Macon Phillips

I usually feel a sense of hope and new beginnings this time of year, because school starts this week. But the national guard in DC is newly armed, and I mostly feel a sense of foreboding.

Being interviewed by Terry Gross ruined all other interviewers for me.

"Well prepared" doesn't even begin to cover it, and she is just so generous in the conversation.

It's like playing tennis with Serena Williams but she only wants to keep the volley going as long as possible.

Don’t think we need “describe” here. It just kind of…is

Also, let’s remember how those quarters came to be vacant.

It is insane to me that the government can find money to pay ICE agents increasingly larger sums of money, yet teachers have to buy their own pencils.

I didn’t know until now that in the original Rosie the Riveter painting, she is crushing a copy of Mein Kampf under her foot. Happy feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary, remembering all the women who crush the serpents of Satan under their heel.

Democratic electeds distancing themselves from Zohran but totally fine with the current mayor bought & paid for by Turkey & the former governor who resigned in disgrace after sexually harassing women & killing seniors during COVID?

OK. Sure. The young guy is the problem with the party. Come ON.

We are being lied to

The vote on Vermont’s biggest education bill was called before anyone could speak. The speed by which a voice vote was called caught many legislators off guard. No debate. No roll call. Here is my open letter to leadership explaining why that moment demands accountability.

The Vermont House just opened its session one hour late. The morning session was very brief. H.454 (the education reform bill) won't be taken up until late afternoon. Which means they don't have the votes, at least not yet.

The biggest winners of the Republican-backed spending bill are the wealthiest Americans, a new analysis from the Congressional Budget office shows, while the biggest losers are the poorest.

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I am so sick and tired of roomfuls of men legislating over women’s rights. Genuinely sick and tired of it.

Watching all the anti-anti’s freak out about the tariffs is a little funny, considering Trump absolutely said he was going to do this. I mean, the economy and the post-WW2 order might collapse, but at least you guys are sticking it to trans people, amirite?

NOTE: Tonight, John Mulaney has the chance to do something important. Neal Katyal is a partner at Milbank, which just capitulated to Trump.

Someone who knows Mulaney, please tell him about this and ask him to talk with Neal about it. I have laid it out here: www.lawdork.com/p/law-firms-...

Our freedoms are guaranteed to us by the Constitution and laws. The courts enforce those when lawyers hold the government accountable to those laws.

Attacking lawyers like @marcelias.bsky.social and every other lawyer who does this is a threat to all of our freedoms.

We must stand together.

Live: Vermont Director of Medicaid Policy is discussing the impacts of federal changes on Medicaid. Hundreds of millions of dollars likely to be removed from Vermont's Medicaid system. Brutal, and devastating. www.youtube.com/channel/UCHt...

well i just set up a server, it was simple, it works and I can now take my kids to a basketball game b/c it was that simple. thank you!

I will not be attending Trump's joint address to Congress tonight.

I watched him take an oath to uphold and protect the constitution, and all he did was spew lies, stoke division and fear and make no effort to unify our country. I won't sit and watch him lie to the American people again.

Hi Senator. Thanks for joining Bluesky. Can you use this space to explain why you're pushing a bill to remove Section 230, which would make it close to impossible for Bluesky to exist?

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Housing is the foundation to a decent life. It shouldn't be out of reach for so many in the richest country in the world. And now HUD is in the hands of a billionaire who sees every agency as a playground, rather than a lifesaving service.

Protect HUD and HUD workers.

NEW: USAID's acting asst administrator, Nick Enrich, has been placed on leave after sharing a memo detailing how political appointees have "wholly prevented" staff from continuing life saving aid.

Biggest problem with Dem leadership and the consultant class and people with influence? They’re control freaks who insist on top down messaging that is optimized for safety.

Wow.

How did our country (the U.S.) create and elevate such a group of cowardly, greedy, vain, arrogant, and profoundly insecure men to the highest rungs of power? They bring Zelensky to the Oval Office for what? To mock and denigrate a truly courageous leader & try to bring him down to their base level?

THIS is why Democratic leaders must be replaced sooner rather than later.

9:42 AM: Amy Klobuchar posts a photo with Lindsey Graham bragging about her "bipartisan meeting" and how they "stand with Ukraine"

1:40 PM: Lindsey Graham is on Fox News "trashing Zelenskyy and praising Trump and Vance"

As a student of history, I'm not being hyperbolic. The federal government built the Black middle class in DC, and in many parts of the U.S., largely because it was one of the first organizations to hire Black professionals and prohibit discrimination. It is amongst the most diverse US workforce.

National Resilience Strategy | The White House To read the National Resilience Strategy, please click this link here: National Resilience Strategy ###

A new, barebones White House webaited is up.

Reminder to the public and press: a new admin doesn’t delete the old one or specific pages.

The National Archives preserves that .gov & the presidential records that it constitutes, including this report: bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-roo...

Real masculine energy is Zuck stumbling so hard and needing women to do all the emotional labor to get him out of it

I’m just getting in the other side. Took. Week. Wife sick now. Ginger tea helps. Sending healing vibes