So far today, Chuck Schumer has said his strategy for preventing Trump sending troops into blue cities is to win over Republican senators (!) while Hakeem Jeffries praised Eric Adams's courage and authenticity (!!) while refusing to endorse Mamdani. Again. These two gotta go.

Why should we remain a part of a nation without laws?

In all seriousness, it is the height of illegitimacy to be governed by a demented pedophile who institutes taxes because he feels like it and indicts people he doesn't like via tweets. It's time for states that do not wish to be drug down into the Third World to discuss secession.

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MAGA sure is threatening to do more fascist shit in their anger at being called fascists...

Trump gutted the FBI, ATF, and other federal law enforcement agencies dedicated to monitoring extremist violence, to dump endless resources into pointless immigration enforcement. ICE got tens of billions of dollars while the FBI got gutted top to bottom to settle political scores

For fucks sake. Stop being gross.

Blocking who every person tries to add me who shared the actual footage. Don't be gross. Don't let them take our humanity.

To remove a dictatorship that has consolidated power, many die and there are years of excruciating violence that marks a country for generations. To remove a dictatorship that has **not yet** consolidated power, all you must do is not be his unpaid intern and show how much the country hates him.

This is of course true, but “preventable deaths” is not a persuasive frame when the right and most of the Polite Center have embraced a gilded age theory of public health where diseases sweeping through the population and killing off “the weak” is a good thing we meddle with to our detriment.

Afghan scholar Mohammad Halimi, who fled the Taliban in 2021, had worked to help U.S. diplomats understand his homeland. Then DOGE put his family’s lives at risk by exposing his sensitive work for a U.S.-funded nonprofit.

I wonder why the link to state life expectancy data is no longer available...

If you could only pay for one substack/newsletter/political site subscription, which one would you choose? Preferably not substack tho coz those unsolicited emails are the werst

Democrats shouldn't vote for a CR unless the following conditions are met: 1. NG out of DC and PD returned to locals. 2. RFK et al out at HHS. 3. Hegseth out at DOD. 4. No face coverings for fed. police. 5. Renounce Cook's fake firing. 6. Revoke the tariffs. Shut down the government otherwise.

Cannot be emphasized enough that anti-housing NIMBYs in places like California and New York are objectively working to support a durable MAGA hold on Congress and the presidency.

Reeling Walz in was spectacular political malpractice.

What is actually preventing me from going Doomer is that the dude is hella old and his skin is turning blue and sloughing and those ankles look scary. We really thinking he is going to live out the rest of his term?

As DC was taken over by Trump’s secret police, where were congressional Democrats? They weren’t in DC and some weren’t even in the US. Instead of fighting back against the authoritarian takeover here at home, 22 House “Democrats” were being spoon-fed lies about Gaza on a trip paid for by AIPAC.

New maps just dropped. This my Taylor Swift.

Ten years from now, I want everyone who voted for him to lie and say they sat out the election. I want people to wrap their MAGA hats in paper sacks and toss them into public trashcans at night when no one is looking. I want kids to be ashamed of their parents if they learn they were Trump voters.

"Trump is profiting off the presidency and has made over 3 billion dollars in 6 months while you pay more for groceries and funding is withheld from your kids schools." This is the message.

The protections built into the Constitution fall apart when there are strong political parties and they fall apart even quicker when a strong political party decides that authoritarianism is preferable to democracy.

The entire future of the Republican Party rests upon a 79 year old man with grossly swollen ankles indicative of congestive heart failure and obvious senile dementia and people are really out here dooming like a little kid hiding from a monster they're convinced lives under their bed.

Why isn't the murder of Awdah Hathaleen top trending on here yet?

He gunned down Adwah Hathaleen in cold blood as he and his fellow Brownshirts attacked Umm al-Kheir in the West Bank. These charges are a joke, as is house arrest. They're proof that, in #Israel, it's impossible to murder a #Palestinian. They are not seen as human. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

The central dividing line in Democratic politics is not between the left and the moderate wing, it’s between serious people who understand we’re in an existential fight against an incipient fascist regime and irredeemable narcissists who just want to keep fighting the 2016 primary forever.

All of these people got some memo in November that Trump won because of “egg prices” and rather than pay attention to the world around them and update their thinking at any point, they’re going to repeat that until they’re in the grave and any number of of us are with them.

Go hard on the Epstein and the obvious signs of dementia. Troll. Troll it hard.

The thing about being a child of immigrants is that we are raised with this idea that it is possible to better oneself. Not just economically. But as an overall human. I will never take this for granted.

Rolling Stone continues to teach a masterclass in headline writing www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Just a reminder: "what you would do if fascism came to the streets of America" = whatever you're doing right now.

the hardest thing for my brain to understand and not crumble into a heap of dread and survivor's guilt is knowing that these policies are so people like me won't exist in future America

I have no skin in the political game. I am a supervisor in a urban library. I dont know if there exists another place where one can witness an accurate cross section of the US in one building.

@mtsw.bsky.social media meme, but it's pretty wild that we don't hear more about how literal White supremacists are currently employed in the White House and others have direct lines to top ranking cabinet officials and the Vice President.

There is nothing more anxiety inducing that seeing someone who has never navigated the whole pizza Costco pickup process, attempting it the first time.

The OB who delivered both my children, supported me through losing my mother during the last trimester of pregancy, also ran the training program at the local Planned Parenthood.

Hey brown kids of immigrants with Trump supporter parents. Chances are, they are in denial that they too did not come the "right way."

1. You bring shame to your ancestors if you support the current administration's immigration campaign. They aren't targeting violent criminals. So many of us wouldn't be here today if the current administration had their way 40 years ago.

Insane behavior here from Unite Here Local 49. Torpedoing thousands of units of badly needed housing — and a tribe-built soccer stadium! — just for spite over labor disputes at an unrelated casino. This law needs to be reformed ASAP. No extractions on stolen land! amp.sacbee.com/opinion/arti...

If the human casualties dont appeal to you as to why we shouldn't enter a war with Iran...remember what happened to our economy the last time we started a war AND passed tax cuts...

me, a savvy politics understander, as the masked goons line me up against the wall: this is a distraction from the real issue, egg prices

How many parents has Fox News ripped away from their adult children? This shit is getting worse than the Fetynal crisis.

For folks who will be out protesting in the coming days, it's important to understand that the United States is now an authoritarian state and that you can't restore democracy if you're rotting in a prison cell. We incarcerate more people than any nation on earth and there's plenty of room for you.

The "Joe Rogan for the left" everyone is looking for isn't a podcast, it's a union.

Denying Americans access to the covid vaccine in a system where there are workers who do not get paid sick time...

He is completely clueless about what he is doing.

Has there been any discourse on how Delta tunnel fits into the "abundance" framework? On the surface, i don't understand how this solves any of CAs problems long term. It will devastate Delta communities.

Plain words: Trump administration knows what Library of Congress does. Stop with the "they are dumb, they think it holds children's books." They know. They want their base to believe the lies.

It is very telling that the same people who insist Americans do not understand the word “oligarchy” think that the way to convince people that the economy is good when they think it’s bad is to wave charts of macroeconomic data at them.

Did Trump win the election based on the economy? Or was it actually inciting fear/xenophobia? I'm starting to believe his win had nothing to do with the economy and everything to do with people wanting to see brown people in gulags...