@566unicorns.bsky.social
Politics watcher and opinion writer from California
Reposted
53% of Americans believe billionaires are a threat to American democracy.
Meanwhile, just 100 billionaire families spent $2.6 billion on federal elections last year — a 160-fold increase since Citizens United.
The people know: billionaires should not be able to buy our elections.
Meanwhile, just 100 billionaire families spent $2.6 billion on federal elections last year — a 160-fold increase since Citizens United.
The people know: billionaires should not be able to buy our elections.
November 14, 2025 at 11:30 PM
53% of Americans believe billionaires are a threat to American democracy.
Meanwhile, just 100 billionaire families spent $2.6 billion on federal elections last year — a 160-fold increase since Citizens United.
The people know: billionaires should not be able to buy our elections.
Meanwhile, just 100 billionaire families spent $2.6 billion on federal elections last year — a 160-fold increase since Citizens United.
The people know: billionaires should not be able to buy our elections.
Reposted
Holy sh*t! Epstein linked Trump FHFA Director Bill Pulte to the Rybolovlev Sale as one of only three bidders, with Trump and Epstein? Does that mean Pulte got his job from Trump because he might know more about Trump-Kremlin money laundering operations? Or is this a different Pulte? We need to know.
November 14, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Holy sh*t! Epstein linked Trump FHFA Director Bill Pulte to the Rybolovlev Sale as one of only three bidders, with Trump and Epstein? Does that mean Pulte got his job from Trump because he might know more about Trump-Kremlin money laundering operations? Or is this a different Pulte? We need to know.
Reposted
Everyone should read this and share it.
You probably saw videos of a nighttime raid in Chicago. Agents rappelling from a helicopter, bursting down doors, questioning brown-skinned immigrants.
We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua.
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua.
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime
Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...
www.propublica.org
November 13, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Everyone should read this and share it.
This story is going to make a hell of a movie one day.
Please don’t do this, America. Please don’t act like the Trump-Epstein emails we saw today were our first glimpse of something.
Don’t buy the narrative that these emails are useful because they *hint* at misconduct. We *know* there was misconduct.
You can read a fully sourced book on it for free:
Don’t buy the narrative that these emails are useful because they *hint* at misconduct. We *know* there was misconduct.
You can read a fully sourced book on it for free:
{Book 1} Proof of Devilry: The Crimes of Donald Trump, Ghislaine Maxwell, and Jeffrey Epstein
The available evidence places Trump, Epstein, and Maxwell at the heart of a multistate and multinational child sex-, sex- and human-trafficking ring whose discovery could change the course of history.
sethabramson.substack.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:50 AM
This story is going to make a hell of a movie one day.
"As the years wore on, Americans’ inattention and indifference became ineluctable. We lost those wars because we didn’t care about winning them."
A sobering read on Vets day. Despite a one-sided view of Palestinians, his traumatic experiences that both isolate and bond resonate profoundly.
A sobering read on Vets day. Despite a one-sided view of Palestinians, his traumatic experiences that both isolate and bond resonate profoundly.
"When I come home, people are overwhelmingly pleasant and thankful, but most will never understand what war does to people. And that lack of knowledge is what drives veterans to feel like strangers in their own country." Will Selber from the archives: www.thebulwark.com/p/what-israe...
What Israel’s Killing Fields Taught Me About America's Wars
Too few Americans know what it’s like to fight—and too few care.
www.thebulwark.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:50 AM
"As the years wore on, Americans’ inattention and indifference became ineluctable. We lost those wars because we didn’t care about winning them."
A sobering read on Vets day. Despite a one-sided view of Palestinians, his traumatic experiences that both isolate and bond resonate profoundly.
A sobering read on Vets day. Despite a one-sided view of Palestinians, his traumatic experiences that both isolate and bond resonate profoundly.
