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It just shouldn’t be this hard to get by — let alone get ahead — in the richest, most powerful country in the history of the world.

Very important that Republicans are setting the precedent that it's fair to harass octogenarians for what they did in government service.

Showing up and taking the 5th is not contemptuous, it’s a constitutional right. NOT showing up at all like Jim Jordan didn’t when he was subpoenaed? THAT is contempt.

This is how you write a headline

Berkeley folks: I’m hosting a vigil as part of the National Day of Action TOMORROW to demand ICE OUT. Sat 7/25, 11 am, N. Berkeley BART, Sac St side. I'm bringing a microphone & art supplies. Bring your anger and sorrow. Find our event and others here: share.indvs.org/s/RdPKnGTu

If the head of US intelligence isn't able to say who won the election in 2020, then maybe he shouldn't be head of US intelligence.

Curious to hear Mitch McConnell's comments on the passing of Lindsey Graham.

People : oh wow they ordained those illegal bishops i wonder what the pope might d- Pope : EXCOMMUNICATE DAY WOO People : u didnt let me fin- Pope : I DIDNT STUTTER JIMMY

This is Scott Atlas, the guy behind Trump's herd immunity covid approach, reflecting an ideology where public problems are best solved by doing nothing. "Give way to the market": The reality is that the market depends upon NIH-funded innovations. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/are-univer...

A new report determined that Louisiana governor Jeff Landry’s proposed increase in prison spending would come at the expense of $165 million in education funding, including $40 million for state colleges and universities and $125 million for K-12 education. With @veritenews.org

Opinion | 18 years after California voters approved the bullet train, progress and finances are still stalled The bullet train project launched in 2008 with promises of completion by 2020. Now it's mostly concrete supports. No tracks or train.

the most anti free speech administration in this country’s history

Google co-founder Sergey Brin — the third-richest man on the planet — is reportedly spending $57M to defeat California's proposed billionaire's tax. So he and his fellow oligarchs can't afford a wealth tax, but they'll spend a fortune buying elections? See the problem...

Here’s my piece on the “now-completed demolition” of the Voting Rights Act in @thenation.com The VRA is the most important piece of legislation in American history. It more than anything is what ended American-style apartheid. And now Republicans have killed it.

The court has simply recreated the pre-Brown world in allowing racial discrimination across a broad number fields as long as it is “facially neutral,” gutting the Reconstruction Amendments in the process.

Is there someone dead in the lobby or is there someone in custody? Was the person armed or not? Did he make it into the ballroom or not? Usually there should be a pretty wide grace period on finding this out, but there are literally hundreds of reporters in the room and nobody knows shit.

Canada is also saying that Lebanon has to be included in any peace framework This is huge Because when Canada says it, it really means 100 other countries are saying it, but they don’t have the clout to say it and they need Canada to say it for them

Here we fixed this for you, @wsj.com We see you trying to help JD pretend he doesn’t have to wear this war when he runs for president. Nope.

“.. Strip away the shock value for a moment .. This is not a stray remark at a rally. Nor was it a misstatement quickly corrected by staff. This is a public declaration, .. during an active and escalating international crisis.” @thehill.com thehill.com/opinion/whit...

The President is openly threatening genocide. A crime against humanity. He must be removed from office. The 25th Amendment must be invoked. If not, Congress has to do our damn job. Speaker Johnson, call us into session. War powers & impeachment. Remove this man from office.

“.. appears to be the first time any U.S. municipality will go to the ballot to kneecap data center development. .. an aggressive new tactic in an escalating movement to oppose the hulking artificial intelligence factories ..” @politico.com #Wisconsin www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

"ICE agents will be stationed outside graduation events for the nation’s newest Marines to identify whether any of their family members are undocumented, according to the Marine Corps."

Six months into Bari Weiss’ overhaul of CBS News, new ratings data obtained by Status shows its flagship programs are shedding viewers at an alarming rate, collapsing to historic lows and accelerating the network’s decline. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/cbs-news-r...

The mask is completely off. You can’t meet these people in the middle. We’re not working toward the same goals. They hate America. They hate democracy. They hate freedom. And they hate you.

even divorced men whose kids never call need a third place

This is the trust trap, and we have seen it play out again and again in institutions like media, higher ed and govt. The right feeds distrust, use that distrust as a justification to take control, and then undermine the core competencies that everyone else actually values, further eroding trust.

What could go wrong?

Who would have guessed that the legal system in America was so fragile that a single crazy president could ignore the whole thing, from the Constitution right down to state laws? Why does the Supreme Court and Congress let this demented moron act like the dictator of a banana republic?

You average normie Democrat in 2026 loves AOC, wants to abolish ICE, and thinks Israel shouldn’t get another penny from us. It’s laughable how out of touch centrist consultants and politicians are.

If you're at the airport and Kristi Noem is doing the ominous little message from the TSA screens, you no longer have to do anything she says. Leave your laptop in the case, whatever.

Is a Senator who interferes with Capitol Police to break the bones of a Marine Corps veteran who's staging a protest subject to arrest for battery, or does that somehow fall under the Senator's constitutional privilege?

Did @nytpitchbot.bsky.social write this?

I love that we all know 90 percent of them will flip on a dime now, from “trump won’t send your sons to war” (like it’s only sons) to “trump is sending your sons to war and that’s good.”

NEW: More evidence that those who tried to overturn the results of the 2020 election are working with Trump administration officials to set the rules for the 2026 midterms. @dougbockclark.bsky.social

Hey the guy that makes the deepfake generator and suicide machine is gonna get into the murderbot business sounds great what could go wrong

NEW: Guards have taken away crayons, colored pencils & paper during recent room searches at Dilley, according to detainees and others. After one inspection, the children just “cried and cried and cried,” a mother said. The facility denies the claims. By @mckenziefunk.com @micarosenberg.bsky.social

Please read this article to the end. Even before ICE got involved, this started because this *blind man who speaks no English and uses a curtain rod as a walking stick* got lost on a walk and some Karen called the police on him and they tasered and beat him bc he didn’t drop the rod. WTF

Also if this is Buffalo PD remember that this is the same force that pushed a 75-yo peaceful protester to the ground during thr BLM protests www.cnn.com/2022/04/11/u...

They beat a blind refugee who speaks no English for failing to obey police commands he could not understand. Then instead of apologizing, they charged him with possession of a “weapon”—HIS WALKING STICK. Then they dumped him miles from home without notifying anyone, after which he was found dead.

As someone who has paid into Social Security since first holding a job at 16, and who is on the horizon of being able to start taking distributions, I would like to find Ramesh Ponnuru and *talk to him* about his latest thought experiment.

He opposes the CA plan for a one time 5% tax on assets of those with over $1 billion because he worries they'll flee the state, depleting it of taxable incomes. 5% is an *incredibly* conservative position.

CNN doing PR for Johnson here by claiming "the general practice is for presidents, select military officials & select government officials to lie in honor" without noting exceptions. Like Billy Graham. So White preacher gets to lie in state but not Black one?

“The numbers tell a painful story. The impact on journalists of color is staggering and devastating,” the Post Guild said in its statement on Friday. “We cannot ignore what this means for equity, representation, and the future of this organization.” www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/wash...

New: Trump's election bill tops 50 Senate votes Susan Collins is #50 for SAVE America Act, per sponsor Mike Lee. House passed it. Trump supports it. The 60-vote rule is now the only thing preventing it from becoming law. Democrats promise to filibuster it. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/b...

BREAKING: Donald Trump has reportedly been fuming all weekend over how everyone keeps calling his administration the “Epstein Administration.”