An important and smart take by @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social about the importance of how to handle Day One and the days to come -- including building an opposition. Worth your time to read and consider. lucid.substack.com/p/its-day-on...

"Mace’s bigotry has little to do with any actual ideology. Indeed, in the distant past of just last year, she described herself as 'pro-trans rights.' That's a stark departure from her new position — she now refers to trans people as 'mentally ill.'"

This is incredibly disturbing and goes against every rule of war, international law, the Uniform Code of Military Justice, and the very ethic of the military. A disciplined military goes to every length to prevent civilian deaths and having a SecDef who doesn't care is unacceptable.

This is a question I asked myself often.

The best answer I can come up with is “but muh free-dumb”

they are gonna fuck this up so hard.

They’ll win a bunch and do a ton of damage but that is not mutually exclusive from how hard they are gonna fuck this, because they are chronically morons

Just a reminder that in 2020, Dr. Oz suggested that opening schools during COVID would "only cost us 2-3% in terms of total mortality," and that "any life is a life lost but... that might be a tradeoff some folks would consider."

if there’s one thing the trump administration loves, it’s naming credibly accused sex traffickers to run cabinet agencies

Perhaps this is why Joe and Mika showed up at Trump’s door this weekend. Trying to save their asses.

Biden finally relents to let Ukraine use their weapons as capable. Gift article: wapo.st/3Zc9IUE

New in PN: "Black women have long had to navigate being twice as good to get half the amount of credit. Kamala Harris’s presidential run was evidence of this." -- @itsafronomics.bsky.social

Just to be clear: the incoming Trump administration is going to war against their own Republican senate majority and the constitution's advice and consent provision so they can make a man investigated for ***sex trafficking a minor*** into the most powerful law enforcement officer in the country.

The Bible-thumping Speaker of the House is working overtime to cover up credible allegations that Trump’s unqualified AG nominee committed sexual misconduct. We’re already plumbing new depths of depravity.

Trump is grifting off Veteran’s Day all while planning to gut VA benefits

Elon didn’t donate all of the money to the campaign for free

One thing I’m thinking about is how campaigns need to leverage influencers to their fullest and leave celebrities off of the main stage.

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REPORT: Stephen Miller will serve as White House deputy chief of staff for policy under Trump. Miller has discussed a “turbocharged” program of denaturalization — that is, removing the citizenship of citizens who immigrated to the U.S. — to engage in mass deportations.

Incoming Trump border czar Tom Homan on blue state governors saying they will protect people from deportation raids: "If you're not gonna help us, get the hell out of the way. Because we're going to do it ... we may have to double the number of agents we send to New York City."

President Biden: This is the last time I will stand here at Arlington as commander in chief. It's been the greatest honor of my life, to lead you, to serve you, to care for you, to defend you, just as you defended us generation after generation after generation.

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Amazon already sent me a message asking me when I'm coming back. I spent tens of thousands every year on there for myself combined with business

Costco is a Democratic run company. Getting everything from them now