I don't want this day to go by without acknowledging this sad milestone. I'm honestly a little surprised we didn't get here sooner, Dreamers are such an obvious target, the most exemplary cohort who followed all the rules and jumped through every hoop. "How high?" Apparently not high enough. Ashamed
It was always a lie that the focus would be deporting the worst of the worst. To get Dreamer/DACA status basically meant you were a Girl Scout or Boy Scout. And it's silly because many of these people got educated here since 2012 and now we're losing that talent and skill. 🤷🏾♀️
Dreamers were once obvious candidates for a path to citizenship. Now, they’re getting picked up, detained, and set for potential deportation.
November 12, 2025 at 7:04 AM
I don't want this day to go by without acknowledging this sad milestone. I'm honestly a little surprised we didn't get here sooner, Dreamers are such an obvious target, the most exemplary cohort who followed all the rules and jumped through every hoop. "How high?" Apparently not high enough. Ashamed
Reposted
Reposted
A real president does this.
Thank you to every veteran who’s worn the uniform and carried the weight for the rest of us — just respect 🇺🇸
Thank you to every veteran who’s worn the uniform and carried the weight for the rest of us — just respect 🇺🇸
November 11, 2025 at 7:26 PM
A real president does this.
Thank you to every veteran who’s worn the uniform and carried the weight for the rest of us — just respect 🇺🇸
Thank you to every veteran who’s worn the uniform and carried the weight for the rest of us — just respect 🇺🇸
There's good & bad here.
Bad: it's
- Unilateral, without dem input
- Awards our tax $ to individual senators as penalty
- Seeks to reward R senators who may have abetted Jan 6 riot
Good: It
- Secures 4th amendment protection for senators against hostile DOJ www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Bad: it's
- Unilateral, without dem input
- Awards our tax $ to individual senators as penalty
- Seeks to reward R senators who may have abetted Jan 6 riot
Good: It
- Secures 4th amendment protection for senators against hostile DOJ www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Thune secures provision in government funding bill letting senators sue for phone records seizure
The new legislative language is an escalation of the GOP’s efforts to discredit former special counsel Jack Smith.
www.politico.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:48 PM
There's good & bad here.
Bad: it's
- Unilateral, without dem input
- Awards our tax $ to individual senators as penalty
- Seeks to reward R senators who may have abetted Jan 6 riot
Good: It
- Secures 4th amendment protection for senators against hostile DOJ www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Bad: it's
- Unilateral, without dem input
- Awards our tax $ to individual senators as penalty
- Seeks to reward R senators who may have abetted Jan 6 riot
Good: It
- Secures 4th amendment protection for senators against hostile DOJ www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Reposted
Bagley pretty much nails it.
November 11, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Bagley pretty much nails it.
After reading and listening to (and participating in) a lot of commentary about the capitulation today, I want to clarify that I never believed dems would get ACA subsidies restored. To me, the goal was to wake up the public to R cruelty and make Rs eat some crow. That worked. 1/
November 11, 2025 at 3:27 AM
After reading and listening to (and participating in) a lot of commentary about the capitulation today, I want to clarify that I never believed dems would get ACA subsidies restored. To me, the goal was to wake up the public to R cruelty and make Rs eat some crow. That worked. 1/
Reposted
"My father remained at the Texas detention center until October. During those six months, he went completely blind in one eye and lost most of the vision in the other, because he wasn’t receiving adequate medical care for his Type 2 diabetes."
From @vanessalop.bsky.social: He worked hard to give me a home. ICE took his: How I lost my father to deportation
chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2...
chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2...
He worked hard to give me a home. ICE took his: How I lost my father to deportation
Deportation has taken away the father I once knew and given me back a person I no longer recognize.
chicago.suntimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:06 PM
"My father remained at the Texas detention center until October. During those six months, he went completely blind in one eye and lost most of the vision in the other, because he wasn’t receiving adequate medical care for his Type 2 diabetes."
This articulates the senate dems capitulation perfectly. Not sure what we do about it--6-year terms are an eternity in this political climate. Add massive senate reform to the list of post-Trump fixes--if our republic lasts that long.
It turns out that the madman theory works on one particular target. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/the-madman...
