Can we stop acting like it’s business as usual now? kstp.com/kstp-news/to...
14.06.2025 14:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@lisaschwarz.bsky.social
By day, nonprofit comms/recovering corporate journalist. By night, plotting the next passport caper. Minnesota, MINI Coopers, Mississippi River. Also: knitting, hand spinning and I’ll fight you over my dopey pets. Politics are my football.
Can we stop acting like it’s business as usual now? kstp.com/kstp-news/to...
14.06.2025 14:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Criminals deserve due process because due process is literally how we determine whether someone is, *in fact*, a criminal
14.04.2025 23:51 — 👍 39587 🔁 8669 💬 689 📌 330the sooner you realize this, the sooner you can start with effective resistance...
14.04.2025 23:37 — 👍 88 🔁 32 💬 2 📌 2NYT: "The White House scoffed at the prospect of returning a Maryland man who had been mistakenly deported, despite court orders urging it to pursue his return."
I'd like to draw your attention to the word "urging." Courts don't "urge." That's not how courts work, NYT. Stop laundering his fascism.
What do these corporations have in common?
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
Are a lot of them members of Congress? Because I’ve been thinking that for a while now.
14.04.2025 23:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Judges have been trying HARD to avoid having to send people to jail for contempt, but honestly, it's FAR past the point it was reasonable to pretend to believe "I know nothing, can't answer nothing, national security, above the law" bullshit is a reasonable answer on a civil rights matter.
13.04.2025 23:23 — 👍 78 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1As planned.
14.04.2025 23:20 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Time for the first of multiple General Strikes across the country until Abrego Garcia is returned safely.
14.04.2025 20:09 — 👍 16 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0We are going to have to have contempt hearings in Abrego Garcia, and the district judge is going to need to start putting people in jail until they comply with the very basic order of “tell me where he is and what you are doing to find out.”
I don’t know what else to do.
Years from now we’re gonna find out they were all playing the stock market the whole time.
Do crazy shit, buy low, sell high, repeat. Until the system breaks.
Every financial advisor’s email today: “Stay the course. Your plan was built with stress testing.”
Me: “Did it include the most powerful man in the world being an idiotic economic illiterate enabled by fools?
The grimmest realization is not the very old one that Trump is a hyper-sensitive narcissist who thinks criticizing him should be illegal.
The grimmest realization is that a substantial number of Americans are born serfs, best suited for a monarchy, who thinks that’s manly and admirable and right.
Walz: I think they hate public education because it’s easier to run an authoritarian government if you don’t have a population that knows.
14.03.2025 22:01 — 👍 45682 🔁 10523 💬 906 📌 754Today the biggest split among Democrats is between those who want to stand and fight and those who want to play dead.
House Democrats united to stand and fight. Too many Senate Democrats played dead.
We need more leaders from the stand and fight wing of the Democratic Party.
As one of millions of woman who has ridden the subways (and El) in these cities and dozens more, what is he even talking about?
15.03.2025 02:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Senate Democratic leadership essentially played dead today and greenlit the Trump-Musk-Vance coup. What is the point of the Democratic Party if it doesn't actually act like an opposition party? Hello?
14.03.2025 23:15 — 👍 11037 🔁 2090 💬 518 📌 114This is egregious corruption and self-dealing wapo.st/3DbAep6
28.02.2025 20:00 — 👍 2771 🔁 733 💬 90 📌 30Watching the leaders of my nation bully a fellow head of state in the people’s house - while touting diplomacy as the solution - is deeply embarrassing. And dangerous. I wonder if our global status will ever recover from this era.
28.02.2025 21:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Funny how during ICE raids in sanctuary cities like Newark & Chicago, they name the people arrested but never the businesses hiring them. Being undocumented is a crime, but exploiting undocumented workers? Apparently, it’s just business as usual. Curious, isn’t it?
24.01.2025 05:54 — 👍 1441 🔁 166 💬 38 📌 6I watched “John Wick” last night, for the first time. (I’m nothing if not current.) Frankly, I think his response was measured and reasonable.
24.01.2025 14:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The idea that a president can issue an executive order that overrides Congress, while it may be appealing to everyone who wants TikTok back and agrees that the TikTok ban is a first amendment violation, is actually illegal dictator shit
19.01.2025 15:47 — 👍 5419 🔁 1238 💬 115 📌 78Welp, I’m glad that threat to national security is solved. /s
#tiktokban
Reply to me: I'm 52 and used TikTok a lot to speak against fascism and to promote my book. In my day, we used to call what you're doing "platform shaming." People over a certain age are "too old" to enjoy these. The real issue is that the gov't just decided what media americans may and may not consume.
Hell yeah
19.01.2025 03:56 — 👍 717 🔁 71 💬 31 📌 2The shutdown was of servers in Virginia, USA. So the VPN solution is a no-go.
19.01.2025 17:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0But instead it was weaponized by the broligarchy. Generally, the American justice system waits for a crime to occur - shut it down when the conflict arises.
19.01.2025 17:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Instant follow.
19.01.2025 17:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Because of course.
19.01.2025 17:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0