Rebecca Clements

A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s 1754 engraving in the Pennsylvania Gazette, published in Philadelphia, in an effort to foster cooperation among the various colonies against the tyrant king of Britain, with the American colonies replaced by the nine universities selected for special collaboration opportunities

Courtesy of colleagues at Penn

One thing I wish all Democrats knew is that we don't expect you to be fearless. We expect you to be brave. Bravery is not the absence of fear. It is being afraid and moving ahead anyway.

If you find that you are neither, then it is time to step aside. There are people who can do this job ably.

JD Vance is doing the Reichstag Fire the right way.

by Ezra Klein

For the record.

My posts were not even about Kirk directly, but about America's apathy towards political violence, and the coddling of white male shooters and hate peddlers.

I was fired because I mentioned race: white men and violence-- that was my "gross misconduct."

Never lose sight of how weird and corrupt it is for the president to have his unelected, unconfirmed oligarch friend—his biggest campaign donor—conduct US foreign policy.

No other US president did that, and there’s no reason to think he’s representing the American people rather than himself.

SCOTUS is politics all the way down

The Art Of The Steal Corruption in plane sight.

So as Trump prepares to ride off into the sunset on his Qatari magic carpet (now with turbulence and tax write-offs!), remember: Hillary Clinton couldn’t keep a necklace. Donald Trump gets a $400 million bribe with extra legroom and a built-in tanning bed.
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hey, Sen. Ernst and Sen. Tillis- proud of your votes for Hegseth? This is on your too as much as Hegseth. You knew he was not remotely qualified

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The administration took down the reproductive rights website that women need access to. So The Skimm bought a url and brought the content back. Pass this on!

Go to reproductiverightsdotgov.com

They are just disappearing people off the street. Having a hard time thinking about literally anything else.

😂😂😂
#WhiskiLeaks

A comment by one of the founders of War Studies on today's debates, from almost two centuries ago:

"The aggressor is always peace-loving (...); he would prefer to take over our country unopposed."

Carl von Clausewitz, "On War," 1832

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Anyone framing the Democratic schism as "left vs right" should be discarded as either uninformed or disingenuous (which is what Politico's attempt to blame "the left" is).

The key divide is between those who want to fight back forcefully - and those who cannot imagine anything but accommodation.

I think what is making everyone so angry isn’t just the cowardice of Senate Democrats, it’s their cowardice in comparison to the random normal person who runs for school board to oust a Moms for Liberty freak

Trump at the DOJ today was an incredibly weak, demented monster. He has the title of president, but the stature of a convicted felon. He begged the audience to believe a fantasy rewrite of his criminal history. Then he begged them to commit crimes for him by prosecuting innocent people who he hates

Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House.

We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.

They own what happens next.

During a highly unusual speech at the DOJ, Donald Trump said that CNN and MSNBC are ‘illegal.’

This is what fascism looks like.

Apparently a lot of people are just finding out, but yeah, there’s a state-organized mass kidnapping campaign on occupied territories, children are forcibly deported to russia, sent to re-education camps, and given up for adoption to russian families. Article 2, point E of the Genocide Convention.

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These are the same Senate Democrats who lectured the base for years about the importance of preserving the filibuster so it would still be available when Democrats were in the minority

I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable.

Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes.

Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.

Hey @schumer.senate.gov, when’s your next town hall? The people you betrayed would like to have a word.

Where is Dem leadership on the illegal arrest and disappearing of Mahmoud Khalil?

Where is the free speech crowd who claims they are the vanguards of free speech?

If roles were reversed MAGA leadership would have a nationwide media tour at this point. smh the apathy is deadly.

we're in legit first they came for territory and a lot of people have been failing at this test they cite all the time

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Today is Harriet Tubman Day!

Explore our 2022 project that pays tribute to Tubman's legacy—as an abolitionist, diviner, healer, nurse, naturalist, and beyond:

Winston Churchill at the White House in 1942, NOT wearing a suit.

It’s Women’s History Month—Men, We Must Do Better The best way to celebrate women's history is to elevate women and to shut down the men working to deny women equal justice

March is Women's History Month. From our founding 1776 statement that "All men are created equal," wholly ignoring women, to the ERA still not law in 2025—one fact remains—men continue to deny women equal justice.

Receipts on how bad it is & how MEN can do better www.qasimrashid.com/p/its-womens...

In recalling all the abusive behavior, please don't sleep on the fact that Cuomo was ALSO corrupt, dishonest and bad at his job!