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Can report back from the Charlotte No Kings that "free Palestine" is now, if not the normie lib position, then at least fully accepted among the normie libs. Lots of signs and flags scattered about, no apparent drama at all.
October 18, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Can report back from the Charlotte No Kings that "free Palestine" is now, if not the normie lib position, then at least fully accepted among the normie libs. Lots of signs and flags scattered about, no apparent drama at all.
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Lord Glasman has thoughts on the Migrant Question
September 2, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Lord Glasman has thoughts on the Migrant Question
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what the FUCK
July 8, 2025 at 8:00 PM
what the FUCK
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THREAD 🧵
Internal State Department records show that months of warnings have become a reality: The Trump administration’s sudden withdrawal of foreign humanitarian aid has brought about death, violence and unrest. 1/
Internal State Department records show that months of warnings have become a reality: The Trump administration’s sudden withdrawal of foreign humanitarian aid has brought about death, violence and unrest. 1/
May 29, 2025 at 2:55 AM
THREAD 🧵
Internal State Department records show that months of warnings have become a reality: The Trump administration’s sudden withdrawal of foreign humanitarian aid has brought about death, violence and unrest. 1/
Internal State Department records show that months of warnings have become a reality: The Trump administration’s sudden withdrawal of foreign humanitarian aid has brought about death, violence and unrest. 1/
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a decadent and rotten elite that crumbled at the barest touch, and can't defend even its own interests.
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
‘Everyone is terrified’: Business and government officials are afraid to cross Trump on tariffs
While lobbyists, business leaders, and lawmakers are worried about Donald Trump’s tariffs, there’s a culture of fear in Washington preventing many from speaking out.
www.politico.com
April 5, 2025 at 1:55 AM
a decadent and rotten elite that crumbled at the barest touch, and can't defend even its own interests.
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
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Apparently Adlai Stevenson once complained that ‘The New Dealers have all left Washington to make way for the car dealers’ and man some things never change eh
March 16, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Apparently Adlai Stevenson once complained that ‘The New Dealers have all left Washington to make way for the car dealers’ and man some things never change eh
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New York Senators can’t even meaningfully take a position on Adams, Trump’s agent in their state. We don’t deserve the minority leadership. Give it to a Senator who actually has a backbone and an ounce of self-respect.
March 14, 2025 at 12:03 AM
New York Senators can’t even meaningfully take a position on Adams, Trump’s agent in their state. We don’t deserve the minority leadership. Give it to a Senator who actually has a backbone and an ounce of self-respect.
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Dem voters are in a "kick out the bums" mood, and schumer's response has been to individually write out 47 "im a bum" signs and tape them to the backs of every member of his caucus. Doing that makes you a bad politician and an awful caucus leader
March 13, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Dem voters are in a "kick out the bums" mood, and schumer's response has been to individually write out 47 "im a bum" signs and tape them to the backs of every member of his caucus. Doing that makes you a bad politician and an awful caucus leader
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Truly one of history’s tragedies that we went from having Reid to having fucking Schumer, a man who would have been a feckless leader against Bush, never mind Trump
March 13, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Truly one of history’s tragedies that we went from having Reid to having fucking Schumer, a man who would have been a feckless leader against Bush, never mind Trump
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House members sounding off:
If you vote for this Republican Funding Bill, you are complicit in all that DOGE, President Elon, and Trump does.
March 13, 2025 at 11:45 PM
House members sounding off:
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Andy Kim should be having private conversations right now with people like Underwood and Jill Tokuda about what it's like to challenge a senator from the House backbench and why they need to announce ASAP the way he did the day of the Menendez indictment
March 13, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Andy Kim should be having private conversations right now with people like Underwood and Jill Tokuda about what it's like to challenge a senator from the House backbench and why they need to announce ASAP the way he did the day of the Menendez indictment
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Outraged to see this kind of radical leftist ratfucking from some activist who knows nothing about how the Democratic Party actually works. Now to take a big sip of coffee and read his bio.
McConnell abused the filibuster to make America worse. Schumer is refusing to use the filibuster to... accomplish what, exactly?
March 13, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Outraged to see this kind of radical leftist ratfucking from some activist who knows nothing about how the Democratic Party actually works. Now to take a big sip of coffee and read his bio.
