A lot of centrist commentators who genuinely got worked up about the unforgivably insulting nature of "cling to guns and religion" or "basket of deplorables" are weirdly silent about Trump portraying himself as literally shitting on American cities

Voted to table impeachment this year.

The Declaration of Independence specifies 27 grievances with King George III and Britain. Donald Trump and his regime have committed at least 20 of those same offenses highlighted in yellow. #NoKings

The only explanation for this is that these people would disprove the administration’s narrative about the identity of the people we are murdering. I’m a little surprised they didn’t just straight-up murder these two in custody. That’s who the government is now.

“To prepare for Saturday’s event, artillery rounds from M777 howitzers were fired from Red Beach east over Interstate 5 on Friday evening as a test run […] Vehicular traffic along the interstate was not closed off while the artillery guns were firing, he said in a statement.”

What he's saying obliquely is, even if we can't enforce the Hatch Act to get people fired from the Administration, Bluesky totally CAN kick people off for violating it ON HERE. But only if you report it.

Wow, now that's a trust and safety team.

Not being even vaguely sarcastic: At some point, a journalist needs to ask Johnson “you regularly claim you have no idea what your own government is doing. If we take you at your word, how are you so poorly informed, and do you this level of ignorance should disqualify you as speaker?”

(if you would like to report the accounts for violations of the Hatch Act, it’s 5 U.S.C. § 7326(2), feel free to send it in to the mod team)

Also, ayo @jay.bsky.team and the BlueSky team, if you’re gonna permaban Link and Palestinian aid accounts, it’s not a good look if you also don’t ban government accounts engaged in obvious violations of the Hatch Act, which is an actual federal law.

You can easily block the official MAGA government accounts here. Do not engage them. Do not give them what they want.

I’ve been predicting Trump would pardon George Santos since the election but I didn’t expect him to just come out and say the crimes don’t matter because he’s a Republican

Roll that terrifying bean footage.

Trump seized the money Congress earmarked for research to pay troops – it’s “by far the most illegal budgetary action he’s taken as POTUS.” If Trump can spend money however he wants, “the Constitution is null and void.” From @ddayen.bsky.social and Ryan Cooper: trib.al/LNAXlYI

This makes sense coming from the guy whose son monitors his porn consumption

Like I've been saying, why should reporters bother treating Johnson like the Speaker of the House when he's effectively disbanded the House.

i think raw terror for their own physical safety is going to be the single predominant motive during the rest of this administration, which maybe suggests some not-great things about where we might be headed

I have a dream that one day police will treat all Americans with the respect that they give to a drunk racist guy who yells “I’M FUCKIN LAW ENFORCEMENT”

if you have about 30 minutes, the full video is very healing

Take a picture at the protest and post it to your substack so your grandchildren will be proud about how you took a stand against Nazis.

Really do think national Ds are negligent to not forcefully state "a bunch of people are going to go to prison for this, and if you get unlawful orders and carry them out you should worry that will include you"

What is with these stupid geriatric fuckwads

No budget until no ICE.

§230 absolutely should not protect companies for the output of their "AI" systems.

Trump is violating the constitution and the remedy is to remove him.

Again, it is a full-blown federal felony crime for anyone in the White House or Executive Office of the President to order tax investigations into anyone. And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.

Wow it’s so crazy that Congress appropriated funds and the president just decided that the money isn’t real Like Article 1 isn’t a thing anymore lol 🙃

ratlimit is a greatest of all time poster

You have to understand that there is NO accountability for ICE even in theory. You can't sue an ICE agent. They won't be criminally prosecuted for violating your rights. They won't be fired. THE ONLY WAY TO PROTECT YOURSELF FROM ICE IS TO RUN FROM ICE.

Trump is in no small part the result of failing to staff up the IRS and send it after white-collar crime, so of course now that he has a second presidency he's planning to use it as a weapon against his political enemies.

yes, democrats really should have broken the filibuster to reform the insurrection act in 2021

What we should take from this: next time it’s us, when they start making shit up, just start doing that. It’s them normalizing it for when they do it later.

I’m old enough to remember when their biggest fucking grievance was a made-up complaint that Obama did this.

another long term strategy is for Ds to commit to absolutely destroying MAGA, using emergency powers if necessary.

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

There's literally no reason for Congress to exist if any random freak in the presidential orbit can nullify laws and seize federal funds. All of this is plainly illegal, but Mike Johnson leads the most corrupt Congress in US history (and by a wide margin.)

What could the Ds have done today in anticipation of Roberts Court positioning to gut Sec 2? Basics: - coordinated press releases from Schumer, Durbin (SJC, Jeffries, Raskin (HJC) - pr/email from DNC, DCCC chairs - blasts from Dem Govs - TV appearances - Saturating social media to pressure scotus

"i wasn't allowed to talk about replacement theory or any mainline immigration stance"

the president using the office to punish americans that didnt vote for him should really be one of the biggest scandals in americas history

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

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

this ballroom is the best evidence that trump doesn’t intend to leave

Democrats should make a criminal referral to DOJ and start describing what Trump is doing as criminal.

#NoKings is officially living rent-free. Demand his impeachment on Saturday, loudly and relentlessly. He fears it. citizensimpeachment.com/sign-up-to-h...

like I just don't think "they were always like this" is a particularly useful framing for this stuff because the GOP of Trump is meaningfully different than the GOP of Romney even if both are awful and we need to actually deal with the real world consequences of what they're becoming

The "don't call us Nazis" crowd sure has a lot of swastikas

The Peacemaker alternative universe where Nazis took over America is the goal for a lot of these people

this is a terrible idea, no Democrat should be acknowledging any semblance of Republican legitimacy right now