Let's be clear: The Trump Admin's vendetta against the SPLC is a sign of how impactful their work is.
The SPLC has been at the forefront of exposing some of America's most notorious hate groups, like the KKK. The fact that the Trump Admin feels threatened by that speaks volumes.
Over the course of a decade, I made lots of trips to #Afghanistan and spent time with US troops throughout the country. One thing they all-- every single one-- agreed on:
♦️They felt the US owed Afghan interpreters & other staff far, far more than a mere salary.
This is how we're treating them now:
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Big donors to President Trump's MAGA Inc super PAC in March, per new FEC filing:
Diane Hendricks: $25 million
Marc Andreessen: $3 million
Ben Horowitz: $3 million
Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation: $2 million
GEO Group subsidiary GEO Reentry: $1 million
William & Caroline Reily: $500,000 apiece
The implicit media consensus is that urban voters should not be able to overrule rural voters, but that rural voters should be able to overrule urban voters, an assumption so axiomatic and unquestionable that nobody even understands they're making it.
Tax the rich - it’s not hard. It’s just being blocked by billionaires and politicians in their pocket.
Although it’s likely the GOP will now turn to Florida, that’s a much tougher redistricting target than Virginia. Republicans have less room to gain, face stronger legal challenges, and deal with voter geography that makes adding new GOP seats far harder than what Democrats pulled off in Virginia.
A reminder that the MAGA regime is comprised of Nazis and white supremacists, so I can’t say that I’m at all surprised that they have filed frivolous bullshit criminal charges against the Southern Poverty Law Center who is a 55 year old civil rights group known for going after the Klu Klux Klan.
Reports indicate Elon Musk controls a secretive network of over 90 companies and entities so he can hide how he spends his money.
No wonder he wanted the Trump admin to “look into” the Corporate Transparency Act, which would have regulated those companies.
In his 1st term, F47 diverted billions from the military-- including funds designated for construction projects such as barrack repairs, school upgrades, and other facilities--to build the wall that Mexico was going to pay for.
What are the odds THIS makes it to the barracks maintenance, etc?
This is where we are now.
Bless their little loser hearts, Virginia constitutional amendments first have to pass the full legislature twice before they ever go before voters
"Every election in Virginia goes like this:
"Wowie, Republicans are doing good"
"Democrats have gained some momentum"
"Oh Snap, Republicans are back in the lead"
"OHSHITOSHIT, FAIRFAX JUST CAME OUT OF NO WHERE WITH A METAL CHAIR AND HAS JUST BEAT THE REPUBLICANS TO A PULP!""
Before becoming a top official at the Environmental Protection Agency, Aaron Szabo was a lobbyist for the oil and gas industry.
Metadata shows he helped draft a trade group’s 2022 letter to the EPA objecting to controls on methane emissions.
By @alexcuadros.bsky.social
Virginia votes to redraw Congressional districts to favor demorcrats after Trump started an arms race.
He got dummymandered
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Thanks so much, Sweet Sweet Sweet Virginia!
A huge thanks to all of the thousands of volunteers who knocked on doors, called voters, and explained the importance of this vote to friends and neighbors.
You are superheroes, true patriots, and saviors of democracy!
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just saw someone call Kash Patel “J Edgar Boozer” and need to lie down
Really proud of us at @wired.com for this. The work we did on DOGE is some of the work I am personally proudest of, and it's amazing to see that work and impact recognized.
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Cat Distribution System strikes again
So much false equivalence in media on gerrymandering in Texas vs California & Virginia. California and Virginia maps approved by the voters. That's a huge difference not enough people pointing out
The worst human beings in the country should not be running the country.
they hate. This is eugenics. It can also be called the death march of medical freedom.
harms others. In the end I think we can assume that the administration really doesn’t care if 25% or more of the US population would disappear. After all this would primarily be the poor, the minorities, immigrants and the sick…anyone that the right sees as a burden, or use the social programs
healthy. But the truth is that today in the US there is no health security. The interest in the collective health of the nation is being swept aside by the anti-science, anti-vaccine medical freedom movement, where everyone, including soldiers, can do what ever they please no matter how much it
flu vaccines, millions of soldiers in WW1 were stricken or died from the flu. Their movements also helped spread it around the world, just as international travel would today. One may think that it would be in the interests of national security to do all that is possible to keep troops