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Always love an excuse to repost this classic jwmason.org/slackwire/po...
March 4, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Always love an excuse to repost this classic jwmason.org/slackwire/po...
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I've said this a lot, but its really a problem right now that the Democrats don't have a singular Party Leader right now and are mostly relying on two legislative leaders to set national strategy
March 4, 2025 at 5:15 AM
I've said this a lot, but its really a problem right now that the Democrats don't have a singular Party Leader right now and are mostly relying on two legislative leaders to set national strategy
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Not that he doesn’t have more than enough to go around, but man are the fights when Elon kicks it over the inheritance gonna messy as fuck
February 22, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Not that he doesn’t have more than enough to go around, but man are the fights when Elon kicks it over the inheritance gonna messy as fuck
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I do not worry about him as a presidential candidate for this reason
February 15, 2025 at 7:50 PM
I do not worry about him as a presidential candidate for this reason
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it's kind of crazy to me that this guy's legendarily fucked personal life hasn't gotten a big national feature piece yet
Democratic Sen. Ruben Gallego appears to be endorsing Trump's plan to use Guantanamo Bay or prisons in El Salvador to indefinitely hold immigrants.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/m...
February 15, 2025 at 7:50 PM
it's kind of crazy to me that this guy's legendarily fucked personal life hasn't gotten a big national feature piece yet
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In a new lawsuit filed against Trump by state AGs, a family with a trans kid shares she died by suicide last month citing fears Trump would deny her access to gender-affirming care. "Her parents have expressed fear...that what happened to their daughter does not happen to other children."
![The serious concerns over how the Order will detrimentally impact transgender
youth cannot be overstated. One Washingtonian, as her parents describe her, was a bright and
gentle soul who loved playing musical instruments, trying new things, and playing Magic the
Gathering. She was excited to learn Japanese and the impact of gender-affirming care was
immediately clear to her family. Her parents described that “her joy was clear with every new
milestone in her transition. She was so happy to get to the next step, to get closer to presenting
in a way that was true to herself.” But the day before the presidential election, she shared,
“[t]omorrow I get to find out if I’m illegal.” After the election, she asked her parents if they
could move to Canada because she was fearful of new restrictions on transgender youth and
worried about losing access to gender-affirming care. In January 2025, she took her life. After
the Order issued, her parents expressed that the outlook for transgender futures looks scary and
shared fears of what ending gender-affirming care would have meant for their daughter’s access
to therapy, puberty-delaying medication, hormones, and hope of surgery. Her parents have
expressed fear for the many lives who depend on gender-affirming care and that what happened
to their daughter does not happen to any other children.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mlmouohgzbjofidukcp4pxf2/bafkreich7jyv3lnkmd5r234itpdhtvavgblc46ai6d47tb4i7oxgfga2ym@jpeg)
February 7, 2025 at 6:30 PM
In a new lawsuit filed against Trump by state AGs, a family with a trans kid shares she died by suicide last month citing fears Trump would deny her access to gender-affirming care. "Her parents have expressed fear...that what happened to their daughter does not happen to other children."
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#Sudan 's army is on the cusp of retaking Khartoum, bringing hope that renewed stability will return to the capital.
But local relief workers are terrified of being targeted in a new wave of army reprisal killings, a trend throughout the war.
My latest for AJE.
www.aljazeera.com/features/202...
But local relief workers are terrified of being targeted in a new wave of army reprisal killings, a trend throughout the war.
My latest for AJE.
www.aljazeera.com/features/202...
Sudanese relief workers in the capital fear reprisals from army
Local aid workers say they are trying to flee Khartoum out of fear the army will treat them as RSF collaborators.
www.aljazeera.com
February 6, 2025 at 12:05 PM
#Sudan 's army is on the cusp of retaking Khartoum, bringing hope that renewed stability will return to the capital.
But local relief workers are terrified of being targeted in a new wave of army reprisal killings, a trend throughout the war.
My latest for AJE.
www.aljazeera.com/features/202...
But local relief workers are terrified of being targeted in a new wave of army reprisal killings, a trend throughout the war.
