Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"

Be a shame for this to go viral www.spectatornews.com/opinion/2019...

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!! The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/

I always pay attention to what stories People Magazine and other consumer media outlets cover. That's how you can tell that something has broken through the usual political and news bubbles. This horrific Chicago story has broken through. people.com/ice-agents-o...

We've been in a slow-motion government shutdown for months, as the Trump administration withheld appropriated funds and engaged in mass firings. Now we're going to finally admit it. From me and @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social: prospect.org/politics/202...

‼️ The risky taxpayer-financed deal, which involves trading US dollars for Argentine pesos, has little upside for ordinary Americans. ‼️ It has massive economic benefits for one American: billionaire hedge fund manager Rob Citrone, who has placed large bets on the future of the Argentine economy 👇

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i think this bears repeating whenever Meta and AI are reported on tbh

In my view, Amy Coney Barrett kicking off her book tour by doing a sold-out event with Bari Weiss and publishing an exclusive excerpt in The Free Press should end the "Supreme Court justices are not motivated by ideology" discourse once and for all ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

Trumpers are preventing Ukraine from using US AND European weapons to strike infrastructure and weapons systems in Russia. Shameful!

"This could be the difference whether your child gets cancer. Are you willing for them to die because the therapy for them is delayed?" Powerful video with voices from top US scientists on the very real and devastating impacts of the funding cuts.

It really bothers me that we're not talking about how the GOP cut DC's funding before invading.

i wrote about how trump is hurting the veterans with his actions at the va and today the va press secretary made it clear to us they didn't like what we wrote. please click and share this story so you can see the kind of thing the trump administration does not like www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

This video news story from @aaronparnas.bsky.social has more facts and context about Trump's DC takeover than this piece in the @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/u...

Let’s be clear about what’s happening. Violent crime in DC is at a 30-year low. There is no emergency. This is a test run. If the courts, Congress, and the rest of us let him get away with this, he’ll do it in every city that doesn’t capitulate to him. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...

Elizabeth Warren went to CNBC today and destroyed Donald Trump on the economy. Trump is trying to bury this appearance with a tantrum on his failing media site. Make sure this goes viral instead. www.cnbc.com/video/2025/0...

There aren’t any military reasons to continue this war, as even the generals of the IDF now acknowledge. Continuing this war is about inflicting genocidal violence against the Palestinian people to placate Netanyahu’s Kahanist base and keep him out of prison.

Ted Cruz Stripped Weather Forecasting Funds From Trump’s Megabill. Then the Floods Came. Among other things, he removed $150 million slated to improve modeling, predictions, and public communications.

"intentionally or not"? "INTENTIONALLY OR NOT"??? #YHGtBFKMwTS

Merkley had a pretty effective day. Or will have, if you make this go viral.

I’m on the Senate floor right now urging my colleagues to vote no on the GENIUS Act. There is no excuse for Congress to pass a crypto bill that will turbocharge Trump’s corruption and undermine national security, consumer protection, and our financial stability.

After a series of largely cosmetic changes, it looks like the Senate's first big cryptocurrency bill — on stablecoins — may get the support it needs to pass. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/genius-...

“Fighting them will undeniably take time, effort, and money, but I'd argue it is very much worth it, especially when the likeliest outcome is that you win definitively.” www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

1/7 Check out a new UCS report, "Decades of Deceit: The Case Against Major Fossil Fuel Companies for Climate Fraud and Damages." Drawing on dozens of internal industry documents, it provides a decades-long review of the fossil fuel industry's campaign of disinformation and delay on climate action:

Can we please not forget that ALL the people sent to the El Salvadoran prison deserve due fucking process? ALL of them. Every single one of them.

I want them all unmasked. I want Noem, Homan, and Miller to someday be tried for their crimes against humanity. Ditto for the ICE agents and other officers who abuse innocent tourists, college students, and refugees When all this is over, I want justice. My column www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...

