Establishment Democrats have done more to stop Zohran Mamdani than they have to stop Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Palantir or the Crypto Corruption machine currently swallowing American democracy whole.

Excuse my ignorance. But since this wasn’t authorized by congress. And there is no imminent threat to the USA. Doesn’t that make the order to strike illegal? And thus shouldn’t the staff that carried out the order have had a duty to reject the order?

Follow up to follow up: If the president thinks the south should’ve won their right to secede - does that mean he supports a states right to secede today?

Would very much like to have this on record (I say while looking at the Western States Compact)

Ok. Just give 72h notice for every day of the year, for every site, then either show up or don’t show up.

Just saying he’ll do it with or *without* approval is surely an impeachable offense. Like the thousands impeachable offense this term.

Never design your government as a presidential system kids.

A screenshot of a Twitter exchange between Jonathan Chait and Ed Yong. At the top, Jonathan Chait (@jonathanchait) tweeted on February 23: "I guess we landed on 'the pandemic is @jessesingal's fault for bumping @edyong209 off the cover'" Attached to his tweet is a tweet from user Jane (@JaneOst_) with a red/orange-toned image of a magazine cover featuring a person with short hair. Jane's tweet reads: "thinking about this today, especially how big one part of it is and how small the part in the upper right corner is" Below that, Ed Yong (@edyong209) replies sharply: "Saying nothing at all is an option that is permanently available to you, and that I urge you to more frequently consider. The same goes for tagging me into your thoughts." The timestamp on Ed Yong’s tweet is 6:48 AM · 24 Feb 2022.

This cover also played a role in the best reply from the great @edyong209.bsky.social.

It was still remarkable to see the difference in reporting between US and overseas media. US media seemingly gave full credulity to Bush admin’s claims and made up evidence, while overseas where I was living at the time we were all shocked and how obviously made up it all was.

I suspect his friend in the Kremlin asked him to work against war on Iran.

When there was a chance to “not be distracted” with the CR he led a bunch of Dems in helping to pass it rather than fight at that point. Man is full of shit and needed to be ousted from minority leadership then.

Why are you so weak. You should call for his censure and removal.

And now you need to be calling for the release of Brad Lander right now and for legislation to reign in ICE.

It would be so great if Democratic Party elected officials would start acting as if they’re living under a government that will lawlessly kill or arrest them for the crime of political opposition.

How was donald trump, who committed treason, never slammed up against a wall and handcuffed

Hi, this is Meg Barnette, Brad's wife.

While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE.

This is still developing, and our team is monitoring the situation closely.

These masked guys are ominous as fuck

Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.

There’s probably already dozens of deaths attributable to the evacuation, and it’s just started.

The Minnesota shooter apparently used data broker websites to find the home addresses of the people he shot and murdered.

Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they've sided with the tech lobby over and over again.

Their inaction is deadly.

Whenever Democrats eventually retake Congress we must to pass a broad and deep privacy act to stop all this data sharing.

Yeah more fighters please, I don’t want to have to vote Newsom in 2028

Cool that you’re ignoring trade deals need to go through congress and just going along with the whole Trump is a king that does deals via proclamation thing

We’re announcing new legislation — the No Secret Police Act (SB 627) — to ban local/state/federal law enforcement, w/ some exceptions, from covering their faces when interacting w/ the public & require them to wear identifying info.

The secret police behavior we’re seeing destroys trust & must end🧵

Just having a president puts focus on the president. Putting focus on the president takes it away from congress.

Half the people in this country (left and right) seemingly don’t know which party controls which chamber at any time and only know what party controls the presidency.

STV/RCV isn’t a complete solution here but it does tend to moderate candidates and removes extreme primaries.

(2) Somehow reduce the amount of power to president has so if a fascist president wins they are more restricted. (Ideally there would be no president… like I say, hard to fix in the US.)

It’s a very tough fix to implement in the US but two needed solutions are: (1) electoral reform, e.g. under MMP we would still have a fascism party, but also still have a center-right Republican Party and they would be splitting the seats rather than fascism party takes all. \

an utterly senseless tragedy and incredibly costly objective lesson in why 'good guy with a gun' is vastly inferior to actual gun control laws

The real message isn't even "You are right about this specific thing and that one." It's that if you're on the far right, your every thought will be coddled and indulged, and you don't need to undertake the tiresome process of being coherent. You're always right, always triumphant, always smug.

Wanna hear what you mean by the second part, have you elaborated on it elsewhere?

Not any more. Netanyahu is part of the same authoritarian movement that is destroying our democracy here. He turned a rightful response to Oct 7 into a genocide. And now he is trying to drag the US into a war with Iran. It’s time for the USA and Israel to divorce.

She should be removing the R from next to her name in shame and crossing the aisle to work with Democrats to fix this situation if she is really concerned.