The op-ed you hoped you'd never read in your lifetime

As far as I can tell, @billmckibben.bsky.social is the only writer with any real reach who is discussing the liberatory potential of distributed solar power. I'd like that subject to get a lot more air time.

and frequently in the past when such charges have been filed they've been later dismissed because they were made up bsky.app/profile/step...

Was the first boat attack an exercise to see *how* lawless America could be with one action?! FFS.

Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski says the Trump DOJ is engaging in coercion and must be investigated

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

ice takes out ICE again 😬 🧊

I think they need to ban the word “execute” in sideline interviews. Yes, the way to play better is to play better.

Vance's conduct this week is obviously impeachable. I'm talking about his public conduct. Whatever private murder coverup he's participating in is what you find out once you start impeachment.

This, combined with him *moving to the front of the car* and then reaching for, if not actually unholstering, his weapon before Good even begins moving forward deminstrates that the intention to shoot was not reactive to a threat posed by the vehicle

In America you drop your kid off at school, get your brains blown out on the ride home, then the Vice President drops everything for a week to call you a terrorist, to slander your family, to protect the circumstances that led to your death so they can do it again. It is government by Alex Jones.

She smiles at the man who shoots her and says she isn't mad at him. Clearly initiates the effort to leave when the aggressive agents arrive. The question now (not that this was in question) isn't who's telling the truth. It's when DHS had this video and knew that what they were saying was a lie.

SHOCK CELL PHONE VIDEO: Renee Good's final words to her murderer: “That’s fine dude, I’m not mad at you.” ICE agent Jonathan Ross after shooting and killing her seconds later: “Fuckin’ bitch.” Via Alpha News

Wait wait wait, while Americans have to pay hundreds of billions of dollars in new tariffs, Trump is going send over $10,000 to each person in *Greenland*????????? This is a joke right ? www.reuters.com/world/europe...

BREAKING: Minnesota investigators say they can't access evidence after fatal ICE shooting and the FBI won't work jointly on probe. Follow for live updates.

Posts may be a bit more sporadic from me today as my kids are home from school because my city is being brutalized by the federal government to the extent that it's unsafe for schools to be open

Make it viral.

Better yet, disestablish all of DHS, and undo the nightmarish idiocies that we created in a panic 25 years ago. Reestablish the INS, get rid of ODNI, fix the damage from the Patriot Act, etc.

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There are more of us than there will ever be of them.

Do not let the failures of prosecution post January 6th happen again. Every second you do not charge this person is a second the massive propaganda apparatus around the federal government will use to create a fog of lies to get him off. Arrest him immediately for killing an American citizen.

In the span of a few hours, Mike Johnson just watched his already shaky hold on the House slip to about as weak as it can get. He can only afford to lose ONE Republican vote now, assuming full attendance + all other GOPers vote his way. 😬 www.huffpost.com/entry/house-...

Someone asked me to comment on the anniversary of Jan 6. I will consider having comments on it….should it ever end. We are very much still reaching for the nadir of this reclamation. No time yet for historicizing it. Still trying to survive it.

Another Republican House member out of commission, hospitalized after a car crash. Hope he and his wife will be OK. Also, is there some kind of curse afoot today www.cbsnews.com/news/jim-bai...

Republican Rep. Doug LaMalfa has died. Marjorie Taylor Greene resigned from Congress last night. A special election in Texas on Jan. 31 will put in another Democrat in office. Mike Johnson's House majority is almost non-existent. Next month, he can only lose one vote.

I know *nothing* makes sense but I'm still stuck on "we're gonna run Venezuela" like... 1) mothafucka WHO? 2) mothafucka HOW?? and crucially, 3) mothafucka WHAT????

This is the perfect illustration of the emptiness of political reporting that stresses “access” Trump picked up the phone, but didn’t say anything. What a scoop! You got proof of life! Yay!

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad. The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.

Call your reps + please read the thread. Do it now, please. Script.

it's darkly humorous to listen to Trump and his cronies reference the fact that Maduro was indicted in SDNY as evidence he's a dictator and overall bad guy

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

Just woke up even angrier. Impeach, convict, remove. Draft articles now. Either we have a representative government or we don’t. Do not shut up about this until there’s a vote.

It's official: Congress and Donald Trump have allowed the enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies to expire. Millions of Americans will either lose their health coverage or face dramatically higher premiums.

This part (from the article) might be a good option, too: "Request a Manual Postmark: Customers may present a mail piece at a retail counter and request a 'manual (local) postmark.' This postmark is applied at the time of acceptance, so the date aligns with the date the USPS took possession."

Oh man, the closing shot here is perfect

This explains like 90% of American politics right now

1. Keep your eye on the ball, people That Epstein-Larry Nassar letter has fake written all over it -- N. Virginia postmark, after JE's death, in a handwriting that appears not his own It's hard not to think DOJ WANTED this out there to then be debunked and thus discredit every mention of Trump...

The CBS 60 Minutes Doc confirms what we knew: The U.S. is currently using our tax dollars to imprison brown people with no criminal record in torture camps overseas. It’s no wonder administration shill Bari Weiss pulled this off the air: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjY7...

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

WASHINGTON (AP) — At least 16 files from Epstein release disappeared from DOJ webpage, including photo of Trump, with no explanation.

The Epstein file is the only thing Trump has ever taken his name off of

As with public schools, the nice thing about standardized vaccines is they take some of the burden off overtaxed and underfunded parents. Making every aspect of childhood a bespoke experience that the mother has to figure out on her own isn't "choice." It's piling on duties that some can't handle.

Wow, huge shock that Trump/Bondi are not in fact releasing the complete DOJ Epstein Files today as required by law. House Republican leaders are gonna be SUPER big mad.

Trump's ridiculous primetime address was yet another sign that his presidency is failing www.vox.com/politics/472...

Every single reporter there needs to hold the line on this too. Don't throw him a lifeline with another question if he dodges. Have each other's backs and demand he answer the question.

Trump’s fascism has gotten bad very fast, because they’re mimicking Nazis from TV. They’re relishing playing the scary villains. But Trump’s fascism is also very brittle, because they’re mimicking Nazis from TV. None of the institutional supports are there; that part isn’t ever in the movies.

Trump sent Vance there twice. He threatened to cut off all federal spending to the state. He vowed to back primary challengers of any Republican who voted against him here. He posted their names online, prompting his fans to send them death threats. But all that failed, so now he wasn't involved.