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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 3h

😲 SEATTLE: Shackled at his wrists and ankles, an elderly man struggles in the cold rain to mount the slippery stairs to this Avelo jet, which will fly him to another detention facility in Texas 👀

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 13h

"They are coming for people just trying to get by. Landscapers, roofers, tamale women, Lyft drivers waiting in a lot at O'Hare, the people standing outside a Home Depot hoping that today might be better than yesterday."

dan sinker @dansinker.com · 2d

ICE has been cracking down hard across the vast expanse of the greater Chicago area, and I wrote a little bit about what you need to understand about what it’s like here now. Plus, I compiled some resources for locals to get alerts and whistles. dansinker.com/posts/202…

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Rise and Resist @riseandresist.bsky.social · 13h

Tish James launched an online portal for New Yorkers to submit photos and videos of ICE activity.
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Federal Action Reporting Form

Federal Action Reporting Form Please use this form to share information regarding federal government action in New York state. Filing a complaint does not start

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @thefarce.org · 11h

The pain about to be unleashed on tens of millions of Americans—from starvation to ripping away health insurance to pre-schools to home buyers to struggling farmers is unlikely anything any American president has ever done on purpose.

And Trump believes he's fully immune to the damage he's doing.

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 11h

Can we please have a Democrat with a spine who is not doing this kind of soulless bullshit, please? Please?

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

GOV. WHITMER: “.. no one is worried about building a ballroom in Washington, D.C. What they want is to make sure that they can feed their kids next week.” Most Americans are “never going to step foot in a ballroom over the course of their lifetime.”

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Architecture @architecture.bsky.social · 11h

The Art Deco brilliance of the Helsinki Central Railway Station

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elijahplovejoy.bsky.social @elijahplovejoy.bsky.social · 1d

DO NOT talk to FBI without a lawyer.

Just don't.

They won't agree to record the intvw. They'll take notes & "summarize" in a 302. It's *their* version, but if inaccurate, you'll lose any swearing contest later.

And if you lie to them re. anything material (or they say you did), it's a felony.

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 1d

I wonder if there is honest discussion happening in journalism schools across the country and around the world about the general failure of the elite corporate media covering US govt and political affairs.

onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

it’s wild that this is just sort of the most openly corrupt administration of all time and they’re just allowed to do that and most media doesn’t say a word about it

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 1d

If he were right, the import price index (which measures pre-tariff prices) would have fallen by enough to offset the sharp tariff hike. It didn't.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1d

One of the reasons I hate To Kill a Mockingbird is the book reinforces the idea that the "real" racists are white, poor, and deviant and that "respectable" white people aren't racist but are at the mercy of the real racists.

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philsmithcross.bsky.social @philsmithcross.bsky.social · 2d

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The Fifth Declension @thefifthdeclension.bsky.social · 1d

You probably already know about @runforsomething.net . The list of alums on their website continues to grow.

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 1d

TL;DR: "everything, everywhere, all at once" needs to be Dem candidate recruitment policy for at least the next two election cycles, and really should be normalized into standard electoral strategy

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 1d

Trump-hostile state legislatures can slow-walk complying with federal initiatives, or redraw Congressional maps

Trump-hostile municipalities can control the police departments that Feds leverage to do crimes

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 1d

State and local candidates then become your farm team for statewide and federal offices in 2028+. You might find people who are unusually skilled at campaigning or fundraising or organizing

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 1d

It also ensures that if there's an "upside surprise," you have candidates who can win unexpectedly instead of Rs winning by default

That was the fatal error NC Dems made in 2016, when Rs won an outright majority of the Legislature the day candidate filing closed

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 1d

Contesting every race also brings out more voters than it would otherwise, because local candidates can mobilize their neighbors and friends in a way the national parties can't. It's "push" vs "pull". It's distributed load applied to politics instead of physics

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 1d

The entire country is so vast and diverse that the whole system is architected on subsidiarity.

The federal government simply does not have the infrastructure or people or money to achieve its goals without state and municipal help

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 1d

State and local governments. I can't overstate how important it is for Dems to contest every state legislative race, in every district, everywhere

You live in Wyoming in an R+25 district? Run a Dem anyway. In an Alabama R+50? Run a Dem. Electing a dog catcher in MS? Run

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The Fifth Declension @thefifthdeclension.bsky.social · 5d

How best can democracy survive if Democrats can't flip both House and Senate in 2026?

(I know: dumbass unknowable question. Curious to hear you riff on it, though.)

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Schiff voted to confirm one of Trump’s judges roughly an hour before his account posted this.

Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 3d

Donald Trump's deployment of federal agents to San Francisco will not make the city safer or improve the quality of life for residents.

It will only serve to inflame tensions, which is tragically what the president seeks. 🧵

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 1d

This is very, very true

Easy example to confirm is pretty much any litigation. Witnesses who can recount an experience in an intimate setting like an office sound one way, and will sound totally different in a more formal format like court

Likewise when talking to people vs talking to a camera

mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 2d

People keep saying this but I strongly disagree that most people can successfully perform an emotion on camera or speaking in front of a crowd if you merely authentically experience that emotion. It's much harder than you think it is. bsky.app/profile/inep...

ineptitudinous.bsky.social @ineptitudinous.bsky.social · 2d

It's still galling that a Democratic politician would need speech training and acting classes to learn how to convey anger at the demolition of the East Wing of the White House. So many Dem politicians are Turing Test failures, trapped somewhere in the uncanny valley between human and robot.

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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 1d

The problem is that there’s safety in numbers and all of the numbers are with cowardice. I keep thinking about how more than 140 House GOP voted against PA and AZ’s official electoral college votes *after* the insurrection. Even when he tried to kill them and failed, they didn’t choose themselves.

James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 1d

A 14-word replacement for most op-eds, substacks, etc about this moment.

The GOP could stop ALL of this, right now—if a handful of Sens or Reps could step outside the cult.

It would take four in the Senate, four (maybe five) in the House, to change history.

Until then, they're all to blame.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

this is what will happen if mamdani makes bus rides free

A cat is seen riding a bus. They are standing up and have their front paws on the back of the front seat.

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ほろよい@写真撮る人 @epicday.bsky.social · 1d

#どうでもいい写真部

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