Ken Klaes

I Had a Dream Journalism Job. Here's Why I Quit. The rot that hollowed out trust in corporate media finally reached OPB. I had to go.

This is easily the hardest thing I've ever had to write.

Thank you for being a leading voice against these horrific, unlawful detentions! Proud to have you as my rep in moments like this.

Impeachment is a privileged resolution; you do not need the consent of the Speaker or anyone else to introduce articles. As a constituent I would be immensely proud and grateful if you were to do so.

If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.

Thank you Senator. Now please start backing up those words with action by denying unanimous consent!

if the united states ever has even a hope of recovering we have to destroy the idea of american individualism. "they don't owe you anything" we owe each other everything actually

As a constituent, Congresswoman, please do not take that grifting sleaze at his word. You can support keeping our community healthy without handing any credit to the man dismantling HHS!

No matter your station in life, there is astoundingly little separating you from those men in that cage behind Kristi Noem. No charges, no attorneys, no hearings, no trial. Just conjecture and brute force could be enough to justify completely dehumanizing you, too.

X post by Timothy Snyder (@TimothyD ...), posted 6 hours ago. The post reads, "The people Attorney General Bondi is calling 'terrorists' have had no trial and no chance to defend them. We do not know they are. Ignoring the Constitution does not make us safe. It puts us all in peril."

I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.

Senator, I like you personally and respect so much of what you have done to fight against injustice. I take you at your word that you angrily disagreed with the actions of the caucus on Friday, but if that is indeed the case, why did you not object to unanimous consent?

The video of Trump’s deportees arriving in El Salvador is horrific.

This is 21st century Nazism.

Identities concealed, trafficked to a foreign labour camp. No due process, no evidence of crime. Dehumanised.

Where is the global outrage?

The crime is historic; the normalisation catastrophic.

I am begging blue state governors to have lunch this week with your adjutant general of the National Guard.

Cannot stress enough how important this relationship is going to be in the near future.

@jeff-merkley.bsky.social @wyden.senate.gov Is Senator Schumer correct? Do you agree with his strategy? If so, why did you vote no, and if not, how can you continue to support his leadership of the caucus?

Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House.

We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.

They own what happens next.

Oh absolutely. But part of making their lives miserable is having announced primary challengers this month for elections that might be 3 years off. Gotta use every available tool to generate consequences for this abominable supplication.

We desperately need a party forged in the flames of intense primary competition. Sign me up.

A YES on cloture is a YES for the bill.

Do not let anyone play games with you.

I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable.

Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes.

Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.

The question is what additional pressure can be brought to bear over next 18 hrs to shake this free. As noted, no on cloture Sens CAN bring pressure to bear if they really want to; reps can too. Ordinary voters can apply more pressure. I see no reason to give in until the votes r cast.

Arizona AG Kris Mayes, New Mexico AG Raul Torrez, and Oregon AG Dan Rayfield will begin holding Community Impact Hearings — a national series of townhalls "to hear from the public about the impact of federal firings and DOGE funding freezes across the country."

The first will be in Phoenix March 5.

With another set of news headlines about political elites using “””Roman salutes””” I just want to note that the Nazi salute means “I want to murder your family” and the n-word means “I want to lynch you.” That’s what they mean, they make me righteously angry, and I won’t let anybody minimize them.

Important to stop phrasing & headlining things as "Trump does XXX" (e.g. "Trump fires all USPS heads and integrates it under Commerce"); we can simply say he is purporting to do XXX, or claiming the power to do XXX.

Mere fact of a president saying he did something doesn't will it into existence.

"Why swing at this slow-pitch lob right over the plate? There might be an even easier pitch to hit later!"

Seriously, make them fire you! No more strategic resignations!

Hi Mark! You should fire your wealth management team and hire me. I don't have formal education in finance but I can ask excellent questions of various LLMs and I will surely outperform your current advisors as a result. Put your money where your mouth is!

I think the reason people are frustrated with Democratic leaders is that they expect these elected representatives to act like a real disaster is happening, which it is. Four-day weekends and bratwurst junkets in Munich kind of undercut that

Plenty of work to be done but without coordination it's just random people turning on a sprinkler to stop a wildfire. For now, at least, we live in a representative form of government so we must demand that the people who asked for their position of power use it!

You say that, but have you tried rounding up a few college freshmen and entering their corporate offices to download or delete all their sensitive information? What's good for the goose, etc.

One thing for Senate Democrats to do is announce they will use every tool at their disposal to block Bondi’s nomination until DOJ appoints a special counsel (ideally with beefed up firing protections) to investigate the widely reported crimes committed this week by Musk and his band of DOGE goons.