How do you view filibustering as the strategy to pursue?

I do not see how what you recommend the Dems. do is different from what Klein recommends. Both of you are saying don’t bail the Republicans out. What am I missing????

White House Plans Broad Crackdown on Liberal Groups

Now they have a pretext for doing what they have been hoping and, no doubt, planning to do. Their fraudulent claim of a left-wing network fomenting violence dramatically escalates the danger to Americans’ civil liberties and Constitutional protections.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...

I’m surprised you did not mention Musa Al Gharbi’s “We Have Never been Woke” about so-called “symbolic capitalists.” I would appreciate seeing your take on it.

This will reward the Trump regime’s distortions of civil rights laws and its use of exaggerated claims of anti-semitism as a pretext to assault universities and colleges.

It will whet Stephen Miller’s and Christopher Rufo’s appetite for further authoritarian measures against higher education.

Columbia’s capitulation will reward the Trump regime’s distortions of civil rights laws and its use of exaggerated claims of anti-semitism as a pretext to assault universities.

It will whet Stephen Miller’s and Christopher Rufo’s appetite for further authoritarian measures against higher education.

“What does it say about a society when you can look at a child – sunken-eyed and silent with fear and grief – and decide the real injustice is that she's hogging the spotlight?”

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What the Press Got Wrong About Hitler Journalists accurately reported that the führer was a “Little Man” whom the whole world was laughing at. It didn’t matter.

Any apparent similarity to a living person is intended.

What the Press Got Wrong About Hitler
Journalists accurately reported that the führer was a “Little Man” whom the whole world was laughing at. It didn’t matter.
By Timothy W. Ryback

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

11-seed Drake stuns Mizzou, as coach 'expected' Drake, a No. 11 seed relying heavily on D-II transfers, had a 15-point lead whittled to one with 4:28 left but held off Missouri to advance in the NCAA tournament.

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Inside the White House’s new media strategy to promote Trump as ‘KING’ The Trump administration has transformed its traditional press shop into a rapid-response influencer operation, and “they’re all offense, all the time.”

Imagine a country where the gov. controls most of what people see and read.

“Inside the … new media strategy to promote Trump as ‘KING’ … has transformed its … press shop into a rapid-response influencer operation, and ‘they’re all offense, all the time.’”

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Cuts to National Weather Service Leave Forecasters Reeling “Lives are being put in danger,” one meteorologist warned, as some experts feared the cuts will harm public safety.

Straight out of Project 2025

As I have suspected, incapacitating the government is step toward privatization and shrinking the very idea of a “public” for whom the state provides services.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/w...

Beware Trump’s Talk of Coming “Emergencies” Far-right rhetoric is suffused with dark talk of impending calamities. It’s a favorite trope of autocrats who are, themselves, the calamity.

“Beware Trump’s Talk of Coming ‘Emergencies’

“Those who study autocracy will tell you: All this talk of emergency is an emergency in itself. The road to authoritarianism is paved with this trope…

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Opinion | Vengeance Is His Vengence is his.

‘Trump Is the Real Thing’

“Assuming that the past six weeks are predictive of what’s coming next…

In other words, expect the worst.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/o...

Opinion | The Government Knows A.G.I. is Coming The Biden administration’s A.I. adviser Ben Buchanan discusses how the U.S. government is preparing for artificial general intelligence — and all the challenges that remain.

“The Government Knows A.G.I. is Coming,”

“…[W]e are on a path to creating transformational artificial intelligence capable of doing basically anything a human being could do behind a computer — but better…But now they believe it’s coming in two to three years…”

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/o...

Trump Suspends Military Aid to Ukraine After Oval Office Blowup The directive, which takes effect immediately, affects more than $1 billion in arms and ammunition in the pipelines and on order.

Odious. Trump and the entire Quisling Party.

“Trump Suspends Military Aid to Ukraine After Oval Office Blowup”

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/u...

@leahgreenberg.bsky.social

Could there be a coordinated national day of protests against Social Security staff cuts by Indivisible chapters around the country. Joined by Raging Grannies and Grey Panthers groups, perhaps.

@pamherd.bsky.social

Are the Gray Panthers still around? Maybe we could sic the Raging Grannies on them. I thought they were only in Madison, Wi., but recently learned they are all around the country.

@Pam Herd Whom should we call, at what number, to say they are NOT “fighting fiercely”? (More like “Fight fiercely, Haavaad.”) And whom to write at what addresses? Thanks. Mike

Pam: Whom should we call at what number to say they are NOT “fighting fiercely”? (Maybe in the manner of “fight fiercely, Haavaad”?) and where to write/email. Mike

I think he is trying to destroy as much government capacity as he can in pursuit of privatization and oligarchic rule. Will the Quisling Party be okay with that?

Opinion | The Disturbing Question at the Heart of the Trump-Zelensky Drama For the next four years, at least, the America we knew is over.

“Are we being led by a dupe for Vladimir Putin — by someone ready to swallow [his]… view of who started the war in Ukraine and how it must end? Or are we being led by a Mafia godfather, looking to carve up territory … the way…crime families operate?”

Yes and yes.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/o...

One imposing Secretary of State.

The Progressive Magazine posted a link to a Project 2025 Tracker.

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Opinion | A Day of American Infamy A dreadful moment for Ukraine, for the free world, for the legacy of an America that once stood for the principles of the Atlantic Charter.

“If Roosevelt had told Churchill to sue for peace on any terms with Adolf Hitler and to fork over Britain’s coal reserves to the United States in exchange for no American security guarantees, it might have approximated what Trump did to Zelensky.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...

I am grateful that my father, a D-Day veteran, was not alive to see today’s atrocity. I hope every veteran was ashamed to see the President of the United States, the Commander-in-Chief try to pulverize an ally into submission in favor of Vladimir Putin.

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I am grateful that my father, a D-Day veteran, was not alive to see today’s atrocity. I hope every veteran was ashamed to see the President of the United States, the Commander-in-Chief try to pulverize an ally into submission in favor of Vladimir Putin.

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Live updates: Trump cancels news conference with Zelensky after contentious Oval Office meeting The latest news on President Donald Trump’s return to the White House and the new Congress.

Liz Cheney, a former Republican congresswoman, railed against the president and Vice President JD Vance over their treatment of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office, saying their comments ran counter to the United States’ principles.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Just a quick reminder to Madison area friends. Indivisible Dane County will be demonstrating against Musk at 4:00 p.m. today at the Tesla Super Charging Station on Odana Road, near Hyvee and the corner with Whitney Way. There is no admission charge. 😊

Trump and Vance attack Zelenskyy in remarkable Oval Office exchange The president and vice president each had harsh words for the Ukrainian president.

This isn’t the worst of it. See other account in WaPo (I hate citing that.)
Extortionists at work.

“Trump and Vance attack Zelenskyy in remarkable Oval Office exchange”

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