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“Having high-speed rail is now seen as a requirement of 21st-century nationhood. With cars being problematic in so many ways, high-speed trains seem to have been blessed with good great fortune: they are beautiful, fast, elegant, modern and environmentally friendlier." @christianwolmar.bsky.social

Maine, it's a tie game. But the game isn't over yet. We have a chance to win our government back, but we all have to get out to vote. Make a plan to vote today: jacksonformaine.com/vote Thank you, @hannahpingree.bsky.social! I'm so excited to do great things for Maine together.

🚨BREAKING: We have moved for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction enjoining Trump from continuing to unconstitutionally impose themselves upon election administration procedures that the Constitution and federal law assign to the States.

That’s ridiculous. $250 barely buys a tank of diesel these days.

Leaders of the No Kings movement are already gearing up for the next major grassroots campaign: Making sure congressional Democrats don’t wimp out. My first piece at @newrepublic.com! (Reposted to update link card) newrepublic.com/article/2168...

Me to Lula….🤣😈

I am loathe to post something I haven't read fully due to a paywall but I am glad to see this amid the accolades for this movie. I liked it but I was also frustrated Fielder did not ask her more specific questions over very clear lies.

This is the good shit and makes Turek's bullshit all the more unacceptable

Sure, he can say this sort of thing as a candidate in a safe, blue, hippy state like Kansas...

I think the real purpose here is to keep the seat empty for as long as possible while they contest it. I can even see the Supremes using the shadow docket to keep it open pending a decision on the question of ranked choice voting or even if a person with the same name can run.They are that corrupt.

"Empirical studies have long found that EISs [Environmental Impact Statements] are required in only about 1% of the federal actions subject to NEPA." May I say that I am truly embarrassed that I believed the claim that federal environmental legislation was blocking the development of clean energy.

"Run high profile viable campaigns around socialist policies that excite people" being a jackpot strategy is one of the most screamingly obvious lessons that we can learn from the last century bsky.app/profile/vict...

Trump went from packing arenas to being the punchline at intimate gatherings. I love this for him. Obama, no notes. 🔥

Officials said they wanted to search the phone of Samuel Tunick, a Stop Cop City activist, for child abuse material. It was actually because he was suspected of “terrorist activities.” www.404media.co/dhs-said-the...

We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.

I can never repost this enough. The amount of scorn this man got for his consistent moral stances, for defending the rights of everyone before any sort of cynical ploy for himself. It is a beautiful thing he'll win, be like Abdul. I believe as long as we have these good people, transphobia will lose

People like Matt Yglesias treat the militarized border as an unchangeable reality and an automatic political loser when in reality it is an incredibly recent lurch to the right whose consequences are now in full view of the citizenry.

Nothing people love more than pissing away their salary to Chevron in the name of patriotism

🔥 Rep. @aoc.bsky.social: “America First — it’s unconscionable that we spend trillions on war, not just funding atrocities in Gaza but across the world… yet when we want to fund health care, education they say ‘How will we afford it? We have no money.’ We have to FLIP THAT EQUATION.”

"Let the Tyrants of Europe and the Orient tremble! For who can stand against the Brotherhood of Man, united in fraternity under the gathering banners of the New World?" - President Benito Juárez, 1870

“People are suffering at the pump. I don’t give a damn. Were making a frickin’ fortune.”

$25 BILLION CAMBRIDGE ANALYTICA VERDICT Finally, a real penalty for the biggest data misuse scandal in political history! Thanks for supporting my work folks! dremmalbriant.substack.com/p/25-billion...

SpaceX got almost $6 BILLION in taxpayer-funded defense contracts last fiscal year. Meanwhile, SpaceX CEO, Elon Musk, has spent over $360 MILLION in our elections this cycle. This should be illegal — but it isn't. I'll be introducing a bill to close the loophole that allows it.

I just cannot imagine a mother so full of hate for her own child that she chose the man who raped her 12-year-old daughter over her own kids then after her daughter made it through all that, the mother would pop up years later to once again try to knock her back down.

"In fact, at InnoTrans 2026, major rolling stock vendors who are interested in bidding on the IBX told ETA that they had difficulty understanding why the MTA would ever consider building the IBX unautomated." www.etany.org/reports/ibx-...

The MTA needs to make the right decision and announce that IBX will be automated. If not, it's a bad sign for the ability of everybody involved – Kathy Hochul, Janno Lieber, Jamie Torres-Springer, the NYS legislature, the TWU – to make any decision in transit's interest www.etany.org/reports/ibx-...

In 2022, even before ChatGPT was publicly available, Jane Rosenzweig argued that the danger of AI writing was that we would “lose our commitment to the idea that we ought to believe what we say and write.” @janerosenzweig.bsky.social

Study Finds Growing Gap Between America's Rich and Super-Rich

Can't say for sure that Musk funded the fake flyers, but he is obsessed with trans people, is spending extraordinary amounts in Texas, and has engaged in campaign dirty tricks before bsky.app/profile/polp...

Company was formed last month and will disappear next month: it’s a pop up smear operation bsky.app/profile/texa...

In an operation that costs millions of dollars, a deceptive flyer that is intended to spark moral panic among parents about trans issue was sent out across Texas. Hey, do you know of anyone obsessed with trans people that just dumped a ton of money in Texas? newrepublic.com/post/216856/...

“We know the center of all this is the Trump crime family — it starts there." Read: bit.ly/4skxXxd

Trump and #RepublicansLoveDataCenters They say they’re fabulous and the best thing since sliced bread. His billionaire donors are raking in cash hand over fist while we all get squeezed. It’s time to regulate these polluters. Vote🗳️ for Dems to put the grown ups back in charge.

I’m no foreign policy expert but no one should have this much power. “Starlink provides a lifeline for Ukrainian forces on the front lines attacking Russian troops and defending themselves from strikes. With a seeming flick of a switch, Musk has the power to alter the course of a deadly conflict.”

And media - who loves to ride the drama of a pollercoaster - needs to take a hard look at what's legitimate and what's not. If this teaches us anything - DON'T GET COMPLACENT AND DON'T TRUST THE POLLS. LOCK IN. SIGN UP FOR A CANVASSING SHIFT. LEAVE NOTHING TO CHANCE OVER THE NEXT TWO WEEKS.

Our volunteers gave their all. And then some. I felt like I had let so many of them down. To be extremely clear, Michigan Democrats are locked in to beat Mike Rogers. We WILL send @abdulelsayed.bsky.social to the US Senate.

Keep sharing. These are concentration camps.

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Really incredible stuff tho I don’t entirely understand how he’s making the payments on the debt collateraized by stock?

This is why @democrats.org should just ignore his pardons, freeze his assets and the assets of anyone involved in bribing him. We cannot let this corruption go unpunished.