All of you know Trump is the US president who surrendered in Afghanistan, right? Made a deal in 2020 cutting out the Afghan govt, let thousands of Taliban fighters out of jail in exchange for nothing. I know the "everything in 2020 was Biden's fault, not Trump's" rule, I just don't agree with it.

Happy Thanksgiving! Let us dedicate ourselves to preserving, restoring, improving, and strengthening America by emulating the "fortitude, courage, and resolution" of those who saved the Union 160 years ago. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-2...

A democracy where a coordinated effort by national leaders of one party to subvert an election outcome does not lead to any real consequences is a democracy unlikely to last long

This isn't a foreign psy-op, and it's not the product of social media bots. It's a homegrown menace, and it's getting worse. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Oh look. Things are happening in the world outside the 24/7 Trump immersion tank, aka American media.

In Google's search engine, you can suppress AI summaries by adding "-ar" to the end of your query. For example: "best way to brine a turkey -ar" www.google.com/search?q=bes...

Alas, for many if not most members of Congress, wrapping it up and going home is what they prefer. Their favorite vote is to recess and take days or even weeks off.

If this secret OLC memo blessing the boat strikes is so convincing, why won’t the administration release it?

To be clear (since NPR isn't), the "joke" is premised on the fact that Trump is kidnapping people w/o due process and shipping them to offshore concentration slave camps in defiance of court orders, human rights accordances, the U.S. constitution, all tenets of common decency, and international law.

SCOTUS has held POTUS immune from prosecution for “official acts”. The only check on a sitting President is impeachment, which is a *public* process. If POTUS can prosecute MoC for discussing whether his actions are illegal, no force w/in the government can check him www.newsweek.com/fbi-intervie...

Sen. Sal DiDomenico: “The fear and trauma caused in our community is crossing a line where our kids and families are being impacted every day.” Talks about ICE agents hanging out by carriage return at supermarkets. Emphasizes the importance of passing the Safe Communities Act. #mapoli

It’s not “unusual” you autocrat-enabling fools! It’s market-manipulating grift by an illegitimate president and his criminal cronies.

It's the American way!

Always Remember: The President serves at the pleasure of Congress and not the other way around. It is the most powerful branch and if the federal government sucks, it’s the fault of the Congress and all the members in there.

Wait a minute. Does this mean that the Fed pursuing its dual mandate involves political maneuvering, rallying factions, and biasing future outcomes? It's all politics, folks. Both high and low, and for both good and ill.

“Without prejudice” inconsequential in context because statute of limitations has passed for the acts with which Comey was charged.

@drteague9455.bsky.social set a trap for his students, what he learned is a major bummer. The lure of the large language model is strong, and the students don't know what they don't know. Freedom and literacy are on the line, history urges us to our own work. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/set-tr...

To be fair, the Project 2025 people are responsible too. Russell Vought and Heritage and Clarence Thomas and the rightwing billionaires from Crow to Koch to Uihlein that fund their work and supported the long term planning for the crime spree.

"Examples of Unlawful Orders: - Targeting or intentionally harming civilians - Torturing or abusing detainees - Falsifying operational or legal records - Engaging in unauthorized political or domestic law enforcement actions" Read the full article:

"...a kind of post-modern nobility, a class which does not rule exclusively but interacts with politics in a fundamentally different way from the rest of society." That, dear readers, is the very definition of a faction, albeit a minority faction. Even J. Madison acknowledged the threat eventually.

I want a poster sized version of this for my very own. Also a wallet sized version that I can pull out and point to when I cross paths with the many people around here with absolutely no sense of humor.

100 percent guarantee: generative AI will not raise productivity in general use. Except maybe money laundering and drug dealing. Like crypto.

In a functioning system, trump would be removed from office for his execution call alone. That he has not been removed and will not be removed is one of many pieces of evidence that the constitutional system has failed.

Mark Kelly's wife narrowly survived an assassination attempt, so it is some measure of Kelly's courage, and Trump's absolute lack of empathy, that he would call for Kelly and other Senators to be killed.

