Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."

Another example of why traditional media (which adheres to long-standing journalistic standards) cannot compete w/ the right wing media sphere, which plays by completely different rules. It's a completely asymmetric playing field. The left can't compete by relying on traditional media for messaging.

It’s this sort of criminally negligent behavior by police that greatly increases the chance of a less-lethal round of becoming a lethal round.

Trump announced Alcatraz reopening just hours after ‘Escape from Alcatraz’ aired on a South Florida PBS station www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

May the 4th Be With You. It’s a trap! #StarWars #Connections

Playbill Watch: Jonathan Groff and the Cast of Broadway's Just in Time Sing 'Beyond the Sea' on Colbert playbill.com/article/watc...

-Terry Moran's final Q for Trump: "What do you say to people who are concerned you are taking, seizing too much power and becoming an authoritarian president like we haven't had before?" Trump's response:

The transcript of Trump's ABC interview is almost impossible to read. It's just nonstop babbling. Like if Jack Kerouac swallowed a field of peyote then started trying to write dialogue. abcnews.go.com/US/full-tran...

“You’ve got highly classified information.”

The cynic's version of the Golden Rule: He who has the gold makes the rules. This is supposed to have come from a 1967 comic strip by Johnny Hart: The Wizard of Id.

@hcrichardson.bsky.social’s Old North Church Keynote 4/18/25 in honor of the 250th anniversary of the “two if by sea” signal from the church’s steeple on the eve of the American Revolution. Starts at 1:18. vimeo.com/1074289056 Brilliant. She brings history alive. Timely.

We need to keep saying this until Members of Congress finally act: there is a precise remedy in the Constitution for confronting a lawless president: impeachment. Any Member of the House can introduce articles of impeachment. The time is now. www.impeachtrumpagain.org @fsfp.bsky.social

This is how you do it. The "Mutual Academic Defense Compact". The moral imperative may be to fight... but the strategic imperative is to not fight alone: www.gazettenet.com/UMass-Amhers...

AOC: Some of the Republicans whose districts we visited just warned their leadership that they’re not sure they can vote for Medicaid cuts now. We’ve got them on their back foot. But our job is not done. We will rally every corner of the U.S. We will not stop until they actually vote no.

The death toll from the Russian drone attack on Dnipro has risen to three, including a child. Twenty-eight civilians were injured, among them four children. Residential buildings and civilian infrastructure were heavily damaged.

1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.

3/4. If we accept the idea that moving a person from one place to another undoes rights and disempowers the judiciary, we are endorsing the basic Nazism practice that enabled the killing of millions.

2/4. The entire practice of the Holocaust of the Jews involved zones of statelessness. It is easier to move people away from law than it is to remove law from people. Almost all of the killing took place in artificially created stateless zones.

“These are red lines for us — recognizing any temporarily occupied territories as Russian. Trump’s representative, Witkoff, is discussing matters beyond his competence” — Zelensky

Just started watching The Residence. It’s so good. The White House cut-away dollhouse shots are amazing. www.netflix.com/tudum/featur...

“He’s threatening media companies who are critical of him,” warned Republican Sarah Longwell. “He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons. He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him. Don’t you see what’s happening here?”

Great to see Former U.S. Senator Al Franken as a Senator on Netflix’ The Residence.

“Changing your mind isn’t a weakness — it’s a sign you’re growing, learning, and brave enough to evolve.”

Benson Boone performing “Bohemian Rhapsody” with Brian May of QUEEN at Coachella 2025 youtu.be/dIAzAnWz9EM?...

'It's AI — and she cannot spell that!' Rachel Maddow speechless at Trump official's flub youtu.be/3r3hUCzItCU

Trump is destroying US weather forecasting and research because he dislikes the word "climate": "While the phrase 'climate change' refers to manmade influence on climate via planet-warming pollution, 'climate' in NOAA parlance is simply weather observed over time..." www.cnn.com/2025/04/11/c...

BREAKING: More than 350,000 people have now joined our campaign calling for impeachment proceedings against this lawless president. The Impeachment Clause must be invoked in the face of the multiple abuses of power committed by Donald Trump. Join us at www.impeachtrumpagain.org. @fsfp.bsky.social

BofA Launches ‘Golf with Us’ to Bring Affordable Rounds to More Than 50,000 Youth Nationwide newsroom.bankofamerica.com/content/news...

If You Think Due Process Doesn’t Affect You, Read This. How Trump’s War on Due Process Threatens Every American. open.substack.com/pub/mitchthe...

I finished! #Severance

Drew Ryn Could Be ‘American Idol’s Next Kelly Clarkson collider.com/american-ido...

Breaking news: The Supreme Court backed a lower-court order requiring the Trump administration to “facilitate” the release from custody of a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to a mega-prison in El Salvador last month.

Not on our watch! @jimacosta.bsky.social

A lot of very frustrating American political behavior is explained by reasoning something like this: A pathologically mentally unbalanced moron surely could not receive a major party presidential nomination, let alone win, twice. Therefore if he seems like one, it must all be a clever act.

True story, terrifyingly.

“You’re not going to tear down the history of this country Donald Trump. Not on my watch. Not on our watch.” Jim Acosta From today’s show. open.substack.com/pub/jimacost...

No, they didn’t resurrect the Dire Wolf. All they did was edit the DNA of a grey wolf to make it white. Media needs to be more critical.

Folks, if you aren’t in the #resistance, then what are you waiting for? Find your group, share your time, raise your voice mobilize.us

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse: "As the Trump damage mounts, is it not time to consider cognitive failure, ignorance, emotional instability, and an increasingly maniacal character as the problem?" The Shallow State: "Yes. FFS, YES!"

“The cost of everything is going up under fascism.“ Keith Olbermann

How the Broadway Producer Tom Kirdahy Spends His Sundays www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/n...

Absolutely incredible photo choice here. A+

Hope to see some of you in DC or documenting yourselves wherever you happen to participate.

- 32,809 have been arrested by Ice during Trump 2. - German tourist Jessica Brösche spent more than a month in detention, including eight days in solitary confinement, suffering one of the worst human rights violations - Rebecca Burke (UK) was trying to leave but was detained for 19 (!) days

It’s time to call for an emergency impeachment.

List of medieval weapons en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

List of medieval weapons en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

“The reporters note that Trump didn’t land on a plan until less than three hours before he announced it, and made his choice with little input from business or foreign leaders. Neither Republican lawmakers nor the president’s team knew what Trump would do.” @hcrichardson.bsky.social

Here he is today, deeply concerned about economic hardship caused by his tariff scheme.

The Naked Gun reboot trailer. What they wouldn’t show on Today Show. Directed by Seth McFarlane. In theaters Aug. 1. youtu.be/RVYRlRwIkjI?...