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Democrats in Congress should plan hearings on this to see if there was any direct involvement from the White House

Betty was one of the most generous people I had the privilege of interviewing. An extraordinary person who lived an extraordinary life.

We’re totally on your side except on policing, immigration, foreign affairs, support for trans people, regulations, anti-trust, healthcare and safety net spending

Will air in two weeks! Just after Melania's press conference on her immigration status!

You never had to apologize for being white. You should still apologize for being a bigot.

These guys are not subtle about their political project so maybe it's time to take that seriously

*nodding* I’ve seen various AI applications to do things like diagnose breast cancer earlier or decipher the communication of whales, which, like, YEAH, THAT IS REALLY COOL!

awfully rich of JD to call someone out for being inauthentic. a yalie whose law prof helped him write a memoir where he threw his family under the bus in order to craft his up-from-appalachia persona before he toddled off to be a venture capitalist

Israel’s land seizures in the West Bank aren’t raising questions about the possibility of a two state solution, those questions were answered a long time ago. This is about what kind of one state reality there will be, and the answer to that is also pretty clear. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

you don't have to apologize for being white, or a pedophile, or a convicted felon, or utterly unqualified for your job.

"It's not a genocide, it's just a quest for lebensraum!"

Make America Germany Again!

Also: there IS no 12-dimensional chess game. Just 52-card pickup.

This is an act of war and the Trump admin is doing everything they can to provoke a Gulf of Tonkin incident.

Tired: The Roberts Court thinks the 20th Century was wrongly decided. Wired: The Roberts Court thinks the 19th Century was wrongly decided.

It will feature one Black person and it will be Clarence Thomas.

Another one of those examples when we-told-you-so is far from heartening. bsky.app/profile/step...

THIS! ⬇️THIS! ⬇️THIS!⬇️

Premature? Bondi has defied an act of Congress! I think maybe Tim Kaine has attended too many bipartisan "dismayed, concerned, and disappointed" teas with Susan Collins.

This is your periodic reminder that Donald Trump was literally endorsed for president by the Ku Klux Klan.

That was the idea. I don't think Trump et alia thought Americans would side with them. They expected Americans to fear them. Because as we've seen, they are not stopping with immigrants.

It drives me crazy to think about how much better we'd be off in every possible way if five million more people who get that off-the-charts bigotry and corruption aren't OK had gotten off their asses and voted last year.

Spotted in Minnesota. Perfect. Businesses are not required to admit these MAGA thugs.

You’re welcome for your now 20-year-old lessons on inherent contempt. At the place where I taught you about the Nuclear Option: Daily Kos.

Since we're all dunking on Yglesias, our only interaction was the time he criticized my attention to detail while failing to google the premise of every show I've ever done.

This is such an important point.

Trump's definition of the word hoax is anything he wants to lie about & blame Ds. Sanewashing by the press & tools like Blanche don't help. "Hoax" can't fly w/Epstein now bc the vote was unanimous in the Senate & all but one in the House voted for release. Trump signed it into law. 📺 is.gd/Z6fhde

This bold lie by Blanche is incredible. The DOJ is redacting Trump from what has already been posted, in real time. The regime is breaking the law that the adjudicated sexual assaulter & pedophile protector signed, the Epstein Files Transparency Act. Dems, do your job. 📺 bsky.app/profile/atru...

Yes, Yglesias was once a replacement level blogger. Far from the only person who'd noticed Linz by 2015, but then with a much bigger platform than most. So he DID serve a useful function. Now? Not so much. Not by a long shot.

🤦🏻‍♀️ "WELKER: Massie and Khanna say they are looking at options including impeachment and contempt for DOJ officials. Would you support those steps? KAINE: I think that's premature" Via @atrupar.com 🧵👇🏼

This is awesome

Marjorie Taylor Greene’s bill making pediatric transition care of any kind a federal felony to provide, punishable by up to a decade in prison “would not have passed without three turncoat House Democrats: Henry Cuellar and Vicente Gonzalez of Texas, and Donald Davis of North Carolina.”

Ahem, <taps mic>, the current babble about "Heritage Americans" pretends they were fancy, highly moral people. Rubbish. The Pilgrims were religious fanatics who were ejected from Britain. They tried to impose religious theocracy here and would have loved Project 2025. 1/3

The spirit of #Gaslighting past!

It's about both. Two facets of same hide-the-ball strategy, denying justice for survivors & accountability for perpetrators & enablers.

Every descendant of slaves has more American heritage than Trump. But I don’t imagine that figures large in the minds of most people using the phrase.

The time to demand Bondi’s resignation or impeachment is NOW. Press them hard, put them on the defensive, and make this a key issue in the midterms. It highlights everything wrong with the GOP — cult like loyalty to Trump, complete lawlessness, elite entitlement, etc.

1-this is a very good thread 2-"heritage American" sounds like a really uncomfortable piece of furniture.

#EpsteinCoverup is so blatantly hamfisted, it's political malpractice if Dems don't attack full bore: Impeach Bondi as the means to make it a defining issue next year in run-up to midterms.

🎯PRECISELY! Harris had a HUGE upwelling of grassroots support & an obvious winning campaign theme: Prosecutor vs. Criminal. EVERYTHING in the campaign could have been built around that theme. BUT NO! She let herself be misled by a consultant class steeped in cultish kitchen-table popularism.

Reality-based community party turns its back on reality. #StillFuming

Libertarians have long since proved that the step from "Freedom for everybody!" to "Fuck you, Jack, I've got mine!" Is much shorter than most people wish it were.

Paul and Tate getting their brains turned to mashed potatoes the moment they stepped in the ring with somebody in the same weight class who isn't afraid to punch back feels like God flashing a big red warning sign to our country.

But if you press any popularist, they have a list of issues that they think are so important that reps should disregard public opinion on them, if necessary. They only get preachy when it's someone else's idea of an overridingly important issue.

The popularists have taken a truism and turned it into a pseudo-philosophy: Elected representatives should do things their constituents want because that's a big part of their job as /representatives/ and because that's how they keep their jobs.

Of course. Mr. “I have a private army accountable only to me.”

Well this is sad news. And while EVs aren't *the* solution to the climate crisis, I'd rather we have them than not.

I was basically too multidisciplinary for the first decade of my career, but it paid dividends in the increasingly broad books I’ve written. You can’t understand much about the questions in your field if you don’t also know a fair bit about a couple other fields. A challenge for training grads.

People talk about Owens' and other rightwingers antisemitic ravings as if they're a problem for conservatism. No. They're just a natural metastasis of conservatism. This is what it is now. Who they're a problem for is the rest of us, and for democracy. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/o...