Avedon Carol (in that order)

Susan Collins hands Trump the 50th vote against free and fair elections When it comes to free and fair elections, Collins is as conservative and anti-voting rights as they come.

Collins has voted with Trump 96% of the time — the same rate as Mitch McConnell and two points above conservative Rand Paul. This is hardly the profile of someone looking to chart her own path. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/susa...

2% is not soaking them, and that's a problem. You have to eliminate the billionaires altogether, and then have a top marginal rate of 91% so they can't get that rich again.

The super rich have become too powerful, destroying everybody's rights and freedoms and bringing the whole world into danger. Disowning them is not about fixing budgets, but about saving freedom, democracy and even the planet.
They are parasites of the world, and the world needs a "worm treatment".

Confiscatory inheritance taxes at a bare minimum. And none of this "arrange a trust" BS either. Any money that you either control or that is used to benefit you goes to Uncle Sam the minute you stop breathing. Exempt $5M per kid & $10M for spouse tops.

Billionaires still don’t have enough money to fix the budget deficit but they do have enough money to capture the institutions of government and break both economic regulation and democracy, and therefore that money must be taken away if we are ever to have a functional politics again.

Right, I think that people have legitimately forgotten both that the corporate form is a legal fiction that the state allows out of kindness and that shareholder value theory was just made up by some dude in 1970, several centuries after the modern corporation was developed

“A billion dollars is the political equivalent of a loose nuke and should be treated accordingly.” (— @johnrogers.bsky.social if I recall correctly)

being literally wealthier than kings and monarchical dynasties with no corresponding social obligations is extremely corrosive to both the individual and the body politic, and taking 95% of everything elon musk has would be better for him, personally.

Respondents engage in a deliberately dense three-step maneuver to reach their core absurd conclusion that no further relief is warranted.  Step 1: Identify an immaterial difference between two things that are functionally the same. [Opp. at 9; Dkt. No. 103 at 3].  Step 2: Insist that the immaterial difference is so consequential that it can violate separation of powers. [Opp. at 12; Dkt. No. 103 at 3]. Finally, and most importantly,  Step 3: Make sure to never mention the Constitution with the hope that a federal court will not notice. [See generally Opp.; Dkt. No. 103 at 3].

I missed this real banger of an opinion yesterday from judge sunshine sykes (the best-named judge), vacating the BIA ruling on mandatory immigration detention

the main reason to go after the rich is that if you don’t the entire structure of your society is predicated on the whims of people who are entirely disconnected from ordinary life

billionaires are simply too dangerous to exist, and any budgetary stuff that comes out of it is just a bonus

More of this, please. The folks in this grassroots group are heroes.

Haven Watch lives by the promise, “No One Walks Alone.” Day or night, they show up. When people are released from ICE detention, volunteers meet them in the cold, disoriented, and exhausted.

Beautiful and devastating all at once.

“It is time to acknowledge what has become tragically obvious: the Trump administration is operating as a massive criminal enterprise.”

This absolutely captures it. Instead of "Trump Administration," we should say "Trump Syndicate."

#TrumpSyndicate

One of the things that personally drives me crazy in the U.S. is how youth sports/athletic activities went from a part of the public good (municipal leagues and fields! rec centers! public parks!) to a privatized, expensive, highly competitive, highly structured pursuit for wealthy kids’ résumés

DOGE Bro’s Grant Review Process Was Literally Just Asking ChatGPT ‘Is This DEI?’

Federal grants that had been approved after a full application and review process were terminated by some random inexperienced DOGE bros based on whether ChatGPT could explain—in under 120 characters—that they were…

Screenshot of a tweet from Aaron Blake that reads: Trump announces he's transferring $10 billion from the US government to his "Board of Peace," which critics have likened to a giant slush fund Trump will control.

Now look, I get that I’m not a high powered Dem consultant, but is there a reason we can’t run on seizing the FUCKING SLUSH FUND Trump is setting up and sending every criminal in this administration, including but not limited to those in DHS/CBP/ICE to fucking jail? Is that not a thing we can do?

tweet from @cliftonhowze on twitter Last night at the #DataCenters meeting in Claremore, Darren Blanchard, who has attended most of these meetings around NE Oklahoma & has some pretty impressive FOIA/ORA skills, was arrested after going over his 3 min. allotted speaking time. First arrest I've seen at one of these.

in america, if you go over your 3 minute allotment to speak, men with guns come to take you away.

one day there will be documentaries about how people who called themselves intelligent spent years trying to convince others that a guy who couldn't keep a website running without 5 crashes a month was going to relocate everyone to Mars

So much more to say, but the thing I most want to say is: the country would be so much better if the Democratic Party had honored used more instead of constantly shitting on him.

This is the kind of thing white supremacists have been doing to Emmett Till’s memorial for decades.

It’s wild to see them do this to a white woman who the entire world saw extrajudicially murdered.

The ‘Most Massive Attack On Free Speech’ Is Happening Right Now, And The Twitter Files Crew Is Mighty Quiet

For the last five years, we had to endure an endless, breathless parade of hyperbole regarding the so-called "censorship industrial complex." We were told, repeatedly and at high volume,…

Rev. Jesse Jackson built the Rainbow Coalition as a political home rooted in dignity and solidarity. That struggle continues here in New York City, in every fight for housing, justice, and equality.

Today, we lower our flags in his honor — and recommit to the movement he called us to build.

YouTube video by Paul Krugman Now Trumpists are menacing economists

Something new: A short video responding to the Trump administration saying that economists whose studies aren’t what they want to hear should be “disciplined” www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzZd...

X is absolutely cooking the brains of the entire political class that remains on there. The ones who think they're immune are probably the most affected.

A well dressed couple kiss on top of a yellow cab surrounded by dozens of other yellow cabs under a bridge in what looks like New York.

A Rodney Smith image from the olden days of pre-digital fashion photography when, if you wanted 50 cabs in your shot, you hired 50 cabs. Interesting trivia: Smith also had a theology degree from Yale.

Towns that question the value of an unsafe, costly, environmentally unsound, poorly governed monorail could be ‘left behind’, says Monorail Salesman

Ho-lee Shit. This is phenomenally good news. Department of Education rolls back— for now— its attempts to destroy Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility initiatives. Keep an eye on them, of course, and watch for the hidden knife, always, but for now: Fantastic news.

So....the Fourth Reich?

As Bouie is saying, this is purely instrumental logic. Trans folks aren't agents; they're objects to be used for others' interests.

To recall the line in John Brunner's classic Shockwave Rider: "If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing."

Wow…. Jennifer Jenkins doesn’t hold back when asked about Randy Fine.

collection of dishonest headlines

Google search, "would the us commit troops to defend taiwan" AI answer: Whether the U.S. would commit troops to defend Taiwan is officially governed by a policy of "strategic ambiguity," designed to deter both a Chinese invasion and Taiwanese independence. While the 1979 Taiwan Relations Act mandates providing defensive arms, it does not legally guarantee direct military intervention.

Deplorable state of U.S. media on display here, deliberately misleading the public. You can literally type into Google the same question @aoc.bsky.social was asked and the AI will give you her same answer because "strategic ambiguity" has been official U.S. policy her whole life.