Christopher L. Nelson

So we’re now paying federal taxes so Donald Trump can withdraw them from the Treasury like it’s his own personal bank account? Really?

Don’t let the frogwater that’s boiling us alive let you skip over this: we murdered another country’s citizens in cold blood, and when their leader objected, we called him a drug dealer and cut off aid to his country. That’s freakish.

Again, it is a full-blown federal felony crime for anyone in the White House or Executive Office of the President to order tax investigations into anyone.

And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.

They aren't subtle.

Right-Wing Group Asks SCOTUS to Turn Pro-Voting Law Into Tool for Voter Purges Read more here.

🚨BREAKING: A right-wing group with a long track record of pushing for voter roll purges, is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reinterpret a federal law designed to expand voting access as a mandate for aggressive voter removals. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

She also knows that puppies have it coming, so ... grain of salt?

@radiofreetom.bsky.social explained it better than anyone; this is from a thread he posted after the 2024 election. For us, it has nothing to do with politics and everything to do with character. ⬇️

It's really hard to avoid this conclusion.

Trump named Pete Hegseth as defense secretray because he knew Hegseth wouldn't hesitate to order American troops to fire on American civilians. Sending the military into our cities is a major step toward imposing a dictatorship.
It's so obvious that mainstream media are afraid to say it.

Trump’s FCC chair stooge says @cbsnews @60minutes will now have a “bias monitor that reports directly to Trump”🤔 as a condition of the Paramount/Skydance merger

Honestly why even bother at that point? Don’t we have enough regime propaganda networks already?

More of this. Yelling works. Bullying works. The Tea Party learned this in 2009-2010.

You crushed it. @thedailyshow.com, I think you found a permanent host if you're looking for one ...

FOX: Is The View now in the crosshairs of this administration?

FCC CHAIR BRENDAN CARR: It's entirely possible there are issues over there ... the consequences aren't quite finished

The key word here is "willingly."

You cannot convince me that anyone with a semblance of critical thinking skills ever thought that the same people pushing a volkish narrative cared about antisemitism. It was just a convenient vehicle for anti-Palestinian/anti-POC bigotry to cover up a genocide.

While at the same time reducing non-elite institutions' ability to provide well-rounded education (i.e. killing the humanities).

The non-white/rich kids will have access to nothing but job training--which is a massive subsidy to corporations who can then train their workers at taxpayer expense

The Great American Experiment is now facing the age old question I’m sure was on the top of everyone’s minds: what if people who nod along to racist threads on 4chan ran the government

Fascism is evil. Fascism is scary. Fascism is awful.

But goddamn it is also so fucking whiny and intellectually vapid and incredibly annoying.

Donald Trump gives people permission to be their worst selves. His politics are not just representative, they are generative. His words seep into people’s souls and slowly corrode whatever potential for human decency ever resided there.

The Visionary of Trump 2.0 Russell Vought is advancing a radical ideological project decades in the making.

This piece from May provides essential context for the big bill the GOP just passed. To some extent, the bill is just the latest example of bad GOP policy making. It is that, but it's also part of a broader ideological project to dismantle the New Deal state.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

The economy got half a percentage point smaller last quarter

😳 “as many lives lost as WW1”

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

This is the same senator who two months ago said she and her colleagues literally fear for their lives voting against him. That doesn't justify it but you don't need to look much further for an explanation

No predictive model could foresee this degree of national self-sabotage - an act of willful decline that transcends political theory.

This how I know black folk and white folk live in different realities. Because I coulda told you in my teens that some people in this country have so much hate in their hearts that they’d burn this country to the ground just to be rulers over ashes, if it meant people they don’t like get hurt more.

Iowa probably wasn't invited. That is the only reason I can think of why our chuckleheaded leadership didn't sign on.

insane that mamdami is getting accused of being an antisemite with like 100x the furor of elon musk, who runs stormfront 2 and did a hitler salute on national television

I'm an employment lawyer; I represent unions; and I very specifically represent ~building trades~ unions. The majority of my clients are construction workers. All of that is to say that I know my way around construction work.

This required multiple different failure points and should never happen.

It's sort of astonishing that someone can spend decades running businesses, even incompetently, and still have this child's concept of how economics works.

Having lived in the Midwest for almost a decade, they do really worry about falling into grain silos. I was warned, repeatedly, about the dangers of suffocating in a grain silo despite never indicating that I would ever go near a grain silo.

As I keep trying to tell people, the perception of most Democrats is that they don't believe in *anything* enough to actually fight for it. "One bad poll and, guess what, it's *your* turn under the bus, person previously worth defending!"

The law *literally* says that members of Congress cannot be required to give advance notice.