Thank you, New York City. Together we made history. Now let’s get to work. transition2025.com

Justice Sotomayor is crystal clear in dissent as to what's happening: "We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent."

The VA’s unilateral termination of union contracts for ~360k workers represents a loss of 2.5% OF ALL UNION MEMBERS IN AMERICA. I’m not sure what it will take for the labor movement to get into crisis mode, but the crisis is here.

Cherry on top of this really interesting interview was the @moeperiod.bsky.social song at the end. A proper throwback.

EXCLUSIVE: Democratic voters who skipped the 2024 election favor candidates like Bernie Sanders and AOC. Polling shows they believe inequality is at the heart of America’s problems and health care should be available to everyone.

The economy got half a percentage point smaller last quarter

Final vote. 50-50. VP breaks the tie. One single GOP Senator could have stopped this abomination. Saved millions of parents from watching their child go hungry. Saved the lives destroyed when Medicaid disappears. They will all live forever with the horror of this bill.

Amazingly, some news organizations are still using the term "fiscal hawk" to describe Republicans who are professing concern about the Trump bill adding $3.3 trillion to the debt. If those Republicans vote for the bill in the end, *at that point* can we stop calling them that?

“I am begging Democrats to embrace candidates who can authentically speak to the electorate they’re running to represent, whether they’re in red, blue, urban or rural areas.” @rebeccakkatz.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/o...

Brad Lander IS having a great day (Also: don’t I always look like an off-duty rock star? ;-) www.thecut.com/article/brad...

Loving the love for Brad Lander. It’s updated me a bit on RCV. RCV could create more Brad Landers, more coalition builders. A counterweight to the extremely individualistic incentives of executive and single member district legislative elections

If am reading this correctly, the 10 year AI regulation moratorium for states is one step closer to becoming law- so much awfulness going on but more people need to pay attention to this: www.budget.senate.gov/ranking-memb...

This is not about the merits of Iran’s nuclear program. No president has the authority to bomb another country that does not pose an imminent threat to the US without the approval of Congress. This is an unambiguous impeachable offense.

Can't stop thinking about the all the political realignment opportunities on the table for Dems: (1) Go hard on fighting the sale of public lands and pick up the outdoors community- I'm not talking about the REI crowd- go get these hunters;

ENOUGH. Release Brad Lander now! Trump regime arrests another politician of the opposing party, this time a top NYC elected official and candidate for mayor. These are gestapo tactics. They must end now. Every American must call their representatives and demand an end to this. (202) 224-3121

Whoa! NYC mayoral candidate and current city Comptroller Brad Lander seemingly arrested at the NYC immigration court while attending to escort someone attending their hearing.

Repeat after us: Rich people don’t create jobs. Your job doesn’t exist because a billionaire felt generous. It exists because people buy stuff. That’s how the economy works. 🎧 Listen to the full episode at the following link or wherever you get your podcasts: bit.ly/BBartlett

SEIU California President David Huerta has apparently been charged with a federal crime--conspiracy to impede an officer. This is a felony that carries a sentence of six years in federal prison.

Today: Tanks are being moved en masse into DC. Trump is deploying a state national guard over a governor’s objection to police protests. Trump threatened a major donor with “severe consequences” if they support his political opponents. If you’re still wondering what time it is, read this again

This is what hope feels like. So glad @daveyseligman.bsky.social is getting in the fight for Colorado AG.

Every book published in the United States is sent to the Library of Congress. Also, if you are under 16 you cannot use the reading room or order books.

Breaking news: The U.S. economy shrank in the first three months of 2025, contracting by an annualized rate of 0.3 percent, a stark reversal after nearly three years of solid growth, as tariff-related uncertainty upended spending patterns and raised fears of an impending recession.

This is fascinating: On the pod, @kedseconomist.com cites the example of a US manufacturer of board games to explain what's wrong with Trump's tariffs and why unleashing so much pain and turmoil to restore manufacturing is an incoherent goal. Transcript here: newrepublic.com/article/1937...

It was great stuff today. Kudos to Booker. But it needs to be the <start> of continuous action, every day, to keep this going & build on it. Prove those of us who were skeptical about the performative nature of it wrong. Use every possible platform & power as Senators to defeat the fascism. More.

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

Y’all 👀 @daveyseligman.bsky.social

We expected 2,000 people out in GOP-held Greeley, Colorado. 11,000 people showed up. Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.

There's been a long-standing organizing effort to get better Dems in office. This week proves how important that is. They just need more of you. Follow @repyourblock.bsky.social @newkingsdems.bsky.social and get involved.

This whole thing was a deliberate set-up, and the real audience for it was not the American people. It was the global fascist movement.

huh, is this bad?

Here in Illinois, ten years ago we saw the consequences of a rampant ideological gutting of government. It genuinely harmed people. Our citizens hated it. Trust me – I was elected based in part on just how much they hated it.

It seems almost unavoidable at this point that we are headed for a deep, deep recession. Just based on 200K+ federal firings & pullback of contracts, the March employment report (to be released April 4) seems certain to show bigger job losses than any month ever outside of a few in 2008-9 and 2020.

Yes to all of this

as a constituent I’d now like to know what @adamsmith.house.gov plans on doing to protect our democracy

it is honestly kind of striking to me that the founders were basically on target re: “things that could end our republic”

Sen Chris Murphy (D-CT) just now: “You could literally walk down the street and the first 100 people you’d find would be less dangerous as the head of HHS than Robert F Kennedy Jr. He will get people killed”

What OMB is doing violates the constitution itself. The ICA fills in the details of how congress and the executive interact over the spending power, but finding the ICA unconstitutional and ratifying OMB’s action here would mean overthrowing the most fundamental constitutional design.

Been thinking about this all day

Lots of bluesky in Wyoming