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HR 1: The Damnatio Memoriae Act of 2029 Everything Donald Trump did as President was illegitimate and is null and void unless re-authorized by a majority of Congress. Oh SCOTUS complains? Well 3 of you are fake, and 2 are being impeached for corruption.

Right-wing billionaires now own the Washington Post, the LA Times, CNN, CBS News, virtually every local TV station, virtually every news radio station, most local newspapers, X, Facebook, Threads, and TikTok. (Did I miss any?) They own almost the entire information environment.

When you look at Noem, RFK Jr, Hegseth, Bovino, Bessent, it's pretty striking. Trump picked an entire cabinet whose only qualification is to be able to tell outlandish lies with a straight face.

Of course he does. Is this a joke? He defended the guy who killed Good. He’s told multiple people that he thinks protesters should be attacked. He told people at a rally to rough someone up. He’s said nothing as ICE has hurt people for months. He doesn’t get to walk away from this now.

David Broder wrote a column for WaPo in '04 about the D refusal to engage on the Iraq invasion. He called it "Politics Above Principle." And so it was, and so it is today.

@mcopelov.bsky.social: You'd be interested in thie post from @eschatonblog.com on the "good Republican": www.eschatonblog.com/2026/01/sure.... I fear he's right.

A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter. I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.

Refusing to work with Israeli academics means refusing to work with one of the main sources of dissent within Israeli society. To be sure, their views are not uniform, but that is a reason to avoid broad based bans,

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

Dear Journalists, You seriously don’t have to always be like, “2 + 2, said by some experts in math to equal four.” You can just say the thing. It doesn’t make you biased. Really. It’s okay. XOXO, Simeon

We need to tax the rich! Repost if you agree.

Whenever Trumpist rule ends, business as usual, a return to “normalcy,” a project of mere restoration of the status quo ante won’t do. America will need something akin to Radical Reconstruction - a transformative vision that presents a response commensurate with this radical assault on democracy.

These are wartime numbers. This is a regime at war: With pluralistic democracy and American society as it actually exists. They are not looking to reform or compromise, they desire to destroy, conquer, and dominate.

"At any decision point, the GOP will behave in a way that is dumber & meaner than expected" is the only heuristic that has never led me wrong in US politics. People think I'm joking or exaggerating for rhetorical effect when I say that, but I'm dead serious. I can't think of an exception.

There’s no more wondering what things are or what we should call them. There is only the full-on, hard reality of the situation: we are in a battle for democracy with fascists. Whether you wanted the fight or not, the fight is here. Everything depends on our choices from this point forward.

@mcopelov.bsky.social In case you missed this, Mark bsky.app/profile/jayg...

Doesn't include AOC, Pritzker, or any other progressive (except Walz in the very cellar). And does include less-than-worthless Fetterman. This is an unapologetic attempt to read progressives out of the party. I've been reading lists like this for 60 years, and none has been more utterly repellent.

John Dewey said that the only solution to the ills of democracy is more democracy, and what we are suffering from today is not democracy but all the impediments and obstacles to it—and all the attacks on it.

A shorter version of my thread: for chrissakes can we pay attention to what fascism does instead of what it says? No, Trump isn’t trying stupidly and failing to revive U.S. industry. He’s trying quite effectively to burn it down so he can rule the ashes. Seriously. That’s the plan.

The April 5 protests will be a test of the nation's courage. www.headsupnews.org/p/the-moment...

The most notable fact about US politics at the moment is one that, for reasons of politesse, almost no one is allowed to say out loud, namely: the Republican Party has gathered to itself all the biggest losers and assholes in America. That's the real "sorting" -- all the worst people, clustered.

“We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both.” - Justice Louis Brandeis

The Trump Administration kidnapped an activist in the middle of the night. Mahmoud Khalil's detention is a clear violation of the First Amendment. This is the behavior of an authoritarian regime, not a democracy. He must be released immediately.

Watching Donald Trump and JD Vance shamelessly berate and taunt and disrespect Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in front of the world, I was reminded again how much I f*ckin’ despise bullies. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/like-presi...

Everyone can see that the center-right was a hollow shell, yes? It collapsed immediately & totally, which suggests there wasn't much to it. And everyone can see that conservatives' stated principles were always bullshit, right? Small gov't. Judicial restraint. Rule of law. Out the window.

Every House Republican just voted to defund Medicaid. Reminder: there are no moderate Republicans in Congress, and stop pretending there are.

At what point will the media acknowledge that we are living in a police state? I ask that question sincerely.

Jeffries, the Democratic minority leader, posted this today on X. We're doomed. x.com/RepJeffries/...

There is, unfortunately, no law of nature that says democracy can’t be brought down and wars can’t be started by a bunch of clowns with enough support from people, parties, and institutions who enable them. It’s all just a farce - until these goons and buffoons are in power. That’s where we are.

Trump in his press conference just said he is not ruling out using military force to seize Greenland and the Panama Canal.

Ladies and gentlemen, may I present the “pro-life” Republican Party.

The concentration of wealth in the hands of an elite few isn't just bad for our economy. It's corrosive to our democracy. When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, the American people don't have a voice. The result is demagoguery and corruption.

There's no question that, if JD Vance thought it would be be good for him politically, he would start talking about how the Jews of Springfield are abducting Christian children to use their blood in matzah

Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir explained it was fine for the Zionist movement to use terrorism to establish a state but not okay for Palestinians to do the same. If you disagree & say there should be the same standard for everyone, you're engaging in what's known as "moral relativism."

the "most progressive administration in 50 years" loudly trumpeting its commitment to the fundamental rule of conservatism: laws are for other groups to follow and do not apply to me and my friends

i think it is great that we have an unelected supra-legislature that is completely unbound by precedent or public opinion or tradition or text and that effectively cannot be disciplined or checked by any other political actor in the system