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It's striking that progressives like Tim Walz and Zohran Mamdani evoke the middle American attitude that, "Yes, we can fix these social problems because we're Americans and it's the right thing to do!" While the "America first" right only emulates failed and failing nation-states elsewhere.
January 1, 2026 at 10:52 PM
It's striking that progressives like Tim Walz and Zohran Mamdani evoke the middle American attitude that, "Yes, we can fix these social problems because we're Americans and it's the right thing to do!" While the "America first" right only emulates failed and failing nation-states elsewhere.
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Resisting him almost always works, trying to bargain with him never ever works
BREAKING: After legal setbacks, President Trump says he's dropping push for the National Guard in Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland for now.
Trump says he's dropping push for National Guard in Chicago, LA and Portland, Oregon, for now
President Donald Trump says he’s dropping — for now — his push to deploy National Guard troops in Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon.
bit.ly
December 31, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Resisting him almost always works, trying to bargain with him never ever works
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this is such an important thing to recognize and call out
the fascism is mostly done being nice at this point, but it got here through well dressed men politely asking questions while the rest of us were scolded for pointing out where those questions led
the fascism is mostly done being nice at this point, but it got here through well dressed men politely asking questions while the rest of us were scolded for pointing out where those questions led
Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
January 1, 2026 at 8:35 PM
this is such an important thing to recognize and call out
the fascism is mostly done being nice at this point, but it got here through well dressed men politely asking questions while the rest of us were scolded for pointing out where those questions led
the fascism is mostly done being nice at this point, but it got here through well dressed men politely asking questions while the rest of us were scolded for pointing out where those questions led
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👇🏼!!!!!
In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.
'A directive from above': Former NYT editor lays out how the paper pushes anti-trans bigotry
In this in-depth interview, former New York Times editor Billie Jean Sweeney details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, how some staff tried to stop it, how it's directe...
transnews.network
January 1, 2026 at 6:48 PM
👇🏼!!!!!
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EXACTLY
STOP ACCEPTING THE PREMISE OF THEIR ARGUMENT
STOP ACCEPTING THE PREMISE OF THEIR ARGUMENT
And I think liberals should stop taking the bait and ceding ground on immigration.
Immigration is good. Multiculturalism is good. Free trade is good. Stop being embarrassed to say so.
Immigration is good. Multiculturalism is good. Free trade is good. Stop being embarrassed to say so.
January 1, 2026 at 6:47 PM
EXACTLY
STOP ACCEPTING THE PREMISE OF THEIR ARGUMENT
STOP ACCEPTING THE PREMISE OF THEIR ARGUMENT
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Same over here. It’s way past time we stopped trying to accommodate anti-immigrant views. They are born of racism and can never be satisfied. Immigration is a net positive. Say it loud and often.
And I think liberals should stop taking the bait and ceding ground on immigration.
Immigration is good. Multiculturalism is good. Free trade is good. Stop being embarrassed to say so.
Immigration is good. Multiculturalism is good. Free trade is good. Stop being embarrassed to say so.
January 1, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Same over here. It’s way past time we stopped trying to accommodate anti-immigrant views. They are born of racism and can never be satisfied. Immigration is a net positive. Say it loud and often.
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~<Every single institution> we have is counter-majoritarian:
- A hyper-gerrymanded House
- A hyper-malapportioned Senate with staggered elections
- FPTP SMDs in a continent-wide country with our urban/rural population distribution
- The EC
Stop it. We need <checks on counter-majoritarianism>
- A hyper-gerrymanded House
- A hyper-malapportioned Senate with staggered elections
- FPTP SMDs in a continent-wide country with our urban/rural population distribution
- The EC
Stop it. We need <checks on counter-majoritarianism>
Chief Justice John Roberts touted the independence of the federal judiciary as a “counter-majoritarian check” and urged Americans rattled by partisan politics to keep faith with the Constitution. https://cnn.it/3LsloyF
January 1, 2026 at 4:20 PM
~<Every single institution> we have is counter-majoritarian:
- A hyper-gerrymanded House
- A hyper-malapportioned Senate with staggered elections
- FPTP SMDs in a continent-wide country with our urban/rural population distribution
- The EC
Stop it. We need <checks on counter-majoritarianism>
- A hyper-gerrymanded House
- A hyper-malapportioned Senate with staggered elections
- FPTP SMDs in a continent-wide country with our urban/rural population distribution
- The EC
Stop it. We need <checks on counter-majoritarianism>
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The most telling Bari Weiss incident came when "The Free Press" excused George Floyd's murder, @radleybalko.bsky.social highlighted factual errors, and Weiss's reaction was not to make corrections, but to invite Balko on a podcast.
