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This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal. 🚩🏴

A screen shot from Breaking Points of what Ryan Grim and Saagar Enjeti think is a "key detail" in Graham Platner's violent assault of a woman-- that she was flirting with him beforehand.
A list of DSA state/statewide candidates endorsed by DSA national or DSA chapters.
Democrats negative-partisanship-ing themselves over the deal. The war was stupid. We lost the war. Ergo, the terms are bad. Quit whinging, AIPAC fools.
X.com @itamarbengvir Translated from Hebrew by Grok Trump's agreement does not bind us. Israel is not subject to the United States, and we are an independent and sovereign nation!
A picture of a gleeful, evil Elon Musk, next to people with large bags of food stamped "USAID", with the title "How Elon Musk Killed Hundreds of Thousands of People"
Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine I'm old enough to remember when Republicans in Ohio just ignored court rulings repeatedly and did it anyway. Politics & Poll Tracker @PollTracker2024 Breaking news: The Supreme Court of Virginia has struck down the new congressional map that Virginia voters passed last month.
Bernie's fool post with two of his donor's circled in red: Alphabet Inc (Google) and Amazon.
DNC rejects resolution condemning influence of pro-Israel Aipac lobby
DOW Rapid Response @DOWResponse .@SECWAR "All the nations represented in this room are offspring of Western civilization. ... Our nations are and always will be united by our heritage, history, and geography in this New World. We share the same interests, and because of this, we face an essential test. Whether our nations will be-and remain-Western nations with distinct characteristics-Christian nations under God." 10:38 AM Mar 5, 2026 76.9K Views
Screen shot of tweet from U.S. SENATOR TIM SHEEHY. It reads: @TimSheehyMT: Capitol Police were attempting to remove an unhinged protestor from the Armed Services hearing. He was fighting back. I decided to help out and deescalate the situation. This gentleman came to the Capitol looking for a confrontation, and he got one. I hope he gets the help he needs without causing further violence.
A spokesperson for DeGette said she had no knowledge of Ehnbom’s relationship with Epstein and that the congresswoman never met the disgraced financier. “Mr. Epstein did not attend the fundraisers that Ms. Ehnbom emailed about over a decade ago, nor has Rep. DeGette ever received any campaign contribution from Mr. Epstein,” the spokesperson told The Independent. “Rep. DeGette strongly supports the release of the full Epstein files.” Pictured is an email from an unknown person to Epstein, encouraging him to meet Representative Diana DeGette while she is in New York. The email was sent on 30Jan2014.
Democrats courting Republicans: uwu we'll do anything for your votes, we'll be happy to compromise on anything Democrats courting the left: We owe you shitheads nothing. Vote for us or you're personally responsible for the rise of fascism, you fucking idiots.
George Pearkes‬ ‪@peark.es‬ · 19m oh okay, sure *TRUMP: I DON'T KNOW WHETHER ALIENS ARE REAL OR NOT Derek of the Edmund Fitzgerald ‪@giromide.online‬ If we had hard evidence of extraterrestrial life, he would've told us 24 hours after being sworn in in 2017.
This is the look Obama had on his face after he says to Brian Tyler Cohen "Unless [...] they hid it from the President of the United States."
Ryan @sweetcainmusic.bsky.social‬ Not just the city. I'm in the suburbs, but it's real out here too. Teachers calming sobbing students who can't get a hold of their parents, students ready to go to war, parents arming themselves at work in case they need to go to their kid's school. I'm not kidding. It's everywhere. ‪ Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast)‬ @brainnotonyet.bsky.social‬ · 3h The information environment and the radicalization on the ground should scare politicians from both parties but especially the dfl as it’s clear they must be removed from power and the public wants and needs far far better. Their is real risk the elected class loses the city for generations
Dan Davies ‪@dsquareddigest.bsky.social‬ This is preying on my mind a bit. Jeffrey Epstein was not primarily a British scandal! So far we've removed a Prince from the Royal family, fired our US ambassador who was one of the most important political figures of the last few decades and banned the CEO of Barclays from the financial industry.. Jim Russell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. ‪@jazzyrussell.bsky.social‬ One by one, Europeans mentioned in the Epstein files who still hold political office are beginning to resign or are being forced out of office. Meanwhile, ruled by an administration almost entirely made up of Epstein associates, the US carries on as if nothing really happened.
