Fascinating to hear from @aaronparnas.bsky.social this week on the Extracurricular Podcast about how he's built his platform, the implications of the Ellison TikTok power grab, and an update on the status of the Epstein files.

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It's time to abolish Trump’s ICE.

Senate Democrats absolutely have to shut the govt down to stop this ICE insanity in the Twin Cities. This is not sustainable & cannot be normalized. Any Democratic vote to provide money to the thugs who are brutalizing this community is a grave betrayal to the people here. Accountability can't wait.

I think every Democrat should be shown this chart and required to explain why any policy solution would convince voters in this environment, and if they cannot, give three steps to fix the media environment, and if they cannot, be forced to resign their seat

To highlight the same shit we’ve been saying for at least a month now, here are bullet points from Dr Stryker’s speech below to explain exactly why trans people will not be accepting Newsom.

Dems, I’m begging y’all to elevate someone who meets the moment.

So we can’t use any public bathrooms without fear of harassment.

We can’t play sports.

We can’t serve in the military.

We cant have jobs where we might make someone uncomfortable.

We’re not even allowed to be mentioned by swaths of organizations.

But sure. No discrimination to be seen here.

Wow. So he votes to gut Medicaid and throw 17 million people off of their healthcare and then dumps his Medicaid related stock to cover his own ass?

That’s just evil and cruel.

This is why they didn’t want him back: He is a witness.

the Senate's small-state ultra-bias is never more maddening than when one senator uses it to get benefits for her 740,000 constituents while openly acknowledging the bill she's supporting will harm the nation's 339 million other residents.

FROST: "They say they're pro-life because they want the baby to be born, go to school and get shot in the school. Die in the school, die on the streets."

FOXX: "You are not going to come into this room and impugn our integrity!"

If one of these people is your senator, it is incredibly important that you call them today.

Urge them to vote NO on the Senate budget bill that would make most Americans poorer to give billionaires a tax cut they don't even need.

It is clear that there is something about the configuration of modern society - how we communicate, how we gain attention, the way ideas gain popularity - that leads to the continual advancement of extremist beliefs, especially on the right.

Our job is to figure out what that is, and shut it down.

what people seem to believe is that there is a large number of criminal, layabout immigrants who can be easily found and deported. they support doing so snd are dismayed by the deportation of otherwise law abiding people. the problem is that the criminal group is imaginary!

Literally yes. But these claims—which enrage me—show what is wrong with coverage of immigration in the US: the necessary-for-survival reticence of undocumented workers to be profiled; the refusal to publicize the actual record showing immigrant crime is lower than the general population; 1/

We are at a dangerous, dangerous moment in US history, where the President of the United States is threatening to send US citizens to be imprisoned by a foreign ally, and the foreign ally is saying it won't respect an US court orders to release people that it's holding.

I mean very obviously Hegseth should resign, and if it were a Democratic administration this would be quickly be a consensus position.

The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.

AI guys: We’ve got a technology that, if it works, has the potential to destroy human civilization and displace hundreds of millions of worker. It only requires the energy consumption of Japan and violating all of the world’s copyrighted materials.

Everyone:

Capital: We love it, it’s perfect.

the frenzy over the hunter biden pardon is a good reminder that the press knows how to make something a scandal and has decided that nothing trump does is truly deserving of that treatment