The Madman Theory's Perfect Target
Yes, it's moderate Democrats.
danieldrezner.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:57 PM
This articulates the senate dems capitulation perfectly. Not sure what we do about it--6-year terms are an eternity in this political climate. Add massive senate reform to the list of post-Trump fixes--if our republic lasts that long.
What struck me reading this is the very thing we all fought against together in WWII has now taken root within our own governments and is eating our democracies alive from the inside.
"If you do not feel a wave of nausea when contemplating this policy then you either haven’t understood it, or there is something profoundly wrong with you."
The Tories’ Dangerous Drift
In the U.K., a shocking proposal from a Conservative MP elicited pushback from her party only belatedly. It signals darker things to come.
www.thebulwark.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:53 AM
What struck me reading this is the very thing we all fought against together in WWII has now taken root within our own governments and is eating our democracies alive from the inside.
This is how we do it.
I refuse to support a funding bill that fails to address the Republican health care crisis.
And make health insurance affordable.
The American people clearly understand the stakes and the urgency. We must too.
I'm voting no.
And make health insurance affordable.
The American people clearly understand the stakes and the urgency. We must too.
I'm voting no.
November 10, 2025 at 6:35 AM
This is how we do it.
This is the missed opportunity right here:
"The likeliest way out wasn’t that Rs would make concessions on ACA, but decide to END THE FILIBUSTER, changing the rules to block minority parties from shutting down the government."
Altho McConnell prob loves the filibuster more than he hates Obamacare.
"The likeliest way out wasn’t that Rs would make concessions on ACA, but decide to END THE FILIBUSTER, changing the rules to block minority parties from shutting down the government."
Altho McConnell prob loves the filibuster more than he hates Obamacare.
"Democrats could have held the line on the shutdown, and spent weeks watching Trump’s approval ratings fall," writes @jonathanbchait.bsky.social
Instead, he argues, they're making a mistake by giving in:
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Instead, he argues, they're making a mistake by giving in:
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Senate Democrats Just Made a Huge Mistake
The shutdown was hurting Trump. Ending it helps him.
www.theatlantic.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:05 AM
This is the missed opportunity right here:
"The likeliest way out wasn’t that Rs would make concessions on ACA, but decide to END THE FILIBUSTER, changing the rules to block minority parties from shutting down the government."
Altho McConnell prob loves the filibuster more than he hates Obamacare.
"The likeliest way out wasn’t that Rs would make concessions on ACA, but decide to END THE FILIBUSTER, changing the rules to block minority parties from shutting down the government."
Altho McConnell prob loves the filibuster more than he hates Obamacare.
Reposted
"Democrats could have held the line on the shutdown, and spent weeks watching Trump’s approval ratings fall," writes @jonathanbchait.bsky.social
Instead, he argues, they're making a mistake by giving in:
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Instead, he argues, they're making a mistake by giving in:
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Senate Democrats Just Made a Huge Mistake
The shutdown was hurting Trump. Ending it helps him.
www.theatlantic.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:52 AM
"Democrats could have held the line on the shutdown, and spent weeks watching Trump’s approval ratings fall," writes @jonathanbchait.bsky.social
Instead, he argues, they're making a mistake by giving in:
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Instead, he argues, they're making a mistake by giving in:
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Reposted
🧵 The passage of this dangerous Republican funding bill is a travesty. The ongoing administrative coup led by Donald Trump and Elon Musk is a constitutional crisis. The authoritarians stripping away our rights and trying to loot the government to enrich the billionaires are a five-alarm fire.
Indivisible Calls on Schumer to Step Aside
indivisible.org
March 15, 2025 at 9:54 PM
🧵 The passage of this dangerous Republican funding bill is a travesty. The ongoing administrative coup led by Donald Trump and Elon Musk is a constitutional crisis. The authoritarians stripping away our rights and trying to loot the government to enrich the billionaires are a five-alarm fire.
Reposted
🚨 We’re hearing that Senate Democrats are on the verge of caving to Trump in another “Schumer Surrender.”
