Doug Lindner

Secret police aren't sending their best people

I’m not religious but in a two party system where the ruling party is achieving comic book levels of basic immorality, trying to exclude religious appeals to progressive values is just leaving votes on the table

Not incorrect

why does the ridiculous RFK govt nutrition website look like Cards Against Humanity

Stopping MAGA and MAHA could save your own life

George Washington died of an illness that in our time could be cured with a few days of pills

The regime is now dictating what political views are acceptable to air on television and paramount/cbs are collaborating in that censorship bsky.app/profile/ditz...

Trump will never do this because Republicans are bought and paid for by big business. The only reason he pushed no tax on tips is that it doesn’t cost businesses anything (and Republicans never actually cared about the federal budget deficit)

I asked at both check in and check out. First one pointed out the hotel had facilities like a gym. Second one said they want to be able to play games like promos. Just insulting the customer’s intelligence. But businesses are so big and consolidated nobody you talk to has discretion to make it right

This stuff might not impact people’s wallets as much as complex means tested tax cuts but it’s a visceral annoyance people notice, and that’s a political opportunity

Fees, charges, even taxes should all be included in the sticker price of everything. You should not have to do math or read fine print to know what things cost.

Checking out of a hotel to find a daily mandatory “facility fee” on top of the price is a reminder that Biden’s war on junk fees was good and we should bring it back

Puerto Rico should get whatever political status it wants but a self-executing referendum with multiple options including independence might be a better path than just doing statehood, given divergent opinions

DC statehood now.

Voting is a right, not a privilege. It should be easy. You are entitled to it being easy. The system is already secure. The only reason to make voting harder is that fascists want to take your rights away.

146 million US citizens don’t have passports

69 million married women’s names no longer match their birth certificates

Many millions don’t have easy access to either

I wish i could make every Democrat in the beltway read this

(yes it’s long, deal with it)

“The more that political parties rely on metrics and other simplifications, the more they are likely to be blindsided by voters whose wants and ideas are not readily captured by simple measures.”

Them: sorry the Constitution requires that children keep dying, can't even have any tiny regulation of guns.

Also them: sorry Fourth Amendment we're going through a tunnel can't hear you

POLITICO Pro: White House withholds NASA science funds The administration did not say why it had done so.

The administration continues to lawlessly withhold funds appropriated by Congress.

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One thing about the Republican destruction of academia is their shallow vision of what should replace it. They don't want anything like academics, scholarship, or research to exist, they want it to be nothing more than right-wing pundits spouting off whatever lazy nonsense is needed that week.

Should You Move to the Center? (As Defined by The New York Times’ Editorial Board) Illustration by Jesse Shamon - - - Click image to enlarge.

Important flowchart

Reactionary centrists always assume that when Dems’ numbers are low on an issue they should move to the center. Like there’s no other direction dissatisfaction could come from

I’m sure Samuel Alito is totally cool with this

"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else."

"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president…. it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else."

-Theodore Roosevelt

Opinion | Sen. Mitch McConnell on What the West Must Do Now How to make the most of Munich.

Mitch McConnell let Trump off the hook in two impeachment trials that could have prevented Trump’s second term. A month after Trump threatened war against NATO, he publishes this weaksauce.

The biggest threat to NATO is that Republicans like McConnell are too cowardly to stand up to Trump’s madness

nobody posted the clip anywhere so i went and dug the whole episode up

DHS isn’t sending its best people