The broligarchy will bankrupt us and then demand we bail them out. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Thriving in independent media for 25 years, without a) getting hoovered into some larger media org & subsequently axed, b) getting ruined by some hedge fund guy, c) falling afoul of any short-lived "pivot to video" style trends, or d) going broke... ... is a genuinely remarkable achievement! Kudos.

"An argument that didn't work for Calley at My Lai, an argument that didn't work for the Nazis at Nuremberg."

Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.

Republicans have refused to cooperate with Democrats’ attempts to negotiate preventing a health care catastrophe. As a result, premiums are spiking in every district in the country. This isn’t a left or right issue― Access to health care affects us all.

“THIS IS A SEWER… A SCAM… Congress has been enriching itself for too dadgum long.” We are highly critical of @RepTimBurchett but he & @repjayapal are right — Congress should be BANNED from trading stocks, as @unusualwhales calls out. Make your reps & senators back this.

lol those files are never getting out

NEW: We just sent a letter, along with 8 other groups, urging the House to swiftly move forward with the Restore Trust in Congress Act, a congressional stock trading ban with bipartisan support. There is no reason to delay this important reform.

A must read investigation from my colleagues Kavitha Surana and Lizzie Presser. Tierra’s medical care received under Texas’ abortion ban shows how dangerous pregnancy can be. Complications from the pregnancy resulted in her tragic death and no doctor offered termination

This is all stunning, not only should the case be dismissed but I believe there are lawyers involved who should be subject to Bar discipline.

Remember according to Republicans, 15 year old girls are actually adult women while 30-something year old men with government jobs are just wee little lads who aren't responsible for their racist and Nazi memes because boys will be boys.

Most of us have no idea how bad it is inside ICE detention centers because they have kept it hidden. Then a truth teller shows up and says it plain. The conditions are filthy. The treatment is inhumane. The abuse is Systematic and routine.

As someone who hires human copy editors for her imprint and books... can I emphasize how much more they do than flagging grammar and spelling (which using AI for it might suggest) but dive deep in the nuance of human language, fact check etc? That offer style possibilities in word choices via

Medicare for All would save $450B a year. Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity. Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall. It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.

Authoritarians co-opted the term "DEI" to conflate good faith diversity and equality efforts with half-hearted corporate platitudes, cultivating the lie that their racism and attacks on civil rights are somehow about efficiency and the press continues to help them do it

Sen. DURBIN: We must hear from Kristi Noem under oath as soon as possible.

So we had some victories with the Epstein files, what now?

Yup. It’s a combo misogynistic, anti-press, unpresidential smack of entitlement. And it could be aimed at anyone. All of us.

Check out Piggy’s “hot” economy.

Alongside the obvious cruelty, a defining feature of this Trump term is how arbitrary and almost ad-lib much of their agenda is. One month they were mass revoking student visas, one month they were getting hundreds of people fired for Kirk, one week they invade one city and the next week another.

Don't rule out a "wag the dog" moment here. I worry about it too.

He's always been a vile piece of shit. Nothing he says surprises me. What does surprise me is that people are still giving his vile ass a pass.

It is late and I have a lot of work to do. But the excitement of today's big victory in Texas has me writing instead about how we got here and what is next. Become a Democracy Docket member to receive all my writings and to support the 21 person team. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0

This all-male panel is deciding whether South Carolina women can be charged with murder for their pregnancies — and whether birth control and pro-choice websites stay legal. This a real thing happening today. Don't look away.

Breaking: An Epstein survivor just silenced press conference attendees when she delivered the following remarks: “Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government belongs to the American people, or to those who prey on them.”

CEO: We need to cut costs. Accountant: We paid you $50 million last year. You are being paid $1 million for this meeting. CEO: Who's that in the hallway? Accountant: That's Greg. He is the only thing keeping this company together. We pay him in nickels and Grubhub gift cards. CEO: Fire Greg.

If you break the law and pay off the Trump family, you might get a pardon from Donald Trump. Why? Because it’s a pay-to-play at the White House.

The Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians received a grant for its Choctaw Dictionary project in 2020. However, as the department was nearing completion of the dictionary, the Trump administration terminated the award. buff.ly/5ApEvre

Bingo. Corporate welfare is the real welfare you should be talking about.

Can the next please dear God can the next interviewer ask MTG about oh I don’t know January 6th etc before we keep pretending she found politics Jesus

If a man said what Megyn Kelly said, you would assume he was a trafficker. This young lady is wise beyond her years, but she is still a “child”and she would like a word…

Jimmy Carter’s peanut farm says hi.

I refuse to believe that Larry Summers' expertise and skills are indispensable in any way. Please find another economist and policy expert, @americanprogress.bsky.social. There are loads out there.

🚨 I can remember when breaking down a door without a warrant, tear gassing a family, and endangering small children would have landed the offending officers in jail. 1/2

What Bongino does here is address this story by going after this Daily Mail headline. But this story was broken by ProPublica, and it said that Bongino was able to skip the polygraph portion of the background check, which was highly unusual. He chooses not to respond to that.

Massachusetts AG Campbell: What you heard from the president and the speaker is total bullshit. Let’s take a step back. Never in the history of this country — during a war or an emergency shutdown — has the federal government ever stopped funding SNAP benefits for our most vulnerable.

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Acton: I’m running against a guy, Vivek Ramaswamy, who has said that people are struggling in Ohio because they’re lazy, they’re mediocre, they’re not working hard enough. And I can absolutely tell you that is not the Ohioans I know or see. I think he’s completely out of touch.

We have a lot of really messed up personalities

🎯 Ana Navarro on the #Epstein scandal

Remember: The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year. That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare. Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.

Maybe we should just call it the ‘Trump files’ This is damming 🔥

Murphy on the shutdown cave: "Trump was showing signs of cracking. What did he do Wednesday? He called all Republicans to the WH & said, 'end the filibuster.' They basically told him no. His only play would have been to come to Ds to cut a deal, but we were so impatient we didn't even get there."

Broadview.

Biden didn’t release the Epstein files because Merrick Garland was actively investigating Epstein/Maxwell co-conspirators all the way up until January 2025. Then Trump shuttered the probe. www.cbsnews.com/news/jeffrey...

NEW: We’ve uncovered the first known example of taxpayer money flowing from DHS to businesses controlled by Kristi Noem’s allies and friends. It’s part of a money trail that’s been shrouded in secrecy—and involves $220 million, a mysterious Delaware LLC & a horse named Gill.