Matthew Ryan

On reflection, maybe the rest of America screaming at New Yorkers about 9/11 and thinly veiled appeals to xenophobia to a city that's 60%+ non-white on the eve of its mayoral election wasn't the most persuasive argument...

JD Vance can dismiss the Young Republicans as a college group chat.

But let's be clear: the group chat includes a State Senator, a Trump Admin official, and multiple Republican staffers — and some of the worst comments came from folks associated with Mike Johnson, Elise Stefanik, and Mike Lawler.

Trump did promise to run the government like one of his businesses, so it shouldn't surprise anyone that it shut down again

If you live in these states, your ACA premiums are about to jump:

SD - Up 235%
LA - Up 150%
WV - Up 387%
WY - Up 382%
TN - Up 320%
MS - Up 314%
AK - Up 346%

Republicans are fighting to make sure this happens to their own constituents.

🚨🚨🚨 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x convicted felon & adjudicated rapist Trump did. 🚨🚨🚨

Shocked but not surprised to learn how many ~titans of industry~ who probably think of themselves as brave ballsy businessmen are actually cowardly pieces of shit when it counts.

smart play would’ve been
let Nexstar affiliates drop JKL
alienate their customers
then play hero
offer free streaming ABC access
to affected viewers
as a 1st Amendment gesture
while they negotiated
& let things cool off.

Instead
Disney looks like enemy of free speech
& nobody’s talking abt Nexstar.

Oof, Tom, is this really the hill to die on? Are we maybe splitting hairs over genocide versus ethnic cleansing?

Oof. This one has strong “look what you made me do” vibes.

Another horrific series of press rights abuses tonight at hands of LAPD.

Initial reports are 4 journalists injured (several bleeding), 3 cameras broken, 5 put in zip ties.

All in defiance of state law, a judge's order, and chief's signed order.

LAPD can't police itself. Maybe the judge will.

Listen to people when they tell you this — the United States Government under Trump isn’t “becoming fascist, authoritarian and corrupt.” It’s already those things. The Trump Government is fascist, authoritarian and corrupt. The fact that it’s going to keep getting worse doesn’t mean that isn’t true.

@getnickwright.bsky.social is always big in his feelings. Has to discount Broncos' D for facing mediocre QBs, but seems to forget they've held the BEST QB EVER (according to him) under 20 points, and an average of 14 ppg in the last 3 Broncos-Chiefs games in which Mahomes played.

Looks like you’re in my neck of Iberia right now…

When I suggested Democrats hold daily press conferences to share stories of Republican pedophiles, I meant they could bring up all the old stories.

I didn’t think that we’d get new stories about a GOP pedophile every day, but whatever works I guess

Agree this is shocking, but I find it historically unsurprising. While American democracy had deeper roots and more guardrails than Germany in 1933, the U.S. has been subject to destructive capitalist forces in recent years which have left the Republic only lightly defended. 🧵

I wonder if Greg Abbott and the TXGOP is adequately accounting for this little shift in their little redistricting plan…

The next Democratic president needs to leverage this new precedent to cut the Pentagon budget in half, eliminate ICE, and take a very skeptical look at farm subsidies.

Autocratic populism produces poverty and decline

I predict that a few of us will be making the “financial decision” to learn everything we can about the business interests of CBS, Paramount and Skydance in order to do everything we can to make sure that not a single dollar of ours goes to them ever again.

Integrity matters.

#StephenColbert.

Beef prices have soared in the US Anyone firing up the grill this summer already knows hamburgers and steaks are expensive, but the latest numbers show prices have climbed to record highs

“When I win, I will immediately bring prices down, starting on Day One.” abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...

The Entrepreneurial State Economics - Innovation - Inclusive Growth - Public Purpose | Mariana Mazzucato

Fascism aside (Masnick does discuss this), but the government provides for so much of basic tech research that DOGE just cut (NSF, NIH, NASA, university funding, etc). Mariana Mazzucato covers brilliantly in Entrepreneurial State: marianamazzucato.com/books/the-en...

There’s a nonzero chance you will die from a cancer that could have been curable because people who couldn’t pass 7th grade biology and are scared of things like “mRNA” and “riboflavin” and “walkable cities” decided to make their ignorance everybody else’s problem

Lawmakers in Liberal States Want ICE Agents to Show Their Faces

Not “liberal states,” New York Times. Pro-democracy states.

Incredible stories of individual valor in Texas.

But it sadly reminds of one of my Army commanders' cautions: when personal valor is called for to save the day, we as leaders and planners have failed.

Instead of “Alligator Alcatraz” or “Alligator Auschwitz”, let me suggest that we call it simply the Dade-Collier Concentration Camp.

Hang the name on Florida. Make them own this disgraceful moment in U.S. history. Make our grandchildren lobby to change the name of Dade County out of shame.

It’s hard for me to think of anything more destructive to the America that’s existed for well over a century than the bill that just passed and the administration that will implement it. As always, every Republican accusation is a confession.

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