There is no truth, there are no standards, there is only content.
There is no truth, there are no standards, there is only content.
December 31, 2025 at 8:04 PM
The most telling Bari Weiss incident came when "The Free Press" excused George Floyd's murder, @radleybalko.bsky.social highlighted factual errors, and Weiss's reaction was not to make corrections, but to invite Balko on a podcast.
There is no truth, there are no standards, there is only content.
There is no truth, there are no standards, there is only content.
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Earl Lamont Smith was convicted of stealing thousands of government computers and selling them for profit. He pleaded guilty and waived his right to a trial. Trump pardoned him on May 28, 2025.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump administration says it's freezing child care funds to Minnesota after a series of fraud schemes in recent years.
December 31, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Earl Lamont Smith was convicted of stealing thousands of government computers and selling them for profit. He pleaded guilty and waived his right to a trial. Trump pardoned him on May 28, 2025.
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This is Trump’s long game.
We’ve spent years cracking down on fraudsters. It’s a serious issue - but this has been his plan all along.
He’s politicizing the issue to defund programs that help Minnesotans.
www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/hhs...
We’ve spent years cracking down on fraudsters. It’s a serious issue - but this has been his plan all along.
He’s politicizing the issue to defund programs that help Minnesotans.
www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/hhs...
HHS freezes all child care payments to Minnesota after viral fraud allegations
The Department of Health and Human Services said Tuesday it has frozen federal child care funding for the state of Minnesota, citing viral fraud allegations.
www.cbsnews.com
December 31, 2025 at 12:30 AM
This is Trump’s long game.
We’ve spent years cracking down on fraudsters. It’s a serious issue - but this has been his plan all along.
He’s politicizing the issue to defund programs that help Minnesotans.
www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/hhs...
We’ve spent years cracking down on fraudsters. It’s a serious issue - but this has been his plan all along.
He’s politicizing the issue to defund programs that help Minnesotans.
www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/hhs...
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The Latest Defenses of SCOTUS’s Corruption Only Make the Case Against It talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-l...
The Latest Defenses of SCOTUS’s Corruption Only Make the Case Against It
Chris Geidner flags today an appearance by CBS News’ Chief Legal Correspondent...
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 30, 2025 at 10:21 PM
The Latest Defenses of SCOTUS’s Corruption Only Make the Case Against It talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-l...
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it’s good tho. worth reading.
December 30, 2025 at 7:55 PM
it’s good tho. worth reading.
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I joined a bipartisan group of 75 Members of Congress calling on the Trump admin to stop their plans to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research next year.
Studying the weather and our climate saves lives and helps the economy, especially our farm communities.
Studying the weather and our climate saves lives and helps the economy, especially our farm communities.
The Trump administration says it plans to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research, the nation’s premier atmospheric science center. It was founded in 1960 and has facilitated generations of breakthroughs in climate and weather science https://to.pbs.org/4qygWgV
White House pushes to dismantle leading climate and weather research center
The Trump administration says it plans to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, which is the nation’s premier atmospheric science center. The center was founded in 1960 a...
to.pbs.org
December 30, 2025 at 7:56 PM
I joined a bipartisan group of 75 Members of Congress calling on the Trump admin to stop their plans to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research next year.
Studying the weather and our climate saves lives and helps the economy, especially our farm communities.
Studying the weather and our climate saves lives and helps the economy, especially our farm communities.
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"We are going to win against Donald Trump, but we have a much bigger victory that we need to be aiming for. We need to Reconstruct this country. We must put liberal democracy on the right footing to face the challenges of the era we live in."
“We are going to win. But it is going to hurt. The president can do a great deal of harm to our institutions and to innocent people, even in the absence of public or elite support.” www.liberalcurrents.com/we-are-going...
We Are Going to Win
Trump's revolution will fail, but we still have a long and painful road ahead of us.
www.liberalcurrents.com
December 30, 2025 at 11:22 AM
"We are going to win against Donald Trump, but we have a much bigger victory that we need to be aiming for. We need to Reconstruct this country. We must put liberal democracy on the right footing to face the challenges of the era we live in."
