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Citizens United specifically and murky political financing in general looks like the root cause of most of our nation’s ills. Single most important thing to fix, to be able to fix many other critical things.

Our maritime decline is a threat to our security. While China builds 1,000+ ships a year, the U.S. built only 5 in 2024. I’m teaming up with Rep. John Garamendi on the SHIPS for America Act to revitalize our shipyards, create jobs, and build ships in America again.

Pretty amazing.

Here is another fact Putin’s fan club desperately wants to bury: Russia controlled significantly more Ukrainian territory one month into the invasion than they do today. Over four years of grinding war and massive casualties just to go backwards. Complete failure

While we're talking percentages, let's talk about the proposed cuts to NASA's science budget. NASA is currently 0.36% of US federal spending. www.planetary.org/space-policy... The proposed budget cuts NASA science by 47%. NASA science is already on a shoestring, and that string is about to break

Carter Page was a legitimate target for surveillance. If an American who has been on U.S. intelligence’s radar before is seen in Moscow telling people he has a special in with a major U.S. party presidential candidate and can sell access, that’s something U.S. counterintelligence should look into.

Let's be very clear about what's going here: this is Trump using contrived and fictional litigation to pay off his retainers out of the US Treasury for alleged wrongs they suffered. It's theft. www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

Indictment of @splcenter.org is based on clear false narrative. False: DOJ and Kash Patel's claim that SPLC supported white supremacist groups via paying informants. Reality: “We frequently shared what we learned from informants with local and federal law enforcement, including the FBI."

If Dems retake either house, they must launch an investigation into this. There's no easier way to highlight the corruption of this era and to establish that Dems are committed to fighting it. Pretty sure @wyden.senate.gov and Maxine Waters would be the chairs to do it.

Clarence Thomas ruled in favor of Citizens United. Harlan Crow's political contributions then went up 862%. Then we later find out Thomas let Crow take him on lavish trips, buy his mom's house, and help fund his wife's conservative nonprofit. But go on about how "progressivism" is a problem...

NATO has been the bedrock of our national security for over 75 years. Walking away from our strongest allies during a period of global instability is a serious mistake that makes every American less safe.

This whiteboard should be in every hospital boardroom in America. This isn’t a leadership crisis. It’s an ownership crisis. Credit: Dr. Eric Arzubi, MD.

Here a grandmother is forced to do a gig job with no job security because she can’t afford to retire? What are we celebrating here?

The Artemis II mission cost the same as 2 days of Trump’s war in Iran. I want more Artemis, less needless war.

Right now, the conversation isn’t about nuclear programs, or free and fair elections in Iran. It's about reopening a body of water that was open before this war started. Chalk that up as a win for Tehran.

The Lego videos are funny. The situation is not. A theocracy that blocks its own people's access to the internet is currently running circles around the United States in the information space of an active conflict. That does not happen by accident. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

Trump has proposed sweeping budget cuts to security agencies that would undermine the integrity of our country’s elections. This is just the latest in what Trump has been boasting for months: that he intends to intervene in and “take over” elections.

Chaos at NASA...

Hey Dems, if you want to reach young men, maybe tell them that, if they allow Republicans to keep Congress, there's a non-zero chance they will die losing a war that Trump started for no reason. Everybody knows now that is a very real possibility, and you need show them where you stand on it.

The Iranian dictatorship is still in place. Iran still has enriched uranium. The Strait of Hormuz no longer has free passage. Sanctions and tariffs on Irans despotic regime are going to be lifted. And some are calling this a victory?

Trump’s various war crime threats really should see him impeached.

The people of Iran aren’t free. Iran can now charge tolls. The nuclear material sits EXACTLY where it did, in the same amount, since June. The regime is still in place with a younger ayatollah. Iran still was launching missiles, now with more money to rebuild. Period

NSF funded research has benefited all of humanity and paid for itself millions of times over here in the US. Their budget will now be the same as 2 days of stupid war in Iran costs. Trump continues to destroy what has actually made America superlative.

In the first six months of Trump’s 2nd term, the DOJ quietly closed more than 23,000 criminal cases—including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, fraud, and drug trafficking. How does that make us more safe? www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Trump just cut a midterm ad for every Democrat in America. bsky.app/profile/fact...

Amen. Hopefully @slotkin.senate.gov or @peters.senate.gov feel the same for Michigan voters.

Again, FUCK Kristi Noem's request for privacy about her cuckold's cross-dressing. Focus on the claim that Stephen Miller is implicated in Alex Pretti's murder. emptywheel.net/2026/03/31/d...

In what world is it okay for the Defense Secretary to make multi-million dollar investments in defense companies: a) Ever; b) In the run-up to starting a war in the Middle East FT has the scoop: www.ft.com/content/744e... In a functional democracy, he would offer his resignation tonight.

It’s hard to overstate how immoral and wrong it is that Trump is likely sending American soldiers into harm’s way for no good reason. Every American who voted for this man to lead America have aided and abetted this tragic mistake.

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Four-byline alert: 🚨 “.. A broker for Pete Hegseth, the US defence secretary, attempted to make a big investment in major defence companies in the weeks leading up to the US-Israeli attack on Iran, according to three people familiar with the matter.” www.ft.com/content/744e...

A large rally in opposition to the government has value in and of itself. There's ample literature on this: signaling, agenda-setting, preference falsification. Historical examples abound; '63 march on DC and '68 protests in France were dismissed by many at the time as counterproductive farces. 1/2

www.ft.com/content/4f09... Genuinely hard to overstate how much of a strategic defeat it would be for the United States if the war ends with effective Iranian control of the Strait.

This is the FCC Chairman, who is ostensibly a non-partisan industry regulator, openly bragging about conducting a political purge of the media.

The karma of Kash Patel firing FBI counter intel people who SPECIALIZE in Iranian threats, and then him getting HACKED by an Iranian threat just a few weeks later is hilarious #leopardsatemyface #Politics #News

We need to admit to ourselves what happened and have a reckoning. The coverup and denial makes this worse.

Just another day on the West Bank.

"May decide". Optimistic use of the future tense.

1/ It's not just that unilaterally paying TSA agents is illegal. It's that Trump has now repeatedly undermined the core of the congressional power of the purse. He's not spending money that has been appropriated by law (impoundments) and he's spending money that has not been appropriated.

Climate/renewables arguments aside, this is the president's administration paying a foreign company to invest in states where Republicans are in charge rather than ones where Democrats are in charge -- using tax dollars to punish people who didn't vote for his party.

Key word here is “before.”

Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans are keeping our airports in chaos and instilling fear in Illinoisans to pass a voter suppression bill — instead of paying our TSA agents. It’s time to get our nation’s airports back on track now.

I think we can use bolder words than "less legal" about striking power plants as a way to pressure Iran. It's almost certainly a war crime.

Strong words by @billbrowder.bsky.social: "Even if Ukraine repairs the Druzhba pipeline, I'm not sure Orbán would release the €90 billion. He's taking orders from Putin and acting as a 'little Putin' inside the EU. But, one way or another, Europe will get the funds to Ukraine."

A disgusting lie from Hegseth. If the US had really depleted its stockpiles for Ukraine's benefit, we would all be much safer now. Instead we have Trump doing all he can to help the Russian economy recover by lifting sanctions on RU oil sales, while blaming Ukrainians for defending themselves.