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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · Mar 18

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The Editorial Board. Politics in plain English for normal people.

A newsletter about politics in plain English for normal people, democracy and the common good.

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 9h

Why doesn't Donald Trump remember that he was President on January 6th, 2021?

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 10h

The New York Times knows crime is not “out of control” in major U.S. cities — in fact, crime is way down from past years and decades — but NYT amplifies JD Vance’s lie without a fact check.
It’s journalism malpractice that helps the fascists.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 9h

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Tensions flare at ICE facility near Chicago as Trump deploys National Guard • FRANCE 24 English

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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 9h

That asshole fired all the people who help kids with disabilities in education.

Fuck him. Fuck everyone who enabled him

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 9h

There will be some who say we can’t undermine public trust by expressing mistrust and they will be wrong.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Kamala Harris: "I don't know if we can trust what's coming out of the DOJ right now. And that pains me to say that."

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 9h

And Republican voters are stuck with begging their kidnappers to pay their ransom. Dems should not get involved with that.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 16h

Sen. Mark Kelly: "The president has previously said...that government shutdowns are on the president and all you need to do is get everyone in a room and have a serious conversation. And they're refusing to do that. They are holding people's healthcare hostage."

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Young Brolic @audaciouskay.bsky.social · 12h

I want people to understand what they contributed to when they were busy not “rewarding” Kamala or whatever tf they thought they were doing.

WIC literally kept me fed. And now Black children in AMERICA, RIGHT HERE, are going to have to do with less than what I got?!

Fuck these people.

Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 13h

WIC’s application limitations could be especially harmful for Black women living in food deserts like the Mississippi Delta, Cassandra Welchlin said.

She worries about children going hungry because they have difficulties learning and paying attention in school if they do not have access to food.

WIC Stops Accepting Some Applicants Amid Government Shutdown

The WIC program will only accept applications from pregnant women, breastfeeding women and high-risk infants during the federal government shutdown.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 10h

It doesn’t get much press for obvious reasons, and it only shows up occasionally, but there’s a version of Trump that appeared after he took office again that’s atypically melancholic and resigned.

It also showed up in his first (but very much not his second) National Prayer Breakfast speech.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 11h

President Trump tells reporters aboard Air Force One that he doesn’t think he’s going to get into heaven.

“I don’t think there’s anything that’s going to get me into heaven.”

(I isolated Trump’s voice)

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cuuixsilver.bsky.social @cuuixsilver.bsky.social · 10h

Another great piece from @juliusgoat.bsky.social and even better, it's not on substack. www.the-reframe.com/the-crime-of...

The Crime of Human Virtue

Sometimes it really is as simple as good vs. evil. This is one of those times. Human virtue is our great crime against the fascist project; it's also our great weapon against it.

www.the-reframe.com

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 10h

I want to live in a world in which every type of civil servant’s threat to walk if a certain person is elected is taken exactly as seriously as a cop’s threat to walk.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 10h

He's an old man and he knows he's going to die soon. This absolutely motivates what he's doing daily.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 11h

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'Cognitive decline in real time': Ex-CNN reporter says it's time to discuss Trump's removal

In an article published in his Substack Sunday, senior journalist and former CNN political commentator Jim Acosta argued that President Donald Trump’s behavior and proposals reflect a degree of mental...

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 20h

Trump benefits from the appearance of good intentions, but when you strip away the facade, and see that the “crimes” in question are not crimes but identities, it’s hard to avoid the conclusion that what we are seeing is a massive crime wave.

With ICE, Donald Trump is leading a crime wave

After all, dictators are criminals.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 1d

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 1d

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Erin Burnett OutFront @outfrontcnn.bsky.social · 3d

“We could hear them laughing.”

Rev. David Black, the minister of the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, speaks to #CNN’s Erin Burnett in his first television interview since he was shot in the head with pepper balls while praying in front of an ICE facility.

#OutFrontCNN #News #ICE #Chicago

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 16h

Not sure why it has taken until late 2025 to see this, but this is how you do it. Every time. For every one of these guests.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 17h

Sens. Schumer, Merkley, Murray, and Peters are calling for the resignation of OMB Director Russell Vought.

"By impounding billions of dollars … and aggressively pursuing the illegal use of pocket rescissions, Vought has done everything in his power to gut the federal government piece by piece."

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Miranda 🖤🤍💜 @doomscroling.bsky.social · 18h

Someone who thinks that dagging children from their homes in the dark of night & zip tying them, assaulting priests, & violating American's rights....makes "jesus smile" is someone who is a bad person, not an "avenging angel".

Those who join ice are abusive cowards.

#Pinks

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 16h

Don’t trust your lying eyes.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 16h

A real headline from the AP.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 19h

Any resistance must face the reality of what has been lost and what is in the process of being lost as a consequence of this.

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 21h

No institutional design can overcome a lawbreaking president, a Congress defending lawbreaking and forfeiting its own power, a Supreme Court that pretends legal text doesn’t count to facilitate lawbreaking, and a citizenry that votes for all that.
Need at least one that wants rule of law. Maybe two.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 20h

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 20h

With ICE, Donald Trump is leading a crime wave

After all, dictators are criminals.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 20h

Sounds like America.

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