Jewish law & Bible scholarship don't think the word in the 10 Commandments for "steal" is about, like, shoplifting.

Look at eg Genesis 40:15, Exodus 21:16 , Deuteronomy 24:7--

the commandment is not to steal people. Don't kidnap.

Though you shouldn't need the Bible to teach you that. #AbolishICE

I just signed a memo saying the @nytimes.com has been on a mission to normalize fascism by leaving out pertinent facts in stories about Trump. Such as: Trump's actions here are illegal. There's nothing to equivocate about.

It's far more likely he's had his brain fried in some techno-fascist group chats rather than think "destroying a pillar of American journalism is some unfathomable 4D chess of a bottom-line-oriented billionaire."

The traditional framing of"White 25 year-old Republicans are little boys, Black 15 year-olds are dangerous adults" continues.

The silver lining to this insanity is that Democrats can make one of the biggest investments for Wisconsin residents and workers in the state’s history starting in 2027.

Any social or economic program should be easy to fund w/o worrying about raising taxes to balance the budget

$4.6 BILLION and MCTS is cutting service because this state refuses to fund transit. Absolutely shameful.

It is insane to me that his approval is in the toilet, especially in the economy and the chattering classes just pretend it is not happening.

I would also add that our major media institutions, while *sometimes* capable of describing the trees, are either too captured, too craven, or too incompetent to look beyond that single tree and describe of the entire forest.

One of the biggest issues in democratic politics is how the consultants everyone hires sees voters as just a cash machine and they pummel them with messages asking for money instead of activating them for politics. It rightfully makes people extremely cynical.

Trump has no legal authority, "standing" or otherwise, to order the killing of people in international waters for unsubstantiated accusations of non-capital crimes.

Calling them "narcoterrorists" does not make it right or legal to order their deaths without any due process.

Good morning.

Democrats have no obligation to vote for a budget that funds corruption and totalitarianism.

Trump is willing to do whatever it takes to destroy our democracy and pad the pockets of billionaires.

People don't want Democrats to wilt. They want us to fight.

This from the great @sulliview.bsky.social on the media's anemic (or non-) coverage of the massive No Kings movement is such a great point

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I need a montage of famous cops in movies and TV shows flashing their badges and announcing their names, followed by a stream of masked ICE guys refusing to give theirs.

… a fridge in a *carpeted* dining room?

The good news: most of this is cosmetic is easily fixed. Is this an apartment or a condo? Ripping up that carpet would be mandatory, but maybe not possible in an apartment situation.

I am so sick of giving credit to orgs that do the bare fucking minimum.

Granted, given the current environment, you’re not wrong. But my god do we need to strive for a world where Newsmax and its ilk DON’T get credit for this.

And let’s not extend the credit given one inch more than necessary.

The real problem is that, much like “A few bad apples,” it’s a longer phrase whose truncation corrupts the meaning of the original.

Here, it was “The customer is always right *in matters of taste*.”

It was a “hey, it’s your money, ya dumb-dumb” kinda meaning, not a “yes, master” kinda meaning.

That the entire party (political operatives anyway) has just utterly forgotten what you're supposed to do when there's a whiff of corruption or sex crimes around your opponent (gleefully shout it from the rooftops at every opportunity!!!) is just bewildering

Yes, this was working - and then Dems realized they hated winning with suburban moms instead of Real Heartland Americans, pivoted to rust belt listening tours focused on kitchen-table issues, and those early, shocking leads over Trump were lost forever

"After we win in November, we do not demobilize. The rich and corporate interests who tried to buy this election with the millions they stole from our pockets will want to see us fail.

We won’t let them." - Chi Ossé

Not dissimilar to the vampire-capitalist method of "Get debt by using your intended acquisitions as collateral, then load them up with said debt as you extract all the wealth from them."

You can really see the hollowing out of Milwaukee in that.