Interesting that we don’t teach about the Boston Tea Party as an act of vandalism.

I feel like I'm going insane every time I see a media story about DOGE that doesn't also mention the fact that the Government Accountability Office exists and performs the exact function that DOGE pretends to, only in a credibly constitutional, non-partisan, and conflict-of-interest-free manner

It is a non-stop source of amazement how invisible misogyny remains to white men, who even now--after the highly respected Coast Guard Commandant was fired for being female & turfed out of her home with 3hrs notice--STILL write about MAGA & the purges of the federal gov as driven only by racism.

History: “Eventually the incompetent fascists invariably lose power and then society recovers in a new and stronger way”

Me: “Oh, cool, so what has to happen for the spell to be broken??”

History: “mmmm…well, that part is less encouraging.”

Gay Valimont for Congress

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www.joshweil.us

What can you do? Support the two democrats, Gay Valimont and Josh Weil, running in special elections in Florida. If they win the GOP will lose its majority in the house.

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An unelected emperor—who has now placed himself above the Congress and the courts—working with a cadre of coders with no knowledge of governance, has been installed by what seems to be a figurehead president to deconstruct the component pieces of government that he disfavors. As Garrett Graff ably illustrated over the weekend, if this were happening in any country other than the United States of America, it would be acknowledged as a coup. Just because the president is authorizing it doesn’t make it lawful. And just because Congress has done nothing to stop him doesn’t make it legal. The fact that it doesn’t quite look like a coup, because there are suits and ties and papers involved, is by design. This is the dismantling not just of entire federal agencies, but of an entire architecture of democratic self-governance, by a man who believes we will not be able to name it quickly enough to stop it.

What is it called when an erratic billionaire, whom nobody elected, rampages through the federal government, purging civil servants, seizing functional control over trillions of dollars, and attempting to destroy entire agencies—all in violation of the law?

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I’m baffled by Garland.

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Hey cousin! How are you holding up?

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Watching the social media response to the LA fires just amplifies the danger of Meta’s new policies. Unchecked lies in combination with hate speech is a crisis for society…
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Will we reach the point where we surrender swaths of once valuable land to the consequences of climate change denial?

A more apt assessment would be that it is Mother Earth’s natural consequence for ignoring climate science for the sake of profit.

UPDATE: Republicans on North Carolina Supreme Court block certification of Democratic justice's election victory On Monday, Congress certified the results of the 2024 presidential election in routine fashion.

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Ann Telnaes, a Washington Post editorial cartoonist who has been with the newspaper for sixteen years, just quit her job after the cartoon below—which depicts Post owner Jeff Bezos and other CEOs bowing to Donald Trump—was spiked.

It's another huge blow to the credibility of a once-great newspaper.

Don’t let the world distract you from the fact that there are 49million kangaroos in Australia and 3.5million people in Uruguay which means if the kangaroos were to invade Uruguay each person will have to fight 14 kangaroos.

Pam Bondi led a coalition of Attorneys General in an attempt to wield the legal system to remove protections for preexisting conditions in insurance coverage. It almost worked.

Not sure why I thought Elon Musk's favorite news influencer Mario Nawfal would do something more than regurgitate obviously false Kremlin propaganda here, but it stands out to me today now that major media seems to have lit upon the term "news influencer" as a way to make Twitter seem still relevant

The Trump Foundation-Pam Bondi scandal - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington In March 2016, CREW discovered that the Trump Foundation had broken the law by giving an illegal $25,000 contribution to a political group supporting Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi. This would set...

nothing to see here, folks. just another criminal for the crime syndicate he's building for his cabinet.