If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this: America's problems are solved problems. Just not here. What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵

Thank you, Canada. The 60 Minutes story has been leaked. Youtube is taking it down as copyright violation. But it aired in Canada and someone there recorded it Here it is. I think everyone should watch it to bear witness. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

Sunday reading: I wrote about how the regime’s latest racist hate campaign is tied to the Right’s broader attempt to redefine citizenship and national identity in service of an exclusionary white nationalist vision. A deep dive into the Right’s visions of blood-and-soil nationalism:

Alexis Rose, 11 weeks old. She's might not be buying what we're selling. #caturdayeveryday #catsofbluesky #cats #blueskycats #petsofbluesky

David Rose is very photogenic. He's only 11 weeks old, which is much too young to be looking this grown. 🥰 #caturdayeveryday #catsofbluesky #cats #blueskycats #petsofbluesky

I spent the first 33 years of my life in Maryland and DC. The first thing to know about crime in DC is that the Epstein files still haven't been released.

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I particularly like this Jason person’s idea that Solnit gives Trump a pass. 😂😂😂 Too much time in the manosphere.

Sen Booker still going 15hrs in. It's not the performative BS of Cruz reading Green Eggs & Ham. He's cataloguing the violations, deceptions, the breaches of national security, "mistaken" releases of classified info happening under Trump. www.youtube.com/live/v2utlMx...

A thread worth reading. Full of great perspectives on managing expectations for our sanity and sustainable activism

So this is the brain trust that is traipsing through the government and dictating what program should be cut. Only the best people. I guess we’re supposed to just hope there’s no confidential information stored on it.

Yep. Want to unlevel that playing field.

Watch what they DO: Trump has ordered key federal health agencies to pause all external communications, which means these agencies may not provide the public with critical information on a variety of medical issues, including food recalls, infectious diseases and new drug approvals.

Watch what they DO: Undermining airline safety and security, making traveling more risky. "The aviation security committee . . . will technically continue to exist but it won’t have any members to carry out the work of examining safety issues at airlines and airports."

Clever

Great choice, America

This is helpful. A collection of feminist writers to follow

The party of protecting women from a manufactured threat of trans women everyone.

The best story ever told.

A POTUS & SCOTUS untethered to the Constitution is a scary thing.

“the aesthetic radicalism you mistake for ideology” 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

No idea if this will work here But this thread is worth a read. www.threads.net/@jvlast/post...

He’s checking all the fascism boxes.

It is easy to be hyperbolic in all political commentary, but one should be clear that Trump's rhetoric meets all the conventional definitions of fascism. Many people seem afraid of saying this because it seems extreme or hysterical, but it is what it is.

Mrs. Bowers makes a good point. As usual.

Emails obtained via public records requests reveal a network of Republican election officials in Georgia are coordinating on strategies to overturn the results of the 2024 elections. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

I don’t feel a day over 1,399,442 🤷‍♀️ Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,399,443!

Just to be clear, “The American People” includes Haitian Americans. He doesn’t care about *all* Americans.

But I was told that Biden/Harris and Trump were identically bad for Palestinians? /s

🎯 Some people are so angry that they cannot watch another’s joy and love without lashing out with mockery or insults. What a sad way to live.

Read the whole thread

There are lots of reasons. But please republicans, keep telling us how much you hate women and how weirdly obsessed you are with children’s bathrooms.

Make him irrelevant.

Y’all better work equally hard getting her elected as you did fighting amongst yourselves.

The thing about the Orban comparison is that Hungary's a small country with a declining population. It's comparatively easy for Hungarians to move elsewhere - Austria, Slovakia, Croatian and Romania - fellow EU states - are just short drives away. The US as a whole doesn't have that "exodus valve".

All right, fuck this Biden is Old shit, let's find the worst parts of Project 2025 and deconstruct them, shall we?

I want to talk for a minute about the things Biden *did* talk about doing in the debate, because I find it fascinating that people are criticizing him for not talking about what he is planning to do, because...he did?

I’m convinced the only way to stop the media’s obsession with Biden’s age is to stop responding. No telling them to F-off, pointing out why they’re wrong, no raging. Treat it as engagement farming & ignore while they punch themselves out. Volunteer for a campaign; talk to voters instead.

That took no time at all.

More support for the theory that OpenAI is equal parts “never have an original idea” + “steal other people’s work because you’re constitutionally incapable of imagining anything on your own”—with a hefty dollop of “fetishize women and refuse to take no for an answer.”

"Justice Thomas, the reason there were not criminal prosecutions there is because those were not crimes." --Michael Dreeben 🤷‍♀️

Paul Provenza posted—correctly—that Mike Johnson looks like an abandoned ventriloquist dummy. And damned if he isn’t right. I knew he reminded me of someone! the dummy from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Put another way, it's the Doomscroll in verse. The despairing helplessness one feels when exposed to an endless litany of awful news, on a platform where the only thing you *can* do is watch. Or yell. Or shame. Or just bear endless, agonised witness.

So, while he was president, Trump was also working for China. Cool. If Biden said this, he'd (rightfully) be impeached. But because it's trump, it's just smart business, right?

Rep. Crockett speaking truth.