‪Randy Herman‬ @randyhermanlaw.com‬ · 6m I guess one "good" thing to come out of the Trump presidency is that it completely undermines the "secret UFO" conspiracy theory because you know if that shit was true Trump would have told everyone by now
Sarah Ferris @sarahnferris News - Trump admin attempted to backchannel with Dems on funding talks Several Dems were invited to WH today for a "listening session" but turned DOWN meeting "They're trying to pick people off... it's not going to work,” one Dem told CNN w/ @FoxReports @alaynatreene
Keith Harris @usefulnoise.bsky.social‬ "agents told hospital staff that Castaneda Mondragon ... 'purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.'” Quoting a post about an article: Becky Zosia Dernbach @bzosiad.bsky.social‬ A Minnesota man received a life-threatening injury while in ICE custody. It's not clear how he got injured because his memory and ability to communicate are so severely impaired. Agents said "he got his shit rocked." Wild story from @katrinapross.bsky.social https://sahanjournal.com/health/ice-detainee-hospitalized-head-injury-lawsuit/
A screen capture of the top of Rep. DeGette's Congressional webpage with the links to her social media sites circled in the upper right-hand corner. X is not included.
Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social‬ · 6h this is not a party gearing up to even pare back funding, let alone abolish ICE. I cannot stress enough that it'd be cleaner and easier to just get rid of every last one of them via primary than try to figure out which is worth saving ‪ Oliver Willis‬ @owillis.bsky.social‬ · 7h Democrats officially going all in on the mealy mouthed “ICE needs training” narrative. No. ABOLISH ICE.
Perhaps the most provocative bounty hunting firm is BI Incorporated, an immigrant-tracking subsidiary of GEO Group, the for-profit prison giant whose fortunes have rapidly climbed following Trump’s reelection and the funding boom for deportation operations. With lucrative contracts for both hunting and imprisoning immigrants — its bounty hunting work could net $121 million by 2027 — GEO Group now stands to generate revenue through multiple stages of the administration’s ongoing deportation campaign.
Ian Boudreau ‪@ianboudreau.com‬ "Every so often the admins of any site get pulled into ongoing site conflicts and end up radicalizing themselves against their own users. Jack Dorsey's true innovation was going off to a yoga retreat to do peyote about it for two weeks"
Rep. Katherine Clark's bluesky profile page, listing her as the Democratic Whip of the U.S. House of Representatives, which I've underlined. Also included is her most recent post, whinging about POTUS like she's just another voter, instead of a person with a position and responsibility to try to ACT.
To give ourselves the best chance to win, we recommend the following changes to our approach. Democrats need to: Focus our policy agenda and our messaging on an economic program centered on lowering costs, growing the economy, creating jobs, and expanding the social safety net. Advocate for popular economic policies (e.g., expanding prescription drug price negotiation, making the wealthy pay their fair share in taxes, raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour) rather than unpopular economic policies (e.g., student loan forgiveness, electric vehicle subsidies, Medicare for All). Convince voters that we share their priorities by focusing more on issues voters do not think our party prioritizes highly enough (the economy, the cost of living, health care, border security, public safety), and focusing less on issues voters think we place too much emphasis on (climate change, democracy, abortion, identity and cultural issues). Moderate our positions where our agenda is unpopular, including on issues like immigration, public safety, energy production, and some identity and cultural issues. Embrace a substantive and rhetorical critique of the outsized political and economic influence of lobbyists, corporations, and the ultra-wealthy, while keeping two considerations in mind: First, voters' frustrations with the status quo are not the same as a desire for socialism. And second, criticizing the status quo is a complement to advocating for popular policies on the issues that matter most to the American people, not a substitute.
