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Just as a private equity firm buys out a corporation and strips it for parts, a consultant class is raiding the Democratic Party and getting “generationally wealthy” along the way New from me and @adambonica.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2163...

"I don't like bigotry. I don't like the Klan. I don't like neo-Nazis," Sen. Jon Ossoff says on his Republican opponent Mike Collins.

this is so obviously correct it is deeply bizarre and corrosive how many people who should know better are unwilling to simply say it

One key point @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social makes here is that if Dems win the midterms (and win in 2028), deploying congressional power creatively to unwind Elon Musk's sway over the government (contracts, etc) will be essential to any reconstruction: www.ms.now/opinion/elon...

I took a look at sexual assault data for both Cornell and colleges across the country. Only 1% of incidents result in expulsions at schools in NY state. It's even lower at Cornell. wapo.st/4dSEgSs

1,200 sexual assault cases were filed at Cornell from 2018 to 2024. Most of those found responsible received minor sanctions that allowed them to remain on campus, such as probation or training. Only 7 ended in expulsion or dismissal. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

Latest WSJ poll: "63% want to pause AI development 61% want a billionaire wealth tax 59% want Medicare for All 57% want a $20 minimum wage 58% want to end U.S. military aid to Israel" This is the center of the country politically. it is time all adjust to this political spectrum, esp. media.

Just a reminder that people don’t always realize they were raped in the immediate aftermath. It can take hours, days, months, and even years to realize you were raped, and it doesn’t make it any less true. There are many kinds of responses, including fawning and trying to appease your rapist

Guess who’s coming to dinner as Trump asks his SCOTUS for yet another favor

As they exist today, the Democratic Party is not an opposition party. We not only need to impeach Trump, we need a truth and reconciliation commission.

"If you allow the most wealthy and powerful segment of society to opt out of public services, those public services will get worse. The reason is simple: You have removed the incentive for the most influential people to use their influence to improve public services." Mm-hm.

Steve and Brad are obviously going to cause trouble today. Just look at them.

NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.

This video was filmed in Palestine. My heart struggles to comprehend such cruelty and the heartbreaking disregard for human life. No human being should have to endure this.

Okay, this got me.

This is straight-up evil. Yom Kippur is on Monday — the moral contradiction is impossible to ignore. 📌 REUTERS: Israeli settlers set fire to olive groves in the town of Burqa in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, according to local Palestinian residents. Burned trees that are “thousands of years” old.

Editor: I'd like a story that combines Americans' hatred of artificial intelligence, their fears about the environment, their antipathy toward data centers, and their angst over inflation driven by dwindling fuel supplies. Reporter: Got ya covered, boss. Need anything else?

When you see bipartisanship like this in the Senate, always be wary. This is advancing a bill to union-bust college athletes.

Elon Musk hired a team of incel hackers that forced its way into the private personal information of every American citizen. He should spend the rest of his life in prison. China has a way to deal with a problem like Elon Musk. It seems we do not. Our system is broken.

This is how our government has been corrupted: 1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office 2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor 3) Donors make huge profit 4) Repeat We must get big money out of politics. It is the root of our dysfunction.

The Democrats current leadership is tooled for a world that doesn’t exist any more.

These gloves don't cause neuromuscular incapacitation the way that a taser does. In fact, they only work when applied directly to bare skin. These aren't made for apprehending anyone. These have one and only one use: causing extreme pain to already-restrained captives. In plain language: torture.

I hope it's becoming apparent that the same ghouls who are funding and powering and participating in the fascist takeover of the government are also using their plundered wealth to buy literally everything and create unassailable monopolies and that these things are inextricably intertwined.

And this is why people hate the Dem establishment. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/u...

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company is suing Minnesota over a first-in-the-nation law banning technology that allows users to create and post deepfake videos or images of people naked without their consent.

WATCH: Whether you love cars or hate cars, you should watch this new video and better understand the truth about the real costs & consequences of too many cars in our cities, and the car dependency many of us live in. You might find it hard to watch, but watch it to the end anyway. Via #NotJustBikes

oh, and adequately fund publicly-owned media, which is a firewall against authoritarianism in every country where funding and support is healthy

"Under the rule, destroying an endangered species’ nest or habitat would no longer be considered illegal." nyti.ms/4hch5F3

The establishment obsession over conventional tactics (of appeasing/accommodating Republicans) instead of leading with strategic imperatives (to beat Republican anihilists) - a key reason why Democrats find themselves in this clusterf*ck. Painful but necessary read. @brianbeutler.bsky.social

How to seed corruption: • dismiss investigations & lawsuits against crypto firms that donate to Trump • assert that most crypto assets don't implicate federal securities laws • create an "innovation exemption" for all other coins • let traditional banks flow into the unregulated space

With Trump railing against an imaginary threat, we have reached the “unhumans” phase of the project. A 2024 book laid out a genocidal propaganda strategy to label Democrats as demonic “communists” unworthy of life. JD Vance endorsed it. www.thenerdreich.com/unhumans-jd-...

The divide in the Democratic party is not moderates versus progressives. It's between the people who want to protect the status quo versus those who want transformative change. If you have done great under the current system, you want to protect the status quo. The rest of us want real change!

This year, before stepping into the voting booth—educate yourself on your representative's stance on Crypto. In an election with so much at stake—the last thing we need is more politicians bought & paid for by the cryptocurrency industry [in the 2024 election cycle, it legally spent $245 m]. 2/13🧵

A 22-year-old just got a $30 million investment valuing his new futures exchange at $300 million. He graduated Stanford, wrote for Thiel's Stanford Review, interned at Andreessen Horowitz. His mom? Pro-crypto Sen. Gillibrand, D-NY. Bipartisan capture in full bloom. fortune.com/2026/06/18/t...

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Mexicans dancing and singing GANGNAM STYLE with the South Koreans in Mexico after South Korea's victory in the World Cup

There *has* to be consequences, serious fucking consequences, for everyone involved here. No more looking forward, not back. Not this time. People need to go to prison for this shit

You find candidates that match your values and cultivate them and fund them, and you do it over time, not just in the year or two before the next election. This is why the Federalist Society has so much influence. It’s not rocket science!

There’s been a lot of talk in this race about what makes a "real man." A man does what’s right when no one is watching. He upholds his commitments to his family and neighbors. He doesn’t lie, cheat, & steal his way through life. Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.

Ben Gvir calls for the suburbs of Beirut to be “flattened”

So now it's going to be very hard to see what the cops are going to do to those protestors, unless the protestors film it themselves. We'll see if those protestors' phones will survive this. www.youtube.com/live/dhCEpox...

Outside Delaney Hall, police kettle. This man was just talking when New Jersey state police (not ICE) under the direction of Gov. Mikie Sherrill forcibly arrested him for his speech. Notice how the troopers are deliberately blinding the cameras with lights. A fascist technique learned from ICE.

Hi, expert on far-right extremism here, a history of domestic violence and misogyny is one of the strongest predictive variables for violent extremism, especially on the right. We've been raising the alarm on this for DECADES but no one cares.