Beth

I think the border includes the coastline, so a huge portion of the US is within their purview.

Totally. He’s been an unpleasant surprise—I thought he’d be better.

I don’t understand why Dems have to choose? “Trump is a corrupt billionaire pedo whose self-serving policies have made your life more expensive” is not that hard of a message imo

This isn’t even the stuff they’re trying to actually stop from getting out.

turns out the emails we should have been reading in 2016 were from the NYT

The Epstein story gets a something that is tearing at the heart of the electorate: elite impunity. The idea that wealthy and powerful people can do terrible things *at scale* and face no consequences for them. Whatever political party actually stops it could rule the country for a generation.

Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Love to negotiate a deal then performatively vote no on the deal I negotiated.

Schumer and the Dems are about to teach Trump the lesson that they’ll cave whenever he abuses power to sufficiently hurt people.

*has*

The liberal Eastern Sierra folks mocking him at every turn had been a real source of joy

💯 absolutely almost lost it

Really, please add a word or two. 😬

They are seriously the pettiest fucks of all time.

Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states.

Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”

They're considering shutting down I5 too, so that Vance can watch the military play games with live ammo. I've lived here for 42 years, and this is a (disturbing) first.

The Supreme Court’s majority right wing indicated in oral arguments that they think racism is over on the same day that the vice president defended the “I love Hitler” guy, and that the NYT reported that the current administration plans to accept only white, English-speaking refugees.

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Trump forgot that he was President on Jan. 6th. 2021.

The people who want violent protests to happen are Trump, Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, Pete Hegseth, Tom Homan, and other senior appointees in his admin. They are doing everything they possibly can to provoke people to violence and it is obvious that is what they hope for daily.

that johnson is more terrified of seating a duly elected democrat who could force an epstein vote than having the entire government shut down really makes me wonder about that epstein vote tbh

I've been teaching high school for 32 years. EVERY SINGLE teacher, from the crustiest to the freshest, says this is true. The difference from 2019 to 2025 in terms of what no longer works is BONKERS.

To say nothing of the fact that teachers are often already on board with the better pedagogy but are stymied by district mandates and pet programs.

Launched a thousand masters theses, should academia survive.

In a sane country with competent leadership, the 50 highest-ranking Democrats would call a press conference to denounce what just happened as a threat to the republic and demand Trump's immediate impeachment and removal from office.

I don't know he could make his intentions more clear.

The wounded knee thing is really Trumpism distilled to its essence. It’s not enough to be able crush people who can’t fully defend themselves, it’s not enough to actually crush them, you also have to love and admire those who do the crushing otherwise the Trumpists’ delicate feelings are injured

Hegseth fires general officers and JAGs, cracks down on dissenting views in military, orders killing civilians at sea without legal rationale, calls generals to Quantico to demand loyalty.

Trump deploys troops to U.S. cities.

"What are Trump and Hegseth up to? It's a mystery!"

YES! The OAH used to have a publication that did something like this (although it was organized around a theme, not just recent work) that was just incredibly useful for high school teaches.

Really would love to put ADU to rent out in the back of my house in Ballard, but yeah, can't afford it. We clearly need bigger thinking.