Congresswoman Chellie Pingree @pingree.house.gov‬ I'm just sitting here waiting for my granddaughter to get off the bus, and what do I read? “Trump Demands Justice Department Pay Him $230 Million for Past Cases.” Literally stealing money from American taxpayers to line his own pockets. The grift never ends with this guy.
Greg Abbott @GregAbbott_TX I fully authorized the President to call up 400 members of the Texas National Guard to ensure safety for federal officials. You can either fully enforce protection for federal employees or get out of the way and let Texas Guard do it. No Guard can match the training, skill, and expertise of the Texas National Guard. They defend our country with pride. America must also know that Texas still has thousands of National Guard assisting with the Border security. Quote Governor JB Pritzker @GovPritzker This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate. Oct 5
A screenshot from a Gamer's Nexus YT relating to a spurious and malicious copyright strike Bloomberg initiated against them. The picture shows Bloomberg's sponsored content page, sorted for content sponsored by Nvidia, of which there is A LOT. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUnRWh4xOCY
Picture of a quotepost by @brat2381.bsky.social‬: "👀Black Folks tried to tell y’all that AIPAC bashing bs was antisemitic and Hogg was a grifter but NOPE…some of y’all never listen. I’ll stop saying “I told you so” when folks start listening. Anyhoo…let me go file this in the drawer with the rest of the ”WE BEEN KNEW” receipts. 🤷🏾‍♀️" The quoted post by @demsinarray.bsky.social‬: "Looks like David Hogg is finally getting the friendship and respect he has so desperately been chasing." The quoted post refers to their picture of a post from X by David Hogg (@davidhogg111) "AIPAC is the most successful foreign influence operation in US history." a the pictured response by Nick Fuentes (@NickJFuentes): "So true"
Will they be satisfied if the Territories be unconditionally surrendered to them? We know they will not. In all their present complaints against us, the Territories are scarcely mentioned. Invasions and insurrections are the rage now. Will it satisfy them, if, in the future, we have nothing to do with invasions and insurrections? We know it will not. We so know, because we know we never had anything to do with invasions and insurrections; and yet this total abstaining does not exempt us from the charge and the denunciation. The question recurs, what will satisfy them? Simply this: We must not only let them alone, but we must somehow, convince them that we do let them alone. This, we know by experience, is no easy task. We have been so trying to convince them from the very beginning of our organization, but with no success. In all our platforms and speeches we have constantly protested our purpose to let them alone; but this has had no tendency to convince them. Alike unavailing to convince them, is the fact that they have never detected a man of us in any attempt to disturb them. These natural, and apparently adequate means all failing, what will convince them? This, and this only: cease to call slavery wrong, and join them in calling it right. And this must be done thoroughly - done in acts as well as in words. Silence will not be tolerated - we must place ourselves avowedly with them. Senator Douglas' new sedition law must be enacted and enforced, suppressing all declarations that slavery is wrong, whether made in politics, in presses, in pulpits, or in private. We must arrest and return their fugitive slaves with greedy pleasure. We must pull down our Free State constitutions. The whole atmosphere must be disinfected from all taint of opposition to slavery, before they will cease to believe that all their troubles proceed from us. I am quite aware they do not state their case precisely in this way. Most of them would probably say to us, "Let us alone, do nothi…
Business leaders at our forum worry that Trump is undermining an economic system that took decades to build and has long benefited the U.S. more than any other country, under both Republican and Democratic administrations, all for short-term gains. They see what's happening as a hollowing out of U.S. economic foundations and institutions. In this free-to-speak environment (a loaded topic these days), they said that while they approve of bringing manufacturing back to the U.S. and bolstering economic and national security, they fear for America's international standing amid the degradation of national security at the FBI, the CIA, and the Pentagon. This widespread sentiment is directly counter to the heavily trumpeted "Dear Leader" tributes of just a handful of tech titans, who are decidedly not representative of the leadership class.
