Why are so many young Republican group chats racist they ask!

Truly wild how the White House's needless war is giving a giant tailwind to EVs, transit, and bikes — basically, every form of transportation it hates.

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As I argue in this piece, one goal of putting ICE in airports is to harass TSA agents, who are majority people of color. www.salon.com/2026/03/25/i...

In DC since last summer, National Guard has deployed citywide—predominately in Metro stations—to do this: Stand around in groups, sometimes take a walk. Not minimizing the intimidation implied by these deployments, but the admin is mostly just paying people to do nothing. It's fascistic make-work.

DC National Guard deployment not only costs $1.65 million a day—$600 m/year—but it also has had no impact on outcomes thehill.com/homenews/sen... US Congress, in its majesty, gives $150 m/year for the operation of DC transit system. So it's essentially spending 4 times as much on useless guards.

Citibike users have pedaled more than 650 million miles since the program's launch, replacing hundreds of millions of motor vehicle trips. Sounds like mass transport to me.

despite being concentrated in ameria’s largest cities, america’s media is terminally car-brained

Their rhetoric is “small government” and “local control.” The reality is supporting local decision-making when it aligns with their priorities, and overriding it when it doesn’t.

CNN ran a poll asking people who still describe themselves as MAGA if they still liked the leader of the MAGA, and not surprisingly, the cult members liked the cult leader. There was no reason for CNN to go through the motions and now they've succeeded in egging Trump on to send in ground troops.

A fighting Democratic Party led by people not afraid of their own shadows—or GOP attack ads, which might be the same thing—could sweep elections.

Ordered! Looking forward to this @kerileighmerritt.bsky.social!!

Pete Hegseth -- a twice-divorced man who admitted to multiple affairs, whose mother called him "an abuser of women," who has been accused of rape, who has a clear problem with alcohol and anger -- doesn't seem to have the best grasp on the basic tenets of Christianity.

The arc of gas prices bends toward clarity I guess

The people of Minneapolis and Minnesota strike again.

BREAKING: UK REJECTS TRUMP’S PLEA TO SEND WARSHIPS TO RE-OPEN THE HORMUZ STRAIT. 🇬🇧 The UK has joined France who earlier refused Trump’s demand for a global flotilla to escort tankers in the Persian Gulf. Having abused allies and shredded international alliances, Trump now looks alone & isolated.

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

If we won’t regulate the vehicle designs for safety outcomes (hello front end blind spots), then we should definitely use other policy mechanisms to protect the public.

The Trump administration could really restore confidence by getting the entire Cabinet to ride a tanker through the Straits of Hormuz to show everyone how safe and easy it is now. They could bring along a lot of MAGA influencers and Fox News hosts to broadcast it all live!

nearly halfway there

Yeah, wouldn't want Republicans to face the political consequences of their actions 🫠🙃😑

Americans drive a lot more than people in other rich countries. If we didn’t drive so much, we wouldn’t die in so many crashes. It’s a simple point, but one that NHTSA, traffic engineers, and many road safety org’s have yet to learn. Me, in Bloomberg 🧵

Just a reminder that the Democratic Party enables Republicans to do whatever damage they can when they’re in power and then cleans it up while telling everyone that they really wish things could change but it just isn’t time to do it yet. Because of the messes, of course.

This disgusting shit doesn’t belong in American society. And Republicans who support it don’t belong in Congress.

Last year, this guy (left) from DOGE used ChatGPT to find NEH grants that were too “DEI” for Trump, and canceled them, including mine, as shown by the letter I received last April (right). Huge new NYT article on the back story link below

As I have said since Feb 2025, Trump is in office to solve Putin's problems. How else are you going to ensure that Putin's failed state becomes prosperous? it is already having to be propped up by China.

Wild how this just keeps happening- what could be going on?

Rich people pay lawyers, accountants, and the Republican Party to keep their taxes low. The IRS is outgunned at all levels. www.propublica.org/article/ultr...

Remember when Rep. Greg Gianforte, now the GOP governor of the state, body slammed a reporter into a table? We probably need to shut down the Montana Republican Party entirely until we can figure out where all this violent rage is coming from.

The liberal justices call out the *rank* hypocrisy of their Republican colleagues on the Court

One of my favourite sides of politics/media.

Paramount should enjoy its growing news monopoly while they have it because when Democrats win back power we are going to break up these anti-democratic information conglomerates. All of them.

This is exactly the same rhetoric that the Klan, White League, & other white conservative paramilitary organizations used to destroy multiracial democracy during Reconstruction, disfranchising Black voters & murdering anyone who got in their way.

It should also end any discussion of whether parallels to authoritarian regimes are entirely appropriate at this stage

4 Minnesota guys

Even if Democrats are all in, I'm not sure the usual sorts of congressional inquiries are going to be remotely enough to bring all of these crimes to light and all these criminals to justice.

Remember, when news outlets first reported that Kash Patel was spending $75,000 of taxpayer money to fly an FBI Gulfstream jet to Milan so he could watch Olympic hockey, the official spokesasshole for the FBI had this to say:

The FBI Director, a hockey nut, flew the FBI jet to Italy to...uh...inspect security, prior to the Olympics and World Cup. So be grateful:

look at my country man, we’re getting out-No Kings’d by the fuckin’ british

All the college and university "leaders" who chose to surrender in advance on this, take a bow And then get in the fuckin sea

Between this and the story about the ice agents who ate at a Mexican restaurant and then arrested some of its workers when they were done, it's a reminder that these people reject even the most basic social agreements of hospitality and of helping others. They're sociopaths.

How to end an interview: In 1889, Frederick Douglass told a visitor to his DC home that any government that would "grant the right of suffrage and deny itself the power to protect that right is...a sham and a fraud." Then he grabbed his violin and played the Star Spangled Banner.

More ads like this please! TRUTH!

Fuck ICE. Abolish ICE. If these cowards leave it's because our fellow neighbors stood up to tyranny and defended their community members. This is not a political win, but a win of the people, by the people, for the people. It is now us politicians' jobs to seek justice and restitution.

Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

"A threat to anyone’s constitutional rights is a threat to us all. Today, immigrants are being detained without due process. Tomorrow, under the Government’s [view], American citizens could be subject to the same treatment. This Court will not allow such an unraveling of the Constitution."

what a shot

"God Bless America" and then lists every country in the Americas. Bad Bunny crushed the Super Bowl.

The ‘You Don’t Have to Apologize for Being White Anymore’ guys have now made it against the law to use the word Black at college.