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This is such a great example of what fair maps and empowered state parties can do. TL:DR 9 state Republican Senators in Montana formed a coalition with Dems to bypass the far right
dailymontanan.com/2025/04/04/m...
dailymontanan.com/2025/04/04/m...
Montana Republican Party censures nine GOP senators; no longer considers them Republicans • Daily Montanan
The senators' formal party affiliation was rescinded for working with Democrats and 'undermining Republican priorities and leadership'
dailymontanan.com
December 30, 2025 at 4:14 AM
This is such a great example of what fair maps and empowered state parties can do. TL:DR 9 state Republican Senators in Montana formed a coalition with Dems to bypass the far right
dailymontanan.com/2025/04/04/m...
dailymontanan.com/2025/04/04/m...
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The Russian lie of the attack on Putin‘s residence is just one of the many reasons why there will be never a document which will secure freedom and peace. We have seen this in multiple shapes and forms as seen in the Budapest Memorandum, the Minsk agreements etc.
December 30, 2025 at 11:54 AM
The Russian lie of the attack on Putin‘s residence is just one of the many reasons why there will be never a document which will secure freedom and peace. We have seen this in multiple shapes and forms as seen in the Budapest Memorandum, the Minsk agreements etc.
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This is how supposedly ironclad "security guarantees for Ukraine" would fall apart: one russian false-flag operation — or just a lie (why even bother staging anything in this beautiful post-truth world?) — and they're gone.
December 29, 2025 at 6:46 PM
This is how supposedly ironclad "security guarantees for Ukraine" would fall apart: one russian false-flag operation — or just a lie (why even bother staging anything in this beautiful post-truth world?) — and they're gone.
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The Trump DOJ was tracking the movement of a journalist, a journalist investigating the Epstein case.
Before Epstein's death. During Trump's first term in office.
Who else was under surveillance?
How far did this surveillance network extend, and cui bono?
Guarantee it wasn't just Julie Brown.
Before Epstein's death. During Trump's first term in office.
Who else was under surveillance?
How far did this surveillance network extend, and cui bono?
Guarantee it wasn't just Julie Brown.
Why was the Trump administration surveilling one of the journalists who broke the Epstein story?
December 29, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The Trump DOJ was tracking the movement of a journalist, a journalist investigating the Epstein case.
Before Epstein's death. During Trump's first term in office.
Who else was under surveillance?
How far did this surveillance network extend, and cui bono?
Guarantee it wasn't just Julie Brown.
Before Epstein's death. During Trump's first term in office.
Who else was under surveillance?
How far did this surveillance network extend, and cui bono?
Guarantee it wasn't just Julie Brown.
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Melissa Hortman Died in a Shocking Act of Political Violence. This Is the Story of Her Life
The Minnesota Speaker’s closest friends and family open up for the first time.
Read @stephenrodrick.bsky.social's exclusive: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
The Minnesota Speaker’s closest friends and family open up for the first time.
Read @stephenrodrick.bsky.social's exclusive: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
December 18, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Melissa Hortman Died in a Shocking Act of Political Violence. This Is the Story of Her Life
The Minnesota Speaker’s closest friends and family open up for the first time.
Read @stephenrodrick.bsky.social's exclusive: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
The Minnesota Speaker’s closest friends and family open up for the first time.
Read @stephenrodrick.bsky.social's exclusive: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Unfortunately many scientists working on grants have been laid off form research universities and many have left the.conutry to seek employment where the employment environment isn't under threat from the government. It will be years to fix the damage done.
December 30, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Unfortunately many scientists working on grants have been laid off form research universities and many have left the.conutry to seek employment where the employment environment isn't under threat from the government. It will be years to fix the damage done.
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It’s a win. A frustrating one, but definitely a win.
Pushing back matters. They can’t just doing anything they want.
Pushing back matters. They can’t just doing anything they want.
I hate that instead of celebrating this, I'm deeply suspicious.
But maybe this is good? Let's watch and see.
But maybe this is good? Let's watch and see.
December 30, 2025 at 1:20 AM
It’s a win. A frustrating one, but definitely a win.
Pushing back matters. They can’t just doing anything they want.
