I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.

Are your aggressive maps ready to go because gerrymandering is the fight right now!

We know they will cheat, violate every norm & try to run out the clock in court. They will gerrymander Ohio, Missouri & Utah next. We must be prepared to go proactive now to stop the slide of Democracy. This post is to the Governors who can combat this. 2/

@govpritzker.illinois.gov @govwesmoore.bsky.social @govmurphy.bsky.social @governor.ny.gov @gavinnewsom.bsky.social Texas launched their first shot over the bow today for stealing the election with gerrymandered maps. Authoritarian Trump told Texas to find him the votes (like he did in GA). 1/

ICYMI: Vance Boelter has been captured and is now in custody. Boelter was arrested in Green Isle, the city where he lived.

ABC News says Vance Boelter has been arrested.

Biggest mistakes I'm seeing in early reporting (thread): 1. Tariffmageddon isn't over: Lotsa tariffs to account for, but the average tariff rate is only down around one quarter. So most of the pain of Liberation Day is still with us.

The PM said yesterday, “Dignity is probably the most important word in my dictionary.” As unpaid carer of an autistic adult I really believe “dignity” & “respect” are no replacements for empathy, equality & equity.

He’s ignorant 9to5mac.com/2025/04/08/t...

Ahem. DOGE has nothing to do with Government waste or saving money. That's it. That's the post.

Who’d a thunk, “They’re eating the cats! They’re eating the dogs!” or “Your son will come home a girl!” would be stronger messages than: “I’ll protect your Social Security&Medicare.” or “We’ll give you $25K to help get your first home.” Who knew so many American voters are this ignorant&hateful?!

New: “A Great Unraveling is Underway” - Thomas Friedman www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/o...

One of the first things Musk did upon becoming co-president was fire the head of the FAA because the FAA penalized SpaceX for safety violations. Fast forward a few months: 2 rockets explode. MAGA. www.faa.gov/newsroom/faa...

A federal judge overseeing a lawsuit claiming Elon Musk is wielding vast unconstitutional power to reshape US government said he was “highly suspicious” of the Trump administration’s incomplete explanation of the billionaire’s actual role.

Wow. 20+ DOGE staffers just resigned en masse, saying they refuse to use their expertise to “dismantle critical public services.” “We swore to serve the American people... However, it has become clear that we can no longer honor those commitments.”

Trump's CFPB, now under the command of billionaire hedge fund manager Scott Bessent, has halted the Biden admin's rule to ban medical bills from credit reports. It's been estimated that the rule would help improve the credit scores of 15 million people. Some populist, huh?

BREAKING: A federal judge has determined that the Trump administration is violating his order lifting the blanket spending freeze on federal grant programs. He is orderin gthe administration to immediately unfreeze funds, including for NIH and the IRA. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Trump says he will fire Kennedy Center board members, appoint himself chairman

🚨BREAKING: Trump-appointed federal judge in Washington DC says he will temporary BLOCK placement of approx. 2200 USAID employees on leave. Congrats to @democracyforward.bsky.social and @publiccitizen.bsky.social on a BIG victory! Follow @democracydocket.com for full details. www.democracydocket.com

Medicaid is NOT just a safety net, it's a HUMAN RIGHT! 80 million Americans, including KIDS, moms, seniors, people of color, rural Americans, and people with disabilities COUNT ON IT TO SURVIVE. Republicans want to CUT IT OFF AT THE KNEES? That's so pro-life of them 🙄 #HandsOffOurMedicaid

Breaking News: Two top officials at the U.S. Agency for International Development are said to have been put on leave after refusing to give representatives of Elon Musk access to a secure area.

1/ Musk seeking control over nerve systems of the federal government. As someone who spent a decade studying how centralized information systems are used for coercion this is a five alarm fire. We need to name it, identify risks, and seek to mitigate their impacts. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...

This is exactly why I'm pushing for blue states to create compacts amongst themselves that doesn't depend on the GOP to function I welcome you to help me push the message. I don't see another solution.

Fight evil. Follow Ron.

I have a favor to ask from all of my wonderful friends on here. One of my best friends in the world is running for city council in Chattanooga. Could you give him a follow? Thanks!!! @ronelliott.bsky.social

As I explained in my post about birthright citizenship, Native Americans do not derive their citizenship from the 14th Amendment but from the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924. So this question has literally been asking and answered but Trump knows nothing about the nonwhite history of the country.

CRUELTY IS THEIR GOAL.

Egg prices had better be down when I get up for breakfast. So far Trump has kept all his promises …

The voucher scam price tag is ballooning now to $400 MILLION (!!) — and it penalizes HOPE scholarship students so wealthy kids already attending private schools can benefit. www.tennessean.com/story/news/p...

As Texas hides abortion ban deaths, it’s clear: controlling data is an age-old propaganda tool. Suppressing the facts on maternal mortality ultimately leads to injustice & suffering. The truth is powerful & we deserve to know it. Jason Stanley & @profmmurray.bsky.social join me at 10a ET on #Velshi

Of the 5 bills to combat childhood cancer that were stripped out of the CR (after Musk’s objections), @timkaine (D) just got the Gabriela Miller Act passed by Unanimous Consent👇🏽 after Rand Paul (R) dropped his objection

“The media is tamed down a little bit,” he said in remarks at the New York Stock Exchange a few days ago. “They like us much better now, I think. If they don’t then we’ll just have to take them on again, and we don’t want to do that.”

Fox News is a great story teller. They aren't reporters. Their stories always have an antagonist and protagonist. Always a high level of drama. And sometimes joyful interstitials with a hero saving the day Maddow is a good story teller. But beyond her, it's the domain of fox on linear TV

PSA: Every story about Trump & Elon & Vivek & Marsha cutting health care and social security for regular folks that doesn’t mention they are also going to cut taxes for the rich (again) gets a big fat “INCOMPLETE” Otherwise you make it seem like the debt is their real concern.

Democrat Adam Gray flips California swing seat blue Democrat Adam Gray has flipped one of his party’s highest-priority seats in California’s Central Valley, booting Republican Rep. John Duarte from office in the last House race in the country to be called. www.politico.com/news/2024/12...

It's also true that there will be so much of this kind of thing - fraud on a completely new scale - that our underfunded media and our shattered attention spans might find it hard to cope. People are already used to the next administration's corruption and it's not Jan 20 yet

Thread: Republicans won the Senate in 2024 despite Democrats winning more votes & representing more people nationwide. Republicans last won more support than Democrats in the 1990s but won the Senate anyway in 7 of 13 elections since 2000. Data & charts below: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

But sure, put this guy in charge of The Pentagon

@support.bsky.team I’d like to receive notifications when the top people I follow have posted something instead of having to scroll around looking for it. Is there a mechanism for this that I’ve missed? Also, how long until blu has a trending topic list? Thank you!

Funny because true.

if you voted for Trump because you thought he’d lower your grocery bills or gas prices or housing costs, I have some very bad news for you wapo.st/4g0bNcF

So let me get this straight. If you apply for a job at a grocery store, you have to undergo a background check. But, if you apply to be Director of National Intelligence, you don't? Got it.

The moral of the story, kids: It’s fine to try to stop the peaceful transfer of power and incite a mob to storm the Capitol and do all you can to overturn an election as long as you run again and win 🇺🇸