SEN. @ossoff.senate.gov : “The faithless president depicts himself as Christ while he plunges the nation into wars of choice… Remember — While you pay more for everything, the First Family’s wealth is growing by billions. Because they’re crooks, and everybody knows it.”
The next administration must take the lesson of this one; every single immigration judge hired under Trump 2.0 must be fired on day one.
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Artemis II happening while Trump threatens to annihilate a civilization is a stark demonstration that the United States government is neither good nor bad, it is *powerful*, and power can be wielded for good or bad ends in smart or dumb ways. It's our job to push hard in the right direction.
It would take only a handful of Republicans to step onto the right side of history and stop this madness. They would be remembered well. It's right there for the taking.
I used to write the WaPo editorials on US-Africa policy, as well on as human rights and politics on the continent.
To describe hundreds of thousands of deaths on the continent as “messy” is an absolute abomination.
It's impolite to call Musk a genocidal white nationalist because "civility" in American discourse functions not as a neutral procedural norm but as an asymmetric weapon to shield the powerful from accurate moral characterization while policing the tone of those who object.
These questions are just bait for me. Compared to 2016 #mepolitics:
Child poverty ⬇️ from 17.2 to 12.6%
Uninsured population ⬇️ from 8.0% to 5.5%
Real wages ⬆️ 9.5%
Aggravated assault ⬇️ 20%
Overdose death rate ➡️28.2 to 27.6 per 100,000
Susan Collins keeps suggesting that Dems are blocking funding for DHS.
The truth is that Dems keep trying to fund all the department's agencies *except* ICE (which already has tons of money) and Collins and her GOP pals keep saying 'no.' #MEpolitics
@planetmoney.bsky.social did this! (kinda)
Trump's ongoing attack on free speech is without precedent in modern U.S. history, according to the latest data from the @vdeminstitute.bsky.social. I wrote about it for Slate: slate.com/news-and-pol...
NYT on Feb. 13, 2026: The visit also demonstrated the relative foreign policy inexperience of Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, who has made a few overseas trips since taking office but does not sit on any House committees devoted primarily to world affairs. She struggled at times to formulate succinct answers at a nighttime panel session, during which she was asked probing and specific questions about how to respond to international crises. Questioned about whether the United States should send troops to defend Taiwan if China invaded the island, she stalled for roughly 20 seconds before offering a substantive response. “I think that, uh, this is such a, a — you know, I think that — this is a, um — this is of course, a, uh, a very longstanding, um, policy of the United States,” Ms. Ocasio-Cortez said, before saying that the country should try to avoid reaching that point with China in the first place.
NYT on March 16, 2026: On Monday, Mr. Trump claimed that “numerous countries have told me they’re on the way,” noting that President Emmanuel Macron of France would most likely help in the Strait of Hormuz and was an eight out of 10. “Not perfect, but it’s France,” he said. Others are not demonstrating sufficient enthusiasm for his demands, he said.
Last month the NYT said AOC "struggled" to give an answer on Taiwan and quoted her with "uhs" and "ums" to make her look stupid
Yesterday talking about Hormuz Trump claimed he's heard from "numerous countries" and said "uh" four times. The NYT deleted the "uhs" and paraphrased him to look smarter:
The so-called “SAVE America Act” is a voter purge bill. Remember the 2000 election in Florida? Now multiply that times all 50 states.
It was revealed last week that Trump got a $10 billion bribe for helping steal TikTok and give it to his right wing billionaire friends under the pretense of national security and it barely enjoyed a two hour news cycle
Trump golfs as American service members die in his war
Normal, mainstream, pro-democracy parties do not respond to falling behind in the polls by trying to engage in unprecedented mass voter suppression, on the basis of complete lies about totally nonexistent mass voter fraud.
RANKED CHOICE VOTING IS NOT PARTISAN. Case in point: with RCV I'm sure a Republican would have won this race. Instead, a Democrat won with less than 50%.
A Democrat has won the mayor's seat in Boca Raton... by one vote:
Even the GOP is saying “the media is sanewashing us. We meant the terrible thing”
IMO it seems pretty bad that the GOP in Congress has multiple members willing to say just remarkably gross Islamophobic things in public and the rest of the party appears to have basically no appetite for reining that in.
CNN’s Harry Enten:
Trump & GOP have a big freaking problem!
Milestone: Trump's net approval has now been underwater for a year. He has the worst net approval with indies at this pt in term 2 of any prez this century.
The effect: Dems have a very real chance of winning the Senate, not just House.
Paying my Trump Tax at the pump today. Thank you, Mr. President! 👍🏻
Consistently disappointed in my senator @senangusking.bsky.social.
Why does @senangusking.bsky.social keep confirming Trump nominees??? He talks the talk about Trump being an authoritarian, then passes on so many opportunities to oppose him. He's letting Maine down.
#mepolitics #maine #nokings
Let me be clear: I’m glad Kristi Noem was fired. But we still have to abolish ICE.
Because she was working with a federal task force, she was considered a federal officer, and thus protected by SCOTUS rulings making it all but impossible to sue federal cops, even for egregious abuse.
Now consider what this means for Trump's immigration thugs.
Democrats had two years to fix this.
Scenes from a personalist regime
JD VANCE: "There's just no way Trump is gonna about this country to get into a multiyear conflict with no end in sight"
TRUMP HOURS LATER: "Wars can be fought 'forever,' and very successfully"