Two truths for today: Truth #1: When facing an unlawful order, members of the military have a duty to disobey it. Truth #2: When a president calls for the execution of Members of Congress for stating Truth #1, that president should be immediately impeached + removed from office. @fsfp.bsky.social 1/

Thank you @algreen.house.gov for your continued leadership and courage in standing up for our Constitution and our democracy. And thank you to the @removalcoalition.bsky.social. I was honored to be with all of you at today’s press conference. @fsfp.bsky.social www.impeachtrumpagain.org

Dear Senator Warren @warren.senate.gov, I am one of your constituents. You have remarkable power as a US Senator. You can introduce legislation to end this, and you have the power to bring it to a vote in the Senate. Use your power to put your declaration into action. Do it now.

The strongest Congressional response is: "Trump is levying war against the US in violation of the Treason Clause. It is the duty of Congress to pursue impeachment proceedings for the crime of treason." /end

They can tell the public–& the US military–that they *did* hear what they thought they heard at Quantico, that it *does* mean what they think it means, and that Trump’s actions via federalized National Guard and militarized federal agents in US cities are *exactly what they look like*: 8/

These seditious words are from the '24 DoD Manual for Courts-Martial: "It is a defense to any offense that the accused was acting pursuant to orders unless the accused knew the orders to be unlawful or a person of ordinary sense and understanding would have known the orders to be unlawful." (II-136)

🧵Treason is Self-Impeaching Conduct: An argument based in historical precedent & Constitutional structure. 1/

The Trust for the National Mall may not be a money laundering operation. But I bet it comes pretty close to the line. Also, the language in the trust president’s disclaimer sounds exactly like the claim T-Mobile US made in its letter to me. 🤔 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I mean, yeah, but you guys could've done more to throw sand in the gears in the Senate, and chose not to. But never fear, Chris! It's not too late to argue vehemently for impeachment. He may want state violence, but this is a civil society and we remove our unfit Presidents pursuant to law.

I'm seeing a form of magical thinking among the punditocracy—the idea that "something" will end this flailing regime, some unnamed force. That force is impeachment. Backed by mass protest and followed by removal or resignation. Why the reluctance to name these things, I don't know.

As many have been saying, our constitutional failure is an Article I failure. And it's not like we weren't warned, including by @normornstein.bsky.social academic.oup.com/book/53442?l...

New Update! I received a reply of sorts to my letter sent to the CEO of T-Mobile US @t-mobileus.bsky.social. 1) It obviously was not written or edited by a human (note the salutation, lol); 2) The main message: "Our hands are clean! Honest!" 3) Corporate boilerplate. Tell me what you think!

Why are newspaper headline writers so bad? Even the @us.theguardian.com! There was no ‘bickering’. Trump attacked Mamdani repeatedly. There is nothing in the body of this article that even quotes a Mamdani response to the attacks. Do better news media people!

"Millionaire flight" isn't real. But what is real are the critical new investments in public education and transportation. www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/11/17/d...

If the SCOTUS 5 ratify this one, then the US Constitution will truly be just a smoldering wreck.

This Schedule F charade is a textbook example of the corruption of Roberts Court, which will likely endorse it. The entire argument rests on a tacit agreement to pretend that the plain meaning of words, as the legislators understood them, don’t exist. Pure corruption. www.govexec.com/workforce/20...

People assume that the reason Congress isn't impeaching is because he's not doing impeachable things, and that is NOT TRUE. They are not impeaching because they are either cowards or complicit in his crimes. Either way, they are shirking their sworn oaths to support and defend the Constitution.

This is good. But you and your colleagues also need to follow the Constitution by backing the impeachment and removal of the treasonous president. Active military and civilians should not have to fill the vacuum of courage left by elected officials. Do your duty, Senator.

Oh come on. The generative AI expansion is being built on insane levels of debt. Also theft. Oh, and don’t forget unregulated pollution and excess strain on the grid.

I will never use any generative AI if I can avoid it. Why would I use a tool or product that has theft from every single person as its core business model? And will likely be used for surveillance, privacy invasion, and more theft?

Question: what does this guy actually do? It’s a question we ought to ask about every big corporate CEO. Like, how does he prove his worth?

As @vermontgmg.bsky.social said, "Ordinary Americas are stronger — braver and better."

⚖️ KNOW YOUR RIGHTS ✅ You have the right to remain silent ✅ You do NOT have to open the door without a judicial warrant ✅ You have the right to speak to an attorney ✅ You can refuse to answer questions about where you were born ✅ Document interactions on video whenever it’s safe to do so (6)

"Ordinary Americas are stronger — braver and better." ✅✔️☑️ www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/trump-bord...

Cultural geography trivia: why is Boston referred to as the Hub?