Governing is a job, not an entitlement. If Republicans do not wish to work for the American people, we can find Americans that do.

Please sir I am just a small soybean farmer and a common man

There's been testimony that #ncpol had mid-decade redistricting that was not court-ordered in the 1960s. That is not true ⬇️ The 1966 & 1967 redraws *were* court-ordered pgs 46 & 48 of Orr's "The Persistence of the Gerrymander in NC Congressional Redistricting." (Southeastern Geographer 1969)

The Democrats need to get a hell of a lot of cameras on the White House and plaster the photos everywhere. It's not just the brazen symbol of a megalomaniac destroying national heritage; it's happening during a government shutdown when ordinary people aren't getting paid. Make every American see it.

It will be difficult for Trump and Republicans to convince Americans the insurrection act must be invoked due to Americans exercising their Constitutional right to protest while wearing inflatable costumes. #Portland #Chicago #LosAngeles #NewYork #NoKings #1A

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

It's increasingly clear that the president lives in a constructed bubble of unreality designed by aides who are manipulating him in order to take control of US policy. Seems like an important story - wish media would cover it.

Trump talks like a mob boss. “You have nice benefits like Social Security. It would be a shame if something happened to them. I don’t want to do it, but I have the right to do it.”

Memphis community leaders have set up text alert systems, issued legal check lists and demanded police comply with a longstanding civil rights agreement barring cooperation by Memphis police with federal and state agencies in activities that violate First Amendment rights.

It's not just bribery. He's now using personal litigation, backed by state extortion, to extract "settlements" which he then puts into an account he created to spend on government work, all entirely outside of Congress taxing or appropriating. It's full Charles I illegal taxation and spending.

Portland is peaceful. "Antifa" is fictitious. Worldviews vehemently against fascism are ethical and wise. Inciting violence is pathologic.

Just Security is a reputable and measured source of natsec legal analysis if this FAQ weren't written by a military lawyer who teaches at Yale Law and published on JS I would write it off as the most paranoid possible take on next week's meeting but here we are www.justsecurity.org/121421/hegse...

Swampy #draintheswamp

Top Trump officials are reportedly working to identify groups whose activities “led to” violence, whatever that means. The vagueness is the point: The people's government is actively looking for political activity they can *pretend* to link to violence. 5/ newrepublic.com/article/2009...

I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.

if you’re in line to get raptured, STAY IN LINE

“Kash Patel’s FBI did not find illegal activity by Homan”.

These people are psychotic.

I hope the majority realizes you can't win over the right wing with civility or the old ways. Doesn't work. Its a dangerous, violent, hypocritical cult without shame. They want power by any illegal means necessary. Choose your fighters accordingly. The current Dem leadership ain't it.

BREAKING: The Bureau of Labor Statistics has postponed the release of a key annual report central to future inflation data. The BLS did not explain the reasoning for the delay or when it might ultimately be released.

I was reliably told celebrating political violence was cause for government reprisal and private sector termination.

Project 2025 folks are feverishly checking off Trump’s retribution bucket list. Appeasing their golden calf is how they stay fixed in Trump’s government. Their prize for sycophancy? A white Christian nationalist state.

Democrats out performed in special elections. Democrat leadership response? Abandon the very groups showing up to the polls. Bungling Democrat leadership will never learn.

That’s one way to reduce social security payouts. Remember when Republicans said during Covid grandma and grandpa were willing to sacrifice themselves for the economy and ending lockdowns?

🎯Another "free speech" firing!

praise for Kirk from liberal pundits is one of the clearest distillations of how ill-equipped they are for this fascist moment, & how devoted they are to a West Wing fantasy of a respectable right/conservative movement that does not exist, and which - like Kirk - almost never operates in good faith

Here’s where the link takes you today.

People too often conflate consuming media with becoming educated on a subject. People will watch a whole ass video by some rando, and walk away from it without cross referencing any sources or even checking the validity of said sources. We really are just a nation of suckers at this point.

The troubling rise of concentration camp euphemisms

Let’s make one thing clear from the start: Charlie Kirk was the victim of a shooting in a country where he, along with other right-wing extremist influencers, have been inciting violence for years. — Kirk is neither a martyr nor a hero, he is a cause.

Perfect example of a hit dog will holler.

Elderly dictator Trump's now routinely incoherent; his massively swollen ankles are umbrellas for his feet; and he's trying to conceal his mysteriously bruised hand. But the press, which treated every misstatement by Biden as proof of dementia, is nearly silent about the dictator's infirmity.

… eye brow raised at the idea of a movie treating an American rock star or popular singer with that level of gravitas that you would normally give to a film about someone who liberated a Nazi death camp They should do that trailer but for the Tony Bennett biopic.

GOV. @gavinnewsom.bsky.social : “Facts are stubborn things… Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas…. Alabama is a top 3 murder state. Where is the President? — He isn’t focused on crime & violence. It’s about an expression of authoritarianism.” (H/T @acyn.bsky.social )

A 1955 writer casually dropping a “Germans tended to go along with Nazis just like your all-American wife goes along with segregation” is both the answer and the question for “how we got here”

The most important details of the story are buried half way down this long article but like… this isn’t a security risk THIS IS THE EVENT.

Tells you all you need to know about the Dem Party. They’re digging in to maintain the status quo, rather than listen to voters. Funding Dems is funding the establishment, including Republicans, apparently. Save your $$$.

How to tell the difference: green headbands.

Q for those w experience in politics or diplomacy: Is there *any* other example of a US prez, on US soil, letting a foreign leader control the mic for a very long time, in his own language, w/o consecutive translation, before letting US prez say anything all? I don't know of any. Humiliating.

My god. Get rid of Jeffries now. He is not made for this moment.

I have lost all patience with the apparently unshakeable conviction that striking a reasonable, moderate pose means assuming the sincerity of transparently pretextual horseshit. Donald Trump does not care about reducing crime in DC. He is testing and normalizing paramilitary deployments in cities.

Gotta say I'm a huge fan of the idea that there's a "deep state" that spent decades and countless resources installing a shadow government that controls all the "alphabet agencies" and bends the US government to its malign will and it has finally broken cover to smack a cop with a hoagie

We had a near-perfect national regulatory system for sportsbooks. Then Chris Christie asked SCOTUS to blow it up for his casino buddies in 2018. Now we have this.

Thirsty. Sad.

New reporting from @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social, who got hold of internal standards for chatbot behavior at Meta.

The New York Times writes a 1,450-word editorial about crime and the erosion of societal norms without once noting that the president of the United States is a convicted felon. Seems like NYT is participating in the erosion of societal norms.