The Chandler City Council has voted unanimously to reject this AI data center that Kyrsten Sinema was paid to lobby for.

Trump's FTC leaders bad-mouthed Lina Khan when they dropped this lawsuit, claiming that they were cleaning up her mess. Now that it's been unsealed, we can see that was a total lie. This was a coverup to protect Pepsi and Walmart.

The appropriations measure that ended the shutdown in November says explicitly that none of the spending can be used to carry out reductions in force. This is mostly canceling unfilled positions, but cutting the regional offices would seem to conflict with the appropriations ban.

The delta between what Biden did and how much anger he got for it and the absolute crickets Trump has gotten for making the student loan landscape *magnitudes worse than it was before* is absolutely one of the most enraging things about this entirely enraging era.

Seems like Trump and his groupies think starting a regime change war of conquest out of nowhere is a political masterstroke that will get them back on the front foot, but I don’t think that’s how it will play out.

I asked @aoc.bsky.social about why she posted this tweet, and she said “because JD Vance is a goober, man.”

i have said this before but if you are actually interested in influencing people beyond a narrow circle of too-online journalists you will be making direct to camera videos on tiktok, instagram and youtube. if you primarily post on text-based social media then you're just dicking around.

Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true

Teens turn to a variety of online platforms, but YouTube continues to stand out. Roughly nine-in-ten teens report ever using it. TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat are the next most widely used platforms.

The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story. Holy. Shit. www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...

People think Dems are weak, that we don’t fight for what we believe in. Moderating or “running away from the Party” only proves them right. Taking votes we might not win shows that we’re fighting. Occasionally losing shows that we’re not afraid of tough battles.

Also, this is an invitation to international criminals, just like these kinds of program are everywhere else

"We should not let the executive branch and the president get us into another war that the American people don't know about, haven't supported, and there's no transparency for what the president is doing." @shaheen.senate.gov joins @samsteindc.bsky.social to discuss the latest news on Venezuela.

A tanker? We just doing straight up piracy now?

Reuters reports U.S. forces just intercepted and seized a sanctioned oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela—a major escalation in Trump’s pressure campaign on Maduro and a dangerous step toward open conflict in the Caribbean www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

I would love it if the next Dem president did a 21st century version of FDR style fireside chats. Maybe weekly live streams? The White House feels so disconnected from regular, everyday American life.

Remember, as Sean Duffy keeps telling us his ideas for air travel -- dress up nice for your flight! do a little workout before you get on too! -- this is an actual Good Thing We Wanted that Democrats secured for us before these assholes took it away

Community health centers were created to be medical safety nets for people who struggle to afford primary care. But we found that several are suing patients and garnishing their paychecks – which experts say contradicts their mission. www.propublica.org/article/fede...

NEW POST: Trickle up? Middle out? Floors and ceilings? Fair shots? Why do we create messaging that fails to connect with voters? Our messaging fails when we throw words together that do not correspond to the mental models people use to make sense of our world. open.substack.com/pub/reframin...

At least the last war for oil pretended to be about WMDs.

I’m sure I’m gonna get dragged for this, but I think AI is bad. AI has completely ruined Google search and it’s created a lot more slop that needs to be avoided on the Internet.

This is who she was. Passionate in her beliefs. Fiercely loyal to her friends. Never afraid to let you know exactly where she stood. The best. Fun Fact: I remember arguing with her over which of us hated Piggy the most. I was sure I did. She disagreed. It remains unresolved...

WELKER: What is your message to Jewish New Yorkers who feel you won't be tough enough in your response to antisemitism? MAMDANI: That I am looking forward to being the next mayor and fulfilling the commitment I've made to Jewish New Yorkers to not only protect them but to celebrate and cherish them

Longing for the day The Media gets COURAGE Quiet Piggy Potus

If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand” Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.

There is a post circulating on Bluesky encouraging the moving of a frozen turkey straight into a pot of hot oil. We are combating this misinformation the best way we know how - through the power of dance music.

It’s official. @dougjones.bsky.social will run against Tommy Tuberville for Alabama governor. www.al.com/life/2025/11...

Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait. My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.

Pay the utility bill or buy food? Too many Florida families face this choice every month. Under Trump, electric bills shot up twice the inflation rate. I'm working non-stop to lower your living costs. www.npr.org/2025/08/16/n...

Bye bye, “DOGE”. It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management. @reuters.com www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...

no one has even bothered trying to convince us there’s a threat from Venezuela. no weapons of mass destruction. nothing. just a war of choice because why not.

NEW POST: Trump gets a win by equating himself with Mamdani. Trump neutralizes attacks that he is a fascist by making them equivalent to his own false attacks on Mamdani, both of which he blithely brushes off as political bluster. reframingamerica.substack.com/p/trump-is-n...

Stephen Miller said the Chicago building was “filled with TdA terrorists.” DOJ prosecutors have not filed criminal charges or shown evidence that anyone arrested in the raid belonged to the Tren de Aragua gang. With @frontlinepbs.bsky.social & @blockclubchi.bsky.social

If ICE agents can’t operate without masks and no IDs, maybe the problem isn’t California, it’s whatever you’re trying to hide. 📌 The Trump administration is suing California over its new laws banning ICE from hiding behind masks and forcing them to show IDs while they run operations in the state.

They stole nine of my books. Nine! But why not Doppelganger? Not good enough for these mass doppelganger machines?

An ICE employee was among 16 men arrested after trying to solicit a minor for sex in Bloomington, Minnesota, police say "When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges said during a press conference. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."

I think we should call anyone with a net worth of over $1B what they are: a sociopath

Immigration law is extremely complicated. And it’s all the more confusing when the people enforcing the law seem to be targeting immigrants who have every reason to think they are doing everything right. www.thebulwark.com/p/arrested-f...

I’m still thinking about “quiet, piggy.” No president should be able to speak to a member of the press that way and remain president. That moment encapsulates how vile, misogynistic, and horrible that man is.

Superb point.

A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi. I hired and worked with Jamal for a year. www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...

I think Americans are realizing that democracy is a participation sport, and the the government is ours if we want it to be. I feel like we got complacent and hoped some other third party would do the work for us. Seems like we have to learn that lesson every generation.

This is bullshit! What are the charges? 📌 Border Patrol arrested two women for allegedly honking their car horn to alert others of the agents’ presence

I mean, look, I'm not a reporter, so who am I to talk? But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession. But that's just me

The victims of Jeffrey Epstein–and the American people–deserve answers, accountability, and the truth. That’s why @markwarner.bsky.social and I are joining 45 of our colleagues in calling on Republican leadership to immediately bring the Epstein Files Transparency Act to a vote in the Senate.

NEW POST: We need a scale that isn’t riddled with false choices and bad strategy. Center v. left fails to differentiate between economics and identity or between policy and language. We don't have to choose between ideology and electability. reframingamerica.substack.com/p/the-center...

NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find: - NONE of the arrested were criminally charged - NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists." - ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.

I find it highly ironic that the party that bemoaned the deep state and alleged the cover-up of pedophiles is now embroiled in defending the party that has the largest pedophile cover-up in American history.

just opening up the new Epstein docs at random: