And please, PLEASE let us not forget that time in 2023 when Karen Smith was elected President of the school board in Bucks County, Pa and swore her oath on a stack of banned books. The most gangsta oath ever! Just brilliant. www.edweek.org/leadership/t...

We Must Continue to Defend the Freedom to Read in Central Bucks School District | With elections next month, Central Bucks School Board's Karen Smith reminds community members of the chaos and divisiveness Republican book banners inflicted on the district just a few years ago.

Today is Day 9. 0 deals.

Yesterday during our peaceful protest in Doylestown PA this car of Trump supporters drove down the street giving everyone the finger. The woman repeatedly screamed “b**tches.” Photo by @mikemaney.bsky.social

“I was just following orders” was not a defense at Nuremberg. And it won’t be a defense in the future here.

"Eight points makes someone a “validated” member of the group. Having tattoos associated with the gang is worth four points. Wearing clothing associated with the gang is worth another four." Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/w...

DALIO: “.. I think that right now we are at a decision-making point and very close to a recession. .. And I'm worried about something worse than a recession, if this isn't handled well.” @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

Gov. Shapiro says he and his family "woke up to bangs on the door from the Pennsylvania State Police" early Sunday morning. The fire caused significant damage, but fortunately, no one was injured.

Last night at the Governor’s Residence, we experienced an attack not just on our family, but on the entire Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. This kind of violence has become far too common in our society, and it has to stop.

Just getting to this @nytimes.com article about what a jawdropping bullshit factory, failure and fraud DOGE is. Musk is an historic disgrace, and what they've done is an incredible national scandal. Gift link. READ IT. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/u...

“.. judging only from price action, we are suddenly witnessing a comprehensive turn away from US assets (stocks, USTs, corporate credit and the dollar). this is the single most important theme to monitor over coming weeks. .. for the moment capital is flowing out of the US.” - GS Desk/Pasquariello

Good morning. Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors. It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.

McGovern: "How is any company supposed to forecast for their future, build a plant, hire workers, if they have no idea what the hell this president is gonna do in his next tweet? ... I need a neck brace to be able to get through all this."

Creepy as hell. 🤡

Not sure how these people sleep at night

This is a regime of the bullies, by the bigots, for the billionaires. All you need to know.

JPMORGAN: “.. as of now we maintain our 60% US/Global recession call from last week. The 40% non-recession call includes the possibility of further backpedaling from Trump on China tariffs.”

Kidnapping. Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping. Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking. A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.

Remember sitting in history, thinking “If I was alive then, I would’ve…” You’re alive now. Whatever you’re doing is what you would’ve done.

Citizens cannot, by legal definition, be "deported." What she's describing is kidnapping and forced imprisonment without cause. She and many, many others in this administration should face prison one day. bsky.app/profile/ones...

CBO finds that DOGE failed to achieve measurable savings in March. At first glance, spending fell $38B (7%) compared to last year. But March began on a Saturday so payments that normally go out in March went out in Feb After adjusting, spending *rose* $45B (8%) compared to March 24.

Raskin: The basis for this most destructive trade war in the history of the world is the profound economic research and policy writings of one Ron Vera, a completely fictional economist conjured up by Peter Navarro, a real person who Elon Musk just called a moron

At an ed tech conference in SanDiego where Education Sec McMahon spoke. Asked about the latest letter re: DEI to schools, she said 'i think discrimination is the bad thing.' Moderator Phyllis Lockett asked if cultural events and other DEI programs like them would still be allowed to exist. McMahon

Americans seeking retirement or survivor benefits from the Social Security Administration will no longer be able to apply over the phone, starting next week.

US tourism is in for some things. (via @jeffasher.bsky.social) 🇺🇸

Trump’s Tariffs would be held illegal if the Constitution’s separation of powers were taken seriously. Hell, they’d be struck down by Trump’s Supreme Court if its Major Questions Doctrine and its commitments to original meaning and textualism were consistently applied to Article I and IEEPA. 🔥

> @wutangforchildren.bsky.social

Senator Cory Booker at #HandsOff Montclair, NJ @booker.senate.gov Tell it sir! 📷 Jay Lustig

#HandsOff Austin, Texas

Portland, ME showed up. #HandsOff

💙 DC never disappoints. #handsoff

Absolutely incredible turn out at MN State Capitol! #HandsOff

Oh wow: Portland Oregon is NOT KIDDING #handsoff

I have never seen anything like this in NYC. 5th Ave covered from 42nd St well to the 20s. Nobody prepared for this volume. Volunteers are holding the traffic on all the side streets. No police in sight. #handsoff

Spectacular view of 100,000 people attending the #HandsOff march in NYC

#handsoff DC

If they can abduct people, with no due process, then no one is safe. March Sat. April 5

I have friends who are not bring cell phones to rallies this weekend. My response was that if they come for me (white, relatively wealthy, suburban woman with a “professional” career) than we have already lost. Get out in the streets on Saturday - before you are scared to be in the streets.

Measles and tariffs, what century is this?

Breaking: NBC News projects: Jill Underly wins Wisconsin Superintendent of Public Instruction.   Underly is the Democratic-backed candidate.

Cory Booker. 👇👇👇

California Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas (D-Salinas): "there are currently more kids with measles in Texas than there are transgender athletes in the NCAA. That's the epidemic we should all be worried about."

Just so everybody understands, Booker has been speaking cogently about the issues the entire time and Strom Thurmond famously spent hours reading from the encyclopedia, because segregationists were and are dumbshits

Sen. @booker.senate.gov's speech on the Senate floor, now live for almost 25 hours, has been liked on TikTok a staggering 350 million times www.tiktok.com/@senbooker/l...

Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble. For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity. What will you do?

Everyone who works for PRAMS (the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System) at CDC was terminated today. That appears to be the end of a critical program which monitored infant and maternal health nationwide across pregnancy, childbirth & postpartum. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/prams...

Early results show Democrats are in for a huge overperformance in FL01, where polls just closed. This is even redder than FL06: Trump won it by 37%.

Forget that the deportation was illegal, or that habeas corpus rights were ignored. The U.S. government asserting it can't get the dude back from our new best buds in El Salvador is some ultra weak shit.