Every major Dem politician needs to realize that, in this environment, they can schedule a "speech to the nation," like Newsom did, and get tons of media coverage.
Just do it.
You can't call immigrants lazy moochers looking for government handouts and then round them up at Home Depots where you know they are looking for work.
You can't say immigrants don't follow the rules and then round them up in courthouses where they are following the rules.
Get your lies straight.
Senate Republicans are finalizing a scaled-down plan to force some federal food aid costs to states as a way to pay for Trump’s megabill. They’re concerned red states particularly would be hit with billions of dollars in new costs for SNAP, which helps feed more than 40 million low-income Americans.
Could you ever have imagined you would see a headline like this in your lifetime
The stenographers of the mainstream press keep using Trump's language calling the tariffs "reciprocal tariffs." But they aren't. @froomkin.bsky.social explains:
Follow the money and see where it goes. Nothing like buying our Congress. Musk has made the maximum allowable donation to members of Congress who support impeaching federal judges who are impeding actions taken by Trump.
Murphy: "If we continue to observe norms, if we continue to engage in business as usual, this democracy could be gone. I don't think we have a year to save American democracy. I think the way the president is acting ... puts out democracy at immediate risk."
Deported for serving a two year sentence for pot. She’s stuck in Laos, never been there. The 37-year-old is also without insulin for her diabetes and is running out of her medication for high blood pressure.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
If you let the executive deport people to a foreign gulag just by pronouncing the word “terrorism,” then expect to be called a “terrorist” soon yourself.
A tweet from John Pavlovitz directed at J.D. Vance, sarcastically referring to a video of an "attack" on Vance's family. The tweet mocks the severity of the alleged attack, implying it was not serious by stating, "Those grandmothers sure must have been traumatizing," followed by accusations, calling Vance a "lying fraudulent coward."
JD Vance wouldn’t last a minute under bombardment in Ukraine.
Here I react to the shameful behavior of American leaders and media toward the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share.
snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...
NEW: Institutions across the U.S. returned more than 10,300 Native American ancestors to tribes in 2024, making it the third-biggest year for repatriation under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.
By @maryhudetz.bsky.social
What I did this weekend! Four hour shift repping UConn Master Gardeners at Connecticut Flower and Garden Show
Lemmy Poohmeister will be 10 years old tomorrow.
I scream it over and over and then my partner looks at me like, What the fuck now.
Maybe Tom Thumbkin can gargle balls.
According to the U.S Department of Labor The #1 Recipient of #DEI is White Women
2. Hispanics
3. Asians
4. NativeAmericans
5. Disabled People
6. Veterans
7. LGBTQ+
8. Black People
Elon fucking Musk does NOT appropriate federal funds.
That is the job of CONGRESS.
Not some foreign born private citizen jumping bean exploding penis rocket car melting nepo-baby conspiracy theorist womanizer who exchanges horses for handjobs.
Congress needs to stand the fuck up. All of them!!!
We need a group of lawyers who are willing to take every lawsuit from every fired federal employee to the max. Bury this admin in lawsuits
Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"
When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.
Sometimes self-government just means elections. And sometimes it means recognizing the deeper dignity and meaning of what it means to be a people. That means speaking up, standing out, and protesting. We can only be free together.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...
An unelected billionaire, with no actual Congressional authority or govt experience, has access to Treasury payment systems and sensitive information about millions of Americans who receive Social Security checks, tax refunds, and other payments.
What could go wrong? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...
Yes!!