That means your Democratic senators need to hear from you right now.
Call: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Email: act.indivisible.org/sign/funding...
That means your Democratic senators need to hear from you right now.
Call: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Email: act.indivisible.org/sign/funding...
November 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
🚨 We’re hearing that Senate Democrats are on the verge of caving to Trump in another “Schumer Surrender.”
That means your Democratic senators need to hear from you right now.
Call: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Email: act.indivisible.org/sign/funding...
That means your Democratic senators need to hear from you right now.
Call: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Email: act.indivisible.org/sign/funding...
“It wasn't b/c [Cheney] really believed that Iraq wd acquire a nuke. More obvious was Pakistan, which had actual nukes and al-Qaeda connections. But other U.S. interests counseled against Pakistan. Baghdad fit the bill, with a hostile, expendable dictator & unfinished biz from the first Gulf War."
Nearly two decades after my book on Cheney, I took a shot at assessing his legacy. It’s more complicated than you might think. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
What I Learned About Dick Cheney
The former vice president was certain he knew better than the citizens he served what was good for them.
www.theatlantic.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:38 PM
“It wasn't b/c [Cheney] really believed that Iraq wd acquire a nuke. More obvious was Pakistan, which had actual nukes and al-Qaeda connections. But other U.S. interests counseled against Pakistan. Baghdad fit the bill, with a hostile, expendable dictator & unfinished biz from the first Gulf War."
I like this idea.
Hi everyone!! As the holidays approach, it is time for a mass boycott!
Just imagine the impact if people didn’t flood Amazon with holiday orders this year?? If the economy didn’t boom these last two months with billions in sales as it usually does??
Please share this everywhere!!!!
Just imagine the impact if people didn’t flood Amazon with holiday orders this year?? If the economy didn’t boom these last two months with billions in sales as it usually does??
Please share this everywhere!!!!
November 9, 2025 at 10:18 AM
I like this idea.
The DC Bar's opinion forces the big law firms to rethink their Faustian bargain with Trump or risk losing their Bar license. Seems obvi, but it's a sign of a healthy immune system. Maybe last Tuesday's wins will be a wakeup call to these firms that accountability isn't dead yet.
Put bluntly, can a law firm really represent a client zealously against the Trump’s administration when, at the same time, it is seeking to stay on Trump’s good side through an settlement agreement? ICYMI @rosenzweigp.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/big-law-bi...
Big Law’s Big Choice
A D.C. Bar opinion shows why it would be ethical for the nine Big Law firms to rescind their settlement agreements with Trump. But to do so would invite his wrath.
www.thebulwark.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:53 AM
The DC Bar's opinion forces the big law firms to rethink their Faustian bargain with Trump or risk losing their Bar license. Seems obvi, but it's a sign of a healthy immune system. Maybe last Tuesday's wins will be a wakeup call to these firms that accountability isn't dead yet.
Reposted
I have said this before, and I’ll say it again here: We are at most a few years away from the mainstream media becoming controlled top to bottom, with a few very exceptions, by ultrarich conservatives and their hirelings. trib.al/n93ZbRA
The Washington Post Has Become
Right-Wing Even Faster Than I Thought
It’s not going to happen. It’s happening: The mainstream media is becoming right-wing. What are wealthy liberals going to do about it?
trib.al
November 8, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I have said this before, and I’ll say it again here: We are at most a few years away from the mainstream media becoming controlled top to bottom, with a few very exceptions, by ultrarich conservatives and their hirelings. trib.al/n93ZbRA
Reposted
Trump and his cronies are now pushing 50-year mortgages.
Buckle up. This is going to make the 2008 mortgage crisis look like the good old days.
Buckle up. This is going to make the 2008 mortgage crisis look like the good old days.
November 8, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Trump and his cronies are now pushing 50-year mortgages.
Buckle up. This is going to make the 2008 mortgage crisis look like the good old days.
Buckle up. This is going to make the 2008 mortgage crisis look like the good old days.