I'd like to take this opportunity to remind you that Republicans can end this shutdown whenever they want, even without engaging Democrats.

The 60 vote threshold preserves the filibuster. Get rid of that, and a simple majority vote works.

But they want cover for the day they're out of power.

Just your regular reminder that tariffs are a tax increase on the average consumer, just not reflected on a W-2

Thune and Johnson keep using the word bipartisan, and I'm pretty sure that word doesn't mean what they think it means.

As the judges effectively point out, again, the DOJ has significantly more evidence that it could release without judicial approval.

So what's the delay?

Just so we're clear, a sitting Senator for the state of California was forcefully removed from a press conference in his home state, and then detained for attempting to ask a question of the DHS secretary 1/

We're at the stage of the fascism speed run, where Congress writes into the budget that courts can't hold the administration in contempt for failing to comply with court orders.

If you need a place to focus your resistance, this is it.

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The warning was sounded: either everybody has rights or nobody has rights.

And now the brown shirts have moved on to initiating deportation proceedings against citizens.

Fight back.

When even the Cato Institute is sounding the alarm, you'd have to be willfully ignoring the government's gleeful charge into authoritarianism.

In the early 20th century, anti-tax GOPers tried to appease progressive Republicans by passing a corporate income tax, incorrectly predicting it would be so unpopular as to quell the growing income tax movement.

This wasn’t their last miscalculation.

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Once upon a time, a Liberian man with a suspected case of Ebola entered the US. The conservative media machine responded with outrage.

So far, 2 children have died from a vaccine preventable disease which had effectively been eradicated from the US.

So when can we expect RFK's resignation?

I guess that's one way to keep people in their older and more inefficient vehicles

A team of volunteer archivists has recreated the Centers for Disease Control website, called RestoredCDC.org, as it appeared the day President Trump was inaugurated.

"I felt that we could restore any data sets that people might not have access to anymore because these were publicly funded data."

Because their profits are more important than your well-being or the continued survival of our species

www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

The grift continues in broad daylight.

Reading between the very widely spaced lines is the proclamation that his cronies can't compete on merit.

apnews.com/article/fcpa...

The alarm bells continue to ring, as the Presidency continues to attempt to usurp the powers of Congress

www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

While I've been silently enjoying Bluesky, I think it's finally time for an intro post.
Hi, I'm Nathan. I'm an expert in flow cytometry and have been in the clinical biomarkers field for a few years now. And I think it's time that I found my voice.