On Platner’s tipping comment, he was so objectively correct in his observation that Cornell University published a study to answer his same question a year after he asked it.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

On Platner’s tipping comment, he was so objectively correct in his observation that Cornell University published a study to answer his same question a year after he asked it.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Janet Mills claims she “knows how to stand up to a bully.”

But when her time came to stand up to Trump, Mills folded, even as ICE operations doubled in Maine.

Mills didn’t help draft a bill to protect Mainers and wouldn’t even sign a watered-down version.

I’m with @grahamformaine.bsky.social

A must-read OpEd by @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social on why Democrats need a new shutdown strategy along similar lines to what I’ve laid out about the need for a contrasting vision.

It’s short so you should definitely read the whole thing.

www.vox.com/politics/463...

DC cultural institutions are glam partying like it’s fucking Renaissance Venice while our civil rights get destroyed on the sidewalks. Costume(!) balls as masked agents sow terror.

Frivolous, irrelevant art isn’t the protest art we should support. It’s normalizing fascism.

Navy Yard is an armed encampment now. I just want to leave DC. This is affecting my health. And Mayor Bowser is licking Trump’s fascist boot, still going on about crime. Pathetic.

Cancel DC WorldPride.

We’re inviting foreign LGBT people into a trap.

Many innocents will have their intimacy exposed, be strip searched and jailed without due process for our indifference.

@capitalpridedc.bsky.social and @ryanbos.bsky.social are recklessly endangering those we should defend.

Last time Trump threatened that, NHCSL wrote a whole resolution about it because the legislators were shocked. This was August 2017.

nhcsl.org/resources/re...

Why do I say Trump’s promised TikTok Executive Order is corrupt?

Because to legally provide a 90-day extension he would have to certify as true 3 things that we know are false:
- an identified TT divestiture path,
- significant progress,
- an existing divestiture precontract executable in 90 days.

With Trump corruptly allowing Chinese Communist Party espionage and mind control app TikTok to come back online in the US, I truly hope Apple and Google follow the law.

Remember, as per recent Supreme Court precedent, Trump is above the law, but anyone relying on his illegal instructions is not.

Red One is a very good Christmas movie. It’s fun, uplifting and has a loving message.

All the hate it’s getting is a symptom of just how cooked we are as a species. Humorless Christians upset because Santa, a satanic figure (don’t ask), is front and center instead of baby Jesus.
1/3

My most viral tweet was just before Biden’s inauguration. National Guard coming into DC from everywhere to defend democracy; to end the Trump era. How naive we were.

But back to the tweet. It highlighted the irony of Puerto Rico’s guardsmen defending a President and Congress they couldn’t vote for.

Where were these stories when we were screaming these truths for months before the election?

Why did the press mislead voters into thinking immigration (even most “illegal immigration”) is bad for their main worries when it helps solve them?

The screenshotted aspects of this linked story are correct. The fundraising focus lacks explanatory power though. Most funded campaign in history.

I’ll stress Plouffe doesn’t know or care about Latinos. It was clear at the outset Obama alumni would be a mistake.

www.notus.org/harris-2024/...

Puerto Rico called an “island of garbage” by Trump speaker. And some Republicans are distancing, saying it doesn’t “reflect GOP values.”

Bullshit. Trump hates Puerto Ricans and seriously wanted to trade Puerto Rico for Greenland.

www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...

Just some recent news at McDonald’s

Trump on his J6 speech vs MLK’s I Have a Dream speech:

“Same real estate… Everything’s the same because you have the fountains, the whole thing, all the way back from Lincoln to Washington… We actually had more people."

Is he senile? He was in front of the White House!

“Journalist” that helped push the racist plagiarism narrative against Claudine Gay is now concerned that government isn’t subsidizing EV charging stations for —checks notes— “affluent, predominately white suburbs.”

Just in case it still wasn’t clear.