They want people dying in parking lots.

How the hell is this shutdown our fault if Republicans can’t be bothered to show up

A lot of vulnerable groups go around in masks and kidnap people at gunpoint.

Republicans: Biden was trying to buy votes with student loan forgiveness. Also Republicans: We need taxpayers to bail out farmers who vote for us since Trump put them out of business.

It’s so fucking funny that we’re still getting five NYT op-eds a week calling for the left to tone down their rhetoric

"Welcome to the era of what critics call 'the Kavanaugh Stop'" #KavanaughStop

SCOOP — Pennsylvania prosecutors were alerted to possible voting irregularities by one of MAGA's leading voices against voter fraud. A long paper trail shows Jack Posobiec has been living in Maryland but voting using his parents' PA address for years. From @jsweetli.bsky.social, @slate.com + me:

From Walter Cronkite to Bari Weiss: a trajectory straight into the sewer

Everyone should listen to Chris Murphy's extraordinary warning about Trump on our pod. First, he says the logic must be that the more lawless he gets, the stiffer the resistance. "If I give in and consent to these kinds of tactics then it just normalizes it all." 1/ newrepublic.com/article/2013...

July 24, 2024

Still thinking about this by the way paragraph in the Sun Times piece on the apartment building raid. Full story: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

"politics" doing A LOT of work in this headline 🙄

Last year, CNN ran a “fact check” of Kamala HQ that claimed we were lying for saying Trump’s plan is Project 2025. Now Trump is outright admitting it’s his plan. Legacy media failed the country.

Thread.

Robert Morris, Texas megachurch pastor, pleads guilty to sexually abusing a child www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

Surreal moment for America. Needless to say, if the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run warrant checks — they would be sued into oblivion. Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.

Trump is now gloating about meeting with Russ Vought of "PROJECT 2025 Fame" to apparently determine which "Democrat Agencies" he wants to cut during a shutdown. Remember when Trump denied knowing about the authoritarian playbook and many pundits and politicians gave him a pass?

[Dem president show any signs of mental deterioration] MEDIA: WE MUST HAVE INQUIRIES! WE MUST WRITE BOOKS ABOUT THIS! THIS IS THE ONLY STORY THAT MATTERS! [GOP president is clearly batshit crazy and deranged] MEDIA: That silly rascal.

I didn't see the tweet. I didn't hear the comment. I didn't watch the speech. Republicans have been feigning ignorance about their mad king for eight years now.

Science colleagues, please add your own voice to this statement: “If your actions threaten my independence, then my defense of my independence—which I will defend unapologetically—does not make me biased.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgA4...

“‘My building is shaking. So, I'm like, “What is that?” Then I look out the window, it's a Blackhawk helicopter,’ said witness Dr. Alii Muhammad.” Raiding a Chicago apartment building from above as if they were on a mission to capture Osama bin Laden. Absolutely demented.

Please - stop doing the screenshot no link thing on Bluesky. This platform does not punish you for posting a URL. You picked up the habit from Meta apps? Stop doing Mark Z's bidding. Link ESPECIALLY to authors, reporters, bloggers, etc. where you quote the work.

Take the good news seriously too

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“Kavanaugh stops” is a tremendous term term for cops racially profiling people and someone should start a crowdfunding effort to pay a bunch of SEC sorority influencers to popularize it on TikTok. We must fight fire with devastating trending topics slate.com/news-and-pol...

It's important to name the tools of authoritarianism so we can identify and condemn them with precision. I'm glad we now have a term for ICE's openly racist, degrading immigration arrests: Kavanaugh stops. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Since the OP has deleted her incendiary post without acknowledging that it was bullshit, I’m posting it here for posterity.

Tyson Cole, The New Yorker

Translation: “Here’s $8 billion worth of reasons to end Republican seats in blue states.” Thank you, Russell Vought. Incredible strategy.

Last night, the ADL took down its "Glossary of antisemitism" which included an entry for the term "globalist," describing it as a far-right codeword for Jews. Hours later, the official DHS account authors a post with a common far-right meme, saying that "globalists" will be denied entry to the US.

Pope Leo XIV denounced people who deny climate change today, arguing that they are contributing to the destruction of God's creation.

This piece by @laurabullard.bsky.social goes DEEP into Peter Thiel’s Antichrist fixation—a bizarre melding of biblical scripture and Nazi philosophy. Remember: This isn't about AI. It's a much deeper story about the strange mind behind JD Vance. Read it: www.wired.com/story/the-re...

‘Someone who says I’m against abortion but is in favor of the death penalty is not really pro-life.’

Then why are you providing a $20 billion bailout to Argentina and helping them cut deals with China that crush American soybean farmers?

Fetterman, Cortez-Masto, & Angus King all voted with Rs to advance the budget. if you're in their state probably worth contacting them and telling them they fucked up.

Yes President Trump was slurring and exhibiting disordered thinking in his appearance before the generals. But at least he didn’t have a hoarse voice like Biden in the first debate.

The Committee for the First Amendment first launched in the 1940s, when the House Un-American Activities Committee accused Hollywood actors, directors and writers of being communists or sympathizers.

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About that NYT/Sienna Poll... More registered voters (26% vs 19%) thought that the GOP would be to blame for a shutdown. And yet the poll only asked respondents about whether the Democrats (the minority party) should shut down the government. Why not ask if the GOP should shut down the government?

Here is the House Speaker admitting that shutting down all sorts of government functions that the American people rely on - from the National Weather Service to the Center for Disease Control - is exactly what they always intended to do.

The GOP controls all three branches of the Federal Government. The GOP has shut down the Federal Government. Thank you for attending my TED Talk.

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It’s a bad look.

The only funny thing about a government shutdown is that every asshole who quit their job to take some of that ICE blood money will be getting IOUs for months.

Vote hell yes on Prop Fitty and whatnot.

In all the chaos, I would urge folks to remember that a lot of folks now don’t know when their next check will come. The vast majority are good people who love this nation deeply, and many of them are still working despite not knowing when they’ll be paid Have compassion.

Why now? Let's follow the money. No. Literally. Bc here’s the part that got buried in the noise these last few weeks. How about Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon has been investigating Jeffrey Epstein’s financial network for over 3 years now. On Sept. 9th, he introduced the 'Produce Epstein Treasury 4/24

Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance. Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn. We have been sent here to fight for people.

Great column by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social (gift link)