These bad faith propaganda accounts continue to grind my gears to no end. They do net damage to the causes they purport to support.

I think there's actually a useful difference we can draw here. Namely: there is incrementalism that comes from pushing wherever possible (and with whatever levels possible) to make progress toward a maximalist demand, versus incrementalism that's positioned as an excuse for setting minor goals

Pantsir is an emotional support air defense system

This is from NYC. They successfully elected a socialist as the mayor. The fuck do you guys even want from us.

we know who most of the non-voters are! Pew has studied this!

we really have to end the idea of the smol bean congress

Fuck off, Dave

The corrupt abuses of power continue. There shouldn't be one system of justice for the President and his family, and then a different one for everyone else.

Probably 80% of posters madness is downstream of thinking that posting on a niche microblogging platform is, in some way, important, rather than being a way to waste time on your phone

"I think it was a failure to recognize how these suburbs were changing and how the Democratic electorate — the mood that they’re in,” Abbott said. “They don’t want to see Democrats parrotting Republican attacks.” www.publicsource.org/allegheny-co...

The important lesson to take away from this is not that we are all going to die of Hantavirus. We aren’t. It’s that the United States has zero pandemic prevention capacity at the present because of deliberate sabotage by the president and his appointed lackeys.

If you’re anywhere near Bucks County on Saturday, we’d love your help talking to voters about these essential races for the future of democracy.

This👇🏽 deserves to be posted 100 times but I’d be labeled spam.

... but I know that the best way I can send a clear message to Trump and his supporters is to not cross the border and spend my money there and to not buy American products until he is history.

Author who thinks the seas being a gunfight at the O.K. Corral is a good thing

Donald Trump’s FY 2027 Budget Proposal would be a disaster for Pennsylvanians — cutting funding that helps seniors put food on the table, ensures communities have clean drinking water, supports public transit, and more. I went through it all, so you don’t have to — here’s what you need to know ⬇️

Donald Trump’s abuse of power and threats of a war crime and the destruction of the Iranian people merit the President’s removal from office. Congress should return to Washington at once to put a stop to this and bring our troops home.

House Democratic leadership statement on Donald Trump's threat to kill a whole civilization.

Kristi Noem may be out, but nothing has changed about the need to put a stop to ICE abuses and the erosion of American liberties.

your plan of militarily defending free nations against the tyrants who would enslave them pales in comparison to my plan: posting about how war is bad😔

American voters should always be able to vote free from intimidation by federal agents. This is a basic freedom in our democracy.

The President of the United States has already called for my arrest and hanging, and has sent the Justice Department after me and other members of Congress for stating the law. [1/2]

ICE at every polling place? Not nearly enough goons. Refuse to seat winners? No mechanism and would crash markets. Lie about the vote, falsely claim fraud? Very safe bet. Seize ballot boxes in certain locations? Worryingly plausible, as @rickhasen.bsky.social and @gregsargent.bsky.social explain.

Again, this is FALSE. Administrative warrants are NOT signed by an immigration judge (or any judge at all). They are generated and signed by ICE officers themselves with no external oversight whatsoever. Here is a blank sample warrant. Note who signs off on it; an "immigration officer."

WRONG. I-205 administrative warrants are not issued by immigration judges. They’re signed by ICE officers. And EVEN IF THEY WERE issued by an immigration judge - they are executive branch employees, NOT judicial branch. JUDICIAL warrants are needed to enter a home without consent.

Judge Reyes starts with a comparison: George Washington versus Kristi Noem.

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Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune

Inside of you there is a small Russian liberal who demands recognition for doing the bare minimum, demands being sheltered from the consequences of our government's actions, and thinks everyone else is just as bad as us You need to strangle that voice in your head if you want to keep your dignity.

BREAKING: The Tribune confirmed on Instagram that the man shot has died, according to two sources with knowledge of the incident. ICE attempted to order local police from the scene, but Chief Brian O'Hara refused, sources also told the Tribune. O'Hara instructed his officers to preserve the scene.

I’m demanding Sec. Noem provide an explanation for this abhorrent policy & that my Republican colleagues hold hearings & join me in demanding the Trump Admin answer for this lawlessness. 6

Wife of Pennsylvania empty-vest senator Dave McCormick

So to return to this: Mussolini had 200,000 blackshirts for the March on Rome in a country of ~35m. Hitler had 400,000 brownshirts in 1932 in Germany for a population of ~60m. So around 0.6% of the population. 0.6% of 340m Americans is just over 2 million. They do not have enough goons.

Swearing in of local Democratic commissioners Margaret Izzo @izzo4commissioner.bsky.social, and Nick Petti, and treasurer Joe Senko. Congratulations, all!

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Congress needs to grow a spine and take back its war powers authority.

I'm going to elaborate on this, because holy shit, last night - thank you everyone who engaged in respectful back and forth, it felt like Plato's Republic in here lmao - I had a brain blast So, the problem: Caesar has come. He intend to end the republic. For the military, there are three "worlds"

So we're stuck, right? Huntington says "be Caesar's cudgel, civilian tyranny is an acceptable risk," Weber says "the rule of military men is an acceptable risk if it avoids a ruinous dilettante" Enter Morris Janowitz, author of "The Professional Soldier"

WEEEEEEEE I LOVE STATE COLLAPSE I LOVE POWER VACCUMS I LOVE ARMED GROUPS COMPETING TO CENTRALIZE THEIR POWER IN THE ABSENCE OF A LEGITIMATE MONOPOLY ON VIOLENCE I LOVE THE SPREAD OF REGIONAL INSTABILITY I T C A N O N L Y G O O D H A P P E N

I was there Gandalf. I was there the day the nothing-ever-happens-bros failed.

Eliminating the federal government is a bad idea (see Federalist Papers). BUT, the states probably do need to come to a new agreement about how power is held in Washington. I would prefer that this happens peaceably through amendment because dying in Alabama is low on my priority list.

It’s occurring to me that when Stephen Hawking died in 2018 the title of “great man of science” sorta disappeared and got loosely taken up by Elon Musk (and maybe Neil deGrasse Tyson). Anthony Fauchi was briefly (in)famous in the same way. Are there any living candidates for valorization?

Schiff: "I think we ought to bring Pam Bondi before the Senate Judiciary Committee demand answers as to why the DOJ has violated the law."