“You don’t need a political-science degree to understand why having wealthy individuals cutting secret checks to the president to pay the military is a bad idea,” @dgraham.bsky.social argues in The Atlantic Daily.

This article quotes the university president saying Lia was on the women's swimming and diving team, but she's not on this year's roster on their athletic department website. The NCAA banned her from being on the team when Trump first took office.

We have reached the point where the *American Bar Association* cannot find attorneys willing to represent them in litigation against the Trump administration. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation. Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net

May I present a former clerk to Justice Gorsuch.

Apropos of everything, word-one: "Councilor", singular, was enough to figure out half of this story.

Things are going great!!!

If this is true, it means a class of billionaire oligarchs can pick and choose whatever parts of the government they'd like to fund. And that military funding is ciming directly from "Trump's friend" and not the citizenry at large. Cruises past the Guilded Age by miles.

Trump: "By the way, a friend of mine called us the other day and he said 'I'd like to contribute any shortfall you have because of the Democrat shutdown. I'd like to contribute any shortfall you have with the military.' Today, he sent us a check for $130 million. It's gonna go the military."

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Pritzker on Fox: "He's challenging the integrity of the next election by sending troops into our cities. It isn't about fighting crime. He said he's going after the worst of the worst. That's not what they're doing. They are literally after black and brown people because of the color of their skin."

Good flippin' lord 🤦‍♂️

And God said I will send them without wings so no one suspects they are angels 👼 🐾🐶❤️💙

The thing about all this is that, yes!, people can change and we should support that. And welcoming folks in from the wilderness is a good we should all be trying to do! But Zero-to-Senate is just not gonna work when this kind of stuff is your *very* recent past. Run for Selectman or something.

Solar autumn is almost complete. Still feels and looks good, but it's about the same angle now as it is on Valentine's Day! On a related note, this is why February is my favorite winter month. Better light, better storms. #wbz

<<[...]Solheim repeatedly framed political conflict as a matter of life and death, telling students they must be prepared for martyrdom to advance the MAGA agenda. “I want to start with a heavy exhortation—you need to be willing to be killed,” Solheim said.>>

Brian Schatz: "This is not about money. There is enough money to bail out Argentina with $20b. There is enough money to purchase a brand new aircraft for $173m for Noem. There is enough money to renovate the WH ballroom. What there isn't enough money for under this Republican government is you."

-----A MONTH??

Gus: Come on, Shawn! We can't just put a ladder up to the window---it'll never work! Shawn: Gus, it's almost shift change, those French guards haven't had wine or baguette in hours! They'll be totally distracted. Gus: How dare you say 'baguette', you know they weird me out! Despereaux: [...]

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as far as just messaging goes that video is probably the most embarrassing thing any president has done on the world stage in my life and the fact that the sunday shows wont even describe it? total abdication of their responsibility

"Appeared to be"???? "Brown liquid"????? Worthless fucking institution

Yesterday's No Kings protests were apparently the largest since the first Earth Day in 1970 The NYT covered that story with a six column headline across the top of the paper and two full pages inside Today, two small pics below the fold and a story on page A23 They constantly let America down

Not a single mention of this across the Sunday shows as far as I could tell

Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

Remember my friends, there are more of us than there are of them. Just keep standing up.

Yeah, I’m not trading Markey for Moulton, ex. A

7 million people took to the streets across the nation to protest in defense of our democracy. This country belongs to the people. We will fight for it with everything we've got.

notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”? anyway that’s why these events are important

#NoKings Boston.

Boston. Wow.

#Boston #NoKingsDayOct18th

😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings

"i dont want to eat a kebab, i want fish and chips" well sorry little buddy but we're at the kebab shop and you're twelve

For my friends, everything. For my enemies, the law www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

white house has joined bluesky click here to block all official us government accounts instantly bsky.app/profile/did:...

Pritzker has probably been the most explicit about this, but it's very important for Democratic leaders to draw this line and follow through with prosecutions. Left unsaid is the need for massive court reform and rewriting the U.S. Constitution, let alone the American social contract.

woah!

AOC: You're damn right that it's a Democratic priority to keep people from getting poisoned, from dangerous chemicals  You're damn right that it's a Democratic priority to bring down the cost of housing If they want to say that that's a Democratic priority, they're right,

AOC: We're ready to strike a deal. We're not here to just be "my way and the highway" about everything. But, what we're also not going to accept, is the complete collapse of the American healthcare system. Just because the Republican Party has decided to take a million federal workers hostage.

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🧵: Last June, more than 5 million Americans joined #NoKings rallies across the country, protesting President Trump's authoritarianism. And this Saturday, with your help, it's going to be even bigger and better.

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples? HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

indeed, a basket of deplorables...

Where have I heard this song before....