Brandon

An important step to have full voter enfranchisement in DC! @councilofdc.bsky.social should support @cmbrookepinto.bsky.social’s amendment.

Also interesting: Ward 2 Councilmember Brooke Pinto is proposing an amendment to fund semi-open primaries in D.C., which was one half of Initiative 83. The other half, ranked-choice voting, is being funded separately. If this passes, D.C. would get RCV and semi-open primaries in 2026.

going to start calling myself a centrist and then listing all my leftist views as proof, just going to start moving the overton window by force

They are disappearing people in the U.S. The detention of Mahmoud Khalil is meant to send a message and strike fear

They disappeared a man right off the streets just like Putin for exercising his free speech. They won’t stop at immigrants. We are all targets now. open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

Democrats face decision point on shutdown strategy Republicans rebuffed Democrats' demands in shutdown negotiations. Democrats now have a choice to make.

If the government were functioning, I’d be against a shutdown. The government is not functioning. Democrats should stand their ground and refuse to fund DOGE. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

This should be an ad for @runforsomething.net . “Maybe you think you don’t have the education credentials or general smarts to run for Congress…Believe us, you do.”

If confirmed this is going to blow MASSIVE holes in the US budget. It will serve only to transfer wealth from American taxpayers to the wealthiest Americans who are the hardest to audit. This isn't fiscal responsibility - it's theft by Elon, Trump and their grifting goons.

Jair Bolsonaro charged over alleged far-right coup plot to seize power in Brazil Former president is charged by attorney general following police report that accused him of organising a conspiracy to stop Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva taking power.

Oh. You can do that. Interesting

We are calling for impeachment—America has no kings.

MAGA acts like finding fraud in government is some new thing DOGE invented. They aren’t good at it, but experts who were let go were.

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

A lead prosecutor in Eric Adams' corruption case resigned in a stunning letter "I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me."

“I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.”

The Nuns Trying to Save the Women on Texas’s Death Row Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The story of a powerful spiritual alliance.

Dismantling the death penalty is a responsibility that belongs to all of us. Inspiring to see how a group of nuns are trying to save women on death row in Texas: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

“MaYbe shE’s goiNg to be in TroUble nOw”

Maybe he can learn to read. The Constitution would be a good place to start

America destroying itself to get rid of immigrants it desperately needs to survive and thrive.

Wild times, folks.

Trump and His Family Earned Millions from Trump Coin While 810,000 Others Lost Money: Report Donald Trump and early investors have earned millions from $TRUMP coin while 813,294 wallets have registered $2 billion in collective losses.

“I heard it was very successful. I haven’t checked it. Where is it today?” Trump said shortly after the coin launched.

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Exclusive | Democratic Senator Says He Will Stall Trump Nominees Until USAID Is Back The move would require Senate Majority Leader John Thune to use precious floor time to advance the president’s nominees through the confirmation process.

This is exactly what we want to see from Democrats right now! There’s no excuse for Senate Democrats to be confirming any of Trump’s nominees while MAGA’s illegal power grab continues. If you’re represented by Sen. @schatz.bsky.social, be sure to thank him for fighting back against President Musk.

Enough. The Democrats must shut down the Senate and use their power. Stop voting for these idiots. Stop all unanimous consent. Demand answers. Filibuster. Where is the fucking outrage?

I think we need to reframe the doom vs. optimism conversation to an action vs. inaction one.

We obviously can’t ignore the issues, but if our messaging discourages action, then we’re not doing a very good job.

This image is a screenshot of a tweet from Elon Musk (@elonmusk) stating that the "@DOGE team is rapidly shutting down these illegal payments." The tweet is a quote tweet of another tweet from General Mike Flynn (@GenFlynn), which alleges that Lutheran Family Services and affiliated organizations receive large amounts of taxpayer money and claims that religion is being used as a money laundering operation. Below Flynn's tweet, there is an image of a spreadsheet containing financial data related to these transactions. The Twitter interface shows engagement metrics, including 4K comments, 12K retweets, 55K likes, and 5.3 million views. A "Rate proposed Community Notes" button is also visible.

What Elon is doing is straight up illegal. He has no authority to go through line by line and shut off funding to organizations he dislikes. He's intentionally trying to destroy civil society.

Here are the options on the table (which are not mutually exclusive):

1. House Dems bring articles of impeachment*

2. Senate Dems play constitutional hardball and obstruct everything

3. State AGs litigate (and prosecute) everything they can

4. Citizens march en mass

Close-up of Vicki Sykes, a Black woman with medium-length curly hair. She is wearing fuschia lipstick, and her face is turned towards the side.

A 58-year-old poll worker is among the 60,000 North Carolina voters whose ballots could be disqualified if a Republican judge's election challenge succeeds.

“I want people to know today it’s North Carolina, and tomorrow it’s another state,” she said.

Read more: https://propub.li/40Jcbpc

The oligarchy is currently doing this.

The kind of headlines we should be seeing.

WHITE HOUSE RALLY · VizEvents The White House has just frozen federal funding, a move that could halt payments within days to states and households relying on essential programs like SNAP food aid, housing assistance, education, h...

Trump's extreme and illegal Project 2025 action to pause all federal grants will immediately harm millions of people.

It's time to fight back.

Join us at the White House at 5 PM ET today for a rally in support of essential federal programs.

REPOST TO SPREAD THE WORD!

134M poultry and counting: Interactive charts show hardest-hit counties in bird flu crisis - Investigate Midwest Note: An earlier version of this story did not correctly combine county data, leading to an inflated number associated with an outbreak date. The figures have been corrected. The latest data from the ...

134 million chickens killed due to bird flu seems like a lot... until you realize that 9.5 BILLION chickens are killed every year, regularly, just in the US.

That feels... bad? This incomprehensible scale is how animal agriculture is 2nd only to fossil fuels as a contributor to climate change.