Robert B. Binder

America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home.

Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.

But sir, that is precisely what you are. And you let yourself become that.

Speaker Johnson should just take the L on this vote. Most of America doesn’t want this bill to pass anyways. It’s it both the worst and most unpopular piece of legislation in modern history.

If the Supreme Court thinks universal injunctions are unconstitutional, to wait until *now* to say that, in this of all cases, with this of all presidents, is a devastating indictment of both its impartiality and its prudence.

So am I reading this court decision correctly? We now have 50 micronations with their own laws interpreting the U.S. Constitution wholly separate from one another? But there's one guy with private law enforcement who is immune from all punishment who can do whatever he wants in those 50 states?

This. Exactly this, instead of aiming for the mythical centrist voter. And more good stuff from @perrybaconjr.bsky.social
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Karen Bass: "The 100 National Guard soldiers that are downtown LA are guarding one federal building, so there is no need for this...it's all part of an experiment that is taking place in Los Angeles...what happens when the federal government intervenes and takes power away from a governor & mayor?"

Wow. This one hits hard. I grew up listening to Brian and The Beach Boys. One of the greatest songwriters, singers, and musicians of all time. From Pet Sounds to Smile, his music shaped my life in so many ways. Thank you, Brian. Rest in peace.

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The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.

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Greta Thunberg being released...

the internetWorld is gunna explode on this one

c'mon lets make this interview statement Famous!!

Zero doubt here. There's no threat anywhere near there. The national guard is just shooting rubber bullets at reporters.

Truth!

There is no reason that ICE needs to hire violent thugs to deport people that are here illegally.

It can be a peaceful process that works within our laws and respects the rights of every human.

They are putting on this spectacle to terrorize the people. It is all for show.

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

One argument I tried to make to centrist, right-leaning folks during 2024 was that if you really hate street protest and unrest and chaos, then you should absolutely not vote for Donald Trump, because he 100% guarantees more.

The timing of the aggressive militarization of ICE and police activity, and talk of the National Guard, a week before the No Kings Day protests seems…not entirely coincidental.

Skateboard Kid is my hero.

Ah yes, send armed militants to attack your own citizens. That will surely get your country to respect you.

Who’s rioting, Tom?

I try not to quote dunk — but this is too important. These are *protests* being violently suppressed. And telling people not to protest for fear of right-wing backlash has a long history in the US — and it doesn’t look good in retrospect.

At the ICE raid and subsequent community resistance in Paramount, California this morning, this skater kid ate dozens of munitions from Border Patrol agents, walked away slowly and flipped them off.

Adam Serwer on America's "new dark age" "They see this as a long-term investment in a more ignorant population reliant on sources of information they can control."

"What they want is for people to look at who's rich, who’s important & say, 'That’s just the way things are. That’s the way they're supposed to be.' They don’t want people looking back at the past & saying, “This is because of slavery or Jim Crow or because women were excluded from the workforce.'”

I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.

Chris Murphy: "We can't be preparing for the 2026 election. It might not come. All of our focus right now has to be on protecting the democracy, about stopping the corruption."

Frost: Tonight the people stealing are not folks with tattoos and hoodies but people wearing suits and ties and congressional pins sitting in the capitol now, not in some alley wrapped in darkness but the United States congress wrapped in the flag. It is disgusting and we will never forget this.

Trump officials' showings at hearings today were disasters, but it doesn't make headlines bc the media's default assumption is that Rs are clownish rascals. But if Dems didn't know what was happening at their agencies or what habeas corpus is, it'd be front page news. This is a key media asymmetry.

Excellent point.

Democrats dithered replacing an old president with a younger candidate, but the press is holding the entire party accountable.

Republicans staged a violent coup against our government, one in which multiple office holders were openly complicit, and the press just shrugged it off.

@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social: "Democrats need to be on offense all day long about the things that Trump is doing that are going to cause people economic pain. because if they do that, they put a knife right through the central mythology of Donald Trump."