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Stay angry, America, we’re going to need all our anger now.

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Coercive government power exercised with less visibility and accountability is incompatible with democratic government. When the state’s capacity to inflict pain expands while scrutiny weakens, the danger of abuse expands with it. zurl.co/Ppndo

I'm attending American Civil Liberties Union's event, “Organizing to Protect Democracy: Messaging that Motivates Voter Participation” - sign up now t www.mobilize.us/aclu/event/9...

Another day, another atrocity.

According to the latest Fox News poll, if the election were held today, we would own the House and the Senate, so let’s make sure we’re all registered and vote big in November!

"We can not have free government without elections; and if the rebellion could force us to forego, or postpone a national election it might fairly claim to have already conquered and ruined us."--Abraham Lincoln (1864) www.nps.gov/liho/learn/h...

Thanks to @hcrichardson.bsky.social and the entire team at 250 to 250 for the opportunity to talk about Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts on the eve of the anniversary of their famous assault against Battery Wagner. #WeAreAmerica250 #CivilWarMemory

Many people are saying Mitch unplugged himself while Scott Jennings was on the phone.

people got mad at me yesterday when i said the dems were not ready to take court reform seriously. 5-4 for non-racial citizenship is not a win, it's a reprieve bsky.app/profile/schu...

GOOD MORNING, DORKS! I have 18k followers and there are just over 8k comments. Which means 10k of you need to head to the link and STAND UP FOR SCIENCE (and democracy) by leaving your public comment. 🔗 fight2win.standupforscience.net @standupforscience.net

Listen to @billmckibben.bsky.social Third Act is going to be a powerful force. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

The Trump regime has paid $2.5 billion of our money to ensure that fossil fuel companies continue to profit off the destruction of our planet.

A really important read for anyone who wants to understand recent attacks on climate attribution science (and who is behind it—the fossil fuel industry). share.google/cMbSLfBflTtC...

I urge ALL AMERICANS to keep their guard up and be ready to fight. The mid-terms are NOT guaranteed. We have to fight voter suppression, gerrymandering intimidation, false claims, DOJ interference, and more. Check your registrations BEFORE voting. Spread the word.

I'm sick of listening to people sanewashing his enormous wealth, built on the backs of people struggling to survive. F#ck him. #USDemocracy

Washington Nat'l Opera sues the Kennedy Center alleging that the Center STOLE the opera's endowment. WNO had a longterm agreement where KC ran the opera's development back office, and in 2025 KC just ... stopped doing it and seized the funds. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Since the Trump administration doesn’t track how many children have been separated from their parents by immigration detention, a Brookings report tried to calculate it — and it cited ProPublica’s reporting.

I’ve said it before and will say it a few more times. When Trump 2.0 came for accreditation I knew we had crossed into a different era of white reclamation. Precise, focused, stealth. Anyway, you probably don’t want these reforms.

The claim that AI will be used to boost productivity and improve everyone's lives would have just a little bit more credibility if the big tech companies weren't already using AI exactly as every knows they will, which is to fire people and extract more work from those remaining.

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While the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.

Which is the backwards country now, United States?

BREAKING: Activists have shut down multiple intersections throughout downtown Washington DC in opposition to Trump's attacks on workers, DC Home Rule, climate, and international peace. The actions kick off #MayDay events across the country.

someone make an ad of grandma working in a coal mine

"In the last few days, station Channel Islands, California, had the power cut off. s station at Michigan, Fort Huron, had services cut off. Our air station at Barbers Point, Hawaii, had natural gas service cut off," - ADM Lunday www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Remember when there were those "no kings" protests going on and all the Trumpers were like "lol who's a king you stupid libby libs?" I mean, if they could read, and feel any sort of a sense of shame, and gave a red-hot shit about hypocrisy, this would be a pretty good burn.

if your response to Zohran Mamdani's second home tax is to side with the multi-million and billionaires, I need you to take a step back and think about why you're riding so hard for wealth hoarders. wealth redistribution is a proven mechanism for reducing inequality, which ultimately benefits us

Trump cuts to NWS/NOAA are going to have a negative impact on communities everywhere. Add to that the fact that FEMA is being run by a complete nutter who believes he's teleporting from place to place and you have conditions set up for a perfect storm. 😒 www.americanprogress.org/article/the-....

"Several officials told me that Patel’s drinking has been a recurring source of concern across the government... Early in his tenure, meetings and briefings had to be rescheduled for later in the day as a result of his alcohol-fueled nights." www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

The Late Show spoofed Pope Leo XIV‘s “feud” with the Trump administration with a parody of Kendrick Lamar’s diss track “Not Like Us,” in which the “Pontiff” takes aim at the White House, saying, “They not pious.” Watch: bit.ly/42bIUEP

The Administration’s decision to gut the Forest Service ahead of a severe wildfire season, losing critical AND regional expertise, puts Oregonians and the PNW in danger. We’ll keep you posted and continue discussing the plan for wildfire response and coordination.

Deliberate destruction of culture was the subject of an episode of my podcast, Autocracy in America www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...

Leaving right before your company goes public is a sign of health and virility for your stock price, right?

Have you ever been this fucked up? I don’t think that I have.

I'd really like to see leadership calling for impeachment and removal, regardless of whether they have the votes to get it done. Same way we called for marriage equality before we had the votes. A leader's job is to lead. If a genocidal threat isn't impeachable, then nothing is.

Melania gets the Fuckjet™️ www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

US launches attack on Iran's Kharg island as Trump's deadline looms: US official www.rawstory.com/iran-war-267...

Most prescient, clear/eyed work of writing I’ve read on reorg. Read it. Then act. “Call your senators. Call your representative. Not next week or later. Now. Tell them this is not a reorganization — it’s the destruction of a federal agency by executive fiat and that Congress must intervene.”

The last 24 hours marked the highest number of U.S. aircraft shot down in a single day since Vietnam Trump did that.

The Pentagon's budget is so big and so arcane, no one can figure out how to audit it. The Trump administration wants to supersize it anyway, to $1.5 trillion. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/u...

"The consequences of ending birthright citizenship do not only fall on immigrants — under this policy, all Americans will find it more difficult to claim the rights of citizenship." Commentary: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

There are those I have served with who shouldn’t be trusted with a pair of scissors, let alone a weapon. I’d like to say this is the dumbest thing I’ve heard, but we’re only a year into this shit show. Oh and @PeteHegseth FOREST LAKE SUCKS MONKEY BALLS.

The Bondi firing will get all the attention but what Hegseth is doing with the upper echelons of the military is much more dangerous over time than Bondi’s tenure as AG. And it won’t get 1% of the coverage. Someday it will get a lot of coverage, and those will be dark days.

this is the chaplain btw. wonder why he was fired.