Good morning. The government is shut down because Trump wants to act like a king and steal from you. Democrats have no obligation to support a budget that funds the destruction of our democracy - and DOUBLES health premiums to fund a tax cut for billionaires.

We have to adapt to endure in a post-information age, where we are told there are no facts, only politics. open.substack.com/pub/steveins...

I don't want to read any more stories about people in the thrall of motivated reasoning. I want to read stories about some people who have changed their minds when presented with new information.

to my mind the woman who dies of sepsis because of antiabortion laws, or the person who dies because they can't afford insulin -- these are just as much victims of political violence as the man shot through the throat while making a racist speech

If you dehumanize people when you are living, sympathy will be absent when you die. Across time, this has always remained true.

You know what would be good FBI experience for identifying violent criminals in a large crowd? The agents who investigated January 6. Who have been/are being fired.

Well done helping the rest of us appreciate why the decision to honor an insurrectionist is damaging both to our military and our society, @markhertling.bsky.social.

Some of my colleagues who are currently crying online about TX Democrats leaving the state are the same ones who left D.C. early so they wouldn’t have to vote on releasing the Epstein Files. Kind of interesting how that works, huh?

What are they hiding? You don’t get to slam the door on a Member of Congress during a routine ICE visit. I’ve toured this facility before—so why am I suddenly a “security risk”? My team requested permission. They had no right to deny us. They’re clearly afraid of accountability.

Some call it a movement… I call it about damn time! www.cnn.com/2025/07/11/h...

This Saturday July 19, rally in Dublin, CA to stop ICE from opening a facility in Dublin. Event starts at 11am, there'll be a march from the BART station starting at 10:30am. actionnetwork.org/events/all-o...

This is a brilliant thread of contextualization of this moment and what's praiseworthy about it amidst the atrocities.

Fascinating AND with expert citations.

America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home. Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.

Call your congressional rep and ask them to fight this bill! Glad to know my rep is doing what is right for the people.

Great. Just great. Scopes trials for everyone.

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I'm going to try and communicate with my Republican colleagues in a new way.

What a fantastic discussion! Sharing this episode widely with friends and women I love.

The 2026 Dem Primary season is gonna be fucking lit

Gen Z/Gen Alpha (and those who maybe missed it the first time): I feel like now is a good time to re-up shoe throwing guy, aka Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi: Just. Things you should know.

It’s the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Why are no headlines focusing on the unconstitutional and dictatorial nature of this action?

I’m sure this notorious psychopath who just unilaterally started a war because he was bored will wind this down with great care.

We’ve bombed Iran. And dismantled our joint terrorism task force. And sent a third of the FBI to help ICE. And gutted the National Security Council. And a drunk guy is in charge at the pentagon. And our intelligence allies probably won’t share intel with us. Because people couldn’t vote for a woman.

illegal war started by a man constitutionally ineligible to be president

My heart breaks for trans kids, who do not deserve this obsessive animus that adults are directing at them.

I wanted to share that I just donated to help support Yvette and John Hoffman after the tragic incident they faced. Every contribution really matters and will help them with medical bills and other expenses as they recover. www.gofundme.com/f/support-yv...

No Kings! Dublin, CA

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FIRST ON MSNBC: "It's all BS coming from Trump." Sen. Padilla gets emotional talking about the treatment of immigrants from the Trump administration hours after being forcibly removed from a DHS press conference.

@aoc.bsky.social addresses the press

Let’s not forget that Alex Padilla is the first ever Latino to represent California in the United States Senate.

If they will do this to a U.S. Senator, these thugs will not hesitate to do this to you and me. We have to put a stop to this NOW.

We should keep our foot on Gavin’s neck about all his bad governing but I will also enjoy him talking to republicans the way all democrat politicians should

Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

Earlier this year, my daughter's high school went to the state mock trial competition in the courthouse adjacent to this park. The sponsor is Teach Democracy. The whole team gathered in these chairs, around these tables, for a picnic lunch between trials. Wild to see them used as protection.

If only there were masses of national guardsmen already in the area with nothing good to do.

It’s so much worse this time. It might not be clear if you don’t live in LA, but the supposed “riots” are tiny. They’re nothing like George Floyd in 2020. Protests are happening in a few blocks downtown and as resistance to specific ICE raids. This is 100% pretense for fascist subjugation.

“Currently, there is no plan for where everyone is sleeping tonight,” the source said, adding that there was an urgent need to find more portable bathrooms and dumpsters for garbage.

Immigration hater and hypocrite anntelnaes.substack.com/p/stephen-mi...

LAPD when they think no one’s looking

I'm sorry but expecting civilians to follow the law when law enforcement is out openly committing crimes left and right is a joke. Either we have a system here or we don't. Pick one.

President Trump stumbles while attempting to board Air Force One

The “shall not be infringed” crowd sure seems to struggle with the rest of the constitution.

On the left, residents cleaning up their streets. On the right, federalized Guard arriving to quell "violent mobs." You can see some holding their assault rifles. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

The feds kidnapping and trafficking people is a violent crime. Protesting it is fighting back against abuses of power. The government claiming protestors started the violence is DARVO—Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim and Offender. It’s what abusers do when they face consequences.

Wellman: When I served in Iraq.. I heard about how Saddam Hussein divided them. Different sects fought each other. But you know -- Saddam and his family sat laughing at all of them. They divided them against each other and kept their power for 35 years. Does this sound familiar to anybody?