I have to say we need the moderators of the CA governor’s debate to teach other moderators how to do this #cagovernordebate

You may know the California governor campaign is in flux. Now's the time to take a fresh look at Xavier Becerra. I can't think of a better review of his exemplary character, qualifications & accomplishments than this, from a former colleague in the Biden-Harris administration. Read & share. 1/x

Americans suffer from a desperate need to believe in the inherent goodness of the American electorate--the idea that a voter in 2024--after nearly a decade of unfiltered, widely broadcast, deeply fascist rhetoric from Donald Trump--was simply "tricked" by a Facebook algorithm or a Fox News segment.

We ask the following: 1. Block any funding for this war. Not one dime. 2. Use War Powers Resolutions to force votes to end this war. 3. Hold Trump Regime officials accountable for their crimes and corruption. Senator Padilla: 202-224-3553, Senator Schiff: 202-224-3841, Rep Carbajal: 202-225-3601

There is something you can do about all of this — make your plans for May 1. This country needs a united show of power, energy, and hope. indivisible.org/events/may-d...

Amidst everything else, the Trump regime has quietly killed off the U.S. Forest Service 🌲 “One hundred and ninety-three million acres of your national forests… just handed, on a silver platter, to the people who’ve spent their entire careers trying to destroy it.” www.hatchmag.com/articles/tru...

“They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science…And they’re replacing all of it — the offices, the scientists, the institutional knowledge, the professional independence — with fifteen political appointees”

Beyond the fact that this is sexist and racist purge of the military, it is also a quick path to weakening unit cohesion and discipline. They don’t want a professional military. They want a white and dumb military for domestic use. That’s their ultimate goal and the dirty secret behind this purge.

What the hell is this country doing here? Why deny the people who want a vaccine, let the dumb fuckers not get them but those of us with compromised immune systems do not want to stop protecting ourselves and others.

Signs you might be a far white authoritarian party (#3345):

“Make supremacists on the right want to pull women back from public life entirely… It’s a politics of abuse, sickly legitimized by a gospel that is supposed to be about mercy.” @aselrod.bsky.social is so good at taking on the American right’s distortion of Christianity, in @liberalcurrents.com.

USAID, now US Forest Service. They keep demolishing institutions that were deeply problematic, but nowhere near as awful as their erasure. I think this is big, bad news, the real news of the day, not that nothing-to-see-here speech.

Important investigation of a terrifying step toward criminalizing resistance to American authoritarianism. inthesetimes.com/article/prai...

This week, I asked my readers for feedback and what they are looking for from political writers. Their responses tell of a pervasive sense of exasperation with politics, the search for ways out of this mess, and the longing for optimism amidst all the chaos. Some thoughts from my new piece: 🧵

850 Tomahawk missiles could be $3,060,000,000... That is 3 billion sixty million US dollars. That is 1224 5 year biomedical research grants. Literally, over 6 millennia of biomedical research.

This is yet another example of how trump has weaponized government:

I read the “Save America Act,” so you don’t have to. Most of the media apparently *hasn’t* read it because, if they had, they would be sounding the alarm about the provision in Point 1, below, which almost none of them have even mentioned. I hope this summary helps raise awareness. 1/

We are such a deranged country at times

Plan to be there! NO KINGS 3 is coming up on March 28. More than 2500 No Kings events are registered nationwide (so far). Our event in Santa Barbara will begin at 11 am at Alameda Park. Watch this space for more details, and spread the word. We need this one to be big! #Indivisible #NoKings

📌Mortgage rates are rising again, along with gas, which means Big Oil, the banks, defense contractors, and Trump and his billionaires are all making tons more money. Just in case you are wondering what the hell is REALLY going on here.

The war in Iran shows, yet again, how much better and safer a world powered by renewable energy would be. ayanaelizabeth.substack.com/p/environmen...

@schiff.senate.gov I will NEVER vote for you again. You are such a tool, seriously. I wish you had the same cajones that @padilla.senate.gov had.

