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i am inviting anyone from a legacy media organization to explain to me why the house judiciary dems report on trump’s epstein’s ties and multiple allegations of rape isn’t worthy of extensively reporting on. i’m serious. i want to understand.

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

Ukraine losing access to Starshield raises serious concerns for our national security—like who controls critical capabilities the U.S. government has spent billions to procure & how decisions to restrict them are made. I'm demanding answers from the Department of Defense & SpaceX

The same man is already directly responsible for roughly one MILLION additional deaths per year, due to the personal hands-on role he took in obliterating our entire development assistance program.

The world’s richest man, a vast recipient of our tax dollars, is personally intervening in a war on behalf of Russia’s murderous dictatorship. Every public contract with firms he controls should be severed on national security grounds. This is legal & easy to do—> www.congress.gov/crs_external...

This is exactly the kind of ad I've been begging Dems to run. "Republicans are perverts who want to do genital inspections on middle school girls" is not only a great message, it's the truth!

This is the most incredible, instructive, and destructive development in modern politics.

Amy Acton, Dems' nominee in Ohio, has long said she was molested by a man her mother married when she was a young child. There was a court battle. She went to live with her dad at age 12 ,a& she no longer talked to her mother. Ramaswamy released an ad ft the mother attacking her daughter as a liar.

If our system of justice can determine that shooting a one year-old is justified, then we do not have a system of justice, and our goal should be the eradication of the system we have and its replacement with something better.

To the brave students of North Carolina A&T: I want you to know that I see you-we see you. And I am damn proud. You are carrying on the legacy of John Lewis, of Diane Nash, of Dr. King. You are exemplifying what it means to fight for our democracy. Keep showing up, keep participating, keep fighting.

Sad to see this piece today. I first went to Svalbard almost nine years ago and reported for WaPo on the speed of climate change there, and how many aspects of daily life were already changing in profound ways due to it. And now, here's another.

Ossoff: "It's the most corrupt administration of all time & everybody knows it. While the crook president & his crook family rake in billions from all over the world, you pay more for everything... they lied us into war & spent most of the last year covering up for the world's most famous pedophile"

Here are all the other gifts over the past week bsky.app/profile/olga...

Donald Trump Is a Traitor. www.americaamerica.news/p/donald-tru...

“Donald Trump is a traitor. And he’s not simply a traitor in the loose sense of someone who commits an act of betrayal…Trump is a traitor in the very particular sense laid out in the U.S. Constitution…’adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.’” www.americaamerica.news/p/donald-tru...

Congress and a federal agency are threatening to weaken the country's historic preservation law, fueling a backlash that critics say is as fiery as the one that led to the law's creation 60 years ago. n.pr/3WsNyP3

This was such a great answer from Abdul El-Sayed about his previous criticisms of President Obama.

“This is not muddy water: we can use Black babies to further pseudoscience or we can save children’s lives with a 20-cent shot.” (me) More excellent work from @melodyschreiber.com www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

Americans must be very proud of how great they are today.

Hey California! Be careful this election because the big money creeps are trying to trick you (again).

Not only should brooks and others shut up. But Ossoff is the best example in the country of a Democrat playing dominance politics and using it to control the whole terms of his race.

Have I mentioned lately how much I loathe and despise that whiny middlebrow pos to whom Yale has inexplicably given their imprimatur - bc yes I am still mad about that too

This should be the lead story with a screaming headline on every news website: “Trump sides with Putin in Ukraine war.” “After a long, friendly chat during which Putin offered Trump a political lifeline, Trump called for Ukraine to surrender.”

Remarkable: As of now, Latino early vote is outpacing where it was at same time in 2024 in both percentages of vote share and in RAW VOTE TOTALS. That's big. Presidential turnout is usually higher than midterms. I obtained new analysis from Dem firm TargetSmart: newrepublic.com/article/2164...

On Tuesday, @governor.ny.gov , Rep. Ryan, and I had the opportunity to speak with farming communities and spotlight a New York State moratorium on data center construction. We must hold Big Tech companies accountable for maintaining our air, water, and climate quality.

This is a great piece of the inherent limitations of consent education to prevent sexual assault. It is especially true in the Australian context with campaigns such as teach us consent that harmfully framed rape as an issue of misunderstanding or miscommunication (thus removing boys/men’s agency)

If I’ve advised you not to let your student apply to Bard, this is why: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center...

This is a central argument I make in my book-the S Ct's hallucinated immunity decision, combined with congressional abdication by Republicans, led trump to reasonably conclude he can do as he likes w/out regard to the law. Remains to be seen just how far this goes 1/2 www.rienner.com/title/Above_...

And some wonder how we got here

This piece highlights something that doesn't get talked enough: Progressives should put forward a proposed set of rules for a new congress to facilitate defeating the far right and actually legislate.

There are some news articles going around about sexual violence reporting rates at different universities. Let’s talk about why some schools have higher reporting rates than others:

Every time I think I’ve hit the bottom of my outrage, they find a new pocket…

Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.

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There’s something to be said for how most of the political spectrum can unite around hounding some lesbians over niche drama in their spaces but huge segments of society are silent about pervasive campus rape impacting a huge population of primarily youngwomen

Jeez, at an American liberal arts college, maybe one with distribution requirements? Or even somewhere like MIT which also has distribution requirements?

This is one you just have to read for yourself. The Trump administration killed the investigation, which involved subjects in both parties, when it got rid of agents & prosecutors who worked the Trump prosecutions. joycevance.substack.com/p/a-bad-tues...

I'm just a lowly art historian, but in moments like these I always think back to one early sign of Trump's wanton, pointless destructiveness: his demolition of the priceless & irreplaceable Art Deco relief sculptures on facade of the Bonwit Teller building, which he tore down to build Trump Tower

Surely, a sane person goes to the United Nations and with one breath calls himself a peacemaker and with the next threatens to "annihilate" a nation of over 90 million people. Donald Trump is a psychiatric emergency. open.substack.com/pub/america/...

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