Pushing back matters. They can’t just doing anything they want.
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General reminder of the words of proud son of Virginia, Major-General George H Thomas. The "Rock of Chickamauga". Who, unlike Lee, stayed loyal to the Union.
Post-war he had views on 'Lost Cause' and the damage it would do to America, unchecked.
A “counterfeit varnish of patriotism” he called it.
Post-war he had views on 'Lost Cause' and the damage it would do to America, unchecked.
A “counterfeit varnish of patriotism” he called it.
![[T]he greatest efforts made by the defeated insurgents since the close of the war have been to promulgate the idea that the cause of liberty, justice, humanity, equality, and all the calendar of the virtues of freedom, suffered violence and wrong when the effort for southern independence failed. This is, of course, intended as a species of political cant, whereby the crime of treason might be covered with a counterfeit varnish of patriotism, so that the precipitators of the rebellion might go down in history hand in hand with the defenders of the government, thus wiping out with their own hands their own stains; a species of self-forgiveness amazing in its effrontery, when it is considered that life and property—justly forfeited by the laws of the country, of war, and of nations, through the magnanimity of the government and people—was not exacted from them.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5h5jfgi7vuqp4bkfogcntzep/bafkreifigvhyvtmy3mxp2btoxw5gztwrmyujtmpywsraabtjsq6oyrs4gq@jpeg)
December 29, 2025 at 11:01 PM
General reminder of the words of proud son of Virginia, Major-General George H Thomas. The "Rock of Chickamauga". Who, unlike Lee, stayed loyal to the Union.
Post-war he had views on 'Lost Cause' and the damage it would do to America, unchecked.
A “counterfeit varnish of patriotism” he called it.
Post-war he had views on 'Lost Cause' and the damage it would do to America, unchecked.
A “counterfeit varnish of patriotism” he called it.
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razor made me watch this video. she swore up and down despite it seeming like slop that it's actually peak
AND GOD DAMN IT SHE'S NOT EXAGGERATING. IF THIS WERE ON LETTERBOXD I'D GIVE IT A 5. ZERO HYPERBOLE
i cannot fucking BELIEVE how good this is. what the fuck. emergent storytelling is beautiful
AND GOD DAMN IT SHE'S NOT EXAGGERATING. IF THIS WERE ON LETTERBOXD I'D GIVE IT A 5. ZERO HYPERBOLE
i cannot fucking BELIEVE how good this is. what the fuck. emergent storytelling is beautiful
We ended up accidentally watching this whole video yesterday, and against all odds, it ended up being one of the greatest pieces of cinema I've ever experienced:
youtu.be/ef568d0CrRY?...
youtu.be/ef568d0CrRY?...
1000 Players Simulate Civilization: Rich & Poor
YouTube video by ish
youtu.be
December 27, 2025 at 8:40 AM
razor made me watch this video. she swore up and down despite it seeming like slop that it's actually peak
AND GOD DAMN IT SHE'S NOT EXAGGERATING. IF THIS WERE ON LETTERBOXD I'D GIVE IT A 5. ZERO HYPERBOLE
i cannot fucking BELIEVE how good this is. what the fuck. emergent storytelling is beautiful
AND GOD DAMN IT SHE'S NOT EXAGGERATING. IF THIS WERE ON LETTERBOXD I'D GIVE IT A 5. ZERO HYPERBOLE
i cannot fucking BELIEVE how good this is. what the fuck. emergent storytelling is beautiful
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Speaking as someone who just wrote a book on the Manhattan Project, I can assure you that refugee immigrants were the *entire* reason the US mastered the atom first. The most chilling part of writing my book was reading about them fleeing fascism … abroad. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/fleeing-on...
December 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Speaking as someone who just wrote a book on the Manhattan Project, I can assure you that refugee immigrants were the *entire* reason the US mastered the atom first. The most chilling part of writing my book was reading about them fleeing fascism … abroad. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/fleeing-on...
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When Latin American country start inviting the Chinese military into this hemisphere, we will know why. We can’t act confused and bewildered. We will know exactly why. The damage this president is doing to our own national security is tremendous.
December 28, 2025 at 7:21 PM
When Latin American country start inviting the Chinese military into this hemisphere, we will know why. We can’t act confused and bewildered. We will know exactly why. The damage this president is doing to our own national security is tremendous.