Nothing I could say about the GOP base is as illustrative as the fact that Trump understands that posting black people in what his audience considers a “white space” will make them incandescently angry bsky.app/profile/atru...

Sir, a second bird is at the feeder

What would you do if you were a Senator?

I feel like “the world passed peak gas-powered car sales in 2017” is not a widely known fact

I missed Holy Thursday, but a related part of the week for me

this is the chaplain btw. wonder why he was fired.

Volkswagen, an actual car company, had revenue of £321bn last year and a market cap of around £80bn.

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here's a democratic senator reinforcing the false frame that pam bondi had "integrity" before becoming AG. here's what i wrote about bondi's past when trump first nominated her. www.dailykos.com/stories/2024...

rip to your land war in Asia but I'm different

Rip to every president who lost a war in the middle east but I’m different. And better. Maybe even good enough to win a war in the middle east

Dems should be calling for Trump’s resignation every day, whether its a press briefing, cable news appearance, the Sunday shows etc

I will never understand, and I think I will find it very difficult to forgive, any individual who helped raise this man to power and lower the United States into the gutter. I'm honored only that he hates my state and my neighbors with special fervor. We welcome his hatred, it does us credit.

Daycare $200 billion Medicaid $150 billion Medicare $800 billion Wars $3.6 trillion Ballroom $150 billion someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my country is dying

Idk how I keep winding up on so many democratic fundraising spam texts but both the volume and actual content of them make me actively less likely to give to the candidates soliciting.

A single vote for Trump in the birthright citizenship case would be as bad as anything the Court has done since Bush v. Gore. This issue has been settled for more than a century. It is the jurisprudential equivalent of asking what 2+2 is. Any answer other than 4, something is deeply, deeply wrong.

I want to put this as plainly as possible: This site has way too many self-righteous, underinformed assholes looking to pick a fight. We need fewer of them and more people with Mark's expertise.

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anyone ever noticed how psychotically evil, cruel, and anti-human republicans are

objectively the funniest critique an american could level at another country

It's really something, for SCOTUS to strike down a conversion therapy ban on Trans Day of Visibility.

this is objectively correct. where i get frustrated is the idea that Trump is acting at someone's *direction*. it removes his agency and doesn't acknowledge that he's doing what he wants for his own reasons. that those reasons align with other authoritarian regimes does not mean he's taking orders.

Most big legal questions have easy obvious answers and the outcome to cases is often detached from that answer

If @workingfamilies.org wants to be relevant and meaningfully different from the democratic party, endorsing Graham Platner is the exact type of thing it cannot do. Unconscionable betrayal of principles to endorse him, in a primary no less, in light of everything.

"Israel" doesn't start with a J.

Naturally, they got a quote from a transphobe who is celebrating this.

JK Rowling and the anti-trans movement is just straight-up evil. How can you read this story and be like, "This is good, actually"? www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

I am so tired of being told that because I live in a coastal city I don’t count as a Real American and it is especially grating coming from my own party

If Trump responds to the No Kings protest by sending more troops in to American cities, liberals will have blood on their hands.

I think often of a New York Times photo of a little Iraqi girl tending to her parakeets in a bombed house, probably from 20 years ago now. I will think of this man and his sweet dog often now too. People just want to love what they love, care for their little beings, and instead we do this to them

It’s such a laughably bad argument for the war on Iran to say “The people there want regime change.” I want regime change in the US, and I 100% do not want the US to be bombed. F off with garbage arguments.

i like to call this "electoral college brain," when politicians (or hell just regular people) confuse the fact that the electoral system privileges closely competitive interior states with some deeper, fundamental meaning

really can't be said enough that this case was decided by the same court that decided plessy v. ferguson. if they could have found a plausible rationale to limit birthright citizenship they would have done it. but there is none! the text is as clear as constitutional language can be.

next time we should try a government staffed by people who are good at their jobs to see if things work out better

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I am not convinced that this administration is taking the war it started that risks global economic chaos with sufficient seriousness.

if he wins, as seems likely right now, i hope he’s a reliable left vote and will support new leadership and a new approach in the senate. that’d be good i guess. but im never gonna fuck with him, ya know? on account of the nazi tattoo he had for 20 years.

i just think “he had a nazi tattoo” is a reasonable thing to make a red line when deciding whether to support or oppose a political candidate. apparently lots of people disagree, for a variety of reasons. but idk i feel good about it being a red line for me personally

from 1868 to 2025 there was little dispute about what the birthright clause meant and the idea that the past year has been some great scholarly debate is absurd. a handful of partisans and hacks have churned out junk so that the president can get what he wants. that’s it.

i said last year that these people were segregationists and that “merit” just meant “white and male” to these people

4/ If Trump is able to get away with ignoring that, with arrogating the entire power of the purse to himself, then Congress has pretty much no way of checking him.

3/ From the Founding through the present day, the power of the purse has been understood as one of Congress's most potent tools against the executive: the executive can't do anything without money, and he can't spend money without Congress.

2/ These actions aren't just illegal, although they are that. They aren't just unconstitutional, although they are that. They are anti-constitutional: they strike at the core of one of the principles that allows our entire constitutional order to function.

1/ It's not just that unilaterally paying TSA agents is illegal. It's that Trump has now repeatedly undermined the core of the congressional power of the purse. He's not spending money that has been appropriated by law (impoundments) and he's spending money that has not been appropriated.

Maine has better options. Time to get the word out about my candidacy. Andreaformaine.com.

Everyone dooming over how $185M means nothing to Meta: this lawsuit was brought by one (small) state. Forty-nine plus DC to go. It is okay and encouraged to celebrate Ws instead of just saying “it doesn’t matter” every time any awful corporation faces ANY consequences. This could force change.

senate brain is a disease