I got the Senate GOP budget resolution reconciliation instructions. Rs are coming for your Medicaid and food assistance - and are cutting taxes for the rich. These are one-sided requirements. You can cut the red ones MORE than the # listed. You can only increase the black ones as much as listed.

"We must choose to do battle against the forces of darkness, fighting back against a malevolent movement that represents fascism, authoritarianism, racism, misogyny, and bigotry, a movement that uses antiscientific disinformation as its preferred weapon." ~ @michaelemann.bsky.social, 7 November 2024

Hi. I’m an expert in modernizing legacy government software systems. This is profoundly stupid and will definitely fail, and it’s just a question of whether our social security system fails along with it.

I am no conspiracy theorist, but it really feels like they are trying to destroy our country from within. Health care, public schools, universities, research, law firms, federal workers, the environment are all getting the axe. What was it again that it made America great?

There was a reason they attacked DEI first. It's because white christian male supremacist views are core to their movement. Dems should, contrary to the advice of some reflexive compromisers among us, respond by picking up the fallen banner of equality & opportunity. We should proudly champion it.

The Trump administration wants to shut down all of Social Security over a ruling blocking 11 DOGE workers from sticking their fingers in your private data. 11 DOGE workers. 73 million Americans. This is illegal. If it happens, will force millions of seniors into poverty.

Big news out of Northern California as Judge William Alsup orders the federal government rehire illegally fired employees from six federal agencies including the Departments of Agriculture, Defense, Energy, Interior, Treasury, and Veterans Affairs. Check it out! open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

This.

This.

I’m telling you @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social, please watch this. This is the energy. Not egg prices and book tours and strongly worded letters. It’s time to take the gloves off.

The MSM must come to terms with the danger and start acting accordingly.

There's so much wrong with what Elon Musk is doing to our government. Underlying it all is the unprecedented power that has been granted to an unelected private actor, as this Thomas Edsall column explains--including a long-ish quote from me.

"This is not a capitulation-this is a coercion," one of the people briefed on the meeting said. “That person [Ed Sullivan, career prosecutor who volunteered to dismiss to save his colleagues job jobs], in my mind, is a hero." 100% Stalinist.

I write about how it is important to understand that Musk is trying to break the US government not reform it in my Hopium post today. 👇 www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/republican...

Snap out of it, America. The warning lights are flashing red. My latest. www.thedailybeast.com/yes-its-a-co...

This is fucking insane. I have no idea how this has been permitted. What possible need would there be for code changes to the payment system? That’s what I’m interested in: what are these code changes *doing*? Collecting information to send to DOGE, presumably?

And ... that's actually the right framing? This isn't about making government "more efficient" or more productive; it is "anti-government" at its core. Musk called federal workers "the opposition," which says it all. He's a threat to our government, which is to say, he's a threat to all of us.

The men carrying out Musk's coup are Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran. Make them famous. And, eventually, when possible, arrest them and charge them with multiple felonies. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

read this entire 🧵from @abenewman.bsky.social right now and share with everyone you know. terrifying stuff. terrifying.

There appear to be at least three separately operating heel factions breaking things within the government in wholly different ways right now. There's the Miller-headed immigration one, the DOGE/Elon one, and a Project 2025 OMB one. This dynamic hasn't showed up in mainstream reporting at all.

Democrats shld make clear to voters that this gives Musk's private sector employees the power to stop checks to any individual recipient in the US (Soc Sec, vets benefits, Medicare) as well as examine their private financial info. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

NEW: Elon Musk's friends have infiltrated the GSA and they're looking for ways to use White House credentials to access agency tech, potentially allowing them to remote into laptops, read emails, and more, sources say. w/ @zoeschiffer.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

Our freedom to vote is under attack. @governorwalz.mn.gov has solutions:

➡️ January 20: FAA director fired ➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen ➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded ➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees ➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years Making America Great Again!