trump kills americans, abducts college students and the democratic leadership tells their caucus not to make a scene -- and people take the side of the leadership! insanity

Again, The Jungle was a cautionary tale - not a playbook

Close.

“Tuesday night was a stark reminder that the Republican Party has wholly given over to fascism and that its transformation into an anti-liberal and anti-democratic institution is going to outlive Trump.” www.liberalcurrents.com/trumps-state...

I know the book burning bit leads to some misinterpretation, but this is what Bradbury was warning against

Police confirmed on Wednesday that a nearly blind Burmese refugee dumped at a Tim Hortons in Buffalo, New York, by Border Patrol agents last week has been found dead, unable to find his way back home through miles of freezing weather. bit.ly/3P1WgA8

I "enjoy" the irony of a well budgeted news org hosting a "restoring trust in news" annual conference where they demonstrate their inability to even acknowledge the biggest and most obvious contributor to a declining trust in news

Reciprocity. Minnesota should halt funding going to the federal government until it takes its obligations seriously.

JD Vance: "We're announcing today that we have decided to temporarily halt certain amounts of Medicaid funding that is going to the state of Minnesota in order to ensure that the state of Minnesota takes its obligations seriously to be good stewards of the American people's tax money."

Democratic leaders think they are minority party of governing coalition, rather than opposition party to authoritarian regime.

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Please read this article to the end. Even before ICE got involved, this started because this *blind man who speaks no English and uses a curtain rod as a walking stick* got lost on a walk and some Karen called the police on him and they tasered and beat him bc he didn’t drop the rod. WTF

Cause they’re weak

trump going on about corruption and then slandering somali-americans makes my blood boil

Another hero. Don’t listen to Hakeem. He’s weak.

I just feel like a democrat standing up and shouting "fuck trump" would receive massive donations and would be undefeatable in the midterms and I just wish that these incentives were sufficient to overcome what seems to be an infinite dead weight of respectability.

ICYMI

Think about how the media piled on Biden for withdrawing for Afghanistan and think about how the press shrugs at Trump literally arresting and prosecuting black journalists for the crime of doing journalism. This is why you shouldn’t trust or support the mainstream media.

The Democrats will not have a functional opposition leadership until both Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries have been removed.

Boycotting the State of the Union ... / Shatters the veneer of normality that Republicans want. / Denies an audience to a demagogue. / Gives us hope that Democrats will stop bringing the rope to their own lynching.

It's impossible to overstate the degree to which the thugs at the PBA have been violently holding the city hostage for years.

Some bullet points that I post from time to time. My answer to a reader who asked me: what could our journalists do NOW to break with some of their more corrosive habits.

He's right. And here's what else you should know about the Wall Street takeover of the housing market. www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9TO...

I completely understand why people are angry about this, but consider that it *really is true* that the media is wired to make it about Dems, or at least both-sides it. The press would *love* to have anything to cover other than "an 80yo dementia patient ranted for hours."

Repeatedly watching how she pulls the mic away when he speaks on private equity & I can't stop thinking about the way that our employment system forces people into craven cowards that have to do real-time self-preservation calculus that results in actions that conflict entirely with class solidarity

For the first time since @projectsaltbox.bsky.social launched their DHS warehouse acquisition tracker, the number of canceled sales is higher than any of the other warehouse-related figures. We've reached a tipping point, folks. lookerstudio.google.com/reporting/b0...

BREAKING: NPR, MS NOW: Trump-related files missing from DOJ Epstein file release. MS NOW Senior Legal Reporter Lisa Rubin explains

The Delta Tau Chi administration.

WATCH — @jessicatarlov.bsky.social : “It is not normal for the FBI director to be pounding beer in the locker room like that.” If a Democratic administration’s FBI director did what Kash just did Republicans would never talk about anything else ever again

Boycott the State of the Union. Several independent journalists will watch for you & give you the ranting highlights of the pedophile madman. He loves the spotlight. Don't give it to him. There is an alternative State of the Union with @meidastouch.com @aaronparnas.bsky.social - Support them instead

I'm sorry, what?

I think the New York Times has become a psychology experiment in which they see how many times they can poke their remaining subscribers in the eye before they finally walk away

Left-of-center online political people never paid much attention to the case, but the fact that the FBI never found Nancy Guthrie (who now is almost certainly dead) is pretty shocking. Making a stink over it would be effective in skewering Patel.

Precisely. The unique inflammatory nature of the word so awful WE DON’T EVEN SPELL IT OUT has gone ignored. The conversation so quickly moved to “he’s not a racist!” as if that’s the end of the conversation. As if the racisM can then be swept under the rug. I’m truly disgusted.

one thing about the post-Soviet ideological hangover is it obscures that there is a tradition of liberalism-socialism compromise, namely Nordic social democracy, that has a better record than any other society

When Trump builds his gulag of concentration camps and deports all the undocumented immigrants, what do you think he'll do with all that available space in the camps?

The US system of government is meant to be a "participatory democracy". Some will say no, it's a republic, but a republic is a form of democracy. Without participation, the US system doesn't work. It's that simple.

‘Silent defiance’ or outright opposition? Democrats split over how to confront Trump House Democratic leaders have been clear they prefer the stoic approach at this year's State of the Union.

Missed opportunity to pick up some snow balls, have some fun, foster some good will. SMH

They paid a lot of people good wages to do the job effectively, thank you for coming to my socialism talk

Trump, already found in court to be a sex predator, is violating the law by hiding files about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, who raped children.

"Is it asking too much of journalism to rise up and meet this moment? It surely shouldn’t be." But.... The people making the big decisions at elite media are not good people making good faith mistakes. They are morally bankrupt and either cowards or actually support the fascism.

cc @mayor.nyc.gov

In an augur of godawful coverage, NYT Politics newsletter poses "5 big questions" about Trump's SOTU. One of them is "Voters are worried about the cost of living. Can Trump show he sympathizes?" Another is "What’s his tone on immigration?" messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/dynamic/rend...

Should a 4th grade trans girl be allowed to play rec basketball with her friends? Yes. No question. Should a trans woman who went through male puberty be allowed to compete in women's weightlifting at the Olympics? I think the Olympics should decide under what circumstances (if any) that'd be ok.

any democratic politician saying other democrats are talking about “pronouns” too much is laundering republican bigotry and lying to you to try and appear more moderate than democrats at large

meanwhile the dem leadership doesnt want to boo him or defund his brown shirts

A thing to keep in mind in the Netflix vs. Paramount bidding war for Warner Bros. Netflix does not propose to absorb CNN, TNT, TBS. It would spin them off in a new company like Comcast did with MSNBC. Whereas the Ellisons want to show Trump they can bring CNN to heel, as they have with CBS. Clear?

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