One of the greatest lies told to American children in civics class is that the 3 branches are separate and equal When it’s really quite obvious that, while the judicial and executive do get certain checks against the legislature, they’re ultimately (supposed to be) subordinate to it

She is just completely making this up. No such chair exists.

The Founders' position on democracy is that it's bad because most people are too stupid to be trusted with these sorts of decisions. I used to think that was antiquated and elitist, but I'm pretty much sold on it now. (Well it is elitist, but that's good, because some people are just better at this)

San Diego just gave us the best reveal of No Kings Day. #NoKings

just to be clear: Imane Khelif is *biologically* a woman. she's not a trans woman, the entire intellectual edifice of terfism is a completely capricious attempt to define anyone they don't like out of being a woman

Rep Andy Ogles (R Tenn), a Christian Nationalist Islamophobe, recently had a friendly meeting with a delegation from Russia, a country that is currently helping Iran kill American troops and target US bases and aircraft.

This is me immediately after saving a file:

It's THIS kind of messaging they need to get out in front of everyone

There's no love like Christian hate

“They’re standing there like Ken and Barbie dolls in the back of us. They can’t do anything. They’re not trained.” ICE agents are largely standing around at Atlanta’s busy airport www.ajc.com/business/202...

Elite strategists

>10,000 STEM PhDs have left federal service over the past year (including 30% of the federal colleagues with whom I’ve worked closely). Those still left are holding federal science together with duct tape. What an extraordinary act of sabotage against the American people.

housing is more expensive now, but also a lot safer. this kind of home was considered cream of the crop in the 1980s

I want y’all to remember that this government is DEI-less. It’s all white men.

How many times must history repeat itself?

We all need to put a spotlight on Russell Vought, the Project 2025 architect dismantling our constitution and government. There is not enough attention paid to this quiet lunatic.

We live in an age of miracles

“It’s not about stopping non-citizens from voting. It’s about stopping citizens from voting.” @merkley.senate.gov on the SAVE America Act as the Senate heads into a weekend session to vote on it.

Mood

This is the conservative pitch to most Americans: Sure, you might be suffering as a result of our policies, but other people -- people who are different from you, people you don't like -- they're suffering a lot more than you, so it all works out.

Every single thing named after Cesar Chavez should be renamed for Dolores Huerta

"Both sexual encounters with Cesar led to pregnancies. I chose to keep my pregnancies secret and, after the children were born, I arranged for them to be raised by other families that could give them stable lives." Devastating. medium.com/@dolores_hue...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Wholesale inflation comes in hot for February with producer prices rising 3.4%, the biggest jump in a year. @apnews.com

GOP: the mail is secure enough to receive your photo ID, social security card, your debit and credit cards, your stimulus checks, and your tax returns Also GOP: the mail is not safe enough for voting

The White House’s defense is they left in a position of senior authority someone they now claim was a “known leaker”, who had been cut off from various accesses, and who they had ordered to be fired? And they left him in place with all kinds of access to sensitive classified information?

Q: You don’t regret that people might’ve lost important income to support their lives? A: No, I think it was more important to reduce the federal deficit. Q: Ok. Did you reduce the federal deficit? A: No, we didn’t.

A good reminder 🌪️

Periodic reminder that gross negligence in office can be an impeachable offense and elected Republicans can end this any time they wish

A total collapse. The National Institutes of Health went from 756 funding announcements published to 14 in two years. One example of the effects: emerging threats will become harder to address quickly. Response to future health emergencies (like Covid) will be slower and less coordinated.

“Section 14 of the Press Law ordered editors ‘to keep out of the newspapers anything which…tends to weaken the strength of the German Reich, outwardly or inwardly.’” - William Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, p. 405

I feel like it should be more widely unpopular that in the past year we’ve witnessed the creation of an American Stasi required to meet arrest quotas who utilize an AI technology created by a company run by a sweaty raisin of a billionaire who thinks Greta Thunberg is the antichrist.

✋ Former USG war crimes lawyer here. Apropos of SecDef's remarks this morning: Denial of quarter—even the declaration of no quarter—is a war crime. And recognized as such by the US Government. From DoD's Manual for Military Commissions.

I'd like to live in a country where kindness is a political virtue and politicians talk about and center people at a disadvantage and who can't stand up for themselves I don't want a politics thats all about beating up our enemies

Horrific. Georgia police charged a woman with murder after she allegedly used misoprostol. Hospital may have reported her. @pregnancyjust.bsky.social calls it “an unprecedented murder charge for an alleged abortion, even though no law in the state of Georgia permits such a charge." bit.ly/46W2Ezb

What’s happening here is that the 30% of the country that wants, like Mike Johnson, to impose its right wing religious values on the country using state power is falsely accusing the 1.3% of the US population that is Muslim of wanting to impose their religion on the country using state power.

In the 1920s, there was an enormous Klan-aligned caucus in the House of Representatives that passed an immigration restriction bill designed to keep out Catholics and Jews because they supposedly posed an existential threat to American civilization. 100 years later, here we are.

it took just over a year to get from "I'll lower costs on day one" to "I'm raising prices and it's good, actually"

#70yearsagotoday, nineteen US Senators and eighty-two members of the US House of Representatives signed what is now known as the Southern Manifesto. The document, which opposed racial integration in public spaces, was drawn up in response to Brown v. Board of Education. #xyearsagotoday

ICE is still acting like ICE. Abolish ICE.

I just keep coming back around to, "there is a reason that no previous president did this foolish thing and it was not because they were weak, woke cowards, but because they could read a cost-benefit analysis."

5/ And on the Strait of Hormuz, they had NO PLAN. I can't go into more detail about how Iran gums up the Strait, but suffice it say, right now, they don't know how to get it safely back open. Which is unforgiveable, because this part of the disaster was 100% foreseeable.

Not electing Kamala Harris has got to be the most colossal fuck up America has ever made .

You know when we talk about things we loved when we were younger but don’t like as much now that we’re older? Summer is that. Bottom-tier season

The chaos across multiple airports is a totally unnecessary Republican-created problem. Dems have proposed funding for TSA, FEMA, and the Coast Guard, yet Republicans – who hold a majority in both the House and Senate – continue to hold these agencies hostage in order to get more funding for ICE.

Just a reminder that Muslims have been on this continent since the first arrival of non-Indigenous people. They were among the first generation of Americans, and have been here ever since.

I love sherbet sunsets. 😍 (I've called them that since I was little 😊)

can't even begin to convey the horrific precedent this sets, what a devastating verdict that conveniently lets every lawmaker off the hook for the scourge of violence they've enabled www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/u...

The voter suppression going on in Texas yesterday was BLATANT blatant. Them folks wasn't even trying to hide it. Changing polling stations, harassing folks for different ID like passports, telling folks polling stations were Republican only... Jesus.