is on the brink of collapse” is, I think, an idea that is both more persuasive and more true than “this is about premiums.”

Kid A is the most important album of the century. So far.

This happened yesterday. They (NPR) are fucking terrible at this and have been for a long time bsky.app/profile/psvr...

I keep on telling people that PBS is the one to save, not NPR.

Love hearing an NPR reporter repeat Vought's line about "unconstitutional DEI principles" with nary a query about what the fuck that actually means. At some point we need journalists to make this administration explain some of these batshit utterances.

To all who bought a Tesla this quarter: I hope the rebates were worth it to buy from a Nazi.

A very good SCOTUS test for the next Democratic president would be to nationalize Starlink by executive order in the name of national security

If it weren't such a lie, it'd be a really good argument for providing health insurance to everyone, including illegal aliens so that hospitals aren't left with "uncompensated" care.

The NYTimes, probably: "The Pope calls for compassion and ecological community. Students of the Bible have a different read of the Gospel."

What pisses me off so much is that legacy media journalists are deeply ignorant and stupid but they're also very arrogant. Take Rachel. Rachel is stupid. She thought she understood the facts of the shutdown, so she posted a snide comment at Democrats. Except it was ignorance speaking.

Crockett: "What assurances do we have if we entered into an agreement with these Republicans that they wouldn't go back on their word and just say, 'Oh yeah, we'll sign off on a rescissions package'"

Yes. Don't send your money to the NYTimes but to people who side with liberal democracy.

An insane amount of damage for a taxiway collision.