Seven Voting Laws Every Blue State Should Enact Right Now. “1. Enact a statutory right to vote for every eligible citizen. This may surprise you, but there is no general federal constitutional right to vote.” [democracydocket.com]

I think if you oppose war with Venezuela (correct) you should open with that. Illegal and unconstitutional can follow. But the cause is monstrous and legality could never justify it.

The president's creepy obsession with me is deeply unhealthy. Trump falls back on the same tired bigotry to distract from his obvious failures. His recycled xenophobia won’t intimidate me or silence my fight for the people of Minnesota’s 5th District.

It's very cool that the Supreme Court invented a political system that gives these lunatics unlimited influence.

i think the media needs to internalize something that is glaringly obvious but also weird and disorienting in a way the media is completely unequipped to handle: trump is not trying to be popular anymore. he is not doing politics anymore. he does not care. he just wants to rule until the music stops

Exactly. If people can’t see the familiar choreography by now…..

Gosh if our oil supply is causing us to wage war it sure seems like it’s in the interest of national security to invest heavily in renewables at home rather than risk American lives and spend a ton of money on this

Hegseth repeatedly misled the public about this strike. The boat was headed for Suriname, not the U.S. It wasn't carrying fentanyl. The survivors didn't "radio for backup." This strike was illegal, and Hegseth is trying to cover up what happened by refusing to release video.

This

they keep emphasizing that these are on "known narcotrafficking routes" and like, those are just route-routes. there are not special ocean highways for drugs.

I'm going to do my best to alt text this because holy crap, everyone should know.

Customers set to be screwed as Rad Power Bikes files for bankruptcy + Former St. Paul Councilmember says a Rad battery fire destroyed his house #SEAbikes #Seattle

Yup. I'd add some effective opposition to complexity and incompetence.. The key: Characterizing how successful the attack on democracy has been so far just isn't nearly as important as fully appreciating that the attack has begun, is real, and is ongoing - and that it can be meaningfully resisted.

These comments from Senator Tuberville and Congressman Fine are disgusting, racist, and Islamophobic. They have zero place in our society, much less in Congress, and must be universally condemned immediately. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Okay so setting aside…so many things here, the argument has gone from “suspected drug dealers” to “were on a part of the ocean where we claim drug dealers also once were.”

Just from a character design perspective, Erika Kirk looks exactly right.

It is easy to watch this stuff and conclude that we need to rid ourselves of Government by Alcoholic Podcasters but harder to take the next step: realizing that we need to rid ourselves of the system that led to Government by Alcoholic Podcasters.

I’m assuming the “perhaps” below means “perhaps he’s leading the GOP, or maybe not, it’s hard to tell,” since it’s very clear that he’s a monster

If you are running for office, do not be afraid to state things plain. The Republican Party wants trans children shunned and left unprotected because Epstein's former clients want to prey upon them just like Epstein did. The Republican Party coddles monsters for money and is perhaps led by one.

We are parents of a trans kid and our family takes this very, very personally. If you intentionally make life harder for our beloved daughter, it’s EXTREMELY hard to think of you as an ally, to say the least. @amyklobuchar.com - you still send us requests for money, while hurting our kid. Disgusted.

Some Dems have told themselves only ~1% of the population is trans so they can dip their toe in the anti-trans filth and come out clean. I don't have any trans family members—but it still makes me irate. I see it as a huge red flag, a sign you are unprincipled and untrustworthy. And I'm not alone.

this has always been the most baffling and depressing thing about the political hellscape we have lived through in the last decade there is nothing there at all except a rapacious, all-consuming need for praise, no humanity at all, nothing but a carnival barker's ability to work the crowd

I'm having trouble finding the "America Mourns Rob and Michelle Reiner" piece from the NY Times Editorial Board.

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Now this is scholarship

We just murdered eight more people in boats.

Primary them all and block anybody who comes with the “at this crucial juncture the most important thing is that we win.” if they believed that they wouldn’t do this and with friends like them nobody needs enemies

They announced the escalation of their investigation into Kelly for reminding service members of their duty to refuse illegal orders on the same day Hegseth illegally ordered subordinates to murder nine more unarmed people in boats.

This is precisely the intention of vouchers. They are an elaborate plot to destroy the public education system, which is part of a larger plot to enslave the American population

Between this and Charlie Kirk, Kash is proving that as long as you get away from the scene of the crime and don't talk to anybody about what you did, you can murder people in broad daylight because a podcaster who looks perpetually high on cocaine is running the FBI.

Secretary of War Crimes

What a lede: "A heinous act of violence. A faceless killer on the loose. A desperate manhunt. An F.B.I. director with a finger poised over the “post” button on his social media account."

Thank you @yaeleisenstat.bsky.social.

Because it’s a smash and grab.

If Nuzzi & RFK Jr used a drummed up legal case against Lizza specifically to keep him from talking before nomination, that should be reported out extensively by the biggest media/political reporters around. And if that WASN'T the reason it didn't come out prior, then that too should be documented.

Let me understand you correctly, governments can care that people are being murdered?

The usual suspects are trying to drag the Overton Window to permit “deport all Muslims” as acceptable rhetoric. Consider what should be done to those people, and then drag the Overton Window to encourage that.

RIP to the American auto industry in general. killed by Trump and their own short term greed www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Is there no journalist who will treat this as the deranged, psychopathic rantings of a madman that it clearly is? All it would take is one. Q: Mr. President, what the actual fuck? Do you know how evil, deranged, and indecent you sound? Get banned from the White House, go down in history.

Trump says Rob Reiner was “one of the people behind” the “Russia hoax,” which I hesitate to call stupid because it resets the curve for stupidity so dramatically.

I didn't think it was possible for his Rob Reiner post to be the second most repulsive thing he said today. bsky.app/profile/acyn...

My electrician is a green card holder who's been here since he was a kid. He got married to a citizen, applied for citizenship, went to court for the papers and when he got there ICE kidnapped him and he's been locked up for a month.

Today's newsletter: The same machine that destroyed 600 lives over Charlie Kirk has nothing to say about Trump mocking Rob Reiner. www.readtpa.com/p/the-rules-...

It hasn't even been twelve hours, but all three of us have been overwhelmed with requests from media for comment and I'm mostly writing this now so they'll leave me alone.

In 1996 there was a mass shooting in Australia; 35 people were killed. Australia’s government passed a sweeping gun reform law in 12 days. 12 days. www.thebulwark.com/p/america-un...

‘When I talk about fish on Bluesky people ask me questions about fish. When I talk about fish on Twitter, people threaten to kill my family because we’re Jewish.’

I know I've been beating this drum for over seven years now, but Donald Trump is a very and truly sick man who should be in a mental or penal institution and certainly not the White House.

The fact that Ferguson has to say this out loud—that the WA National Guard service members he mobilized are going to the flood zones to *help*, not to do further harm to the affected communities—is a terrible sign of the times we live in

The notion that all elected officials have are their thoughts and prayers, regardless of by whom it is uttered, is a direct attack on the purpose of government itself. It is not a response to the anarchy of gun violence. ...

Setting aside the sheer moral depravity for a moment, Donald Trump attacking Rob Reiner after his murder is only going to serve as an accelerant to the growing public opinion that he is out-of-touch (affordability), cruel (ICE), and unfit for office (mental/physical health).