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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

really striking the degree to which not a single person working in the trump administration appears to be interested in serving the american people

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15h

If you live in Everett, Mass. and have any information about the 13-year-old boy abducted by ICE, please message me on Signal at marisakabas.04

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 13h

I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about it (either out of self-preservation or the distractions inherent in our cursed information environment) but man:

It’s humiliating to live in the hegemon that built the current global order as a bunch of illiterate pissbabies smash it to pieces.

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 17h

Teapot Dome scandal? Watergate? These are minuscule compared to what's uncovered every week with Trump. And just imagine what we haven't yet learned. Release the Epstein Files. Impeach and remove. Now.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Trump's conversation with Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto is caught on a hot mic. Hard to tell exactly what they are talking about, but Subianto asks Trump about meeting Eric Trump and Don Jr, who supposedly have nothing to do with government while they run the family business.

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choo choo choose anger @ralphtheewiggum.bsky.social · 1d

The difference bet the way the press handled Biden’s vs Trump’s health issues, as well as the standard to which they hold his conduct is one of the greatest scandals in the history of journalism.

Their conduct, and the knowledge they’ve done tremendous damage to their profession, should shame them.

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 1d

he has been talking obsessively about the afterlife for some time, he is missing for chunks of time, his aides are trying harder than usual to show he’s fit, his public appearances show someone in visible physical decline, and jd vance talked impromptu about being prepared to assume office

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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Sick Hunt, Dracones @scalehelix.net · 15h

the answer is because they like republicans and want them to win. Not complicated

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 18h

I don't understand why U.S. reporters so regularly seem to let politicians get away with 'I haven't seen that' about stuff a) they obviously know and b) is directly relevant to their job. Did they sign some kind of agreement never to ask a follow-up question?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

REPORTER: We know the president moved forward with mass layoffs. We're also learning there were significant cuts to staff at special education services. Are you comfortable with those cuts?

MIKE JOHNSON: I haven't seen the specifics of that and I don't know

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Waldo Jaquith, but Spooky @waldo.net · 1d

The Supreme Court is so illegitimate that cases are often about fictional matters with plaintiffs who have been harmed in no way, now to the point where they are not aware that they are plaintiffs in a Supreme Court case.

Brian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social · 1d

“One of them, Albert ‘Skip’ Caissie Jr., 78, said in a phone interview that he wasn’t aware that he was involved in a Supreme Court case.”

Who Are the Louisiana Voters Behind a Major Supreme Court Challenge?

www.nytimes.com

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 13h

The Chinese are likely going to return to the moon before Americans and it's going to hit the American space establishment like a nightmare

Reuters @reuters.com · 16h

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown.

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Ben McAdams Memorial Act. but on BlueSky @purrtah.bsky.social · 7h

Live spencer cox reaction after being an elected member of a political party who follows through on their promises

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Epstein files giving House Republicans over two months paid vacation and counting.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 15h

Again, every time this happens, we literally have no idea if the masked, plainclothes people are actual government agents, or private citizens acting in party-affiliated paramilitaries. The whole point of IDs & uniforms & no masks is that we know these things.

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 11h

It's actually good to point out Bari Weiss's shitty inaccuracies, her lack of any real journalistic experience or original ideas, and the fact that she's failing upward, promoted by antidemocratic oligarchs who have no interest in reporting the truth.

The middle-aged white guy standing up in a crowd from Norman Rockwell's "Freedom of Speech" painting.

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No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 15h

MAGA is ideologically pro-Trump dictatorship, but is still forced to operate in a system that, while significantly weaker than it was in the past, still puts fetters on their freedom of movement

Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 15h

Let's just put it this way. The GOP certainly isn't acting like elections don't matter or that a Democratic House can't meaningfully restrain Trump's power.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 16h

BREAKING: North Carolina Republicans announce plans to vote on a new U.S. House map as a nationwide redistricting battle unfolds.

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No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 7h

Endorsed Trump twice

Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 11h

Chris Christie: “Thie is no longer, the Department of Justice, is no longer the premier prosecuting office in America. What it is now is a capo regime who goes out and executes hits when directed by the Don to do so. That’s what it is.”

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Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 8h

We cannot allow an American Gestapo to become normalized.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 8h

Thinking about how much of their violence has been normalized already, how scenes that caused shockwaves 6 weeks ago are now part of the rhythm of daily life. Watched a TikTok from a daughter who has to do her parents' laundry & get their groceries because they're in hiding. This is just it now

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ParanoidPorygon @paranoidporygon.bsky.social · 11h

I think a legitimate criticism of the 50501/Indivisible protests is "what are they doing with those numbers?", and I think the answer is "getting a very large number of people used to protesting so that they're ready and willing when a meaningful opportunity presents itself".

the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 13h

the increasing frequency is the key to why this is different from Trump I. and right now it's not even a response to specific events.

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 9h

What really also annoys me is there’s also a variant of this that seem to think that there’s some magic secret trick the national movement will play that will solve politics, possibly forever, that somehow isn’t also mass violence.

the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 17h

the thing that annoys me about the 'elections won't save us' shit is that it's just a permission structure to wait for a powerful national social movement, and in their want a violent one, that *will never fucking exist*.

the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 17h

winning elections is pretty much the only way to solidify the gains of social movements though. and winning them often enough that they can't be immediately repealed.

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Ben McAdams Memorial Act. but on BlueSky @purrtah.bsky.social · 9h

Crazy to think Rex Tillerson was a bulwark of the Republic

Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 16h

yeah i don't think i ever appreciate how well constrained Trump was during his first term and how everyone kinda assumed that would happen again without putting in any of the work

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 20h

The siren call of electoral strategy and analysis partially crowded out work on things like law, organizational resistance, and protest. I blame myself, too

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 8h

while *elites* are behaving like Trump won this kind of landslide, objectively he didn't, and most Americans kniw that on some level

had Biden stayed in, he would have, and our climb would be so much harder

Marxist-Glonzoist @primaryschool.bsky.social · 13h

yeah, Biden loses New Jersey.

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Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 7h

i cannot get over how quickly this is happening. the decline of the other two branches/ascent of the lawless executive is outpacing actual democratic decline, which is usually what precipitates executive consolidation. but in our case, the other two branches are collaborators

Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 8h

We are living through the most consequential shift in the constitutional government of the United States in over a hundred and fifty years and nobody seems to have even noticed yet.

Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 8h

Congress no longer holds the power of the purse, the executive can just do whatever they want with federal monies

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Ben McAdams Memorial Act. but on BlueSky @purrtah.bsky.social · 9h

Jay Jones please don’t cede the airwaves

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Seamless Bay Area @seamlessbayareaca.bsky.social · 12h

Yay, SB63 signed into law, authorizing a regional transit funding measure for the SF Bay Area, essential to save and improve service for BART, Muni, AC Transit, Caltrain! Bill allows a signature-gathering effort that would passage with 50%+1 of the vote. www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/u...

www.gov.ca.gov

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Jonathan Eby @jonathaneby.bsky.social · 16h

the urbanist reform movement in California is one of the most successful liberal reform movements in modern american history.

we just need to make sure our progress spreads across the country.

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alex davis @alexdavistransit.bsky.social · 13h

Fine. But @mnolangray.bsky.social, surely the Grove trolley DOES qualify as a Tier 2 light rail service, right?. Unlike the Disneyland rides, anyone can walk up off the street and ride it. It's public transportation. Do we have a case here?

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Thank you for signing sb 79, governor newsom!!!! @debonthearts.bsky.social · 11h

@volts.wtf