And you’re blocked

Everything you don’t like is not illegal. Pass it on.

@thomtillis.bsky.social this will cause needless hardship for those effected. For some people Social Security is their only source of income.

Governor Glenn Youngkin said he wants to bring back the values of Thomas Jefferson.

Jefferson knocked up his late wife's enslaved half-sister with 6 kids after starting a relationship with her when she was 14.

4 kids survived and he freed a couple of them…eventually.

Looks cozy.

I never knew there were draft riots in Boston as well. Interesting.

I guess we're now the nation that we used to warn other nations about.

It would be a waste of time and some good books.

BREAKING: Josh Shapiro just sued Donald Trump and won, unfreezing $2.1 billion in funds the administration tried to freeze.

Another win for Democrats in the courts. Don’t let anyone tell you Donald Trump is unstoppable.

This is good news.

a man in a suit and tie is sitting in front of a sign that says dont make me come find you lol ALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting in front of a sign that says dont make me come find you lol

See that you do.

— Accidentally fired workers trying to contain bird flu
— Accidentally fired workers overseeing our nuclear stockpile
— Accidentally fired workers providing health care to Native Americans

“Accidentally.” More like gross incompetence and mismanagement. Opposite of efficient.

@thomtillis.bsky.social has disappointed me several times recently. Supposedly he greased the skids for Petal. Until he calls out Trump and says “Mr President you’re wrong, Zelensky is not wrong, Putin is” I will hold off the accolades.

@thomtillis.bsky.social don’t grovel like the rest. Stand up to him. @charlotteobserver.bsky.social

This not “auditing” this just cutting without evaluating what they do. Will NC suffer? No doubt. @charlotteobserver.bsky.social

This is supposed to be the competent administration. It’s a circus. @charlotteobserver.bsky.social

Russian state TV host: “The things Trump is saying are so deep and so correct, in total alignment with the way we see things.”

He says Trump/Witkoff talked to Putin for 5 hours total, says it’s where Trump’s info came from— then taunts Zelensky.

Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGTNl4i...

Pritzker: If we don’t want to repeat history, then for god’s sake, in this moment, we better be strong enough to learn from it.

I understand why these stories exist but it’s important to be clear that he’s not “saving” 16 billion, he’s choosing, personally, without oversight, to wipe out 16 billion dollars of government services to veterans and the disabled and food safety etc etc

Jeffries: President Zelenskyy is not a dictator—he was a duly elected president of Ukraine.

It’s shocking—but I guess not surprising—that Donald Trump continues to play footsie with Vladimir Putin, a sworn enemy of the United States.

To the @GOP senators and Congressmen who claim to support Ukraine, you do have some power… if you’re unwilling to exercise it then don’t pretend to care about your country more than your political career:

Note how weird and vague the investigation of Schumer is: Martin says “I have reached out to Schumer to investigate the threats.” That’s . . . That’s not a thing. That’s not how investigates work. The U.S. Attorney doesn’t call the target. So…..
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Common Sense by Thomas Paine, read by Professor Joanne Freeman YouTube video by Beinecke Library at Yale

"Where is the King of America?'

Thomas Paine had an answer in 1776 in "Common Sense."
And it IS common sense.

In America, the LAW is King.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Bjj...

For no particular reason, what the Commonwealth of Virginia thinks about kings.

What Ilan Wurman and Randy Barnett are doing isn’t best understood as legal scholarship. It’s more like wartime public relations, or like SEO. It’s creating bullshit that will give dishonest judges a pretext to pretend that there is a serious constitutional dispute. They’re fascism’s fixers.

Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance.

Democracy requires your courage.

Spineless, yellow-bellied, lily-livered, weak-kneed, pusillanimous chickenshits.

There’s a Term for What Trump and Musk Are Doing How regime change happens in America

The Department of Government Efficiency isn't interested in efficiency. Or transparency, or cutting costs. It's real goal is to destroy the federal civil service. In other words, regime change. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...