My latest for AJE.
www.aljazeera.com/features/202...
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It's really not that hard to react to threats of ethnic cleansing with horror and humanity instead of using it as a chance to dunk on devastated people
February 5, 2025 at 3:31 PM
It's really not that hard to react to threats of ethnic cleansing with horror and humanity instead of using it as a chance to dunk on devastated people
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one thing about my friends at @liberalcurrents.com is you can count on them to make sure important perspectives get out there when the big guys won’t ❤️
The NYT asked me to write an op-ed on Musk and the Treasury and then took a pass. I hope it will still get read.
Personal Discretion Over the Treasury's Payments System Means the End of Democracy
If the Court and federal workers fail to stop Elon Musk, we are heading for authoritarianism.
www.liberalcurrents.com
February 4, 2025 at 9:18 PM
one thing about my friends at @liberalcurrents.com is you can count on them to make sure important perspectives get out there when the big guys won’t ❤️
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we really need communications about this shit to start explaining what V-coding is because cis people at large don't have the slightest fucking clue what it is they want to do to these women
you can’t put women in a men’s prison. trans women are women.
DOJ also argues that the courts have no authority to stop the Bureau of Prisons from relocating inmates to facilities that correspond with their biological sex.
They say they intend to transfer the inmates in this lawsuit to low-security facilities. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
They say they intend to transfer the inmates in this lawsuit to low-security facilities. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
February 4, 2025 at 1:50 AM
we really need communications about this shit to start explaining what V-coding is because cis people at large don't have the slightest fucking clue what it is they want to do to these women
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NEW VIDEO: Trump almost flooded California farmlands to get back at a tiny fish called the Delta Smelt.
But this wasn't a new whim. The Delta Smelt is actually one of our dumbest, longest modern culture wars.
So here's an explainer on how we somehow got... here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pf03...
But this wasn't a new whim. The Delta Smelt is actually one of our dumbest, longest modern culture wars.
So here's an explainer on how we somehow got... here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pf03...
Delta Smelt: Why Conservatives Have Blamed California Drought On A Tiny Fish For Almost 20 Years
YouTube video by Kat Abu
www.youtube.com
February 3, 2025 at 4:48 PM
NEW VIDEO: Trump almost flooded California farmlands to get back at a tiny fish called the Delta Smelt.
But this wasn't a new whim. The Delta Smelt is actually one of our dumbest, longest modern culture wars.
So here's an explainer on how we somehow got... here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pf03...
But this wasn't a new whim. The Delta Smelt is actually one of our dumbest, longest modern culture wars.
So here's an explainer on how we somehow got... here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pf03...
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destroying state capacity to protect rent seekers like TurboTax. this is not as flashy as going after something like USAID, but this was a program that was long overdue and provided both a valuable service and real savings for a lot of people
Elon Musk claims to have "deleted" the office in the IRS which has enabled people to file their tax returns electronically, simply, and for free.
February 3, 2025 at 8:24 PM
destroying state capacity to protect rent seekers like TurboTax. this is not as flashy as going after something like USAID, but this was a program that was long overdue and provided both a valuable service and real savings for a lot of people
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this is genuinely excellent all around - what they're doing, what they're saying
keep yelling at them, it's working, today's Dem response is markedly better than anything they did last week
and yell at the @nytimes.com @cnn.com and the rest of the media to actually cover it
keep yelling at them, it's working, today's Dem response is markedly better than anything they did last week
and yell at the @nytimes.com @cnn.com and the rest of the media to actually cover it
People have gathered outside USAID HQ for press event with Democratic Congressmen Beyer, Raskin, Connolly and Olzewski and Senator Van Hollen where they're addressing the building's mysterious shutdown today in the midst of the Trump admin dismantling the agency.
(Photos shared with me)
(Photos shared with me)
February 3, 2025 at 6:34 PM
this is genuinely excellent all around - what they're doing, what they're saying
keep yelling at them, it's working, today's Dem response is markedly better than anything they did last week
and yell at the @nytimes.com @cnn.com and the rest of the media to actually cover it
keep yelling at them, it's working, today's Dem response is markedly better than anything they did last week
and yell at the @nytimes.com @cnn.com and the rest of the media to actually cover it