Laura

The Republican Party is no longer the putative conservative party operating within a Constitutional democracy. The Republican Party under Donald Trump is FULLY an authoritarian party with *dictatorial aspirations*. The evidence is abundant. News reporting needs to reflect the paradigm shift, FAST.

Voters are awake. At this point, corrupt shenanigans Trump/Republicans (this includes SCOTUS and billionaire sponsors) charge up an expensive credit card. Payments are deferred, but the bill WILL come due. We gotta make sure the cost is enough to bankrupt them and put them out of business for good.

To be clear as day, this is, of course, absolutely intentional. It has happened with every Republican president of my lifetime (with the notable exception of HW Bush). It's what the GOP does. www.wsj.com/economy/u-s-...

Folks, we need to tax the f$ck out of people like Bezos and Musk. Just ream the hell out of them. It's time for them to pay for what they're costing us.

I don't give a shit about the distinguished titles and robes. These people are dishonest, sleazy trash. They're self-deluded, white supremacist brutes, pretending to be dignified.🤨 Garbage.

The American right, or the Republican Party, and the SCOTUS it controls, is blatantly racist. As time passes, their racism will stand in stark relief. There's no plausible deniability--flimsy attempts to obfuscate are intolerable. The right wing of the Roberts SCOTUS deserves eternal infamy.

This is correct. There is no future of democratic self government in the US with an unreformed Supreme Court. The Court is riddled with corruption and abuses of power and rooting out that corruption is a sine qua non of civic democracy in the United States.

"I dissent because Congress elected otherwise. I dissent because the Court betrays its duty to faithfully implement the great statute Congress wrote. I dissent because the Court’s decision will set back the foundational right Congress granted of racial equality in electoral opportunity. I dissent."

:::sigh::: It just never ends. These people are insane and current #Republicans need to be shunned forever for letting things get this crazy.

woah, like April 25 was also the date in 1792 when the Guillotine was first used in France - for the execution of highwayman Nicolas Pelletier - which is intense, right?

Sweet Jesus. The taxpayers just gifted $1.25M to this asshole. KBJ was right when she said the Oval Office would become the seat of criminality in America if Roberts granted Trump immunity.

Trump gave Iran the opportunity to close the Strait of Hormuz. He put them in a position of power. All of the consequences, including the economic ones, are uniquely his fault.

2/Nope! What did we learn from when USAID was wrecked. Foreign aid is very good; placing it in an independent agency: very bad. Part of feeling helpless about changing society is you don’t have to be perfect, you have to be trying….

We have to prosecute them.

I think there are two key takeaways for Americans from Peter Magyar’s ouster of Orbán: 1. We must rally overwhelmingly behind the 2028 Dem nominee 2. We have to be ready to send people to prison if we win My latest for @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/two-lessons-...

Trump, who said in the 2024 campaign that Kamala Harris would start World War 3, compares his war against Iran to World War II

I get that people will read point 1 and go “yes, people will have to rally around my preferred candidate.” But it actually means exactly what it says. Whomever Democrats nominate, someone will have to hold their nose and vote for a person they didn’t want in the primaries. Tough. Do it.

And on the basis of this -- a pure policy disagreement about which he was demonstrably, wildly wrong -- Roberts dreamed up "major questions doctrine" & thereby rendered US law one big game of Calvinball. You just can't exaggerate how low, how scummy, how dumb, how fraudulent it all was.

If you are as infuriated as you read this as I am, know that Congress not only has the power to fix the abuse of the Shadow Docket but also that the legislation is already drafted. We just need to get it to the floor. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

The GOP-stacked SCOTUS is a threat to the planet. Literally.

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In TV ads: Amazon "cares" about its workers. In practice: Amazon management demonstrates a horrifying lack of humanity when employees are harmed or drop dead at work. Please read this report.

He asserted that Iran's capture of the Strait of Hormuz was such a horrific crime it warranted the genocide of Iranians. Now he wants to persuade us that WE should *collaborate* with them.

For those demanding articles of impeachment.

The President of the United States is threatening to commit war crimes and wipe out a "whole civilization" — all because he started a disastrous war of his own making and had no plan and no strategy for how to end it. This is abhorrent, and the American people do not support this.

Tomorrow's Substack piece explains what winning the midterms actually gets us — and why we need to stay focused in November.

When ONE political party acquires exclusive control of government power, then obliterates check-and-balance methods of accountability to the public, it should be crystal-clear who is responsible for immoral, disastrous governing. I PRAY the American public will see this and vote to correct it.🙏

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Artemis II sent a pic of the beautiful garden planet we are too greedy, lazy, short-sighted, and ungrateful not to destroy:

Has anyone heard from Jeremy Peters today?

I am a little surprised that Trump ended up fighting for congestion pricing for the Strait of Hormuz.

"Dems should never be forgiven for letting that happen" says a person who was born yesterday, apparently.

🏆🎯On #MSNOW, Cornell Belcher just shot down a disturbing narrative gaining traction in Democratic Party politics--that we need straight white Christian male candidates to build winning coalitions. NO! The proof? The Obama coalition. The Biden coalition. Focus, Democrats! Stop being stupid, ffs.

🏆🎯On #MSNOW #CornellBelcher just shot down a disturbing narrative gaining traction in Democratic Party politics--that we need straight white Christian male candidates to build winning coalitions. NO! The proof? The Obama coalition. The Biden coalition. Focus, Democrats! Stop being stupid, ffs.

I think we have to accept that there is no going back to normal. Trump fucked things up. Now we're all going to pay in ways we can't imagine right now. These are the consequences of politics. Maybe next time, Americans will take their democracy more seriously.

How great is Letitia James? So great that the most evil bastards in the world keep trying to destroy her, but can’t.

My obit of Robert S. Mueller III. We will not see his like again. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/21/u...

A reminder that we don’t need billionaires to pay charity, we need them to pay their damn taxes. Billionaire philanthropy is PR to disguise their tax evasion. Don’t fall for it. Tax billionaires. Save our democracy. Period.

Be sure to read the entire @anneapplebaum.bsky.social (free link)

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Notice how all of our geopolitical enemies constantly attack the EU and push against European regulation. They do it because those regulations are exactly what protects us from them. A united and well-regulated Europe is their biggest nightmare

Trump allies are quietly buying up the information space. They own most social media platforms and will soon own a massive chunk of traditional television networks. Handing the entire public discourse over to a few partisan billionaires is incredibly dangerous

Yikes😬

Have Vance and Trump said thank you?

Biden gave this to America and America hated it.

Folks, please stop saying things like ‘why is Congress letting him get away with this?’ You are missing a few vital words. It’s *Republicans in* Congress. 👇