@StephenJ_Caruso over on the Nazi site Pennsylvania Governor Shapiro will lower the flag to honor a vile, hateful podcaster and shitposter who glorified violence against marginalized communities and Democratic politicians.
Tweets from Iggy and Lakshya saying the only condition Dems should demand to fund the government is an agreement to extend current ACA subsidies for one year.
33s clip of Benn Jordan's recent YT "You Are Witnessing the Death of American Capitalism"
...group chat formed to discuss contract negotiations, some creators discussed a clause prohibiting the disparagement of other creators. Not being able to criticize anyone else affiliated with Chorus felt restrictive to some, according to text messages posted to the chat. - Already, creators in the program are creating content together. In a new weekly series titled “Good News in Politics,” six creators in the program... - Spehar and other content creators have accused Chorus of attempting to establish themselves as a gatekeeper to Democratic political leaders. “What we need is for people to invest in independent media, and that doesn’t necessarily mean investing in a consulting group that is going to become a middleman for independent media,” says Spehar.
“If I want to work with another politician, I have to fully collaborate with them,” said one creator who was offered the contract but ultimately declined to take it and asked not to be named. “If I get Zohran and he wants to [do an] interview with me, I don’t want to give that to them.” Creators in the program are not allowed to use any funds or resources that they receive as part of the program to make content that supports or opposes any political candidate or campaign without express authorization from Chorus in advance and in writing, per the contract. - The goal of Chorus, according to a fundraising deck obtained by WIRED, is to “build new infrastructure to fund independent progressive voices online at scale.” The creators who joined the incubator are expected to attend regular advocacy trainings and daily messaging check-ins. Those messaging check-ins are led by Cohen on “rapid response days.” The creators also have to attend at least two Chorus “newsroom” events per month, which are events Chorus plans, often with lawmakers.
Third Way, one of the major consultancies of DCCC & establishment Dems, compiling a BLACKLIST of terms pertaining to marginalized peoples.
A portrait of John Brown, militant abolitionist.
An announcement that Tony Blinken, zionist monster, has joined the board of directors of Center for American Progress.
An image of an announcement that Tony Blinken has joined the board of directors of the Center for American Progress.
Chuck Schumer @chuckschumer Follow I have known @ZohranKMamdani since we worked together to provide debt relief for thousands of beleaguered taxi drivers & fought to stop a fracked gas plant in Astoria. He ran an impressive campaign that connected with New Yorkers about affordability, fairness, & opportunity. 10:09 AM • 6/25/25 • 3.8K Views Chuck Schumer @chuc... • 4m I spoke with @ZohranKMamdani this morning and am looking forward to getting together soon.
@sarahkendzior.bsky.social‬: "Vote blue no matter who" was always "vote blue no matter what." The what is genocide. The what is autocracy. The what is Trump. That is what the Democratic Party abides and accepts. The only thing they take a stand against is Democratic voters who point this out. QT: @andycraig.bsky.social‬ "Al Green's impeachment resolution that 128 Dems voted against was a very straightforward, brief one about the unconstitutionality of bombing Iran without congressional authorization. Not all the umpteen dozen other things or debatable policy issues. Just that. That's what they sided with Trump on."
Ian Miles Cheong: President vs. Elon. Who Wins? My money's on Elon. Trump should be impeached and JD Vance should replace him. Elon Musk: Yes
Gov. Jared Polis ordered the state labor department to turn over personal information about people who are providing homes for unaccompanied immigrant children after receiving a subpoena from the Trump administration, according to a whistleblower lawsuit filed Wednesday.
It’s helpful to understand that the U.S. specifically invests in research as an ecosystem because a large network of interconnected collaborations generates vastly more innovation and discovery (PDF) than any single lab or discipline.
Anat Shenker-Osorio ‪@anatosaurus.bsky.social‬ Testing for "approval" in electorate when there is no correlation between which policies people favor/oppose and which become law reveals you have zero theory of change. You do not want to defeat this bill.
