This is my final stop with social media. Never going back to Xitter and I don't use Facebook (or subsidiaries). I check here to stay engaged and that's about it. F*ck Trump and his lackeys and toadies.
The weeks after 9/11 were filled with unhinged Islamophobia and any claim that we were completely united explicitly places them on the outside of who you consider to be American
But that feeling of a shared bond among all Americans in the early weeks after the attack is something I’m so glad I got to experience. Because it’s the thing that I think we’re missing the most today.
BREAKING: Judge Sullivan says he needs PROOF the handwritten FBI notes in the Epstein files are actually duplicative of the typed reports and can be withheld. The court is asking for the handwritten notes.
No to any election deniers. No to attempting to hand in FAKE ELECTORAL SLATES. That's a double-edged sword....hurts us all. Hurts the states and the country as a whole. WIN ON MERIT/the people's votes, not cheating.
Thankful Mike Pence is loyal to democracy and denied corruption.
It's really sad that the person that occupies the biggest office in the world can never act like the bigger man. And a good portion of the population thinks that his infantilism is manliness.
Anyone else find it suspicious that the White House is releasing a bunch of “newly discovered” findings concerning the 2020 election weeks after they conducted mass firings of career intelligence officers? 🙋♀️
I’m not an attorney and I’ve never even played one on TV, but it would seem to me that for an elected official to publicly state that they have spoken to Mitch McConnell in fact, they have not for the explicit purpose of preventing a special election would constitute a fraud upon the voters of KY
Why don't our schools get the funding they need?
Because there's not a lobby for public schools.
Kids don't have a corporate PAC.
We must be willing to take on the political system that always puts corporations over people.
@wwltv.bsky.social Why did you air a clip of Trump saying we are the only country that recognizes birthright citizenship — when there are actually 30+ countries that do — and not clarify that his statement was completely false? This is your idea of responsible journalism? Sad & shameful!
Just a reminder that all of today’s vile decisions are courtesy of the entire Republican Party establishment over the last 37 years.
Trump (and the modern GOP) gave us only half of the six judges responsible.
Tea Party: we should cut taxes for rich, eliminate social services for working families, crush immigrants
Corporate Media: we all must embrace Tea Party
DSA: we should raise taxes for rich, expand social services for working families, embrace immigrants
Corporate Media: we all must crush DSA
📌NOTE: The United States isn't a grotesque, fascist shit show because of Donald Trump. It is a grotesque, fascist shit show because of the absolutely deplorable people who support him.
Just putting this out there... I went to a Div 3 school - Depauw University, Greencastle, IN (for non-US folks, bottom rung of college sports divisions). Me and some chums from the dorm were playing basketball in the gym. A friend of my dorm-mate came walking through, in a shirt/tie/dress shoes.
He commenced to hit 3 half court shots in a row, one from the right side, one from the center, and one from the left. This guy didn't even play for the team. He was very smart and probably understood that at his size he had no future in basketball, so didn't care.
Skilled basketball players are better than you think they are. If you bet money on an NBA game, you are just as savvy as someone that bets on a WWE matcbh.
I don't know. seems like if the billionaires who own the teams have gotten huge tax breaks to build the stadiums in which the teams play and make lots of money off of the teams, that the local fans should be able to watch the team on TV. Not on a streaming service they have to pay for, but just TV.
Rand Paul can shutdown the Senate if he sees a TikTok about a black woman receiving SNAP benefits but @schumer.senate.gov won’t do 💩 when Trump’s getting $10B from the IRS.
Democrats need new leadership not wankers like Chuck.
The rich are complaining that “tax the rich”is hate speech
The same people who use cheap foreign labor and exploit the masses
They are complaining about “hate speech”
Time to bring out the torches and pitchforks
NEW: Chief Justice John Roberts bemoans that Americans don't understand how the Supreme Court operates and see justices as "political actors". The court at times simply has to make "unpopular" decisions, he adds:
www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
Has the Supreme Court ever previously struck down all or part of a duly-passed, constitutional law on the grounds that Justices feel like the law achieved its goals and feel like the goal would stay achieved without the law so therefore it shouldn’t be in force anymore?
Because that’s legislative.
This is coming from a place of warmth and acceptance…
-It’s ‘sleight of hand’
-It’s ‘bated breath’
-It’s ‘lo and behold’
-It’s ‘one fell swoop’
-It’s ‘brass tacks’
-It’s ‘free rein’
Let's see just how critical the ballroom is. Democrats should agree to absolutely everything that Lindsey and the GOP congress want for funding the ballroom on the condition that the ballroom is named "The Barrack Hussein Obama Ballroom in Commemoration of His Nobel Peace Prize Victory".
Begging the media to react to the fact that I have this in my classroom. How many of them hemming and having about political violence even know what this is bolted next to my classroom door or why I have to do 3 hours of drills every summer including 20 minutes on how this works.
Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have announced the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Data Center Moratorium Act, legislation that would enact a reasonable pause to the development of AI to ensure the safety of humanity.
Learn more & support this bill in Congress here: bit.ly/4twnWMU
Remember when Bill Clinton spoke to his AG for a few seconds privately, on the tarmac, and the US media, following the instructions of bad-faith wingnuts, made a huge multi-week scandal out of it?
I'm not sure about you, but I think the collapse of US hegemony, a global price spike and recession, and a new ground war in the Middle East are far worse than drag queens reading books at the library.
NEW: House Oversight Committee ranking member says Pam Bondi has no choice but to show up for April 14 deposition
And he says GOP doesn’t have the votes to stop it
Just filed to @MeidasTouch
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If you set aside the horrific atrocities of ICE for one whole second, the underlying goal is to line the pockets of private prisons and their service providers. They get paid based on how full their facilities are.
It's about quotas and profits.
Now that WI Republicans passed a law banning poor people from buying soda and candy with SNAP benefits, we should immediately ban billionaires and corporations, which benefit from massive tax subsidies, from building fossil fuel plants and AI data centers.
just want to be clear that the supreme court will not be deciding if the 14th Amendment guarantees birthright citizenship; the justices are deciding whether or not they want to strip the 14th Amendment of its guarantee of birthright citizenship
Per YouGov Rahm Emanuel is the 78th most popular Democrat, behind everyone from Michael Dukakis to Barney Frank. He is 12 places behind Harry Reid, who died five years ago. To the extent anything's happening here it's *entirely* media-driven. yougov.com/en-us/rating...
If the estimates were right, there were about 9 million people at No Kings rallies today.
That would mean this protest was THIRTY TIMES AS LARGE AS THE TEA PARTY PROTEST which we were told, over and over again, was a massively important sign that US politics had shifted dramatically to the right
Again, the first Tea Party rallies in April 2009 -- heavily promoted in advance by Fox News -- only had about 300,000 attendees across 750 cities, but the media treated it like the Second American Revolution.
There will be multiple *individual* No Kings rallies today that have more people at them.