13 years ago today.

They’ve laid off so many people that the government is now getting its economic data from DoorDash.

Today Republicans will publicly flood social media with sanctimonious tributes to our veterans while quietly dishonoring them through their inaction on ACA subsidies, which, if not renewed, will result in more than a quarter million veterans losing their healthcare. No surprise though… 1/2

Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.

Wut?

I always get drawn back to Al Gore telling voters that he’d only raise taxes on the top 1% and then after the election a poll showed that something like 20% of voters thought they were in the top 1% and another 20% thought they would be in the next five years. Just a total tragic disconnect.

The Founders knew Congress - especially the House - was the backbone of U.S. democracy. It should be a huge story that Mike Johnson, serving Trump, has all but shut it down From the Reichstag Fire to Putin's toothless Duma, this is what dictators do. My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

Tim Walz: "People are gonna be lined up out here to get food, and we're talking about a damn ballroom. Don't lose the plot."

Oof.

The horrible, horrible irony.

So many people feel overwhelmed while scrolling and there’s a reason for that. Bots are a large part of the problem. We’ve been breaking down how to spot them. After tracking bot groups that push narratives and attacks, we found some common traits:

The big difference between now and the '70s? Corporate concentration. If there’s no competition, high prices don’t go away. They turn into record profits while wages stagnate. buff.ly/VvVZSMG

The "common good" is a set of shared values about what we owe one another as citizens who are bound together in the same society. A concern for the common good—keeping the common good in mind—is a moral attitude. It recognizes that we’re all in it together.

100% true.

Noticing a pattern here.

I wrote about the shameless and predictable fearmongering about Zohran Mamdani. open.substack.com/pub/ser1897/...

The plight of the women that are megaphones for the patriarchy. She has been tricked into thinking that being adjacent to power is real power. Her racism got her here.

The new Director of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, John Barron, has revised the jobs numbers for the last three months up from 106,000 jobs to "seventy trillion billion jobs."

Motherfucking wind farms…

Can we buy moral compasses in bulk for these guys?

The video is funny, but it also illustrates something much more sinister: When someone's livelihood depends on the benevolence of affluence, they develop an interest in helping privileged people to get away with breaking the rules. 1/

Welker to Lindsey Graham as he pushes baseless conspiracy theories in an effort to gin up a scandal about Obama: "Are you trying to rewrite history to distract from the Epstein matter, senator?"

Deported under a little-known wartime law, more than 130 Venezuelans were sent from the U.S. to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. Now released, several tell NPR they endured beatings, sexual abuse, and near-total isolation.

This is a dangerous expansion of the police state for nearly 180,000 people. Placing those going through the legal process — our neighbors and loved ones — under 24/7 government surveillance is a gross violation of our civil liberties.

This moment from today’s Medicaid vigil is so powerful… Question: What do you say to the people who voted to cut Medicaid? Be honest. Samantha Phillis: They voted against my child’s life. #MedicaidCutsKill

"15–20% of Americans believe in some of QAnon’s core claims." I think our support keeps these people too comfortable. Maybe voting booths should just have two buttons: "Medicare/Social Security" and "Conspiracy Theories." They might vote for the latter, but at least they'd have skin in the game.

They’re trying to set a record for the most white guys in suits in one shot ever

Great news.

Sadly, this is the typical response from our MAGA relatives on anything he does: "I know he's terrible, but God can work through terrible people. Look at King David. We just need to pray harder." I point out that David repented, but it falls on deaf ears.

We are overjoyed to hear about Mr. Barranco's release and to know that he is back with his family where he belongs. We won’t rest until we see humane treatment of immigrants, sensible immigration laws, and no more terrorizing of our communities. America is better than this. #OnYourSide

The Trump regime is about to burn 500 tons of USAID emergency food. Why? Because it expired after its shipment was delayed. 1.5 million children could have eaten for a week. Now, taxpayers will spend $130K for it to be destroyed. This isn’t just inefficient – it’s cruel.

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The problem? I know an RN. She graduated from college in 1980. Her classes were $30/credit hour and she paid for her Associate’s degree with her part-time job. She now wonders why kids are so lazy and can’t pay for their own education and why they would ever need help with student loans.

Nancy Mace gets wrecked by a community note

Their "governing" can't just be about making us wrong.

I honestly didn't realize surviving a shooting was a big deal anymore in the U.S. All of my kids had to routinely train for getting shot at in school. One of my kids had to shelter in place because of a shooter on his campus and a kid I used to babysit was at the Las Vegas concert.

Sigh.

I have friends who've helped change the world through their work in the State Department. We should be thanking them, not firing them.

"Deal with the devil?" Good grief.

Since the Epstein thing is destroying MAGA, expect Foxnews to find some new trans athlete to be outraged about soon.

“California is so far using forty per cent less natural gas to generate electricity than it did in 2023, which is the single most hopeful statistic I’ve seen in four decades of writing about the climate crisis.” www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

Concerned family members are desperate for answers after they say a disabled U.S. veteran and citizen was taken during a federal immigration raid at a cannabis farm in Camarillo.

A newly completed investigation by Wyoming’s largest county found no evidence of noncitizen voting in the 2024 elections, undercutting claims used to justify the state’s controversial proof of citizenship law. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...