House Democratic leaders told rank-and-file members Wednesday that they will vote to block [...] effort[s] to impeach President Donald Trump ― an announcement that was met by applause by other members of the Democratic caucus...
From NWS Boulder: Snow/hail has begun over the northern urban corridor this evening. The snow will become more widespread tonight & will be heaviest in the morning. There is growing concern that the morning commute will be impacted in the western Denver suburbs, the mountains, & foothills. #COwx
Reality check: The sentiment within the party about rallying behind deportees is not universal. -The second House Democrat who spoke anonymously, a centrist, called the deportation issue a "soup du jour," arguing Trump is "setting a trap for the Democrats, and like usual we're falling for it." -"Rather than talking about the tariff policy and the economy ... the thing where his numbers are tanking, we're going to go take the bait for one hairdresser," they said, likely referring to Andry Hernandez Romero. -Only if Trump tries to deport U.S. citizens, the lawmaker argued, will Democrats need to draw a "line in the sand" and "shut down the House."
"Unlike the lunches in the days leading up to the government funding vote, where senators could be heard yelling, moments of applause were overheard during their first meeting after the break." https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/27/democrats-chuck-schumer-alternative-00252292
The results of the Wisconsin State Supreme Court election: ~ 57.4% Crawford, 42.6% Schimel
From an interview published today, 26Mar2025: Warner: Any answers on that front, or is the soul-searching still going on? Sen. Bennet: No, I think, well, I think the soul-searching better go on until we figure out the nature of the problem, but there are answers to it. I mean, I think if you look at where Democrats were on health care, in this election, what we were saying was ‘extend the tax credits for Obamacare.’ That's not a compelling view. I mean, in a country that needs universal health care, where we are desperately in need of mental health care, especially for our kids, but all our citizens, to have a system that costs twice as much as any industrialized country in the world, but delivers the kind of scarcity our health care system delivers, that's shameful. Warner: Am I speaking to Senator Sanders or Senator Bennet? Sen. Bennet: To Senator who? Warner: To Senator (Bernie) Sanders or to Senator Bennet, here? Sen. Bennet: I mean, there's nothing I just said to you, Ryan, that I haven't said for years on the campaign trail, in town halls, in that failing, very modest campaign for president. Literally nothing that I said in the last minute is anything that I haven't said in all of those places. I'm sorry you haven't heard it, but that is what I've been saying for years.
Issues LGBTQ+ Protections The LGBTQ+ community has historically been forced to be canaries in the proto-fascist coal mine and this time is no different. That's why even though Republicans are trying their best to villainize queer (particularly trans) people, we're not going to fall for it. Some Democrats might be happy to throw trans people under the bus for an interview with Steve Bannon, but I'm not. I refuse to meet this GOP smear campaign with anything except unflinching solidarity with the queer community. So here's what we should actually be doing:
BREAKING: Acting Social Security commissioner Leland Dudek says he is consulting with the Justice Department about shutting down the agency. Dudek told the Washington Post: “Unless I get clarification, I’ll just start to shut it down. I don’t have much of a choice here.”
Heading of a Fox News article: "Following key wins, Trump poised for cabinet completion in record time"
(AP) — Trump invokes Alien Enemy Act of 1798, assuming wartime authority to speed up mass deportations.
This is proof that unanimous consent agreements are a thing, which the Senate does A LOT to forgo typical rules, procedures and processes that would take time and slow things down in the chamber. Instead, agreements, made via unanimous consent, are recorded--repeatedly-- to ignore such onerous tasks. It only takes one Senator to object and require the Senate to follow their own darn rules. So far this term, the Senate Democrats have agreed to UCs approximately 500 times. Trump will have his executive branch nominees confirmed in record time for recent administrations due to this. ALL SENATE DEMOCRATS ARE COLLABORATORS.
The Weimar Republic put up more of a fight than Senate Democrats.