Brian Espinosa

Has your representative said this yet? If not, contact them and demand it.

I hate the too-cool-for-school attitude of dismissing this with a "but they won't." That is surrendering in advance. The pressure should be put on them, the message should be unrelenting that this is what must be done and they're the ones refusing to do it. Don't act like they don't have agency.

Imagine being a moderate Republican and getting outflanked on decency, morality, and basic humanity by these four nutters

same Overton Window-shattering tactic he’s always used: Even if worst doesn’t happen tonight - rhetorically he’s opened up possibility of the unimaginable, making lesser (but still horrible) actions seem moderate by comparison… all increasing likelihood that one day the worst really will happen

The Trump people really seem to struggle with the idea of a global market.

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara: "I don't have any evidence that I have seen that suggests that the weapon was brandished."

Our country was founded on resistance to a tyrant.

Starting to wonder if Kristi Noem has ever had a problem that she couldn't shoot in a pit before

Local man who says “I want nice, thin blood pouring through my heart” also makes national recommendations on appropriate Tylenol usage and child vaccination schedule.

Musk is just straight up white nationalist now. (And helpfully decoding that Western Civilization=Whites)

overall the feeling you get from planet earth in 2025 is like watching a tv show six seasons after it got bad. nothing's funny and everyone's got weird plastic surgery faces

GLASHEEN: Antifa is our primary concern right now. That's the most immediate violent threat we're facing BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered? GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now THOMPSON: What does that mean?

Let’s be clear, most EBT users are white. The reason he’s specifically lying about “weaves” and we’ve seen so many AI fakes of Black women ranting about food stamps is they need to make BW the face EBT because they know many Americans don’t care if Black people suffer, and some actually wish for it.

Happy John Brown’s Raid day to all who celebrate

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?”

Epstein files giving House Republicans over two months paid vacation and counting.

I want to take this opportunity to connect some dots. This is not a mistake. This is on purpose. The right wing ethos hates government oversight. They try to take over government precisely so they can make it less effectual. We see this everywhere that has Republicans in charge.

if we'd treated their obvious baldfaced lies and deflections more like this over the past eight years maybe we wouldn't be in this situation shocking how easy it is when you actually see it done

I think: knowing how to code with AI assistance: absolutely an essential skill for developers to have. enshittifying everything by putting AI into everything consumer-facing? no, thanks.

My first impression of Remix 3 is that it’s a bunch of new APIs to do what we already do. It doesn’t seem to unlock new capabilities. HTML fragments are cool, but you can already do that by returning RSC from server functions in React. Astro supports it too.

I feel like by the end of this we're going to have to come up with new legal claims to describe what they have been doing

"If there's anybody that can solve this unforced error that President Trump single-handedly caused, it's President Trump."

NEW—US Department of Education sent out standard Out of Office language to employees on Wednesday in light of shutdown. Later yesterday, workers tell me they found someone had updated their auto-responses without consent to a new one blaming Democrats. Version of original on left, updated on right:

we need evidence of two things: first, that trump can distinguish fantasy from reality and second, that trump is actually president

When Stephen Miller talks about prosecuting domestic terrorists who malign Charlie Kirk, keep in mind that Miller has described the Democrats as a "domestic extremist organization" He wants to terrorize and silence half of this country

This is just the most basic scaffolding of what creates orderly and transparent equities and capital markets. Making America Like the 1920s again

Are you telling me these people are malicious *and* incompetent? Well, I never

It is pretty amazing to see people go from “the left is the enemy of democracy and must be purged” to “who can really know why good kids do bad things?”

It’s also worth noting that as soon as it became clear the Trump shooter had no real legible politics and certainly not from “the left” he completely vanished into anonymity. No one knows his name.

Let's be super clear: these people are dumb, but releasing a preliminary, uncredited, evidence-free memo saying the bullets included trans ideology fits the Trump agenda It's almost certainly on purpose

This is such a funny element to the Kirk eulogizing: they can’t describe him the way they’re describing him *and* show clips of anything he actually said or did

In a world where exposing criminality is just a tool to be wielded for enemies, then an argument about Bill Clinton makes sense. In a world where wrongdoing should be exposed on all sides without fear or favor...bring it on. It makes for a better regime to live under.

What a month today has been

It's notable that Kavanaugh's concurrence that is getting roundly derided is not only the compromise position but also emphasizes why opinions are important. The public deserves to know the court's reasoning because it's a source of legitimacy. Without that, it's just an exercise of raw power.

The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph: link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...

Leaving aside his contempt for taking domestic violence seriously, please remember that DHS has repeatedly argued that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was a dangerous menace to the nation because of allegations of domestic violence. Is it not a crime? Or is it a crime so serious it merit deportation?

idk - branding humans like cattle, chaining them to dead bodies, feeding them to each other, filling them with gunpowder then blowing them up, burying them alive for insects to eat -- it being so bad mothers killed their children and people jumped from ships to drown seems, like, super bad dude

This is one of the things I used to talk about a lot. One of the characteristics of Whiteness is that it cannot be interrogated. It cannot be assigned traits. Whiteness and its works are treated as "default". Never part of a trend that can be identified. Especially if that trend is negative.

Trump team is doing literal information warfare around intensified political violence and Democrats are still confirming nominees and cooperating on bipartisan legislation

Hey y’all, I’ve been thinking about how fast things changed for all Latiné people in LA. And what I’ve personally done to protect myself and my family. I thought it might be helpful for some of you so thought I’d share. 🧵

80th day of Trump's bribery scheme operating out in the open.