The last people who said this here were American colonial merchants who remained loyal to King George III. bsky.app/profile/atru...

NEW: A huge ice sculpture of the word “DEMOCRACY” is currently melting away in front of the US Capitol. Organized by artists and activists, it was commissioned by the Up In Arms campaign, an effort led by Ben Cohen, the cofounder of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream.

Governor Newsom's press office responds:

Vance telling people to “grow up” about Young Republicans joking about gas chambers and r**e says it all. The bare minimum of decency is to say, “Yes, this is wrong.” If you can’t, you’re the one who needs to grow up. America has a child for a VP.

The "anti-woke" backlash was always about white collar labor competition from nonwhites, not hr bullshit. bsky.app/profile/phil...

Meanwhile, Justice Gorsuch is nodding along to oral arguments at the Supreme Court about how there’s no racism in politics anymore

Feels quaint, almost cliché, to say this about a Trump action, but just for the record: This is all illegal, the President can't simply disregard the laws passed and agencies created by Congress, and both Vought & Trump would be impeached if the Constitution or the rule of law mattered to the GOP.

The New York Times should hire someone who understands how laws work.

The Roberts #SCOTUS sure appears to be working to do their part to help Trump/Republicans lock in a de facto Congressional majority (unless there is a overwhelming blue wave). The Q is why are Dem leaders silent about this MAGA subservient Court?

Ahead of Virginia's bellwether elections, Gov. Youngkin is hiding the scale & details of hundreds of millions of dollars in federal grants blocked by the Trump administration -- hiding the economic pain coming to Virginians instead of focusing on how to respond to it. #MomSky #VoteBlue

1/ The first excerpt of Virginia Giuffre's posthumus memoir is out and it is gutting: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

After Congress visits, where we provided spinal citations & spine pens to Cong, which staffers did not like, we visited the 🧊 sculpture that @meltedaway @yobencohen.bsky.social, @upinarms-us.bsky.social put in front of the Capitol. DEMOCRACY is melting 🎥/📸 cred: @chefsora @bellvisuals.bsky.social

the extent to which media elites treat liberal americans as if they do not count in the body politic is a real problem

“the protests don’t count if they happen in blue cities.” so, what, they aren’t americans? their voices don’t matter?

This small 80% of the American population that lives in urban areas is completely out of touch with the 20% majority

i can't with all the "reporting" like this that fails to mention ILLEGALLY in every headline like Man seeks to get multiple luxury cars for free under cover of night

would love to know where vought got the authority to shutdown a government agency established by statute

The headline & text of this piece don’t do enough to describe the Trump regime’s extreme immigration agenda. It’s called white nationalism. Or white Christian nationalism. Or Christian nationalism. Pick one. Only one quote in the piece starts to describe it. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Trump, speaking in the Israeli parliament, boasts about the weapons the U.S. has provided and says "you obviously used them very well." An estimated 20,000 children have died in the war in Gaza.

🚨🚨🚨WA Governor Bob Ferguson responds to a letter he received from AG Pam Bondi in which she threatened to place him in jail. 🧯He is on fire! 1/2

"Hundreds of Catholic priests, nuns and lay people led a march from a Catholic church in Maywood to the ICE detention center in Broadview..." www.fox32chicago.com/news/faith-l...

The Gilded Age may have revealed the excesses of an unchecked oligarchy, but at least it left behind centers of learning, culture, and philanthropy. Today’s roster of plutocrats seems uninterested in that. www.thebulwark.com/p/why-our-te...

This is illegal on about ten different levels. It’s past time for elected Democrats to start demanding charges and prosecutions for these actions. Not just for those ‘following orders’ but all the way up the chain into the administration.

It's a two-fer, you get your antisemitic conspiracy theory AND the insistence that there is no such thing as sincere progressive opinion, it couldn't possibly be that people are genuinely pissed off so they must have been paid to protest.

IF YOU HAVE A CLEARANCE CALL A NATSEC LAWYER BEFORE YOU CALL THE TIP LINE My info is in my profile. Or call @bradmossesq.bsky.social if you can't reach me.

JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2014...

By all means, indict Jack Smith on bullshit allegations and give him the trial that SCOTUS denied him. Poke the bear, Donnie. See what happens.

Hey Democratic millionaires and billionaires, here's your opportunity to put your money where your mouth is. I expect some stiff bidding competition, you'd better not disappoint me.

It's so ridiculous that MAGAs believe the GOP line that "Democrats want to give free healthcare to immigrants." My dudes immigrants aren't getting free healthcare in the United States. American citizens aren't even getting free healthcare. You know who is? The people lying to you about immigrants.

Thousands of Karens Karened so Pam could Pam.

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here. Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

File state charges. This is a crime.

Kavanaugh recently suggested immigration stops are no big deal if you're a legal resident bc ICE just promptly releases you That is not, in fact, what ICE does He invents a fiction bc the reality of the policies he supports is too disturbing for him to imagine ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/brett...

Is Palpatine slaughtering the younglings in a smart way?

These people hate our country. They hate Americans and have declared war on our constitution and freedoms. They should repent and resign

NEW: November general elections are around the corner, so it’s time to launch my cheat sheet of what’s on the ballot this fall! I guide you thru the *185* elections I'm watching, & why: lawmakers, governors, judges, DAs, mayors, school boards, & dozens of ballot measures. Explore, share, save:

SOUTH SHORE RAID: They was terrified. The kids was crying. People was screaming.They was bringing the kids down, too, had them ziptied to each other. That's all I kept asking. What is the morality? Where's the human? One of them literally laughed. He said, "'F*** them kids." @abc7chicago.bsky.social

California and New York paying taxes to this federal government in 2025 is tantamount to England and France paying taxes to Germany in 1940. The money is going to be used *against* you.

"The effect of such violence extends beyond its immediate targets, affecting the community at large and interfering with everyday life. But Americans are mobilizing to protect their neighbors and communities." Some awful news, and some hopeful news: www.thebulwark.com/p/the-moral-...

Honey, wake up: New unconstitutional extortion just dropped. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

You can't cosplay being the Secretary of DoD . It's a very serious job, & the stuff you are briefed on daily is enough to make sure you never sleep again. An alcoholic, violent man isn't qualified.

And after 40 minutes of cringe-Thunderous applause from the generals! Just kidding. Total silence. 👀 🦗 🦗

When you think you're World War II's Patton, but you're really just M*A*S*H's Major Frank Burns.

I'm skimming, but this paragraph stood out:

if i were a would-be dictator whose only civilian check on power had been consumed by total-complete partisan loyalty, something i would definitely do is call an unprecedented in-person meeting of the only people who could stop me and then proceed to illustrate why they should stop me

A federal judge responds directly to an anonymous critic in a very novel way:

there's also a kicker:

The ruling - against Trump's targeting of foreign students - includes a lengthy indictment of the Trump era. "The Constitution, our civil laws, regulations, mores, customs, practices, courtesies -- all of it; the President simply ignores it all when he takes it into his head to act."