We need to sell it harder; the facts are on our side. Senate R's do not need Dems to pass their own CR. The majority can change the rules to 51% passage. Not so odd, It does regard purely financial issues. (They've used the nuclear option before to resolve judicial nominations.)

The whole of America needs to strike

well i suppose we can go on strike as well then

Something like this. "They control the House; they control the Senate; they control the Presidency; THEY have full control. The decision is theirs". It needs to be repeated & very briefly explained, the same way each time. (Skip "the leadership is failing" part and the "we have no control" part.)

Do not forget that we have a complacent and corrupt Supreme Court! 6-3 UGH

I can't believe MSNBC is falling for this "anti-ice" on the bullet thing. The shooter's brother says he wasn't political and didn't have strong feelings about ICE. Where's the scrutiny?

You can be mad at Jim Comey for what he did to HRC in 2016 and also decry any potential indictment as bullshit. You can do both.

He stood in front of the world at the UN today, and every other word out of his mouth was a lie. I’ll say it again, we’ve not been here before. An American President who lies as he breathes. It’s a terrible place to be. Shame on the media & everyone who’s normalized his lying and/or doesn’t care.

When you don't have the votes in Congress, you can't win there. No matter how clever your leadership is, you will lose. Losing looks bad & people WILL blame the losers. Take it outside. Enlist the public & other organizations with a series of one-day general strikes. (No Kings is not enough.)

Things regarding this administration that would have be widely regarded as on a par with traitorous behavior now appear in the news several times a week, every week.

No way should the Dems shut down the government. However, said this before and this is what I posted yesterday: No Kings is nice, but we should be organizing a one-day general strike.

Not only do we routinely see kids dying in ICE custody, now they’re missing nearly 1000 people who were being held in Alligator Alcatraz? HOW THE HELL is this not a stop the presses moment? We can only hope it’s not a Brubaker moment.

#BillMaher used to be a "tell it like it is & let the chips fall where they may" kind of guy. Then, he got mistaken for "both sided are equally to blame" kind of guy. He must have liked the attention, now he's busy, busy trying to fit in that role. (Ok, not 100%, but, more and more, Bill.)

Yes, we the people are in a difficult spot. It's time the Democrats, (whom a majority of us turned out of power in the last election) did more to help us.

This is the problem with trying to use the law to reign in a runaway fascist state. Similar problem with trying to use political power in the absence of election time. And - Of course, elections, in the time ruling fascism, pose their own problems.

Government shutdowns are stupid. They never helped the Republicans when they tried it. In fact, all it did was get a lot of otherwise unconcerned people pissed, mainly at the Republican Party, but also at innocent civil servants and Democrats who were, at the time, 100% against the shutdowns.

It's clear why ICE does their work masked.

Most Americans do. And of those individuals who supported the election of the White House's current occupant, nobody truly thought they were voting to end democracy & anoint a king. DJT isn't just unAmerican, he's now the world's foremost terrorist. The American president is a terrorist. Proudly so.

Sometimes this site (Blusky.app) is the only way to find out what's gone on.

One of the most momentous criminal acts to happen during my lifetime.

Actually, it's like being a little bit pregnant.

"jawboning" That's a nice word. If I hire a killer to murder for me, am I not a killer? These people are not jawboning. They're shitting all over the constitution and the first amendment. I guess that shouldn't surprise, they've already done the same to the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments.

Walz: This is North Korea style stuff. And it's being done because this is a weak, thin skinned man who's failing as a president. All of the things he promised are not happening. It's a it's our most cherished freedom to point out very clearly, this is a terrible president

According to the New York Times, "The text exchange between Mr. Robinson and his partner was reproduced by prosecutors in the charging document." Reproduced? So no one has seen the actual messages? No screen shots? No time stamps? Also, weren't they on Discord and not SMS? 1/

A quick refresher. bsky.app/profile/bone...

Who will be next? Everyone that Trump has a grievance with. Everyone who would dare to hurt his feelings.

If Jimmy Kimmel had been suspended for saying the n-word on the air, all these people condemning him would be making him into a free speech hero and lashing out at anyone who dared assert he couldn't say it.

Not so fast, Doc. I'll bet Dollars to Doughnuts the right to bear arms is just a shot away from becoming real selective.

If the first amendment is dead, then ALL the rest are in critical condition. Trump fucks with the constitution once again. When will we demand a stop? Don't begin to think you are safe if you just keep quiet. oldgoats.substack.com/p/the-sackin...

The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”

"Jimmy Kimmel is next." - Donald Trump after the Cobert cancellation was announced. We now live in a country where we mustn't displease the president. What a horror show!

We are so far down the road to fascism, the UAE - Nvidia - World Liberty Financial scandal hardly gets a nod in the news. Monumentally bigger than Tea Pot Dome, & it sells out US security interests. the-decoder.com/nyt-uae-pour... Into Trump's pocket, right in broad daylight

Hey @abcnetwork.bsky.social what the hell Jimmy Kimmel is one of the best things about your network. If you lose him, you lose us. @jimmykimmel.com

This may be a turning point, and the question is which way it goes. I think that the answer is up to us. Here's something that everyone can do: speak up. I get that not everyone can speak publicly (because, duh, the repression and the fear) But at least talk to family and friends where you can. 1/x

This was almost a conservative's mantra at one time. Those who actually believe in this principle have left MAGA. Those who only thought they did are now standing up for the opposite. Irony lives on.

White Men are yelling, "Fight Back and Protect White," but from whom??? The killer was one of them. 😂😂😂

Straight line between this and Roberts' SCOTUS immunity decsion.

I'm telling you, they're going to offer to take the death penalty off the table if he just admits he was an antifa chapter president.

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

Things aren't "getting" dark. Things are dark, and have been for a long long time. The difference now is that it's starting to impede and inconvenience the middle class. That's when the threshold is crossed in people's minds, when polite society has to manoeuvre around the far right.

From Portugal: fascism is also surging here and we are learning from you how to be prepared and how to be uncompromising when it comes to free and fair elections, the rule of law and basic decency.

Nothing, nothing should distract us from the fact that the election, which so many are placing so much hope on, is being targeted, very real plans are being laid to neutralize it. These plans must first be opposed first by an awareness to what is happening.

This is a man for whom no one else's life has any meaning at all. A terrifying illumination of pure narcissism.

Malcolm X: “If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”

I just can’t help but wonder how much things would be different if Merrick Garland was not our AG during the Biden administration. This should have been Trump