Sharon Merchant

wow. zohran brought one of cuomo’s accusers, charlotte bennett, to the mayoral debate. he asked cuomo what he would say to his 13 accusers of sexual harassment. cuomo said it takes “a certain level of maturity to work in government” and that the cases were resolved anyway. fucking scum.

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

Every Republican who goes on the Sunday shows tomorrow should be pressed to denounce this illegal and authoritarian proclamation from the president. And none of this "I didn't read the tweet" bullshit.

“The election is 16 months away. Our response to the worst piece of legislation in modern American history cannot be ‘go vote in 16 months.’” - @ezralevin.bsky.social with @weeknightmsnbc.bsky.social

On the other site, Studio Ghibli-style AI output is going viral and allow me to just say it is profoundly depressing to see that stuff being used to promote OpenAI's latest product. Miyazaki famously called AI-produced art "an insult to life itself"—and this in turn is an insult to him.

Democratic leaders: What would Republicans do if a Democrat did what Hegseth did? Fucking do that.

“But no one in the wider world can appreciate how stressful it is to confront an executive order like this until one is directed at you.” --Brad Karp.

Fuck you, you coward.

The first crocuses of spring are emerging in Central Park, NYC. A sunny day shining on the purple flowers and green grass, spring is almost here.

Democrats even *thinking* about joining Republicans to censure Al Green for having the courage to stand up while they sat down do not deserve to be able to generate a single fundraising dollar from a person of moral character ever again.

Hi! So glad to see you here

Donald Trump stood in front of Congress tonight and reinforced what we already knew: He’s a corrupt megalomaniac lunatic who is running our country to the ground. These are not normal times. Everything is not fine. We are in crisis.

Don’t tell me democracy is at risk and a constitutional crisis is unfolding and the best you got is a modified ping pong paddle.

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Heads up, lawyers and law students. The @americanbar.org is stepping up.
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It would have been less embarrassing if JD had just fucked the couch he was sitting on.

Vance blew up that meeting on purpose

It’s going to feel uncomfortable, if it doesn’t already. You will lose friends, if you haven’t already. But there is no way around this. There are people with a lot of power who mean you harm, and who want you to accept lies about your situation. The only way to avoid discomfort is to let them win.

Let it all come out. There will be a reckoning. Zelensky is a hero.

“Why don't you wear a suit? You're at the highest level in this country's office & you refuse to wear a suit. A lot of Americans have problems with you not respecting the office.”

“As public defenders working w/ parents in family court, we write during Black History Month to urge state legislators to pass legislation that informs, supports & empowers families & communities rather than subjecting them to cycles of harm & separation.” bit.ly/3QCXcsk

— Accidentally fired workers trying to contain bird flu
— Accidentally fired workers overseeing our nuclear stockpile
— Accidentally fired workers providing health care to Native Americans

“Accidentally.” More like gross incompetence and mismanagement. Opposite of efficient.

We need a shadow cabinet like YESTERDAY. What is our opposition party doing? Enough with the woe is me @schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social DO SOMETHING FOR YOUR CONSTITUENTS or step the fuck aside

Get a load of this useless loser.

Solidarity, fellow Merchant !

We arent related but i support anyone with my surname that fights the broligarch assholes!

All my life I have studied democratization and autocratization. My 1st field trip was to newly democratic Argentina. I then added autocracies to my portfolio: Cuba, Ven, etc. I think I can recognize the stages of transition to authoritarianism. Here are the boxes Trump has already checked off.

Historian and anti-authoritarian expert Tim Snyder has suggested that Democrats form a shadow government.

If they do, this is the woman who should lead it.

She should also be the one giving the opposition party’s response when Trump addresses Congress on March 4, if any norms still exist.

If Trump and Musk were trying to weaken the United States and sell it to its foreign enemies, how would they act any differently from the way they're acting now?

Not at all, you say? Maybe you should wonder why that is.

Smaller pubs are doing great work on individual bands of looters right now — Wired is all over the Musk stuff, and Rolling Stone has been great with the shit that most closely aligns with formal WH/Miller — but a less subservient press would be mapping out the connections of the heists in real time.

There appear to be at least three separately operating heel factions breaking things within the government in wholly different ways right now. There's the Miller-headed immigration one, the DOGE/Elon one, and a Project 2025 OMB one. This dynamic hasn't showed up in mainstream reporting at all.