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This is the first passage of Maggie and Swan's book. Consider the agency it sets up. Democrats. Partisanship. Why not focus on the "irony" that Maggie had done propaganda for the man for years? Why make this about Democrats, rather than her complicity?

The stranglehold the rightwing and far right have on our politics is absurd. Not a single policy or idea that benefits the country. A wild aversion to tax, immigration, NetZero, the EU.. trapping us in a dismal dead-end, unable to make progress for fear of the DailyMail demographic losing its shit.

This is a terrific illustration -- for elected officials but also for media figures -- of the incredible power of simply refusing to take a bullshit dodge for an answer. Keep asking the question, over and over again, and make the weasels squirm.

lol two guys who are simply very cautious about offering opinions about people

need to start thinking now about a full package of judicial reforms: new justices, new circuits, new district courts, ethics reforms, docket reforms, and transparency reforms.

She's doing this rather than a) forthrightly addressing the actual staff of the news outlets she is ruining & answering their questions or, b) actually doing a good job. She's not capable of either of those. All she's capable of is bullshitting, so that's her answer to this, like everything else.

Any President that sues his own government, while in office, should immediately be impeached.

COLLINS: Who's gonna be in control of the Strait of Hormuz? Who's gonna be in control of that? TRUMP: Uhhhh it'll be jointly controlled COLLINS: By who? TRUMP: Maybe me. Maybe me. Me and the next ayatollah, whoever that is. There will also be a serious form of regime change. Look at Venezuela.

BESSENT, one month ago today: “.. 2025 was about setting the table. 2026 is going to be a banquet for the American people. The economy is taking off.” @cnbc.com

“The unexamined life is not worth living” -Socrates circa 400bce

I don’t think this shit will work but i never want to hear about free speech from any trumpers or anti anti trumpers ever again, fuck off forever bsky.app/profile/cram...

SCOOP: NTSB board member J. Todd Inman abruptly departs safety watchdog theaircurrent.com/feed/dispatc... (via @willguisbond.com & @jonostrower.com) #staycurrent

So according to the WSJ a US Senator conspired with another country to manipulate the US into starting a war, am I getting this right

Kristi Noem rehired a retired CBP officer w/a history of racism, and he nearly got himself and an innocent bystander killed with insanely irresponsible gun handling. sahanjournal.com/public-safet...

Ellison barely won in 2022 and was the worst performing Dem that year while Simon nearly won by double digits. I don’t know why Ellison deserves it since he’s been a constant underperformer

The people now in charge of the Office of Personnel Management apparently don’t know how to scrub PDF metadata, and have exposed the original authors of the guidance they’re publishing. Two, Noah Peters and James Sherk, have links to the Heritage Foundation and Project 2025.

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

I dedicated years of my life to reporting on January 6 and exposing what happened. I was there that day, co-wrote a book, and published a series of major stories on my own, for Rolling Stone, and for TPM. I hope it mattered. I hope history will remember and understand what happened.

"You might not care about slow streets, shaded benches, or walkable shops now, but you are one pregnancy, knee operation, or visit from an older relative away from becoming suddenly, even painfully, aware of the location of every bench, elevator, ramp and bathroom on your daily commute."

The rise of fascism in the 1930s led to genocide and a catastrophic world war, but it ultimately ushered in a period of unprecedented peace and prosperity in Europe and North America. Could the same thing happen again?

Karen Pence wants nothing to do with Donald or Melania Trump.

If Meth and Jack Daniel’s had a baby in a gumbo pot…

i am on this email thread and it is the best night of my life

If you've never donated to Wikipedia, now's the time. Elon Musk is attacking it because it's one of the only sources of honest, curated information that he can't control. www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-ta...

it's just so hard to trust anyone these days, except the guy who has been promising my car is going to drive itself by the end of the year since 2016

Just a reminder that in 2019, RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine misinformation campaign helped cause a measles outbreak in Samoa that killed 83 people, mostly kids. Do you really want him to lead the Department of Health and Human Services?

Lots of great passages, including this one.

“Trump lied about an election being stolen and then sicked a mob on the Capitol. It's funny that you roll your eyes at this, Kevin, because you're the one who went down and resurrected him...We elected the most dangerous....human being that America has ever elected. And Kevin, you helped him."

There is no private person, in the history of US, who has done more to undermine 1st Amendment values & principles than Elon Musk. Kowtowing, pre-capitulation, to this oligarch is so sad, pathetic, and dangerous.

Democrats are going to spend so much time and money trying to figure out how to rebuild their coalition while they're out there saying shit like this.

Bizarro world!

What happened here with Don Jr at the SpaceX launch today

Carol Moseley Braun was the first Black woman elected to the Senate in 1993. Jesse Helms once followed her into the Senate elevator singing "Dixie." He told fellow Senator Orrin Hatch, "I'm going to sing Dixie until she cries." Thinking about that today. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

@naomikritzer.bsky.social Love love love your candidate write-ups. Any idea what’s going on with Hennepin judicial race Leckrone vs Frank? I take it L’s challenge of a Cha*vin prosecutor is not mere coincidence.

Frighteningly plausible