As if we needed any evidence, this image illustrates powerfully that Donald Trump is a soulless vessel who doesn't have a shred of decency or humanity. Someone is literally having a medical event behind him, and like all of those suffering from Trump's policies, he intentionally ignores it.

Republicans have officially caused the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. Folks aren’t getting paid, families are wondering if they'll have food on the table — and now they’re closing off airspace right before the holidays. (1/2)

My grandfather was a World II veteran. He fought against fascism abroad only for his grandson to become a historian and have to fight against a uniquely American version of fascism at home. Want to know the importance of teaching history? We see it unfolding around us daily.

Reporter @virginiagewin.bsky.social interviewed 19 current and former US federal agency scientists about the science being dismantled at EPA, NOAA, NASA, CDC, NIH, & USGS. They say it's making America unprepared for environmental and public health crises. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This article offers a decent breakdown of the staggering level of corruption unfolding at the hands of the Trump administration. None of this is normal. And it will only continue to get worse as long as Republicans are in power.

The No Kings protests offered a glimmer of hope. It's crucial that we continue to struggle for the resurrection of American democracy. ICE is a shadow military, the Supreme Court has granted Trump tyrannical powers, and the Republican Party has destroyed the system of checks-and-balances.

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

It’s pretty stunning to hear the VP of the U.S. wave off the celebration of Nazism and genocide. He did the same thing when it came out the a member of DOGE proudly posted he was “racist before it was cool.” All of this builds a clear cut case for who Vance is and what he believes.

Our crony capitalist oligarchy is propping up another crony capitalist. What a surprise 🙄.

Wild stuff. Furloughed employees within HHS got an email this morning telling them to set an out-of-office reply blaming Democrats for the shutdown. "I take that email as coercing subordinates to engage in political activity," one worker told me. www.huffpost.com/entry/out-of...

Yesterday, Trump told ~ 800 generals that American citizens are "the enemy within." Today a Republican Party that controls all three branches of government shut the government down and are using government website to push their propaganda. This is what the weaponization of gov't. looks like.

Spot On: "Republicans have chosen the rules of legislative engagement. Now that Democrats, for once, have a cudgel, they’re supposed to be a pal(s) and help the Republican-only approach keep chugging along. That’s absurd and Democrats should be saying as much."

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“What we’re seeing is an unprecedented attempt to silence disfavored speech by the government,” said Brendan Nyhan, a political scientist at Dartmouth College. “Donald Trump is trying to dictate what Americans can say.” https://to.pbs.org/46AYg7U

Just so I'm clear: TV host says we should kill every homeless person? No big deal TV host says the right must "go to war" with the left? Pfft. TV host says the government is cracking down on critics? Well, the government cracks down on him for the criticism. Free speech, everyone.

If you are a wealthy criminal defendant, it makes sense under this administration to hire the AG’s brother to represent you.

Fed Governor Lisa Cook just sued to block Trump’s attempt to fire her. No president has ever tried this before. If courts allow it, the Fed stops being independent - and the economy becomes just another arm of politics.

Another sign of the real danger the Trump administration poses. I've long been tired of people trying to rationalize Trump voters returning a man to office whose incompetence and corruption are legendary. In every way possible our lives are in danger because of those who voted for Donald Trump.

The Posse Comitatus Act forbids using the military as a domestic police force. The Supreme Court's radical conservative majority issued a disastrous ruling in Trump v. United States, claiming presidents are immune from criminal prosecution. Trump seized on the decision to become a tyrannical despot.

Trump pardoned those who committed the constitutional definition of treason and his lackeys have purged nearly all who upheld the law and oversaw court cases that led to January 6 insurrectionists' convictions. The Trump administration weaponized government in service of undermining the rule of law

Historians are in search of the truth, which is very different from MAGA Republicans’ call for revisionist histories that promote counterfactual myths to promote white supremacy. Confederates did a similar thing in the late nineteenth century, which was crucial to the rise of the Jim Crow South.

More needs to be said about how the Republican Party's theft of two Supreme Court seats in 2016 and 2020 paved the way for a radical conservative majority that empowered Trump to become a tyrant as part of the broader erosion of American democracy.

Do you know how insane and infuriating it is to live in a country where one party claims, with media and public support, the mantle of being the ‘tough on crime’ party while its leader openly calls for convicted criminals to be released from prison ‘or else’?

Totally agree. Gerrymandering should be outlawed nationwide, but since the Republican Party is using it to consolidate power in service of destroying democracy, Democrats must tax a maximalist approach to pull our nation back from the brink.

"Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute." --George Orwell, 1984

The Trump administration's war against the factual teaching of American history and the production of factual history scholarship is indefensible and unforgivable. But it is part of a larger effort to bring about a coordinated effort to destroy American democracy that was outlined in Project 2025.

What's more American than using the FBI to arrest elected officials and force them to become part of your scheme to steal elections? Add this to the mountain of evidence that already exists of the ways Donald Trump and the Republican Party are actively destroying American democracy.

In 1802, the Postmaster General Gideon Granger explained why black people could not be allowed to carry the mail: "They will learn that a man's rights do not depend on his color." www.loc.gov/resource/lls...

Constitutional crisis is here

We need Colbert’s bold and frank commentary now as much as ever, and we need to stop corporations like CBS from cowing to political intimidation of this administration. Add your name to the petition to demand they reverse their decision and keep Colbert on air! sign.moveon.org/petitions/co...

These corrupt, incompetent idiots are going to kill a lot of us wapo.st/4lWdVEE

Talarico speaking on Rogan: I'm a Christian, and I think there is no more dangerous form of government than theocracy—because the only thing worse than a tyrant is a tyrant who thinks they’re on a mission from God.

Neguse: Only in Washington, D.C. could politicians come to the floor and brag about cutting $9 billion from rural radio stations while two weeks ago they voted to increase the deficit by $4 trillion. Spare us these lectures.

The lawyers responsible for making the legal case for Trump administration policies in court, under oath, with potential penalties for not acting in good faith, have largely quit. This tells you all you need to know about believing any claim the Trump DOJ makes: It's not trustworthy.

I just left the Everglades Immigrant Interment Camp. No, I’m not using their ridiculous name. It was a very tough to witness humans in those cages. Every Floridian should be ashamed that our taxpayer money is being used for this.

This is what an actual weaponized Justice Department looks like, not the flagrant lies and artificial reality that MAGA Republicans and the mad king who leads them created to return to power with the objective of destroying the rule of law to destroy American democracy.

Once again a Trump cabinet officer is saying one thing only to be contradicted by Trump who has no idea what people in his own admin are doing and saying.

In a democracy, political power flows from the people. Decades of deregulation have created an oligarchy that's corrupted the lawmaking process in state legislatures and Congress. Elon Musk buying the ability to eviscerate the federal government through DOGE is just the tip of the iceberg.

Hurricane forecasters and scientists rely on weather data collected and processed by Department of Defense satellites. The Navy has decided to stop sharing the data.

As we approach the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, we must renew the struggle against tyranny as embodied by Republicans. MAGA tyranny stripped healthcare from 17 million, made ICE a shadow military, and looted the Treasury for oligarchs. People continue to disappear daily.

STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it has saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost up to *14M* lives thru 2030. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Angie Craig: "Our veterans can't pay for meals with 'Support the Troops' bumper stickers and they can't eat thoughts and prayers."

The Supreme Court joins Congress in refusing to uphold its constitutionally mandated duty of separation of powers based on checks-and-balances. 250 years after the American Revolution, we're seeing the consequences of an imperial presidency and a government corrupted by MAGA fascism.

Trump literally admitted that he worked with the Iranians to stage a bombing of an American base. If this is true and it's not just Trump’s bluster, this is just another way that he's violated his oath of office. Seriously, a POTUS ordered an adversary to bomb an American base.

Budzinski: Families making over $700,000 a year will see a boost of $12,000 almost entirely from tax cuts. Shockingly, households making $23,000 a year or less are set to lose about $1600 a year, mostly due to deep cuts to Medicaid and food assistance

This is why we learn the rules…

Iran is moving to shut the Strait of Hormuz? Who could have seen this coming besides pretty much everyone? I'm sure the resulting higher gas prices will be blamed on Biden and Obama. www.politico.eu/article/iran...

Juneteenth is one of our most important holidays. The struggle between the forces of white supremacy and democracy remains painfully relevant in the present. We honor the freedom fighters who pushed the U.S. to live up to the principles enshrined in the Declaration of Independence.

Here's a really good breakdown of how Trump and Republicans are weaponizing the government to target blue states with the ultimate objective of destroying American democracy.

Noem said: "We are staying here to liberate the city from the socialists and the burdensome leadership that this governor and this mayor have placed on this country and what they have tried to insert into the city.” There's a term for this: military coup.