The war in Iran is another manufactured crisis — brought to you this time by America’s scandal-plagued president and Israel’s scandal-plagued prime minister.

After sexual violence, it's victims who get punished the most. Victims who lose their jobs and have to leave their industries. Victims who lose their friends and support systems. Victims who lose their health and sanity. Perpetrators might lie low, sometimes, before being handed it all back.

guy with the mask that comes off during his attack of the observer and attorney seems like an extra huge loser, which is really saying something for these turds. Do they teach such professional form in the shoot yourself in the leg, family won’t take your calls, weakest of character dept training

It wasn’t so long ago that CNN sat down for a serious conversation with these guys. One of them is Pete Hegseth’s pastor. Pretending these assholes are still ‘fringe’ is a dangerous mistake bsky.app/profile/seth...

The illegal boat strikes are still happening they’re just not “news” anymore www.wola.org/analysis/the...

I read the Trump-backed voter suppression bill, the so-called “Save America Act,” so you don’t have to. Here’s my summary. Please tell your Senators to vote NO on this abomination: 202-224-3121. TY. 1/

Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.

Today I saw ICE gas little white kids in the streets of Portland with chemical weapons. Imagine what they're doing to brown and black kids in the detention camps

@schumer.senate.gov @padilla.senate.gov @schiff.senate.gov

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

this is what they want to do, theyve been saying it for years, they want to murder us in the streets and they think they should get away with it because our beliefs are a threat to their power and wealth

If this is what they do when they're out on the street with people pointing cameras at them, what do you think is happening inside the ICE prison camps that they keep denying Members of Congress access to?

they're claiming he approached ICE with a 9mm drawn so they had to kill him

Senate Democrats absolutely have to shut the govt down to stop this ICE insanity in the Twin Cities. This is not sustainable & cannot be normalized. Any Democratic vote to provide money to the thugs who are brutalizing this community is a grave betrayal to the people here. Accountability can't wait.

I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness. You could be next.

For a bit of perspective if we do end up with 30 million barrels of Venezuelan oil the U.S. currently produces about 13.8 million barrels a day. We are also brazenly putting our armed forces at risk to increase profits for corporations that we already subsidize.

Mark Lutter’s Charter Cities Institute (CCI) has been eyeing Venezuela since 2019, has received $$$ from Emergent Ventures (backed by Thiel), & calls Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale a “supporter”. Lutter & I just had an interesting exchange. See posts 40-43…1/ threadreaderapp.com/thread/20074...

I agree with you about @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social he is not fit to the a leader, at all!

And actually--Comet Pizza was a page out of a playbook that started with daycare decades before. In 1983, a California mom accused her son's childcare provider of subjecting children to Satanic rituals--like flushing them down toilets into secret basements where they were then filmed for porn. 1/🧵

Epstein redactions aren't believable, and they are valuable to fascists specifically because they aren't believable. Fascists prefer lies to truth. Believing in a lie is preferable to believing a truth, if what you want is to dominate. Believing lies dominates truth. So they believe lies.

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9

@gavinnewsom.bsky.social @governor.ca.gov You really are disappointing this Californian that voted for you for Governor. BILLIONAIRES SHOULD NOT EXIST!

@hillaryclinton.bsky.social you should be ashamed of yourself, I am a 59 yo woman and it is a genocide😡

GFY @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social you are useless

A federal judge ruled Donald Trump cannot demand that UCLA pay a $1.2 billion settlement that would have restricted academic freedoms. bit.ly/3JV8Cbg 📝 @mzinshteyn.bsky.social 📸 Jules Hotz

Remember that ceasefire everyone praised Trump for securing between Israel & Gaza? Netanyahu just massacred 104 Palestinian civilians, including 46 children, on the mere accusation that Hamas handed over the 'wrong' corpse HE MASSACRED 46 CHILDREN & I doubt you've heard one media outlet mention it

What is wrong with you @schiff.senate.gov ? Why would you approve any of his nominees?